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May 25, 2023 01:16AM

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I intedn to finish listening to
Jeremy Poldarkand then to Robert Hellenga Love, Death & Rare Books.
As for my reads, these the first titles I'll be strting, waiting for something elese!
Sandro Baldoni Occhi selvaggi
Giorgio Fontana Il Mago di Riga
Yōko Ogawa La formula del professore
Rosa Teruzzi Il valzer dei traditori
Valeria Corciolani Il tempo fa le pietre
Elizabeth Strout Lucy by the Sea
Libby Page The Lido
Gian Marco Griffi Ferrovie del Messico
Richard Osman The Bullet That Missed
Stacey Halls Mrs England
Annabel Abbs Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
Mazo de la Roche The Building Of Jalna
Jeremy Poldarkand then to Robert Hellenga Love, Death & Rare Books.
As for my reads, these the first titles I'll be strting, waiting for something elese!
Giorgio Fontana Il Mago di Riga
Yōko Ogawa La formula del professore
Rosa Teruzzi Il valzer dei traditori
Valeria Corciolani Il tempo fa le pietre
Elizabeth Strout Lucy by the Sea
Libby Page The Lido
Gian Marco Griffi Ferrovie del Messico
Richard Osman The Bullet That Missed
Stacey Halls Mrs England
Annabel Abbs Miss Eliza's English Kitchen: A Novel of Victorian Cookery and Friendship
Mazo de la Roche The Building Of Jalna

Not sure what else - maybe another Sabatini, The Black Swan, and the last book in Buchan's Leithen series, Sick Heart River. I will think about it and come back with some other ideas.
My plans for June:
finish up from last month:
in progress 26% 1. Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell)
in progress 43% 2. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
very likely:
✔ 1. The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yōko Ogawa) ★★★★★ (4.5)
2. The Magic Fish (Trung Le Nguyen)
in progress 36% 3. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
✔ 4. Noor (Nnedi Okorafor) ★★★★ (3.5)
probably:
✔ 1. White Tears (Hari Kunzru) ★★★★ (4.0)
✔ 2. Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) ★★★★ (3.5)
in progress 3% 3. Wool Omnibus (Hugh Howey)
4. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty)
possibly:
1. Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Mizuki Tsujimura)
2. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
3. Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Herman Melville)
4. Queen of Sorcery (David Eddings)
5. Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
6. The Weird of the White Wolf (Michael Moorcock)
unplanned:
finish up from last month:
in progress 26% 1. Ruth (Elizabeth Gaskell)
in progress 43% 2. Oliver Twist (Charles Dickens)
very likely:
✔ 1. The Housekeeper and the Professor (Yōko Ogawa) ★★★★★ (4.5)
2. The Magic Fish (Trung Le Nguyen)
in progress 36% 3. Nostromo (Joseph Conrad)
✔ 4. Noor (Nnedi Okorafor) ★★★★ (3.5)
probably:
✔ 1. White Tears (Hari Kunzru) ★★★★ (4.0)
✔ 2. Into the Wild (Jon Krakauer) ★★★★ (3.5)
in progress 3% 3. Wool Omnibus (Hugh Howey)
4. The Adventures of Amina al-Sirafi (Shannon Chakraborty)
possibly:
1. Lonely Castle in the Mirror (Mizuki Tsujimura)
2. Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
3. Moby-Dick or, the Whale (Herman Melville)
4. Queen of Sorcery (David Eddings)
5. Daisy Jones & The Six (Taylor Jenkins Reid)
6. The Weird of the White Wolf (Michael Moorcock)
unplanned:

Finish up my current books if necessary:
Definitely will read:
Speaker for the Dead
The Young Lions
News from Nowhere
several mysteries including
Possible other books include:
The Black Swan
Cheese currently reading
a play by George Bernard Shaw and/or William Shakespeare
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