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[PattyMacDotComma]

Thanks to other GR readers for sharing this - I love short stories! Here's my take on Death By Scrabble by Charlie Fish. Good fun and very, very short.
4★ My "Death by Scrabble" review with a link to the story

[PattyMacDotComma]

This is another cute cartoon biography for kids of Steve Jobs by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara. All libraries should have collections of this Little People BIG DREAMS series to inspire kids' curiosity. I always learn something from them and end up looking for more details!
4★ My review of "Steve Jobs"

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Kopp Sisters are as entertaining as ever in Amy Stewart's third in this historical mystery series, Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions. New Jersey just before America's entry into World War One makes a great setting.
4★ My review of "Miss Kopp's Midnight Confessions"

[Woman Reading]

Something light while waiting for election results - Mercy Thompson in graphic novel format -
Hopcross Jilly #1-6 by Patricia Briggs

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3628758921

[PattyMacDotComma]

Lara Hawthorne has produced the loveliest Christmas book I've seen in a long time. The Twelve Days of Christmas is beautiful and has a lot of interesting details kids (and grown-ups) will love. Great gift!
5★ My review of The 12 Days of Christmas

[PattyMacDotComma]

On a different note, The Night Whistler by Greg Woodland is an Aussie rural crime story that features a young boy who refuses to give up and a disgracefully demoted detective who believes him.
3.5★ My review of The Night Whistler

[Barbara]

Two reads last night, very different:
"Lady Susan," an early novella in letters by Jane Austen
"Ethan Frome," by Edith Wharton

[Woman Reading]

Reacher 2.0! I finished The Sentinel #25 in which author Lee Child handed over the writing reins to his brother.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3174455009

[Woman Reading]

Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage by Alfred Lansing.

This may be a century-old tale but it was mesmerizing and harrowing and, because of the location, timeless.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3489567133

[PattyMacDotComma]

Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz is similar to, but not a sequel to Magpie Murders, which I loved. This one is also clever and complex.
3.5★ Link to my Moonflower review

[Kelsea]

The last book I read was The City We Became by N.K. Jemisin. It was fast-paced, relevant, and spectacular! Would highly recommend!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Olav Audunssøn: I. Vows takes place in Norway in the 1200s. This translated edition was released just this month. Author Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. This has all the feuds, arranged marriages, hard times, difficult romancing you'd expect from such a cold place so very long ago, but I think some of her other writing must have been what earned her the Nobel.
3★ Link to my review of Olav Audunssøn

[PattyMacDotComma]

A Chorus of Innocents (Sir Robert Carey #7) by P.F. Chisholm was another entertaining instalment in this historical fiction mystery series set in 1592 on the English/Scottish borderlands. Ah, the intrigue! Such a great way to soak up a bit of history. But mind the bloodshed!
4.5★ Link to my Innocents review

[Woman Reading]

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3626501629

[Woman Reading]

I also finished Bitten #1 by Kelley Armstrong. It's not my usual UF in terms of species or main character, but it was good enough to proceed to the sequel.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3658341381

[Woman Reading]

Stolen by Kelley Armstrong - #2 in the Otherworld series but can be read as a standalone.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3660061096

[Woman Reading]

Broken by Kelley Armstrong. It's the third book from the POV of Elena Michaels. This time, a Jack the Ripper memento has unleashed plague and pestilence upon Toronto.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3671201457

[Woman Reading]

I finished Doughnut Economics: Seven Ways to Think Like a 21st-Century Economist by Kate Raworth.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3658935580

[Woman Reading]

I finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. It was fascinating!

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3658935172

[Woman Reading]

I finished two in the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong -

No Humans Involved

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3680864726

Frostbitten

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3684656204

[Don]

Run Away, by Harlan Coben
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dipanwita]

I finished reading A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

My review- www.goodreads.com/review/show/3683761965

[Don]

Finished reading The Man With No Face
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

I looked into Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld anthologies. The majority of the short stories & novels I read preceded Bitten, the beginning of the series. And in hindsight, it would be good, but not necessary, to read many of these stories before starting Bitten.

