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Read The Undertaker's Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1914537787.
I've added my review for The Solace of Open Spaces now. An interesting collection of essays.Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finished reading a non-fiction about economics. It was really very interesting and well written and it's a pity it hasn't been translated into English. I rated it with 5* and the book is Il tempo dei nuovi eroi.The author explains how companies have to put at the center of their economy the consumer but not only as a consumer, but as a human being. He wants an economy based on universal values and ideals that stops thinking only about its profit, but has to do also the profit of the consumer and the enviroment. He talks a lot about his own experience, about why and how a person has to change in order to be a better person not only for himself but for society.
The author isn't a dreamer, but he is a management director of one of the biggest banks in Italy and if I don't go wrong he founded also a Corporate University.
Really very very interesting. I loved it.
I have written only an Italian review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've just read the very short story Toba Tek Singh: Stories. It was thought provoking. Here's my review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Unbelievably inexcusable! Compelling, sad, angry look at a country that still lets kids die from gun violence every day. 5★ for Another Day in the Death of America: A Chronicle of Ten Short Lives by black British writer Gary Younge, based in Chicago.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've just finished reading Bright Air Black. I didn't like it at all, although I can appreciate that some of the language was poetic,Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Today I finished Perfectly Imperfect: How to Be Imperfect and Remain Lovable what a lovely cover
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished my review of New Boy by Tracy Chevalier - 3.5 stars rounded up for me.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've begun reading the Chronicles of Narnia to the youngest of our three daughters. It's likely my final time reading the whole series out loud to our kids. So happy to be starting this journey again. :-)Of course I'm reading in publication, not chronological, order, like all true fans. ;-) Review of The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Isla's Oath by Cassandra Page
(that cover is just wrong for this book!)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure I would have been enamored as opposed to in-like with it as I am today. My review
Pam wrote: "Read The Undertaker's Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."I devoured Paul Zindel's books as a teenager and The Undertaker was one of my favourites. Is this a reread or your first go?
Jason wrote: "Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure I would have been enamored..."This book is since a long time in my wishlist. I really hope to read it this year. But I'm looking for a paperback. It seems that the color of the font changes depending where the story takes place, or something like this.
I had seen and loved the movie as a child but I never got to read the book.
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Interesting dely! I didn't know that about the color of the font. I saw and loved the movie as a child too, and also never read the book. As a child, I didn't even know there was a book version.
Greg wrote: "dely wrote: "Jason wrote: "Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure..."Indeed! I have read it in the comments of a friend's review. I add you the link to the review so you can go through the comments if you want: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It seems that not all the English editions have this thing of the colors so it's good to find out before buying the book, above all online (well, in a bookstore you can leaf through the book).
I recently completed Moon Tiger by Penelope Lively. It was my first by Penelope Lively, and I am very pleased I have been introduced to her. She tells a great story in a unique way that adds to the overall experience. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished All the Ugly and Wonderful Things. It's an uncomfortable story but wow, what a read! 5* Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is my review of
The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August by author Claire North:-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
dely wrote: "Jason wrote: "Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure I would have..."I too loved the movie as a child, and as one would expect the book holds much more.
I've just finished reading The Last Viking: The Life of Roald Amundsen. I learnt a lot from the book. I gave it 4 stars.Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Esther wrote: "Pam wrote: "Read The Undertaker's Gone Bananas by Paul Zindel, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...."I devoured Paul Zindel's books as a teenager and Th..."
A re-read though I couldn't remember much about it. I only had this one and The Pigman, which I've re-read a little while before this.
dely wrote: "Jason wrote: "Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure I would have..."I read this many years ago in the version that changed colours. Beautifully presented. Our copy was from the library. At the time I thought it was a terrific book and so did my husband and young son. This was long before the movie came out. Sadly the paperback book that appeared after the movie was very ordinary in appearance.
recently read and reviewed Goodwood by Holly ThrosbyI was disappointed in this one for reasons mentioned in the review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished listening to
The Narrows by Michael Connelly, in which The Poet, Connelly's best ever villain, makes a reappearance. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dale wrote: "dely wrote: "Jason wrote: "Just finished a long-time tbr special, The Neverending Story by Michael Ende and golly gee do I wish I had read it when I was young, I am sure..."Yes, I think it's an important detail of the book. I have now added in my Amazon basket the German edition with the different colors. I'm waiting to add another book so that I don't have to pay the shipping charges and then I will order it.
Liked listening to John Grisham narrate an intesting mix of short stories Ford County. Uncannily he sounded like the former president of the US. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've just finished reading The Idiot by Elif Batuman. I thought it was a good read.Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read book 1 of Tanith Lee's trilogy The Birthgrave and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1915121441
I finished Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk and thought it was charming:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I also listened to the audiobook City of Saints & Thieves and loved it:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I also listened to the audiobook City of Saints & Thieves and loved it:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished All My Puny Sorrows. I should have read this one earlier but would have then missed out on this pleasure now, when it resonated so well. A very heartfelt story. 5-stars.Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
All the stars for
by Blake Crouch. Wow. Been a long time since a novel grabbed me and wouldn't let me go until I turned the last page...Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Petra wrote: "I finished All My Puny Sorrows. I should have read this one earlier but would have then missed out on this pleasure now, when it resonated so well. A very heartfelt story. 5-stars...."
So if I want to try Toews, where should I start?
I've always enjoyed reading poetry, and found Poems in the Manner Of very rewarding to read. I gave it 5 stars.Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "So if I want to try Toews, where should I start?..."I really can't say, Chrissie. I've read 4 of her books so far; all good in their own way. They aren't connected but they all pull something out of Miriam's past. Her life does inspire her stories, I think.
One was a coming of age story where the young girl needs to find her footing in life (A Complicated Kindness)
Another a middle aged woman needs to find her footing after the death of her husband (Irma Voth) (this story would least be triggered from Miriam's life story, I think)
A touching look int the life of her father (Swing Low: A Life)
A look into depression and sisterhood (All My Puny Sorrows)
The writing style is the same in all, which makes me think that a reader will either enjoy her stories or not.
Of the four, All My Puny Sorrows was my favorite; Irma Voth my least favorite (a bit drawn out).
Since you liked All My Puny Sorrows and since I find it rather intriguing how two people, regardless of what they have, may be drawn to suicide disproportionately. I appreciate your help, Petra.
Finished Lincoln in the Bardo this morning. Just absolutely incredible! And the audiobook makes it even more so. It has something like 166 narrators! If you haven't got to hear it, this little VR video by the New York TImes will give you some idea: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=phuCt... .
Chuck , I couldn't agree more. I read it a few months ago and I rated it 4 stars . The more I read other reviews and the more I read about it in the press, I realized that it was deserving of 5 stars and I changed it .
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