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Jul 14, 2022 04:27AM
PattyMacDotCom how are both of your books going?
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Re-read an account of the making of Blade Runner, Future Noir: The Making of Blade Runner by Paul M Sammon - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2550670193 and The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1400868533
Just finished the excellent:-Peaches for Monsieur le Curé by Joanne Harris
Rated this one as 5* (9.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Murder at the Priory Hotel by Merryn Allingham
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Christine wrote: "PattyMacDotCom how are both of your books going?"Good thanks, Christine! You'll see links to what I wrote about them in my comments above your question. 😊
In the Market for Murder by T.E. Kinsey finds amateur sleuths Lady Hardcastle and her maid, Armstrong, investigating why a local farmer died suddenly in the pub where they were lunching. Hardly the atmosphere they moved to the country for!
3.5~4★ My review of In the Market for Murder
I read Ovid's Heroides: A New Translation and Critical Essays by Paul Murgatroyd, Bridget Reeves, and Sarah Parker.A translation and critique of 21 fictional letters written by Ovid in the voices of women in Greek and Roman mythology. They include a letter from Penelope berating Odysseus for delaying his homecoming, Medea spewing her venom at Jason, etc. The letters are witty, angry, desperate, and touching depending on the situation. But all are entertaining and imaginative.
It's not as well known as Ovid's other works, but it should be. I think it is remarkable that a man of his time and place gave voice to the voiceless through these letters in the first-person voices of women, many of whom suffered in the hands of Greek and Roman "heroes."
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Gosling Girl by Jacqueline Roy
Rated this one 3* (7/10):
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. A WW2 story I never was aware of in Latvia. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of To Italy, With Love by Nicky Pellegrino
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read this in late June and forgot to review it - Chaos: Charles Manson, the CIA and the Secret History of the Sixties by Tom O'Neill - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4806466747
I love it when a favourite author is convinced to continue a story. Lying Beside You is celebrated Aussie mystery writer Michael Robotham's excellent addition to the Cyrus Haven (& Evie Cormac) series. But you can pick it up and enjoy the suspense and action straight away, because Robotham will fill you in.
5★ My review of Lying Beside You
Finished this horror/SF novel - not that keen - Stinger - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4852919842
This is my review of T.M. Logan's latest thriller, The Curfew
:-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read another novel by Halldór Laxness, his The Fish Can Sing. It's a gentle, whimsical novel. My favorite is still Independent People, but I've loved everything I've read by him.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Yours, Mine, Ours: The No 1 Bestseller by Sinéad Moriarty ⭐⭐⭐.6 https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A troubling John Steinbeck
The Winter of Our DiscontentReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and two wonderful Kate Chopin stories
The StormReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Story of an HourReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a goodie!
by the most talented Candice FoxMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Old Friends Reunited by Maddie Please ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chinese-born Qian Julie Wang was only five when she was warned she had to behave, be quiet and blend in - or they'd be deported. As she writes in Beautiful Country: A Memoir, it was hard for her to understand why her professor parents became menial workers, 
3.5★ My review of Beautiful Country
Read Leave the World Behind by Rumaan Alam and reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769435698and
The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863696909
I recently finished two books. The first one being Jazz by Toni Morrison
A brilliant novel set in the 1920s New York. My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
As well as the magnificent collection of essays That Mighty Sculptor, Time by Marguerite Yourcenar
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Great Short Books: A Year of Reading—Briefly by Kenneth C. Davishttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I always enjoy the investigative exploits of the self-made computer-nerd 'family' known as the Monkeewrench crew.
Off the Grid
by P.J. Tracy has Native Americans, terrorists, and kidnappers. Loved it!
4.5★ My review of Off the Grid
Finished
. A beautiful story of friendships. This will be on my all time favourites list now. My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of We Measure the Earth with Our Bodies by Tsering Yangzom Lamahttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
An Artist's Eyes
by Frances Tosdevin shows, through Clémence Monnet's beautifully clever illustrations, that all artists (and we) see things differently. Gorgeous!
4.5~5★ My review with illustrations
Oh, yes, yes yes, to this one!
by Eleanor Limprecht, my first from this talented author. My review, five stars;
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My thoughts on Death at Greenway by Lori Rader Day
no rating as DNF
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Hen's Teeth and Horse's Toes: Further Reflections in Natural History by Stephen Jay Gould and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4863753970
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