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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I read Second Place by Rachel Cusk. I've loved everything I've read by Cusk, and this is no exception. In the form of an extended monologue, it is brimming with piercing insights about life, love, relationships, and art.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A review of If the Old Could... by Doris Lessinghttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Found it less interesting than the first of the books she wrote under a pseudonym, exploring certain societal issues such as aging, family, love etc
A Summoner had a pretty free rein in 14th century England. He could decide you were guilty of something and summon you to court - unless of course you bribed him. And he never paid for anything. Who would dare charge him? In The Summoner's Sins, author Keith Moray continues his series, which is pretty gruesome.
3★ Link to my review of The Summoner's Sins
Just finished
. Always enjoy this author - even if some things are a little too stretched. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Voices of the Lost by Hoda Barakat, translated from the Arabic by Marilyn Booth. It won the 2019 International Prize for Arabic Fiction. The novel gives voice to individuals on the periphery of society--a former torturer/criminal, an illegal immigrant, a sex worker, etc. through their letters which are never sent.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Seems really interesting!
Laura, it was good but a bit depressing since all the letter-writers come from war-ravaged countries in the Middle East. They're desperate, alienated, and marginalized.
After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review
After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review
Mod
I can easlily immagine that. Not for this very period; but later...
My review of Cosmic Queries: StarTalk's Guide to Who We Are, How We Got Here, and Where We're Going by Neil deGrasse Tysonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading All Boys Aren't Blue by George M. JohnsonMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I re-read my all-time favorite book, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury. Perfect summer reading, in my opinion!Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And I haven't read Walter Mosley's fiction yet, but his book about writing it, Elements of Fiction, is excellent.
Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And Salvage the Bones gets the award for toughest read of the year. Jesmyn Ward makes you see things you don't want to, but you can't look away.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just read White Fragility: Why It’s So Hard for White People to Talk About Racismand
How to Be an Antiracist
I am currently reading
Cousins: Connected through slavery, a Black woman and a White woman discover their past—and each other
I did not post reviews o the two books because my personal opinions clouded my review. If anyone wants to read them. They know where to find them.
Cousins, is compelling and worth the read, so far.
Two review up nowThe Mountains Wild by Sarah Stewart Taylor
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Survivors by Jane Harper
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Whereabouts by Jhumpa Lahiri. Told in a series of short vignettes in the first-person point of view of a 40-something professor living in Italy. The female narrator is isolated and self-absorbed. Jhumpa Lahiri wrote it in Italian and then translated it to English. I thought it was an ok novel. I didn't think it was as good as other novels I've read by Lahiri. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read three linked books on my Kindle recently, written by Becca Andre. The middle one is a novella that happens between the last chapter and the epilogue of the first book:The Final Formula - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012543566
The Element of Death - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012574480
The Blood Alchemist - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4012596259
Back to paperbacks for a re-read of Diana Wynne Jones' volume 3 of the Dalemark quartet:The Spellcoats - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1759727451
Finished reading The Human Son, which I really enjoyed. I found the story a bit of a philosophical look at the question of should humans be reintroduced to a newly pristine Earth or should the Earth remain human-free? This story is humorous, warm and entertaining. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. Needless to say, it didn't meet my expectations. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Aussie author Paul Starr has used his own experiences as inspiration for Prior Regrets. Does Mark Prior, a young backpacker from England have regrets two decades after his stay in Israel?
3★ Link to my review of Prior Regrets
Valentine is a debut by Elizabeth Wetmore about the dangers for all the women in the West Texas oil country where men are men and women are there to serve.
3.5★ Link to my review of Valentine
My review of The Cottage of Curiosities by Celia Anderson
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Boyz N the Void: A Mixtape to My Brother by G'Ra Asimhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Written in My Own Heart's Blood by Diana Gabaldon 4 Stars.Finally ready for Go Tell the Bees That I Am Gone when it comes out in late November.
My most recent read was Heiress In Red Silk by Madeline Hunter -- one of my favorite historical romance authors!!
My review of Buses Are a Comin': Memoir of a Freedom Rider by Charles Personhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read History Begins at Sumer: Thirty-Nine Firsts in Recorded History by Samuel Noah Kramer. A fascinating look at 39 firsts in ancient Sumer, including the first recorded court case, the first instance of tax reform, the first library catalogue, etc. etc. One of my favorite firsts was a father pleading with his son to focus on his schoolwork instead of gadding about in the streets. It was written 4,000 years ago!
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2 reviews up nowA Sister’s Courage by Audrey Reimann
2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Flower Seller by Linda Finlay
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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