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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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by my favourite author Harlan CobenMy review, four stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Racing through my audio reads!4 stars.
by Alexandra PotterMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Happy 88th birthday on March 25 to Gloria Steinem, whose story of becoming a feminist activist and icon is told by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. These "Little People BIG DREAMS" picture books are for children, but I am meeting so many interesting people myself!
4★ My review of Gloria Steinem
I really enjoyed The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a super-professional butler who knows how to inspect the silver polishing but, sadly, knows nothing at all about people. Very touching. 1989 Booker Prize Winner.
5★ My review of The Remains of the Day"
Mod
A beautiful and heartbreaking book!
My review of Coconut Layer Cake Murder by Joanne Fluke
2 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Spin. 5/5. Absolutely incredible. I'm slightly worried that I might have already read the best book that I'll read this year.
Mod
Sounds great Gavin! I hadn't heard of either the book or the author, but I see now that several of my friends have rated it highly!
I read Songbirds by Christy Lefteri. The novel focuses on the plight of Nisha, a migrant domestic worker in Cyprus. I was really looking forward to this because I loved Lefteri's The Beekeeper of Aleppo. I was disappointed because it isn't the same quality of work.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I very much enjoyed the new Scalzi - 5 stars
The Kaiju Preservation Societyhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This one was a little out of my comfort zone - 4 stars
Shadow Shinjukuhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Shackleton: How the Captain of the newly discovered Endurance saved his crew in the Antarctic by Ranulph Fiennes
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wow! My first book from Karin Slaughter
My review, five stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Greg wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I really enjoyed The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a super-professional butler who knows how to inspect the silver polishing but, s...A beautiful and heartbreaking book!"
I agree completely, Greg!
I imagine all readers are aware of who Nelson Mandela is, but for the future generations of children, this is a welcome addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS series by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. This boy moved from a traditional childhood in an old culture to become a champion for freedom and a world leader.
4.5★ My review of Nelson Mandela
I've just read a new debut that's a 20th century story by Aussie author Emily Brugman. A group of Finns migrated to the heat of Western Australia and became seasonal cray fishers on The Islands. First generation is traditional - second is in hotpants at beach BBQs. 
4.5~5★ My review of The Islands
Review of The Lost Storyteller by \Amanda Block
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Place For Us by Harriet Evans
This is a DNF for me. My reasons why.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading the fascinating crime story Brighton Rock by Graham GreeneMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
FinishedThe Saints of Swallow Hill. A solid historical fiction read. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Done with The Source of Self-Regard: Selected Essays, Speeches, and Meditations by Toni MorrisonA collection of non-fiction that still reads very relevant to the times. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished the excellent The Stranger in the Mirror by Liv Constantine
A five-star read for me - my review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Love this series, and Vega
by Louisa LunaMy review, five stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Guardian Angel by Elizabeth Gill
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Black Birds in the Sky: The Story and Legacy of the 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre by Brandy Colberthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up with Shirley Jackson's first novel The Road Through the WallReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A collection of Daphne du Maurier short stories Don't Look Now and Other Stories
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And some non-fiction Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece The Sun Also Rises by Lesley M.M. Blume, right after reading The Sun Also Rises.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catchup on a few reviews:Two by Agatha Christie -
At Bertram's Hotel - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2917551282
A Pocket full of Rye - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4627452019
and E M Prazeman's Masks - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4645287441
I read Pat Barker's The Women of Troy. I enjoy reading and writing mythic re-tellings and thought this was one of the better ones I've read. I preferred it to The Silence of the Girls.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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