@Gabi_J I think I need to talk about The Finest Hotel in Kabul. If you are game please let me know if/when you finish.
I’m definitely game! I have about 5 hours left but two crazy travel days.. Feel free to start sharing - I am not concerned about spoilers.
It’s ok, I can wait. I loved the main characters and was rooting so hard for them. I chuckled at how the changing of regime was marked by the changing of portraits. I really want to check that I understood the ending events clearly and you aren’t quite there yet so I’ll hold my water until you get there.
Hi @Gabi_J and @Anne_Glasgow (and anyone else who’s interested!) I set up a topic for you where you can discuss The Finest Hotel in Kabul by Lyse Doucet. That way you can throw in all the spoilers you want!
I’ve got the audiobook, and it’s next on my list after The Green Mile, but that means it’ll be a week or two before I can add my comments.
Thanks for the assist @kim.kovacs You are welcome to throw your two cents in anytime.
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Von Armin’s Elizabeth and Her German Garden is also enjoyable and included in James Mustich’s 1000 Books to Read Before You Die.
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Has anyone read any of Donna Everhart’s books, other than Women of a Promiscuous Nature? If so, is there one in particular you’d recommend? She’s visiting us later in the month for a Q&A, and I’d like to read at least one more of her novels, but she’s got several so I’m looking for suggestions.
I have that (and several others of hers), will move up in the TBR stack. Thank you!
@Evonne_Benedict & @Lana_Maskus, I’ve never heard of Elizabeth von Arden! Thanks for the recommendation! Next time it’s my turn to suggest a 1000 Reads book I’ll have to nominate Elizabeth and her German Garden. I looked it up and it sounds wonderful. 
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Kim - if you have a few hours I highly suggest you read ‘The Enchanted April’ and maybe try to track down the film version too! It is truly ‘enchanted’ and life affirming! Plus it will definitely make you want to take an Italian holiday 
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Really loved Kin, the characters were so real for me.
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I listened to David Baldacci’s Nash Falls and loved it. So glad the next book will be out soon. I’m reading Won’t Be Long Now by Elizabeth Hardinger which I received from BookBrowse and liking it. I also finished Under Two zflags by Janis Robinson Daly and loved it. I have to reread Frozen River for book club next week.
Raising Hare-A Memoir by Chloe Dalton
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Woohoo! I managed to snag a library copy of the audio for London Falling by PRK. My new walking accompaniment being read in his own voice—fabulous. So far so good and I can’t wait to get well into this because PRK always tells great, well-researched tales.
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I finally got around to reading project Hail Mary- a space mission with lots of science! Suspenseful but more science than I can absorb!
Finished reading Sunjata Massey’s new Perveen Mistry series The Star from Calcutta-love this character( Bombay’s first woman solicitor) but this was not my favorite. Start with the first book-The Widows of Malabar Hill.
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My very favorite last year (of 76 books read)
I just finished A Natural Woman by Carole King. Great read, the life of the song writer, interesting life, bad choices of men, very, very talented and smart. Humble, but strong, great role model. I relate to the 50’s and 60’s and all the other singers at that time (because I am old).
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