What are you reading this week of October 16, 2016?

[hermetic]

Anarchy and Old Dogs, the 4th in the Dr. Siri series by Colin Cotterill. I got to wondering how this English author got to be so knowledgeable in Laotian politics and history. Discovered he is quite an amazing person who is living in Southeast Asia where he has set up a project to send books to Lao children and sponsor trainee teachers. The "Books for Laos" program elicits support from fans of his books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis. This year, he is directing his efforts toward a nonprofit publishing project in Laos, Big Brother Mouse. Awesome.

Listening to A Dedicated Man by Peter Robinson, the second in the Inspector Banks series.

What awesome authors are you reading this week of October 2, 2016?

[TexasProgresive]

1. Thanks, hermetic.

Once again I ran out of reading material and took advantage of Amazon primes once a month free Kindle book. The last one I got was worth the price but this one, WOW! The Girl from Krakow: A Novel by Alex Rosenberg. It begins in war time Poland and then backs up to pre WW2 Poland and works forward. The girl is Jewish but looks Aryan who marries a young doctor to get warm. She gets food and heat but very little in the way of warmth from the doctor. That's as much as I want to reveal. I hope some others here at DU pick up this book. I'm on page 96 of 446 and can't wait to get back to it.

[hermetic]

2. Darn

My library doesn't have it but I'll put it on my list to look for.

Seems there is also a companion piece for it called Sidekick. "You Need To Read This Book because this will help you dive deeper into the world of Alex Rosenberg. The book is filled with philosophical and historical references, political banter and scientific theory. Don't get lost while you read this masterpiece." That sounds pretty irresistible.

[TexasProgresive]

3. The Soviets are retreating and the NAZIs are coming

[Number9Dream]

4. "A Sound of Thunder and other stories" by Ray Bradbury

I'm more than half way through this collection of short stories by Ray Bradbury. Many were written in the fifties, so some might seem dated. Bradbury is such a great writer (imho) that some are just timeless. "The Fog Horn", "A Sound of Thunder" and "A Sound of Summer Running" stand out so far.

[hermetic]

7. Ahh, Bradbury

His stories never get old, IMO.

[japple]

5. Thank you for the weekly thread, hermetic. I am still reading

The Color of Lightning and its better than I remembered, or it might just be that I am savoring it more the 2nd time around.

TexasProgressive, thanks for the tip about The Girl From Krakow. I was also eligible for the free download from amazon, which is great, since my library didn't have an e-edition of the book.

[Goblinmonger]

6. Girl on the Train and Miss Perigrine's

Should finish both pretty easily this week (about half way through each at this point).

I like them both so far.

[hermetic]

8. Hmmm,

Miss Perigrine's ... what, exactly? LOL

[Goblinmonger]

9. Way too long of a title to type

It's Monday.