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Reading List: August.

Posted on the 31 August 2025 by Cathy Leaves @cathyleaves
Non-Fiction:  Hannah Kent: Always Home, Always Homesick.  Sarah Weinman: Scoundrel. How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free.Max Hastings: The Abyss. Nuclear Crisis Cuba 1962. Odd Arne Westad: The Cold War. A World History. Rodric Braithwaite: Afgantsy. The Russians in Afghanistan 1979-89.  Fiction:  Adam Rapp: Wolf at the Table. Graham Greene: Our Man in Havana.Annalee Newitz: Automatic Noodle. Chuck Tingle: Lucky Day.  Films:  The Grapes of Wrath (1940, John Ford). The Stranger (1946, Orson Welles). Late Spring (1949, Yasujiro Ozu). The Quiet American (2002, Phillip Noyce). Our Man in Havana (1959, Carol Reed). The Hunt for Red October (1990, John McTiernan). 28 Years Later (2025, Danny Boyle).Eenie Meanie (2025, Shawn Simmons). Run Rabbit Run (2023, Daina Reid). Sorry, Baby (2025, Eva Victor). Shows:  The Deuce, Season One, Two, Three.Bosch: Legacy, Season One, Two, Three.  

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