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I finished reading Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass by Frederick Douglass. Also, I finished Selected Poems by Emily Dickinson.

[Woman Reading]

Finished the last Kate Daniels novel, by Ilona Andrews

Magic Triumphs - My review is more for the series overall than for the book, and small spoilers are hidden.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3499168234

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading The Sportswriter by Richard Ford.
My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

This was a great start to Ilona Andrews's new spin off urban fantasy trilogy -

Iron and Magic - also could be read as #9.5 in the Kate Daniels series

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3500998639

[Mystic]

I read Blankets by Craig Thompson. It's an autobiographical coming-of-age graphic novel.

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

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've enjoyed all the Graham Brack novels I've read so far, and the second in the Master Mercurius historical mystery series is another winner. Untrue till Death takes place in the Netherlands in the 17th century, full of murder and intrigue with the author's trademark humour.
4.5★ Link to my Untrue Till Death review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Anthony Horowitz's popular Magpie Murders has another fan. Two mystery novels in book. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Magpie Murders review

[Woman Reading]

Finished Jeaniene Frost's Night Huntress series



Here are links to my reviews for the rest of the series -

#1 Halfway to the Grave 2.5 ☆
#2 One Foot in the Grave almost 3 ☆
#3 At Grave's End 3 ☆
#4 Destined for an Early Grave 3 ☆
#5 This Side of the Grave 3 ☆
#6 One Grave at a Time 3 ☆
#7 Up from the Grave 3 ☆

Given the average GR rating, I had expected to give these better marks. Maybe they fared worse in comparison because I had just finished the Kate Daniels books. But these initial books didn't have much of any world building. I liked Bones, even though his speech is filled with cliches of British slang, and was initially annoyed by Cat. Many reviews for the first book compared it to "Buffy the Vampire Slayer." I've never watched that show. Instead, this series felt like HBO's "True Blood" show, especially in its later years.

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I finished Independence Day by Richard Ford. Independence Day won the Pulitzer Prize and PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction in 1996, becoming the first novel ever to win both awards in a single year. It is the second book in a series of four.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

I think most mystery readers are familiar with Daphne du Maurier. I just read Jamaica Inn, a suspenseful "it was a dark and stormy night . . ." thriller.
4★ Link to my "Jamaica Inn" review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Interviewing The Dead by David Field is the first in his Carlyle & West Victorian Mystery Series. London, 1892, ghosts of plague victims - what?? A doctor and a preacher join forces to investigate.
3★ Link to my "Interviewing the Dead" review

[Renee]

The Deserter I love this author. He doesn't disappoint for action and intrique

[Filia]

Best book I've read in a while. Definitely recommend it for hopeless romantics like me and for people who appreciate quality literature.
You can check my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

By Jeanine Frost, a prequel to her Night Huntress series -

#0.5

My review - Reckoning 3 ☆

[Mystic]

I finally finished The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy after 10 days!

Here's my first ever 1 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

Succubus Blues #1 by Richelle Mead - immortals in Seattle are under attack and even being killed

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3523192178

[PattyMacDotComma]

As a nostalgic break from the 21st century, I revisited the well-loved children's classic The Velveteen Rabbit Or, How Toys Become Real written by Margery Williams Bianco nearly a century ago. What an excellent visit that was!
5★ Link to my Velveteen Rabbit review with a few illustrations from the original 1922 edition.

[PattyMacDotComma]

In spite of the title, After The Carnage is NOT a grisly thriller but a mixed collection of short stories by talented indigenous Aussie author Tara June Winch, who won the prestigious Miles Franklin award for her latest novel, The Yield. These are urban, international, and varied.
4★ Link to my review of After the Carnage

[Woman Reading]

Richelle Mead's Succubus on Top #2 which can be read as a standalone.

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3524937453

[Woman Reading]

Samantha Power's autobiography
The Education of an Idealist: A Memoir

I was a bit disappointed, and this contributed to a month of reading urban fantasy.

my review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3394535000

[Samuel]

Hamlet, it is the first time I read Shakespeare properly in English. My only contact with Shakespeare beforehand was a "decaff" version of Romeo and Juliet in high school for my English class as a non native and it was a disservice towards Shakespeare.
After reading Hamlet properly I can see that the beauty of Shakespeare it's not his plots but his language.

