Kelly joins me for January's Real Time Reading episode where we discuss our current, past, and upcoming reads.
Kelly's Selections:
Last:
Upward Bound by Woody Brown
That’s Not How it Happened by Craig Thomas
Now:
Love by the Book by Jessica George
Yesteryear by Caro Claire Burke
Next:
Villa Coco by Andrew Sean Greer
The Ending Writes Itself by Evelyn Clarke
DNFs:
The Survivor by Andrew Reid
Book Mail highlights:
The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Walsh
A Fortune of Sand by Ruta Sepetys
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
Whistler by Ann Patchett
Before I Forget by Tory Henwood Hoen
Now:
The Paris Match by Kate Clayborn
The Shock of the Light by Lori Inglis Hall
Next:
Dolly All the Time by Annabel Monaghan
Liberty Island by Virginia Hume
Didn’t Work/DNFs:
One & Only by Maureen Goo
The Bookbinder’s Secret by A.D. Bell
Book Mail highlights:
The Burning Side by Sarah Damoff
Kutchinsky’s Egg by Serena Kutchinsky
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