2008: Booking Thru Thursday – Gold Medal Reading

This week’s topic: First: Do you or have you ever read books about the Olympics? About sports in general? Fictional ones? Or non-fiction? Or both? And, Second: Do you consider yourself a sports fan? Because, of course, if you’re a rabid fan and read about sports constantly, there’s a logic there; if you hate sports and never read anything sports-related, that, too … but you

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2008: #70 – Wed to a Stranger? (Jule McBride)

Book #70 was Wed to a Stranger? by Jule McBride. The back of the book reads: HER HUSBAND HAD VANISHED He’d left no trace–except his pregnant bride, Fritzi Fitzgerald.  A year later, her search for him led her to a remote Alaskan village, and when a man carrying her husband’s ID was murdered, she stood accused. A STRANGER APPEARED He came from the snow-swept tundra–a

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2008: #69 – The Good, the Bad, and the Undead (Kim Harrison)

Book #69 was The Good, the Bad, and the Undead, the second book in Kim Harrison’s Rachel Morgan series.  The back of the book reads: It’s a tough life for witch Rachel Morgan, sexy, independent bounty hunter, prowling the darkest shadows of downtown Cincinnati for criminal creatures of the night. She can handle the leather-clad vamps and even tangle with a cunning demon or two.

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