What are you reading this week of February 18, 2018?
Howdy, all.
I'm just reaching the ends of P. D. James' Children of Men and The Crossing, Michael Connelly's 18th Bosch book. Great stories, both.
Next I shall embark upon The Goldfinch, by Donna Tartt, which won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, among other honors. I've been anticipating this one for a while now.
What new/old books are you about to plunge in to?
Try to have a Happy President's Day
Celebrate our greatest, and last legally-elected, President.
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Has written a lot of books, and they all sound really good. Suspense, Legal Thriller, Literary, Police Procedural, Women Sleuths. These are a few of my favorite things.
This one being "a courtroom thriller extraordinaire that successfully harvests every staple of the genre while plowing plenty of new ground in the process."
Good choice.
Library, I am reading a book by Raymond Atkins of Rome, GA, The Front Porch Prophet. It seems that the folks on the board would be happy with yet another author of Christian fiction, so I am proposing an alternative.
Here's a description of The Front Porch Prophet
What do a trigger-happy bootlegger with pancreatic cancer, an alcoholic helicopter pilot who is afraid to fly, and a dead guy with his feet in a camp stove have in common? What are the similarities between a fire department that cannot put out fires, a policeman who has a historic cabin fall on him from out of the sky, and an entire family dedicated to a variety of deceased authors? Where can you find a war hero named Termite with a long knife stuck in his liver, a cook named Hoghead who makes the world's worst coffee, and a supervisor named Pillsbury who nearly gets hung by his employees? Sequoyah, Georgia, is the answer. After a long absence, A. J. Longstreet finds his best friend since childhood, Eugene Purdue, on his doorstep. Eugene now has terminal cancer, and he confronts A. J. with the dilemma of executing a mercy killing when the time arrives. An adventure into the past begins for the both of them, and soon one must make a decision that will alter his life forever.
This is a synopsis of Camp Redemption, which I read and enjoyed very much:
Travel to Sequoyah, Georgia, to meet Early and Ivey Willingham. Early is a lifelong underachiever who occasionally smokes marijuana, drinks malt liquor, and watches the world go by. Ivey is a modern day prophet who sees dead relatives and angels in her sleep. Together they own Camp Redemption, a failing Bible camp in the North Georgia mountains. After they are forced to close the camp, Early and Ivey begin to attract a motley collection of people in trouble—Jesús Jimenez, an abused runaway from Apalachicola, Florida; Millie Donovan, with children in tow; Charnell Jackson, an out-of-luck lawyer on the dodge; Isobel Jimenez, Jesús’ mother, and her other children; and Hugh Don Monfort, the local bootlegger. Trouble looms as these travelers settle into their new home. Gilla Newman and the deacons at the Washed in the Blood and the Fire Rapture Preparation Temple covet the camp, and they intend to have it. From that moment forward, nothing is the same at Camp Redemption.
Thanks, hermetic, for hosting the thread every week, and mucho thanks for posting that lovely photo of our beloved former President--an ideal man and a real PRESIDENT.
For providing such compelling descriptions of 2 books that sound absolutely delightful. I will be on the lookout for them.
I just started something similar, A Dirty Job by Christopher Moore. "Charlie's doing okay--until people start dropping dead around him, and everywhere he goes a dark presence whispers to him from under the streets." This one is laugh out loud funny except, of course, for the death parts. I am amazed that I never read any of Moore's books before. That's about to change.
