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Yuki_Onna
Highway: America's Endless Dream | Jeffrey T. Brouws, Bernd Polster, Phil Patton
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 1mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 1mo
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Leftcoastzen
Blue Highways: A Journey Into America | William Least Heat Moon
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#NewYearNewBooks #HighwayCvr I really enjoyed this book when I read it years ago. It was a pretty big deal back in the day. Does it hold up ? Not sure , I have lots of new reading to do. 😄

SamAnne This has been on my shelf for 30 years unread…. 3mo
Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 Stacked! 3mo
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AlwaysForeverReading
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Pickpick

Secret Society is a story about two best friends, Celess and Tina, who have been friends since childhood. Now grown, their lives are full of adventure. They frequent nightclubs, date only wealthy men, and live a life of luxury. However, they harbor a serious secret that could cost them every thing.

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AlwaysForeverReading
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Tina and Celess have been best friends forever. Because they are at the top of their game, they are living life in the fast lane. Right now, Tina is dating Khalil, and Celess is dating, well, three men: James, the rising basketball player from Philly; O, the hustler from Delaware; and Tariq, the realtor from New Jersey. Stay tuned to find out what these boss girls into in the next chapter, January.

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CoffeeNBooks
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It's a beautiful October day here in Florida, and I'm excited to start reading this! 🌞

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GatheringBooks
The Wonderful Day | Elizabeth Coatsworth
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TheSpineView 😍😍😍 9mo
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KathyWheeler
The Lost Continent | Bill Bryson
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This is the lower end of the pick scale for me, mostly because it seems Bryson made this trip so he could whine and complain. According to him, he‘s never learned anything at a national park; I find that odd as that‘s not been the case for me. I also got tired of his constant denigration of bigger people. Some parts of the book were really funny though, and the things he noticed on his trip were interesting. Started Agatha Christie. #audiowalk

rwmg I enjoyed his UK and Australia memoirs but his other travel books make uncomfortable reading - his disdain for the people he meets is so blatant. The good humour seems less evident. Maybe he feels trapped in trying to reproduce the success of 10mo
KathyWheeler @rwmg Maybe I will like Notes from a Small Island better. I read A Walk in the Woods and mostly liked it, but had the same problem with the way he looks down on the people he meets. 10mo
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KathyWheeler
The Lost Continent | Bill Bryson
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Now I‘m following Bill through Nebraska, a state he claims is flatter than Kansas. I lived in Manhattan, KS, for a year, which actually isn‘t flat, but I‘ve never been through much of Nebraska, so I don‘t know if he‘s right. We went to the Mississippi coast today. Someone drew Bubbles, from the Powerpuff Girls,on the sidewalk in the park. 😊#audiowalk

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KathyWheeler
The Lost Continent | Bill Bryson
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Bryson is such an exaggerator! You are not suddenly shocked by having to pay when you enter colonial Williamsburg. At least I wasn‘t.😄 We are now in hurricane season, so even though we haven‘t had a hurricane yet, we are starting to get more rain, which I just missed. I‘d just gotten in my car after my walk when it began to rain. #audiowalk

Reggie Yay for perfect timing. 10mo
KathyWheeler @Reggie I know! Sometimes, when it looks like it might rain, I‘ll take an umbrella with me, but I hadn‘t done that yesterday. 10mo
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KathyWheeler
The Lost Continent | Bill Bryson
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I‘m enjoying this book, but, while it is quite funny, I just wish Bryson weren‘t so contemptuous of the South. For the most part, however, it‘s been fun following him on his trip through small town America. #audiowalk

megnews The other thing that doesn‘t sit well is his abhorrence to overweight people. I think he‘s trying to make a point about American excess but it doesn‘t go over well. 10mo
megnews Still, I laughed throughout. 10mo
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