Mel

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Mel’s favorite books

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

The Big Year by Mark Obmascik

Notes from a Small Island by Bill Bryson

Shoeless Joe by W.P. Kinsella

Fargo Rock City by Chuck Klosterman

A Time to Kill by John Grisham

Flaggermusmannen by Jo Nesbø

Cancer Ward by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

The Fellowship of the Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien

Exit Music by Ian Rankin

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

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Mel’s Bookshelves

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Mel is Currently Reading

Blood Ties

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Blood Ties (Kongeriket, #2)

by Jo Nesbø (Goodreads Author)

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Mel’s Quotes

Mark Twain

“If you tell the truth, you don't have to remember anything.”
― Mark Twain

tags: lies, lying, memory, truth

Frank Zappa

“So many books, so little time.”
― Frank Zappa

tags: books, humor

2026 Reading Challenge

Mel has read 12 of 20 books.

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Favorite Genres

Biography, Classics, Crime, Fiction, Historical fiction, History, Music, Mystery, Non-fiction, Sports, and Travel

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