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Contemporary Fiction Views: Checking in [1]
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Date: 2025-06-24
Since I am with family this week, there isn't a round-up of new fiction. But here are some of the books I've been reading for your consideration. I'll be checking in later this evening to say hello to fellow readers and book lovers. And will be back in person next week with more to share.
Among the books I've recently read:
Red Dog Farm by Nathaniel Ian Miller: A young man leaves university to go back to his parents' cattle farm in Iceland. Both of his parents, a university professor and a taciturn cattleman, as well as Orri himself, have a love-hate relationship with the farm. But they deeply care about each other and will do what it takes to be good to each other. This is a novel of hard work and kindness, and how to live well.
Nightshade by Michael Connelly: A new cop is introduced, Stilwell, who has been sent to Catalina Island for rubbing a fellow, albeit inept, detective and their bosses the wrong way. He's still going to find out who actually did the crime when it comes to the body of a woman discovered wrapped up under a boat. Other malfeasance on the island may be an even bigger crime than it first appears. Another excellent entry in the Connelly universe of characters.
June in the Garden describes a young female protagonist and what her life is like. Eleanor Wilde's novel is about a totally different protagonist with a totally different life, because she sees the world in her own way.
June understands horticulture. She describes her life in terms of gardening. It's people she doesn't understand. She doesn't mean to not understand them. It's just how she is. Keeping a strict routine helps. But now her mother has died. June has been told she needs to move from council living for two people to one that accommodates one person.
She's trying to go along with it, even putting her mother's urn in an easy chair in a proposed new flat to see if it feels like watching TV with her mum, as in the old days. It doesn't feel right. Her scream at it not feeling right sends the social worker running.
When the social worker plans to have June moved into a shared living space with people similar to her, June bugs out. She has recently found envelopes in her mother's things that show she has a father she never knew. So she leaves Scotland for London, to find him.
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