Kelly joins me for February's Real Time Reading episode where we discuss our current, past, and upcoming reads.
Kelly's Selections:
Last:
Mad Mabel by Sally Hepworth
So, I Met This Guy by Alexandra Potter
Now:
Good Joy, Bad Joy by Mikki Bramer
The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff
Next:
Liberty Street by Heather Marshall
Sublimation by Isabel J. Kim
Didn't Work/DNFs:
Love by the Book by Jessica George
Book Mail highlights:
Everything was Beautiful and Nothing Hurts by Ben Reeves
138 Main by Gavin Bell
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders
The Seekers of Deer Creek by Thao Thai
Now:
The Unselected Journals of Emma M Lion, Volume 3 by Beth Brower
The Half Life by Rachel Beanland
Next:
Hard Times by Jeff Boyd
The Feather Wars: And the Great Crusade to Save America’s Birds by James H. McCommons
Didn’t Work/DNFs:
Missing by EA Jackson
The Pie and Mash Detective Agency by JD Brinkworth
Super Nintendo by Keza MacDonald
Book Mail highlights:
Single Girls by John Searles
The Supper Club Saints by Claire Swinarksi
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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.
