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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Done reading The Spy Who Came In from the Cold by John le CarréAn interesting Spy novel written in the early 60s that describes Intelligence and counter-Intelligence operations from Western and Eastern powers from that era
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read book 1 in a Louise Cooper fantasy series - The Deceiver and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3209683297.
Read book 3 in the Tanith Lee Flat Earth series - Delusion's Master and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1915123409.
My review of Listening to Love by Beth Wiseman
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "My reread of Devoted in Death 
by J.D. Robbhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Thanks I've added it to my to-read shelf :)
Alannah wrote: "Jen wrote: "This was absolute remarkable read. Disregard the controversy.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."I'm glad you enjoyed it. ..."
Hope you enjoy it!
Just started
The Orphan House by Ann Bennett after finishing
Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer, the first time I have read this author. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My review of White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racism by Robin DiAngelohttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Solaris by Stanisław Lem.I found the premise interesting but the execution dry and a bit dull. I also couldn't see the logic behind the actions of the 3 scientists.
This could have been a much better story. It's really an opportunity lost, I think.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Guerra y paz 2 by Leo TolstoyRating: 5 stars.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
About to begin
Night Train to Murder by Simon R. Green after finishing the lovely
The Orphan House by Ann Bennett. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Rating: 5 stars.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
One of the best book ever written
I just finished Devil in a Blue Dress by Walter Mosley. An amazing origin of this now fixture of detective fiction.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just began reading The Pawnbroker which is an older title write by my friend’s father, Edward Lewis Wallant. He was only 36 years old when he died so this is his only book. But what a book - absolutely wonderful. It was also made into a movie starring Rod Steiger.
My thoughts on why I abandoned Where The Wild Cherries Grow by Laura Madeleine
No rating
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Delirium's Mistress, book 4 in the Flat Earth series by Tanith Lee and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1915123431.
I just finished Real Life by Brandon Taylor and Black Enough (YA Anthology) last week, and then immediately started Just Mercy by Brian Stevenson and Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. I highly recommend both that I just finished. The latter two are intriguing and I'm not super far into them yet. They have a slower pace so far.I loved American Dirt prior to all of these as well.
I just finished What Lies Between Us5 stars! So Good
My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Saving Missy by Beth Morrey is bound to be a favourite of many. Old lady, cute dog, new friends. 
3★ Link to my review
Finished Butterflies in November by Auður Ava Ólafsdóttir (Iceland). I enjoyed it but not as much as her Hotel Silence.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Truths I Never Told You by Kelly Rimmer
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I loved my last two reads.Jude the Obscure
by Thomas Hardy. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and
The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations
by the incomparable Toni Morrison. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Sun Also Rises by Ernest Hemingway. It's considered a masterpiece but it just wasn't for me. I'm more of a Faulkner fan.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished a disappointing locked room mystery
Night Train to Murder by Simon R. Green which i hope is just a blip in an otherwise excellent series. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...I am about to begin
One Moment by Linda Green
My review of The Little Paris Patisserie by Julie Caplin
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Elizabethan England - Shakespeare and Marlowe as minor characters with questionable ethics - great mix of real and imagined characters in P.F. Chisholm’s entertaining Sir Robert Carey historical mystery series. Loved A Murder of Crows.
4.5★ Link to my Murder of Crows review
I enjoyed many of the old poems in Around the Boree Log and Other Verses by John O'Brien, especially “We’ll all be rooned, said Hanrahan”, the eternal pessimist. Always fun to read these.
3★ Link to my Boree Log review
Finished A Fist or a Heart by Kristín Eiríksdóttir (Iceland). I seem to be on a binge lately of reading women authors from Iceland. I enjoyed this one a lot. It's an award-winning novel.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
What a debut! I absolutely loved When We Were Vikings by Andrew David MacDonald. Zelda is different and awkward and she knows it, but she faces life with an honest earnestness that I wish more people had. 
5★ Link to my 'Vikings' review
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