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hermetic

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Sun Jul 4, 2021, 12:51 PM Jul 2021

What Fiction are you reading this week, July 4, 2021? [View all]

Have a safe and happy 4th.


Finally finished Moonflower Murders by Horowitz last night. It may be a while before I can get out to the library again since the heat dome has drifted east and it's gonna be 100 and more every day. I just can't go out in that. Instead I will finish up Peter Beagle's The Last Unicorn, and Fur Person by May Sarton, two books I bought a while back and have partially read. I don't have ac here, only a bunch of fans. So, I will just lie in front of one and read all day. Occasionally check the internet. That's my plan.

Listening to Lost in a Good Book by Jasper Fforde. The further adventures of Thursday Next, Special Operative in literary detection, wherein she learns to "book jump" around the works of Kafka and Austen, and even Beatrix Potter, in order to solve a mystery and save the world. This story is SO funny. I am

What's your reading plan for the week?

You all stay safe out there. I will do the same.

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I have a lot going on, but when I am not busy I am finishing up the Dennis Lehane- rzemanfl Jul 2021 #1
That's good to know hermetic Jul 2021 #2
Also, the acts are performed on people who richly deserve what they get. rzemanfl Jul 2021 #3
alsolutely LOVE the Thursday Next series.... bahboo Jul 2021 #4
Right? hermetic Jul 2021 #5
Fairly quiet on the reading front this week The King of Prussia Jul 2021 #6
Will do hermetic Jul 2021 #7
"Phase Six" by Jim Shepard. Laffy Kat Jul 2021 #8
Oh wow hermetic Jul 2021 #9
Yes, it does. Laffy Kat Jul 2021 #10
Finished reading Lighthouse Island by Paulette Jiles and I think japple Jul 2021 #11
Your new one sounds great! hermetic Jul 2021 #12
Castle Shade PennyC Jul 2021 #13
A new one! hermetic Jul 2021 #16
"Julius Knipl, Real Estate Photographer pscot Jul 2021 #14
Wow! hermetic Jul 2021 #17
I dived into the unread J Robert Kennedy books I had picked up for 99 cents yellowdogintexas Jul 2021 #15
I want to read Armageddon hermetic Jul 2021 #18
Finally started Louise Penny's Inspector Gamache books happybird Jul 2021 #19
I think you will be hermetic Jul 2021 #20
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