What are you reading this week of March 18, 2018?
Happy day after...
Hope you had a good one! (My leprechauns had to dance in snow)
I'm reading Tales of Burning Love by Louise Erdrich which is an absolute delight. Wonderful characters, so poignant.
Also reading Ian Rankin's Rather Be the Devil, a twisted tale of power, corruption, and bitter rivalries which showcases Rankin and Rebus at their unstoppable best. A real page-turner with all our favorite characters from this 24-book series. Rebus may be retired now but a cold case turns hot again and he's got to get back into the game. Will this be the final time, perhaps?
I will commence listening to Christopher Moore's Secondhand Souls, perhaps this afternoon. It picks up where A Dirty Job left off. Looking forward to lots of laughs.
What will you be reading this week? Do tell us a little about it.
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I listened to the audio book last year but still have strong memories of it. Neil really brings the old ones to life. 
One of Connelly's older works. Won a couple of awards.
I was doing the very same thing just a few days ago, only it was at night. Horrible experience but I am so glad for AAA. I hope your problems aren't as bad as mine are. (blown engine) 
for a trip to Texas.
Hi everyone and thanks, hermetic, for the weekly thread.
I got bored with 2030 by Albert Brooks, so I checked this out from the library: American Copper by Shan Ray
As Evelynne Lowry, the daughter of a copper baron, comes of age in early 20th century Montana, the lives of horses dovetail with the lives of people and her own quest for womanhood becomes inextricably intertwined with the future of two men who face nearly insurmountable losses—a lonely steer wrestler named Zion from the Montana highline, and a Cheyenne team roper named William Black Kettle, the descendant of peace chiefs.
An epic that runs from the Sand Creek Massacre of 1864 to the ore and industry of the 1930s, American Copper is a novel not only about America’s hidden desire for regeneration through violence but about the ultimate cost of forgiveness and the demands of atonement. It also explores the genocidal colonization of the Cheyenne, the rise of big copper, and the unrelenting ascent of dominant culture. Evelynne’s story is a poignant elegy to horses, cowboys both native and euro-american, the stubbornness of racism, and the entanglements of modern humanity during the first half of the twentieth century. Set against the wide plains and soaring mountainscapes of Montana, this is the American West re-envisioned, imbued with unconditional violence, but also sweet, sweet love.
I must say that this it's quite obvious that Shan Ray is also a poet. His writing is fluid and luminous. It is a joy to read this beautiful prose and so nice to have a great book to read while on my vacation.
vacay! Sounds like a terrific find for your reading time. Hope you also find some great weather, good food, and all those other fun things that vacations are all about. Write if you find work. 
A new thriller...
“Unputdownable.” —Stephen King
“A dark, twisty confection.” —Ruth Ware
“Absolutely gripping.” —Louise Penny
A smart, sophisticated novel of psychological suspense that recalls the best of Hitchcock. Already being made into a movie.
I suspect this one will be added to a few reading lists here. Thanks.
Or delight in the idea of Florida tourists being devoured by alligators? Seems a good offset to the brutality and sadness of the other book about the Apache Wars.
chronicle of the breathtaking exploits of a London street urchin turned swashbuckling adventurer and legendary King of the Vagabonds. A gloriously rich, entertaining, and endlessly inventive novel. Sounds good. Stephenson also wrote Snow Crash, which I really enjoyed.
HST is just one of my favorite people ever. I'm pretty sure I've read everything he ever wrote plus seen all the movies.
To Hunter! 
(quietly slides that one to the bottom of the list) 
Oh, I'll probably give it a look someday...maybe
Miss Marple shorts sounds delightful.
