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[Joy D]

Really enjoyed this story about personal transformation set in Newfoundland:

The Shipping News by Annie Proulx - 4 stars - My Review

[Kathleen]

Two new to me authors that I enjoyed:

Palace Walk by Naguib Mahfouz. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

In a Glass Darkly by J. Sheridan Le Fanu. Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of Murder at the Playhouse by Helena Dixon

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Dale]

My review of A Life Of Her Own
by Fiona McCallum

2 and a half stars.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Canadian Jen]

Finished State of Wonder. A fabulous read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Joy D]

This is a mind-bending science fiction about time and memory - really enjoyed it:

Recursion by Blake Crouch - 4 stars - My Review

[Christine]

Sandy how’s your book going called The Van Apfel Girls Are Gone by Felicity McLean?

[Faith]

My review of The Inugami Curse by Seishi Yokomizo

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Pam]

Finally finished Philip K Dick's VALIS and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3134096657.

[Pam]

Latest read - Lincoln's Dreams by Connie Willis. Found this one rather disappointing sadly - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3381646037.

[Dale]

My review of In Want of a Knife By Elizabeth Kane Buzzelli

4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Only a middling 2.5 stars from me for Her Perfect Life by Rebecca Taylor. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of Competence by Gail Carriger

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Of course I knew I'd enjoy a trip to Botswana with Alexander McCall Smith's Mma Ramotswe and her No.1 Ladies' Detective Agency. Morality for Beautiful Girls is the third enjoyable book, and there are more!
4★ My "Morality" review

[Christine]

Sandy how’s your book going called Her Perfect Life by Rebecca Taylor?

[Kim]

Just finished The Heart's Invisible Furies by John Boyne

Absolutely loved this - 5* (10/10):-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Faith]

My review of The Resolutions by Brady Hammes

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Luffy Sempai]

My review of On the Fence, by Kasie West...

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Tamara]

I read The Bear and the Nightingale by Katherine Arden. A magical fantasy set in 14thC Russia with elements of folk and fairy tales. I enjoyed it but I don't think I was quite as thrilled with it as many others seem to have been.

My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Hannah]

I've finished Miss Burma by Charmaine Craig.

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of City of Lies by Victoria Thompson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kathleen]

Two short ones, both excellent.

I Am Not Your Negro by James Baldwin
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and The Ballad of the Sad Café by Carson McCullers
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Joy D]

Just finished this beautifully written historical fiction that conveys a sense of time and place, and feels authentic.

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan by Lisa See - 5 stars - My Review

[Dale]

My review of The Cake Shop In The Garden by Carole Matthews

3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Luffy Sempai]

My review of Moment of Truth:-

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Pam]

Read volume 1 of a collection by Clark Ashton Smith - Out Of Space And Time Volume 1 - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3384351702.

[Joy D]

Just completed:
The Memory Keeper's Daughter by Kim Edwards - completed 6/10/20 - 3 stars - My Review

[Nichole]

My review for Edward Unspooled by Craig Lancaster:

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

2 stars

[Dale]

My review of I Know My Name by C.J. Cooke

4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of Two for Sorrow by Nicola Upson

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[PattyMacDotComma]

Like Amalia above, I read a similar children's book about a strong girl. Greta Thunberg has inspired people all over the world. Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara has told her story here for children, all of whom should know about her. . . and so should their parents!
Link to my review of 'Greta Thunberg' with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

Slonský's First Murder by Graham Brack is a free short story that's a prequel to his popular series about my favourite clever and amusing Czech detective.
Link to my 'Slonsky' review which includes a link to the story online

[Joy D]

Portrait of a large family and their childhood home in Detroit:

The Turner House by Angela Flournoy - 4 stars - My Review

[Phrynne]

My review of The Talented Mr. Varg by Alexander McCall Smith

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Atmospheric and a little creepy The Red, Red Snow by Caro Ramsay https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...

[Christine]

Sandy how’s your book going called The Red, Red Snow by Caro Ramsay?

[Joy D]

Finished this experimental fiction published in 1979:

If on a winter's night a traveler by Italo Calvino - 3 stars - My Review

[Luffy Sempai]

My boring review of Murder Unleashed:-

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Faith]

My review of Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Kathleen]

An excellent classic short story:
The Country of the Blind by H.G. Wells

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

And a touching newer novel I adored:
Tin Man by Sarah Winman

Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[518]

Just finished and thought that the ending didn't go well. Wouldn't recommend.

[Dale]

My review of Silk Shadows, Rings of Gold by Anne Hamilton

4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Phrynne]

My review of A Study in Murder by Callie Hutton

https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Canadian Jen]

finished . Good grief - I couldn't get through it fast enough. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
May be a case of it's not you, it's me.

[Kim]

Just finished my latest read, which only took me just over a day:-

Did You Ever Have a Family by Bill Clegg

Rated this one 4* (8.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Joy D]

Took me quite a while, but I finally finished:

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie - 3 stars - My Review

[Dale]

My review of Wayward Heart by Cathryn Hein

3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Paul]

Coronavirus really threw me off my groove of posting here, but thankfully not my groove of reading in my spare time, so rather than post 30 links to various reviews, here's a sort of Top 10 of reviews I'm proud of, from books I both liked and didn't over the past few months:

The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin (2017)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Black Ball by Ralph Ellison (2018)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

It Can't Happen Here by Sinclair Lewis (1935)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Saints Under Siege: The Texas State Raid on the Fundamentalist Latter Day Saints by Richard Wright and James Richardson (2011)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Evolution of God by Robert Wright (2009)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Women's Oppression Today: The Marxist/Feminist Encounter by Michele Barrett (1980)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West by Gregory Maguire (1995)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Passing by Nella Larsen (1929)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Don Quixote by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra (1605)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Topeka School by Ben Lerner (2019)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

If They Come in the Morning ... Voices of Resistance by Angela Davis (1971)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Sandysbookaday (taking a step back for a while)]

Sweet, charming but somewhat predictable The Summer House by Lauren K. Denton https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/..