What Fiction are you reading this week, September 15, 2019? [View all]

Reasons to read


Atwood’s The Heart Goes Last, which I only just started because I came across a gripping tale last Monday while I was waiting for someone at the library. The Good Guy by Dean Koontz was lying there on a table so I figured I’d read a little; see what it was about. Three pages in and I was hooked. Truly a “pulse-pounding thriller” that I devoured over a few days. In spite of being written over 10 years ago, it has a lot of timely ideas. My jaw actually dropped when he made reference to evil in the form of a certain business man with weird hair. Yeah, terrific book.

I was listening to A God in Ruins by Kate Atkinson. This is quite a story and listening to it was not my best choice. It gets rather complicated but it’s so well-written that I decided to get the book and read it instead. It’s a story of the 20th Century as seen through the eyes of a would-be poet, heroic pilot, husband, father, and grandfather as he navigates the perils and progress of a rapidly changing world. “An ingenious and moving exploration of one ordinary man's path through extraordinary times.”

So, yesterday I switched to listening to The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield which is a story about books and writing. And reading. You might guess that I am loving this one.

And you?