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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
My review of The Summer of Sunshine and Margot by Susan Mallery 
1 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Art of Arranging Flowers by Lynne Branard
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just enjoyed Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart, number five in the series. It's April 1917, just before America enters WW1, and the sisters are off to army camp with another colourful character.
4.5★ Link to my Kopp Sisters review
Catch up on last three books read:Dee Morrison Meaney's An Unkindness of Ravens - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3927652545
and two of Tove Jansson's Moomin series:
Comet in Moominland - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1361361900
Finn Family Moomintroll - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3927708035
I finished Ruby by Cynthia Bond.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Please do not read this book at any cost.
Hannah wrote: "Please do not read this book at any cost."Even if someone offered me a million dollars? :0)
I'm sadly nearing the end of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Number 15 is A Better Man. Freezing spring floods threaten Three Pines and Montreal. 
4.5★ Link to my review of A Better Man
Summer Brother by Dutch author Jaap Robben was a good read and has just been longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize. 
4★ LInk to my Summer Brother review
Lately, it feels as if I've been reading a series of books about life under totalitarian governments- Iraq, Libya, and Romania. All good books, but all pretty depressing.I just finished The Fox Was Ever the Hunter by Herta Müller; translated from the German by Philip Boehm. Through a series of staccato images propelled by an intermittent narrative, Müller creates the unmitigated terror of life in Rumania just before the fall of Nicolae Ceausescu. A challenging read but worth the effort.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I was planning to read The Remainder next--a book about Chile. But I think I'll delay that for now and read something a little lighter.
my review of A Girl's Guide to Moving On by Debbie Macomber
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Death Season by Kate Ellis
3 and a half stars
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Dale wrote: "my review of A Girl's Guide to Moving On by Debbie Macomber3 and a half stars
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Bad link Dale!
The title story of These Precious Days: Essays, by Ann Patchett is a novella-length essay about her amazing and unexpected friendship with an artist who is a personal assistant to Tom Hanks. The book itself is due out in November - here's a link to the story, free online.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/t...
I thought it was wonderful! 5★ Link to my review of These Precious Days with a few of the paintings
Gaiman is hit or miss for me, but I very much enjoyed this one:Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - 4 stars - My Review
My review of The Final Revival of Opal & Nev by Dawnie Waltonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Joyce Carol Oates' The Accursed and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1954230485
Finished
. This was not a thriller by any means. But, it was entertaining. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Set in Namibia in the 1990s, this is a wonderful debut by a Rwandan-born Namibian author. I read an arc. It is due for publication in Aug 2021:The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - 5 stars - My Review
My review of The Hourglass by Julie Parsons
1 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and of
Protector
by Diana Palmer
2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Before You Knew My Name by Jacqueline Bublitz
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This author is like coming home to me.
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My five star review:
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I read Jane Austen: Her Life by Park Honan, a 400+ page biography.Prof. Honan includes a wealth of information about Jane Austen's life and her times. But sometimes he goes into a lot of details that have little or no relevance to Jane Austen or her work. In spite of extensive digressions about various sea battles with France or genealogies of minor characters, this is a well-researched and informative biography.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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