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Currently reading the white tiger
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I am reading 'The Town That Forgot How To Breathe' by Kenneth J Harvey. I'm really loving it so far!
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Currently Reading:

Caraval by Stephanie Garber

and

Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire by JK Rowling (for the first time!)
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A trip to Adele
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Wolf by Wolf by Ryan Graudin.
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Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
I feel Jodi Picoult is an overrated author, but I am reading this book for my in-person book club. It's pretty good so far. However, the chapters are very long and I like books that switch among too many points of view. In this case, there are three points of view.
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erasmus wrote:
Gravy wrote:Started the newest Psy/Changeling novel by Nalini Singh, Silver Silence.

I want to read Silver Silence so badly, but the library has yet to have the book on their shelves... :(

So, for now, I'm reading End of Days by Susan Ee.
I look forward to hearing what you think!
I was very nervous with the switch into the "second act", as it were. I shouldn't have been. I loved it. (Just finished it a few days ago.)
Feel free to message me if you ever want to discuss the series, and I hope your library has it soon!
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bookowlie wrote:Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult
I feel Jodi Picoult is an overrated author, but I am reading this book for my in-person book club. It's pretty good so far. However, the chapters are very long and I like books that switch among too many points of view. In this case, there are three points of view.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks Jodi Picoult is overrated. She manages to take really good ideas and butcher them with dreadful dialogue and a style I call smart- ass American.
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I am currently reading Keys to Tetouan by Mois Benarroch. His books are really hard to grasp. I'm still deciphering the main context and the reason for it being given such title. I hope I find something I interesting there. I did enjoy his Gates to Tangier (after several chapters, that is).
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I decided to do a cover to cover read of the Bible. I got as far as Ezra, but decided to pause so that I can read James Michener's The Source. I feel I need a varied perspective before continuing with the Bible. I may go back to Deuteronomy after I finish The Source.
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DennisK wrote:I decided to do a cover to cover read of the Bible. I got as far as Ezra, but decided to pause so that I can read James Michener's The Source. I feel I need a varied perspective before continuing with the Bible. I may go back to Deuteronomy after I finish The Source.
You are doing something interesting right there. That sounds like hard work, though. I'm cheering you on.
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I just started the audiobook of Lauren Graham's Talking As Fast As I Can which I've been excited to get to.
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In The Dark by Richard Laymon
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CHL wrote:
DennisK wrote:I decided to do a cover to cover read of the Bible. I got as far as Ezra, but decided to pause so that I can read James Michener's The Source. I feel I need a varied perspective before continuing with the Bible. I may go back to Deuteronomy after I finish The Source.
You are doing something interesting right there. That sounds like hard work, though. I'm cheering you on.
Thank you, CHL. I find that I am not very interested in those genealogical sections of the Bible as my heritage isn't Jewish nor did I find relevant the census of Jews during that period of our history. Other than that, reading the Bible isn't that much of a burden. However, after finishing the second book Chronicles, I felt saturated with stories of all their kings since Saul. One king would follow the laws brought to them by Moses, and the next would not. Back and forth, their history would go – first with famine, then with plenty, or first they would conquer and then they would be conquered - all coinciding with how they followed their original commandments. It all seemed so predictable and yet, so senseless. That is why I stopped at that point and picked up Michener's The Source as I need a different perspective.
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House of Names by Colm Tóibín
We fade away, but vivid in our eyes
A world is born again that never dies.
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