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One reason I liked the tv show Nashville is because they gave a lot more attention to the female country artists than the male artists. (If I never hear another male-performed country song about a woman wearing tight jeans, it will be too soon.)

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Nashville was a lot of ups and downs, but they absolutely were committed to telling generational stories about women in the industry, and for that it will always have a place in my heart.

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The show hired a lot of real-life Nashville singer-songwriters! It's covered in the book.

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The Woman in the library sounds fascinating

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There’s a lot going on!

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Ooh I loved Sarah Hogle’s You Deserve Each Other and didn’t know she had a Christmas romance too, excited to check it out!!

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You Deserve Each Other is so fun!

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Love these recommendations - happy holiday reading everyone!

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ah, I don't think I'd ever heard of meta-mystery as a genre, but I love it! Anthony Horowitz's new series (A Line to Kill, etc) falls into that category, right?

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Yup! And his Magpie Murders series. (I'm not sure if it's a real thing or a term I made up?)

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My library Hold cup is overfloweth, and yet here i am enthusiastically sloshing it over yet again with all these adds. I am so ready to have my biases/suspicions confirmed and my rage drawer unlocked re Her Country. (Currently listening to Kacey Musgraves station on Spotify, which is the only place I've ever heard one of her songs actually). I mean, partly why I'm so behind on my library list- aside from the fact that LIFE is rudely leaving me little reading time these days- is that I was kidnapped by your Veronica Speedwell recommendation. Straight up devoured every published book in the series that I could find. In the drought they left behind I'm trying the Enola Holmes books, but I find that my tolerance of YA has really plummeted in the last few years.

I also quite enjoyed the Verifiers!

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