I am about 200 pages into this 700 page novel. Excellent so far.

At 700 pages, I figure it better be really good. It does sound that way: "A deeply atmospheric, haunting novel about the unending quest that has shaped a man’s life. By Gaslight moves from the diamond mines of South Africa to the battlefields of the Civil War, on a journey into a cityscape of grief, trust, and its breaking, where what we share can bind us even against our darker selves.

you haven't wasted any time reading their crap. Always happy to see ya, pbmus.

By Daniel H. Wilson



This is the first book of his I've picked up. He has written others about robots and artificial intelligence that have gotten good reviews, so I will be checking them out next.

Love that book cover. AND...

Sometimes the concept is too big to write. Some writers try to pad things up and over explain, or they just can't make it interesting. Not so with this book. Action and insight are well balanced.

That is one fab restaurant! In my dreams when I win the lottery I'll have a living room like that!

I would love to go there but have no idea where it is. Just happened on the photo a couple of days ago.

Ashley Dyer. It is a British novel, a police procedural about a serial killer.

Ashley Dyer is actually a pseudonym for two authors writing together. This is their first novel as a duo.

And sounding most enjoyable:

"Utterly engrossing and filled with masterfully crafted surprises, a roller-coaster ride filled with deception, nerve-jangling tension, perplexing mystery, and cold-blooded murder."

Ashley Dyer is the pseudonym for prize-winning novelist Margaret Murphy working in consultation with policing and forensics expert, Helen Pepper. She has published nine psychological suspense novels under her own name, including Darkness Falls and Weaving Shadows, and a trilogy of forensic thrillers under the pseudonym A.D.
Garrett.

Cool.

Thank you.

I enjoy it. Some really super people post here and I get to learn about all sorts of books I've never heard of. And I do love to read.

compare it to the PBS version.

The one by Jane Austen? A work of wonderful ironic humor, a parody of the popular literature of the time, and an intriguing tale of men and women in pursuit of love, marriage, and money.

Or Val McDermid's witty, updated take on Austen’s classic novel?

There is also an erotica version, but I'm guessing it's not that one.

The Whispering Room by Dean koontz and The Outsider by Stephen King.

I don’t know Dean Koontz’s politics, but this series has trumpian overtones. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Both worth the time to read.

I used to read his books in spite of that. I have burned out on him lately. Knowing his politics, that is a good thing.

Koontz had a difficult childhood. being regularly beaten and abused by his alcoholic father In the '60s he worked for the Appalachian Poverty Program, which greatly shaped his political outlook. He claims he developed a profound distrust of government regardless of the philosophy of the people in power and is now a liberal on civil-rights issues, a conservative on defense, and a semi-libertarian on all other matters.

Pretty good story line - fast paced - the President has to figure out how to disable a cybersecurity attack on the country, while dealing with insider disloyalty--- I suggest reading the BOOK rather than listening - some of the readers were terrible on this one. Good summer read...

I was in Target yesterday and this book was on PROMINENT display. That made me very happy.

An unprecedented collaboration between President Bill Clinton and the world's bestselling novelist, James Patterson, The President Is Missing is a breathtaking story from the pinnacle of power. Full of what it truly feels like to be the person in the Oval Office--the mind-boggling pressure, the heartbreaking decisions, the exhilarating opportunities, the soul-wrenching power--this is the thriller of the decade, confronting the darkest threats that face the world today, with the highest stakes conceivable.

I can't wait to read it!

Usually the only books they prominently display are by Dimwit O'Reilly or Joel Osteen... So I was happy to see that! Looks like a good read!

