Kelly Hooker - June's Real Time Reading

Kelly Hooker joins me for June's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads.

Kelly’s Selections:

Last: 

Everything is TB The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection by John Green

Everything is Beautiful and Everything Hurts by Josie Shapiro

Now:

Culpability by Bruce Holsinger

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir 

Next:

What the Wind Knows by Amy Harmon 

Buckeye by Patrick Ryan

DNFs or Didn't Like:

Sunburned by Katherine Wood

Book Mail Highlights:

Heart the Lover by Lily King 

A Beautiful Family by Jennifer Trevelyan

Cindy's Selections:

Last:

Mrs. Spy by MJ Robotham

This American Woman: A One-in-a-Billion Memoir by Zarna Garg

Now:

Silver Elite by Dani Francis

The White Octopus Hotel by Alexandra Bell 

Next:

Anne of Avenue A by Audrey Bellezza and Emily Harding 

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

DNFs or Didn’t Like:

The Wasp Trap by Mark Edwards 

Through an Open Window by Pamela Terry 

Book Mail Highlights: 

History Lessons by Zoe B. Wallbrook 

To the Moon and Back by Eliana Ramage

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