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I listened to the audio of The First Love Story: Adam, Eve, and Us by Bruce Feiler. (5-star)My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5★ for Helen Garner's searing story of a fascinating Canberra murder trial in Joe Cinque's Consolation, A True Story of Death, Grief and the Law.
My review
I finally got round to reviewing The Solace of Trees
. It was just not as good as I wanted it to be.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Essex Serpent
was easier to reveiw but didn't thrill me.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Holding
was very enjoyable. A cozy-style mystery with unexpected depth from the host of my favourite talk show.https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Finished The Hugo Winners 1968-1970 and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2087465116.
Just posted these reviews, hope you like them! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I have had a serious case of the book blahs and have read anything let alone finish a book. But just before I began reading The Black Widow by Daniel Silva and think it's a go.
Nancy , hope the book blahs leave you soon ! It's an awful place to be for readers like us . I've been there too. I have many books I own in stacks , on my kindle and many advanced copies to read and review. Sometimes I just can't decide what to read next . Hope you find something good!
Angela- I really live in fear of the book blahs. I am a mood reader so sometimes I have to figure out what my mood is and then choose a book. I never thought I would get into a Kindle but I did and keep downloading new titles before I read new books from last month. And now I've begun downloading favorite books that I want to reread. Not sure what happened to my keeper books but I know some were lost in a basement flood. And I also go to the library several times a week and borrow books.I sure hope the Daniel Silva book I began pulls me out of my recent book blahs. This book is part of a series which features an art restorer who is really an Israeli spy. This must be the 14th book in the series and I generally really enjoy this s author's books.
Mark Twain's The Innocents Abroad was in fact better than I thought it would be.....even if the latter section did give me some trouble. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Roseblood. It reads like a political thriller. 4 stars.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bartleby the Scrivener by Herman Melville is currently free to all members of Audible.com. You will find it on the Audible channel. I told Marina what a terrible time I had with Melville's Moby-Dick or, The Whale. She recommended this instead. So I had to try it and then found out it was free! It is very short, a novella. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
my review of The Library at the Edge of the World by Felicity Hayes-McCoyhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4.5★ Last Drinks by Aussie Andrew McGahan. Alcohol, politics, alcohol, corruption, alcohol, murder. Mystery based on 20-year reign of an infested Queensland State Government. (Did I mention the alcohol?)
Link to my review
The Rest Is Silence by Keith McCarthy was a really good read. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
Worth Killing For by Ed James, an excellent 2nd installment to the DI Fenchurch series. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished up a couple of books last week:
Adam, Eve and the Serpent by Elaine PagelsReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Age of Swords by Michael J. SullivanReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I like the writing of the author Bernard Malamud and his book A New Life. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished these 2 in the last few days:Nightwings by Robert Silverberg - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2094886576.
How Not to Write a Novel: 200 Classic Mistakes and How to Avoid Them—A Misstep-by-Misstep Guide - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2098483122
Fun! Wish You Were Here - a Thelma and Louise (no Louise) sorting-herself-out, warts-and-all road trip across America in a bright red, 1989 muscle car! By Sheridan Jobbins, Aussie journalist, screenwriter, TV presenter.
4★ Link to my review
I finished The Dying Game and it was an interesting read. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Also finished an audiobook, When the English Fall, which was much less successful:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Also finished an audiobook, When the English Fall, which was much less successful:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I succumbed to the temptation to reread one of my favorite Heyer books (for maybe the 7th time) - Frederica. This is a 5* book for me; the romance & the humor never fail to charm me.
A book I didn't really expect to enjoy but ended up doing just that!
Full Share by Eliza Freed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have just finished Strangers on a Train for a bookclub.I am not even sure why I gave it 3 stars.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Leslie wrote: "I succumbed to the temptation to reread one of my favorite Heyer books (for maybe the 7th time) - Frederica. This is a 5* book for me; the romance & the humor never fail to charm me."Frederica and The Grand Sophy. I could read them both over and over:)
Phrynne wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I succumbed to the temptation to reread one of my favorite Heyer books (for maybe the 7th time) - Frederica. This is a 5* book for me; the romance & the humor never fa..."I read Frederica when I was about 14 and loved it - happy days :)
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