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Zoomie1986

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26. I read Tom Lake earlier in the year

Reply to mentalsolstice (Reply #12)

Mon Aug 19, 2024, 03:30 PM

Aug 2024

It's the kind of book my mother would enjoy. Thought the daughters were annoying and rude in wanting to know every single detail of only one part of their mother's life, as if nothing else she'd ever done mattered.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, August 18, 2024? [View all] hermetic Aug 2024 OP

Covenant of Water terip64 Aug 2024 #1

Author Abraham Verghese hermetic Aug 2024 #6

Thank you! terip64 Aug 2024 #22

Greg Iles cbabe Aug 2024 #2

That would be too dark for me! biophile Aug 2024 #5

True. To an extent. I used to listen to cbabe Aug 2024 #8

Not my cup of tea, either hermetic Aug 2024 #7

Recursion by Blake Crouch FalloutShelter Aug 2024 #3

That sounds good... hermetic Aug 2024 #9

Read Recursion also. Interesting subject. Polly Hennessey Aug 2024 #23

Still reading Bruno Chief of Police series biophile Aug 2024 #4

Sounds lovely hermetic Aug 2024 #10

I've almost finished Horse by Geraldine Brooks Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #11

We Both Loved "Horse," The Roux Comes First Aug 2024 #29

Thanks for sharing. Finished 2 good ones this week. mentalsolstice Aug 2024 #12

I read Tom Lake earlier in the year Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #26

I got so bored with it that I gave up about 1/2 through. japple Aug 2024 #34

"Eruption" sounds good. Bayard Aug 2024 #13

"Hyperion" by Dan Simmons Jeebo Aug 2024 #14

Well... hermetic Aug 2024 #15

Read that one last year Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #25

I am re-reading a book that I first read about 60 years ago in high school. japple Aug 2024 #16

I loved that story hermetic Aug 2024 #17

Still one of my favorites Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #31

I read that in high school also (which was also 60 years ago, roughly) yellowdogintexas Aug 2024 #33

They made it into a WONDERFUL movie in 1945. Jeebo Aug 2024 #21

There's a time warp Zoomie1986 Aug 2024 #27

Just finished "Arkangel" by James Rollins... excellent Number9Dream Aug 2024 #18

Cool hermetic Aug 2024 #19

Only partly fiction The King of Prussia Aug 2024 #20

Interesting story hermetic Aug 2024 #24

The Extinction Cycle - Boxed Set ravjav Aug 2024 #28

Hi! Welcome to DU hermetic Aug 2024 #30

I'm actually not, for once Jilly_in_VA Aug 2024 #32