October 2018 Reads

What are you reading?

74	De Niro's Game	Rawi Hage
75	The Big Empty	Stan Jones
76	Knockemstiff	Donald Ray Pollack
77	Black Cherry Blues	James Lee Burke
78	Where the Dead Sit Talking	Brandon Hobson
79	The Winter Soldier	Daniel Mason
80	Immigrant, Montana	Amitava Kumar
81	Jar of Hearts	Jennifer Hillier

Knockemstiff by Pollack is full of unruly characters who do things that would make most of us cringe (or gag, faint or run away), but hey, this is Knockemstiff, you gotta do, what you gotta do to get by and it "ain't" pretty, but it is great writing.

James Lee Burkes is a master!  New Orleans Detective Dave Robicheaux is going to be one your favorite characters in fiction. After you read this one, there are many more Robicheaux tales to catch up with. I haven't read them in order and I haven't read them all but the ones I've read have been great.

The Winter Soldier is a gripping read that explodes off the page.  Mason's lyrical and affecting novel about the costs of war and lost love will satisfy anyone who loves good writing.

Immigrant, Montana is part novel, part memoir.  It is as sly, charming, and deceptive as its passionate protagonist, a writer writing himself into being. There are buoyant energy and hilarity to this account of an Indian student seeking the wide world through the women he meets, but one laughs with growing unease as a darker undercurrent is slowly revealed. An unusual, brave twist on the migrant's tale.

What are you reading?