Kelly Hooker joins me for July's Real Time Reading episode where we highlight our current, past and upcoming reads.

Kelly’s Selections:

Last: 

The Killer Question by Janice Hallett

Heart the Lover by Lily King

Now:

Spectacular Things by Beck Dorey-Stein

The Future Saints by Ashley Winstead 

Next:

Cape Fever by Nadia Davids 

Westward Women by Alice Martin

DNFs or Didn't Like:

None

Book Mail Highlights:

Murder by the Book by Amie Schaumberg

What We Can Know by Ian McKewan

Cindy's Selections:

Last:

The Mother Next Door: Medicine, Deception and Munchausen by Proxy by Andrea Dunlop

Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll by Neal Shusterman

Now:

A Flower Traveled in My Blood by Haley Cohen Gilliland

The Round House by Louise Erdrich

Next:

Matchmaking for Psychopaths by Tasha Corryell

The Mires by Tina Makereti 

DNFs or Didn’t Like:

Bug Hollow by Michelle Huneven

We Are All Guilty Here by Karin Slaughter 

How to Lose Your Mother by Molly Jung-Fast 

Book Mail Highlights: 

Paper Girl: A Memoir of Home and Family in a Fractured America by Beth Macy 

Photograph by Brian Freeman 

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