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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1215 on: February 11, 2020, 02:25:51 AM »
Reading this board.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1216 on: February 11, 2020, 04:45:55 PM »
Still plugging away on The Autobiography of Henry VIII with Notes by his fool Will Somer.  It got lost in the mess in the car.  At least I only have 300 pages (out of 900) to go.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1217 on: February 11, 2020, 11:01:27 PM »
The latest Rock and Gem magazine.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1218 on: February 17, 2020, 06:02:49 PM »
Finished Today Will Be Different by Maria Semple and about to start a Nicholas Spark novel because I don't want anything deep. It's called Two By Two
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1219 on: February 17, 2020, 09:29:04 PM »
Just finished another Star Trek book.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1220 on: February 18, 2020, 03:49:45 AM »
Back to reading Commander in Cheat. Was at a conference and had little time to read anything beyond the conference proceedings.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1221 on: February 24, 2020, 01:23:11 PM »
Finished Two by Two by Nicholas Sparks (it made me cry) and now about 70% through The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk. The book the library yanked back digitally before I was done so I'm picking up where I left off.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1222 on: February 24, 2020, 02:57:26 PM »
A biography of Ty Cobb, a hall of fame baseball player from the beginnings of baseball in the 20th century.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1223 on: February 26, 2020, 12:47:41 AM »
Not sure. I just finished a book and have several options.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1224 on: February 26, 2020, 07:06:33 AM »
Finished The Invention of Wings by Susan Monk Kidd and now reading the The Power of Kindness Piero Ferrucci. It's a psych book about the ways science has proven that our brains are naturally hardwired to be kind and what that looks like.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1225 on: February 26, 2020, 10:44:16 AM »
The latest Smithsonian Magazine.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1226 on: February 27, 2020, 09:29:13 AM »
A Legacy of Spies, by John le Carre.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1227 on: February 27, 2020, 11:32:28 AM »
A biography of the WWE wrestler "Kane", who is now a "libertarian" mayor of Knox County Tennessee.  It's an interesting light read, fascinating in reading about the behind the scenes stuff of pro wrestling theatricality. 
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1228 on: March 15, 2020, 07:43:29 PM »
Just finished Faulty Wiring by Suzanne Robins. It's a memoir about a woman my age who was diagnosed with MS and it talks about how she doesn't have visible symptoms, hers are all cognitive, so doctors don't take her seriously or think she's not as disabled as other people with physical disabilities related to MS. It's basically my own experience nearly word for word. Even all the symptoms she had leading up to getting diagnosed and how it's progressing in her body. It was such a relief to read.

Now I'm starting City Girls by Elizabeth Gilbert because I love the way she writes. I've been on the wait list at the library since it was first released and finally I get a digital copy.
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Re: what... are... you... READING
« Reply #1229 on: March 15, 2020, 08:04:09 PM »
The complete Sherlock Holmes.
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