I really enjoyed The Naturals which is pretty much a teen Criminal Minds.
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I really enjoyed The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. It’s a cozy sci-fi. Sort of rambling and almost plotless, just nice character to hang out with some interesting thought experiments about what it might be like to share close quarters with aliens who think very differently from you.
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I really enjoyed The Long Way to a Small Angry Planet by Becky Chambers. It’s a cozy sci-fi. Sort of rambling and almost plotless, just nice character to hang out with some interesting thought experiments about what it might be like to share close quarters with aliens who think very differently from you.
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I already do. 
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Just finished Yellowface by R.F. Kuang last night. It’s fiction, but offers an interesting take on the publishing industry and it’s also very funny.
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I know its been on this list before but just finished The Women, by Kristin Hannah, and thought it was phenomenal.
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Yellowface annoyed me – once the main character committed her “bad act,” I lost all sympathy for her.
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I just finished Pachinko, which has been on my list for soooo long and I just kept pushing it back. Once I started reading I couldn’t put it down and finished it in four days. It is a beautiful generational story about a Korean family that moves to Japan and struggles to assimilate. Now I will need to read Free Food For Millionaires.
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Now that you’ve finished Pachinko you might be interested in the CC Bookclub discussion. Pachinko - June CC Book Club Selection It was an interesting discussion with some people loving it, and others feeling it was too didactic.
It was interesting, I did not know about the racism and the Korean American’s perspective added an interesting twist.
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Our zoom book club discussed “The Dictionary of Lost Words” (Pip Williams) yesterday. It is a mix of fictional and historic characters, during the decades when the Oxford English Dictionary was compiled. We all liked it (though of course have inevitable minor complaints). Special bonus for me was that it takes place in Oxford, which was included as part of one of our daytrips during our visit to London a few weeks ago.
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I really liked Listen For the Lie, a mystery with some dark humor. I liked How to Read a Book, it’s probably better than I give it credit for but I’m more in the mood for happy fluff.
I just finished Ina Garten’s memoir, “Be Ready When the Luck Happens.” I devoured it like a warm batch of the Barefoot Contessa’s brownies! Despite her unhappy childhood, this is not a trauma memoir. This was just the comfort read that I needed as I try to stay calm about the impending election.
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I’ve heard so much positive about this book!
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I just finished the audiobook (14 hours!) of The Gifted School by Bruce Holsinger. I’ll bet if these parents in the book were real they would be on CC. 
Great narrator and the storyline of somewhat affluent Colorado families and the twisting of lives over getting their kids into gifted schools/activities.
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Has anybody read the mystery novel “Pompei”? I am considering it for a book club suggestion. We do all fiction, but we like it if sometimes there is some history mixed in
Another idea is to pick an Elizabeth Strout title. I had thought about “Lucy by the Sea”, but the others have not read any of her books - might be a better on to start with?
I read “Pompei” years and years ago and I loved it.
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I think @homerdog may have recommended this book a bit back - I know for sure I heard about it on cc - finding so much joy reading “How to age disgracefully” by Clare Pooley. It reminds me a lot of the Richard Osman books - older adults finding and building new community with some spunk. Light reading with some witty passages.
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I love Elizabeth Strout. I would start with Olive Kitteridge or My Name Lucy Barton. Many of the characters reappear in her later books including the latest one, so it’s nice to “meet” them earlier.
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Clare Pooley’s other book is also fun - Iona Iverson’s Rules for Commuting
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Last night I finished All The Colors of the Dark, by Chris Whitaker. It’s a little hard to describe—part mystery, part coming of age, part family drama. A friend highly recommended it. It’s long, but I found it quite engrossing, in small daily chunks.
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