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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Finished the ⭐⭐
The Second Wife by Rebecca Fleet. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Arbella: England's Lost Queen by Sarah Gristwood and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3570716950.
My review of Beneath an Irish Sky by Isabella Connor
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for
Moonflower Murders by Anthony Horowitz, #2 in the Susan Ryeland series. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I read a really great short novel: The Wind That Lays Waste by Selva Almada, translated from the Spanish by Chris Andrews.A wonderful story, skillfully executed in vivid imagery and concise diction. The narrative is deceptively simple but it packs a powerful punch.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished the beautiful and spellbinding family saga
The Butterfly Room by Lucinda Riley. This author has a new follower. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Good Girl, Bad Girl (there's more than one!) by favourite, award-winning Aussie crime writer Michael Robotham is excellent!
4.5★ Link to Good Girl, Bad Girl review
Anabasis is a very short story by Amal El-Mohtar and is free online. How "she persisted", I don't know. A must-read.
5★ Link to review of Anabasis (with a link to the story)
Read Swan Song by Robert McCammon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3583414661.
Done reading La Bastarda by Trifonia Melibea ObonoMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Michelle Obama is an excellent example of "Nevertheless, she persisted", which has become a feminist cry. In her memoir, Becoming, she takes us from Chicago's Southside to Ivy League universities to the White House. Great read, great audio as well.
5★ Link to my review of Becoming
This is a terrific, informative eye-catching graphic book for kids, teens, adults - folx - with advice and actions for everybody: This Book Is Anti-Racist: 20 Lessons on How to Wake Up, Take Action, and Do the Work by Tiffany Jewell. It should be in all schools and libraries.
5★ Link to my review of Anti-Racist, 20 Lessons with some of the artwork.
Finished two books in the last couple of days: 
The Wife Who Knew Too Much by Michele Campbell https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
The Killings at Kingfisher Hill by Sophie Hannah https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I seem to be on a roll of reading some great novels lately. I've just finished The Still Point by Amy Sackville. Her style of writing is unique. She weaves different narrative threads together, but it is in the telling of the story that Amy Sackville demonstrates her truly exceptional talent.My 5 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is a twisted memoir, Hollywood Park: A Memoir. The writing is stunning and the story, disturbing. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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. Lovely!Here my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've enjoyed articles by Ta-Nehisi Coates and wish I'd liked The Water Dancer as much as everybody else has. The slave trade was (and still is) appalling.
3.5★ Link to my Water Dancer review
Another two finished....
You Can Trust Me by Emma Rowley https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
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My Darling by Amanda Robson https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My review of The Stranger by Saskia Sarginson
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am enjoying New Jersey in 1915 with the entertaining Kopp Sisters mystery series that's based on real people.Lady Cop Makes Trouble by Amy Stewart was a lot of fun!
4,5★ Link to my Lady Cop review
Read Clark Ashton Smith's collection, Tales of Science and Sorcery and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3590605113.
I've finished reading The Sorrows of Young Werther and quite enjoyed it. It wasn't at all what I was expecting. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Never even tried it!!!! I've only read - and quite liked I have to admit!!! - Elective Affinities by Goethe
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