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[Mystic]

I just finished Saga, Vol. 1 . Very refreshing, colorful and funny.

Here's my review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

What a great way to introduce kids to some of the classics by the much-loved Charles Dickens! I think A World Full of Dickens Stories by Angela McAllister would make an excellent gift.
5★ Link to my Dickens review with several illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

I knew I'd enjoy a visit to C.J. Sansom's 16th century London, but by golly it was terrifying in Revelation!
4.5★ Link to my Revelation review

[PattyMacDotComma]

My new favourite book! Becoming Duchess Goldblatt: A Memoir is funny, poignant, witty, unique. The anonymous author shares her real, broken life and the wise tweets of her 81-year-old Twitter alter-ego.

"People often come to me seeking the true meaning of life, but I find they’re usually satisfied with half a sandwich." DG
5★ Link to my Duchess Goldblatt review with some of her many observations on life

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Darkness at Noon (from the German: Sonnenfinsternis) is a novel by the Hungarian-born British novelist Arthur Koestler, first published in 1940. His best-known work tells the tale of Rubashov, a Bolshevik 1917 revolutionary who is cast out, imprisoned and tried for treason by the Soviet government he'd helped create

[Mystic]

I thought All Systems Red by Martha Wells was pretty good. Might continue with the series.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[[deleted user]]

Mystic wrote: "I thought All Systems Red by Martha Wells was pretty good. Might continue with the series.
I enjoyed the first two books in the series. It will be interesting how you liked the second book in the series.
All Systems Red is listed in the 100 most popular Sci-Fi books on Goodreads. https://www.goodreads.com/blog/show/1...

[Mystic]

I think the second book might be a lot better I just read it's description, it sounds interesting. Very curious to know more about the Murderbot's dark past.

[[deleted user]]

I finished 2001: A Space Odyssey by Arthur C. Clarke
My suggestion is to watch the movie then read the book. The movie will give you a visual for what is happening in the book, but the book is ultimately far better. As another reviewer said, “Kubrick touched the monolith, but Clarke went inside.” Besides, watching the movie, you get to listen to the initial fanfare of Richard Strauss’s “Also Sprach Zarathustra.”
It should also be noted that HAL was one letter away from being IBM.

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading the Sci-Fi novella Binti by Nnedi Okorafor.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished (original Twilight Zone writer) Charles Beaumont's earliest short story collection - it was good but didn't contain much of his best work:


The Hunger: And Other Stories by Charles Beaumont
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Night Ride And Other Journeys by Charles Beaumont

There is a lot of overlap in Beaumont's various short story collections so I have already read many of these stories.

[Brittany Barkasi]

I just finished We Have Always Lived In The Castle by Shirley Jackson. I’ve been meaning to read it for years and it was wonderful!

[PattyMacDotComma]

There Will Come Soft Rains is the phrase Ray Bradbury pinched from a poem for the title of this 1950 short story about California in 2026.
5★ Link to my Soft Rains review which has a link to the small PDF online

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Pardoner's Crime: A historical crime thriller featuring Robin Hood is the first in a new series by Keith Moray, who writes under a couple of other names. Light, easy read.
3★ Link to my Pardoner's Crime review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Barbarians at the Gate: The Fall of RJR Nabisco by Bryan Burrough and John Helyar

[Woman Reading]

I just finished
The Last Dive: A Father and Son's Fatal Descent into the Ocean's Depths by Bernie Chowdhury

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3365331165

[PattyMacDotComma]

I do so enjoy Louise Penny's Canadian Inspector (now Commander) Armand Gamache series, so I was delighted to visit Three Pines again in A Great Reckoning.
4.5★ Link to my Great Reckoning review

[PattyMacDotComma]

John Updike won Pulitzer prizes for books three and four of his Rabbit, Run series. I've just read the first, and he certainly does know how to write.
4★ Link to my Rabbit, Run review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished another excellent short story collection by one of the writers behind many of the finest episodes of the original Twilight Zone TV series:


Night Ride And Other Journeys by Charles Beaumont
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another Beaumont collection:


Yonder by Charles Beaumont

Because of the overlap of stories in Beaumont's various collections, I have already read many of the stories in this book.

[Woman Reading]

I'm reading Ilona Andrews' Kate Daniels series.

Magic Bites This first book in the urban fantasy series introduces Kate Daniels as she avenges the murder of her guardian.

My review: www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3456857659

[Woman Reading]

I finished Magic Burns #2 by Ilona Andrews. I had started the highly rated Kate Daniels series here, instead of with #1, so it can be read as a standalone.

