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hermetic

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Sun Apr 17, 2022, 12:33 PM Apr 2022

What Fiction are you reading this week, April 17, 2022? [View all]



Reading The Sellout by Paul Beatty. This was on that Funniest Books list I posted on 3/31. Sure enough, I laughed out loud on the very first page. Biting satire at its best. "The Sellout showcases a comic genius at the top of his game. It challenges the sacred tenets of the United States Constitution, urban life, the civil rights movement, the father-son relationship, and the holy grail of racial equality―the black Chinese restaurant."

Also from that list, Calypso by David Sedaris is my current audio entertainment. "Sedaris's darkest and warmest book yet--and it just might be his very best. Darkly hilarious." True on both counts.

What books are you hopping to be reading this week?
Have a lovely Easter day.
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"Black Cherry Blues" a Dave Robicheaux novel TexLaProgressive Apr 2022 #1
I love James Lee Burke. Dave Robichaeux is his principal series rsdsharp Apr 2022 #3
HI!!! hermetic Apr 2022 #4
Been well, a bit anxious about the near future TexLaProgressive Apr 2022 #7
Yeah, hermetic Apr 2022 #9
first time with Blackadder! I laughed until I hurt yellowdogintexas Apr 2022 #16
You might enjoy Jana DeLeon's Miss Fortune series SheltieLover Apr 2022 #12
Thanks looks like fun TexLaProgressive Apr 2022 #14
They are really grsat reads! SheltieLover Apr 2022 #15
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton The King of Prussia Apr 2022 #2
Okay, that sound interesting... hermetic Apr 2022 #5
Mine is called the seven deaths The King of Prussia Apr 2022 #6
Or...maybe... hermetic Apr 2022 #8
Cheerio The King of Prussia Apr 2022 #10
Cool!!! hermetic Apr 2022 #11
An explanation The King of Prussia Apr 2022 #19
Thanks for that hermetic Apr 2022 #21
Just finished "Louisiana Longshot" SheltieLover Apr 2022 #13
I have read the first book in the Mudbug series yellowdogintexas Apr 2022 #18
I finished The Courier last night yellowdogintexas Apr 2022 #17
Decided to reread The Razor's Edge dhol82 Apr 2022 #20
Wow, from 1944 hermetic Apr 2022 #22
Yes. That adds to the novel. dhol82 Apr 2022 #23
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