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Joined May 2017

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The Chalk Man | C. J. Tudor

Have you ever read a book so fast that you know you're missing things, but you can't slow down because it's dragging you along? That was me with this book.

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Loved it!

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Cuckoo's Calling | Robert Galbraith
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Disclaimer: A Novel | Renée Knight

Wow!! It took me a little while to get into this book - to figure out the players - but it was well worth the effort! A serious rollercoaster of impulses and motivations. Such a surprise.

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New book day! Yayayay! #BookOfTheMonthClub

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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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New book day for me means new box day for Trouble!

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The Girls: A Novel | Emma Cline
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New book day! New book day! Yay!

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Emma in the Night | Wendy Walker

I love being surprised by a book. This had one helluva twist.

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Loved it. Such complicated characters. They were so believable.

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Trouble loves #NewBookDay just as much as I do! #BookOfTheMonthClub

Lcsmcat 😻😻 6y
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Into The Water | Paula Hawkins

All I can say is, "Wow!"

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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki

So this was my second Book of the Month Club offering. It took me three months to finish the first, but it ended better than it started. I have been reading this one since June (it's now November) and I just have no motivation to finish. I don't care about the characters. At. All. It is well -written, but for me, story is everything. And I have zero desire to continue this one. This book has beaten me. But now I'll move on to better things.

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Ok, I have a real problem with this book. The killer in a mystery novel should never be someone you have no way of ever guessing - a character who is only introduced in the very end. You should be able to put the clues together. This book just threw in some rando at the end. Grrrr!

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I Am Watching You | Teresa Driscoll

Wow! I didn't see that coming at all. This book kept me guessing until the end.

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A Beautiful Poison | Lydia Kang

I thought this was fantastic. It made me want to read some of the non-fiction works she listed in the acknowledgment section and I rarely read non-fiction. It was just so fascinating.

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I liked this book up until the ending. I just don't like ambiguous endings. Tell me the complete story.

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Dead Certain | Adam Mitzner
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I really liked this book. I had no idea who the killer was until the author revealed it. I love it when a story surprises me.

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Sleeping Beauties | Stephen King, Owen King
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New book day has arrived! #BookOfTheMonth

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Crimes Against a Book Club | Kathy Cooperman
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I'm sitting in an airport in Charlotte, waiting for my connecting flight. I was going to start reading this book but the spelling snob in me can't get past this. . .

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Emma in the Night | Wendy Walker
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Look who else likes getting boxes from #BookOfTheMonthClub #Trouble

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Emma in the Night | Wendy Walker
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I love when I get a big ol' box of books! #BookOfTheMonth

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Final Girls | Riley Sager
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Yay! New books! #BookOfTheMonthClub

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American War | Omar El Akkad
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This book is only about 330 pages, but it took me almost two months to read. The first half is really boring, except for the excerpts from documents. By the time it reached the point, it was interesting, but it took sooooooo looooooong to get to the interesting stuff.

swishandflick I'm about 75% through and I think I'm inclined to agree with you! 7y
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Woman No. 17 | Edan Lepucki
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Two things: 1. I honest to God don't remember ordering this as my May #BOTM selection, and 2. @BrainyHeroine when are they going to start sending me happy little personalized notes?

BrainyHeroine If you don't tell them that you want a different book they send you the most popular book. The note is on the back of the blue card. 7y
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Under the Dome | King, Stephen
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Stephen King is one of my favorite authors. And for most of this book, he held my attention with his fantastic character development. But the end of the book petered out - he has this problem where he doesn't seem to know how to end long novels and while I was able to forgive the ending of IT, I couldn't forgive the ending of this one. It felt like a rehashed Twilight Zone episode.

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This is one of my all-time favorite books. I have read it every summer since I was 16. I always learn something new.

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Mehso-so

There were parts about this book that I really liked and others that made it feel like a chore to read. Every time it went to the letters, because it was in "Ye Olde English" it was hard to understand and really slowed down the plot.

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Pickpick

Loved it. It was a novel way to write a zombie story. I thought the ending was great.

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Great read. Such an all-enveloping story. I couldn't put it down.

RadicalReader @edb.esq this book does seem to have that " captivating" feel to it lol 7y
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The Handmaid's Tale | Margaret Atwood
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I haven't read this book for 25 years. I am rereading it and had forgotten how frightening it is - how democracy can so easily die.

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