What Fiction are you reading this week, June 23, 2024?

[Jeebo]

11. Re-reading "Way Station" by Clifford Simak

One of my favorite old science fiction novels. Won a Hugo. A Civil War veteran is visited by an extraterrestrial who turns his rural Wisconsin house into a way station for travelers around the galaxy to pass through, and the Civil War veteran becomes the custodian for the way station and doesn't age when he's in the house. It's in a very remote area, but eventually, people begin to notice that there's something very odd about that house and its occupant, and something that's dug up on the property ...

Saw the movie "Where the Crawdads Sing" a couple of weeks ago so I'll never read the novel. I will read the novel and then see the movie, but I'll never see the movie and then read the novel. Too many spoilers in the movie, and it takes a lot longer to read a novel than to watch a movie. It is a good movie, though, and I'm sure I would have loved the novel if I had read it first. My brother and his wife read it a couple of years ago and recommended it.

-- Ron