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John is Currently Reading

John is currently reading

Copaganda: How Police and the Media Manipulate Our News

by Alec Karakatsanis

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The Best American Essays 2021

by Kathryn Schulz (Goodreads Author)

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The Talisman

by Stephen King (Goodreads Author)

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read in January 1986

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