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Sep 18, 2016 06:29AM
Just finished To The Bright Edge of the World. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I finished News of the World. 5 stars . This will be one of my favorites of the year ! My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid.I found it entertaining and fun. This was my first book by the author and it won't be my last. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amalia wrote: "Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys//www.goodreads.com/book/show/10445307-..."
The link to your review doesn't work, it brings me to the homepage of GR.
Amalia wrote: "I gave up on The Trial of Marie Montrecourt and just started Elephant Moon by John Sweeney
"Sweeney's book looks interesting, but the reviews are mixed. Let us know what you think, please.
I read Angel Catbird, Vol. 1 on the strength of loving Atwood. It was a slow start but I got into it at the end. A lot of reviewers say it has a Golden Agr of comics vibe - I think I'd agree, though I'm not a comics expert by far.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I don't like to leave a book unread and will keep going back until I finally finish, but I just could not get through The Black Book. I did like My Name is RedTravis wrote: "I just finished Snow by Orhan Pamuk and was unimpressed despite its status as a Nobel Prize winner. Perhaps this was due to the English translation, but perhaps not.
My review:
https://www.goodrea..."
Finally finished As I Lay Dying, which I did not enjoy - at all. I had trouble following the country patois and the plot details, many of which were just implied, but most of all because of the ignorant, brutish and greedy characters. I read The Sound and the Fury, which is just as difficult, but I loved Dilsey, Benjy and Caddie and their story and enjoyed the book's challenging, figure-it-out character, so it definitely was the ugly characters - Anse Bundren, you lazy, miserly, detestable pig! - that did it for me...Review here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Johanna wrote: "Finally finished As I Lay Dying, which I did not enjoy - at all. I had trouble following the country patois and the plot details, many of which were just implied, but most of all becau..."I agree with you in your comparison of the two books! I loved Benjjy and how Faulkner chose to draw him.
Amalia wrote: "@Chrissie wrote: Sweeney's book looks interesting, but the reviews are mixed. Let us know what you think, please.Certainly, Chrissie! The first few chapters look promising."
it gets a big difficult when it switches to Michael, the first Romanov. I will tomorrow search the web for a family tree diagram. I plan to print this out. I wish the audiobook had provided with in a PDF.I have read that the paper book has the corresponding part of the family tree at the beginning of each chapter....if I remember correctly.
Susan wrote: "I've just finished The Last of the Duchess, about the last years of the Duchess of Windsor. Author Caroline Blackwood never got to meet the Duchess, and instead detailed a series of ..."Susan, what an awful ending for the haughty Wallis, wasn't it. The situation with her lawyer was indeed bizarre! I was glad I read the book.
I agree, Bette. Caroline Blackwood's interviews with the Duchess's old friends, and the last chapter of the book, were particularly illuminating. I think The Last of the Duchess is a must-read for anyone interested in the Wallis-Edward saga.Also, I know that there is some suppressed information about the late Duchess that will be released 50 years after her death, in 2036. That should be very interesting!
Gosh, how old will I be then.... 71! Hope I get to read it.
LOL! I'll be 80, and definitely plan to be around!
I finished Between Shades of Gray last night. I am not a fan. I found it too young and with too many unbelievable happenings. I think the author missed a chance of telling a strong story.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My latest two, albeit very different!Blame by Nicole Trope. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and The Truth About Stacey by Ann M. Martin. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my review for the audio version of Beautiful Lies by Lisa Unger.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Watching Edie by Camilla Way gets a 3.5★ rating from me.Two girls, very different, grow up with secrets and problems and meet later in pretty lousy circumstances. Is Heather stalking Edie? When does caring become taking over? Kind of scary, but a little disappointing to me.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finished a Golden Age mystery, A Question of Proof, which I enjoyed (4*). This is the first one in the series which is often the weakest (though sometimes the strongest!) -- I liked this one so will proceed to read more Blake :)And I finished the audiobook of Geraldine Brooks' Pulitzer-prize winner, March. My review is here:
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...
I've really been getting into different interpretations of Alice in Wonderland this year! My review of the edition illustrated by Tove Jansson is here.
Just finished The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko. What a read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Diane S ☔ wrote: "Finished Blind Sighthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I like your new Autumn image, Diane.
Yes, I second that, Gill. But now I have to learn D's new look so I can easily recognise her:)
Thanks Gill and Bette. So ready for Fall temps.
I just finished The Misadventures of Awkward Black Girl. It fell flat for me. She had some interesting things to say and I hugely identified with being awkward at school and not tuned into fashion and music, but some of the rest was a bit formulaic and simplistic. And her stated aim is to chip away at stereotypes of black women but she then perpetuates Asian stereotypes. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
Just finished
Sting by Sandra Brown. I usually devour her books, but this one was a bit 'meh'. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Oh boy! Talk about good Aussie political gossip. 4.5★ for Planet Jackson: Power, Greed and Unions! A delusional whistle-blower aims at the Big Kahuna, takes him down but it all backfires on her.Fascinating read for anyone interested in union power in politics and vice-versa.
My long review with lots of quotes
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Romanovs: 1613-1918 could have been good, but it wasn't, at least not as far as I'm concerned. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nope, this author isn't for me. I also read his Jerusalem: The Biography and was disappointed. I went back and compared what exactly displeased me with the first book. I was surprised to find that the problems that arose in the first reoccurred in the second. Please not ethe what I think of the audiobook narration does not influence my rating of the book. So you understand how I do it.....
I finished listening to Frog Music today. I am not a fan, although I really liked Emma Donaghue's Room. I found this story was misrepresented in the blurb and didn't hang together well at all. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
Where I Lost Her by T. Greenwood which I just loved! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A change of pace for me - my first attempt at reading a manga publication. A bit of a struggle at first, but after I reviewed it the publisher wrote to explain a lot, which I've added at the end. (It's a comic format based on Japanese anime, sort of.)This one is the Nathaniel Hawthorne classic but in manga style Manga Classics: The Scarlet Letter.
If it helps new readers appreciate literature, I'm all for it. My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished The Couple Next Door. I don't get the hype. The premise sounded interesting but the execution of the story didn't work for me.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've just finished Hot Milk. A strange, beautiful book.Here's a link to my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Well I have given up on The Way We Live Now. I dumped it halfway through. It is long, way too long! My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Trollope's books are too similar for my taste. When you get around to your fourth you start getting bored.
I finished a book that would have been good for Halloween -- The Castle of Otranto. This 1764 classic is the very first Gothic horror novel & I enjoyed the campiness (campy-ness?) of it very much. My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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