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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
How do you know if someone is attracted to you for your 'real' self or for what they think you represent? The Weddings by Alexander Chee is an excellent short story from the new Amazon Original Stories collection, 'Inheritance'.
Link to my reviewStill available on NetGalley, if you're a NetGalley reader.
Finished How to Live: A Life of Montaigne in One Question and Twenty Attempts at An Answer by Sarah Bakewell. Her approach and style is very engaging and informative. I enjoyed it.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
About to start a cosy,
Beating About the Bush byM.C. Beaton as a bit of light relief after all my recent dark reads, including the very thrilling
Cold Heart Creek by Lisa Reganwhich I read overnight. My spoiler free review can be found at my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The short story The Lion's Den by Anthony Marra was a 5 star read for me and reminded me why I love this author's previous novel so much. 
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Laid In Earth is my favourite Czech detective Josef Slonský investigation so far. Number 6 in the series harks back to the Communist regime and evidence of their interrogations in Prague. English author Graham Brack has created an appealing cast of characters.
5★ Link to my review
My review of The Lies We Told by Diane Chamberlain
Disappointed in this one from a usually favourite author so only 2 stars.
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I' didn't even know it was out! Glad to have read this of yours, and glad you liked it so much!!! I'll place in my TBR list for 2020
LauraT wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of Olive, Again by Elizabeth Strouthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I' didn't even know it was out! Glad to have read th..."
I got my copy from the library and it has a long waiting list! Enjoy it when you get to it Laura:)
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I just re-read Olive Kitteridge, which has been a firm favourite since I first met Olive many years ago. Elizabeth Strout is some kind of special writer. Her books aren't long, but they occupy so much mind-space.
5★ Link to my review
I read The Bird King by G. Willow Wilson. I thought it started off really strongly, but then the story got a bit bogged down with a convoluted plot. A bit disappointing since it was based on a beautiful 12th century poem, The Conference of the Birds.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars
If the cockles of your heart could do with a little warming, let Truman Capote's charming A Christmas Memory do the trick. A lonely little boy (him) and a loving old lady (elderly relative) get ready to cook up a storm for the festive season!
5★ Link to my Christmas memory review with a link to a film version of it!
My review of To the Land of Long Lost Friends by Alexander McCall Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Josh Venkataraman was a college student who read a book, got fired up, started a Change.org petition demanding justice, and after a determined slog over several years, this is the result: Accidental Activist: Justice for the Groveland Four. It's wonderful to see youthful enthusiasm infect old fogies and get things done! 
3.5★>4★ Link to my review
My review of Pianos and Flowers: Brief Encounters of the Romantic Kind by Alexander McCall Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Latest two:The Lost Book of Moses: The Hunt for the World's Oldest Bible by Chanan Tigay - 4 stars - My Review
The Welsh Girl: A Novel by Peter Ho Davies - 4 stars - My Review
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My review of Teardrop Lane by Emily March
4 and a half stars
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I recently enjoyed Anthony Marra's short story The Lion's Den. An author son who has capitalised on his father's notoriety has moved back home. Awkward?
4★ Link to my 'Lion's Den' reviewStill available on NetGalley.
I really liked the collection of three holiday short stories A Christmas Memory, One Christmas, & The Thanksgiving Visitor by Truman CapoteMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Leslie wrote: "I have finished Star Soldiers by Andre Norton - a solid 4*. This omnibus contains "Star Guard" and "Star Rangers" (aka "The Last Planet") - the 2 novels about Central Control."Star ..."
I've re-read quite a bit of Andre Norton over the past couple of years, though most of it was her Witch World series which I still enjoyed.
Read book 3 in the Noughts and Crosses series by Majorie Blackman, Checkmate and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3090697596. Thought this was better than the first two.
Finished
The Woman in the White Kimono. An immersive read but the storyline lacks originality.My review:
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My review of the The Last Days of New Paris by China Miévillehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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