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Subject: April 2022 Reads
Date Posted: 4/4/2022 10:15 AM ET
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What is everyone reading?  I am still working on Streets of Laredo by LArry McMurtry.



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Date Posted: 4/5/2022 8:22 PM ET
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Reading Wet Grave (Benjamin January, Bk 6) by Barbara Hambly  Enjoy Benjamin's life in New Orleans very much.



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Date Posted: 4/8/2022 1:33 PM ET
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Hello!  Let's see . . . I finished The Poisoned Pilgrim, the 4th book in the Hangman's Daughter series and then started the 5th, The Werewolf of Bamberg, which I am currently about halfway through.  I did start an audio book, The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner, but I've been pretty sporadic about it.  



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Finished Wet Grave with the marriage of Benjamin and Rose.  Among searching for murderers, trying to prevent a slave rebellion and surviving a hurricane, they managed to tie the knot at last.  Not sure what I'll read next.

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Date Posted: 4/9/2022 11:52 AM ET
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I finished Streets of Laredo.  Excellene end to the Lonesome Dove series!  Now I started The Mystery of Montague Morgan by Karen Menuhin.

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Finished Bittersweet: A Novel by Colleen McCullough.  Takes place in Australia before and during the Great Depression.  In the 1920s, features two sets of twins girls who become nurses.  I liked it.  Followed each twin through training and into their later lives.  Men in the novel are supporting (sometimes) characters.  For the 5 year TBR slot on HF challenge.



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Date Posted: 4/13/2022 12:25 PM ET
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I am starting City of Women by David Gillham

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I finished a very good, feel good book West with Giraffes by Lynda Rutledge

It is the real story of transporting the first giraffes from the east coast to San Diego Zoo in 1938. You get to know the characters really well and start rooting for the giraffes

Fun read

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Date Posted: 4/19/2022 11:56 AM ET
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Alice - I loved West with Giraffes!

I finished C.S Harris' latest book in the Sebastian St, Cyr series, When Blood Lies.  It was good, but I feel like these books are getting too formulaic in their plot structure.  

Anyway, I started a non-HF book, Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir.

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Taking a break from HF to read Sondag, Pulitzer Prize biography winner of over 700 pages.



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I finished a really good book The Magnolia Palace by Fiona Davis.  Set in 1919 New York and 1966. Focus around the family of Henry Clay Frick.. Higly recommend.

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Read Smoke in the Wind (Sister Fidelma, Bk 11) and Our Lady Of Darkness (Sister Fidelma, #10) by Peter Tremayne.  Lady was a five star read.  Smoke was good, too, 4 stars.