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Jan: Cannery Row - John Steinbeck
Feb: War Music: An Account of Homer's Iliad - Christopher Logue
Mar: Hollywood Behind the Lens - Marc Wannamaker & Stephen Bingen - ARC read
Apr: Things Fall Apart - Chinua Achebe
May: Red Comet: The Short Life and Blazing Art of Sylvia Plath - Heather Clark
Jun: We - Yevgeny Zamyatin
Jul: Vincent: a Graphic Biography - Simon Elliott - ARC read
Aug: Les Misérables - Victor Hugo

I agree with a lot of the reviews on this one. What started out strong and interesting turned into a drawn out story that lost my interest quickly. The ending just wasn‘t what I hoped it would be and there was too much other stuff going on and really was unnecessary. It wasn‘t a long book, but felt a lot longer than what it was. Just okay for me.

A surprisingly enjoyable thriller/mystery set in a remote resort on the California coast. A high school teacher finds her solo trip on what would have been her 20th wedding anniversary interrupted by murder and disaster. A familiar story but with more depth of character than usual.

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I was disappointed and this Reese‘s BookClub pick. It‘s a murder mystery at a coastal resort close to where I‘m from. I suppose that‘s what made me want to read this. In the beginning it started off ok but in the end it felt rushed. I just didn‘t want to DNF it. If felt like a YA who dunnit. #fallreading #murdermystery #fyp

I listened to this over a few sick days (during which I missed a concert I‘d been really excited about). I have no clue what motivated the MC to get involved with solving the murders, art thefts, secret celebrities. Honesty this book simply had too much going on and none of it seemed to make much sense. Could by the NyQuil, could be the book.

Started off good, but then meandered too much. Then we figured out everything and there was still an hour left in the audiobook which wasn‘t necessary at all.

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Boardwalk Summer is ⭐5-star read that has it all—vivid characters, captivating plot twists, and a storyline that will leave you longing for endless summer nights.☀️

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