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mentalsolstice

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12. Love that bookstore sign!

Reply to hermetic (Original post)

Sun Dec 14, 2025, 01:34 PM

Dec 14

I’m reading The Heart’s Invisible Furies by John Boyle (also wrote The Boy In the Striped Pajamas.) Lots of humor and also tragedy about an adopted boy growing up in Dublin.

Thanks for hosting this thread, and have a great week everyone!

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What Fiction are you reading this week, December 14, 2025? [View all] hermetic Dec 14 OP

Nicholas Binge...Professor Everywhere... MiHale Dec 14 #1

Those sound amazing hermetic Dec 14 #2

Never heard of him either... MiHale Dec 14 #3

Her, I have read hermetic Dec 14 #5

The Fifth Witness by Michael Connelly BOSSHOG Dec 14 #4

I enjoy Connelly's hermetic Dec 14 #7

Yeah and his half brother BOSSHOG Dec 14 #11

Paul Doiron/Skin and Bones short stories cbabe Dec 14 #6

That sounds like a good choice hermetic Dec 14 #8

The White Enchantress by Caitriona Drexler Jilly_in_VA Dec 14 #9

Fan of Arthurian stuff myself hermetic Dec 14 #10

Love that bookstore sign! mentalsolstice Dec 14 #12

Thank YOU hermetic Dec 14 #13

Identity Unknown by Patricia Cornwell. rsdsharp Dec 14 #14

I'vee only read one of hers hermetic Dec 14 #16

Great sign! Bayard Dec 14 #15

Sweet. Thanks hermetic Dec 14 #17

I finished Daniel Silva's Black Widow and started another of his books, The English Spy yellowdogintexas Dec 14 #18

I signed up for this month's Shelf Awareness at the library MIButterfly Friday #19

Me either, hermetic Friday #20

My cats are my best friends, too! MIButterfly Friday #21

I finished that book and it was pretty good. MIButterfly Monday #22