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Peerless Reader! What are you currently soaking in? Poetry? Crime? Romance? Graphics? Self Help? Memoir? Fantasy? Mystery? Tell us about your summer reading lusts!
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Where do you read? Bath? Bed? Beach? On the deck of your 590-foot yacht?
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The mighty Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain on the bed…and, in the top photo, we have the brilliant Brigette Bardot and Michel Piccoli in Jean-Luc Godard’s film, "Contempt.
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While Justice Sleeps by Stacey Abrams
Just finished Barbara Kingsolver's "Demon Copperhead," over Memorial Day. Masterful update of David Copperfield, set in Appalachia as the oxycodone epidemic played out. I read it over four days sitting in a rocking chair in a screened-in porch overlooking a river in southern Missouri. Also read "A Fever in the Heartland, by Tim Egan, about the rise and fall of the KKK in the Midwest. Completely horrifying and lays out the roadmap for the current rise in white supremacy. Now engrossed in "Mad Honey," a novel about trans kids in America.