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Subject: It's August 2024 - What Are You Reading?
Date Posted: 8/4/2024 8:06 AM ET
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Reading:

As Good As Gone by Larry Watson

The Guide by Peter Heller

Melania and Me by Stephanie Winston Wolkoff

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini

 

Finished:

A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell

You Think It, I'll Say It:  Stories by Curtis Sittenfeld

The 9th Man by Steve Berry with Grant Blackwood

Officer Clemmons by Dr Francois Clemmons

The Profiteers: Bechtel and the Men Who Built the World by Sally Denton

Bread and Wine by Ignazio Silone

Conditional Citizens by Laila Lalami

Below the Line by Howard Michael Gould



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Currently Reading:

 The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel  (for book club)

 

Finished:

Mad Prairie: Stories and a Novella by Kate McIntyre

Joyland by Stephen King

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare (audio book) 

A Place to Hang the Moon by Kate Albus

Northward to the Moon by Polly Horvath

 Sex and Vanity by Kevin Kwan

An American Marriage by Tayari Jones (audio book) 5 stars

Crenshaw by Katherine Applegate (audio book)

Finding Freedom: A Cook's Story; Remaking a Life From Scratch by Erin French (audio book).      



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Finished this month:

Can't Stop Believing by Jodi Thomas

Dead Days of Summer by Carolyn Hart 

Set Sail for Murder by Carolyn Hart 

The Final Victim by Wendy Corsi Staub

Murder in Chelsea by Victoria Thompson 

Murder in Murray Hill by Victoria Thompson 

Murder on Amsterdam Avenue by Victoria Thompson 

Murder on St. Nicholas Avenue by Victoria Thompson 

Ashworth Hall by Anne Perry 

Brunswick Gardens by Anne Perry 

Bedford Square by Anne Perry 

Half Moon Street by Anne Perry 

Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson 

Murder in the Bowery by Victoria Thompson 

Kiss and Tell by Fern Michaels 

Eyes Only  by Fern Michaels 

Stalker by Faye Kellerman 

 

Currently reading:

Undecided 



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Finished in July:  Hollywood Hustle  by:  Jon Lindstrom

                            Murder, She Wrote  Murder Backstage  by:  Jessica Fletcher and Terrie Farley Moran

                            Beyond That, The Sea  by:  Laura Spence-Ash   for book club

                            The Black Book  by:  James Patterson and David Ellis

Currently reading:  The Red Book  by:  James Patterson and David Ellis

Hope to get to:  Escape  by:  James Patterson and David Ellis   for book club

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Just finished Driving with Dead People by Monica Holloway