The first in a trilogy about the last emperor of southern Mozambique by one of Africa’s most important writers

Southern Mozambique, 1894. Sergeant Germano de Melo is posted to the village of Nkokolani to oversee the Portuguese conquest of territory claimed by Ngungunyane, the last of the leaders of the state of Gaza, the second-largest empire led by an African. Ngungunyane has raised an army to resist colonial rule and with his warriors is slowly approaching the border village. Desperate for help, Germano enlists Imani, a fifteen-year-old girl, to act as his interpreter. She belongs to the VaChopi tribe, one of the few who dared side with the Portuguese. But while one of her brothers fights for the Crown of Portugal, the other has chosen the African emperor. Standing astride two kingdoms, Imani is drawn to Germano, just as he is drawn to her. But she knows that in a country haunted by violence, the only way out for a woman is to go unnoticed, as if made of shadows or ashes.

Alternating between the voices of Imani and Germano, Mia Couto’s Woman of the Ashes combines vivid folkloric prose with extensive historical research to give a spellbinding and unsettling account of war-torn Mozambique at the end of the nineteenth century.

And important. I see it's also the beginning of an as yet unpublished trilogy.

A very good translation from Portuguese. I’ll have to keep an eye out for the other installments. Having studied so much American , British and even Spanish imperialism it was interesting to see an example that felt new to me in some way.

20 years. But sounds like it's cut from today's headlines.

Someone earlier mentioned reading Red Sparrow; maybe it was you. Speaking of timely, the third book of that trilogy just came out this year. "With a plot ripped from tomorrow’s headlines, Jason Matthews’s high-powered, seductive third novel not only continues the dangerous entanglements of Dominika and Nate but reveals with chilling authenticity how Russian espionage can place agents in the most sensitive positions of power." Hitting pretty close to home... And yay, my library has these. Must read.

It's a collection of short stories that are supposed to be additional Holmes-and-Watson stories. So far it's not bad. Faye also wrote Dust and Shadow, which tells the tale of Holmes' attempt to hunt down Jack the Ripper, and a few others.
Husband and I are deeply immersed in"Foyle's War"...great storytelling!

Or watching? I saw the first season. Enjoyed it and hope to find more.

A new crime series starring Commissaire Anne Capestan, a brilliant but disgraced police officer placed in charge of a team of department misfits to investigate decades-old unsolved crimes.

Suspended from her job as a promising police officer for firing "one bullet too many," Anne Capestan is expecting the worst when she is summoned to HQ to learn her fate. Instead, she is surprised to be told that she is to head up a new police squad, working on solving long-abandoned cold cases.

Though relieved to still have a job, Capestan is not overjoyed by the prospect of her new role--and even less so when she meets her new team: a crowd of misfits, troublemakers, and problem cases, none of whom are fit for purpose and yet none of whom can be fired.

But from this inauspicious start, investigating the cold cases throws up a number of strange mysteries for Capestan and her team: Was the old lady murdered seven years ago really just the victim of a botched robbery? Who was behind the dead sailor discovered in the Seine with three gunshot wounds? And why does there seem to be a curious link with a ferry that was shipwrecked off the Florida coast many years previously?

plot from a different book I once read. Cannot recall which one, though. I know I never read that author.

The author of Fight Club takes America beyond our darkest dreams in this timely satire.

People pass the word only to those they trust most: Adjustment Day is coming. They’ve been reading a mysterious book and memorizing its directives. They are ready for the reckoning.

Adjustment Day, the author’s first novel in four years, is an ingeniously comic work in which Chuck Palahniuk does what he does best: skewer the absurdities in our society. Smug, geriatric politicians bring the nation to the brink of a third world war in an effort to control the burgeoning population of young males; working-class men dream of burying the elites; and professors propound theories that offer students only the bleakest future.

Into this dyspeptic time a blue-black book is launched carrying such wisdom as:

Imagine there’s no God. There is no Heaven or Hell. There is only your son and his son and his son and the world you leave for them.

The weak want you to forgo your destiny just as they’ve shirked theirs.

A smile is your best bulletproof vest.

When Adjustment Day arrives, it fearlessly makes real the logical conclusion of every separatist fantasy, alternative fact, and conspiracy theory lurking in the American psyche.

That sounds like a hoot!