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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
A catchup on three recent reads: book 4 in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series, The Grey King - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1398214675.
John Gordon's Skinners - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286677865.
Daphne DuMaurier's The King's General - review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286690965.
Pam wrote: "A catchup on three recent reads: book 4 in Susan Cooper's 'The Dark is Rising' series, The Grey King - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show....
John Gordon's [boo..."
Thanks for your King's General review. I will read this book in the distant future.
I finished: Straying. 2.5 stars generously rounded up . My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
my review of The Bookshop at Water's End by Patti Callahan Henrymixed feelings
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
by Michael Bornstein & Debbie Bornstein HolinstatBook Hangover commences
My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars for The Razor's Edge by W. Somerset MaughamA good read, my review can be found here https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I definitely liked Mrs Craddock by W. Somerset Maugham. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished reading Vinegar Girl by Anne Tyler and thoroughly enjoyed it. This is the second of the Hogarth Shakespeare series that I've read and I hope to read them all over time. They are fun and well done.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have just finished the first book in a new-to-me Golden Age series - The Penguin Pool Murder by Stuart Palmer. It was quite entertaining even though I did figure out whodunit about halfway through (though that may have been a subconscious recollection from the 1932 film version with Edna May Oliver).
The second in the Slough House series that I'm loving. Dead Lions by English author Mick Herron is another fun spy story. Cold War sleuthing in today's world. Great characters. Not necessary to read them in order.
4.5★ Link to my reviewStill available in Read Now on NetGalley till the end of March.
I have updated my personal thread with several reviews that had been pending, for those interested.https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
Cute book for very early readers. Hoppy's Big City Adventure by Gabrielle Grice. A little frog learns to listen!
3.5★ My review
Finished the rereading Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Murder on St. Mark's Place by Victoria Thompson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I love Susan Mallery's writing, and
Secrets of the Tulip Sisters is probably one of her best. My spoiler free review can be found on my blog https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/... or https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Peony by Pearl S. Buck. I would say that this is my favorite by the author. It starts off slowly, but give it a chance. It is most definitely a love story.....in more ways than one.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished one of my Big Reads that continue for many months while I read a lot of other books, too: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. I used the Penguin edition edited by Jill Mann, which is quite wonderful. I hadn't read anything in Middle English since university, when I read part (not all) of The Canterbury Tales. But really, Middle English is not so difficult, and the Penguin edition provides all the resources you need to read the book successfully.I will admit that hitting The Parson's Tale at the end - which is not a tale at all, but an 80-page religious treatise on penitence - is not exactly invigorating. But I Got R Done!
Other Big Reads in progress:
Dante, Divine Comedy, translated by Mark Musa for Penguin - I've finished the Inferno and Paradiso.
Cao Xueqin, The Story of the Stone - I've finished the first two volumes of the five-volume Penguin edition.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England - Wonderful stuff, will take a long time to finish.
The Ramayana, in the classic complete translation by Hari Prasad Shastri - Just started this.
Big Read recently finished:
Marx, Capital, Volume 1 - Also used the Penguin edition, impeccably edited. David Harvey's A Companion to Marx's Capital was an enormous help. Now for Volumes 2 and 3...
Patrick wrote: "I just finished one of my Big Reads that continue for many months while I read a lot of other books, too: Chaucer's Canterbury Tales in the original Middle English. I used the Penguin edition edite..."I will reread The Divine Comedy sometime this year. I forgot to add it to my "read" list. Thanks!
Finished two Netgalley books last week, one moderately good read,
Best Friends by Carys Jones and one really good read
Little Liar by Clare Boyd. You can read my spoiler free reviews at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...And https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... or https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I just finished Portrait of an Unknown Woman by Vanora Bennett. It took me awhile to finish because I only listened to it while jogging. It made my runs really enjoyable. I liked the mix of history & fiction and the short study of symbols put into paintings to tell "truths".
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finished Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands 2*Not for me. It should be full of humour and sometimes I laughed during the first 100 pages. But it is such a long book, the author is too verbose repeating always the same things, that I get bored after a while. I didn't like the characters and I wasn't interested in the plot. I however managed to finish it and therefore the 2 stars.
I have written only a review in Italian: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Nichole wrote: "... Thank you for your King's General review. I will read this book in the distant future."Glad to be of service ;-)
Read a couple more books, both crime but the first historical, set in Cromwell's Commonwealth by S G MacLean - The Seeker - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286720286.
and Val McDermid's - Fever of the Bone - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2293439001.
Finished The Music Shop. 2.5 stars rounded up to 3. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pam wrote: "Nichole wrote: "... Thank you for your King's General review. I will read this book in the distant future."Glad to be of service ;-)
Read a couple more books, both crime but the first historical..."
I will add The Seeker too. I love atmospheric fiction.
Review of The Traitor's Girl by Christine Wellsan engaging read
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Jen wrote: "Just finished The Tsar of Love and Techno. Well overdue but never too late to appreciate a Marra!"That has been on my list for so long!!!!
Finished Himalaya Bound: One Family's Quest to Save their Animals—And an Ancient Way of Life https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pam wrote: "Nichole wrote: "... Thank you for your King's General review. I will read this book in the distant future."Glad to be of service ;-)
Read a couple more books, both crime but the first historical..."
You have me excited about the Damien Seeker books. I will start soon!
Jen, I really want to read that one. I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena when I listened to it on audiobook last year
Heather wrote: "Jen, I really want to read that one. I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena when I listened to it on audiobook last year"Me too. A Constellation of Vital Phenomena was my favourite book of 2016 and of the decade.
Phrynne wrote: "Jen wrote: "Just finished The Tsar of Love and Techno. Well overdue but never too late to appreciate a Marra!"That has been on my list for so long!!!!"
i know, right????
Heather wrote: "Jen, I really want to read that one. I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena when I listened to it on audiobook last year"I think you will like this one then, Heather.
Esther wrote: "Heather wrote: "Jen, I really want to read that one. I loved A Constellation of Vital Phenomena when I listened to it on audiobook last year"Me too. [book:A Constellation of Vital Phenomena|18428..."
thumbs up!
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