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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I've just finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Rage of Dragons by Evan Winter. I almost quit the book early on. So many characters with unusual names was hard keeping things straight. But then the action picked up and really enjoyed the 2nd half of the book. Give it 3.5 to 4 stars. I think it's the first book I've ever "E-Read". I still prefer an actual book. Old-School lol.
Jess wrote: "I've just finished Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I have heard good things about that book - I'll have to try harder to find time for it.
Read Tanith Lee's Tamastara, or The Indian Nights and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3243365021
Starting
The Girl You Gave Away by Jess Ryder after finishing
The Boy from the Woods by Harlan Coben. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com
A long dirge from the Mississippi Gulf coast. Native Guard
by Natasha Trethewey. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished reading Fools Crow today and I thoroughly enjoyed it. Told from the perspective of the Pikuni Blackfoot Natives, this story tells of the confusion and disruption White men brought with them to this land. Well told.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just started
Dear Wife by Kimberly Belle after finishing what was, for me, a disappointing read,
The Girl You Gave Away by Jess Ryder. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are both of your books going?
My review of He Shall Thunder in the Sky by Elizabeth Peters
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have been reading some of the poems of Edgar Allan Poe and his most famous poem The Raven was really enjoyable to see again after so long. His imagination knew no bounds and he has an uncanny ability to build up tension and suspense in his writing. Some of his short stories are the stuff of nightmares and i really am enjoying my book Selected Tales by him.
Mt thoughts about why I DNF A House Among the Trees by Julia Glass
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've enjoyed a few of the Andy Carpenter series and decided to start from the beginning to get some back story. This series is very character-driven, which I enjoy.Open and Shut is the first of the Andy Carpenter series. I enjoyed meeting him at the start of this series and learning about his beginnings.
My review of this book and the others in this series does not mention the mystery. I find these books more character-driven. The mysteries are to remain a mystery until they are read. They are entertaining.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I recently read the perfectly titled Sweet Sorrow by David Nicholls. Young summer love, Shakespeare, and much ado about lots of things, romantic and otherwise. 
Link to my review
About to begin
Our Little Cruelties by Liz Nugent after finishing
Problem Child by Victoria Helen Stone. My spoiler free review can be found at my webpage and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading The Chalk Man, by CJ Tudor, excellent debut novel, homages to Stephen King's work, highly recommended.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Petra wrote: "I've enjoyed a few of the Andy Carpenter series and decided to start from the beginning to get some back story. This series is very character-driven, which I enjoy.Open and Shut is..."
That sounds like a series that I would enjoy. Not that I need more series to read but what the he**!
I loved Aussie author Tabitha Bird's debut novel A Lifetime of Impossible Days. It does cover a lifetime, and it is impossible, but I was happy to suspend disbelief and enjoy her fine character/s!
4.5~5★ Link to my Impossible Days review
Finished A Tiger for Malgudi by R.K. Narayan. A delightful story told from the first-person point of view of the tiger.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I was thinking the same ;)!
LauraT wrote: "Leslie wrote: "Petra wrote: "I've enjoyed a few of the Andy Carpenter series and decided to start from the beginning to get some back story. This series is very character-driven, which I enjoy.[b..."
Lesley and Laura, these are cozy, comfort mysteries, with a warm, humorous character and dogs. As with most series, the first book isn't the best, it's an introduction to all the characters. I've read some of the others in the series and it gets better. Unfortunately, it seems that the second of the series is out of print. I'm on the hunt for a copy, though. There must be a few around.
I recommend this series as a fun and entertaining read.
Thanks Petra - just the sort of book that is good for me when life is stressful.
Happy National Poetry Month! Sor Juana's Love Poems.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Time to catch up with posting recent reads!The Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri. I read it, but mostly for the poetry. Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates. This was SO GOOD. Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Some Jonathan Swift satire--A Modest Proposal (review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...) and
A Tale of a Tub (review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...)
And another really good novel, The Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am halfway through Leaving Everything Most Loved by Jacqueline Winspear and really enjoying this book.The main character, Maisie Dobbs is one feisty psychologist/detective you won’t soon forget. I’m not much of. Mystery/Thriller reader but the first book I read in this series was recommended to me by a book
seller at Barnes & Noble and I am forever grateful to her. This series so far is 15 books and begins before WWI and is now up to WWII. This is the 10th book I can safely say that each one is a winner.
B. P. wrote: "Happy National Poetry Month! Sor Juana's Love Poems.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I didn't realize that it was National Poetry Month! I'll have to put some poetry on my month's TBR ;)
About to begin
Strangers by C.L. Taylor after finishing the amazing and brilliant
She Has a Broken Thing Where Her Heart Should Be by J.D. Barker. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My review of The Garden Of Lost Memories by Ruby Hummingbird
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
That was some book. I urge you to read The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman.
Amalia wrote: "Finished The Painted Bird
by Jerzy Kosiński5 stars
My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3259227083"
That book has been on the periphary of my radar for a while - with your 5* review, I will have to move it up on my TBR!
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Leslie wrote: "Thanks Petra - just the sort of book that is good for me when life is stressful."
Thanks Petra; I'll give them a look then - even if if there were cats it would have been better;)!!!
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