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Drums of Autumn – Diana Gabaldon – 3.5*** (rounded up)
Book number four in the bestselling Outlander series, has Jamie and Claire making their home in the mountains of North Carolina. I just love this series. Gabaldon writes compelling stories with characters I care about. Even the ones I hate (Brianna) keep me interested and engaged, and the action is non-stop.
LINK to my review
I'm on the fourth in the Ancient Origins series by Robert Storey https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2... . Been a great story. Plenty of action. My only slight niggle is that the last two are probably a little too much action and light on storyline. Very enjoyable though. I'd rather like to see it as a tv series now.
For my ftf book club I'm reading Wish You Were Here by Stewart O'Nan. Reminds me a bit of another book, Maine because they both are stories of families getting together at their summer cottage with all the good and the bad.
Educating Rita – Willy Russell – 3.5***
A marvelous play about one young woman’s desire for an education, and the professor who teaches her, and learns from her. I much prefer to watch plays performed, but this was an enjoyable read. Rita is a marvelous character, and I loved watching her grow.
LINK to my review
The Hidden Child – Camilla Läckberg – 4*****
This is the fifth book in the series featuring crime writer Erica Falck and Detective Patrik Hedström, in the village of Fjällbacka, Sweden. However, it’s the first one I’ve read. Läckberg uses a dual time line to tell this story. There are the events of 1945, when one young couple’s plans are shattered by prejudice and violence. And there is the current-day mystery of an artifact that threatens to reveal long-held secrets. I look forward to reading more of this series.
LINK to my review
Other readers may enjoy this more than I did.3★ for A Lesson in Violence aka She Rides Shotgun by Jordan Harper
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Danita wrote: "I almost forgot about you."Me? I'm strapped into a sling and can't really write/type for a few weeks. But I'm reading and will bug you all soon enough!
I've started reading Harmless Like You by Rowan Hisayo Buchanan.
Patty , I missed you too ! Hope you will be healed soon .
Bookplate Special – Lorna Barrett – 3***
Book number three in the Booktown Mystery series. This is a typical cozy mystery, with a cast of colorful characters, and a nosy amateur sleuth who simply cannot help herself when it comes to investigating a crime on her doorstep. It’s not great literature, but it’s entertaining and a quick read.
LINK to my review
I've not long finished City of Bones and just started reading River of Destiny by Barbara Erskine.
I finished By Light of Hidden Candles. 3 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Miss Julia Hits the Road – Ann B Ross – 3***
Book number four in the popular series starring Miss Julia, a widow of a certain age. I just love Miss Julia, who frequently gets embroiled in one scandal / scheme or another when she jumps to conclusions and/or fails to fully understand the implications of what she’s been told. But her heart is always in the right place. Miss Julia is just a hoot, and I was laughing aloud at several scenes.
LINK to my review
I'm reading Paper Towns by John Green.
Angela M wrote: "Patty , I missed you too ! Hope you will be healed soon ."Thanks, Angela. Still very restricted but HAD to write extensively about this one.
An inexcusably shameful time in colonial Australia. Murder at Myall Creek by Mark Tedeschi AM QC pulls no punches, nor have I.
5★ Link to my review
Aussie author Irene Sauman's prequel novella, Saddled with Death is still available free on Amazon, and it includes the beginning of the first book in the Emma Berry Murray River Mystery series, A Gem of a Problem.
3★ Link to my review
I finished Hap and Hazard and the End of the World. 3.5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My favourite book of recent times is the stunning debut Freshwater by Nigerian author Akwaeke Emezi, Fascinating, poetic, raw - demons and spirits. Publication in February 2018, but it's still available on NetGalley for any reviewers here.
5★ Link to my review
English author C.J. Sansom, who wrote Dissolution, is a new favourite. This is mysterious historical fiction at its best. Love it!
5★ Link to my review
I finally read 84, Charing Cross Road. 5 stars for this lovely little book that sat on my nightstand for far too long . I read it in one sitting. My very brief review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hi Everyone! I just finished The Good Daughter by Karin Slaughter. It was amazing and I gave it five stars!My Review
A couple of weeks ago I was trying not to pick up any books in a library book store and to my surprise I found a book by Batya Gur, an Israeli author. I read the third in her series a year or so ago and fell in love with her character, Michael Ohayon. So I found the first in her Ohayon series: The Saturday Morning Murder
and just had to read it right away. It was a little slow going -- the murder happens at a psychoanalytic institute -- but is getting better.
Angela M wrote: "I finally read 84, Charing Cross Road. 5 stars for this lovely little book that sat on my nightstand for far too long . I read it in one sitting. My very brief review: https://www.goo..."It's one of my favorite re-read books. If you get a chance to see the movie it's just as cozy as the book.
Karen , I’m going to try to find the movie. I just bought a copy of her memoir The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street which is about her trip to London.
Children Of The Furnace - 3*Dystopia from a new author.
My review (which is sadly not funny or mean):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nov 19 - Currently ReadingTEXT –
The Xibalba Murders / Lyn HamiltonAUDIO in the car –
The Good Lord Bird / James McBrideMP3 Player AUDIO –
The Lost City of the Monkey God / Douglas Preston
Beautiful Yellowstone back country is full of dangers in this pack trip mystery, Back Of Beyond by C.J. Box.
3.5 to 4★ Link to my review
I just started reading The Last Bookaneer by Matthew Pearl
Washington's Spies. it's the basis for the TV series Turn. The show is good, but only loosely based on actual history.
A Piece of the World – Christina Baker Kline – 3.5***
As she did in Orphan Train , Kline uses multiple time lines to tell the story. I thought Christina Olson was a marvelous character, and appreciated the way Kline took what little is known of this real woman and expanded it to weave this narrative. I liked that she focused more attention on Olson’s relationships with her family and friends than on her connection to Wyeth.
LINK to my review
I'm reading Anatomy of a Soldier by Harry Parker. It's pretty, pretty good so far.
Finished another excellent David Malouf story set in Queensland, Harland's Half Acre. He's one of our best Aussie authors. 
4.5★ Link to my review
All Creatures Great and Small – James Herriot – 4****
I am definitely *not* an animal person but Herriot’s reminiscences of his early efforts to build a veterinary practice in Yorkshire in the mid to late 1930s were delightful, if a bit repetitious. This is a re-read for me, and my rating reflects my first impressions when I first read it in the early to mid-1970s.
LINK to my review
I have a soft spot for good short stories, but not soft enough to include this collection, Skating on the Vertical by Jan English, Leary. 
3★ Link to my review
Angela M wrote: "Karen , I’m going to try to find the movie. I just bought a copy of her memoir The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street which is about her trip to London."Just added the book to my wish list!!
Back to reading my favorite cozy mystery series. Just finished Agatha Raisin and the Deadly Dance and I'm almost done with Agatha Raisin and The Perfect Paragon.
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Really enjoyed it. It was the author's debut.
My review can be found here:
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Oh great, Paula! I will love to read your review once you read it.