What Fiction are you reading this week, December 28, 2025? [View all]

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I finished Amsterdam by Ian McEwan and wow. What an amazing piece of literature in less than 200 pages. That ending is unforgettable.
Now I'm reading The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. A "twisty thriller with plenty of inside jobs, political sabotage and many, many deaths.” It's like Amsterdam, with journalists and corruption in government. But without McEwan's literary finesse. I just started it, though, so I'm sure it will get better.

Listening to Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron. A Maine game warden investigator is called to an eerie, windswept island where he discovers murders and missing people and it's very intense. Doiron is a great writer, witty and intelligent, and I am quite enjoying his books.

Best wishes to us all in the new year. May sanity and democracy prevail.