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Hi All

I note that there isnt a thread for books bought in 2023 so I thought I would start one

Take Your Breath Away
The Match
Listen To Me

I have bought a further 2 books

Quarter to Midnight
Better Off Dead

Prideful, as in "a physical copy has long eluded me" or "finally, a decent book on a specific subject"... 10% of my total purchases.


I'm Your Man: The Life of Leonard Cohen by Sylvie Simmons
Breaking Open Japan: Commodore Perry, Lord Abe, and American Imperialism in 1853 by George Feifer
Deutschlands Hochseeflotte im Weltkrieg by Admiral Reinhard Scheer
Asimov's guide to the bible
Washington: A Life by Ron Chernow
The Rising Sun: The Decline & Fall of the Japanese Empire 1936-45 by John Toland
1634: The Baltic War by Eric Flint
Flood Tide by Clive Cussler
Foundations of the Portuguese Empire, 1415-1580 by Bailey W. Diffie

Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition by Frances A. Yates
Memoires van een keizerin by Emperess Farah Pahlavi
Revolutionary Spring: Fighting for a New World 1848-1849 by Christopher Clark

I bought the year’s worth of books for my book club�(and a few more 🤣) * denotes what I’ve finished reading this far

Book Club reading for 2023
Life Is So Good - George Dawson. *
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue -V.E. Schaumburg. *
Educated - Tara Westover. *
South of Heaven - Patti Frye Meredith. * (she zoomed in for our club discussion! Could be.a sequel in the works 😉)
A Killing in the Hills - Julia Keller *
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow- Gabrielle Zevin (almost thru reading
Gown - Jennifer Robson
The Witch of Blackbird Pond - Elizabeth George Spear
Demon Copperhead - Barbara Kingsolver
Sufficient Grace -Darnell Arnoult *
Remarkably Bright Creatures - Shelby Van Pelt

Additional Purchases
Hang The Moon - Jeanette Walls
Visual Thinking -Temple Gardin
Ladies if the Secret Circle - Constance Sayers
The Best American Noir of the Century - various Authors
Copper Sun - Sharon M. Draper. **

I may have gone a little nuts on Ebay this year