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ChelseaM6010
Untitled | Anonymous
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#AboutABook
Day8. Based on a true story
#BasedOnATrueStory
This is my #TBRTarot pick for the month

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Perfect 👍🏻 3mo
Eggs There are many books written about this crash/survival👏🏻👏🏻 3mo
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Leftcoastzen
The Sound of Music | Richard Rodgers, Oscar Hammerstein
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#AboutABook #BasedOnATrueStory This film dominated in the 1960s.

Eggs Yes it did! A classic 3mo
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TheBookgeekFrau
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#AboutABook #BasedOnATrueStory

This SK short story is based on Diane Schuler's wrong-way accident on the Taconic Parkway in 2009. I found this story fascinating bc I used to travel the Taconic almost daily (~10 miles north of where the accident occurred). Before the story made huge news, my neighbor told us about the horrific scene as he was stuck in traffic for hours coming home from work. This story was as good a guess as any

Eggs Fascinating 👌🏼👏🏻 3mo
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kspenmoll
Trial of Lizzie Borden | Cara Robertson
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This was a past #sundaybuddyread, which I loved! #AboutABook #BasedonaTrueStory

https://crimereads.com/cara-robertson-talks-true-crime-and-lizzie-borden/

Just saw this the author‘s interview posted today on Crime Reads.

TheLudicReader Fascinating case. 3mo
Eggs Perfect 👌🏼 3mo
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Cuilin
Dancer: A Novel | Colum McCann
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#AboutABook #BasedOnATrueStory

An embellished account of the life of Rudolf Nureyev. The writing was sublime and extremely spicy!!!

@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs

Eggs Perfect👌🏼 3mo
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Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks
Promise: A Novel | Minrose Gwin
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Based on a devastating tornado that killed over 450 people in 1936. It‘s set in the town of Tupelo where I work.

#Basedonatruestory #AboutaBook

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/1936_Tupelo%E2%80%93Gainesville_tornado_outbreak

Eggs Beautiful 🌹 3mo
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks @Eggs thank you! It‘s a recycled picture ❤️ 3mo
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Karisimo
We Were the Lucky Ones | Georgia Hunter
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First book that came to my mind for #basedonatruestory for #aboutabook The author writes about her own family!
@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks Idk why I couldn‘t get into this one. I‘ll try again at some point! 3mo
Eggs Great story 👏🏻👏🏻 3mo
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IndoorDame
The Rose Code | Kate Quinn
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#AboutABook #BasedOnATrueStory @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

IMO Kate Quinn is the master of weaving historical record into her fictional narratives to create something doubly compelling. This is the first of her‘s I read and it remains my favorite.

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks I need to get to this one! 3mo
Eggs I think Huntress, for me, was the most suspenseful and unputdownable 😳😱 3mo
IndoorDame @Eggs ooooh, that one‘s still on my list. I‘ll have to move it up! 3mo
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Teresereading
Lilian's Story | Kate Grenville
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Eggs Perfect🫶🏻 3mo
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Ericalambbrown
Agent 355 | Marie Benedict
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This was a good if somewhat sad historical fiction short story. It imagines a possible arc for a real Culper Ring female agent about whom almost nothing is known. It incorporates some lore and the author is very clear in her afterword that the story is built around the known contribution of Agent 355 but is, alas, conjecture in her story. I felt sorrowful at the end, but glad I heard it nonetheless as so many of women‘s stories are lost history.

tpixie Thanks for reminding me about this. I listened to the one of hers with Kate Quinn- Agatha Christie & someone from the rose code 6mo
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