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[Gunjan]

Just finished Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell

[Ronize]

The Sky Is Everywhere and Mary Poppins.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Any Ordinary Day: What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life? Acclaimed Aussie journalist Leigh Sales has done an extraordinary job of helping people share their horror stories (I can hardly call them anything less!) so that we might understand how to cope and care. It's a page-turner of a different kind.

4★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Young Master Reacher makes his debut, chronologically speaking, in Lee Child's novella, placed in the High Heat of 1977 New York City. Jack, at not quite 17, is already a formidable force!
4.5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


Equal Rites by Terry Pratchett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started


The Bloody Crown of Conan by Robert E. Howard

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


Wooden: A Lifetime of Observations and Reflections On and Off the Court by John Wooden and Steve Jamison
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started


Fanatical Prospecting: The Ultimate Guide to Opening Sales Conversations and Filling the Pipeline by Leveraging Social Selling, Telephone, Email, Text, and Cold Calling by Jeb Blount

[Wendy]

I finished

The Farm by Joanne Ramosand Wish You Were Hereby Rita Mae Brown


Started

Girls of Paper and Fire

[PattyMacDotComma]

I was a bit nervous about trying the recent Booker Prize winner, Milkman by Irish author Anna Burns, but I loved it! Funny, real, sad, hopeful, all beautifully written.
5★ Link to my review

[Laura]

I loved that book too! Sometimes, literary fiction and the man booker winners go right over my head, but this one was beautiful.
I just finished Critical Mass: How One Thing Leads to Another. It was really interesting. It's a bit of a deep dive into using economics as a "physics" on how people and society works. It had some great insights, although, I would not recommend it to anyone who isn't really interested in the topic all by themselves.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Nightfall by David Goodis
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Thirty-Nine Steps by John Buchan
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Cape Fear by John D. MacDonald (previously published as The Executioners)

[Gunjan]

Just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch

[Betsy]

Gunjan, what did you think of it? It looks intriguing.

[Gunjan]

@Betsy The book and concept is amazing. I thoroughly enjoyed it however towards the end it was okayish. But overall it is still 4/5

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Hours by Michael Cunningham
Rating: 4 hours
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I just started:


Arthur & George by Julian Barnes

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Eleven edited by Jonathan Strahan
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started:


The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 edited by John Sandford

[alicia]

I just finished

[Wendy]

I finished and started .


I'm hoping it's a slow builder and the action is in the last 100ish pages, because I have a feeling I'm going to be disappointed.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I've just finished:


Authority by Jeff VanderMeer
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Eye of the Needle by Ken Follett
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton


Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers

[Gunjan]

Just Finished The Mother-in-Law by Sally Hepworth

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Best American Mystery Stories 2017 edited by John Sandford and Otto Penzler
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kathi]

I just finished A Visit from the Goon Squad by Jennifer Egan.
I really liked it a lot. I thought the characters were unique, interesting and real. People with problems, joys, pain, messy lives, personal and professional triumphs, lots of life questions and some, but not enough, answers. Just like real life!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is not his usual reassuring self in Louise Penny's sixth in the series, Bury Your Dead. History, mystery, and haunting flashbacks in Old Quebec make for a good read.
4★ Link to my review

[Rachelle]

I just finished: The Heir by Kiera Cass

I just started: Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk

[STEPHEN]

The Natural by Bernard Malamud

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just enjoyed a re-read of an old favourite, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It's been adapted as a play and a film more than once, and it's as powerful now as ever. People haven't changed.
5★ Link to my review with a couple of illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

Another re-read was John Steinbeck's wonderful, funny, poignant Cannery Row. There were some real characters in Monterey, California in the 1930s!
5★ Link to my review

[Jenny Baker]

I read and gave 4★ to:


Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

and also read and gave 3★ to:

The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Whose Body? by Dorothy L. Sayers
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished reading


Red Harvest by Dashiell Hammett
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Continuous Katherine Mortenhoe by D.G. Compton
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash


