Kelly joins me for July's Real Time Reading episode where we discuss our current, past, and upcoming reads.
Kelly's Selections:
Last:
The Great Wherever by Shannon Sanders
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
Now:
The Five Star Weekend by Elin Hilderbrand
It’s Not Her by Mary Kubica
Next:
The Things You’ll Never Know by Ashley Audrain
The Natural Order by Matthew Aldrich
DNFs:
Land by Maggie O’Farrell
Book Mail highlights:
I Never Knew You at All by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
It’s Not What You Think by Clare Mackintosh
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane
Between You a River by Kimberly Garza
Now:
Leave and Come Back by Lavanya Lakshmi
State of Wonder by Ann Patchett
Next:
Little Wonder by Sophie Chen Keller
Some People by Parini Shroff
Didn’t Work/DNFs:
Hysteria by LJ Ross
Book Mail highlights:
Brimstone Hollow by Archer Sullivan
Punk in Fifty Pieces by Kevin Dettmar
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