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hermetic

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Sun Aug 30, 2020, 12:48 PM Aug 2020

What Fiction are you reading this week, August 30, 2020? [View all]

Tsundoku: The Japanese word that describes piling up books to save for later.

"The presence of books acquired produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity." – A. Edward Newton

Reading The Book of Longings by Sue Monk Kidd, an account of one woman's struggle to realize the passion and potential inside her, while living in a time, place and culture devised to silence her. I must say, Kidd's Herod certainly reminds me of one DJT.

Listening to Fade to Black by David Rosenfelt, a murder mystery involving an investigator with amnesia. Interesting dilemma.

What books have you acquired for this week?

Hope everyone is doing okay, staying well. Love and miss you, to those who are absent these days.


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I have a few more Joe Grey mysteries piled up SheltieLover Aug 2020 #1
My library hermetic Aug 2020 #5
Nice! SheltieLover Aug 2020 #7
I have that one. Do you have an iBook (apple e-book) reader? AmyStrange Aug 2020 #22
I don't SheltieLover Aug 2020 #23
Ok, but since my book is the .epub version... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #25
The Afterlife Diet PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #2
Pinkwater!!! murielm99 Aug 2020 #4
That sounds pretty wild hermetic Aug 2020 #6
Not sure which other group you are referring to, PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #18
From last Sunday hermetic Aug 2020 #19
Oh, okay. PoindexterOglethorpe Aug 2020 #20
Thx for sharing SheltieLover Aug 2020 #8
And lookie here hermetic Aug 2020 #13
"The Vanishing Box" by Elly Griffiths The King of Prussia Aug 2020 #3
Good for you! hermetic Aug 2020 #10
The Body in the Casket Polly Hennessey Aug 2020 #9
That sounds great! hermetic Aug 2020 #11
Oh gosh that sounds like just my sort of thing The King of Prussia Aug 2020 #15
I am reading murielm99 Aug 2020 #12
I like Tami Hoag, too. hermetic Aug 2020 #14
American Dirt rainy Aug 2020 #16
Sounds amazing! hermetic Aug 2020 #17
I'm not dead. I just haven't been reading much- watching too much TV TexasProgresive Aug 2020 #21
Yay!! hermetic Aug 2020 #26
I'm starting on the 6 book Lisbeth Salander (Dragon Tattoo) series, and... AmyStrange Aug 2020 #24
You go,. girl hermetic Aug 2020 #27
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