What Fiction are you reading this week, February 9, 2025?

[hermetic]

I'm still reading The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich and I'm having trouble reading more than a page or two at a time. A lot of this is likely due to my distress these days but also that the book is, so far, about teenagers. In 2008. Each chapter is one to three pages and jumps around and it's hard to form any attachment. Or even care. Everyone seems rather unpleasant. There is mystery, though, at the bottom of the whole thing. And I do love a good mystery.

Listening to The Tombs by Clive Cussler/Thomas Perry. Great story. Husband-and-wife team search for lost treasure through Hungary, Italy, France, Russia, and Kazakhstan and find themselves pitted against a thieving group of amateur treasure hunters, a cunning Russian businessman, and a ruthless Hungarian. Good "tale me away" tale of suspense and action.

Thanks for the hearts, dear friends.