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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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Bookmarked: Reading My Way from Hollywood to Brooklyn:https://ww..."
Decided to look up for it! When oh when will I ever finish my TBR list???
JF:
The Room in the Attic by Louise Douglas was a five star read for me. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Catching up again - 
A collection of Ursula K. Le Guin's late-in-life blog posts, No Time to Spare: Thinking About What MattersReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
One of Shirley Jackson's lesser-known novels, The SundialReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A wonderfully strange Hilary Mantel about a psychic, Beyond BlackReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And two very short stories with links to read online:
The Spindly Man
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Last Question
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
JF:
Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars but I didn't love this one as much as I wanted to 
The Lincoln Highwayhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Murder at the Piccadilly Playhouse by C.J. Archer
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a funny experience
by Colleen Hoover
My review, two stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I found this woman too late in life!
by the most talented researcher (this is what makes it so good)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of State of Terror by Hillary Rodham Clinton and Louise Pennyhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Invisible Women: Data Bias in a World Designed for Men by Caroline Criado Pérez - 4 stars - My Review
JF:
A Body at the Tea Rooms by Dee MacDonald ⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
What a fantastic cover and what an odd book. The 1800s were full of fortune-hunters, in all senses of the word, all over the world. Fortune by Aussie author Lenny Bartulin is wild historical fiction.
4.5★ Link to my review of Fortune
Finally! I have met Sebastian St. Cyr! His first adventure, in What Angels Fear by C.S. Harris, is an atmospheric murder mystery in 19th century England. 
4.5★ Link to my review of What Angels Fear
Finished a short fiction collection by Peter Straub, Houses Without Doors and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1840410802
JF:
The Killer in the Snow by Alex Pine ⭐⭐.6https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This book stressed me out.
by Nicola Moriarty. I feel bad saying this as the author comes from a family of amazing authors. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just didn't provoke nice feelings.
I read Windswept: Walking the Paths of Trailblazing Women by Annabel Abbs. Abbs uses the lives and walking experience of several exceptional women to serve as her platform for sharing her experiences and working through some of her challenges. Her personal explorations were interesting but they interrupted the narrative flow.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are your 12 books going?
⭐⭐⭐⭐.8 for
A Body at the Altar by Dee MacDonald https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My review of Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
⭐⭐⭐⭐.4 for
The Geometry of Holding Hands by Alexander McCall Smith https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sandy how are 2 of your books going?
I enjoy journals and diaries and historical mysteries, so I was hopeful about The Secrets of Elloughton Park by Stephen Taylor. I liked it!
4★ Link to my Elloughton Park review
Practice reading English with a good story! Canadian author Louise Penny wrote The Hangman for a Canadian literacy project. This short novella is #6.5 in the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, written in simpler language but still with our favourite characters in Three Pines. It's an excellent choice for adults learning to read and/or learning English. Great project!
5★ Link to my Hangman review
JF: ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ for
Small Things Like These by Claire Keegan Historical fiction, a moral dilemma, and set in Ireland at Christmas. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Miss Benson's Beetle by Rachel Joyce.A quick, easy, and entertaining read about two very different women who form an unlikely friendship while on a scientific expedition. There was little depth to the characters and some of the events were implausible. But if you're in the mood for something light and fun, this will probably fit the bill.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lemon Tree: An Arab, a Jew, and the Heart of the Middle East by Sandy Tolan - 4 stars - My Review
⭐⭐⭐.5 for
The Curse of Morton Abbey by Clarissa Harwood. A good story but I was expecting it to be creepy. https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Under Red Skies: Three Generations of Life, Loss, and Hope in China by Karoline Kan - 4 stars - My Review
My review of A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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