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Gunjan Gupta | 23 comments Just finished Then She Was Gone by Lisa Jewell


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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.

Any Ordinary Day What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life? by Leigh Sales 4★ Link to my review


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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!
High Heat (Jack Reacher, #17.5) by Lee Child 4.5★ Link to my review


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message 608: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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.
Milkman by Anna Burns 5★ Link to my review


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Laura | 2 comments 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.


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Gunjan Gupta | 23 comments Just finished Recursion by Blake Crouch


message 612: by Betsy (last edited Jun 26, 2019 06:31AM) (new)

Betsy | 930 comments Gunjan, what did you think of it? It looks intriguing.


message 613: by Gunjan (new)

Gunjan Gupta | 23 comments @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


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alicia grant (shesha556) I just finished A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1) by George R.R. Martin


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Wendy (wendy_b) | 9 comments I finished Girls of Paper and Fire (Girls of Paper and Fire, #1) by Natasha Ngan and started Someone Knows by Lisa Scottoline .


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.


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message 621: by Kathi (last edited Jul 29, 2019 06:36PM) (new)

Kathi | 30 comments 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!


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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.
Bury Your Dead (Chief Inspector Armand Gamache, #6) by Louise Penny 4★ Link to my review


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Rachelle I just finished: The Heir by Kiera Cass

I just started: Beyond the Bright Sea by Lauren Wolk


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STEPHEN MACPHERSON | 71 comments The Natural by Bernard Malamud


message 625: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck 5★ Link to my review with a couple of illustrations


message 626: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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


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Jenny Baker (jennyrbaker) I read and gave 4★ to:


Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson Sorcery of Thorns by Margaret Rogerson

and also read and gave 3★ to:

The Innocence of Father Brown (Father Brown, #1) by G.K. Chesterton The Innocence of Father Brown by G. K. Chesterton


message 630: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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!
The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay by Michael Chabon 5★ Link to my “Amazing...” review :)


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STEPHEN MACPHERSON | 71 comments 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.


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Kirsten  (kmcripn) The last book I finished was Supernatural by Larissa Ione and others


message 634: by Amy (new)

Amy Kowalewski 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! :)


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Gunjan Gupta | 23 comments Just finished The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry and this was the darkest book I have ever read.


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Ramya Sivan (mykindaread) | 1 comments Last book I finished was The Bride Test (The Kiss Quotient, #2) by Helen Hoang by Helen Hoang.


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Yailene_Reads (yailene_rodas) | 2 comments 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...


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Robin (robinsreads) | 7 comments 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.


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Gunjan Gupta | 23 comments Just finishedThe Whisper Man by Alex North


message 641: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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.
Miles Off Course (Rowland Sinclair #3) by Sulari Gentill 5★ Link to my review (with a couple of illustrations)


message 642: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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!
Mythologica An Encyclopedia of Gods, Monsters and Mortals from Ancient Greece by Stephen P. Kershaw 5★ Link to my Mythologica review


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Jennifer Cunningham | 14 comments 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.


message 646: by PattyMacDotComma (new)

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.

Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut 5★ Link to my review of Slaughterhouse Five


RJ - Slayer of Trolls (hawk5391yahoocom) I finished:

We Can Build You by Philip K. Dick
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
A Quest for Simbilis by Michael Shea - the "unofficial" official Dying Earth book that Jack Vance never wrote


message 648: by Neylane (new)

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


Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog | 348 comments Finished Sons
finishing the Trilogy and moved on to
The Works Of Max Beerbohm


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