Crossroads discussion

The Five star:

Days Without End -Sebastian Barry

Savage Country - Robert Olmstead

Dreamland: The True Tale of America's Opiate Epidemic -Sam Quinones

The Blind Man's Garden- Nadeem Aslam

We Were the Lucky Ones - Georgia Hunter

Consider This, Señora by Harriet Doerr

Exit West - Moshin Hamid

Kitchens of the Great Midwest - J. Ryan Stradal This one I will probably round down to 4.5

Etta and Otto and Russell and James - Emma Hooper

Best 4 star reads:
Mudbound - Hillary Jordan

The Saboteur: A Novel - Andrew Gross

Salvage the Bones - Jesmyn Ward

It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War - Lynsey Addario

The Alice Network - Kate Quinn

Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI - David Grann

Celine - Peter Heller

A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival - Melissa Fleming

Be Frank With Me - Julia Claiborne Johnson

Now to whittle it down to 10.

We Were the Lucky Ones I have recommended for purchase.
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The Alice Network and Days without end, I liked 3 star or 3 1/2 stars worth.

The Blind Man's Garden and Exit West have been high on mt TBR this year. I've been hoping to get another Omlstead read this year with Coal black horse

Denizen wrote: "The Blind Man's Garden and Exit West have been high on mt TBR this year. I've been hoping to get another Omlstead read this year with Coal black horse"

Savage Country is very much a western, with larger than life characters. I loved it.

Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "The Blind Man's Garden and Exit West have been high on mt TBR this year. I've been hoping to get another Omlstead read this year with Coal black horse"

Savage Country is very much ..."

Is Savage County part of a series>

Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Denizen wrote: "The Blind Man's Garden and Exit West have been high on mt TBR this year. I've been hoping to get another Omlstead read this year with Coal black horse"

Savage Co..."

I don't think so. It was just released and seems to stand alone, but he could do the same thing he did with Coal Black Horse and do a loose series, in which each stands alone, but has some connection.

Booknblues wrote: "The Five star:

Days Without End -Sebastian Barry

Savage Country - Robert Olmstead

[book:..."

Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

Lesley wrote: "Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

I hope you like it. I found it to be an amazing story.

Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

I hope you like it. I found it to be an amazing story."

A bit close to home, even with the decades of distance, The (real) people are so well drawn I am very anxious about them all. Could be my ancestors.. Wonderfully written.

Lesley wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

I hope you like it. I found it to be an amazing story."

A bit close to home, even with the decades of distance, The..."

I'm waiting for your final verdict.

Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

I hope you like it. I found it to be an amazing story."

A bit close to home, even with the decades o..."

It was hard to read at times but I found it amazing as well.

Denizen wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Booknblues wrote: "Lesley wrote: "Just reading " We Were the Lucky Ones "... .

I hope you like it. I found it to be an amazing story."

A bit close to home, even..."

With my pet love in January, being the tennis, (and still recovering from the 5 hour drive home), not getting any reading done and the book is about to expire!! No matter I'm sure I can borrow it again, when the tennis is over.