Men of the Otherworld

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3689735867

Tales of the Otherworld

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3689753537

[Woman Reading]

I just finished a holiday-themed novel and a nonfiction.

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3693095107


The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler

This book covered an awful part of American history, but I'm quite pleased that it's been revealed. It's not just about Chinese- Americans but about women's slow crawl toward empowerment.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3673134664

[Don]

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

[Woman Reading]

I finished Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom - explaining the broader context for all of the violent protests.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3692312325

[Dipanwita]

Finished reading The Red Pyramid by Rick Riordan, a book that introduces us to the ancient Egyptian Gods and myths by placing them in a modern setting.

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3339077966

[Don]

The Taking Of Annie Thorne, by CJ Tudor
excellent read
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Woman Reading]

I finished Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Nights #3 - another entertaining collection.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3702323080

[Don]

The Reaper, by Peter Lovesey
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lizzie Wilson]

Gone Girl! It totally lives up to the hype and I kinda knew some spoiler but that didn’t even take away from how good of a read it was. I loved it! I’m really enjoying getting into thrillers like these. A couple years ago I didn’t have the stomach for it but now I’ve found that thrillers are what get me back into reading because they’re such page turners.

[Woman Reading]

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

This was much better than I had expected - not only because it's by Dickens (because I didn't like my HS experience with A Great Expectations) but because many adaptations had overplayed the sentimental aspects.

So thanks to this group for suggesting this - a timely and successful Dickens novel.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3697267054

[Don]

The Mistake, by KL Slater
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrodrick slowed his growing backlog]

There is or was supposed to be a buddy read. It is a book worthy of a buddy read and I hope I have not missed out.

[Kirsten]

The last book I read was Pupcakes by Annie England Noblin. It was cute, but unfortunately the dogs were more three-dimensional than the people.

[Don]

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

[Woman Reading]

It took me a little persistence at the beginning but it was well worth the effort. Laura Restrepo's Delirium deserved winning the Alfaguara prize for a tale of madness set in 1983 Colombia.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3697266099

[Janice]

The last book I read was I just finished it tonight. :)

[Natalie]

The Outsiders

[Dipanwita]

I just finished reading All Systems Red by Martha Wells, which is the first novella in the series The Muderbot Diaries.

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3699599011

[Woman Reading]

The last nonfiction I finished was The Disordered Mind: What Unusual Brains Tell Us About Ourselves by Eric R. Kandel, who had won the Nobel prize for his research into memory.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3648998200

[Woman Reading]

I just finished Route 66 Still Kicks: Driving America's Main Street by Rick Antonson because vicarious travel is currently my only available option.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3751014970

[Woman Reading]

My first fiction book of 2021 - Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel. Sci-fi lite with a pandemic- induced apocalypse.

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

[Woman Reading]

Inferior: How Science Got Women Wrong—and the New Research That's Rewriting the Story by Angela Saini - an interesting overview of competing theories and evidence in neuroscience, psychology, and evolutionary biology .

my review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3741142714

[Dipanwita]

I finished a short story collection, The Good, the Bad and the Unknown: Deep, Dark and Captivating Crime Stories from India by Raj Tilak Roushan.

My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3701075940

[Woman Reading]

I finished The Humans by Matt Haig. Maybe some would consider this Sci-fi lite, but I really liked it.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3762318602

[Ishita]

The last book I read was

If you love a good, intense psychological thriller, like I do, then go for it.

[Mystic]

Finished Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough, a nice psychological thriller with a paranormal trope which adds to the spice and makes it different from others.

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

[Woman Reading]

Pacific: Silicon Chips and Surfboards, Coral Reefs and Atom Bombs, Brutal Dictators, Fading Empires, and the Coming Collision of the World's Superpowers by Simon Winchester

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3753507151