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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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Oct 09, 2021 08:56AM
Read Stephen King's If It Bleeds - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4275296086
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Bad Apples by Will Dean, an excellent Halloween read. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Tim Winton is one of Australia's best and most-awarded authors and an all-time favourite of mine. An Open Swimmer was his first novel, written when he was still at uni, and his writing was already magic. I had some trouble with the story.
3.5★ Link to my Open Swimmer review
Stephen King is known for his horror thrillers, but this is just a good story about a ghost, stranded in the Horror House of the amusement park, Joyland. It's just what I felt like reading!
4.5★ Link to my Joyland review
I read The Manningtree Witches by A.K. Blakemore.An atmospheric plunge into the 1640s in England. Civil war is raging, and destitute, elderly women are hunted and executed as witches. Blakemore's diction is detailed and evocative. Replicating the idioms of 17th century England, it is replete with graphic descriptions, pungent odors, and immersive imagery.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Notes from an Apocalypse: A Personal Journey to the End of the World and Back by Mark O'Connell - 4 stars - My Review
Read and loved the LGBTQ YA story Not My Problem
My 5⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
Finished listening to
Our House by Louise Candlish and although it has received mixed reviews, I really enjoyed it. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My one-sentence review of the wonderful
Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
5 stars
1979 by Val McDermid is an excellent start to a new series. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading Selected Poems by Constantinos P. CavafyA wonderful collection of poems. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another great piece of Australian crime fiction
The Stoning by Peter Papathanasiou https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Mother's Fault by Nicole Tropehttps://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Incredible Winston Browne by Sean Dietrich is a warm, poignant heartstring-tugger about small town America in the 1950s. Readers will eat it up, I bet.
4★ Link to my Winston Browne review
I recently reviewed the Andy Warhol book from this series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara, and he always makes me think of Marilyn Monroe, whose rise from lonely little girl to fabulous movie star is captured here (sadly no Warhol pictures).
5★ Link to my review of Marilyn Monroe with several illustrations.
I finished All's Well by Mona Awad. A wild romp into magical realism about a theatre professor and her battle with chronic pain. It's weird but a lot of fun.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A change of pace for me, but I loved
A Lighthouse Christmas by Jenny Hale https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Ones Who Don't Say They Love You: Stories by Maurice Carlos Ruffinhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished listening to
Trick or Treat by Katerina Diamond. Sorry, but this didn't work for me. Enjoyed neither the story nor the narrator. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont by Elizabeth Taylorhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and loved the LGBTQ novel Can't Take That Away
My 5⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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A Surprise For Christmas: And Other Seasonal Mysteries compiled by Martin Edwards is an excellent collection of mysteries set in the festive season. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read a couple of Peter Straub's, unfortunately wasn't keen on either, especially the second:Lost Boy Lost Girl - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840410324
In the Night Room - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840410763
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