What Fiction are you reading this week, Jan. 24, 2021?

[hermetic]

Everyone still celebrating? I sure am...


So, Lock Every Door took a bit of a surprise twist. I sure never suspected THAT. But by that point I didn't really care. Meh. I would have preferred a ghost.

I'm now reading One Night Two Souls Went Walking by Ellen Cooney. Lovely book, balancing wonder and mystery with pragmatism and humor. "A generous, intelligent novel that grants the most challenging moments of the human experience (when you die) a shimmer of light and magical possibility." Recently got it from the library and I was evidently the first person to read this copy. Kind of a nice feeling. to japple for recommending this one.

Speaking of souls, attention ghost story fans. I keep this book, The Giant Book of Ghost Stories on my coffee table to read a bit when I feel like having a nap. It's a collection of English and Irish tales from the late 19th and early 20th Centuries. Dickens, Stowe, James and Stoker are all represented. But there is one in particular, Christmas Eve on a Haunted Hulk by Frank Cowper, that really creeped me out. Spooky! Very well written.

Listening to Ruth Ware's The Lying Game. Another 'not great literature' but I'm enjoying learning what happened to four girlfriends in an English boarding school many years back and why they are now getting together again for some mysterious reason.

Party on, readers. Tell me all about it.