Books are my Love Language

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Unmitigated gushing about books. Mostly contemporary fiction. Sometimes memoir. Sometimes nonfiction. Preference for scrappy narrators .

About Kelly Turner

Writer & reader living in Houston, Texas. Frequent giver of books. Member of the sandwich generation. Deeply ambivalent about the group chat.

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