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I Don't Like Reading is a colourful, helpful picture book for explaining to kids (and grown-ups!) what dyslexia looks and feels like. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Bill Bryson's Shakespeare: The World as Stage. Found it enjoyable, and I learned a bit in the process. My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...?
my review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles is now upSo glad I read this one. I adored it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really did enjoy Come, Tell Me How You Live. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It is NOT a crime novel, but instead a memoir and travelogue. It is about the archeological expedition where Agatha Christie accompanied her second husband to excavate tells in northeastern Syria. This was in the 1930s. It is humorous and has a light tone. What I loved best were the people she talks about. Don't get me wrong, it is by no means just silly.
Fascinating! Light and Shadow: Memoirs of a Spy's Son is everything the title promises from smart, popular journalist-broadcaster Mark Colvin. 5★My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read a charming collection of short stories (detective stories) in which the main sleuth is a Catholic priest. Loved the stories. It is G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown Stories.Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Oh this is just a sweet series 1022 Evergreen Place by Debbie Macomber
.My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Suzanne, seriously, you have got to remedy that! You are super lucky; you don't even have to buy them."Okay! This is just the nudge I need. I will go to work on Monday and pick one up. Thanks for this :)
I've just finished Station Eleven. I'm really pleased that I've read it. Here's my short review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nearly 6 months down the line I have actually at last finished The Book of Disquiet.As you may guess from the time scale, the book didn't appeal to me much at all.
Here is my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Suzanne wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "Suzanne, seriously, you have got to remedy that! You are super lucky; you don't even have to buy them."Okay! This is just the nudge I need. I will go to work on Monday and pick o..."
Suzanne could you stop by and tell me what you think? Which one are you going to read first? Burial Rites was my favorite. I would say start there. I have warned you that they are dark, so I hope you can deal with that.
Finally I finished reading The Perennial Philosophy by Aldous Huxley.I rated it only with 3 stars because it was really difficult, both the style and the language. But despite this I would recommend it to people who are interested in the philosophical and spiritual side of religions.
My short English review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I lovingly read Letters to a Young Writer: Some Practical and Philosophical Advice. 5 stars but it's not enough. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I was a bit disappointed in
Her Every Fear by Peter Swanson. I was expecting more from this author. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dhanaraj wrote: "I read a charming collection of short stories (detective stories) in which the main sleuth is a Catholic priest. Loved the stories. It is G. K. Chesterton's Father Brown Stories.."The stories are in of my category of 'classics I should probably read but am not sure about' :0)
But I have started watching the BBC adaptation and find them gentle fun.
@Esther: I watched just a single adaptation (Hammer of God). It was done really good. Would love to watch the complete episode.
I've just read, well mainly looked at the photographs in, Images of the Past: The British Seaside: Images of the Past.A good nostalgia book.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I definitely liked Reflections in a Golden Eye; Carson McCullers is a good writer.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (sf, 4 stars):https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A re-read of Witch World - by Andre Norton - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367359966
Beth wrote: "My review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (sf, 4 stars):https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Nice review, Beth! This is one of my favorite reads.
I've just finished a new collection of dystopian short stories, Eating Robots, by Stephen Oram.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dale wrote: "my review of News of the World by Paulette Jiles is now upSo glad I read this one. I adored it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I liked that one, too (but at 4 stars). Have you read anything else by her? I have read 4 or 5. I think my favourite one is Enemy Women
Petra wrote: "Beth wrote: "My review of The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell (sf, 4 stars):https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Nice review, Beth! This is one of my favor..."
Have you read the sequel?
Started one other, something about Lightning but got bored and gave up, so was interested as to how I would go with this one. Glad I did read it.
Is there anybody else as distracted as me? So yesterday I wrote my review for Reflections in a Golden Eye. On going to bed a few hours later and having just turned off the computer, I realized I had forgotten to add one important detail! The second paragraph of my review should have read as follows: "The story is laid up as a mystery. You are told at the beginning that it concerns two officers, two women, a soldier, a Filipino and a horse and that there will be a murder!" That which I have here underlined is what I forgot to mention.........
My corrected review :https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am SO stupid!
Haven't read Enemy Woman, though Karin.
Chrissie wrote: "Is there anybody else as distracted as me? So yesterday I wrote my review for Reflections in a Golden Eye. On going to bed a few hours later and having just turned off the computer, I..."Lol, you aren't stupid, it can happen to everyone. Till you don't forget your name and where you live, everything is alright :P
Yesterday I managed to read Pene d'amore di una gatta inglese e altri racconti felini. There isn't an English edition. It's a collection of short stories about cats by famous authors.
3* because some stories were good, other less, but all in all there weren't stories I disliked.
I just finished The Cuckoo's Calling by Robert Galbraith AKA J.K. Rowling... I have to say I didn't enjoy it much. It really seemed to drag. My (very short) review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just read Roxane Gay's recent Difficult Women.Stories, some connected, all difficult to read because of violence, abuse, rape.
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished book 2 of the Witch World series by Andre Norton - Web of the Witch World - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954248792.
Phrynne wrote: "My review of Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Good one Phrynne, it's on my list!
I finished reading In the Memory of the Forest. I really enjoyed the atmospheric way the story unfolded. The murder mystery was really a small part of the whole story but all the stories blended well together, making a good "whole". My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pam wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of Girl in Disguise by Greer Macallister https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Good on..."
Thanks Pam. It is definitely worth a read. Now I want to know more about the real Pinkerton's Agency!
I recently finished The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes, An interesting reading experience.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Albert wrote: "I recently finished The Noise of Time by Julian Barnes, An interesting reading experience.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I think you might want to check out Symphony for the City of the Dead: Dmitri Shostakovich and the Siege of Leningrad. It is very good.
Read The Spyglass File by Nathan Duncan Goodwin and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1765215455
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