PIFM - August 2020 Read

[Janet , Moderator]

The time has come to choose your book selections for your August 2020 read in the PIFM challenge.

The rules are:-

* You can choose any number of books. A minimum of two and up to a maximum of 10.

* Please, only ONE MESSAGE per member. That means NO REPLYING or CHATTING in this thread.

* Once you have made your selections and posted, when your votes start to come in you can then add your votes cast by other members beneath your book titles ie the following might be how my list would look:-

The Good Samaritan - Will Carver
x 1 - Janet

Fatal Promise - Angela Marsons
x 1 - Perri
x 1 - Val

How you post is your choice, you can link, do pictures, the above is just an example. The key is that you stick with the one message and update it as the votes come in. Your list can be placed when the August 2020 threads go up.

[Kirsten]

How about some paranormal romance for August?

Night Pleasures by Sherrilyn Kenyon
🎡🎡🎡🎡🎡 - Dana, Tonya, Patricia, Perri, Melanie

Born in Fire by K.F. Breene

Ice Planet Barbarians by Ruby Dixon

Pestilence by Laura Thalassa
🎡🎡 - Mandy, Dana

Feral Sins by Suzanne Wright
🎡🎡🎡 - Christine, Sarah, Vicki Willis

[Christine]

Here’s my book list

[Dana]

"Beach" Books this month!

Something Blue

The Summer I Saw You

The Sisterhood of the Traveling Pants

[Mandy]

1. Strangers - Dana
2. His & Hers
3. Unspeakable Things - Sarah
4. What Lies Between Us - Tonya, Kirsten, Christine
5. The Names of the Dead

[Tonya]

Where the Heart Is- Billie Letts
The Good Girl- Mary Kubica
Revolutionary Road-Richard Yates
Night Film- Marisha Pessl
The Green Mile(complete novel)- Stephen King

[Sarah]

[Dana]

I'm a little late for July so i'll skip ahead and read the top 2

1) The Cactus
2) The Wives
3) The Testaments
4) The Great Alone
5) The Library of Lost and Found

[Patricia]

Some non-fiction choices -

Wright and New York: The Making of America’s Architect

Barefoot to Avalon: A Brother's Story
Tonya - Perri - Sarah - Brenda - Melanie

The China Mirage: The Hidden History of American Disaster in Asia
Kirsten

Remembering Shanghai: A Memoir of Socialites, Scholars and Scoundrels
Sophie

The Kennedy Debutante
Dana - Vicki

[Perri]

Memoir:

The Rules Do Not Apply
Tonya

Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive
Dana, Kirsten, Brenda, Vicki

Inheritance: A Memoir of Genealogy, Paternity, and Love

Maybe You Should Talk to Someone: A Therapist, Her Therapist, and Our Lives Revealed
Sarah, Sophie, Melanie

Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together
Patricia

[Sophie]

1. The Cows by Dawn O'Porter
2. Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
3. The Corner Shop in Cockleberry Bay by Nicola May
4. What You Did by Claire McGowan
5. The Bone Jar by S.W. Kane
6. Circe by Madeline Miller
7. The Silence of the Girls by Pat Barker
8. Strange the Dreamer by Laini Taylor

[Brenda]

No rhyme or reason this month. 🤷‍♀️

Perfect Silence

The Hanging Garden - 👍 👍 Melanie, Kirsten

Crimson Lake - 👍👍 Patricia, Tonya

Dead Nasty

Finding Claire Fletcher - 👍 👍 Perri, Vicki

[Melanie]

[Vicki Willis]

I am putting 5 books that have been on my shelf the longest. It would be so great to get one off!

Watched

Seven Patients
Kirsten, Perri

Beneath the Mask of Sanity

Secrets in the Shadows

The Advocate
Patricia, Brenda, Tonya