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txwhitedove

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17. Good day, readers. Today chasing squirrels off bird feeder and mourning

Sun Jul 12, 2026, 01:11 PM

Yesterday

loss of huge oak in my backyard we finally had cut down after H.Beryl damage.

Reading The Southern Lawyer, #1 in series by Peter O'Mahoney. Good writing, guy centric, slow intro of multi characters, but midway tying together and absorbing. Stolen artwork plot interesting. "After more than twenty years away from the law, Joe Hennessy is forced back into the courtroom… Trying to save his vineyard after years of drought, Hennessy returns to practice in the city he walked away from after the murder of his ten-year-old son—Charleston, South Carolina. When one of South Carolina’s most powerful men is charged with possessing stolen artwork, Hennessy steps forward to defend him. But as Hennessy digs into the evidence, as he navigates the truth, he finds that the criminal charges are only the start of their problems…"

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"The River We Remember," by William Kent Krueger Bayard Yesterday #1

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And I rarely pay more than $5 for a hardback book in good shape, Bayard Yesterday #30

What a coincidence... I wrote about that book in last week's thread Number9Dream Yesterday #29

No kidding? Bayard Yesterday #31

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Winter World.. by A.G. Riddle... MiHale Yesterday #8

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I have the individual books...reading #1 now. MiHale Yesterday #14

Wow! Will do hermetic Yesterday #16

Ordering Robopocalypse Bayard Yesterday #33

That sounds good Bayard Yesterday #32

Lawrence Of Arabia by Jeremy Wilson. byronius Yesterday #9

How nice! hermetic Yesterday #12

Whistler by Ann Patchett PittBlue Yesterday #10

So do I hermetic Yesterday #13

No horses yet! PittBlue Yesterday #23

Good day, readers. Today chasing squirrels off bird feeder and mourning txwhitedove Yesterday #17

rather get more badass of the week books. pansypoo53219 Yesterday #18

Bingeing Ian Rankin Rebus books Easterncedar Yesterday #19

Good hermetic Yesterday #20

"The Traveler" by Joseph Eckert intrepidity Yesterday #21

Excellent! hermetic Yesterday #22

Life, and Death, and Giants by Ron Rindo mentalsolstice Yesterday #24

18 pounds? Ouch! hermetic Yesterday #25

Weather forecasts Attilatheblond Yesterday #26

🤣 Told my plant-killer daughter this is the deceptive weather season... txwhitedove Yesterday #27

My location falls in a 'mountain rain shadow' Close enough to the storm blocking hunk of granite to be drier Attilatheblond Yesterday #28