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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I recommend this to anyone dealing with anxiety and/or depression - their own, or someone else’s. Your Own Kind of Girl is Aussie singer and entertainer Clare Bowditch’s raw, often funny, memoir, which includes lots of tips and a good reference list. The cover is one of my favourites!
4.5★ Link to my review
I finished Ms Ice Sandwich by Mieko Kawakami, a charming, subtle novella, translated from the Japanese, about a young boy's first infatuation.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read book 1 in a series by Tanith Lee - Night's Master and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3201778542
Finished reading Memoirs of Hadrian by Marguerite Yourcenar. It was a brilliant bookz the best of the year so far for me. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Great review, Raul! I read the book a year ago and really loved it.
Read Thomas Burnett Swann's Wolfwinter - and loved it, which is a big change from several others of his that I've read - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3201955281.
Currently reading two books
The Guest List by Lucy Foley and
The Memory Wood by Sam Lloyd (both excellent reads) after finishing
Only Lies Remain by Val Collins. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com
My review of Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery by Kerry Greenwood
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Bluegrass Bend by Mandy Magro
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Good Turn by Aussie/Irish author Dervla McTiernan is her best one yet! Irish detective Cormac Reilly is trying to fight crime and his superiors (I use the term loosely) at the same time. 
5★ Link to my "Good Turn" review
Finished The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner. I wrote my Master's thesis on it. I think it is as brilliant now as it was when I first read it eons ago.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished You Are Not Alone4 Solid Stars
Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Shelly Bay Ladies Swimming Circle by Sophie Green
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished re-reading Sula by Toni MorrisonWhich was still wonderful. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Is anybody normal, or do we just think everyone else is? I recently read Sally Rooney's Normal People, which was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2018. 
4★ Link to my review
My review of The Love Child by Rachel Hore
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Stranger, by Harlan Coben, good read, well worth it, here is my reviewhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Elsewhere, Home by Leila Aboulela, a collection of short stories with variations on the theme of the challenges and rewards faced by immigrants in their adopted country. It's a good collection but the focus was a bit repetitive. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finally written a review for an interesting but challenging scifi I read last year. 
DalíMy review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Interesting this second one: more than a crime story, it an essay on how history is written. To be considered!
I read The Plains by Gerald Murnane. I read his Border Districts last year. Well, this is another strange and fascinating book. I'm not sure how he does what he does, but the effect is mesmerizing.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read book 2 of Tanith Lee's Flat Earth series Death's Master which started off promisingly but derailed towards the end - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1915123698.
Read The Girl With All the Gifts and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3209684129.
My review of The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz by Erik Larsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was absolute remarkable read. Disregard the controversy.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Disregard the controversy.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."I'm glad you enjoyed it. I have high hopes for this one. I often find a little controversy that makes the book more interesting for me.
Happy Birthday to Ralph Ellison!My review of his magnum opus
Invisible Man: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One of my favourite authors is Aussie Sulari Gentill who writes the delightful Rowland Sinclair historical mystery series. I loved Paving the New Road. He and his friends are in Munich in 1933, watching the frightening rise of Hitler and Fascism. 
5★ Link to my review of "Paving the New Road
Another colourful book for kids that adults will enjoy is Portrait of an Artist: Vincent van Gogh: Discover the Artist Behind the Masterpieces. I shared several of the illustrations to show how good it is.
5★ Link to my Van Gogh review
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