Kelly Hooker joins me for June's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads.
Kelly’s Selections:
Last:
Everything is TB The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green
Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro
Now:
Culpability by Bruce Holsinger
Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir
Next:
What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon
Buckeye by Patrick Ryan
DNFs or Didn't Like:
Sunburned by Katherine Wood
Book Mail Highlights:
Heart the Lover by Lily King
A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
Mrs. Spy by MJ Robotham
This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg
Now:
Silver Elite by Dani Francis
The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell
Next:
Anne of Avenue A by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
DNFs or Didn’t Like:
The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards
Through an Open Window by Pamela Terry
Book Mail Highlights:
History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook
To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage
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Kelly Hooker
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Kelly is an avid reader, reviewer and bookstagrammer. She works part-time as a speech pathologist in Michigan. She has two toddler boys and firmly believes that nap time is for novels. She is an audiobook enthusiast and loves hosting book club reads and author events. She creates seasonal reading guides to help readers pick up the right book at the right time.
