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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)
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Apr 12, 2020 06:23PM
I recently abandoned listening to
Dead to Her by Sarah Pinborough. You can find out why by checking out my spoiler free review at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Small Mercies by Aussie author Richard Anderson is brand new and an excellent read about a couple dealing with drought and doubt and two adult sons. 
4★ Link to my review of 'Small Mercies'
Starting
Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan after finishing the wonderful and atmospheric
The Caretakers by Eliza Maxwell. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...The Caretakers is available on NetGalley until 28 April. 😷❤😍📚
Stoner by John Williams is one of those books I've been saving for a 'rainy day'. I figure a pandemic qualifies, and my goodness, I'm glad I had such a good one tucked away. Terrific!
5★ Link to my review of "Stoner"
My review of Greatest Hits by Laura Barnett
2 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are both of your books going?
Just read and absolutely loved the essay collection It's Not OK to Feel Blue
If you have ever had a mental health issue or know anyone who does, you should absolutely do yourself a favour and read this book 💙
My 5⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've finished, and would not recommend, The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Started
The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler after finishing the breathtaking
Find Her Alive by Lisa Regan. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hannah wrote: "I've finished, and would not recommend, The Bookshop by Penelope Fitzgerald.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I agree with you, Hannah. It was disappointing. I read it and also gave it 2 stars.
Sandy how are both of your books going?
Here are two that have nothing much in common except for the fact that they're the latest books I've enjoyed:On Lies, Secrets, and Silence: Selected Prose, 1966-1978 by Adrienne Rich
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished this one and found it delightful:Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonson - 4 stars - My Review
Started
Never Forget by Martin Michaud after finishing
The Perfect Couple by Jackie Kabler. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Sandy how are both of your books going?
Even for Jeanette Winterson this is an unusual, funny, thought-provoking, historical fiction/sci-fi/sex-romp/love story. I’m not surprised Frankissstein: A Love Story was long-listed for the 2019 Booker. Hilarious and scary!
4.5★Link to my ‘Frankissstein’ review
I have finished the Gothic horror Melmoth the Wanderer. I do NOT recommend it! But it is a classic so possibly others will see something of worth in it that escaped me...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Oblomov by Ivan Goncharov about a Russian landowner and one of the most endearing couch potatoes in all of literature. This is a re-read for me, and I loved it as much now as I did when I first read it eons ago.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've finished A Conjuring of Light, the final book in the Shades of Magic trilogy, by V.E. Schwab.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally got around to reading this literary science fiction classic:A Canticle for Leibowitz byWalter M. Miller Jr. - 5 stars - My Review
A couple of days ago I finished The Secrets Between Us by Thrity Umrigar the sequel to The Space Between Us. Huge fan of both books, gave them 5 unequivocal stars, didn't think it possible but enjoyed the sequel even more. Here’s my review.
Have started
A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni after finishing the complicated
Never Forget by Martin Michaud. My spoiler free review can be found at https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... and https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Banksia Bay Beach Shack by Sandie Docker
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
About to begin
Can You See Her? by S.E. Lynes after finishing the 4 star 7th book in the Tracy Crosswhite series
A Cold Trail by Robert Dugoni. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage sandysbookaday.wordpress.com
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This is a re-read for me, and I lov..."
I'm about re-starting it tomorrow or the day after. THe first time I read it I loved it; I'll see if it stands a second meeting
I liked the premise of this climate-based apocalyptic fiction (not so much the execution):Rivers by Michael Farris Smith - 3 stars - My Review
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