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hermetic

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Sun Dec 10, 2017, 02:49 PM Dec 2017

What are you reading this week of December 10, 2017? [View all]

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Happy Hanukkah!

I really enjoyed Michael Connelly's The Concrete Blond. It's not often I tear up at the end of a Mystery/Police Procedural.

Now I am listening to Future Home Of The Living God by By Louise Erdrich. Wow. Written in the form of a letter to an unborn child, this is an eerie pregnancy journal and persecution chronicle combined. Something weird is going on. Banks are running out of money; the internet becomes unreliable; the government seizes the cable companies, etc. hmmm

Interesting to know that Erdrich began the novel in 2002, then abandoned it until the end of 2016, when she found it newly urgent to finish, for all the obvious reasons, and reworked it. A little too quickly, perhaps, but it's still worth reading, IMO. It has lots of amusing lines that will keep you chuckling all the while it becomes clear that something is going very wrong for humanity.

I just watched Foyle's War, the first season, which is four stories by Anthony Horowitz. Wonderful. Totally loved it. Can't wait to see more.

What are you loving this week?

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I'm thinking of watching Julius Caesar, since it's so topical.... OnDoutside Dec 2017 #1
No, not yet hermetic Dec 2017 #3
Dream indeed ! One other I would really recommend are the OnDoutside Dec 2017 #5
While I love to watch, I am actually binge watching the 2nd avebury Dec 2017 #2
Shoot! I wrote a reply hermetic Dec 2017 #8
Death in the Air, Kate Winkler Dawson shenmue Dec 2017 #4
Hot off the press, that one hermetic Dec 2017 #7
Not finished yet shenmue Dec 2017 #15
Several matt819 Dec 2017 #6
Aww, don't give up hermetic Dec 2017 #10
Actually just finished An American Family yesterday. onecaliberal Dec 2017 #9
So sad... hermetic Dec 2017 #11
Indeed. Even more so when you read their story. onecaliberal Dec 2017 #12
I love Erdrich. murielm99 Dec 2017 #13
Yes I have hermetic Dec 2017 #14
I almost FORGOT hermetic Dec 2017 #16
Oh no. murielm99 Dec 2017 #17
Ain't that the truth? hermetic Dec 2017 #25
A while back I started Roddy Doyle's "The Commitments" And then I fell into Connelly. TexasProgresive Dec 2017 #18
Hooray! hermetic Dec 2017 #19
Its really odd about the snow TexasProgresive Dec 2017 #20
Sadly I dont read much anymore benld74 Dec 2017 #21
You should stop by here hermetic Dec 2017 #26
Thanks for the thread, hermetic. I finished Bill McKibben's japple Dec 2017 #22
I love mysteries hermetic Dec 2017 #27
The Language of Bees by Laurie R. King PennyK Dec 2017 #23
Cool! hermetic Dec 2017 #28
Oh, and this! hermetic Dec 2017 #33
The Dark Flood Rises - by Margaret Drabble Ohiya Dec 2017 #24
Neither have I hermetic Dec 2017 #30
I just discovered American Gods Runningdawg Dec 2017 #29
Oh yes hermetic Dec 2017 #31
The Midnight Line by Lee Child, PoindexterOglethorpe Dec 2017 #32
We all love Jack hermetic Dec 2017 #37
The Orientalist defacto7 Dec 2017 #34
By Tom Reiss? hermetic Dec 2017 #38
Yes... Reiss. It's quite an adventureous life. defacto7 Dec 2017 #42
No probs... hermetic Dec 2017 #44
Dombey and Son cyclonefence Dec 2017 #35
True enough hermetic Dec 2017 #39
For October and November Break time Dec 2017 #36
Wow! hermetic Dec 2017 #40
As you can see Break time Dec 2017 #41
Wonderful hermetic Dec 2017 #45
Lots of Connelly here this week getting old in mke Dec 2017 #43
Nice hermetic Dec 2017 #46
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