What Fiction are you reading this week, December 28, 2025?

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I finished Amsterdam by Ian McEwan and wow. What an amazing piece of literature in less than 200 pages. That ending is unforgettable.
Now I'm reading The First Gentleman by Bill Clinton and James Patterson. A "twisty thriller with plenty of inside jobs, political sabotage and many, many deaths.” It's like Amsterdam, with journalists and corruption in government. But without McEwan's literary finesse. I just started it, though, so I'm sure it will get better.

Listening to Hatchet Island by Paul Doiron. A Maine game warden investigator is called to an eerie, windswept island where he discovers murders and missing people and it's very intense. Doiron is a great writer, witty and intelligent, and I am quite enjoying his books.

Best wishes to us all in the new year. May sanity and democracy prevail.

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1. I just finished His & Hers by Alice Feeney.

Next up: Drop Dead Sisters by Amelia Diane Coombs (a Shelf Awareness book from the library from last month I haven't gotten around to yet); Fatal Flaw by William Lashner (another book I haven't gotten around to yet); or The Woman in Suite 11 by Ruth Ware (a follow-up to The Woman on Cabin 10).

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2. Handbook of Christian Feasts and Customs

Francis X. Weiser, S.J.

A convenient and rich reference work...for all who wish full understanding of the feasts, customs, holydays and holidays of the Christian liturgical year

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3. Don't laugh but re-reading The Catcher in the Rye. Again.

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4. Just finished Paul Dorion's Pitch Dark. Lots of wild woods and plot

twists. Doiron keeps getting better.

I was thinking of making a game warden mystery list, Joe Pickett et al, and why they make good stories. American archetype?

Also read Mike Lawson/House Odds and House Rivals. Harder to enjoy ‘political’ books without grinding my teeth.

Top of list is Percival Everett’s Trees. Haunting. Not much to say. Except read this book.

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5. "White Fire," by Doug Preston and Lincoln Child

"Corrie Swanson sets out to solve a long-forgotten mystery. In 1876, in a remote mining camp called Roaring Fork in the Colorado Rockies, several miners were killed in devastating grizzly bear attacks. Now the town has become an exclusive ski resort and its historic cemetery has been dug up to make way for development.
Corrie has arranged to examine the remains of the dead miners. But in doing so she makes a shocking discovery that threatens the resort's very existence. The town's leaders, trying to stop her from exposing their community's dark and bloody past, arrest and jail her.
Special Agent Pendergast of the FBI arrives to help--just as a series of brutal arson attacks on multimillion dollar homes terrify the town and drive away tourists."

Another good one. I'm waiting for my xmas present books to arrive.

I didn't get beyond a few chapters of, "The First Gentleman." That's a rarity for me. I may take it up again at some point. I will look for, "Amsterdam." Sounds good.

Happy New Year fellow readers!