Tamara’s Comments (group member since Mar 26, 2019)

Tamara’s comments from the 2025 Reading Challenge group.

Blagica wrote: "You are doing great you are half way there! Do you have a book that stands out for you this year."

Blagica, thanks for the encouragement.

It's hard to choose just one book that stands out because there are several of them that really stand out for me. They're not at all alike, and I loved them for different reasons. My taste is somewhat eclectic :)

In no particular order, these are the books that stand out for me so far:

An Orchestra of Minorities
Hotel Silence
Warlight
What We Lose
Once Upon a River
Outline

I've posted reviews of each of these books explaining why I thought they were so good. If you've read them and/or plan to read any of them, I'd be interested to know your thoughts.

Thanks. And happy reading!

33/60. Freedom Is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine, and the Foundations of a Movement by Angela Y. Davis.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

MAY READINGS

32/60. Praise Song for the Butterflies by Bernice L. McFadden.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

31/60. Battle Cries and Lullabies: Women in War from Prehistory to the Present by Linda Grant De Pauw.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

30/60. Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

29/60. Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

28/60. Outline by Rachel Cusk.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

27/60. Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield.
My 5 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

APRIL READINGS

26/60. Broken Verses by Kamila Shamsie.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

25/60. What We Lose by Zinzi Clemmons.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

24/60. The Red Collar: A Novel by Jean-Christophe Rufin; Trans. Adriana Hunter
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

23/60. Studies in Bible and Feminist Criticism by Tikva Frymer-Kensky
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

22/60. The Subtle Knife (#2 in His Dark Materials Series) by Philip Pullman
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

21/60. Bless Me, Ultima by Rudolfo Anaya
I didn’t write a review since the book wasn’t for me.

20/60. The Adventures of Ibn Battuta: A Muslim Traveler of the Fourteenth Century, Revised Edition, with a New Preface by Ross E. Dunn
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

19/60. Warlight by Michael Ondaatje
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

18/60. The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

17/60. What Makes Civilization? The Ancient Near East and the Future of the West By David Wengrow
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

16/60. The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

MARCH READINGS

15/60. The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...