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Bradstreet gate sounds just like what I love to read. Thanks!
Gill, The Orenda was my first by this author, but I did add Through Black Spruce to my TBR.Must add a caveat for you and Leslie, there is graphic violence here that had me cringing, but as I said in my review, history is not all sunshine and roses!
Heather wrote: "I've just read The Good Earth which I loved! Will be getting the second two books out of the library when I get back"I read The Good Earth earlier this year and really enjoyed it as well. It was my first Pearl S. Buck read. Perhaps it is just me, but I don't feel that she gets the attention and credit she should given how prolific she was and that she was the first American woman to win the Nobel prize for literature.
The book was so well constructed as well. If you would like to continue the trilogy I plan on reading the next one in August/September. first I need to find the library in my new town as its expensive on kindle!
My first audio book experience with a Lisa Gardner short story The 7th Month, and actually my first ever series as well. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I very much enjoyed A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest ChildMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "I very much enjoyed A Daughter's Tale: The Memoir of Winston and Clementine Churchill's Youngest ChildMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Thank you Chrissie, your review is great! Although I'm not interested in WC as such, this would be an interesting read - I became intrigued when you wrote that she was unlike her siblings due to the age difference and she wasn't raised with family members, as such...that would definitely give her a different outlook on life wouldn't it?
Janice wrote: "I became intrigued when you wrote that she was unlike her siblings due to the age difference and she wasn't raised with family members, as such...that would definitely give her a different outlook on life wouldn't it? "I should add those ideas presented in my review about why Mary was different are only mine. They are not in the book! I am always interested in understand how people end up with the personalities they have. I look at my own kids and they are so VERY different. Part is just plain being born different, but there is more than just that. Mary was really raised more by her nanny, who was her mother's 1st cousin, than her mother!. She had a wonderful childhood and this has to have affected her too. She lived in the country and I happen to think that is the best place to live..... The description of all her pets is very fun.
I think lots of people will enjoy this book.
Finished reading William Golding's The Spire. It is a novel with much allusions. I found myself caught between many possible meanings and thus ended up loving it less. A later re-read might be of little help perhaps.Here is the review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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A part from Lord of the Flies, which I really liked, I've never read anything else by William Golding. This sonds interesting...
☔Diane S. wrote: "Finished The Wolf Border: A Novelhttps://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1..."
Here's your review, Diane. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks Bette. What would I do without you? LOL
I finished Among the Ten Thousand Things. 3 stars . My review : https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished An Untamed State. A difficult but powerful 5 star read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finished The Private Lives of Winston Churchill. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton. It's a 5 stars for me but I recommend it only to who is into religion. Above all a must read for Catholics.
dely wrote: "Finished The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton. It's a 5 stars for me but I recommend it only to who is into religion. Above all a must read for ..."Wow...I will search for it.
Dhanaraj wrote: "Wow...I will search for it. "I'm sure you will like it.
I have written a review if you are interested (it's only in Italian): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I liked above all the points in common with Eastern philosophies. I liked this "open mind" of a Trappist.
dely wrote: "Finished The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton. It's a 5 stars for me but I recommend it only to who is into religion. Above all a must read for ..."dely, is this the only book you've read by Thomas Merton? I've often thought I'd like to read something by him. I wonder what would best to read, given I'm not religious. I tend to go for books with 'solitude' in the title, but that doesn't always fit with the best book for me, I know.
Gill, I don't consider myself a religious person, but I love to read about Thomas Merton. His ideas on spirituality are broader than straight Catholic theology. I highly recommend his biography, The Seven Storey Mountain. Coincidentally, I just finished a book about Merton and his relationship with his superior, Dom James Fox (Make Peace before the Sun Goes Down: The Long Encounter of Thomas Merton and His Abbot, James Fox). I've been contemplating my review this morning, trying to decide between 4 and 5 stars. This book presumes some knowledge about Merton, and it's probably a book for someone with a special interest in him.
Gill wrote: "dely wrote: "Finished The Inner Experience: Notes on Contemplation by Thomas Merton. It's a 5 stars for me but I recommend it only to who is into religion. Above all a m..."It's the first book I read by him. Like Terri says, his spirituality goes beyond Catholicism and in this book he looks to his religion with an open mind and he finds a lot of points in common with Eastern philosophies.
The second part was mainly about Catholicism and it was pretty tough, at least for me, because I wasn't able to understand everything above all concepts like Christian charity and Holy Spirit. I also didn't share a few of his points of view but it was however a very interesting read.
I would say that the first part was more philosophical and the second part was more theological.
Here's my review of The Shadows in the Street, the fifth Simon Serrailler detective novel by Susan Hill. Unusual detective novels these, with a more serious look at the psychology, personalities and social structures involved.
A Partisan's Daughter - a short but good love story. I like how Louis de Bernières writes. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The World At Her Fingertips: The Story Of Helen Keller. My review about this amazing woman:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
☔Diane S. wrote: "Finished Dragonfishhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Yet another one for me Diane :)
Posted my review of the final book of short stories by the British crime writer Robert Barnard, who died last year. Rogue's Gallery - ★★ Jean's review
Fierce Attachments: A MemoirNot my favorite book.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished a wonderful collection of poems by Anne Bronte. The poems are simple and straight.Here is the link to my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Liked not loved this one, Lola's Secret. My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Flicker Men: A Novel. 4-stars. I got surprisingly into it! Definitely one of my better reads this year.
I have completed Circling the Sun. Certainly glad I read it.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Last Days of Rabbit Hayes. 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finally finished All the Light We Cannot See and here is my dissenter's 1 star review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I've avoided reading other reviews until now, but now I'm going to see what Chrissie and others in the dissenter club didn't like, as well as trying to figure out what so impressed the fans.
I just finished Dancing at the Rascal Fair by Ivan Doig and loved his beautiful language. This was my first by this author but won't be my last.
Pink, :0) Now you know what I have been talking about. I think it is the personality of the reader that determines if you will like it or not.
The Handmaid's Tale wasn't just a disappointment. I absolutely hated it.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Talk about violence.
Finished reading Written in the stars by Aisha Saeed. Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sounds really good, Rahat. I've added it. Thanks.
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