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[Christine]

The Best Worst Thing by Lauren Okie

[Christine]

Her Steadfast Heart by Sharlene MacLaren

[Christine]

Girls Who Play Dead by Joelle Wellington

[Christine]

Every Summer After by Carley Fortune

[Christine]

It Happened One Summer by Tessa Bailey

[Wouter]

The Antidote by Karen Russell

[Ron]

Her Last Goodnight by Michael Scanlon. The last in the Detective Finnegan Beck series

[LauraT]

Started this last week end two mysteries: Don't Let Her Stay and the sixth in Brother Cadfael series The Virgin in the Ice - Summer is Mystery time for me!!!

[Christine]

The Secret Song of Shelby Rey by Rayne Lacko

[Christine]

A Summer in Ocean City by Claudia Vance

[Christine]

All for the Game by Heather Buchta

[Christine]

Well, Actually by Mazey Eddings

[LauraT]

I'm at the moment listening to Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon and reading Dead Man's Ransom by Ellis Peters and Young Renny by Mazo de la Roche

[Christine]

I finished all of my books and they were called The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden and Dead Med by Freida McFadden and The Housemaid's Wedding by Freida McFadden and Brain Damage by Freida McFadden and Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show by Bethany Joy Lenz and The Crash by Freida McFadden and The Coworker by Freida McFadden and The Murderer You Know by Patti Gaustad Procopi and Survive the Night by Riley Sager and The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager and Ask for Andrea by Noelle W. Ihli and Gray After Dark by Noelle W. Ihli and How to Disappear by Gillian McAllister and The Good Sister by Gillian McAllister and Saving Noah by Lucinda Berry and When She Returned by Lucinda Berry and A Beautiful Couple by Leslie Wolfe and Til Death Do Us Part by Daniel Hurst and Little Secrets by Jennifer Hillier and What Lies Between Us by John Marrs and I Am Watching You by Teresa Driscoll and Watching You by Lisa Jewell and Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng and Nineteen Minutes by Jodi Picoult and The Last Party by A.R. Torre and A Flicker in the Dark by Stacy Willingham and Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney and A Summer in Ocean City by Claudia Vance and When Christmas Comes: A Single Dad, Age Gap Christmas Romance by Christine Rimmer and All for the Game by Heather Buchta and The Last Sinner by Lisa Jackson and Daughter of Mine by Megan Miranda and The Girl Who Survived by Lisa Jackson and The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes and Oxygen by Carol Cassella

[Steve]

Christine- Wow!

[Christine]

I finished my book called Under an Alaskan Sky by Jennifer Snow

[Christine]

I finished my book called Summit Lake by Charlie Donlea

[Christine]

I finished my book called The Day I Died by Lori Rader-Day

[Greg]

Currently reading If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. I was expecting the beautiful prose and the psychological depth, but what is taking me by surprise is the humor. The characterizations are so vivid and perfectly done that humor arises in the interactions, despite the circumstances; the father's dialogue in particular has made me laugh multiple times. He has a knack for delivering hard truths to people who need to hear them.

[LauraT]

Started yesterday my re-read (for a group read at my library) The Sleeping Voice, a really beautifull novel on the vicil war in Spain. To be recomended!

[LauraT]

Greg wrote: "Currently reading If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin. I was expecting the beautiful prose and the psychological depth, but what is taking me by surprise is the ..."

I've never read anything by this author; you do recomend him then Greg?

[Steve]

I highly recommend James Baldwin- novels and essays. My favorite is Go Tell It On the Mountain, but everything I’ve read by him is good.

[LauraT]

Steve wrote: "I highly recommend James Baldwin- novels and essays. My favorite is Go Tell It On the Mountain, but everything I’ve read by him is good."

Thanks Steve!
I'm reading The Outsider; as usual for this writer, breathtaking

[Greg]

So far in the fiction category I have read Another Country, Giovanni’s Room, and now, If Beale Street Could Talk. All three were wonderful!

But Baldwin does deliberately recreate the sociology/psychology of the time when each was written; so there is some disturbing content. People talk and behave as they did then.

I would say that out of the three I've read, so far Giovanni’s Room is still my favorite, but all three are exquisite! And I do plan to read Go Tell It on the Mountain next.

I think you would like him Laura! If you have time and want to buddy read Go Tell It On the Mountain at some point, let me know.

Thanks for the recommendation Steve!

I've read some of his non-fiction books too, and those are also excellent. But his fiction is really special!

[Greg]

LauraT wrote: "Thanks Steve!
I'm reading The Outsider; as usual for this writer, breathtaking."

There was a television series adapted from this book that I thought was wonderfully done Laura: really creepy with a true sense of mystery and at the same time emotionally engaging. I was drawn deeply into the characters' world.

[LauraT]

Greg wrote: "LauraT wrote: "Thanks Steve!
I'm reading The Outsider; as usual for this writer, breathtaking."

There was a television series adapted from this book that I thought was wonderfully done Laura: real..."

My husband saw it and said the same. I don't think I could endure "seeing" what I'm reading!!!

[Greg]

LauraT wrote: "My husband saw it and said the same. I don't think I could endure "seeing" what I'm reading!!!."

Ha ha, I did have to look between my fingers sometimes. It was genuinely creepy in an unsettling way. Really good though! Maybe I will read the book!

[Greg]

I am close to finishing If Beale Street Could Talk by James Baldwin, and it's a wonderful book! 5 stars for sure, unless something goes really wrong with it in the final pages.

I'm also about halfway through the Harlem Renaissance work Cane by Jean Toomer. It's an interesting mixture of poetry & prose, and I was pleasantly surprised at how much I like the poetry in it. Toomer deserves to be ranked with the other great poets of the movement like Countee Cullen and Claude McKay.

Once I finish the Baldwin book tomorrow, I plan to start Fahrenheit 451 as well. I haven't read that one since I was a teenager!

[Christine]

I finished my book called The Oligarch's Daughter by Joseph Finder

[Christine]

I finished my book called Winning Back His Wife by Melissa McClone

[Christine]

I finished my book called Ghost Stories of Texas by Jo-Anne Christensen

[Greg]

It's impressive how quickly you finish books Christine!

[Greg]

I finished both all three of the books I mentioned earlier, and all were 4-5 stars. Quite a nice way to return to reading!

I highly reccommend all three of them, especially Fahrenheit 451 and If Beale Street Could Talk!

Now, I'm finishing up the entertaining lighter fantasy novel A Sorceress Comes to Call by T. Kingfisher.

Also, I'll start today Tyll by German author Daniel Kehlmann as well as begin my re-read of Wide Sargasso Sea by Jean Rhys

[Christine]

I finished my book called Haunted Massachusetts: Ghosts and Strange Phenomena of the Bay State by Cheri Farnsworth

[Christine]

I finished my book called Ghosts of Mount Holly:: A History of Haunted Happenings by Jan Lynn Bastien