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hermetic

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Sun Feb 9, 2025, 12:06 PM Feb 2025

What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025? [View all]



I'm still reading The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich and I'm having trouble reading more than a page or two at a time. A lot of this is likely due to my distress these days but also that the book is, so far, about teenagers. In 2008. Each chapter is one to three pages and jumps around and it's hard to form any attachment. Or even care. Everyone seems rather unpleasant. There is mystery, though, at the bottom of the whole thing. And I do love a good mystery.

Listening to The Tombs by Clive Cussler/Thomas Perry. Great story. Husband-and-wife team search for lost treasure through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan and find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian. Good "tale me away" tale of suspense and action.

Thanks for the hearts, dear friends.

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Erdrich is ny favorite writer! cilla4progress Feb 2025 #1
Yes, read Demon Copperhead hermetic Feb 2025 #6
Yes! Read Demon Copperhead. japple Feb 2025 #8
Just finished Blob and starting Chalco Feb 2025 #2
Sounds marvelous... hermetic Feb 2025 #10
Our book club is reading evemac Feb 2025 #3
The Fury hermetic Feb 2025 #11
I just picked up The Chemist by Stephenie Meyer Diamond_Dog Feb 2025 #4
I love that.. hermetic Feb 2025 #12
The Butcher's Boy/Thomas Perry cbabe Feb 2025 #5
Yeah, I'm really liking hermetic Feb 2025 #13
Just finished "The Wrong Side of Goodbye" anciano Feb 2025 #7
I love all of Michael Connelly's books. 👍 Diamond_Dog Feb 2025 #14
A classic indeed hermetic Feb 2025 #15
Uh oh. I have The Mighty Red on my TBR list, but from your description, it sounds japple Feb 2025 #9
I'm just half way through now hermetic Feb 2025 #17
I finished "The Mighty Red" this morning. mentalsolstice Feb 2025 #23
The Dispossessed by Ursala K. Le Guin al bupp Feb 2025 #16
Timeless hermetic Feb 2025 #18
Dispossessed is so good roscoeroscoe Feb 2025 #28
I've been meaning to read LeGuin cilla4progress Feb 2025 #19
Over 80 to choose from hermetic Feb 2025 #20
The Earthsea Trilogy is a classic. I also cbabe Feb 2025 #21
Halfway through, "The Last Mile," by David Baldacci Bayard Feb 2025 #22
I'm reading A Minute to Midnight by Baldacci BOSSHOG Feb 2025 #31
That's a good one Bayard Feb 2025 #32
The Power: A Gripping Urban Fantasy (Berkeley Black Friars Volume 2) J R Mabry yellowdogintexas Feb 2025 #24
OK, that's Tom Alan Robbins hermetic Feb 2025 #25
Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry n/t TubbersUK Feb 2025 #26
The mainstream media Charlie Chapulin Feb 2025 #27
Delta-V, by Daniel Suarez roscoeroscoe Feb 2025 #29
The House of Cross by James Patterson LogDog75 Feb 2025 #30
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