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[Bea]

Looks good, Lyn. Thanks for catching it all up.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Bea wrote: "Looks good, Lyn. Thanks for catching it all up."

Thanks for nudging me. Sorry it took me so long. Usually I get a notification if anyone has posted to the thread and then I check it, but somehow I didn't. :(

[Tien]

Ok, I finished The Other Side of Summer & will give it 4 stars

Here's a snippet of my review:
"Her parents are struggling with their own sadness though her mother seemed to have drowned and unable to help the rest of the family. Her father is doing his best and by this, he is transplanting them to a new place on the far side of the world. Things went quite awry and Summer felt her old self buried deeper inside of her. There was someone else who needed her help though... but he was a mystery she needed to solve with help from an unlikely corner."

full review

And... Animal Farm -book request

[Paola]

Hi! This is my first request, I hope to make it right...
I've landend on Charlotte's Web and I request it by reading Lo scudo di Talos (334 pages). I must finish it by September 5.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...

[Bea]

Nicely done, Paola. Go for it!

[Paola]

I discovered I have only a Reader's Digest copy of the book, so I took a digital copy from the library, here is the new version: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2...
398 pages

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Paola wrote: "Hi! This is my first request, I hope to make it right...
I've landend on Charlotte's Web and I request it by reading Lo scudo di Talos (334 pages). I must finish it by September 5.
h..."

Good job. I have frozen Charlotte's Web for you. Let me know when you finish it.

[Tien]

yay, go, Paola :D

[Paola]

I finished Lo scudo di Talos!
It's really a great historical fiction, beautifully written and full of vivid descriptions of places.
Its setting in the great city of Sparta, during the great wars studied for years at school, is really interesting.
The characters are also very well presented and the story is entertaining: even if I had not had the 7 days deadline to read it, I would still have read it in few days because I couldn't stop :D
I don't know why I had always discarded this Italian author as not worthy of being read...it is and I will surely read something more.
5 stars

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Paola wrote: "I finished Lo scudo di Talos!
It's really a great historical fiction, beautifully written and full of vivid descriptions of places.
Its setting in the great city of Sparta, during..."

Good job Paola. Now you need to set up a thread for people who land on the square to use to ask for book recommendations. Then just keep your eye on the thread in case anyone posts there. If they do, you recommend books for them.

Once you set up the thread, post a link here so that Tien and I can update the necessary links.

[Paola]

Here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
:)

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Paola wrote: "Here it is: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
:)"

Thanks Paola. I have made the necessary links. :)

[Tien]

Congrats, Paola!

I've updated the link on The Board :)

[Paola]

Tien wrote: "Congrats, Paola!

I've updated the link on The Board :)"

Thanks Tien ^_^

[Coralie]

I would to purchase Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by reading A Song of Stone to be completed by September 19.

[Lyn (Readinghearts)]

Coralie wrote: "I would to purchase Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by reading A Song of Stone to be completed by September 19."

Got you Coralee.

[Coralie]

I have finished A Song of Stone. It got off to a poor start with me as it is first person present tense narration which I dislike and also lapses in to second person on occasion. However, once I accustomed myself to the narration I could appreciate the lyrical prose. As I progressed through the book, the obnoxious nature of the narrator became more and more obvious. I don't often feel that the protagonist in an apocalyptic novel deserves all the bad things that happen to them but I made an exception in this case.