What Fiction are you reading this week, Aug. 3, 2025?

[hermetic]

The Morgan Library & Museum in NYC is a fusion of art, literature, and architecture. Originally the private library of Pierpont Morgan, it houses a world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, and master drawings. Built between 1902 and 1906.

A dear friend gave me a get well gift, The Big Book of Cats. This 384-page compendium includes over 230 black and white images by well-known animal photographers along with excerpts and poems from diverse writers as well as personal stories and anecdotes. It's quite marvelous.

I listened to two Nic Saint books: Purrfect Murder and Purrfect Heat. These are quite enjoyable as long as you can accept cats talking and relating to each other the way humans do. Sometimes there is even a human who can communicate with them, like the little town's newspaper reporter who gets exclusive scoops from the cats as they hang out at the police station, doctor's office, and barbershop.

Now I'm listening to Spirit Crossing by William Kent Krueger. I was happily surprised to get this one right away after last week's review by DUer cbabe.

Well, Tuesday I shall try again to get my cataract surgery. Hope I don't run into any more detours.

Happy August!

[Easterncedar]

1. Dorothy Dunnett Spring of the Ram

Splendid , dense, erudite and challenging historical fiction.

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4. Nice

"Crackling with wit, breathtakingly paced, The Spring of the Ram is a pyrotechnic blend of scholarship and narrative shimmering with the scents, sounds, colors, and combustible emotions of the 15th century."

[txwhitedove]

2. Well wishes on successful cataract surgery this week. I meet with Houston's Urban Forestry

at my house Tuesday for assessment and work on my huge oak tree damaged by H.Beryl and a spring storm. My home area qualifies for their assistance through grant program, yay!

I'm in a book slump, so the cat books sound fun, and the Cork O'Connor mysteries by Krueger are intriguing. The non-fiction real life books are making me cry. The CIA Book Club is well written and a handy guide for what may need to be done for us, damn it.

[hermetic]

3. Thanks

I hope your tree survives. Glad you're getting help with it. (I hope we survive, too)

[cbabe]

5. Thanks for the clap back on the Krueger book. There

are 20 titles in the series to explore if you like the one you’re reading.

I’m rereading the Stacey Abram’s thrillers. Maybe a mistake as her plots are way to close to reality. Maybe she’ll write a tell-all book in the near future.

While justice sleeps
Rogue justice
Coded justice

[hermetic]

6. I'm on the list

for the Coded Justice audio. Looking forward to it.

[cbabe]

7. I'm on the library list for the book. Gives me time to recover

from the first two.

[Jeebo]

8. Re-reading "Jumper" by Steven Gould

It's one of the most purely FUN novels I've ever read. This is about the half-dozenth time I've read this gem.

— Ron

[Bayard]

9. I actually found a Prey novel I had not read at a flea market last week--brand new, $5.

"Judgement Prey," by John Sanford. Another romp with Lucas Davenport and Virgil Flowers for two murderers. In the final few chapters.

Hope your surgery goes well, hermetic.

[BOSSHOG]

12. My wife and I are on our second readings of Prey Books

I believe the first one came out in 89. When ya can’t remember a good book ya know you read decades ago read it again.

[Number9Dream]

10. Finished "Badlands" by Preston & Child - excellent as usual

The newest Nora Kelly / Corrie Swanson book by these guys. Out of the ordinary New Mexico setting for creepy witchcraft and more. Another page-turner must read. Some of it reminded me of the Carlos Castenada / Don Juan books of the early 70's.

Good luck on your surgery.

[mentalsolstice]

11. Well wishes to you for your eye surgery and recovery.

Reading The Medicine Woman of Galveston by Amanda Skenandore. I thought I would finish today, but I’ve given up. It’s about a female doctor in 1900 forced to join a traveling medicine show in order to pay off her debts and support her young son. She ends up in Galveston for the hurricane in 1900.

Have a good week y’all!

[BOSSHOG]

13. The Left Hand of the Law by Charles West

I like reading an Old West Shootem up on occasion. No cell phones, no computers, no crime labs. A rancher shoots a deputy sheriff who killed the ranchers wife and son and burned down his barn and thought he killed the rancher in Southeast Kansas back in the 1880s. The rancher gets revenge.
No doubt its a justified shooting, but the rancher is found guilty. Then the fun begins when a Deputy Marshall comes after the rancher.

My Wife had cataract surgery last year. Worked out fine. She’s glad she had it. The Eye Doc says I ain’t ready yet.

Best of Luck to you.

[MIButterfly]

14. Blood Moon by Sandra Brown.

I just started it. I haven't decided if I like her books or not. I've read a few. I thought I'd give this one a try. It's over 400 pages so it'll take me a while.

I hope your surgery went well and that you're on the mend.