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[PattyMacDotComma]

I recently enjoyed Dark Fire by C.J. Sansom. Everyone’s farourite hunchbacked lawyer, Matthew Shardlake, works reluctantly for evil Thomas Cromwell and survives (only just) to live another day in Henry VIII’s Tudor England. Great book but scary times.
4.5★ : My review

[Karen]

While moving to Arizona from California last week, I finished listening to The War That Saved My Life (a wonderful Newberry Honor Book) and MC Beaton's Death of Yesterday. I am now about half way through Fredrik Backman's My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry. I think the narrator is the same as the lady who narrated Britt-Marie Was Here, and I am enjoying it but have a lot less time to listen. I don't know which is worse-packing boxes or unpacking boxes!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I started:


The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald


Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny


The Dog of the South by Charles Portis


The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks

[PattyMacDotComma]

She writes a good story, does Aussie author Liane Moriarty. I just enjoyed The Husband's Secret.
4.5★ My review

[PattyMacDotComma]

There be dragons in the sunset!! Naomi Howarth's beautiful new The Night Dragon explains nightfall.
5★ My review (with some illustrations)

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Moving Target by Ross Macdonald
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Now I'm starting:


Personal Injuries by Scott Turow

[PattyMacDotComma]

Midnight at the Bright Ideas Bookstore by Matthew J. Sullivan is a mystery with a catchy title, but it isn't really about books.
3.5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Lost Stars by Claudia Gray
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And now I'm starting:


Invader by C.J. Cherryh

[Renee]

Homegoing I am read this book in preparation for a book group mash up. A mash up is where we read the book and then an expert joins us while we discuss the book. Homegoing is a story of slavery featuring people from Ghana. It is butifully written. It is a heart breaking book starting in the tribal villages. It goes through the English slavers. It follows descendants to the American South.


The book is fascinating. I am looking forward to the mash up. We have someone who is writing a book on the Ghana history joining us. It shoud be a fu evening.
I do recommend this book.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I am not a gamer, but by golly I enjoyed Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. I won't look up all the 80s references, but enough are familiar that I bet all the others are accurate, too.
5★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Still lots of fun after all these years...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Renee wrote: "Homegoing I am read this book in preparation for a book group mash up. A mash up is where we read the book and then an expert joins us while we discuss the book. Homegoing is a stor..."

I loved Homegoing, Renee. I reviewed it here and included a family tree that wasn’t in my Kindle version. It would have been easier if I’d had it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Renee]

I think this is going to be my top book of the year. I would never have selected it on my own. That is why I enjoy book groups. I get exposed to new tittles.




PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Renee wrote: "Homegoing I am read this book in preparation for a book group mash up. A mash up is where we read the book and then an expert joins us while we discuss the book. Homeg..."

[PattyMacDotComma]

Renee wrote: "I think this is going to be my top book of the year. I would never have selected it on my own. That is why I enjoy book groups. I get exposed to new tittles. "

Exactly! Same here.

[M.E.]

Randy wrote: "I finished:


Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"

I really enjoyed that series. I love the world(s) Zalazny built and the mechanics of the universe.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Aussie author and now American citizen Geraldine Brooks set her novel Caleb's Crossing in early colonial America. Good book, but I wish she'd included a colonial dictionary.
3.5★ Link to my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

M.E. wrote: "Randy wrote: "I finished:


Nine Princes in Amber by Roger Zelazny

I really enjoyed that series. I love the world(s) Zalazny built and the mechanics of the universe."

I agree. I read it in high school and loved it so it was a lot of fun to revisit it. I'm reading the entire series with a different group over the next few months.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And now I'm starting


The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka

[Zeljka]

Well, good luck with that Kafka... That truly wasn't my cup of tea...
I'm anxious to hear your opinion 😊

[PattyMacDotComma]

I am such a fan of acclaimed Aussie author Tim Winton. Whether it's fiction, non-fiction or articles about the environment, politics, or men and boys, he captures places and voices, young and old, better than anybody.

Of course I loved his recent The Shepherd's Hut.
5★ Link to my review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Just finished Everything Here Is Beautiful, although of course it isn't. Mira T. Lee tells the story of what I'd describe as the frustrating devotion of an older sister to her younger.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Just read and LOVED Reservoir 13 by Jon McGregor. No wonder his work regularly makes the Man Booker Prize longlist. Such beautiful, easy reading.
5★ Link to my review

[vrenzy]

re read Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Zeljka wrote: "Well, good luck with that Kafka... That truly wasn't my cup of tea...
I'm anxious to hear your opinion 😊"

I finished The Metamorphosis and liked it a lot. I'll be posting reviews of the short stories as I go along, picking away at them over the next few weeks as time allows: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Senlin Ascends by Josiah Bancroft
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Dog of the South by Charles Portis
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started:


A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking


The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle


The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro

[PattyMacDotComma]

If it were a novel, you wouldn't believe it! Ali Gripper has written the story of The Barefoot Surgeon: The inspirational story of Dr Sanduk Ruit, the eye surgeon giving sight and hope to the world's poor.

