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[Jackie]

I'm reading The Ballroom by Anna Hope and am really liking it so far.

[Pamela]

Jackie wrote: "Hi Pamela,

I like Tracy Chevalier's books too. I think she's pretty good at transporting you to the era she's writing about. I've read the Runaway book but not the Virgin one - I don't think I hav..."

You got it. It feels a bit weird (all the photos, emails, websites as well as the storyline) but I'm sticking with it. The writing is pretty good even though I'm not so sure a discredited journalist would be able to drop the money around as McGrath is doing. Almost halfway through.

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Chestnut Street – Maeve Binchy – 3.5***
Binchy does a great job of giving us a picture of a neighborhood in this collection of short stories. Characters come in contact with one another, interact, leave, and return. Binchy’s characters seem like real people; I recognize many of them though I live in Wisconsin and this is set in Dublin.
LINK to my review

[Karen M]

Finally got around to reading The Kitchen House and wow!

[Angela M]

I finished Pachinko. 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Maria, Daughter of Immigrants – Maria Antonietta Berrizobal – 3.5***
I really enjoyed and was captivated by Maria’s personal journey as she outlines it in the book. But a little more than half-way through the book, it seemed to become more of a history of the politics of the city than Maria’s autobiography. I still found this interesting, because I’m from San Antonio, but I think it detracted from the central story of her own life.
LINK to my review

[Angela M]

I read One of the Boys. No rating . My review explains why : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Prex]

Some people may not consider them as "books" but I'm into Japanese manga these days. I'm trying to finish One Piece.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Handy little children's picture book for parents and teachers. 3.5★

I Want to Win!: A book about being a good sport

My review (including an illustration):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kate]

I am reading Jami Attenberg's All Grown Up and I am really enjoying it so far. It's funny and sad and just great.

[Jackie]

I've finished reading The Ballroom by Anna Hope which I liked very much. Will definitely be reading more of her work.

Today I'm starting The Woman in Cabin 10 by Ruth Ware.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Great fun in a few minutes' reading. A ladies literary lunch club gets its comeuppance.

An Edith Wharton short story (free online) Xingu

5★ - So funny! A few quotes in my review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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I'm currently reading In The Name of the Family by Sarah Dunant

[PattyMacDotComma]

Ashes has a nice cover, and I guess Steven Manchester has a following, but it doesn't include me.

I've added a link to another excerpt of his.
1.5★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Angela M]

Finished To The Stars Through Difficulties. 3.5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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The Bat – Jo Nesbø – 4****
Book #1 in the Inspector Harry Hole series. Nesbø writes a tight, fast-paced thriller with plenty of clues, several red herrings, a flawed but likeable lead detective, and an interesting setting. I’ll definitely read more of this series.
LINK to my review

[Jackie]

I liked The Bat too and keep meaning to read more in the series.

Today I'm starting The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by Claire North.

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My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She’s Sorry – Fredrik Backman – 4****
I was charmed by Elsa and her crazy grandmother, as well as by the cast of “not-quite-normal” characters who inhabit the apartment building Elsa calls home. There is plenty of action, some significant danger and distress, and enough humor to ease the tension. If the scenario is not believable, well who cares. I wanted a happily-ever-after ending, and for the most part that what’s I got.
LINK to my review

[Marika]

Reading an arc of Driving Miss Norma: One Family's Journey Saying "Yes" to Living by Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle. 90 year old Norma is dx with cancer and instead of treatment she hits the road in a RV with her son and daughter in law and learns that there is so much to life and that it's never too late! She told the Dr. “I’m ninety years old. I’m hitting the road.” Comes out in May

[PattyMacDotComma]

Enjoyed the latest of L.J. Ross's DCI Ryan Mysteries, High Force.

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

[Angela M]

I finished Chasing the King of Hearts. 5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Claudia]

I loved Optimists Die First!

Here's my review:

https://adailycloud.blogspot.co.uk/20...

[SarahKat]

I just finished Dark Matter by Blake Crouch in one day. It was very good and I could not put it down.

I'm also reading White Teeth by Zadie Smith for the 2017 Reading Challenge group AND the Reddit book club.

I just started listening to the audio of One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García Márquez.

When my son is in the car we're listening to Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling

[PattyMacDotComma]

Award-winning TV presenter, journalist, news correspondent and author Stan Grant wrote this Quarterly Essay: Quarterly Essay 64 the Australian Dream: Blood, History and Becoming from his unique, Aboriginal perspective.

And a great read it is, too. 5★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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Irish Girls About Town – Maeve Binchy, Marian Keyes, et al – 3.5***
This is a collection of short stories written by Irish female authors. While the stories vary considerably, they are all about love in its many disguises. A few of the stories feature more mature women, but most deal with younger women and the men they love, or hope to love, or love to hate. On the whole, it’s an enjoyable anthology.
LINK to my review

[Jackie]

I'm about to start reading The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty. I've read two other books by this author; one I enjoyed and the other..not so much. Here's hoping this one is one of her better ones!