My review: www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3460021572

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the crime classic:


The Friends of Eddie Coyle by George V. Higgins
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading another crime classic:


The Black Dahlia by James Ellroy

[Mystic]

I finished Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro this book is depressing😞. Only book so far where I cried at multiple scenes.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Robert Pobi is new to me, but I enjoyed City of Windows - (think skyscrapers/sniper) - so much that I've already started the second in the series. I appreciate a good guy who IS a good guy.
5★Link to my City of Windows review

[PattyMacDotComma]

A Murder Unmentioned by Sulari Gentill is my favourite one so far in this delightful Aussie historical mystery series. 1930s Australia - love it!
5★ Link to my Murder Unmentioned review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished another collection of stories by original Twilight Zone writer Charles Beaumont:


Yonder by Charles Beaumont
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

As a result of finishing this collection, I have also read all the stories in these two Beaumont collections as was able to rate and review them as well - both are out of print but well worth picking up if you should happen to find them second-hand:


The Magic Man and Other Science-Fantasy Stories by Charles Beaumont
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Edge by Charles Beaumont
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I'm starting the final Beaumont collection, published posthumously and consisting of several unpublished stories:


A Touch of the Creature by Charles Beaumont

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Death's Master by Tanith Lee
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Tombs of Atuan by Ursula K. Le Guin

Whew! I think that's it for me in July...

[Woman Reading]

Catch and Kill: Lies, Spies, and a Conspiracy to Protect Predators by Ronan Farrow

It's nonfiction, but it has all the elements from the mystery/ thriller genre - a villain with a shadowy cabal, power, money, sex crimes, and espionage. Recommended.

My review: www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3115634695

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading Old Man's War by John Scalzi

[PattyMacDotComma]

I hope, I hope, I hope some little girls will be inspired by Corazon Aquino and her passion for democracy! The Philippines needs her kind again. Thanks Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara for another great addition to the Little People BIG IDEAS series.
5★ Link to my Corazon Aquino review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Under Pressure is the second in the Lucas Page thriller series by Robert Pobi. Chemistry, physics, and brain-power vs money and thugs. Good read!
4.5★ Link to my Under Pressure review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Testaments by Margaret Atwood
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Dreamsnake by Vonda N. McIntyre

[[deleted user]]

I finished The Cenci by Alexandre Dumas, which I discovered later is part of his Celebrated Crimes, The Country of the Pointed Firs with Biographical Introduction by Sarah Orne Jewett, A Rose for Emily by William Faulkner, The Emperor's New Clothes by Hans Christian Andersen (a group read), The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft, An Ideal Husband by Oscar Wilde, and The Nose by Nikolai Gogol. I am finishing up The Prince by Niccolò Machiavelli and In Praise of Folly by Erasmus. Also started The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Fantastic 2005 best-seller! The Glass Castle is an outstanding memoir by Jeannette Walls, who was lucky to make it to adulthood, more or less intact, despite her neglectful, nutty parents.
5★ Link to my Glass Castle review

[Woman Reading]

I'm now a fan of Kate Daniels, created by Ilona Andrews

My reviews for Magic Strikes #3

www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3479061345

and for Magic Mourns #3.5

www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3479104041

[Woman Reading]

Things are heating up in the world of Kate Daniels, created by Ilona Andrews -

Magic Bleeds #4

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3481656026

Magic Dreams #4.5 - short story featuring Dali and Jim

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3482350260

[PattyMacDotComma]

This was a most delightful change of pace from reading thrillers during a pandemic. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune is Peter Pan in 1984. Both worrying and charming. Absolutely loved it!
5★ Link to my Cerulean Sea review

[Woman Reading]

From Ilona Andrews, two really good Kate Daniels novels set in an alternate future in Atlanta

Magic Slays #5

My review: www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3483301346

Gunmetal Magic #5.5 - with Andrea Nash in an overlapping timeline

My review: www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3484128846

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading The Three-Body Problem by Liu Cixin,
Review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

From Ilona Andrews, 2 more in the Kate Daniels series -

Magic Rises #6 - I had a few quibbles with this one, but I liked the major advancement in the overall story arc of Kate's mission.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3487219651


Magic Steals #6.5 - can be read as a standalone adventure with Dali Harimau and Jim Shrapshire. This was my introduction to the KD books.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3487225819

[[deleted user]]

[Izzy]

The last book I read was Beach Read. I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed it. It made me laugh and cry, and left me with the warm fuzzies.

Beach Read

My review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

Small Magics is an anthology by Ilona Andrews. Fans of the Kate Daniels universe will want this book just because "Curran's POV" is about 40 percent of it.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3489106953

[PattyMacDotComma]

It's no secret I'm partial to Sir Robert Carey and his Elizabethan escapades, and I loved An Air of Treason, number 6 in P.F. Chisholm's historical mystery series.
5★ Link to my Air of Treason review

[Woman Reading]

Will the long awaited confrontation with the master villain occur in Ilona Andrews' Magic Breaks #7?

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3490930537

[Mystic]

My review of this special book called Coraline by Neil Gaiman:

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

[Kirsten]

I'm still behind on my reviews but the last book I read was Second Chance Pass by Robyn Carr

[Woman Reading]

Magic Shifts #8 in the Kate Daniels UF series can be read as a mystery standalone with a missing person case.
But why miss out on the fun of the preceding books by Ilona Andrews?

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3492926600

Magic Stars #8.5 - Kate Daniels fans will not want to miss this one

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3494406104

[Woman Reading]

By Ilona Andrews, Magic Binds #9 - this feels like a transitioning middle installment in the Kate Daniels series

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3496007965

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading Scarlet Sister Mary by Julia Peterkin. This book won the Pulitzer Prize in 1929.
Review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...