What Fiction are you reading this week, June 6, 2021?

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27. Just finished Finlay Donovan is killing it

by Elle Cosimano. Inventive, entertaining cozy.

I'm now reading The 100-year-old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared by Jonas Jonasson. The roster of Swedish humor writers is brief. According to Wikipedia the last one died in 2007. Jonasson is out to revive the breed. One hundred-year-old Allan Karlsson, a retired explosives experts, climbs out the window of his nursing home in his pee slippers. They're called pee slippers because 100 year old men can't pee beyond the end of their slippers. Allen has had enough of being cooped up and his birthday flight triggers a slow motion man-hunt that involves him with drug dealers, an arch-criminal and a suitcase full of cash. Allen's fascinating back story emerges and the tabloids ensure that all of Sweden becomes focused on his mysterious disappearance. There's a large cast of characters including Generalisimo Francisco Franco, Robert Oppenheimer and Harry Truman. This one was a real surprise.

Greenwood sounds interesting. I put it on my for later shelf in my library list. The library is open again. Yipee!

Cheers, Hermetic