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Subject: It's October 2024 - What Are You Reading?
Date Posted: 10/1/2024 4:58 PM ET
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Reading:

Dinner at the Center of the Earth by Nathan Englander

They Knew: How a Culture of Conspiracy Keeps America Complacent by Sarah Kendzior

Salem's Lot by Stephen King

 

Finished:

Reconciliation: Islam, Democracy and the West by Benazir Bhutto

All the Beautiful Girls by Elizabeth Church

Bomb Shelter: Love, Time, and Other Explosives by Mary Laura Philpott

Why I am a Catholic by Garry Wills

The Queen of Whale Cay by Kate Summerscale

Trust by Pete Buttigieg

Grover Cleveland: A Study in Character by Alyn Brodsky

How to Catch a Russian Spy by Naveed Jamali and Ellis Henican

Where I Come From: Stories from the Deep South by Rick Bragg

Spring Came On Forever by Bess Streeter Aldrich



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Currently Reading:

Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver

The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight by Andrew Leland

Big Stone Gap by Adriana Trigiani (on audio CD read by the author)

 

Finished:

Happiness is a Choice You Make: Lessons from a year among the oldest Old by John Leland

Everything Sad is Untrue (A True Story) by Daniel Nayeri   An auto-biographical novel about Daniel's escape from Iran with his mother and a sister, as refugees in Dubai and Italy, eventually gaining asylum in Edmond, Oklahoma when he was 8 yrs old. I give this on 4.5 out of 5 stars. Recommend this one to those of you that like a good story teller.

Mere Christianity by C. S. Lewis   A compilation of speeches given by the author in a series of wartime broadcasts at the request of the BBC on the topic of Christianity from 1942-1944

We Are All Welcome Here by Elizabeth Berg



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Finished in September:  Biltmore An American Masterpiece

                                   The 100 Year Old Man Who Climbed Out The Window And Disappeared  by:  Jonas Jonasson  for book club

Currently reading:  The Accidental Further Adventures Of The 100 Year Old Man  by:  Jonas Jonasson

Hope to get to:  Love Story  by:  Erich Segal

                       Oliver's Story  by:  Erich Segal for book club

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Finished this month:

Seven Dials by Anne Perry

Fundraising the Dead by Sheila  Connolly

How to Moon Cat by Rebecca M. Hale

The Poyson Garden by Karen Harper

Better to Rest by Dana Stabenow 

A Fatal Chapter by Lorna Barrett 

The Headhunter's Daughter by Tamar Myers

Poisonous by Allison Brennan 

Let's Play Dead by Sheila Connolly 

Murder on Union Square by Victoria Thompson 

Long Road to Mercy by David Baldacci 

A Minute to Midnight by David Baldacci 

Knit Fast, Die Young by Mary Kruger 

The Chesapeake Bride by Mariah Stewart 

 

 

Currently reading:

Undecided 



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