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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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Sep 02, 2021 03:11AM
The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean is confronting, excellent suspense told by a captive Vietnamese 'bride'. I don't know how he did it, but she sounds real!
4.5★ Link to my review of Last Thing to Burn
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My review of Hero of Two Worlds: The Marquis de Lafayette in the Age of Revolution by Mike Duncanhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two reviews up now A Season of Leaves by Catherine Law
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Line by Line by Jennifer Delamere
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Hot Milk by Deborah Levy. I really enjoyed Levy's Swimming Home and was looking forward to this. But I found it boring. It just wasn't for me.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. A beautiful cover and a very sad story. My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Oh dear--I got behind in posting again, so here's a bunch.
The Red Queen by Margaret Drabble. My first of hers in a long time. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...And here are most of my Women in Translation month books:
Optic Nerve by María Gainza. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Winter in Sokcho by Elisa Shua Dusapin Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Women of Sand and Myrrh by Hanan Al-Shaykh Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Incidental Music: Stories by Françoise Sagan Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Matchmaker's Lonely Heart by Nancy Campbell Allen
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 4 of your books going?
My 2-sentence review of Cynthia Kuhn's The Study of Secrets:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5 stars
Not a wonderful read for me, two stars. 
by Danielle HawkinsMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Not one I loved as much as others
by Matt HaigMy review, three stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois by Honorée Fanonne Jeffershttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two reviews up nowChurchill’s Angels by Ruby Jackson
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Where the Light Enters by Sara Donati
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've just enjoyed stories by a couple of excellent authors, and I've included download links for both.Switzerland by Nicole Krauss is about a thirteen-year-old American boardingschool girl in Switzerland who has her eyes opened by two exotic eighteen-year-olds.
4★ Link to my review of Switzerland~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
I've only just discovered Claire Keegan, so I quickly grabbed her story The Forester's Daughter. An Irish farmer woos a woman with tales of his fine home, but when she sees his uncared for old house, she tells some tales of her own.
4★ Link to my review of The Forester's Daughter
Loved loved loved this like so many others, and yes, of course a movie soon.
by Nita Prose. A debut that did not at all read as one!My five star glowing review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Code Breaker: Jennifer Doudna, Gene Editing, and the Future of the Human Race by Walter Isaacsonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Listened to the audio of this one Never Never by James Patterson and the awesome Candice FoxMy review, 3 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Spanning several decades beginning in the 1930s through the Viet Nam war and its aftermath, this sweeping family saga describes a family’s struggle to survive during times of war, famine, dislocation, and mayhem. The narrative unfolds in the alternating perspectives of a young girl and her grandmother.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Two reviews now upA Year at Hotel Gondola by Nicky Pellegrino
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Third Grave by Lisa Jackson
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Footnotes: The Black Artists Who Rewrote the Rules of the Great White Way by Caseen Gaineshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Three more:
How Does a Poem Mean? is a thoroughly enjoyable poetry textbook.Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One of my women in translation month reads
1947: Where Now BeginsReview:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And a fresh debut novel
Real LifeReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I see you've liked it as well as the first; I liked the first too; now I'll put this also on my TBR list
Finished Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe.This is a re-read for me. I first read it way back when. It is powerful and remains a great classic. Highly recommended.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up on a few reviews:Koko by Peter Straub - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840410487
Mystery by Peter Straub - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840407531
The Second Sleep by Robert Harris - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4193896521
Aussie author and industry insider John Purcell has written this one:
My review, three stars: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4...
Number five in the Reacher series for me.
by Lee ChildMy review, 4 stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catch Us The Foxes by Aussie author Nicola West is a twisty, complicated thriller with a good premise and great atmosphere. It eventually got too weird for me.
2.5~3★ Link to my Catch Us The Foxes review
This very short story by renowned author Ian McEwan is clever and fun and FREE. You can read it or listen to him read My Purple Scented Novel online. Very entertaining and well worth a few minutes.
4★ Link to my review of My Purple Scented Novel with a link to the story online.
Tamara wrote: "I read The Mountains Sing by Nguyễn Phan Quế Mai. Spanning several decades beginning in the 1930s through the Viet Nam war and its aftermath, this sweeping family ..."
I also gave this 4 stars--well written, for one thing.
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