July 2 is the halfway point of the year -- Pam and Hallie do a goal check in on their reading goals, and Pam gives a Ramona the Cow update.

Books mentioned, in order:
One Last Stop by Casey McQuiston
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty by by Patrick Radden Keefe
Throne of Glass by Sarah J Maas
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J Maas
Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas
Chouette by Claire Oshetsky
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
Comfort Me With Apples by Catherynne M Valente
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
Go Tell the Bees I Am Gone by Diana Gabaldon
The Last Cold Place: A Field Season Studying Penguins in Antarctica by Naira de Gracia
Lab Girl by Hope Jahren
Why Fish Don’t Exist by Lulu Miller
The Devotion of Suspect X by Keigo Higashino
Elatsoe by Darcie Little Badger
Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis
The Game of Love and Death by Martha Brockenbrough
Middlemarch by George Eliot
Phase Six by Jim Shepard
The Trees by Percival Everett
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte
David Copperfield by Charles Dickens
The Hunchback of Notre Dame by Victor Hugo
Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
Looking Glass Sound by Catriona Ward
Endurance: Shackleton’s Incredible Journey by Alfred Lansing
Craft in the Real World by Matthew Salesses
Forager: Field Notes for Surviving a Family Cult by Michelle Dowd
How Far the Light Reaches: A Life in Ten Sea Creatures by Sabrina Imbler
Michelangelo: His Epic Life by Martin Gayford
The Good Life: Lessons from the World's Longest Scientific Study of Happiness by Robert Waldinger and Marc Schulz
Making Love With the Land by Joshua Whitehead
Cassandra Speaks: When Women Are the Storytellers, the Human Story Changes by Elizabeth Lesser
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder by David Grann
The Deep Sky by Yume Kitasei
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Now is Not the Time to Panic by Kevin Wilson

Find Pam and Hallie online!
Hallie can be found on Substack and Bookstagram at @wordsmithreads
Pam can be found on Youtube and Bookstagram at @pams_inkheart

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29 Jun 2023