What are you reading this week of November 20, 2016?

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22. Thanks so much for the thread, hermetic. I couldn't get into the

The Girl from Krakow. For some reason the characters seemed very flat. It might have just been the sour mood I was in post-election, and no doubt I will pick it up again at a later date and wonder why I didn't get it the first go round.

I don't remember when I downloaded Kate Grenville's book, The Secret River, but there it was on my Kindle, so I started on it last week. Haven't made too much headway due to a Friends of the Library book sale that I worked on all last week, but I did get some great books for friends and family. From what I have read, I am hooked on the story and the characters.

This synopsis of The Secret River is from amazon.

In 1806 William Thornhill, an illiterate English bargeman and a man of quick temper but deep compassion, steals a load of wood and, as a part of his lenient sentence, is deported, along with his beloved wife, Sal, to the New South Wales colony in what would become Australia. The Secret River is the tale of William and Sal’s deep love for their small, exotic corner of the new world, and William’s gradual realization that if he wants to make a home for his family, he must forcibly take the land from the people who came before him. Acclaimed around the world, The Secret River is a magnificent, transporting work of historical fiction

This author also wrote a book called Searching for The Secret River, which just might be the next book on my list.

Kate Grenville's The Secret River was one of the most loved novels of 2006. Shortlisted for the Booker Prize and awarded the Commonwealth Writer's Prize, the story of William Thornhill and his journey from London to the other side of the world has moved and exhilarated hundreds of thousands of readers. Searching for the Secret River tells the story of how Grenville came to write this wonderful book. It is in itself an amazing story, beginning with Grenville's great-great-great grandfather. Grenville starts to investigate her ancestor, hoping to understand his life. She pursues him from Sydney to London and back, and slowly she begins to realise she must write about him. Searching for the Secret River maps this creative journey into fiction, and illuminates the importance of family in all our lives.