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Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Thursday Sep 06, 2018
Welcome to Reading Minds, where ordinary people talk about extraordinary books! This is the first of a new kind of episode called Season’s Readings, where I talk with my husband, Mason, about everything I’ve read the past three months and give an update on my reading life. Enjoy!
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Here is a full list of all the titles mentioned on today’s show along with my ratings. For even more books I’ve read this summer, check out my Goodreads account: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/74525142-annie-bruza (And if you’re curious about what Mason’s been reading: https://www.goodreads.com/user/show/41383254-mason-bruza)
JUNE
Aru Shah and the End of Time- Roshani Chokshi **
The Richest Man in Babylon- George S. Clason ***
Hour of the Bees- Lindsay Eager *****
Unbroken- Laura Hillenbrand *****
Letters to my Daughters- Barbara Rainey ******
The Cow Book- John Connell **
The Cormoran Strike Series- Robert Galbraith (J. K. Rowling):
The Cuckoo’s Calling ****
The Silkworm ***
Career of Evil **
The Professor’s House- Willa Cather ****
JULY
Bachelor Nation- Amy Kaufman ****
The Read-Aloud Family- Sarah Mackenzie ****
The Gospel Comes with a House Key- Rosaria Butterfield *****
The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie- The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie *
You Think It, I’ll Say It- Curtis Sittenfeld ****
AUGUST
The Ender’s Game Quartet- Orson Scott Card:
Ender’s Game ****
Speaker for the Dead *****
Xenocide ****
Children of the Mind ****
The Wind in the Willows- Kenneth Grahame ****
Cutting for Stone- Abraham Verghese **
The Incendiaries- R.O. Kwon **
Lord of the Flies- William Golding ****
Phantom of the Opera- Gaston Leroux ****
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea- Barbara Demick ****
Life, the Universe, and Everything- Douglas Adams ***
MENTIONED:
The Newlywed Cookbook- Sarah Copeland
Crime and Punishment- Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Wheel of Time series- Robert Jordan
Music:
“Ukulele Whistle” and “Happy Ukulele” by Scott Holmes
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