Jeanette’s Comments (group member since Nov 19, 2015)

Jeanette’s comments from the Aussie Readers group.

Jeanette wrote: "Hi, I said maybe....wet Sunday so managed a few for
EASY (as always)
If I'm not linked never mind the search filled in some time.
No 2 AA Monica McInerne..."

Finished No2 AA
4 stars
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Happy Birthday to Helen and Samantha 🍰🍰🍰🍰

Phrynne wrote: "I have linked your name Jeanette:)"
Thank you

Hi, I said maybe....wet Sunday so managed a few for
EASY (as always)
If I'm not linked never mind the search filled in some time.
No 2 AA Monica McInerney finished on 9 Sept
No 3 Female Author also finished in the nick of time. Loved all 3
Deborah Challinor

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No 5 Water On Cover

Finished in the nick of time. No 5


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Sarah Maine

🎂🎂🎂🎂Kylie have a great day Happy Birthday

Bluebottle

Thank you A&U this is a lovely read. My only concerns are the local place names. Australia is still a bit of an enigma to the rest of the world. I feel the book could be a little too localised to hit international book shops. I hope I'm wrong.

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Thank you A&U, my review of Bluebottle will be posted soon. Loved the read

Thanks S&S, for the giveaways

Oh, had a look at the hospital series but noted on the cover, "gritty romance"! this sort of description says a big N O to me. Another title The Perfect Husband! Oh dear, a Women's Weekly read but then again my sister would love it. Thanks so much for the info. It's nice to discuss books and I love Goodreads and I think Moderators do a fabulous job.

OK Ha thanks, a very imaginative female erotica author, maybe missing her real genre. The cover led me astray....!😁😁😁😨😨

So glad I found this section. My review I thought about and deleted as much negativity as I could. I really did not like this book at all. If only the author had kept her focus and created the story line more, delving into the overseas nursing students. Having heard directly from an exam room supervisor regarding the cheating by overseas non English speaking students, this author could have developed a really fabulous story, sadly she became lazy and added all that ridiculous erotica that only a man could dream up?. In future I will be checking out reviews before purchasing a book.

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MaryG2E wrote: "I enjoy well-written historical fiction. If the background is well-researched, and the writer is skilled, I find it an enjoyable way to learn something new, or gain new insight into something I alr..."

Hear hear on all your comments Mary G2E especially historical fiction.
Books that look as though would scare the living daylights out of me I avoid like the plague, not good for my health

Thanks Allen & Unwin my books arrived yesterday Bluebottle and The Far-Back Country couldn't wait have started reading, now have 3 books on the go...

Carolyn wrote: "Erotica!
I don't find reading about people having wild, abandoned sex in many different positions and locations that interesting. I don't think I'm totally prudish - sex is fine where it's part of..."

Ha ha, yes this genre I stay away from too. A few years ago a man who moved in as a neighbour informed me that he was an author of romance books (yuk to me). I almost fell over, he was a dreary looking specimen, never married, seemed to have no friends, a loner, (inherited $$), conversational skills limited and admitted he had never had a love interest....he wrote romance novels? I suspect those who write erotica may have no real experience too. Interesting!

The Power of One To Kill a Mockingbird
Hi Baz, yes you have pointed out 2 very good reads. To Kill a Mockingbird is certainly a classic while Bryce's book, I think his first is an excellent read but after that I am afraid he lost me. Populist authorship in my opinion became Bryce's mantra, with I believe a team of writers, investigators similar to another Pete Fitz........so one wonders just how much is their own work?

Hi Diana, I understand your "misery memoirs" attitude. There is so much thrown at us daily via television, newspapers and unwelcomed emails that to invest in a book to compound all of this is wasted money. However to understand intolerances and deprivations experienced by women (in particular) the past historical narrative sometimes can be enlightening to understand that even though not on an equal footing to men, women have achieved a lot to say in my mother's day. (I am 73...young/old!). "The Suitcase Baby" is one I simply found interesting due to my experience of association when a child of 10 through a social group with children at an orphanage. The book I refer to is sad but beautifully written and it does give the reader insight of injustices of the past. Books written by authors with a legal past do appear to have a different manner in writing, more on the factual side than tear jerking. Books I personally will not touch are romantic twaddle or even books where everyone is beautiful and the author insists on describing the clothes everyone wears and what they eat at each meal.....spare me!
Male authors writing about women rather interest me in the wonderment of how they could possibly understand the complexities of women. Sheer fantasy in most cases.
Fortunately, with reviews on Goodreads all this can be sorted, while I "like" a review some books will never be on my TBR list.
I haven't read this thread before, thank you for your interesting thoughts. 😊😊😊

I added my name, I hope to be successful for Bluebottle

The Great Zoo of China
Carriage 2 Link 2 Matthew Reilly AA Male
The Music Shop
Carriage 3 Link 3 Rachel Joyce both names start with R

Carriage 2 Link 2
The Music Shop Rachel Joyce

Finished
MAY
Carriage 1 Link 1
A Gentleman in Moscow