July First Reads

July is a 2-book month again. 

1. Suspense - Trust No One by Debra Web
2. Contemporary Fiction - Cleo McDougal Regrets Nothing
3. Thriller - Her Final Words
4. Historical Fiction - Across the Winding River
5. Book club fiction - Last of the Moon Girls
6. Memoir - The Son and Heir
7. Crime thriller - White Out
8. Children's picture book - Clover Kitty Goes to Kittygarten
9. Essays - Tomboyland

Okay.  Skip the suspense, thrillers, and picture book, and that cuts it down to five.  "Cleo" is about a single-mom politician, and the essays don't sound interesting to me right now.  Across the Winding River sounds interesting enough, so do Moon Girls, and Son and Heir.  The memoir might be a little too dark, so I think I'll go for the other two, even if "book club fiction" sounds like a healthy dose of romance is involved, from the reviews.

The ongoing CD-weeding project

There's a large pile (okay, 5 stacks) of CDs that need to be weeded through.  Lots of random things that looked interesting enough to get them from the discard pile at the library, mostly.  So I've started listening to them, and deciding whether to keep or not. 

1. Sports Car Lady with a Station Wagon Life - nope, funny title, don't like the voice
2. Guys & Dolls soundtrack - meh
3. Mannheim Steamroller, Fresh Aire IV - keep this one, but one is enough
4. Nightnoise - keeper
5. Soweto Gospel Choir - African Spirit - keep for now
6. Dave Van Ronk, the Folkways Years - not my style
7. Voices of New  York, Hearts Afire - not my thing either, but good background music for a party
8. Sounds of Yellowstone - nope.  I want my nature sounds to be nature-only. 
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