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Subject: September Reads
Date Posted: 9/5/2023 7:55 PM ET
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Reading Band of Sisters by Lauren Willig



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Date Posted: 9/6/2023 7:09 AM ET
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I finished Weyward by  Emilia Hart Debut novel. Set over 3 time periods. Brings in witchcraft. Pretty good. I would read another book by her. Beautiful cover art.

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Date Posted: 9/6/2023 1:39 PM ET
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Hello, all! 

Listening wise, I have made some good progress on The Good Wife of Bath.  I'm really enjoying this one! I finished reading Murder on the Orient Express by Agatha Christie the other day, and I think my "Christie itch" has been scratched enough for now, so I'm moving on.  I started reading The Bookseller of Inverness by S.G. Maclean last evening.  

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I finished Murder in the Park (Oak Park Village, Bk 1) by Jeanne M. Dams.  Historical mystery set in 1925 Chicago. Historical aspecters were interesting not very likeable characters

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I started James Clavell's Tai-Pan, the second book in his Asian Saga series.

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Date Posted: 9/9/2023 10:21 PM ET
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Alice, I have that on my WL as my sister lives in suburb next to Oak Park. I went to college with a lot of students who grew up there so I thought it would be an interesting series to try out. That decade is also one I have not read much of -- I am trying to spread out the periods I read in HF instead of sticking to the same eras all the time. 

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Jeanne,

The 1920s is one of my favorite to read about. Women are getting more rights, Jazz things are becoming more modern. I mailed the book for the mystery VB otherwise I would send to you.

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Date Posted: 9/19/2023 6:28 PM ET
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Carolyn:  I found TAI-PAN by James Clavell at the library.  Looking forward to reading it.  In the meantime I am now reading Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI by David Grann, historical.  



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REK - It's a bit slow in the beginning, but I'm about 200 pages in and like it.  Looking forward to your opinion.

I also started The Mystery of Mrs. Christie and DNF'd it about 100 pages in.  Did not like the writing style, and nothing was happening.  Reading some other reviews informed me that the writer actually spolis a number of Agatha Christie novels!  Good grief!  

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Date Posted: 9/28/2023 11:00 AM ET
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Finished Becoming Bonnie by Jenni L. Walsh.  It's ok but thought the author took too much liberty with the story.  She romanacizes Roy Thorton who married Bonnie when she was 16.  Apparently, she says in her end-of-the-book comments that he was a real scumball but this doesn't come through as I read it.   It's probably much more fiction than historical fiction although she says many of the details ares true but I can't help wondering how many and which ones.  There seem to be so many changes from what I recall.



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