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Subject: May HF Reads
Date Posted: 5/1/2022 7:00 AM ET
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May is a beautiful month. What are you reading for HF

I am reading a historical Cozy   With a Little Bit of Blood by DE Ireland.  Set in 1913 England. It is an Eliza Doolittle mystery. What I am finding interesting is many of characters are buying motor cars for the first time and there is not regulations. So they drive like crazy with no experience, run things over and hit things.  Makes you think what it must have been like when people first started to drive.

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Date Posted: 5/3/2022 6:13 PM ET
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Hello, Alice and all!  Yes, May is beautiful.  Hoping it is the month spring finally decides to fully arrive in Minnesota.  We've had a cold, wet one so far. 

Currently reading China by Edward Rutherfurd, which is his latest.  I was just thinking I'd read all of his books so far, but then I realized that I have not yet read the second novel in the Dublin Saga series, which is on my bookshelf.  So, I guess I will read that after I finish China.  LOVE me some Rutherfurd.  Definitely my favorite author! I'm listening to The Big Rock Candy Mountain by Wallace Stegner, but I haven't actually listened to it in several weeks.  Must get back to it. 
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Date Posted: 5/3/2022 7:43 PM ET
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Just finished The Lost Apothecary by Sarah Penner, 4.5 stars.  Very good read.  No wonder it has so many wishers.  Just posted it into the system.and it was automatically requested.

Ready to begin Enchantress of Numbers by Jennifer Chiavini, maybe



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I started The English Wife by Lauren Willig.  It's set in 1899, and as I recently watched The Gilded Age on HBO, I have a better visual of the time period.

 
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Turned to Coffin Corner Boys, historical, instead.  This is a fascinating read about ten US Airmen whose plane is shot down over France.  The pilot is the prime narrator but each of the other crew members tell their stories of what happened and how they survived.



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Hello, all! I finished China by Edward Rutherfurd.  Not surprising since Rutherfurd is my favorite author, I enjoyed it!  I believe I will start a Lady Darby Mystery book next.  Can't remember the name of it off the top of my head - I think it's the 3rd or 4th in the series. 

I haven't listed to my audio book, The Big Rock Candy Mountain - in ages.  

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