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hermetic

(8,946 posts) Sun Oct 9, 2016, 01:42 PM Oct 2016

What are you reading this week of October 9, 2016? [View all]

Howdy, fellow readers

The Wreckage by Michael Crummey is a very aptly named book. It's about the war with Japan and a few young Canadians who go off to fight. As we know, war wrecks everything: lives, souls, families. I've now reached the point in the story where we jump ahead many years and I am relieved to get away from the brutal descriptions of the ordeals these men faced. Whew

I have begun listening to Billy Straight by Jonathan Kellerman. When I went to the library yesterday to pick it up they were having a writers' conference so I sat in on a few discussions. Interesting.

What books are capturing your interest this week?

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What are you reading this week of October 9, 2016? [View all] hermetic Oct 2016 OP

My friend's book, CrispyQ Oct 2016 #1

Wow, you lucked out hermetic Oct 2016 #2

I need to put a mark on my calendar, too. CrispyQ Oct 2016 #3

Maybe you should've bought a Powerball Ticket. TexasProgresive Oct 2016 #4

"Blood of Elves," Andrzej Sapkowski shenmue Oct 2016 #5

Julian Stockwin, Inferno, a Kydd sea adventure rogerashton Oct 2016 #6

That one is truly hermetic Oct 2016 #7

Pretty good so far. rogerashton Oct 2016 #9

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor Goblinmonger Oct 2016 #8

Well, son of a gun.... hermetic Oct 2016 #12

Thanks, hermetic, for the thread. I'm still reading Paulette japple Oct 2016 #10

Gotta tell ya, hermetic Oct 2016 #11

Sounds intriguing. I hope I can find it in our library system. japple Oct 2016 #13

Spoiler alert on Dark Matter. CrispyQ Oct 2016 #14

THANK YOU hermetic Oct 2016 #15

Before the Fall by Noah Hawley. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #16

Read that a few weeks ago. Goblinmonger Oct 2016 #17

Haven't seen that series. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2016 #18

I have not. Goblinmonger Oct 2016 #19