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Old 07-01-2020, 10:18 AM   #28979
astrangerhere
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I am listening to the incomparable Jesse L. Martin read James Baldwin's The Fire Next Time.

I am reading the next Alan Hunter Gently novel on my Kobo - Gently Continental.

I am about to start Henry James' The Turn of the Screw for A Public Space's continued reading club. We read War and Peace during the pandemic and the experience was amazing, so I am looking forward to carrying on with this.

I cannot get the New Leaf book club selection (Percy Jackson) anywhere and I have bought too many books this month to justify shelling out for a book I don't really have any interest in. I'm a little allergic to YA and I have a lot of other things on my plate for July.
I finished Gently Continental in two sittings and then flew through Katharine Duckett's Miranda in Milan in one sitting. It was free from the TOR LGBT bundle last month. It was a little short, but it was creative and enjoyable, if a little schmaltzy.

I started Rebecca Makai's The Great Believers, a fictional account of the AIDS epidemic in Chicago in the 1980s. I don't know anyone my age or older who is a member of the LGBT community and not in some way touched by AIDS. Even now, I cannot give blood due to some of the relief work I have done. I have had this on the back burner of my TBR since it came out, and pride month seemed a good time to read it. I have not been disappointed.

I will still be starting Henry James' The Turn of the Screw for A Public Space's continued reading club on July 9th. At 15ish pages a day, I plan to make that my coffee reading in the mornings so that I can participate in the discussions all day long.
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