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Book #42 was Into Thin Air, by Jon Krakauer. This book was every bit as good as I was told it was, and I don’t even like mountain climbing. It’s just amazing what people will put themselves through for a couple of minutes on top of the tallest mountain on Earth. It’s also amazing how a bunch of trivial seeming things can snowball into such
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Book #41 was The Count and the Confession, by John Taylor. I like the occasional true crime story, and if you saw how often I’m watching A&E, you would know how true this is. I found this one especially interesting, because it takes place in an area I’m familiar with. You can pretty much tell which way the book is slanted within the first few
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Book #40 was A Kiss of Shadows, the first book in Laurell K. Hamilton’s Meredith Gentry series. This book is best categorized as “light on plot, heavy on sex”. It wasn’t bad, if you like to see how many different characters can have sex in the same book, sometimes under quite extraordinary circumstances. However, I like Laurell K Hamilton, so I’ll probably read more of
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Book #39 was Mary Higgins Clark’s On the Street Where You Live. Mary Higgins Clark is one of my favorite “summer reading” authors. I especially like her books when I can’t guess the who in the whodunit. No guessing in this one! It was actually pretty unexpected. Book count: 39/50 — 78% Pages in book: 320 Page count: 13,577/15,000 — 90.51%
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