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These are my books for April 2024.

I would recommend this book for skeptical conspiracy theorists- lol. I loved it. It was hard to believe and unsettling but all true. Although the subject matter was dark, the author brought humor in which I liked. I did find it a bit hard to follow at times, but overall a great book. Give it a read!

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Well friends, there is only a week left of March! What even! I'm not going to lie, I've been way more into playing Stardew Valley this week than reading, so maybe a new list is what I need to spice things back up 😂 If you're interested in spinning along for April, it's time to think about your lists. Looking forward to seeing what everyone is hoping to read!!

More books than in January. Also, 20+ episodes of therestishistory.pod.com podcast.

Favourites:
📘The List
📘Word Puppets
📘One Puzzling Afternoon
📘Good Material
📘The Curious History of Sex
📘The Book of Doors
📘Exception to the Rule (novella)
📘The Tainted Cup
📘Maude Horton's Glorious Revenge
📘Everyone in My Family has Killed Someone

Re-read:
📘Relight My Fire
📘Fugitive Telemetry

Interesting book that interviews and spends time with several different types of conspiracy theorists. The book has been around over 20 years—this is a slightly updated edition. Interesting to see how things have changed and also stayed the same. Ronson finds some humorous and interesting people to listen to and he looks into their claims as best he can. I enjoyed it.

Audiobook for January. Not sure what to think, but it was much more on the conspiracy than I wanted, but it was interesting learning about the three secretive nondisclosure global groups of power players and discussions of historical development and international policy. Some quasi-espionage investigative journalism stories included. It was both super detailed with lists of members and big picture, without really providing needed clarity.

During the month of January I read 17 books. I will say it was a successful reading month, I enjoyed all the books read except one that was “so-so”. Best books:
The Snow Child;
The Guernsey Literary& Potato Peel Pie Society
Once there were Wolves
The Great Alone
Come With Me

Enjoyed
Lady Susan
Northanger Abby
Edinburg Twilight
Oscura Es La Noche
A study in Scarlet Women
Elevation
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@Andrew65

My favorite Cotton Malone book to date!

May was a good reading month for me.
Other high points for the month were:
The Masterpiece by Fiona Davis
Notorious RBG : The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsberg

My #May book for #12BooksFor2023 is The Bishop‘s Pawn. An excellent Cotton Malone thriller centred around what happened in Martin Luther King‘s final days. Always love Cotton Malone books but this is one of the very best and learned a lot about Martin Luther King in this book. This reads exceptionally well as a standalone even though it is a book in a series.

I was looking for some light reading, so I picked up The Men Who Stare at Goats expecting the novel upon which the movie was based. Was I ever wrong! It was one of the strangest books I‘ve read, but is non-fiction. It about how the Army and CIA tried to use psychic powers to spy on enemies, to influence their behavior, etc. What got me the most was that so many of the characters actually believed the things they tried would actually work.