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Old 08-01-2020, 01:07 PM
Status: "I don't understand. But I don't care, so it works out." (set 5 days ago)
 
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I’m having a hard time getting into a book these days but inhaled The Last Flight. A real page turner. Read it in a single rainy day.
Sounds really good - thanks!

I kind of have a thing for people who successfully disappear themselves, so this one sounds interesting.
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Old 08-01-2020, 05:29 PM
 
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Liane Moriarty's Truly Madly Guilty. I've had Big Little Lies on hold from the library all summer, but it hasn't some in, so when our local library opened for real last week, I went in and grabbed this one.
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Old 08-02-2020, 06:39 AM
 
Location: Wonderland
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I love biographies and autobiographies and I recently read "I Tried To Change So You Don't Have To" by Loni Love and I couldn't put it down - read it in one long afternoon! It's a poignant and yet funny autobiography.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...-don-t-have-to

Girl Power!

I was in a resale shop recently and stumbled across a bio about Richard Burton of all people. Well, I started flipping through it and couldn't put it down so I bought it. It's by his brother. It was very well written, and seemed balanced. Anyway, of course then I got on a Richard Burton and Elizabeth Taylor kick and have been watching their old movies, many of which are quite good. But his bio was the best.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...ton_My_Brother
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Old 08-02-2020, 08:47 AM
 
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Just finished "Olive Again" by Elizabeth Strout

Oh, how could you NOT give Olive 5 stars!
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Old 08-02-2020, 09:39 AM
 
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Just finished "Olive Again" by Elizabeth Strout

Oh, how could you NOT give Olive 5 stars!
I liked "Olive Again" a lot more than the original.
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Old 08-02-2020, 05:35 PM
 
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Brad Thor "Near Dark". Political thriller/spy fiction type of literature. So far so good six chapters in!
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Old 08-02-2020, 09:48 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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I'm reading Hannah's War about a Jewish woman physicist from Germany who was able to help create the first atomic bomb. She was not given the scientific credit she deserved in Berlin and when she is in the U.S. she is accused of espionage .

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/sh...7-hannah-s-war

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Old 08-03-2020, 04:10 AM
 
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I have finished Maybe You Should Talk to Someone and found it quite easy to read, and enjoyable.
It's a therapist writing about her patients, interspersed with her life and just being a therapist. It was very well written, and I probably would have rated it higher but at points ( and as usual for me..) and particularly at the end, it just went on.

There was a lot to it, and most of it was so well handled but at the end I was just thinking it should have been over.
It was rated very highly on Goodreads.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/...QnUAtVj&rank=1

Next up I am going to try Lilac Girls, for a book club.
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Old 08-04-2020, 08:06 AM
 
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Just finished "Afterlife" by Julia Alvarez https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/52898645-afterlife

The was a short book at 256 pages, but wasn't all that impressed by it. This was a 3 star read for me.
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Old 08-04-2020, 07:34 PM
 
Location: Pacific Northwest
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I’m having a hard time getting into a book these days but inhaled The Last Flight. A real page turner. Read it in a single rainy day.

Who is the author? I tried looking it up on Amazon and saw a few titles that are similar.
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