What are you reading this week of May 22, 2016?

[hermetic]

, fellow readers.

I'm now reading Elizabeth George's A Traitor to Memory. A well-known woman has been brutally run over in the streets of London. Elsewhere, a violin virtuoso has suddenly lost his ability to play. He's been instructed by his psychiatrist to write a journal and it's rather amusing at times. It will be interesting to see how these two seemingly diverse events eventually come together.

Listening to The Year of the Flood by Margaret Atwood. Ah, the end of the world as we know it. Doesn't feel fine at all. I like how there are 3 readers and they've put the hymns to music so it seems more like listening to a movie. Interesting that she wrote about the building of a wall to keep the Mexicans out. Wonder if someone read this book to tRump once and he thought it sounded like a good plan for the future.

So, there is this thing I do. After I've read a book, I like to visit online sites to then read about the author, the plot and reviews. This sometimes gives me perspectives that I may not have had while reading. When I went to FictionDB to look up The Power of the Dog, there was no plot synopsis, no reviews. This is not an easy book to talk about, evidently. SPOILER ALERTS ahead.

The thing about this book that I noticed right away was how it kept me changing my mind about all the characters. At first I'd like, or not, someone but then a few chapters on and I'm suddenly understanding why they did this or that. Then I'd be more sympathetic to that person. Kind of like real life, ya know. I liked Rose, mostly, and totally sympathized with her drinking, at first.

Then the ending just blew me away. I think I actually said, Whoa!" out loud; then I laughed. This is definitely one of the most unusual books I've ever read and I plan to read it again someday. I now live in the area Savage writes about so it's easy to "see." I even have friends with cows. Things have changed, of course, since the 30s. But not everything.

What books are making you shout out this week?