Kelly Hooker joins me for July's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads.
Kelly’s Selections:
Last:
The Killer Question by Janice Hallett
Heart the Lover by Lily King
Now:
Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein
The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead
Next:
Cape Fever by Nadia Davids
Westward Women by Alice Martin
DNFs or Didn't Like:
None
Book Mail Highlights:
Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg
What We Can Know by Ian McKewan
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception and Munchausen by Proxy by Andrea Dunlop
Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll by Neal Shusterman
Now:
A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland
The Round House by Louise Erdrich
Next:
Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Corryell
The Mires by Tina Makereti
DNFs or Didn’t Like:
Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven
We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter
How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jung-Fast
Book Mail Highlights:
Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy
Photograph by Brian Freeman
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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.
