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Ask Again Yes , Mary Beth Keane
DNF. Started off promisingly, with two rookie cops on the beat through 1970s Brooklyn. They share bits of their life stories and talk about a suburban town north of the city where life is quiet and property is cheap. A few years later, the men are living there as neighbours. They're no longer partners, and not friends either. Tensions between the two families grow until one night something terrible happens.
Unfortunately, from this point, it went downhill for me, to the point where I gave up 2/3 of the way through because I just DID NOT CARE what happened to these people. Like Ann Patchett would be if Ann Patchett was rubbish.
69. A Vast Conspiracy: The Real Story of the Sex Scandal That Nearly Brought Down a President, Jeffrey Toobin
Extremely detailed account of the Clinton impeachment by a journalist who followed the story at the time (and how suitable it is that it falls at number 69 on my list 
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Nobody comes out if this account well - not Clinton, who is at best adulterous and untruthful, not Lewinsky, who Toobin dismisses as entitled and unintelligent, and not any of the republican lawyers and politicians who were so desperate to get to Clinton that they tacked a sex scandal onto an investigation into an obscure business deal (in which no-one has ever found evidence that the Clintons did anything wrong). Toobin paints this as a grubby affair which demeaned just about everyone who was involved.
This account is very detailed - often too detailed, with many names and subplots and grudges (there's a really useful list of who's who at the beginning but on a kIndle it's a pain to keep flipping back and forth). And, as Toobin himself admits in his foreword, his attitudes to Clinton's treatment of women, and the treatment that Lewinsky (and others including Paula Jones) received at the hands of the establishment and the media, look dreadfully outdated now (this is a book which was originally published in 2000 and Toobin has chosen not to change his original text - he says he thinks it's useful to let it stand as a reflection of what attitudes were like back then).
Very interesting to see some familiar names popping up: Toobin paints a picture of the Starr team as being staffed with young white republican bros, overconfident, well-connected. They are determined to bring Clinton down and fall with unseemly enthusiasm on the seedy details of his encounters with Lewinsky. The young lawyer who pushes to include in the reports some completely irrelevant (but embarrassing) details about Clinton masturbating in the White House? Brett Kavanaugh.
70. Miss Austen, Gill Hornby
Somewhere between biography and fan fiction, this is the story of Jane Austen's beloved big sister, Cassandra, who was engaged as a young woman but lost her fiance to yellow fever. Like her famous sister, she never married.
In this story, the elderly Cassandra arrives unexpectedly at the house of her - niece? cousin? (this is one problem in this book. There aren't many characters - we're definitely in "three or four families in a country village" territory - but everyone is intermarried and everyone seems to be someone's aunt or sister by marriage). She has a mission which isn't entirely clear but turns out to be to find and destroy any personal letters written by or about her sister. As she reads through old letters, the story jumps back and forth, showing us the sisters' lives as young women up to the point of Jane's early death at the age of 41.
While this is charming, and while Hornby achieves IMHO a decently Austen-esque witty turn of phrase, this book wasn't sure whether it was supposed to be real life or Austen pastiche. Much of it reads like the latter but in that context, the decisions of the sisters to turn down their respective suitors seemed odd and jarring, while they would have made more sense if the book had been written in a more realistic way. It didn't quite hang together for me.