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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I've just finished Amy Stewart's delightful Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the third in this wonderful historical fiction mystery series, based on a real lady cop. New Jersey in 1916. I'm sure glad she won't quit!
5★ Link to my Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit review
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Here's my review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two books that were hard to get into. One I ended up loving, one I didn't.
The Winter's Tale by William ShakespeareReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le GuinReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This book will make my list of favorites for the year:Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - 5 stars - My Review
My review of Gabriel's Bay by Catherine Robertson
2 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Kathleen wrote: "Two books that were hard to get into. One I ended up loving, one I didn't...."
Doing a little happy dance that the one you loved was the Ursula K. Le Guin :) I find her works so thought-provoking.
I finished the latest Gamache mystery, All the Devils Are Here, in one great gulp Sunday. An excellent mystery - my main reason not to give it 5* is that I missed all the secondary characters from Three Pines.I did 'confirm' my 5* rating for W. Somerset Maugham's Cakes and Ale by rereading it (I last read it in 2013). I love all the commentary about the role of critics and PR in making an author a success. Plus, Maugham's prose is always a delight to read.
Richard Russo's characters always seem like people I'd recognise. In Chances Are, three guys and the girl they all (secretly?) adored were in college together during the draft for Vietnam. The guys are now 66, having a reunion, but where's Jacy? 
4.5★ Link to my Chances Are review
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Isn't it great????? Loved it as you have!
My review of The Other Side of the Dale by Gervase Phinn
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Terrific book by Eleanor Levenson, illustrated by Paul Boston, that is just what is says it is: World Politics in 100 Words: Start conversations and spark inspiration. I give the list of words and share some of the illustrations about how the world works.
5★ Link to my World Politics review with illustrationsGreat for adults - not just for kids!
Lucky's by Aussie author Andrew Pippos may have struck me on a bad day. Perhaps I wasn't paying enough attention - I got confused.
3.5★ Link to my Lucky's review
Read books 2 and 3 of the Powder Mage series by Brian McClellan - The Crimson Campaign - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3666210862and
The Autumn Republic - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3666211033
My short review of The Inn at Eagle Point by Sherryl Woods. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars
Only three reads completed this week:
Peace #2 in the Paul Hirschausen series by Garry Disherhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Consolation #3 in the Paul Hirschausen series by Garry Disher https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The Birthday Weekend by Lesley Sanderson https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Jane Harper's Tasmanian coast in The Survivors is just as compelling as her outback in The Dry and The Lost Man. Evelyn Bay is such a small town that it's almost a locked room mystery. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Survivors review
Leslie wrote: "Kathleen wrote: "Two books that were hard to get into. One I ended up loving, one I didn't...."
Doing a little happy dance that the one you loved was the Ursula K. Le Guin :) I find her works so ..."
Yes! I completely agree about Le Guin, Leslie--thanks. And I am happy to hear your re-read of Cakes and Ale was good. I enjoyed that too, and am thinking it's been way too long since I read W. Somerset Maugham.
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4 stars
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This one is really good!Conjure Women by Afia Atakora
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The first book in the Charlie Parker series, Every Dead Thing. It was a five star read, looking forward to book two.
I have just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and adore his 11-year-old experimental poisoner/investigator, Flavia de Luce. This is the first of what seems to be a terrific mystery series - can't wait to find the rest! 
5★ Link to my Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie review
My review of The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow
An easy five stars!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Possessed: Adventures With Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif Batuman.I was excited to read it because I thought it would explore Russian authors, Russian books and people who read them. Instead, it was more about Elif Batuman's experiences with grad school and travel. A bit disappointing.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I also read Impossible Owls: Essays by Brian Phillips.An eclectic collection of engaging, well-written essays full of interesting nuggets of information.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading The Reaper, by Peter Lovesey, very entertaining read and I would recommend it,https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I agree, Kim - they were terrific!