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Cuthbert Allgood

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27. Still working on The Twelve (The Passage book #2)

Sun Jan 20, 2019, 05:37 PM

Jan 2019

Last week was finals week, so that took most of my time.

So far I'm liking The Twelve. It's a lot more tightly written than The Passage. Enough so that I'm wondering if he got a new editor that didn't put up with all the bloat he seemed to like to write.

This past week was one of those weeks where 4 different books come up from the holds I placed. So I have the following to get through in 3 weeks (I do Kindle holds when possible for easy of keeping the books with me on my phone):
American Pastoral (Roth's Pulitzer winner)
Leah on the Offbeat (sequel to Simon and the Homo Sapiens Agenda--became the movie, Love, Simon)
She Rides Shotgun (young adult novel highly recommended by another English teacher)

Plus I am working through I'll Be Gone in the Dark for nonfiction.

Just typing that makes me feel like I'm not going to make it through all that in 3 weeks. Challenge accepted, I guess.

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What Fiction are you reading this week, January 20, 2019? [View all] hermetic Jan 2019 OP

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Still working on The Twelve (The Passage book #2) Cuthbert Allgood Jan 2019 #27

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