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[Sheila]

The Sugar Queen

[PattyMacDotComma]

Aussie author Peggy Frew has a new novel out soon, Islands, and the cover says it all. Individually or grouped, we're islands (as is one of the settings, Phillip Island).
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Gunjan]

Just Finished Beware the Past by Joy Ellis

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. Cain
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Soon I Will Be Invincible by Austin Grossman

[Bonnie]

The last book I finished was 'Winnie-the-Pooh', by A.A. Milne. First time I'd read it since I was a kid, and I loved it even more as an adult than as a child. The humour is very clever and I could relate a lot to the characters, especially Piglet.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Bonnie wrote: "The last book I finished was 'Winnie-the-Pooh', by A.A. Milne. First time I'd read it since I was a kid, and I loved it even more as an adult than as a child. The humour is very clever and I could ..."

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The Tao of Pooh by Benjamin Hoff

[PattyMacDotComma]

Does My Head Look Big in This? is a Young Adult book that I'd be happy to recommend even for some pre-teens. Aussie author Randa Abdel-Fattah writes about an Aussie Muslim teenager wanting to wear a hijab to school in spite of her parents' worries. YIKES!
3.5~4★ Link to my review with some pictures

[PattyMacDotComma]

Swing Time by English author Zadie Smith was longlisted for the 2017 Man Booker Prize.
My review of Swing Time

I actually preferred the winner that year, Lincoln in the Bardo.
(If you're interested, My review of Lincoln in the Bardo )

[PattyMacDotComma]

Bond. James Bond. Need I say more? Good prequel to the famous Ian Fleming spy series.

At the request of the Fleming estate, Horowitz wrote Forever and a Day to introduce us to 007 and the woman who explains why she orders martinis "shaken, not stirred."
A solid 4★. Link to my review

[Amanda]

The last book I finished was Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. The story of a convict, an orphaned girl, and a group of rebels during a French uprising in the early 1800s.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Amanda wrote: "The last book I finished was Les Misérables by Victor Hugo. I enjoyed it a lot more than I expected. The story of a convict, an orphaned girl, and a group of rebels during a French upr..."

Did you ever write a review, Amanda?

[PattyMacDotComma]

Short and sweet! Sweet price, that is. Author Gregg Hurwitz is giving readers Buy a Bullet FREE on Amazon! It's a self-contained story plus extracts from Book 1 of his popular Orphan X thriller series.
4.5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I knew some, but not all, of the Super Scientists: 40 inspiring icons featured in this attractively designed book of historical facts for kids (and ignorant people like me).
Link to my review with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

I will read anything by Helen Garner! Fiction, non-fiction, novels, stories. Honour and Other People's Children is a reissue of a pair of novellas, and true to form, I loved the first. 4.5★
Not the second, sadly. 3★
Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Why does Australia treat refugees on Manus almost as badly as POWs were treated on WW2's infamous Burma Railway? Inexcusable!
No Friend But the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Iranian Kurd refugee Behrouz Boochani is already winning awards.
5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Sir Robert Carey is as dashing and daring as ever in A Surfeit of Guns, the third in P.F. Chisholm's fun series about the English and Scots battling and thieving in the border country in Elizabethan England. Love it!
4.5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Last Unicorn by Peter S. Beagle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle

[Renee]

Where the Crawdads Sing All I can say is amazing amazing amazing

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Mrs. Dalloway by Virginia Woolf
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett


The Reader by Bernhard Schlink

[Karen]

Martina wrote: "the last book i read was
The Clan of the Cave Bear


and i loved it! ill read the next one after i finish the book im currently reading"

This was a good one but my favorite in the series is the next one The Valley of Horses

Just finished re-listening to The Cuckoo's Calling going back through the first three before reading the 4th and newest one.

Re-reading Jane Eyre, it is a bit slow but it will be worth it in the end.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Sydney's famous Mardi Gras begins on Valentine's Day, so I thought I'd reintroduce this wonderful memoir by Chris Edwards, a man who started life as a determinedly reluctant little girl.
Balls: It Takes Some to Get Some is both fascinating and funny!
5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Chop Wood Carry Water: How to Fall In Love With the Process of Becoming Great by Joshua Medcalf
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by Steve Jamison and John Wooden

[PattyMacDotComma]

It's sad to think this is needed.

