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The Appeal | John Grisham

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#ReadAway2024 #WinterGames #XmasChaCha #Wardens2024 #ReadMyRoom

Enter the world of liability litigation. Plaintiff: Jeanette Baker; Defendant: Krane Chemicals☠️

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Bookwormjillk 🎄🎄🎄 17h

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DieAReader

The Appeal | John Grisham

#WeekendReads #WeekendReading #WinterGames #XmasChaCha

🤞🏻🤓to put a nice dent in🏷️ book as well as ‘Profiler‘ - currently my only open reads. I also really want to start a few new ones this weekend.

‘Miss Moriarty, I Presume‘ is a Libby loan, ‘Mr. & Mrs. Christmas‘ an audible (both expiring soon😬😥) & ‘The Christmas Bookshop‘ a physical from my shelves.

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Andrew65 Have a good reading weekend. 🎄☃️🎄 1w

CoverToCoverGirl You got this! Listen, listen, listen! 🎧 1w

DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl 😝🎧 1w

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marleed

The Partner: A Novel | John Grisham

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I was equal parts entertained by this book and entertained by being entertained. How did JG have me root for a lawyer faking his own death leaving wife and child while funneling $90 million (1992 dollars) from his slimy law partners!? Then after 4 years he orchestrates his own arrest. I dunno, but it was good and I didn‘t give thought to this contemporary fiction being 28 years old!

Oct #BookSpin Cat: Author‘s Canon

TheAromaofBooks

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2mo

Suet624 Are all of those Grisham books yours? 2mo

marleed @Suet624 They are! And get this - one book was a gift but all the rest have been thrifted since Fall 2018 for something less than $4. In a conversation with a sister when I noted I liked JG, she asked my favorite. I had no idea - couldn‘t recall what I‘d read compared to watched on screen. So I decided to read his canon. My sister passed away but I still have 8 books (they have blue tabs on the spine) yet to read. 2mo

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Suet624 That‘s amazing. 2mo

marleed @Suet624 It‘s been fun. I keep up with new books as they come out so I don‘t grow the canon taller than it already is. But I have to get the new release from the library, then monitor the thrift stores or Friends of the Library for my copy after-the-fact. It‘s become a thrifting thing and I can‘t go back, but it‘s fun how quickly I find the new releases of JG in the thrifting isles 🤣 2mo

Suet624 And have you enjoyed each one? I think I‘ve only read 2 and I enjoyed them but for some reason ended up not continuing. 2mo

marleed @Suet624 yes, some more than others. What‘s intriguing in this commitment I‘ve made is not how his writing has progressed over all these books. It‘s how his language has changed. Most books are set in the South. His early books contain a liberal use of the N-word sometimes even the good guys using it. It diminishes over the years to the bad guys using the word to where it is now it‘s seldom used. Proof when we know better we do better. (edited) 2mo

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MonicaLoves2Read

The Jailhouse Lawyer | James Patterson, Nancy Allen

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When I checked this book out of my local library, I didn't realize it was two books in one until I almost got finished with the first story. The first story: The Jailhouse Lawyer involved a lawyer who became a public defender in a small town. She soon realizes that there is evil in the town. The second story: Power of Attorney involves a lawyer that left her small town for a big city. She returns home because her ⬇️

MonicaLoves2Read her dad is suffering from alzheimer's.. She takes over his office and soon has a client her mom gave her card to.

I liked the fact that both books had strong female characters. Neither of them took crap from anyone. They stood for what was right even when it was hard. Two good legal thriller reads.

😊Happy Reading 😊 #readaway2024 #serieslive2024

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MonicaLoves2Read #bookspinbingo 2mo

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CatMS

Sparring Partners | John Grisham

Started listening while on trip up north with hubby and continuing. A collection of novelettes.

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DieAReader

The Rainmaker | John Grisham

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#ReadMyRoom #Wardens2024 #ReadAway2024

I very much enjoyed seeing behind the legal profession‘s curtain🥸 I find it all very fascinating, always have. The verbal sparring etc… between the Plaintiff & Defence counsels had me LOL several times🤣 Definitely not my last Grisham or legal thriller📚🤓

CoverToCoverGirl, Andrew65, AkashaVampie, GHABI4ROSES

CoverToCoverGirl I really enjoy Grisham! 3mo

DieAReader @CoverToCoverGirl ❤️‍🔥I‘ve also been enjoying them! 3mo

GHABI4ROSES DONE. I appreciated the accuracy, sympathy, commiseration! 2mo

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Sleepswithbooks

The Last Juror: A Novel | John Grisham

Not what I was expecting but still a good story. #GrishGotGame 📖🤎

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Blueberry

The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller | John Grisham

#FavoriteofJuly. #AboutaBook

@Eggs
@Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs Excellent 👌🏼 4mo

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Kshakal

The Boys from Biloxi: A Legal Thriller | John Grisham

My mom loves John Grisham, so I often get her his books for gifts! #yougifted #aboutabook @Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

Eggs I love Grisham too❤️ 4mo

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swynn

Chamber | John Grisham

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(1994) Unpopular opinion, but it didn't work for me: too slow, too bloated, too many subplots that go nowhere. It's a legal drama following the legal maneuvers of an unpleasant old bigot and his lawyer grandson who represents him, as they await his execution for a terrorist bombing. It's an extended meditation on Southern history and on the death penalty.Grisham is against it. So am I and for similar reasons, but I just found the book exhausting

swynn Also: this was the bestselling book in the U.S. in 1994, and the final book in my Bestseller challenge, which has covered 100 years of American bestsellers, beginning with Ian McClaren's "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" (1895) and ending with "The Chamber." 6mo

ChaoticMissAdventures Congratulations on your challenge!! I remember enjoying this when it came out, but I was also obsessed with Grisham in general and was maybe 16, so my ideas of a good book were quite different! 6mo

Ruthiella Wow! Impressive. 👏👏👏 How long has it taken you to complete the challenge? 6mo

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swynn @ChaoticMissAdventures Or you might still like it -- it may just be a mismatch of book, reader, and moment. 6mo

swynn @Ruthiella Nearly ten years: I read "Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush" in January 2015 6mo

bthegood @swynn Congrats on finishing the challenge!! 5mo

swynn @bthegood Thanks! 5mo

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