Crux by Ramez Naam

[PattyMacDotComma]

I’ve officially added a new favourite to my collection, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. I’m glad the Pulitzer people enjoyed the wild ride as much as I did!
5★ Link to my “Amazing...” review :)

[STEPHEN]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I’ve officially added a new favourite to my collection, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon. I’m glad the Pulitzer people enjoyed the wild ride as ..."
That's a good book, but his The Yiddish Policeman's Union is just as good, if not better.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


This Dark Road to Mercy by Wiley Cash
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver

[Kirsten]

The last book I finished was Supernatural by Larissa Ione and others

[Amy]

I just finished The Sword of Destiny by Andrzej Sapkowski, a collection of short stories about the witcher Geralt. It was originally published in Polish and translated to English only a few years ago due to the popularity of the video game series based on Sapkowski's books. And a new Netflix show is coming soon! :)

[Gunjan]

Just finished The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry and this was the darkest book I have ever read.

[Ramya]

Last book I finished was by Helen Hoang.

[Yailene_Reads]

I've been stuck on the last 50 pages or so of Bag of Bones by Stephen King, I was too invested in the characters and couldn't continue after certain events.
So I went to Barnes and Noble and picked up The Tapper Twins go to war (with each other) by Geoff Rodkey off the clearance rack. A wonderful kids book that I finished in one sitting today

rating: 5/5
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Robin]

The book I just finished was A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman, the same author who wrote the Beartown series (which I do recommend).
This book was about a grumpy old man and how he lives his life following the passing of his wife.

My next book to read is Run Away by Harlan Coben.

[Gunjan]

Just finishedThe Whisper Man by Alex North

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished


Crux by Ramez Naam
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year: Volume Twelve edited by Jonathan Strahan
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor


The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 edited by Louise Penny and Otto Penzler

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Rowland Sinclair historical fiction mystery series just keeps getting better! 1930s Sydney, Snowy Mountains cattle camps, crooks, and a tight-knit group of friends.
Miles Off Course by Aussie author Sulari Gentill is #3 and the best so far.
5★ Link to my review (with a couple of illustrations)

[PattyMacDotComma]

IRRESISTIBLE! Mythologica: An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece by Stephen P. Kershaw has the stories and the most fantastic art by Victoria Topping. Check my review for samples. Unbelievable!
5★ Link to my Mythologica review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished reading:


Garden of Beasts by Jeffery Deaver
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


For We Are Many by Dennis E. Taylor
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading


Cari Mora by Thomas Harris


We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick

[Jennifer]

I recently read Address Unknown, a republished Classic. I would recommend that and it is a very short read. It is a personal narrative in the format of a letter exchange of two friends , one in America and one in Germany at the start of WWII.

If you like crazy plot thrillers for fun reading I would recommend Never Have I Ever which I just read last week for my local book club - taking a break from more serious material we covered over the summer.

I’m also reading Jacqueline Woodson for the first time. Two books in so far and I am loving her stuff.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Cari Mora by Thomas Harris
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Best American Mystery Stories 2018 edited by Louise Penny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Rainbow Six by Tom Clancy


Best Horror of the Year Volume 10 edited by Ellen Datlow

[PattyMacDotComma]

I finally read the much-acclaimed Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, published during the Vietnam anti-war protests, and it's obvious why it made such an impact.

It's just as powerful now, 50 years later and almost 75 years after the obliteration of Dresden from Allied bombing.

5★ Link to my review of Slaughterhouse Five

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick - perhaps the "unofficial" prequel to Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


A Quest for Simbilis by Michael Shea - the "unofficial" official Dying Earth book that Jack Vance never wrote

[Neylane]

I finished The Secret History by Donna Tartt (5★) and started Vicious by V. E. Schwab :)

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

Finished Sons
finishing the Trilogy and moved on to
The Works Of Max Beerbohm

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Bloody Crown of Conan by Robert E. Howard
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


A Quest for Simbilis by Michael Shea
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


Bloody Rose by Nicholas Eames


A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess