What are you reading this week of January 3, 2016?
Happy New Year, my fellow readers. Hope it's a good one for us all.
I practiced some Outlander interruptus to enjoy Gregory Maguire's latest, After Alice. I'm a big Maguire fan; Wicked is one of my all time favorite reads. The reviews say this is a story about Ada, who follows Alice down the rabbit hole to Wonderland, but it's about many other things, as well. Not all readers are happy about that, but oh well. Maguire did his usual great job of evoking Carroll's time and place. I found it quite amusing and with wonderful bits of wisdom, like:
How's your 2016 reading starting out?
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The non-fiction:
The Year Without Summer: 1816 and the Volcano That Darkened the World and Changed History
by one of my favorite authors of social history, William Klingaman
In the U.S., the extraordinary weather produced food shortages, religious revivals, and extensive migration from New England to the Midwest.
In Europe, the cold and wet summer led to famine, food riots, the transformation of stable communities into wandering beggars, and one of the worst typhus epidemics in history.
1816 was the year Frankenstein was written. It was also the year Turner painted his fiery sunsets.
All of these things are linked to global climate change―something we are quite aware of now, but that was utterly mysterious to people in the nineteenth century, who concocted all sorts of reasons for such an ungenial season.
Fiction:
Inside Out, by Barry Eisler.
Eisler wrote the Rain novels, Rain being the name of his James Bond like character.
Inside Out is the 2nd of a series featuring Ben Treven, the book is
"based on true events: 92 missing CIA interrogation tapes that allegedly included recordings of prisoners being tortured.
Eisler's latest offering doesn't reinvent the genre, but it certainly pumps it full of adrenaline."
He is a very intelligent writer, with a CIA and Gov't background, and in this book, there is a list of books and films in teh Appendix that reads like a DU wishlist.
so yeah, I like him....
I'll definitely look for these. Thanks. 
It's a little more schlocky than I like, so I'm moving on to a cozy mystery next. I'm beginning to like cozies more these days. "Copy Cap Murder" by Jenn McKinlay will be next. 
