What are you reading this week of October 23, 2016?

[hermetic]

Sweetland, by Michael Crummey. This book is a masterpiece. The first 4 pages are raves by critics so this may be his best book ever. Crummey started out writing award-winning poetry and his prose constantly reflects that talent.

In Newfoundland, when the cod fishing industry collapsed, there were a lot of tiny fishing communities that were dying off. Sweetland was one of them. The government paid people to leave their homes and settle somewhere else. This resettlement policy uprooted a lot of families and left many abandoned villages. The toll this took on the uprooted people was never really considered.

Even though I'm only halfway through, I'm pretty sure I will be adding this book to the Best Books of 2016 thread.

I've been too busy this past week to listen to any books but hoping to hear Peter Robinson's Gallows View over the coming week. This is the very first in the Alan Banks series.

Any masterpieces on your reading list this week?