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Fiction

hermetic

(8,823 posts) Sun Mar 9, 2025, 11:08 AM Mar 9

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

Spring forward...

'The Book Lounge' in Kirkby Lonsdale, UK

I'm reading Sipsworth by Simon Van Booy, a “beautiful and enchanting” story about an elderly lady whose family has all passed away. With no friends, she just goes about her life watching TV, listening to the radio, shopping, and cooking. The writing is so wonderful, it just pulled me right in and I found it hard to put down. Then something really remarkable happens. Sipsworth is a reminder that there is always reason for hope. And as Ann Patchett says on the cover, "I loved it."

Listening to The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro, "a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war." An Arthurian fantasy of sword & sorcery. Quite good

What books are you looking forward to this week?

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What Fiction are you reading this week, March 9, 2025? [View all] hermetic Mar 9 OP

I just SARose Mar 9 #1

Thanks hermetic Mar 9 #2

I read Crow Mary last year and liked it very much. I am partial to books about the japple Mar 9 #6

I love Anya Seton's books..I haven't read them all but really enjoyed the ones I did read yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #14

Mine too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 10 #19

that book (Catherine) was the beginning of my lifelong interest in the Plantagent Dynasty yellowdogintexas Mar 13 #24

Me too! Jilly_in_VA Mar 13 #26

Just started Jilly_in_VA Mar 9 #3

Wow. A serious undertaking hermetic Mar 9 #4

I love it so far Jilly_in_VA Mar 10 #20

I have the first one. I may read it next nt yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #15

Still reading Anne Tyler's book, A Spool of Blue Thread. japple Mar 9 #5

I just got hermetic Mar 9 #7

3/4 of the way through "Fatherland" by Robert Harris. Number9Dream Mar 9 #8

I read that years ago. I'll probably reread it, as I've been on a Harris kick recently. rsdsharp Mar 9 #10

I keep having this vague feeling that I have read it and it would have been 42 years ago yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #16

I think I've got a paperback copy kicking around here somewhere. rsdsharp Mar 10 #21

aha! Thank you ! Well back in 1983 I read a revisionist history of WWII and I think it was called Fatherland yellowdogintexas Mar 13 #25

I am starting the Cicero Trilogies. Am loving the first book. Polly Hennessey Mar 13 #27

I enjoyed all three. I read Pompeii several months ago, which was his first book regarding Rome, but obviously set in rsdsharp Mar 13 #28

A couple of excellent transfixing books: cbabe Mar 9 #9

Helle & Death by Oskar Jensen The King of Prussia Mar 9 #11

Hello! hermetic Mar 9 #12

Halfway through, "The Pharaoh's Secret," Clive Cussler Bayard Mar 9 #13

Clive Cussler SARose Mar 10 #18

Humans: A Brief History of How We F*cked It All Up Tom Phillips yellowdogintexas Mar 10 #17

Dogs! Mystery! QED Mar 10 #22

Oh yes hermetic Mar 10 #23