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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I read Wilding: The Return of Nature to a British Farm by Isabella Tree. A detailed account of returning a 3,500 acre estate back to nature and the positive impact doing so has had on the natural environment. Informative and inspirational.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A light, enjoyable cozy mystery - The Penitent Priest
by J.R. Mathis. I received this book as a giveaway by the author.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Burning: Massacre, Destruction, and the Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by Tim Madiganhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Mercies by Kiran Millwood Hargrave. Based on the 1620 witch trials in Vardo, a remote Norwegian coastal village. The novel is well-researched and the writing is immersive and full of vivid detail.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Multigenerational family saga set in Korea and Japan covering the period 1910 to 1989. Pachinko by Min Jin Lee - 4 stars - My Review
Recently finished a pleasant read
The Shore House by Heidi Hostetter. Check out my review at my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not my thing - I read it for a challenge:The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman - 2 stars - My Review
Amalia wrote: "Finished Corazon Aquino
by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara5 stars
My review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3481750918"
Amalia, I can't see anything because it says your profile is set to PRIVATE and you are not accepting friends. I'm not sure what's happened - again - but I hope all is well with you!
This was a most delightful change of pace from reading thrillers during a pandemic. The House in the Cerulean Sea by T.J. Klune is Peter Pan in 1984. Both worrying and charming. Absolutely loved it!
5★ Link to my Cerulean Sea review
Sandy how are both of your books going?
This book tackles the meaning of life by exploring the concepts of lightness and weight. The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera - 4 stars - My Review
Nancy Wake
by Peter FitzSimons An interesting biography of Nancy Wake, New Zealand born but raised in Australia, who was an important figure in the Resistance of the Nazi invasion of France during WWII. Hadn't hear of her before. If you liked reading A Woman of No Importance: The Untold Story of the American Spy Who Helped Win World War II by Sonia Purnell, you will also like this book.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Beneath the Apple Leaves by Harmony Verna
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Magical and enthralling,
South of the Buttonwood Tree by Heather Webber. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Secrets in Death by J.D. Robb
Just as good the second time around:)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Translator by Leila Aboulela. A tender love story between a Sudanese widow and a Scottish professor. I've read a couple of Aboulela's novels and love the way she writes. Her writing is elegant and restrained.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Set in 1956, a black family relocates from Alabama to Pennsylvania after the death of their son:The Solace of Water by Elizabeth Byler Younts - 4 stars - My Review
My review of The Whitstable Pearl Mysteryby Julie Wassmer
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Sounds interisting; I'll look for it thanks Tamara!
Here's a weird combo of my latest three:The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
La Promesa by Silvina Ocampo
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And the amazing East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished the latest in the Inspector Gamache series today, A Better Man by Louise Penny.I enjoyed it. It was fun to visit with these characters again. The mystery was strong and complicated. However, the characters entered the investigation differently, and out of character, to how they usually do in terms of reasoning and it felt out of place, I thought.
Still a good continuation of the story.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's no secret I'm partial to Sir Robert Carey and his Elizabethan escapades, and I loved An Air of Treason, number 6 in P.F. Chisholm's historical mystery series.
5★ Link to my Air of Treason review
Mod
I enjoyed it. It was fun to visit with these characters again. The mystery was strong and..."
I do agree - in a series you made me know!!! And I'm waiting for the next one, that shoulld come out soon!!!
Short middle grade book about a black youth who joins a track team:Ghost by Jason Reynolds - 4 stars - My Review
My review of The Beach at Painter's Cove by Shelley Noble
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Full of action and intrigue -
The Weekend Away by Sarah Alderson https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I read Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. It's a fable using dogs as its vehicle. It won a few awards, but it just didn't work for me.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
LauraT wrote: "I do agree - in a series you made me know!!! And I'm waiting for the next one, that shoulld come out soon!!!..."
Laura, I'm looking forward to the next book already, too. I'm so glad that you are enjoying the series, too.
Low key book about life and death in the Catskills:Nickel Mountain by John Gardner - 3 stars - My Review
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