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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
A brief review of Here Comes the Body by Maria DiRico:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars
Hello Friend We Missed You won The Guardian's 2020 Not the Booker Prize competition. I liked the real Booker winner better this year - Shuggie Bain - but Richard Owain Roberts IS a good writer, and it's nice to see Wales represented.
3.4★ Link to my Hello Friend review
Six Word Story: Stories, Memoirs, Poems and Jokes all written in only six words. is the second book of clever, quirky "stories" by Doug Weller. There's a competition you can enter, too. Fun to try making them up.
4★ Link to my Six Word Story review with a few stories included
Karin wrote: "Leslie wrote: "I have finished Educated, an excellent memoir. One feature I particularly liked, which I didn't address in my review, is the way Westover included notes about when he..."Can I ask why our Dad wrote a memoir and how it betrayed your trust?
It took me quite a while to write reviews for these two - both 4.5 stars.The First Sister
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Devil and the Dark Waterhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Absent: A Novel by Betool Khedairi, translated from Arabic by Muhayman Jamil. I think there were some issues with it, but, on the whole, it presented a compelling portrait of Iraqi civilians living under horrific circumstances of economic sanctions and constant bombings during the 1990s.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. Always enjoy learning something especially when it is one's own country. My thoughts: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3856271407
I love mysteries based in Ireland. Strange Flowers is a curious, intriguing story by the talented Donal Ryan.
4.5★ Link to my Strange Flowers review
I recently finished three books.1Q84 by Haruki Murakami, my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Vine Witch by Luanne G. Smith, my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Lady's Guide to Mischief and Murder by Dianne Freeman, my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I crossed another 4 titles off my Netgalley list last week, and added 4 more 🤦♀️🤣😂 I read:
A Caller's Game by J.D. Barker https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
The Ex by Nicola Moriarty https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
A Week to Remember by Esther Campion https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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And I listened to the audiobook of
The Paris Dressmaker by Kristy Cambronhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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My review of The Glorious Guinness Girls by Emily Hourican
2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of To Tell You the Truth by Gilly Macmillan
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up on some reviews of books finished lately:Tanith Lee Red as Blood, or Tales from the Sisters Grimmer - reviewed at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3396613902
Tanith Lee Companions on the Road (edition also includes The Winter Players) - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3396615203
and Ray Bradbury's Something Wicked This Way Comes - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3860718703.
My review of The House on Jindalee Lane by Jennie Jones
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Memento Mori by Muriel Spark.A group of elderly people receive anonymous phone calls reminding them they're going to die. The novel wasn't at all bleak or morbid. It was humorous, with authentic characters, and wonderful dialogue.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This one was a lovely surprise.
The Artificial Silk Girl by Irmgard KeunMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just enjoyed Aussie author B Michael Radburn's second Taylor Bridges mystery, The Falls. Creepy murders in the Victorian bush. 
4★ Link to my review of The Falls
The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot is a brand new favourite! It's hard to believe this is Marianne Cronin's first novel. Wonderful characters and story.
5★ Link to my review of One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot
LOL! I read a book with a very similar title in Feb. -- Murder in E Minor -- so for a moment, I thought you had read the same book.
I read Supernavigators: Exploring the Wonders of How Animals Find Their Way by David Barrie. It is full of fascinating insights on the navigational tools of animals, with particular focus on insects and birds.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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This is fabulous. Ever since I read my dad's memoir, I don't trust them at all. But this give me more respect for it.