[Karen M]

I'm currently reading A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood. The publisher had kindly given me this one and two others. I find his books interesting and very autobiographic although they are fiction.

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Bookmarked For Death – Lorna Barrett – 3***
This is a typical cozy mystery scenario, with an amateur sleuth who cannot keep out of the investigation. The plot stretches credulity, but I like the many references to mystery authors sprinkled throughout.
LINK to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I imagine fans will eat it up. :)
Night Watch #4 in the Kendra Michaels series by Iris Johansen.

I haven't read the first three, when she was blind, but she's obviously kept her acute awareness.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

5★ Totally loved this wonderfully produced book that should be required reading for public officials all over the world!


This Is What a Librarian Looks Like: A Celebration of Libraries, Communities, and Access to Information. Author Kyle Cassidy has included essays and history and terrific photos and . . . just read it!

My review (with some of the photos)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lisa]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is an amazing, award-winning debut.

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

I loved that one.

[Lisa]

I have read some very good books in the past month.

The Nix

"The Nix a Norwegian shapeshifting water spirt. A woman growing up in 1960's Iowa who goes off to college in Chicago during the Democratic Convention and protests. It tells how she is expected to behave and the choices she makes. She settles, has a family and is an unhappy soul. Flash forward to 2011. Her and her son Sam and been estranged for 20 years until she makes front page news for attacking a presidential candidate. Now the story opens up and goes back and forth between Sam and his story growing up, becoming a professor, dealing with a crazy student and escaping into "elves" a video game that takes him away from his life.

This is an engaging story that tells of different people, the choices(good and bad) they make and and even with the pain they can start again."


A Gentleman in Moscow



And my favorite so far this year:
Christodora





And now I am reading two books. I am not far enough into them to tell how they will be.
Crossing to Safety which was recommended to me for the beautiful writing.

and
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales which has been on my TR list for quite some time.

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Four to Score – Janet Evanovich – 3.5***
The earlier books in the series are very entertaining, but I lost interest after about book twelve. I re-read this one because it’s fast, enjoyable and fits a challenge.
LINK to my review

[Jackie]

Finished The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty and was pretty underwhelmed by it.

Today I'm going to start reading A Year of Marvellous Ways by Sarah Winman.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Nice addition to the Wonder books by R.J. Palacio is this children's picture book about the little boy who looks so different.

My review of We're All Wonders (with illustrations)
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

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A Night to Remember – Walter Lord – 5*****
This is a first-hand account of what the people aboard the Titanic recall of the night she sank. It’s a gripping story, and Lord does a great job of bringing all these people to life. I get a real sense of the confusion and disbelief when the ship first strikes the iceberg. And later, of the chaos and panic when it is clear she will go down.
LINK to my review

[Carol]

I loved the Husband's Secret. Guess that's what makes this such an interesting exchange. Thought characters were well developed and secret realistic and haunting.

[Jackie]

You're right, Carol. It would be very boring if everybody liked all the same books :)

[Jennie]

I'm reading by Kerensa Jennings
beautiful prose, ultra dark, absorbing. the story of a psychopath and his victim

[PattyMacDotComma]

I Don't Like Reading is a colourful, helpful picture book for explaining to kids (and grown-ups!) what dyslexia looks and feels like.
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Jackie]

Tonight I'll be starting Friday on my Mind by Nicci French. It's the fifth book in the Frieda Klein series, which so far I've enjoyed very much.

[Angela M]

Finished The Shadow Land. 3 + stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Fascinating! Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son is everything the title promises from smart, popular journalist-broadcaster Mark Colvin. 5★

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

[Scott]

I have finished Dark Matter, The Boy Who Drew Monsters, and Kill Switch.

Now I am reading Armada.

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April 7 - Currently Reading

TEXT - Gutenberg's Apprentice by Alix Christie
AUDIO in the car - The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood
MP3 Player AUDIO - Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

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44 Scotland Street – Alexander McCall Smith – 3.5***
I love this kind of ensemble piece. Not much happens, and everything happens: love found, lost and found again, awkward encounters, a hidden masterpiece, a new job and therapy sessions. I want to know more about them, especially Pat and Matthew
LINK to my review

[Angela M]

I lovingly read Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice. 5 stars but it's not enough. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Just read Roxane Gay's recent Difficult Women.

Stories, some connected, all difficult to read because of violence, abuse, rape.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Karen M]

Finally getting around to reading The Kite Runner. It's pulled me in already and I've only read a bit more than 30 pages.

[Jackie]

Great book, Karen. Have you read A Thousand Splendid Suns too?