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Elizabeth A is 47% done with The Bazaar of Bad Dreams

These stories are so good on audio.

— Aug 08, 2025 10:09AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 55% done with The Secrets She Keeps

A horrifyingly compelling read. I can't look away ...

— Feb 20, 2025 01:32PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 45% done with Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

New book release moved this to the top of my TBR. I might be one of the few that didn't get to it. So, so good.

— May 03, 2024 12:49PM Add a comment

Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight: An African Childhood

Elizabeth A is 20% done with Yellowface

Oh, but it's hard to look away from this level of delusion.

— Jan 08, 2024 01:10PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 50% done with Jazz (Beloved Trilogy, #2)

"Thank God for life, ... and thank life for death."

There's underlined sentences on every page.

— Dec 31, 2023 04:19AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 14% done with The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

The death toll is staggering, and we haven't even got to the shipwreck yet.

— Nov 24, 2023 06:36PM Add a comment

The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder

Elizabeth A is 30% done with Under Heaven (Under Heaven, #1)

Ah, the magic combo of GGK and Simon Vance.

— Mar 17, 2023 10:45AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is on page 533 of 739 of Tomb of Sand

Wow, just wow. Glad I'm doing a group read - there's so much to digest and discuss.

— Aug 21, 2022 10:00AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 60% done with Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Both heartbreaking and inspiring in so many ways. Didn't read the blurb, so don't know how this will end - and I'm getting anxious ...

— Aug 21, 2022 09:59AM Add a comment

Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City

Elizabeth A is 60% done with Gai-Jin (Asian Saga, #3)

Am fully immersed in this yarn - ah joss.

— Apr 10, 2022 02:10PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 82% done with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

This book is a long strange trip indeed.

— Mar 26, 2022 07:58PM 2 comments

Elizabeth A is 18% done with Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch

Highly entertaining so far.

— Mar 20, 2022 06:29PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is starting A Rising Man (Sam Wyndham, #1)

— Mar 09, 2022 10:02AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 42% done with Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

Why do I save books I think I'll love? Who knows, but am delighted to be reading Clavell again.

— Feb 04, 2022 05:15PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 4% done with Tai-Pan (Asian Saga, #2)

Already loving this one. Settling in with this chunkster while a blizzard storms outside.

— Jan 29, 2022 09:48AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is on page 155 of 320 of These Precious Days: Essays

The essay titled There Are No Children Here is my fave so far, and worth the price of admission.

— Jan 25, 2022 06:15PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 40% done with To Paradise

It pains me, but this might be my first DNF of the year ....

— Jan 23, 2022 09:48AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 40% done with To Paradise

I pains me, but this might be my first DNF of the year ....

— Jan 23, 2022 09:19AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 77% done with Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

— Dec 22, 2021 11:18AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 7% done with Chapterhouse: Dune (Dune #6)

Dune is so dang good that I've put my annual Dickens in December project on hold. Sorry Charles.

— Dec 06, 2021 06:50PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 37% done with Hamnet

This is wonderful on audio.

— Aug 28, 2021 06:24AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 27% done with The Sword of Kaigen

I'm all in - can't think of the last time I read a fantasy tale that alternated between mother and son POVs.

— Aug 10, 2021 03:18PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 57% done with Children of Dune (Dune #3)

Am absolutely loving this one too, and am so glad I finally moved the original Dune trilogy up my TBR.

— Jul 05, 2021 04:11PM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 44% done with If It Bleeds (Holly Gibney #2)

— Jun 06, 2021 10:04AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 78% done with Exciting Times

Well, this took an unexpected turn.

— Apr 01, 2021 04:37AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is on page 17 of 124 of Dearly

— Apr 01, 2021 04:14AM Add a comment

Elizabeth A is 26% done with Exciting Times

Just when I think I'm about to bail, the author throws in a little gem that keeps me reading on.

— Mar 28, 2021 12:18PM 3 comments

Elizabeth A is on page 27 of 196 of The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

As the title would suggest, these are some dark and disturbing stories indeed.

— Mar 12, 2021 04:33AM Add a comment

The Corpse Exhibition and Other Stories of Iraq

Elizabeth A is 66% done with The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

The Fellowship has been chosen, and are preparing to set off. The problem with seeing the movies before reading the books is that I see the actors faces as I read, Ah well. Viggo ain't an eye sore.

— Mar 09, 2021 06:49AM Add a comment

The Fellowship of the Ring (The Lord of the Rings, #1)

Elizabeth A is 25% done with Summer (Seasonal Quartet, #4)

Well, this is starting out with much more of a narrative than the previous three. Loving it so far.

— Mar 09, 2021 06:48AM Add a comment

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