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Interesting list, Pat Van Wie. And you've read 18 already...amazing. I've only read three.🤷‍♀️

I’ve only read 3 also but some of the others are on my list, too! Interesting list 💕

Aww--thanks for including IF ONLY! Barbara O'Neal's WRITE MY NAME ACROSS THE SKY is gorgeous (as her books always are.) And I'm especially partial to this one because I contributed a teeny-tiny bit to it. 😃 I've read a lot of Shirley Jackson, and the Ann Cleeves. Others on your list I hope to get to...someday. The queue on my Kindle is ridiculous--probably about 200 unread books on it. Aaaiiieee!

I've read 3, but several are on my TBR list.

I finished the next book on my list, BETWEEN THE WORLD AND Me by Ta-Nehisi Coates. It's a powerful book . . . I'll post about it elsewhere. amzn.to/37sWOK8

My rule -- if I give a book a good try and simply don't want to finish it, I get to mark it off. So far, I have two on this list I really didn't like. Both award winning, both boring: Neuromancer and Visit from the Goon Squad.

Did you get a chance to read Any Weir's Project Hail Mary? I got into it much faster than his Artemis (which is STILL unfinished in my TBR pile), and enjoyed it immensely, despite some overwritten characters. And I bet you'd enjoy Bill Bryson's A Short History of Nearly Everything, even though it's 19 years old. I'm also going to suggest Simon Winchester's The Perfectionists for a history of precision (he structured the book in such a way that each chapter takes on an industry that is at least an order of magnitude more demanding than the preceding chapter. Phew! what a lot of words to tell you about three books not on your list 😊

I admire your list! I'm reading almost nothing that's not research for my next book. But like I did with the last one, I need to make a list of completely unrelated books to read when I'm done with this.

I finished two more books on this list. The first, Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon -- one of his older books. This is classic horror. I used to read and enjoy a lot of horror but I've lost my taste for it. Still, McCammon is one of my favorite authors and I'm not sure how I missed this one. If you like hard-core horror, this is a good one -- as is everything McCammon writes. There are some interesting twists that I didn't see coming. But, as I said, you have to like things-that-go-howling-in-the-night to enjoy it. amzn.to/3LuCmGy

As for the second book I finished -- Red Moon by Kim Stanley Robinson -- I had mixed feelings. I love near-future science fiction and particularly stories dealing with the habitation of the moon or mars, which this is. Plus, there was some really interesting info about China and the politics of colonizing the moon. However, there were times when he just went into so much detail describing lunar and or China landscapes that I had to stop myself from skimming. The story was good, not great, but interesting, and a bit of detail would have gone a long way. As it was, this book was just too loaded down with 'stuff'. That said, I know that a lot of readers love this kind of detail, so maybe it's just me. amzn.to/3MlZJDz

I read Usher. Anything by McCammon is good. Just finished Magpie Murders... very good. I liked it so much I'm now on Moonflower Murders.. second in series. Anthony Horowitz.