[Woman Reading]

Succubus Dreams #3 by Richelle Mead - big improvement from #2

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3528407334

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke.

[Woman Reading]

Succubus Heat #4 by Richelle Mead - mysterious disappearance and infiltration of an extremist group

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3530352130

[PattyMacDotComma]

I always enjoy Louise Penny's excellent Chief Inspector Gamache series and just finished Glass Houses, where many consciences are troubled.
4.5★Link to my "Glass Houses" review

[Woman Reading]

Succubus Shadows by Richelle Mead

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3531893682

[Woman Reading]

Succubus Revealed #6 by Richelle Mead - the conclusion of the series

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3533449614

[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently read The Burgess Boys by one of my favourite authors, Elizabeth Strout. When your sister needs you, back in the hometown you so happily escaped, what's a man to do?
4★ Link to my Burgess Boys review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I also just enjoyed another delightful escapade with The Honourable Phryne Fisher, the luscious sleuth created by Australian favourite, Kerry Greenwood. 1920s Melbourne is where Miss Fisher investigates a Murder on the Ballarat Train.
4★ Link to my review of Murder on the Ballarat Train

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I finished reading Tales of the South Pacific by James A. Michener. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1948.
My Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Renee]

I read The Stupidest Angel: A Heartwarming Tale of Christmas Terror

[Woman Reading]

I started a new UF series by the husband-wife team, Ilona Andrews. Burn for Me kicks off their Hidden Legacy series. The bookcover is horrendous, hiding an action packed mystery in an alternate universe. The social components are what I find interesting.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3536883944

[Don]

Night Film, fantastic read
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

By Ilona Andrews White Hot #2 in the UF Hidden Legacy series (ignore the bookcover).

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3538509866

[Woman Reading]

Wildfire by Ilona Andrews - #3 in their Hidden Legacy series

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3540190571

[Woman Reading]

Both by Ilona Andrews, their Hidden Legacy series -from a new POV

Diamond Fire #3.5 - transition novella from Nevada's to Catalina's POV for a jewelry heist

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3541736441

Sapphire Flames #4 or #1 Catalina's trilogy for an investigation of 2 arson murders

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3541737797

[[deleted user]]

The Good Neighbors By Kiersten Madglin

[PattyMacDotComma]

Martha, Martha, Martha! (with apologies to The Brady Bunch). Martha is a hot/cold muddled mess in Sorrow and Bliss, the most wonderful new book by Aussie author Meg Mason.
5★ Link to my review of "Sorrow and Bliss"

[Renee]

read and hatedMrs. Dalloway

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larson.

[Woman Reading]

I had binge read Ilona Andrews' UF Hidden Legacy series because they had just released the latest installment a few weeks ago.
Emerald Blaze is #5

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3543531238

[Renee]

Coyote BlueCoyote Blue

[Luís]

The Holy Sinner by Thomas Mann

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just read The Wonder by Emma Donoghue, It's a wonder what strange things people believed in old Ireland. (Not that we're any wiser today.)
3★ Link to my review of "The Wonder"

[PattyMacDotComma]

Rowland Sinclair risks his beautiful yellow Mercedes S-Class and his life on the "Killer Track" speedway in 1934 Sydney in Give the Devil His Due by Aussie favourite Sulari Gentill.
4.5★ Link to my "Devil" review

[Woman Reading]

Patricia Briggs' Moon Called

I usually avoid werewolf stories but decided to try this because of the high ratings from my GR friends. It's a good start, and in hindsight, I like having a main character with her atypical ancestry.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3552085188

[Renee]

lRutland Place

[Woman Reading]

Blood Bound by Patricia Briggs

For an urban fantasy book, I found a few scenes to be quite scary.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3554570641

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading Rogue Protocol by Martha Wells, the third book in The Murderbot Diaries.

[PattyMacDotComma]

My first Ann Cleeves book was the terrific The Darkest Evening, #9 in the "Vera Stanhope" series. I know and love Vera from television and am now a fan of her original self, albeit a little late.
5★ LInk to my "Darkest Evening" review