What are you reading this week of April 10, 2016?

[hermetic]

Finished Anne Hillerman's Spider Woman's Daughter. This was was definitely different from Tony's work, especially the ending. Even though it did bring back characters from The Thief of Time, it still left a lot of unknowns. Obviously leaving openings for yet another novel. Sure hope so, anyway.

Finished After Dark by Haruki Murakami. This was an awesome little book by an incredible writer who I never heard of before until someone here mentioned him. Set in Tokyo, everything takes place over the course of one night. It has a cast of intriguing characters who pass in and out of each others' lives. After a while it began to feel like I was there, too, and this was an episode from Twilight Zone. I liked how each chapter header is a picture of a clock, ticking away the minutes, taking us through the night. I would really like to read more of Murakami's works.

I'm currently reading In the Presence of the Enemy by Elizabeth George. I decided to read some George when I read in Lagercrantz's The Girl in the Spider's Web that Blomkvist always read her mysteries whenever he wanted to take his mind off his problems. There are a whole lot of Elizabeth's books at my library so I started with this older one. It is an absolute page-turner and sometimes I'd swear I was reading Stieg Larsson, except it's in England, not Sweden. But the protagonist is an editor for a liberal newspaper in a country run by typical conservatives: smarmy, greedy, self-serving jerks, you know the type. It gets a bit gruesome in parts but is sprinkled throughout with quite funny comments. Love it. I plan to read all the Georges now.

Also listening to Fever Dream by Preston-Child, read by Rene Auberjonois. He's a really good reader and this is quite a good story.

Anything helping to take problems off your mind this week?