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Open Thread for Readers for May 2020

[image error]Got a book you want to talk about? Frustrated with a book or series? In love with a new one? Found a buried treasure? An issue that keeps popping up in the books you are reading? Just want to chat about stuff in general?

REVIEW: The Bachelor’s Wedding by Betty Neels

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A practical marriage?

Araminta Smith first met Professor Jason Lister when she was hired to look after his niece and nephew. Knowing that her plain but honest looks werent about to catch her a husband, Araminta believed shed never marry. Thats why she was intrigued by the distinguished surgeons interest in her. Since he was also a confirmed bachelor, the professors proposal came as an even greater surprise. A marriage between them, he argued, would be infinitely practicaland Araminta was...

REVIEW: Wolf in Sheep’s Clothing (Big Bad Wolf, #4) by Charlie Adhara

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Agent Cooper Dayton and his partner, Oliver Park, are going undercoverat a retreat for couples who need counselling. They do say the best cover story is one thats close to the truth

Agent Cooper Dayton is almost relieved to get a phone call from his former boss at the Bureau of Special Investigations. It means a temporary reprieve from tensions created by house hunting with Oliver Park, his partner both in work and in life. Living together in a forever home is exactly what Cooper wants. Hes...

REVIEW: The Threefold Tie by Aster Glenn Gray

Dear Aster Glenn Gray,

I think I have fallen in love with your voice. Your writing is, as our sometime commenter Cleo has said, deceptively simple. I start out each of your works thinking it will be uncomplicated, but as I keep reading I realize that there are layers there, subtle cues and meanings, that make each novella more than one would generally expect that such a short work, written with such directness, is likely to be.

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Your protagonists are often reflective, tentative and careful,...

REVIEW: Girl Gone Viral by Alisha Rai

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CW: Emotional abuse. Depiction of mental illness, including panic attacks, flashbacks and nightmares. Disordered eating is also mentioned/suggested.

Dear Alisha Rai,

I loved The Right Swipe last year and ever since have been looking forward to Katrinas story in Girl Gone Viral.

Katrina King-Arora, a Thai-American, is a former supermodel who lives an extremely private life away from the spotlight. After she married her much older husband Hardeep Arora, she retired from modelling. When he...

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REVIEW: Simon the Fiddler by Paulette Jiles

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In March 1865, the long and bitter War between the States is winding down. Till now, twenty-three-year-old Simon Boudlin has evaded military duty thanks to his slight stature, youthful appearance, and utter lack of compunction about bending the truth. But following a barroom brawl in Victoria, Texas, Simon finds himself conscripted, however belatedly, into the Confederate Army. Luckily his talent with a fiddle gets him a comparatively easy position in a regimental band.

Weeks later, on the...

Reading List by Jennie for January through March 2020

[image error] She-Wolves: The Women Who Ruled England Before Elizabeth by Helen Castor

This book was a bit dense for flighty me, but it was also a very absorbing and informative history of the four women who attempted to sort-of-kind-of rule England before Elizabeth I. Those women were the Empress Matilda, who fought her cousin Stephen for the crown; Eleanor of Aquitaine, who fought her own husband, Henry II; Isabella of France, who plotted against *her* husband, the feckless Edward II; and Margaret of...

REVIEW: Flavor of the Month by Georgia Beers

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Charlie Stetko had a life to envy. A penthouse in Manhattan, a beautiful girlfriend, and a high-octane marketing career. Or so she thought. When her girlfriend sends her packing, Charlie ends up unemployed. Without a place to live or money of her own, shes forced to do the one thing she vowed she never would: go back to Shaker Falls, Vermont. Back to her parents and back to the small town lifeand the peopleshe left behind. Back to a part-time job in the new bakery in town.

Emma Grier...

REVIEW: Golden Threads by Suzanne Del Rizzo, illustrations by Miki Sato

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When a storm sweeps Emis beloved stuffed fox away from their mountain home, he ends up tattered and alone on a distant shore. A kind old man finds the fox and gives it to his granddaughter, Kiko. As she recovers from an injury of her own, Kiko mends the fox lovingly with golden thread.

As the seasons pass, Kiko cares for the fox as her own. But after discovering his origins, she sets out, with her grandfathers help, to bring the fox back to its original home. Once together, Emi and Kiko...