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[PattyMacDotComma]

Pockets by Amal El-Mohtar is a charming, thought-provoking short story, and it's available FREE online. It's fun!
Link to my "Pockets" review (with a link to the story)

[Chloe]

The last book I read was My Sister, the Serial Killer. I loved it, and would highly recommend. It is a short, fast read. Easy for those on the go, as the chapters are quite short.

[Woman Reading]

Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs - a serial killer targets the Fae

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3558226248

[Joe]

Last book I read was All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. Was recommended to read this by my old school friend, Bill. So glad I did, a wonderful story set in St Malo off the French coast. Descriptions were so detailed it put you right in the middle of this port in 1944. Sad to reach the end of the book as it had become quite a companion! Now onto Color Purple for a contrast.

[Joya]

The last book I read was Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury. I read this book for a book club that I host at my school. I enjoyed it enough having gone in not really knowing what it was about.

[Woman Reading]

By Patricia Briggs -

Bone Crossed #4 - vampires & a poltergeist

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3559749109

Silver Borne #5 - mysterious Fae artifact

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3561364186
River Marked #6 - Mercy's people

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3563109879

[PattyMacDotComma]

Michael Connelly's Harry Bosch #2 pits Harry against The Black Ice, as treacherous a drug as its namesake on frozen, dark roads. This is LA and Mexico before we had Google in our pockets.
4★ Link to my Black Ice review

[Woman Reading]

I admire her for her athletic prowess but for her memoir - not as much.
My review for Simone Biles' Courage to Soar: A Body in Motion, a Life in Balance

www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3546860387

[Woman Reading]

By Patricia Briggs -

Frost Burned #7 - the werewolf pack gets abducted

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3567582608

Night Broken #8 - trouble from an ex-wife

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3567593934

[Woman Reading]

I'm now caught up with Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson series, and I'm waiting for my library copy of book #12.

Fire Touched #9 - political machinations and monsters

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3569162915

Silence Fallen #10 - Mercy gets abducted

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3570979313

Storm Cursed #11 - witches mount a takeover

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3570986261

[PattyMacDotComma]

I always enjoy the adventures of Aussie author Sulari Gentill's wealthy artist Rowland Sinclair and his colourful friends in 1930s Australia. In A Dangerous Language, they attempt to warn the government about what the Nazis are really up to. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Dangerous Language review

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Right Side of the Line by Susan Wilkins is a timely novella-length addition to her Detective Megan Thomas series, taking place in England during Covid. How times change!
4★ Link to my Right Side of the Line review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Kingdom of the Blind by Louise Penny took me back to Three Pines, the remote, snowy village in Quebec which seems to have more than its share of murderous events! (No wonder I love it.)
4.5★ Link to my Kingdom of the Blind review

[Woman Reading]

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3578682092

[Woman Reading]

I started reading Patricia Briggs' spin-off UF series while waiting for the latest Mercy Thompson book.

Cry Wolf #1

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3580172055

Hunting Ground #2

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3580172721

[Woman Reading]

By Patricia Briggs from her Alpha & Omega UF series

Fair Game #3

My review - www.goodreads.Com/review/show/3583562236

Dead Heat #4

My review - www.goodreads.Com/review/show/3583563132

[PattyMacDotComma]

Good Girl, Bad Girl (there's more than one!) by favourite, award-winning Aussie crime writer Michael Robotham is excellent!
4.5★ Link to Good Girl, Bad Girl review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Anabasis is a very short story by Amal El-Mohtar and is free online. How "she persisted", I don't know. A must-read.

5★ Link to review of Anabasis (with a link to the story)

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Finished reading Cannery Row by John Steinbeck.
Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

I finished Patricia Briggs' latest Mercy Thompson book - Smoke Bitten - fun but it fell short of my expectations.

My review - www.goodreads.com/review/show/3586947598

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Finished reading A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess.
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

I'm now completely caught up in Patricia Briggs' Mercy Thompson world, as I've finished Burn Bright #5. Yes, it would have been more impactful if I had read A&O within its proper sequence of Mercy's world, but I had binge read them so it's fine.

My review - www.goodreads.com/review/show/3589642084

[PattyMacDotComma]

Michelle Obama is an excellent example of "Nevertheless, she persisted", which has become a feminist cry.

In her memoir, Becoming, she takes us from Chicago's Southside to Ivy League universities to the White House. Great read, great audio as well.
5★ Link to my review of Becoming

[PattyMacDotComma]

This is a terrific, informative eye-catching graphic book for kids, teens, adults - folx - with advice and actions for everybody: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell.

