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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Saturday, June 07, 2025 - 1:37 pm 
Finished "Old Girls Behaving Badly" by Kate Galley. It was pretty good. I was hoping for more light-hearted amusing fun. It was that pretty much.
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Sunday, June 08, 2025 - 9:57 am
Just finished Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid. She is one of my favorite authors and I think this is one of my very favorite of her books. It follows the Space Shuttle program and a group of new astronauts. Two of them are women who fall madly in love but have to hide it because that would not fly with the standards of the program. Great read.
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Teachmichigan
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07-21-2001
| Monday, June 09, 2025 - 6:49 pm
Another lover of TJR, Mamie, and I just placed a hold on Atmosphere. I'm *only* 45th in line - for one copy. 
I've done mainly audiobooks the last couple months and can highly recommend: The Wolf Tree, The Dictionary of Lost Words, The Lion Women of Tehran and the two YA books Where Wolves Don't Die, Death at Morning House.
I'm currently reading All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby (excellent) and listening to The Scottish Boy by Alex de Campi (good story - but heads up it's NSFW at all!!).
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Saturday, June 14, 2025 - 10:20 am
I am listening to My Friends by Fredrick Bachman. It is filled with all those lovely feelings his books touch in you but my problem is the narrator does a voice of an old man who helps the main characters at one time. She sounds like Yoda! I am having a hard time getting past the voice.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Tuesday, June 17, 2025 - 3:38 pm
Just finished "Before the Swallows Come Back" by Fiona Curnow. I believe she is a Scottish author. Very good book!
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Tuesday, July 01, 2025 - 10:07 am
Finished the latest Hunger Games book, "Sunrise On the Reaping." It was interesting but did have some disturbing violence, too.
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Mamie316
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07-08-2003
| Tuesday, July 08, 2025 - 10:21 am
A few I have read lately that I have loved:
Don't Let Him In by Lisa Jewell. I love her books and this was one of my favorites. A Dirty John like story about a man who has kept a lot of secrets from a lot of women.
The River is Waiting by Wally Lamb. I listened to this one, read by Jeremy Sisto and I need more from his voice now! Just a very moving, hard at times, novel but so good.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:29 pm
Finished another classic, "Heidi" by Johanna
Spyri, a truly light-hearted joy to read.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Monday, July 14, 2025 - 3:45 pm
I also read another book by Suzanne Collins,author of The Hunger Games books, Gregor the Overlander, definitely fantasy and the start of another series. Don't know if I will read the rest.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Wednesday, July 23, 2025 - 1:08 pm
I recently finished "Broadchurch" by Erin Kelly. It's apparently based on a British tv series. It was quite good. I just started reading Cher's memoirs--Part 1.Interesting so far.
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Heckagirl631
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09-08-2010
| Tuesday, July 29, 2025 - 11:16 am
I finished Cher--Part one. Interesting. She leaves off right before she started acting. Lots of good photos at the end of the book. Had to get on the computer to look at them. Too small on the phone.
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Uncle_ricky
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07-02-2007
| Friday, August 01, 2025 - 10:33 pm
Greetings on this first day of August -- it's your very delinquent contributor. Work has been way busier this year than it was last year, but maybe that's because I'm going into the office five days week (instead of two), primarily because of the construction of the new home for my mom-in-law and sister-in-law. Can you believe construction might be finished sometime in September -- amazing! They started building in mid-April. Seth and I are thrilled with the progress -- we're that much closer to getting our house back -- yay!
Now, here are the works I've finished since my most recent posting:
The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah. Excellent from beginning to end. I really wish it had been twice as long as it is.
Time to Thank: Caregiving for My Hero by Steve Guttenberg. Mamie recommended this to me shortly after the Palisades fire displaced mom-in-law and sister-in-law. A wonderful collection of insights. Guttenberg's father was such a riot -- I laughed my head off at his various antics.
Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea by Chelsea Handler. Very, very funny - enjoyed it immensely.
Gandolfini: Jim, Tony, and the Life of a Legend by Jason Bailey. Well written and well researched. It was so amazing to read what a troubled soul he was. That he died at only 51 added such intensity to the tragedy of his too-soon passing.
In the Absence of Men by Philippe Besson. This is of a novella than a standard novel, but it was quite tender and extremely sad. Tortured love between two men during World War I.
Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang by Chelsea Handler. Also quite funny, but not as funny as her first two books.
Blindsighted by Karin Slaughter. Thanks to the discussion earlier this year by those of you who've read her work, I decided to give her a try and started with her very first book. Yikes! So incredibly violent and dark - I couldn't believe this was her debut. Gripping all the way through. I will read all her other stuff!
Nightshade by Michael Connelly. Yet another winner from this titan of the crime genre. I don't know how he does it -- he has never written a bad book.
Sonic Boom: The Impossible Rise of Warner Bros. Records, from Hendrix to Fleetwood Mac to Madonna to Prince by Peter Ames Carlin. Awful -- do not bother -- I can't believe I finished it.
I Will Ruin You by Linwood Barclay. I completely missed this one when it was published last year - how did that happen? Anyway, it's marvelous and that's all that matters.
Lies That Chelsea Handler Told Me by Chelsea Handler. This one is actually stories by Chelsea's friends, who write about how she lies to them. Only mildly funny and Chelsea's contributions are extremely limited.
The Things We Do for Love by Kristin Hannah. One of her earlier novels - I loved it!
Kisscut by Karin Slaughter. Her second book and just as dark and disturbing as the first one. She was definitely born with the gift to write extremely disturbing stories!
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah. One of her most popular books, if not the most popular. I loved it, as did almost everyone else who has read it. The film version is supposed to start production sometime next year for a release in early 2027.
Careless People: A Cautionary Tale of Power, Greed, and Lost Idealism by Sarah Wynn-Williams. She is a former executive at Facebook. She shares all the madness exhibited by Mark Zuckerberg and Sheryl Sandberg. Really well written, but also super frustrating to read about all the crimes against humanity that Facebook continues to perpetrate. Though it's definitely a whistleblower's version of events, she writes calmly and authoritatively about all the awful things she witnessed during her 7 or so years of being in Zuckerberg's inner circle. I hated him before I read the book - now I hate him 100 times more -- definitely a creep's creep.
Marble Hall Murders by Anthony Horowitz. Finished this yesterday and it's absolutely marvelous. The 3rd and possibly final book in the Susan Ryeland series, it's nearly 600 pages long -- I wish it had been 1,600. You will not be disappointed. If you can read the first two in the series, it really heightens the enjoyment of the 3rd book!
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