Kelly joins me for May's Real Time Reading episode where we discuss our current, past, and upcoming reads.
Kelly's Selections:
Last:
Both Can Be True by Jessica Guerrieri
The One Day You Were My Husband by Rosie Walsh
Now:
Abby Offsides by Anna McCallie
The Forgotten Midwife by Laura Anthony
Next:
The Gulf of Lions by Caitlin Shetterly
Dissection of a Murder by Jo Murray
DNFs:
The Au Pair by Teddy Wayne
Book Mail highlights:
Breathing Under Water by Jaqueline Friedland
Great and Unfortunate Things by Jason Arday
Cindy's Selections:
Last:
Black Out Loud: The Revolutionary History of Black Comedy from Vaudeville to ‘90s Sitcoms by Geoff Bennett
Everything Was Beautiful and Nothing Hurt by Ben Reeves
Now:
Wisdom Corner by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
The Gulf of Lions by Caitlin Shetterly
Next:
Under Story by Chloe Benjamin
The Silent Appeal by Janice Hallett
Didn’t Work/DNFs:
A Harlem Wedding by Tiffany Warren
The Unknown by Riley Sager
Book Mail highlights:
Agatha Christie’s Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley
Pollock’s Last Lover by Stephen Kiernan
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