What are you reading this week of August 21, 2016?

[japple]

21. Hi all! Thanks, hermetic, for the thread. I'm late this week as I have

been pet/house sitting for a friend out-of-state since last Friday. It was a LOVELY visit to the cool, green mountains.

I finished reading Colson Whitehead's The Underground Railroad. It is a wonderful book and I highly recommend it.

River Thieves was one of my favorite books of the last few years. I'm waiting for Sweetland to come up on my e-book queue at the library. I've also got The Water Knife on my library list.

Haven't seen the movie version of Walking Across Egypt but I love the book and Clyde Edgerton has long been someone that I would like to have over for dinner! Hope it's available on amazon or netflix.

There was a review of Brad Watson's book, Miss Jane in Book Page and I'm now reading it. Quite an unusual story, though it reminds me a bit of Carson McCullers' writing. I've only gotten about 1/4 into the book, so I don't know where it's going. THe writing is beautiful, though, and it's great to read such eloquent passages.