Books on the Nightstand discussion

Oops! Sorry! Asleep at the book again.

I'm reading Don't Tell by Lindsay Lynch (which I can't find under "add book/author" even though I know it's in there someplace. This young author works as a book buyer for Ann Patchett's Parnassus Bookstore in Nashville, TN. Every single interview I've heard for Patchett's new book Tom Lake she's brought up this employee and her new book. I think they went to McLean & Eakins in Petoskey, MI together for a book signing.
It takes place in the Hollywood film community in the late 30s, earlier 40s. It's certainly keeping my interest.
I'm listening to When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today. Having an electronic library at my fingertips is worse than a kid in the candy store!

Brittany added this to the July/August thread before I closed it out:

Finished Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston


My Review:
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Finished the book on the Stampede Wrestling Promotion in Calgary Pain and Passion The History of Stampede Wrestling by Heath McCoy . It is also a history of the Hart Family itself. Quite good. Here is my review

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I am still reading The First Ladies & I am listening to Jackie: Public, Private, Secret

Finished Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

My Review:
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Just finished 'Dying of Politeness' by Geena Davis. Quite interesting and the book just escaped being a tell-all bio..Of course there was a bit of humble bragging throughout but hey. She's Geena Davis, a REAL movie star! Hard to dispute her hard won successes in the male dominated movie industry. With style. (Aug book club pick)

and after finishing 'Run' I just began 'Tom Lake,' Ann Patchett's latest novel, couple days ago.

Finished listening to When Women Invented Television: The Untold Story of the Female Powerhouses Who Pioneered the Way We Watch Today and Pain Killer: An Empire of Deceit and the Origin of America's Opioid Epidemic and reading Do Tell and The Arab of the Future: A Childhood in the Middle East, 1978-1984
Now reading Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences, The Ploughmen and listening to California Golden

Finished Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy

My Review:
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Brand new here. Happy to share what I'm reading.

First up in September I read The Square of Sevens 3.5 stars from me on the historical novel set in Georgian London and Bath. You can see my review here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next I read an ARC of North Woods 5 star read for me. It comes out next week. You can see my review here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Currently reading Hello Beautiful Thoroughly enjoying it.

I'll update with the rest I plan to read soon.

Finished listening to California Golden. Next up The Connellys of County Down

Finished and LOVED -- out 9/19 Bright Young Women by Jessica Knoll

My Review:
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Finished listening to The Connellys of County Down. It is so good.
Now going to listen to The Country of the Blind: A Memoir at the End of Sight

Finished up Hello Beautiful
4 stars from me.
You can read my short review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next up Yellowface
Finally available after a lengthy library hold list.

Finished (re)reading The Greatest Batman Stories Ever Told . My review is below

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Finished up Yellowface
3.5 stars rounded up to 4
You can see my review here
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Next a post-apocalyptic, scifi ARC - Saint Elspeth
I'm enjoying it so far and should finish it this week. I'll let you know what I think. It comes out in November.

I also started Living the Artist's Way: An Intuitive Path to Greater Creativity by Julia Cameron
It's another ARC that will publish in January of 2024. Julia is a favorite of mine and has influenced my life tremendously. Really enjoying it so far.

Finished up Saint Elspeth by Wick Welker last night.
4 stars for this solid post-apocalyptic, sci-fi novel that's set to publish in November.
You can see my review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Next up... another ARC. Float Up, Sing Down by Laird Hunt. This is a short story collection by one of my favorite authors. Really looking forward to it.
I can't mention Laird Hunt without recommending Neverhome.
This is my favorite civil war novel that really drives home the drudgery of war.
You can see my full review here
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I finished reading Nine Black Robes: Inside the Supreme Court's Drive to the Right and Its Historic Consequences and War and Peace: The Graphic Novel.
I read and listened to Before the Ruins. I've listened to Happiness Falls
Now reading A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (the title intrigued me) and listening to The Last Politician: Inside Joe Biden's White House and the Struggle for America's Future

Still listening to , just finished this arc & just starting a NetGalley book

Finished two on vacation:
Exiles by Jane Harper

My Review:
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Foster by Claire Keegan

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Finished A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town then started and finished A Smattering of Ignorance, Oscar Levant's first book.
Now reading his second book Memoirs of an Amnesiac

Finished Look Closer by David Ellis

My Review:
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Just began Ann Beattie's "Onlookers".

Onward with Oscar Levant. I finished Memoirs of an Amnesiac and am now reading The Unimportance Of Being Oscar

Still trundling (is that a word?) along on Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I have the large print edition from the library, so only half way through the 890-pp doorstop! But WHAT a STORY. Cannot imagine how she developed the voice and language to write in young boy Demon's style. Incredible. Heartbreaking. Infuriating. And more to discover . .

Finished reading and listening to Paved Paradise: How Parking Explains the World.
Now reading Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women and listening to The Scheme: How the Right Wing Used Dark Money to Capture the Supreme Court

Julie wrote: "Still trundling (is that a word?) along on Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver. I have the large print edition from the library, so only half way through the 890-pp doorstop! But W..."

His voice was so perfect

Finished and didn't particularly care for Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy: A Modern Graphic Retelling of Little Women. Moving on to The Last Devil to Die - that ought to take the sour taste from my mouth. (or the sour vision from my eyes).

Finished the third and final installment in the Beartown trilogy. The Winners

My Review:
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Finished Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker

My Review:
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Finished with a broken heart
The Complete Maus by Art Spiegelman

My Review:
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So far in October I have read- by Andrew McCarthy & I listened to by Heather Cox Richardson.
Currently reading by Sarah Addison Allen

Okay, I've had so many reading deadlines recently that I forget to report here. So…
I loved The Last Devil to Die (I think each of this series gets better than the previous one.) Also finished reading Tom Lake, Filthy Rich Politicians: The Swamp Creatures, Latte Liberals, and Ruling-Class Elites Cashing in on America, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous and New Kid. Also listened to Pockets: An Intimate History of How We Keep Things Close.
Now listening to The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch and probably will start reading The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century

Finished Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Out Tuesday- my review:
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Finished reading The Art of Libromancy: On Selling Books and Reading Books in the Twenty-first Century
Started reading In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life

I just finished 'Lessons in Chemistry' and am beginning Jeanette Walks' Hang the Moon'. On deck is 'A Fever in the Heartland' by Timothy Egan. I hope to complete those two this month as well!

And as usual, comics.

Currently reading The Great Pulp Heroes but I don't anticipate completing it until next month. It is my nighttime reading so I at best get a chapter read then before my eyes refuse to stay open.

Finished and LOVED (I am a huge fan) The Woman in Me by Britney Spears

My Review:
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Finished The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose

My Review:
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Finished listening to The Man Who Owns the News: Inside the Secret World of Rupert Murdoch and reading In the Form of a Question: The Joys and Rewards of a Curious Life.
Now reading North Woods and listening to Mr. Texas