Book Lovers Club

Henrietta450 I enjoyed Gail Carriger's Parasol Protectorate series also and found a similar series ( proper Victorian ladies/ supernatural beings) by Minda Webber. I believe the series starts with The Remarkable Miss Frankenstein, I read The Reluctant Miss Van Helsing. I also enjoy Ben Aaronovitch's Rivers of London series in which there is a special unit of wizards attached to the London police - supernatural beings featuring the spirits of London's rivers.

Author, Ursela K. le Guin just passed. I don’t recall anyone mentioning her writing...looks like she was a powerhouse with a pen. Anyone read her literature

you ladies beat me to it — just read the sad news of Ursula le Guin’s death. She was one of my favorite authors; The Left Hand of Darkness is especially thought-provoking. Haven’t yet read No Time To Spare.. but it’s on my ”order from Amazon” list.

Mommy - Please do share his name so we can wait with you.

Thanks Mommy. I'll look him up

Well hey, along with my eclectic reading practices, I do read YA books so I'll probably enjoy.

thanks for the recommendations, jelson!

I am a LeGuin fan. I love all the Wizard of Earthsea books.

Henrietta 405- I read Le Guin long ago and must get back to her and read more. I recently finished Robin Hobb's FitzChivalry Farseer series which encompasses 14 books in all. I guess it is considered fantasy because dragons show up, there are separate series but they all take place in the same imaginary world and people eventually intersect - which makes it fun keeping track of them all. Really enjoyed it. Also Charles Stross - contemporary British supernatural crime unit - averting global/galaxy disasters. I think the series is called The Laundry Files. and of course anything by Jasper Fforde! and Daniel O'Malley's two books so far: The Rook and Stiletto

I just finished The Dead Key by D.M. Pulley. It was a page turner. I was amazed to learn that it was this author's first book. Like the time present main character, she is a mechanical engineer and took a year off to write this book. The setting is an elegant old bank in Cleveland that closed 20 years ago under suspicious circumstances. There are two narratives, one in 1978 and the other time present in 1998. The book won an Amazon readers award and got a great review in Publishers Weekly.

Now I'm reading The Buried Book by the same author and it is engrossing, too. The narrator is a 9 year boy.

Both of these books are among the freebies I downloaded on Amazon as a Prime member.

My library has some Ann Cleeves novels but no e-books. So I may have to put down my Kindle to read her! I'm spoiled with turning pages by touching the righthand margin.

I just finished The Power. It was good but kind of dark and not much of a plot.

Next on my list is Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler - one of my favorite authors. Has anyone read this one

grandma, I love Anne Tyler, too. Just borrowed the e-book of Vinegar Girl from my library. Thanks for the suggestion!

MJ

Anne Tyler just gets better as I get older. Maybe you're thinking of the Accidental Tourist? I haven't read that one in many years.

Intriguing title. Vinegar Girl. I'll look for it. Yes, Accidental Tourist is the novel I was trying to remember. I read it many years ago and other fiction by Tyler, too. I had forgotten about her.

Finished the last 100 pages of Code Girls Friday night, as due back Sat. Good book and loved the old pix.

Now have Karen Memory (2015) by Elizabeth Bear. Rec by my librarian friend who called it steampunk, a new genre for me.

Finally finished the two books that I was reading by Jane Austen. On to Gaston Leroux's Phantom of the Oper