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mentalsolstice

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20. Thank you hermetic for hosting this amazing group!
Sun Feb 18, 2024, 03:00 PM
Feb 2024

I finished The Women by Kristin Hannah, so good! At times I wanted to throw it across the room, but couldn’t because I read ebooks, yikes major damage to the iPad mini. I cried at times, which is very rare for me. And I’ll probably get in a big argument with my mom who is also reading it, because she’ll brag that she was of that era, I wasn’t…..although I actually knew people who were there, including my spouse of 30+ years. I saw how badly my in-laws treated him because he fought in a losing cause. On Veterans Day my FiL, WWII no combat, always played the hero to his “loser” son.

Almost finished with Skeletons at the Feast by Chris Bohjalian. Also very good! It’s about a strange mix of people trying to escape the Russian invasion of Germany during WWII.

I’ll be on the road a bit this week and next, so lots of time to read (I’m not driving).

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LOL hermetic Feb 2024 #4
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Oh, that's a new one hermetic Feb 2024 #6
I love John Irving's books, esp. A Prayer for Owen Meany. Will also japple Feb 2024 #9
The Maidens Mz Pip Feb 2024 #3
Another winner hermetic Feb 2024 #8
Crucible of Secrets by S.G. MacLean QED Feb 2024 #5
I, too, am a big fan of Scottish books hermetic Feb 2024 #10
The Bookseller of Inverness QED Feb 2024 #23
Cool hermetic Feb 2024 #24
Yours for the taking/Gabrielle Korn cbabe Feb 2024 #7
So, it's both then hermetic Feb 2024 #13
I am re-reading MARCH by Geraldine Brooks. After finishing her latest work, japple Feb 2024 #11
Nice hermetic Feb 2024 #14
Re-reading "Project Hail Mary" by Andy Weir Jeebo Feb 2024 #12
Good reading, hermetic Feb 2024 #16
Hey, thanks hermetic Feb 2024 #15
Hi, Hermetic. Good week. Finished 1st in series by Spencer Quinn, and love the new perspective txwhitedove Feb 2024 #17
Solid 5-star rating for this one, hermetic Feb 2024 #18
Just started reading James Paterson's "Second Chance" Jrose Feb 2024 #19
The good old Women's Murder Club Series hermetic Feb 2024 #21
I have the 22nd and 23rd entries on the stack. Haven't gotten to them yet. rsdsharp Feb 2024 #26
Thank you hermetic for hosting this amazing group! mentalsolstice Feb 2024 #20
Yah, hermetic Feb 2024 #22
The Enormous Room by E.E. Cummings EverHopeful Feb 2024 #25
I finished, "The Handyman," by Bentley Little Bayard Feb 2024 #27
I finished Where the Light Enters Jilly_in_VA Feb 2024 #28
Nice. Thanks. hermetic Feb 2024 #29
Fourteen Days... joshdawg Feb 2024 #30
I am reading "Waking Up in Vegas" by K L Phelps Volume 5 in the Kat Parker mysteries yellowdogintexas Feb 2024 #31
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