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hermetic

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21. Sounds like it...

Sun Oct 16, 2022, 12:58 PM

Oct 2022

"...an insightful, unsettling, often hilarious exploration of a culture trying to navigate the fault lines of an institution that has proven to be worthy of our great wariness and our great hope."

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What Fiction are you reading this week, October 16, 2022? [View all] hermetic Oct 2022 OP

I'm almost done with The Scholar PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #1

Are you liking it? hermetic Oct 2022 #5

Yes, I am liking it. PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #34

Just grabbed some ebooks by this author. SheltieLover Oct 2022 #7

The Sentence cilla4progress Oct 2022 #2

I LOVE that one hermetic Oct 2022 #8

Ty! Put an ecopy in the reading queue! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #16

I loved this book as well. Heard an interview with her on Terry Gross' Fresh Air (it was japple Oct 2022 #31

Yes ... cilla4progress Oct 2022 #33

I read Patterson's "The Russian" & loved it. Thx to the DUer who recd it! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #3

Thanks! hermetic Oct 2022 #9

Love your cat book club graphic. SheltieLover Oct 2022 #10

I corrupted you didn't I? LOL nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #41

Absolutely! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #42

when you finish the Sisters and read the Men of the Sisterhood, yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #47

Oh, I've already inhaled the Godmothers, but ty! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #48

just finished Savages and The Kings of Cool (it's prequel) by Don Winslow... bahboo Oct 2022 #4

Sounds good hermetic Oct 2022 #12

still quite the market for illegal weed in CA.... bahboo Oct 2022 #24

Thomas Perry: The Left Handed Twin cbabe Oct 2022 #6

Sounds intriguing! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #11

Consider reading in order: cbabe Oct 2022 #14

Will do! SheltieLover Oct 2022 #15

Damn these sound really good! nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #50

The Marriage Portrait Chalco Oct 2022 #13

Sounds lovely hermetic Oct 2022 #19

"Fleishman is in Trouble" by Taffy Brodesser-Ankner bif Oct 2022 #17

Sounds like it... hermetic Oct 2022 #21

The Memory Keeper of Kyiv by Erin Litteken yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #18

Wow hermetic Oct 2022 #22

Finished it last night. The ending was satisfying. However, yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #45

I think the best way to know if you'd like these books is to compare your reaction to Jane Eyre. Karadeniz Oct 2022 #20

I like the audibles hermetic Oct 2022 #23

I listen to podcasts instead of books. nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #40

I love Jane Eyre! One of the few books I have re-read yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #39

You'd like those books. I wasn't sure which sister wrote Jane Eyre, so I looked it up... Charlotte. Karadeniz Oct 2022 #43

some where along the way I acquired a complete Bronte yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #46

so I am totally lost here. Tracy Rees is the author? yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #49

Yes, Rees author. I listed three of her books, not one! My poor communication skills! Karadeniz Oct 2022 #51

or my brain fog! nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #52

Finished "Relic" by Preston & Child Number9Dream Oct 2022 #25

Hey, you. hermetic Oct 2022 #28

Pendergast is not even mentioned in the movie. yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #37

Now you need to read Reliquary nt yellowdogintexas Oct 2022 #38

TV show recommendation for mystery lovers PennyC Oct 2022 #26

I Know! hermetic Oct 2022 #27

Ooops sorry I didn't see your post. PennyC Oct 2022 #36

A Body in the Bookshop by Helen Cox The King of Prussia Oct 2022 #29

Good thing you've got that kitten hermetic Oct 2022 #30

I finished Black River by S. M. Hulse and was tied up in knots until the very end. It is japple Oct 2022 #32

I was gonna get that one hermetic Oct 2022 #35

I am now reading Mahattan Transfer PoindexterOglethorpe Oct 2022 #44

Have fun! hermetic Oct 2022 #54

Death in Laquer Red by Jean Dams question everything Oct 2022 #53