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Just finished Threat Zero which was dreadful, one of the worst written, dumbest books I've ever read. Just started After the Monsoon.

It just felt poorly executed for me most of the time Phil.

Just finished Dinner at the Homesick Restaurant by Anne Tyler. Echoes of Cain and Abel and East of Eden.

Urn Burial

The Testaments

I recently watched the series"Wire In The Blood" based on the Tony Hill books by Val McDermid. Now I'm reading about Tony Hill in The Mermaids Singing.

The End of October

The Recovering: Intoxication and Its Aftermath

The Final Girl Support Group is currently on the top of the pile of books.

Then I am also reading The Dark Hours and I like it a lot better than the other, if for readability and entertainment if nothing else.

Not really into anything "serious" at the moment.

Ducks, Newburyport

It’s great book for the present moment and our collective pop culture induced consciousness.

Sally wrote: "Ducks, Newburyport

It’s great book for the present moment and our collective pop culture induced consciousness."

I have this book. I found it in a Little Free Library.

The Rasp

Wildland: The Making of America's Fury

Disoriental

Middlesex

Lobstergirl wrote: "Middlesex"

I liked that one. I'm reading The Shadow of the Gods by John Gwynne. It's for book club.

"Middlesex" was eh for me. It was too quirky.

Now I'm reading The Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt.

Quicksilver by Dean Koontz
I mostly enjoyed the read. However, i took it as an allegory for the current craziness we live.
Others may not and have a completely different experience.

I finished my book club read early, so I'm reading books #16 & 17 in Jim Butcher's "Dresden Files" series.

Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld

The Shattering: America in the 1960s. A partially anecdotal chronicle of the US coming apart at the cultural seams.

From civil rights to the Viet-nam war to privacy to sexual liberation, this work covers the social upheavals that reshape a nation.

Betrayal: The Crisis in the Catholic Church

Once to Every Man: A Memoir

I'm between books. I'll start a new one tomorrow. In the interim, I've picked up an old New Yorker.

Lobstergirl wrote: "I'm between books. I'll start a new one tomorrow. In the interim, I've picked up an old New Yorker."

Those old New Yorkers usually have a bit of attitude. If they get mean, get them a bagel & a black coffee. That generally settles them down.

Hospital: Man, Woman, Birth, Death, Infinity, Plus Red Tape, Bad Behavior, Money, God and Diversity on Steroids

Escape.

I'm reading a Robert Galbraith (aka J.K. Rowling) mystery called Lethal White. Pretty good but needs some editing.

Carl Bernstein's autobiographical memoir, Chasing History: A Kid in the Newsroom.

The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. Give it a read.

I just finished The Bachelor. Now I'm reading The Secret Life of Groceries: The Dark Miracle of the American Supermarket.

I just started Salvation.

I don't normally read sci-fi but I found book 2 of the trilogy in a little free library, it looked interesting, and I decided I'd read book 1 first.

Five Days at Memorial: Life and Death in a Storm-Ravaged Hospital

Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Metropolis.

Lobstergirl wrote: "Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers and Metropolis."

I liked Stiff! Don't think the rest of the book club did. Maybe one other person. It's been a few years.

Small parts of it are very fascinating, other parts are very boring. And I'm sick of the 5 wisecracks per page.

Figuring out whether a plane was blown up by a bomb vs. an exploded fuel tank based on injuries to bodies, that is fascinating.

The Auctioneer which is so scary I can only read 3-4 pages at a time. I am terrified to turn the page.

After Trump: Reconstructing the Presidency. The authors lay out all the laws and mostly norms Trump violated in order to propose reforms so that the next president won't be able to do the same things. But they went to press right before the 2020 election, not knowing who would win. And that the losing side would pretend it had won. And not knowing the country was about to be nearly violently overthrown.

I've just finished Project Hail Mary. I can't say anything that hasn't been said already in reviews on GR. Some say it was too technical but I found the science bits interesting with a twist of cheeky humour. I may have a crush on the two loveable heroes.

My next read? So far I choose Streets of Laredo The end of the trail and the only book I've yet to read in the Lonesome Dove series.

Lobstergirl wrote: "The Auctioneer which is so scary I can only read 3-4 pages at a time. I am terrified to turn the page.

Creeped me out when I read it.

Just started Murakami's Men Without Women. Great book cover.

Not reading, but the other night I watched "The Last Vermeer," which was written by Jonathan Lopez. Jonathan was active on Terminal Coffee a dozen years ago or so. He seemed like a sweet guy, I miss him.

I didn't know they had made his book into a movie.

I finished The Billionaire Murders: The Mysterious Deaths of Barry and Honey Sherman and Things I Don't Want to Know.

Started the sequel to Things I Don't Want to Know, The Cost of Living: A Working Autobiography.

Still working on The Auctioneer which is not a very long book but so terrifying I can only read 4 pages a week.

Just read The Rib King by Ladee Hubbard. Good read.

I've finished reading Streets of Laredo completing the series.

My current read is Happiness

I just finished The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures. Wrapping up The Only Story.

Finished The Wonder Spot, slowly plowing through The Opium War: Drugs, Dreams and the Making of Modern China.

Just finished An American Marriage by Tayari Jones. What happens to a marriage when a man is unjustly imprisoned?

Black Like Me

Mother for Dinner

Lobstergirl wrote: "Black Like Me

Mother for Dinner"

I haven't reread Black Like Me for decades.

Someone in my family must have read it in high school, or junior high. It's going in the donation box but I wanted to read it first.