Something Happened in Our Town: A Child's Story about Racial Injustice by Marianne Celano and others is a new children's picture book to read WITH them about cops shooting blacks, slave history, and intolerance of foreigners.
My review with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

Storytelling at its best - a new favourite! Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield is mysterious and magic.
5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I really enjoyed both of these! This clever Czech detective has an appetite and wardrobe and disregard for protocol like Mick Herron's Jackson Lamb without the farts. Loved and understood (!) the Eastern European intrigue.
Graham Brack,s first two in the series:

Lying and Dying
4.5★ My review of Lying and Dying

Slaughter and Forgetting: Murder and intrigue on the streets of Prague...
4.5★ My review of Slaughter and Forgetting

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Night Has a Thousand Eyes by Cornell Woolrich
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Axeman by Ray Celestin

[Hayley]

The last book I read was Captive it was good but nothing special. I enjoyed it and would recommend it to anyone who likes mystery/action.

[PattyMacDotComma]

What is it about penguins that is so cute? This little Not-So-Brave Penguin surprises herself when her friend is lost. Another lovely Steve Smallman children's picture book.
4★ Link to my review with pictures

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've always enjoyed Maggie O'Farrell's mysterious stories, but I'd never read her debut After You'd Gone until now. Glad I found it! Good book and well worth a read.
4★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Beast in View by Margaret Millar

[Betsy]

Just finished this. Well written in the sense that it pulls you along with great speed, enough details to feel the care behind the words but with thought of the plot and action to drive you forward.
It is definitely a book (and series) to read in order to escape.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Finally, I've read a Bosch mystery, The Black Echo, the first of the popular series by Michael Connelly. In 1992, LA cops fought crime with payphones and state-of-the-art pagers and faxes. And guns. Always guns. Looks like I'm in for a long ride!

4.5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Case-Book of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I'm starting:


Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges

[PattyMacDotComma]

TERRIBLE! Terribly tempting free previews of new books! Prepare to restock your To Be Read lists after browsing through Buzz Books 2019: Spring/Summer: Excerpts from Next Season's Best New Titles by LIV Constantine, Karl Marlantes, Moby, J. Ryan Stradal, Ocean Vuong and More.
5★ Link to my link review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Evan S. Connell created the socially proper, but uncomfortable, Mrs. Bridge in a book that is a new favourite for me.
5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently read In Blossom, a very attractive children's picture book by Cheon Yooju about making friends. I have misgivings about sharing lunch, though!
3.5~4★ Link to my review with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

Mr. Bridge (1969) is the husband of Mrs. Bridge (1959), quite a pair of books by Evan S. Connell. Excellent portrait of a difficult man, which explains a lot about her. (Read hers first.)
4.5★ Link to my review

[Nuno]

O Espião Que Saiu do Frio
Among my all time favorites

[Rendi]

I recently finished They Both Die At The End and to be honest, it didn’t meet its full potential. It was enjoyable, but an overall forgettable story with a very amateur, fan-fiction-like romance

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


The Reader by Bernhard Schlink
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Lord of the Flies by William Golding

[PattyMacDotComma]

Wish by Chris Saunders is a very attractive children's picture book about figuring out what to wish for if you ever get those magic three wishes!
3.5~4★ Link to my review with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

Any youngsters who want to backpack around the world (and their parents!!) should read this cautionary tale See You In September by (now) NZ author Charity Norman. New Zealand, but not as you know it. Don't let my 3★ put you off.
3★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency by Douglas Adams

[PattyMacDotComma]

Into the River (or Wimmera) shows the dark side of the 1980s for two Aussie schoolboys. Good mystery, but not a comfy cosy one!
4.5★ Link to my review

[Shala]

I finished on Tuesday and enjoyed it. The characters were unreliable and creep and the ending was crazy.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Just enjoyed The Scholar by Dervla McTiernan. Our handsome young Irish detective Cormac O'Reilly is put back into action in when his girlfriend finds a dead body one night!
4★ Link to my review

McTiernan is Irish, now an Aussie, writing about the Irish Garda (police). I like her stories, and you don't need to have read The Ruin, the first book in the series, to enjoy this one, although I recommend it, too.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I'm still enjoying my favourite old Czech detective in Graham Brack's great series set in Prague. The third book is Death On Duty: Authentic detective fiction, packed full of suspense, and there are more to come! Dark crime and light humour. Perfect mix!
4.5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Now for something completely different! Blossoms in Autumn is a new, adult, graphic (in both senses of the word) novel about an older guy and an older woman, both alone now, and how they get to know each other, warts and all (yes, all). Have a look - I included some good illustrations.
4★ Link to my review with illustrations

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Ficciones by Jorge Luis Borges
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Beast in View by Margaret Millar
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Day of the Triffids by John Wyndham


Neil Gaiman And Charles Vess' Stardust by Neil Gaiman and Charles Vess

[PattyMacDotComma]

Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo is terrific! Millions of readers and the Pulitzer Prize people weren’t wrong. Unforgettable characters and a great read!
5+★ Link to my review