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PoindexterOglethorpe

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3. Currently I have three books going.
Sun Sep 24, 2017, 01:36 PM
Sep 2017
The Eyre Affaire by Jasper Fforde, and for some reason I'm finding it a bit of a slog. I listened to One of Our Thursdays Is Missing on a recent road trip and really liked it, so I decided to go back to the beginning of the series. I am in awe of the amazing world he has created, but I'm getting impatient to finally get into the Book World.

I'm also reading The Bridegroom a collection of stories by Ha Jin. Everything he writes is excellent.

And my current guilty pleasure It Takes Two by Jonathan and Drew Scott, the Property brothers. It's interesting to get a context for them.

Oh, and I finished Tornado Weather by Deborah E. Kennedy, and it turned out to be quite good. We get into the heads of quite a few of the characters in that small town, and I found it to be quite satisfactory. Most of the people in the novel are really trapped in that small town in Indiana. Most of them were born there or came there for some sort of a job. There are not many jobs, and when the dairy farm is shut down there are even fewer. This is one book I'd recommend strongly.

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i have Hillary and Katy's books on tape..does that count? samnsara Sep 2017 #1
Sure hermetic Sep 2017 #2
Currently I have three books going. PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #3
I just listened hermetic Sep 2017 #5
The Rosie Effect CurtEastPoint Sep 2017 #4
Yes, I remember hermetic Sep 2017 #6
Yes! PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2017 #8
Men Without Women by Haruki Murakami PoorMonger Sep 2017 #7
Sounds great! hermetic Sep 2017 #9
Still reading Asimov's "Prelude to Foundation" TexasProgresive Sep 2017 #10
Welll... hermetic Sep 2017 #11
Finished "The Rule of Four" by Ian Caldwell & Dustin Thomason Number9Dream Sep 2017 #12
Heyo, hermetic Sep 2017 #13
The feeling is moochal... Number9Dream Sep 2017 #14
I'm supposed to start Hillbilly Elegy... Ohiya Sep 2017 #15
Here is a really interesting review hermetic Sep 2017 #16
Thanks Ohiya Sep 2017 #17
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