What Fiction are you reading this week, July 20, 2025?

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15. I'm reading The Hunting Trip by William E. Butterworth III.

This is a thoroughly tongue-in-cheek “romantic novel” by an author better known as WEB Griffin. Butterworth wrote scores of books under God knows how many noms de plume.

In the 1980s he hit on a formula, and a name, that made him famous, and dump trucks full of money, with series like The Brotherhood of War, The Corps, Badge of Honor and others. The Hunting Trip ain’t those. The most commonly recurring phrase is “expletive deleted,” which those of us of a certain age will well remember. I approached this with some reluctance, but I’ve thoroughly enjoyed it.

Good luck with your surgery. I had it done a couple of years ago, and was nervous, but it was a piece of cake. The worst part were the eye drops afterwards. Still, well worth it to be glasses free for the first time in nearly 60 years.