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Hestia

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1. The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Sun May 17, 2020, 01:03 PM

May 2020

His characterization of that time period - 1993, set in Charleston SC - is an ode to his mother and all the things she did for her family to keep up with the jones', car pooling, breakfast, lunch and dinner, dinner parties for her husband to exceed in his position. And of course, her book club reading true crime novels - The Stranger Beside Me by Ann Rule, etc.

It is excellent. Truly impressive how he can bring both worlds together. Much fun

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What Fiction are you reading this week, May 17, 2020? [View all] hermetic May 2020 OP

The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix Hestia May 2020 #1

Great title hermetic May 2020 #8

A few matt819 May 2020 #2

My favorite place hermetic May 2020 #5

I listened to "The Dutch House", by Ann Patchett, read by Tom Hanks northoftheborder May 2020 #3

Oh cool hermetic May 2020 #6

Longbourn, by Jo Baker. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #4

That DOES sound good hermetic May 2020 #7

It is excellent. PoindexterOglethorpe May 2020 #9

Pride and Prejudice is murielm99 May 2020 #22

I have nothing in print TexasProgresive May 2020 #10

Well that's a bummer hermetic May 2020 #21

I gave up and bought Dark Sacred Night by old fav Michael Connelly TexasProgresive May 2020 #24

Good choice hermetic May 2020 #25

It's the 2nd of the Ballard trilogy. I read the 1st a year ago TexasProgresive May 2020 #26

You'll love it. It is one of his better one's. Hestia May 2020 #27

I am reading "The Tenant of Wildfell Hall," murielm99 May 2020 #11

That is sad. hermetic May 2020 #12

the transcripts of trump's press conferences gopiscrap May 2020 #13

I was coming to post the same joke! GriffenRamsey May 2020 #15

great minds think alike gopiscrap May 2020 #16

BTW welcome to DU gopiscrap May 2020 #17

Oh, thank you. GriffenRamsey May 2020 #18

actually a book titled: gopiscrap May 2020 #14

That sounds good hermetic May 2020 #19

so you have read them? gopiscrap May 2020 #20

No, I just read about them hermetic May 2020 #23

they are pretty funny gopiscrap May 2020 #28

Trumps tweets. AZ8theist May 2020 #29

Linwood Barclay's "Promise Falls" series The King of Prussia May 2020 #30

Well gosh hermetic May 2020 #31