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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I read To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf.I first read this decades ago. I enjoyed it but didn't quite "get" it. I re-read it for a group read recently, and this time around, it just blew me away. What an incredible novel! Powerful, moving, poignant, and brilliant.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Monster's Bones: The Discovery of T. Rex and How It Shook Our World by David K. Randallhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Offstage Observations: Inside Tales of the Not-So-Legitimate Theatre by Steven Suskinhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I think readers who enjoyed Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine are going to enjoy meeting Nita Prose's lovable Molly The Maid. She's a square peg who's much more genuine than most who fit in the round holes of the world.
4★ My review of The Maid
My review of The Last of the Apple Blossom by Mary-Lou Stephens
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A few books read recently:Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4753282110
Atonement by Ian McEwan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4758369076
and
The Familiars by Stacey Halls - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769347617
My review of A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed this a lot, my first of the author. 4 stars.
by Peter SwansonMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A book I have had on my physical shelf for so long. 
by the quirky and special
My review, four stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I loved the world/s of the characters in Gabrielle Zevin's latest, Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow. In games, you can get a new life, start over - extra tomorrows. In real life, they struggle like the rest of us.
4.5~5★ My review of Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Ploughing through this series, it's great. Karin Slaughter
by Karin SlaughterMy review, four stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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by Maeve BinchyMy review, 4 stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
This I have to look for; for all I've loved London Tube!
I read The Sentence by Louise Erdrich. I have mixed feeling about this novel. Parts of it were good, but I think Louise Erdrich tried to cram too much into the novel. It seemed very disjointed.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of
The Cottages on Silver Beach by RaeAnne Thayne
4 stars
As lovely as its cover
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Little Teashop on Main by Jodi Thomas
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A couple of non-fiction reads:Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769486601
and
Language Of The Night by Ursula K Le Guin -reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4781491446
My review of The Stepsisters by Susan Mallery
1 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars for me with this one, neither here nor there for me.Beach Read by Emily Henry
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My reveiw of The Tuesday Night Survivors' Club by Lynn Cahoon
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Lying Dutchman by Graham Brack is the latest entertaining (and informative) adventure of Master Mercurius, a gentle Dutch cleric, coerced into spying in 17th century England. Always entertaining!
4★ My review of The Lying Dutchman
The Woman in the Library, by one of my favourite Aussie authors, Sulari Gentill, is a wonderfully tricky, multi-layered mystery where I think I suspected almost everyone, real and fictional. A great read!
4.5~5★ My review of The Woman in the Library"
PattyMacDotCom how are both of your books going?
Two new favorites:
The Rainbow by D.H. LawrenceReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken KeseyReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Kathleen how are both of your books going?
I read Salka Valka by Halldór Laxness; translated from the Icelandic by Philip Roughton.An epic novel. I enjoyed it but not as much as his Independent People. I thought it got a little too bogged down in political discourse.
Laxness has always excelled in establishing setting and character portrayals. This was no exception. His portrayal of the villagers, and especially of the young female protagonist Salka Valka, was as brilliant as ever.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. another eye opener to eugenics and how women were treated in 1927 if they didn't conform to the norm. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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