Indefatigable isn't a strong enough word for him.
4.5★ Link to my review with photos

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just read a kids' book, Power to the Princess by Vita Weinstein Murrow. Get rid of the Disney and the poor grammar and it could have potential.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

I read the first of a thriller series, Orphan X by Gregg Hurwitz. Evan Smoak is the Nowhere Man, the one you need to find when you can’t get help anywhere.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Renee]

Beneath a Scarlet Sky The book has an interesting subject. It is good.


I found some of the book to read too much like hero worship for my taste.

[Anisha Inkspill]

The Iliad and The Silmarillion - I've been meaning to read both for years - so that's two ticked off, that leaves loads more :)

[PattyMacDotComma]

Some historical 'faction' in R.J. Gadney's fictionalised biography, Albert Einstein Speaking. He was a real character and a trial to his teachers (and lovers).
3.5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Lisa]

Finished this one:

3.5★

Here's my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Lisa wrote: "Finished this one:

3.5★

Here's my review"

Nice review Lisa! I liked this one a little bit less than you did. I agree it was slow-paced. The Russian countryside setting and the peasant folklore were my favorite parts. There were some romance elements that didn't appeal to me but might be more interesting to others. I'm thinking about trying the sequel so if you read it please let us know what you thought.

[PattyMacDotComma]

I strongly recommend Jo Rooks's lovely new children's book about emotions, A Box of Butterflies, for all families and schools. It includes helpful notes for the adults, too.
5★ Link to my review with lots of pictures

[Hannah]

I've just finished reading Workhouse Orphans by Holly Green.

5*
I enjoyed it to the point that I really didn't want it to be over and am really hoping there'll be a sequel one day. I need to know what happens to May and Gus! However, there were some very obvious spelling errors (to me at least) and one major date error that had me flicking back pages to see if I was going mad - I wasn't. Otherwise, I really did enjoy it despite this.

Next on the list are Jane Eyre and The Land Girls

[Lisa]

Randy wrote: Nice review Lisa! I liked this one a little bit less than you did. I agree it was slow-pac..."

Will do!

[Lisa]

Finished 3 books. ★★★★ across the board.


Here's my review


Here's my review


Here's my review

I'm feeling pretty proud of myself. After a summer chock full of comfort re-reads, I'm finally tackling my TBR and and enjoying the experience! ☺

[Lisa]

Just finished this one and loved it!


Here's my review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Only Harmless Great Thing by Brooke Bolander
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Personal Injuries by Scott Turow
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

[PattyMacDotComma]

Lisa wrote: "Just finished this one and loved it!


Here's my review"

Good review, Lisa! If you let everyone comment, friends or not, you can get some interesting discussions, especially with a book like this one (which I loved, too).

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Most Beautiful Village in the World by Japanese author Yutaka Kobayashi is a children's picture book about Afghanistan and everyday life and war. Yes, war. It reaches little kids' books, too. :(
4★ Link to my review with pictures

[Ginny]

Just finished "Warlight", a wonderful fiction book and started "Old in Art School"

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished three more:


The Guns of Avalon by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


A Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started a couple new books:


Provinces of Night by William Gay


The Secret History by Donna Tartt

[Han]

The last book I read was Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince. The plot twist was amazing but also sad. I had never read Harry Potter during my childhood. But better late than never. Looking forward to reading the seventh book and watch the sixth movie.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


The Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I'm starting:


The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just read The Timeless Land by Eleanor Dark, which is now a classic of well-researched Australian historical fiction about the First Fleet, the soldiers, the convicts, and the local Indigenous people.
4.5★ Link to my review

[Akshay]

Last book i read was
Hot lights and Cold Steel By Dr.Michael Collins

[PattyMacDotComma]

LOVED THIS ONE! 2028 by Aussie author Ken Saunders throws the FUNNIEST, most clever spanner (monkey wrench) in the works of modern politics that anyone could imagine! We MUST make it happen!! I’m off to change my name.
5★ Link to my enthusiastic review!

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

Yesterday I finished:


The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy, 2016 edited by Rich Horton
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


The Lincoln Lawyer by Michael Connelly
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And I started reading:


The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle


A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

[PattyMacDotComma]

Duelling Facebook groups! Not quite the “duelling banjos” of “Deliverance”, but women can get pretty nasty. Choose your weapons in
Those Other Women by Aussie Nicola Moriarty (yes, sister of Liane).
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...