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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Ten-year-old Rae is home alone in Aussie author Emily Spurr's moving debut novel, A Million Things. Kids are canny creatures, and Rae is one I am sure will be remembered.
4★ Link to my review of A Million Things
This children's book (yes, children's book) introduces kids to drag queen RuPaul! It's a new one in the Little People, BIG DREAMS series by Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara, who has produced countless inspirational biographies that even grown-ups can learn from.
4★ Link to my review of RuPaul with several illustrations to entertain you.
Finished
. This pill was a little hard to swallow. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Mysterious Correspondent: New Stories by Marcel Prousthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Chelsea ConcertoAn excellent memoir of the Blitz - 4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Witches And Their Craft by Ronald Seth - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4027431758and
The Book Of English Magic by Philip Carr-Gomm and Richard Heygate - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4044298561
2 reviews up now What She Left by Rosie Fiore
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Kindness Revolution: How we can restore hope, rebuild trust and inspire optimism by Hugh Mackay
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My latest three have absolutely nothing in common!Strawberry Girl, an award-winning classic children's book. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Devil in a Blue Dress, Walter Mosley's first Easy Rawlins noir mystery. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And a post-modernist mess (in my opinion) If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brooks
. So good!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them is just what it says it is. Francine Prose is a highly regarded literary authority who knows her stuff, but isn't stuffy. She also knows how to poke fun at herself.
5★ Link to my review of Reading Like a Writer
Interesting, informative and excellent.
by Marsha LinehanMy review, four stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read We Need New Names by NoViolet Bulawayo. The novel unfolds in a series of episodes told in the first person voice of a ten-year-old girl in Zimbabwe. The first half of the novel was engaging and full of vivid detail; the second half wasn't as interesting.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Popular Aussie author Rachael Johns has written about a mother who is surprised to find herself pushed into Flying the Nest without her kids! Her fans will enjoy this one.
3.5★ Link to my review of Flying the Nest
Two reviews up
Girls in Tin Hats by Annie Murray
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. A beautiful yet tragic generational story. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My Year Of Living Vulnerably sounds like a memoir by talented, tormented Aussie journalist, author, and broadcaster Rick Morton, but it dives into culture, politics, philosophy, and science, especially PTSD and the brain. Fascinating stuff and a great read!
5★ Link to my My Year of Living Vulnerably
My review of
Hidden Heretics: Jewish Doubt in the Digital Age by Ayala Fader:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars
I read a fine collection of essays: The Author's Dimension: Selected Essays by Christa WolfMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Human Acts by Han Kang, translated from the Korean by Deborah Smith. The novel deals with the historical 1980 Gwangju uprising in South Korea. It is an important book, but it makes for difficult reading because of the graphic description of torture and the massacre of hundreds of unarmed civilians.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The President's Daughter by James Patterson & Bill Clintonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up on a few reviews:Jayne Anne Krentz Light in Shadow - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4044307076
Aldous Huxley's The Devils of Loudun - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058162878
Kath Middleton's The Flesh of Trees - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058205235
Jonathan Hill and Kath Middleton Is it Her? - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4058230427
My review of The Modern Tiffin: On-the-Go Vegan Dishes with a Global Flairhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I loved Aussie author Tabitha Bird's imaginative debut novel, and I've just enjoyed her latest, The Emporium of Imagination. I'm pleased she weaves her magic in her hometown of Boonah, Qld, but I want this Emporium to open near me, please!
4★ Link to my Emporium of Imagination review
I loved this one so much I found it difficult to write a coherent review.
The Kingdomshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Reviews now upTen Reasons Not to Fall In Love by Linda Green
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Memories Are Made of This by June Francis
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not quite what I was expecting - 3 stars
The Other Black Girlhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies, Whale Sharks, and Other Astonishments A series of essays about specific animals and plants and how the flora and fauna wove their way into her life as a poet, wife, teacher, and mother.
Read World War II London Blitz Diary, Volume 1 by Ruby Side Thompson and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4062198494
Finished
. It really didn't hit the grit that I usually love. My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Barefoot Woman by Scholastique Mukasonga. A glowing tribute to Mukasonga's mother, a resilient and loving woman with a fierce determination to protect her children from the ethnic conflict in Rwanda.
This is the third book I've read by this author. I thought they were all very good.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I loved An Imaginary Life by acclaimed Aussie author David Malouf. What a strange and fascinating life he's dreamed up for the exiled Roman poet Ovid, banished forever to a remote village with primitive customs (and no common language).
5★ Link to my review of An Imaginary Life
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