It should be in all schools and libraries.
5★ Link to my review of Anti-Racist, 20 Lessons with some of the artwork.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've enjoyed articles by Ta-Nehisi Coates and wish I'd liked The Water Dancer as much as everybody else has. The slave trade was (and still is) appalling.
3.5★ Link to my Water Dancer review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I am enjoying New Jersey in 1915 with the entertaining Kopp Sisters mystery series that's based on real people.

Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart was a lot of fun!
4,5★ Link to my Lady Cop review

[PattyMacDotComma]

As late as the 1960s, Australian Aboriginal children with white blood were forcibly removed from their black families, who were considered incapable of taking care of them. The White Girl is a fictional story about a grandmother and her very fair granddaughter, by Indigenous author Tony Birch. Thought-provoking (and infuriating).
3.5★ LInk to my White Girl review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I'm not sure I'd be up to the challenge of visiting Matt Haig's imaginative The Midnight Library, but it certainly would be tempting!
4★ Link to my Midnight Library review

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Book of Ebenezer Le Page is the fictional memoir of a very old Guernsey bachelor (who always enjoyed the girls), written by G.B. Edwards. It covers both World Wars, the Depression, and the Nazi Occupation. It is unique and absolutely fascinating!
5★ Link to my review of Ebenezer Le Page

[PattyMacDotComma]

Igifu means hunger, and Scholastique Mukasonga's five stories show what a weapon it is.

5★ Link to my Igifu review

[PattyMacDotComma]

As the Last I May Know is a short story by S.L. Huang that won the 2020 Hugo award for best short story. It's free online, and I added a link in my review.
3.5★ Link to my short story review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I am another enthusiastic fan of Graham Brack and his mystery series. Dishonour and Obey is the third outing with Master Mercurius, who investigates a murder for colourful English King Charles II.

This is the way to learn history so you remember it!
4★ Link to my review of Dishonour and Obey

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading Dracula by Bram Stoker.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Note to self: Add garlic to the grocery list.

[Woman Reading]

It's nearly Halloween & tis time for things that go bump in the night.
I finished Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House

my review www.goodreads.com/review/show/3604855782

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading Christ Stopped at Eboli: The Story of a Year by Carlo Levi.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

If you're from a rev-head family, you'll want this little book for the kids. Ayrton Senna has often been called the greatest racing driver ever.

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

[PattyMacDotComma]

Good Girl, Bad Girl by great Aussie crime-writer Michael Robotham just won him his second Golden Dagger Award. The second in the series, When She Was Good is very, very good, and the bad guys were absolutely horrid!
5★ Link to my review of "When She Was Good"

[Woman Reading]

Old school investigative reporting of what Nixon dismissed as a "third-rate burglary. "

All the President's Men by Carl Bernstein

my review - www.goodreads.com/review/show/3546952983

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading A Coffin for Demetrios by Eric Ambler. A good murder mystery/spy novel.
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Barbara]

Mentioned on a cozy group that during the covid crisis I've been going back to comfort reads, re-reading books from my shelf that I enjoyed especially. Modern novel was "Raise the Dead" by Jane Rubino, the last in a series - the plot involves surrogate birth, an IVF clinic and a good plot twist. The historical novel is "Jane and the Unpleasantness at Scargrave Manor" by Stephanie Barron, the first in her 19 century suspense/mysteries that feature Jane Austen as the amateur sleuth.

[[deleted user]]

Michener does it again. Finished reading The Bridges at Toko-Ri by James A. Michener.
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Death of a River Guide was the absolutely stunning 1994 debut of the 2014 Booker-winning Aussie author Richard Flanagan, and I loved it. The wilds of Tasmania's Franklin River - terrifying and beautiful!
5★ Link to my review of Death of a River Guide

[PattyMacDotComma]

Countless readers have loved the thriller I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes, and I wish I were among them. I did read nearly 300 pages before I gave up, though.
Link to my review of I Am Pilgrim

[Woman Reading]

Homecoming by Patricia Briggs #0.3 prequel in the Mercy Thompson series in graphic novel format

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3617613377

[Woman Reading]

I finished the nonfiction The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates.

My review - Www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3394536852

I also found a free short story by Jojo Moyes called Lou in Lockdown.

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3620194878

[[deleted user]]

I finished reading Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

The First Stone: Some Questions About Sex and Power is by one of my favourite Aussie authors, Helen Garner.

Men AND women; men VS women? This 25th anniversary edition includes other writings about Garner and the lively controversy over the indecent assault scandal.
5★ My review of The First Stone

[[deleted user]]

Finished a novella by Henry James called the The Aspern Papers
review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[[deleted user]]

Finished reading The Golden Child by Penelope Fitzgerald.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

I finished The Ninja's Blade by Tori Eldridge. It's the sequel thriller with vigilante Lily Wong.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3431978622