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Linda
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Sep 09, 2021 08:29PM
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Here, Right Matters: An American Story
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Wizzywig: Portrait of a Serial Hacker and listening to
Hatchet Man: How Bill Barr Broke the Prosecutor's Code and Corrupted the Justice Department
Starting
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming: A Southern Girl, a Small Town, and the Secret of a Good Life and
Them: Why We Hate Each Other - and How to Heal and listening to
American Rust
Presently listening to
I Left My Homework in the Hamptons: What I Learned Teaching the Children of the One Percent
I have started so many, and finished so few! Having to juggle titles around to get my book group reading done on time.The Poet X
Started reading this, but think the poetry would make a better listen, so switching to audio.listening to
Cloud Cuckoo Land which will have to be put aside for Poet XSlogging my way through Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family
. A good book, but not a fast read.And will be putting that one on hold to start
A Life on Our Planet: My Witness Statement and a Vision for the Future for book group.
Presently I'm reading
Homeland Elegies and listening to
Group: How One Therapist and a Circle of Strangers Saved My Life
Now listening to
Unbound: My Story of Liberation and the Birth of the Me Too Movement and reading
A Place for Us
I'm reading
Ceremony and, as soon as I can figure out how to tell Libby that I don't want to read that book right now, but prefer to listen to a book, I will be listening to
Paris to the Moon
Currently reading Sharks in the Time of Saviors
and then I'll be picking up, listening and reading
The Priory of the Orange Tree for our February book group. Not my usually kind of book, and at 800 pages, I hope I get through it.
I'm now reading
Free: A Child and a Country at the End of History and listening to
Midnight in Washington: How We Almost Lost Our Democracy and Still Could
I'm now listening to
Too Famous: The Rich, the Powerful, the Wishful, the Notorious, the Damned and reading
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age
Linda wrote: "Have now started
Stoner"This is such a dark horse. You start it and wonder what could be so special about this ordinary man, but it sneaks up on you and ends up being such a good book.
Started The Priory of the Orange Tree
for my February book group. This is an 800 page tome and fantasy is not my favorite genre. I've been doing the audio version and am 3 hours in and have no idea of what is going on!
Reading
The Vapors: A Southern Family, the New York Mob, and the Rise and Fall of Hot Springs, America's Forgotten Capital of Vice. This is the second book in about as many weeks where I become more familiar with the gangster Dutch Schultz. The other was in
Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age.I started listening to
Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era.I'm returning and hoping to finally finish
War and Peace. My plan is to read ONE chapter a day and finish at the end of the year. Third time's the charm! I'm also going to update on GoodReads EVERY day to help keep me on track.
Listening to Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World
. It's read by Lin-Manuel Miranda and it's wonderful as was the first in the series.
Now reading
The Gray Lady Winked: How the New York Times's Misreporting, Distortions and Fabrications Radically Alter History and will start listening to
Olga Dies Dreaming. Also keeping up on reading a chapter a day of War and Peace
Reading
A Snake Falls to Earth and listening to
We Had a Little Real Estate Problem: The Unheralded Story of Native Americans and Comedy
I've started so many and finished none! I keep interrupting my books by choice in order to read books for book group. Here are the ones I currently have going:Crying in H Mart
To Paradise
The Unhoneymooners
The Beautiful Mystery
The Life We Bury
Notes on an Execution
The Five Wounds
Betsy wrote: "I've started so many and finished none! I keep interrupting my books by choice in order to read books for book group. Here are the ones I currently have going:Crying in H Mart[book..."
Wow, Betsy, I think you have me beat!
Went back to one I started a while ago but didn't finish
Four Hundred Souls: A Community History of African America, 1619-2019
In addition to my chapter a day of
War and Peace, I'm readinng
Cokie: A Life Well Lived,
[bookThis Will Not Pass: Trump, Biden and the Battle for American Democracy|59577818] and listening to
Wildland: The Making of America's Fury.
I'm now reading
A Diary of the Plague Year: An Illustrated Chronicle of 2020 AND
The Best American Short Stories of the Century (for my Big Book Summer Reading Challenge. My listening book will be
Kill Switch: The Rise of the Modern Senate and the Crippling of American Democracy. The latter two books are ones that have been on my "reading" column and had to be returned to the library before I was finished. I'm hoping to make a major dent in that column this year.
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