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The Last Book I Read Was...
The Circus Thief is a colourful picture book for kids showing 1929 Pennsylvania. Here's my review, with some illustrations.
Link to my review - with illustrations
A Superior Spectre, Aussie author Angela Meyer's debut novel, is kind of genre-bending. Or genre-fluid? I think many readers will love it.
Link to my review
The Illustrated A Brief History of Time/The Universe in a Nutshell
by Stephen Hawking. Difficult reading. Amazing how quantum theory has advanced in the last century. The observation of gravitational waves predicted by Einstein was recently realized. I'm still not sold on the existence of "wormholes".
Half-Truths and Semi-Miracles is a reissue of Anne Tyler’s 1974 story. If I had a light like this, I’d be tempted to hide it under a bushel, I think, ungrateful so-and-sos.
Link to my review
Last night I finished The Alienist by Caleb Carr. It was really good and now I'm planning on watching the show.
How to bake everything. Loved it! Can't wait to actually try the recipes.
I can't believe I'd never read Rebecca! I thought, well, 80 years old, classic, guess I SHOULD read it. Silly me for waiting. Daphne du Maurier nailed it!
5★ Link to my review (no spoilers)
The Animators is the last book that I read. It came up as a discounted book for kindle so I go it and really enjoyed the story. I usually read nonfiction but this one drew me in.
Finished these two. ★★★ 1/2 for both.
The Hundred Thousand Kingdoms (Inheritance Trilogy #1), by N.K. Jemisin
A good fantasy, although I didn't get into it as much as I expected.
Here's My Review
Mr. Mercedes (Bill Hodges #1), by Stephen King
A good thriller, one of Stephen King's better novels.
Here's My Review
Reading these now:
I finished:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And now I'm starting:
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Powerful stuff. Sea Prayer by award-winner Khaled Hosseini is a tiny, beautifully illustrated must-read. Please read the review and share his message!
5★ Link to my review with several illustrations
Just finished Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine and just before that My Year of Rest and Relaxation...polar opposites! Eleanor is a hoot!!! Wonderful book.
I finished:
The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Aussie author Kate Morton has produced another back-and-forth through time novel, The Clockmaker's Daughter, that's bound to be popular.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
These are two great kids' non-fiction books about their favourite subjects: dinosaurs and sharks! And full of the facts they love to stun grown-ups with. I included lots of screen shots so you can see what you're getting and what kids are learning. (Be honest - you are learning, too.)The real books come with kits to build skeletons - good fun, I bet.
Monster Sharks: Megalodon and Other Giant Prehistoric Predators of the Deep
5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and Jurassic Giants: T. rex and Other Prehistoric Predators
4.5★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Pulitzer prize-winner you don't have to be a literary genius to enjoy! Less by Andrew Sean Greer is a delight!
5★ Link to my review
Hi ^^The last book i read was "La rage". A french version of a polish thriller called " Gniew" from the writer "Zygmunt Miloszewski".
We follow some "prosecutors" during an investigation. Kind of crime: domestic violence and revenge.
I finished one of the best books I have read all year:
Provinces of Night by William Gay
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
HALLOWEEN! Click-Clack the Rattlebag is a satisfyingly creepy (and free!) short story by Neil Gaiman. Share with your friends and kids!
5★ My review with link to free story
Yesterday I finished: 
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Black Echo by Michael Connelly
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
I enjoyed Adrian Hyland's first novel, Moonlight Downs - intrigue in the outback with the feisty half-Aboriginal, half-white Emily Tempest. I'm a fan!
4.5★ Link to my review
I finished these: 
Ancient Sorceries and Other Weird Stories by Algernon Blackwood
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Boy's Life by Robert R. McCammon
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Night of the Hunter by Davis Grubb
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sign of the Unicorn by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Too Big to Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System from Crisis — and Themselves by Andrew Ross Sorkin
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
The Black Ice by Michael Connelly
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Mystery & Detective by Arthur Conan Doyle
The Best American Mystery Stories 2016 edited by Elizabeth George
Ah, another good Aussie debut! Love seeing such good new talent. In The Nowhere Child by Christian White, Aussie Kim is told - surprise! - you're actually American Sandy!
4.5★ Link to my review
I would never have survived these times in old Ireland, but I'm glad a lot of my ancestors did. The Good People were anything but good fairies in Hannah Kent's excellent novel.
4★ Link to my review
I just enjoyed Kit de Waal's latest book, The Trick to Time. She's got a good handle on how people work and what keeps them from breaking.
4★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Aussie author Caroline Overington is an award-winning investigative journalist, so I knew I'd enjoy her story of a celebrity's missing toddler. The Ones You Trust reveals the ins and outs of publicity vs police.
4★Link to my review
The last book I read was The Noel Stranger by Richard Paul Evans. This book is part of the author’s Noel series.
Hana's Suitcase: A True Story is the simple but fascinating account of a child of the Holocaust researched by a young Japanese woman for Japanese school children. Canadian author Karen Levine's book has been published around the world. Lots of photos with my review. 
5★Link to my review
I just finished:
Our Man in Havana by Graham Greene
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
The Ministry of Fear by Graham Greene
I finished: 
The Hand of Oberon by Roger Zelazny
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started a re-read of:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Today I finished The Fortunate Ones by Ellen Umansky. This book was about a painting by Chaim Soutine and how it affected two women born 40 years apart. It began with the rise of Nazism
I finished:
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Return of Sherlock Holmes by Arthur Conan Doyle, Fiction, Mystery & Detective by Arthur Conan Doyle
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
The Power of the Dog by Don Winslow
This brand new children's picture book, My Friend Sleep by Laura Baker, could help youngsters deal with with some sleep problems. I've included lots of Hannah Peck's artwork.
4★ Link to my review with illustrations[For some reason, illustrations aren't showing in the Goodreads app, but they're fine if you use GR in a web browser.]
This 55-year-old "lost American classic" has lost none of its power or relevance and certainly does deserve to be republished. A Different Drummer by William Melvin Kelley takes place in a fictitious US State in the Deep South.
5★ Link to my review
For a group read, I read Raymond Carver's short story Cathedral, which was curious indeed. It is the title story of a collection that was nominated for a Pulitzer Prize. I included a link to where The London Magazine has published it online. 
Link to my review
I finished:
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I'm starting:
The Chimes by Charles Dickens
Wendell Berry shows us a lifetime in the moving short story Stand By Me. (Available free online)
4.5★ Link to my review
Evan Smoak is still answering his phone and asking the desperate callers "Do you need my help?" Well, duh! Of course, that's why were given the secret number of The Nowhere Man! This is #2 in Gregg Hurwitz's action-packed Orphan X series.
4★ My review
I finished:
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I started reading:
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
The Courts of Chaos by Roger Zelazny
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It was good but time was not its friend. I enjoyed it but didn't love it. I remember my first read I couldn't put it down. It is a story where girl gets in trouble, Well she be saved?
I think I have become more a fan of the books where girl gets in trouble and saves herself.