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JoanCallen

JoanCallen

Joined May 2016

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The Passenger by Lisa Lutz
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Like a Sister | Kellye Garrett
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Such a great mystery! A lot of twists and turns and so hard to put down. Hoping it becomes a series.

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“Home was a huge sky; it was flat fields of poor land fringed with hawthorn and alder. It was birds in flight; it was columns of midges like smoke in a summer dusk” Deirdre Madden
The first couple lines of this book just sucked me in and I cannot wait to read this lovely book.

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Hairpin Bridge | Taylor Adams
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Fast paced, edge of your seat, twisty, roller coaster type of read. Fun read but maybe just a tad too fast paced. Great for a summer afternoon. Definitely recommend Taylor Adams.

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Shelter: A Novel | Jung Yun
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Just started Shelter by Jung Yun and am just captivated.

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A Little Life: A Novel | Hanya Yanagihara
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One of the few books I‘ve given 5 stars to. So terribly beautiful. Hard to read but impossible to put down. This book will stay with me for a long time.

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The Whisper Man | Alex North
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“If you‘re lonely, sad, and blue, the Whisper Man will come for you.” Such a good suspenseful mystery with just the right amount of creepy. Highly recommend for a good Fall read.

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Killing in C Sharp | Alexia Gordon
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So enjoy this cozy mystery series. A little music, a few ghosts, whiskey, Ireland. What‘s not to like? Just about to start book 3 in the Gethsemane Brown series.

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Once You Go This Far | Kristen Lepionka
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I just love this mystery series. I just tore through the first 4 books in the series and can‘t wait for Lepionka to write the next one. Solid mysteries, fleshed out evolving characters and just great story lines make these books so hard to put down.

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Gentleman in Moscow | Amor Towles
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Just loved this book. Beautifully written. My favorite so far this year.

kspenmoll Fabulous book; fabulous photo! 4y
TheSpineView It is a wonderful book. ❤ 4y
cdcnmac Just starting this today. Love the picture you posted! 4y
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THEY CAUGHT HIM!

RaimeyGallant I need to catch up on this. 6y
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“To understand the gunfight in Tombstone, stop-now-and watch a clock for 30 seconds. Listen to it tick while you try to imagine one half of a single minute so terrible it will pursue you all your life and far beyond the grave.” Mary Doris Russell

Tamra That was a well written line! 6y
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Saturday with The Snowman ⛄️😬

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Sense and Sensibilty | Jane Austen
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"The family of Dashwood had been long settled in Sussex." Jane Austen

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Loving the Dublin Murder Squad series. Just starting book 4. So good.

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Cant wait to start the 3rd book in the Dublin Murder Squad series. Love Tana French.

8leagueboot The perfect wine to pair with thrillers is all wine! 7y
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Magpie Murders | Anthony Horowitz
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This is what a cozy British murder mystery should be. So good. My weekend is set!

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Can't wait to start this book!

rather_be_reading cute glass! 6y
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Citizen: An American Lyric | Claudia Rankine
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"If they don't see the happiness in the picture, at least they'll see the black." Chris Marker, Sans Soleil

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An African in Greenland | Tt-Michel Kpomassie
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"Far away, through the curtain of mist that suddenly enveloped the village, an iceberg glinted." Tate-Michel Kpomassie

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An African in Greenland | Tt-Michel Kpomassie
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"For Kpomassie, Greenland is the never-never land where children know best, dreams come true, and everyone lives happily ever after." A. Alvarez

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Utterly Charming

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Traveling with Connie Willis. What a treat!

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Sula | Toni Morrison
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My first Toni Morrison. I can't believe it took me so long to read one of her books. So perfect.

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The Likeness: A Novel | Tana French
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Happy St. Paddy's from The Dublin Murder Squad🍀

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The Likeness: A Novel | Tana French
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"Someone else may have dealt the hand, but I picked it up off the table, I played every card, and I had my reasons."

bookishkai Love this book so much. Enjoy! 7y
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The Passenger | Lisa Lutz
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Sunday plans.

rather_be_reading i did not like this one either 6y
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Luscious Savannah

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Timeless

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Code Name Verity | Elizabeth Wein
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Saturday night🤗

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MrBook 😁👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 Well done! 7y
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Code Name Verity | Elizabeth E. Wein
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The Eighth Story. Nineteen Years Later.

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The Pocket Wife: A Novel | Susan Crawford
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"It isn't the big things Peter does that make her want to leave him; it's more the smaller things, like sticking her in his pocket in the middle of a thought - these demeaning, shrinking things he does that make her feel as trivial as a sneeze."

BookishMarginalia Powerful quote. 7y
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John Adams | David McCullough
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Loving me some John Adams. I wish he was running for president today.

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My Life on the Road | Gloria Steinem
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So. Good.

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Haunting of Hill House | Shirley Jackson
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Past the rusted gates and untrimmed hedges, Hill House broods waits.....

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All the Missing Girls | Megan Miranda
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It started with a phone call........

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Labor Day Reading

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The Twelve | Justin Cronin
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I've read mixed reviews on the second book in The Passage series by Justin Cronin, but I am loving the audio book!!

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Between the World and Me | Ta-Nehisi Coates
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Intense

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Maine | J. Courtney Sullivan
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Helloooo Weekend!

MrBook Nice pairing! Love Stella! #bookandbooze 8y
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Great audio + Good wine = Perfect Friday

MrBook Nice pic 8y
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This is the first book of Louise Penney's that I have read or listened to and I love it. The audio book is fantastic. I find myself sitting in the driveway continuing to listen to it after I arrive home from my commute. Can't wait to start with her first Inspector Gamache book and listen to them all in order.

MrBook Sounds like a book for you, @BookBabe ! 8y
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The Sympathizer | Viet Thanh Nguyen
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Only on page 25. So interesting and compelling. Can't wait to jump into it!

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Devil in a Blue Dress | Walter Mosley
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Easy Rawlins

MrBook I love some Guiness, especially with a good book 😊👍🏻. 8y
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"If you happen to pass by 84 Charing Cross Road, kiss it for me? I owe it so much."

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The Tender Bar: A Memoir | J. R. Moehringer
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Just a few pages in and I'm hooked.

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Ruby: A Novel | Cynthia Bond
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100 pages in and the writing style in Ruby reminds me so much as that of The Known World by Edward Jones.

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The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society | Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer
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Great audiobook. Variety of talented narrators bring this book to life. Absolutely charming. I now want to visit Guernsey.