What Fiction are you reading this week, January 16, 2022?
Still reading The Dark Hours by Michael Connelly. Its descriptor of "nail-biting intrigue" is quite apt.
Listening to The Highway by C.J. Box. Pretty creepy. Young ladies keep disappearing while traveling on the highway under the Big Sky. Leaping lizards?
What's on your reading agenda this week?
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"A highly original, tragicomic novel as seen through Sirius, an extraordinary dog who helps his Jewish family escape from Germany to California, becomes a Hollywood star, and ultimately contributes to Hitler's downfall."
And then, "Part comedy of manners, part treasure hunt, the first novel from the writer whom David Sedaris calls 'perfectly, relentlessly funny'" Works for me. 
It’s not fiction…more of a memoir, but I wanted to say hi on your thread, hermetic. However, it is a lovely book! Highly recommend.
We are just getting over Covid in our house and are counting our blessings that we are on the other side of it. I don’t wish it on anyone…well almost no one. 
How is everything for you?
And I've been worrying about you. So relieved to hear you're getting better. I know it must have been scary.
You remember Randy, my roommate? He had a freaking heart attack 10 days ago. Turned out to just be a mild one but still scared the crap out of both of us.
The weather here has been so cold and snowy that 5 new cats have moved into my backyard shelters. Poor little things.
So, situation normal here. AFU. 
That had to be horrifying with hospitals overrun with covidiots & staff burnt out! 
I hope he is ok!
My worst nightmare would be to take ill or have an accident right now!
Take good care!
We had to do a whole lot of shoveling and that may have been what brought on his distress. No damage was done to the heart. He just got a couple of stents put in and will start physical therapy next week.
I've only been here 8 years and have never seen a winter quite like this. All that wet weather from Oregon made its way over here. It's actually nicer in Boise. Now we have ice fog. Every day is a whole new challenge.
Hanging in, hanging on.
"The history of stolen Chinese artifacts intertwines with the very-English legend of the Green Maiden as American antiques dealer Kate Hamilton returns for her third adventure in the UK, in Connie Berry's The Art of Betrayal."
The three books by Connie Berry sound really good. Award winners and 5-star ratings.
Libby Howard has written a bunch of cozies, involving ghosts and the paranormal. I will be looking for those.
Ty for sharing about these authors.
She shows up in the Fiction Database, though, with 12 titles. Two of them from last year, one called Best in Breed. I dunno. 
Thx! I'll look for title.
Must be glitch because my library seems to list every author & title even if they don't have it. (?)
Thx again!
Except breeder books. Searched under title, then keyword. Weird.
Thx again!
This is another one that jumps back & forth from 18th C. & present. Tbh, I usually skip the older stuff.
It's decent, but I prefer her works where the animals have more input. (They talk to each other to solve crimes & to save their human mom.
the bedbug problem from Hell. Sounds like fun. 
I like Ben.
The other one sounds kind of sad.
not fiction (sorry to derail!) my daughter gave me for Christmas "Burning the Breeze," a true story of three generations of Montana women, beginning at the end of the Civil War, setting up and surviving there - flouting "gender conventions."
Can't wait to start reading!
a book with that title by Jack Brennan shows up in the Fiction Database.
"Returning from the Civil War to learn that not everyone thinks he is a hero, Abel Braddock wants to settle down to quiet ranch life but is soon fighting for his life against someone who also wants to destroy the Comanche nation."
Yours sounds better.
There was a post here, a long time ago, about that very thing. I just went back through several pages but couldn't find it. But, it was about the fact that book titles can't be copyrighted. I was peeved because I had just bought a book, Unrestricted Access, thinking I was getting this: Experience the exciting breadth of #1 New York Times bestselling author James Rollins's wild imagination and adventurous spirit in this anthology of his short masterworks.
Instead I got something by a J G Robbins, which nobody ever heard of. It's a novel, not short stories. Someday I will attempt to read it, but probably after I've run out of other books, like a hundred years from now. 
Anyway, you might be amazed to learn how many books have the same title. Book buyers beware.
I have learned a great deal by doing this every week. I am grateful for the opportunity. 
One can count on his books being quite enjoyable. In this one, a young archer named Thomas finds his purpose is to recover a stolen sacred relic and pursue to the ends of the earth a murderous black-clad knight bearing a blue-and-yellow standard. This journey then sets him on his ultimate quest: the search for the Holy Grail.
Good stuff.
Sorry I missed you Sunday. Things got crazy busy for me. I did want to share what I learned about Sergeant Cluff.
Gil North's Sergeant Caleb Cluff is not a man of many words, and neither does he play by the rules. He may exasperate his superiors, but he has the loyal support of his constable and he is the only CID man in the division. Life in Gunnarshaw is tough, with its people caught up in a rigid network of social conventions. These stories are sparse, tense, and moodily evoke the unforgiving landscape.
