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Harry Potter and the Chamber of SecretsThinking about reading the whole series.
THE ROSE CODE by Kate Quinn. Excellent read!!
Finished The Bridges of Madison County
by Robert James WallerMy Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One day it will happen for me too. I would love finish the whole Harry Potter series.
I have not read The Bridges of Madison County. I fell in love with the movie immediately. With Meryl Street, there was no doubt I would cry. I think of this movies when that type of rain starts to fall.Now, I want to read the small novel. Many people visited the covered bridge. Nothing like romance to make you feel better.
Louise Penny’s latest: THE MADNESS OF CROWDS
My name is Valerie and I’m from Brisbane Australia.My favourite genre is contemporary fiction with a focus on female protagonists—with added focus on life literature, historical and romance. However I do read other genres if the stories intrique me.
I always read two books at a time - one in print and one as an Ebook. There’s just so many great stories out there.
I am currently reading The Bass Rock by Evie Wyld and Jennifer Probst’s The Start of Something Good.
I just finished reading freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi. It was a slow read at first but in the end I really enjoyed it.
Blue wrote: "I have not read The Bridges of Madison County. I fell in love with the movie immediately. With Meryl Street, there was no doubt I would cry. I think of this movies when that type of rain starts to ..."I'll have to watch the movie Blue. It sounds much better than the book.
Trying to complete this whole series. I know I’m late but better late than never! Reading Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, ebook.
Okay, readers, young and old, and in between, this is a knockout debut novel that I finished quickly (3-4 hours) on audio today.It is an incredible, heartfelt, and disturbing debut novel that gives a perspective of an Arabic immigrant family called Home Is Not a Country
This young author knows how to grab you in the beginning and not let go. There are so many important take-aways....being of a different culture, new to the US, shy, afraid. I LOVED the narrator.
I don't rate too many books 5 * but I did with this one.
Hope you enjoy.
Colleen
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I finished "The Kindred by Octavia Butler. I am now reading "Parable of the Sower" also by Octavia Butler.
Gilead by Marilyn Robinson
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I just finished an Ursula LeGuin book--part of my yearslong project to read her entire body of work. "Changing Planes" is a collection of interconnected short stories. The "planes" are literal airplanes but also, of course, because it's Ursula LeGuin, metaphysical planes. The narrator visits different "planes" of existence and tells us anecdotes about them. The stories are basically ethnologies of fictitious cultures, which are entertaining in themselves and also usually make a subtle commentary on our own culture.
hello. this is interesting. how do you manage to read two books at the same time? any tips?
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Just finished
Stranded by Sarah GoodwinSarah GoodwinBrilliant if you love Bear Grylls Survivor Show/The Castaways/Lord of the Flies/Hunger Games
Here's my 5 star review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The audio book is brilliant too.
Finished Beartown, just started Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo.
I am reading The Right Time by Danielle Steel. Also reading The Love Songs Of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honoree Fanonne Jeffers.
The Husband's Secret by Liane Moriarty
I'm Ann, an English Teacher. The Satanic Verses by Salmon Rushdie for the first time is one of my current reads.
Also reading Winston Graham's Poldark series and the Catcher in the Rye by ???
Finally, I have just started Agincourt by ??? which was a gift from husband last Christmas.
Have I mentioned that I enjoy reading?
I am reading Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell. I have only got to 15% but it's already blowing me away.
Chasing the Boogeyman by Richard Chizmar
One Night Out Stealing by Alan Duff.I'm a sucker for a cheery, happy-go-lucky book.
Not necessarily breezy Sunday reading to be honest...
CHAMPAGNE WIDOWS by Rebecca Rosenberg. Really enjoying it!
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The novel (actually a set of interconnected short stories) is Ursula LeGuin's _Changing Planes_--part of my yearslong project of reading all of LeGuin.