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Let me preface by saying I'm a voracious reader. I'll read anything.

"The Borgias" by Jean Plaidy. If you like 15th century historical sagas about scandals in Rome, this one's for you.

I just read an interesting book about a woman's struggle with depression and anxiety, her struggle with addiction to pills, and her recovery journey.

It's called The Truth About Smoke and Mirrors by Jillian Miller.

I'm reading "We Need to Talk About Kevin" and wow is it intense! I recommend it if you like cerebral thrillers.

I've also been listening to "A Beautiful, Terrible Thing" on my drive to work. It's a memoir by a woman who's husband had an affair when she was pregnant, they've since divorced and she believes him to be a sociopath. She now has a website dedicated to helping women in relationships with narcs/sociopaths. I'm not sure how I feel about this book - it's well written and is interesting but I completely disagree with her diagnosis of her husband.

He's a selfish cheater for sure with some narc tendancies but unless she left a lot of his behaviour out of her narrative he doesn't fit the typical clusters of behaviour. Anyway, I digress!

Yuvas

Did you know that "We Need to Talk About Kevin" was adapted into a film? I think about 2010 or so. I saw the film first and as a result, just had to read the book. If you haven't seen the movie yet, I recommend it. Not necessarily impressed with casting but I've watched it several times.

Oh god, I don't think I could read that book. It might kill me.

Dammit. Why did you have to tell me it's a book, yuvas, WHY?

StopSpinning, I'm like you. I will read anything, anytime. I will read the back of a Kleenex box and cleaning solutions in the bathroom. Not because I'm in there for long, but I love reading!

I've been reading whatever shows up in the neighbourhood book boxes.

Wally Lamb's She's Come Undone was interesting.

Almost finished Come As You Are, a Nirvana biography, and now I'm mildly obsessed with finding all their old stuff on YouTube.

Now onto another summer read, another novel by a French author, in English.

Bookworms are us!

Come As You Are, a Nirvana biography,

I thought that was pretty good. "Heavier than Heaven" is also worth a read if you ever come across it.

I've been reading the Outlander series. It's so good!

I've just read the John Sandford series on Minnesota Bureau of Criminal Apprehension investigator Virgil Flowers. Also known as that f'ing Flowers! A very fast moving story with lots of plot twists. Best of all is he is human with feelings.

I also have read the Harlan Coben series on Myron Bolitar. An ex basketball player that got injured and became a lawyer and a sports agent.A long series that is ingenious and fun. His other books are free standing with characters that are main people in one novel and a bit player in another. Excellent novels with lots of action and plot twists. Nobody comes away clean.

Candyman, I LOVE Virgil and Lucas! You should check out the Kidd series by him as well. It's quite good!

I also loved the Myron Bollinger series! Coben has some stand alone books that are pretty good as well.

You might like Lisa Gardner, if you haven't checked her out. She got the FBI profiler series that is really good, another that is based in Boston, the DD Warren series, and another that focuses on a woman named Tessa. Some of her books were really crushing, Love You More and Say Goodbye were really well done and she really captures emotion well.

I just finished the Tracey Crosswhite series, books 1-4, by Robert Dugoni. Excellent mysteries and police procedurals, with humor and quirky, uniquely voiced characters. If you subscribe to Amazon's Kindle Unlimited, all the books are available to check out for free. Book Five will be out this fall.

The first novel My Sister's Grave takes Homicide Detective Tracey Crosswhite to her hometown to try and solve her younger sister's murder after almost twenty years.

Right now I'm reading Middletown Apocalypse. 11 different zombie writers got together to do blips to make one novel. It's good but poor Charlie Noble like groundhog day.

Shawn Chesser is my favorite zombie writer he does the series "Surviving the Zombie Apocalypse" I love these books. I'm totally over the main character Cade Grayson

Reading "Finish" by Jon Acuff. I have always been a starter, not a good finisher. This book provides tips and tricks for people like me who "suffer" from "perfectionism" and how it is our worst enemy in the finishing department.

.. Clive Cussler ...Lost Empire

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I really like Erik Larson's books. I read "Isaac's Storm" after visiting Galveston many years ago and it left me thinking about it and the people for months afterwards. His other books are good, too, but my 2nd favorite was Devil in the White City.

For light reading that might have you laughing out loud one minute and being shocked by "violence" (not severe) the next, Carl Hiaasen's books rock.

My favorites are "Skinny Dip" and "Sick Puppy."

I love seeing two of my all-time favorite books as other's current/past reads! Summer Sisters by Judy Blume is my absolute favorite book, with We need to talk about Kevin as a close second!

We need to talk about Kevin is such a thought-provoking, chilling read.

I'm in between books right now, though I will be ordering the Diary of Anne Frank for my little one this week. She has to do a project and they assigned her "Who was Anne Frank" and it has scared her (completely understand), so I think if I order the actual diary it may help!

I just can’t read fiction. It bores me. I’m currently reading The Undoing Project by Michael Lewis. Same author that wrote Moneyball and The Big Short. If you liked those movies, you will enjoy this book. I doubt they’d ever make this into a movie, but then again I didn’t think Moneyball would ever be made into a movie after I read that.

Skinny Dip was superb!

I'm another non-fiction reader, and I gravitate toward audiobooks because I can have them on while commuting, cooking, falling asleep, whatever.

I just finished Red Moon Rising by Matthew Brzezinski. Fantastic recounting of the early days of the space race and how much of it was affected by the internal politics of the USA and USSR and the different levels of bureaucracy and competing military branches.