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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
My review of A Walk in Wildflower Park by Bella Osborne
4 stars
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So good then? I'll have to pick it up!
Two more good ones:
Portrait in Sepia by Isabel AllendeReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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My Name Is Lucy Barton by Elizabeth StroutReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A very interesting memoir.
by Sandra WillsonMy review, four stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
What an absolute delight!
by Bernadette JiwaMy review, all the stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another fave author for me now.
by Katherine CenterMy review, five stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Foster by Claire Keegan.Another quiet, beautiful novel by Claire Keegan. Her novels move slowly where very little happens on the surface. I've become a big fan of her writing. This story is about a young Irish girl who goes to live with foster parents. Very moving.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
There's Been a Little Incident by Alice Ryan ⭐⭐⭐⭐.2https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Catch up again - did the reviews but didn't post the links:Books 1 and 2 of a series by Paul Anthony Jones - Extinction Point - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996226161
and
Exodus - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4996261119
plus
Year One by Nora Roberts - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606453298
and
The Serpent's Mark by S W Perry - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4974662130
Sandy how are 2 of your books going?
Just read a couple more:Witches: James I and the English Witch Hunts by Tracy Borman - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012848070
Rags of Time first in the Thomas Tallent series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012816399
My review of A Song of Comfortable Chairs by Alexander McCall Smith
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Read The Wrecking Storm, book 2 in the Thomas Tallant series by Michael Ward - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5012834126
My review of Like a Rolling Stone: The Last Letter to the Editor: A Memoir by Jann S. Wennerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Tricky Art of Forgiveness by Meredith Jaffe
3 stars
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Another interesting read on 9/11.
by Gail B. StewartMy review, four stars:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've been reading some James Joyce stories and finding them easy to read, entertaining and thought-provoking. You don't need to be some kind of literary critic to enjoy them, although goodness knows they have been extensively studied (not by me 😊).Araby is about a tongue-tied young boy's crush on his friend's sister. Delightful and bittersweet.
5★ My review of Araby
Another, longer James Joyce story is The Dead which takes place during Christmas/New Year's festivities in the early 1900s. Thought-provoking ending.
5★ My review of The Dead
A touch of frivolity. 
by Katherine CenterMy review, three stars:
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My review of Picnic in Someday Valley by Jodi Thomas
3 stars
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My review of Stephen Sondheim in his ownStephen Sondheim In His Own Words by Stephen Sondheimhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Happiest Little Town by Barbara Hannay
5 stars
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Read a couple in the Gaby Darin police procedural series by Jenny O'Brien, Silent Cry - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020347001 and Darkest Night - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020394514plus a supernatural/police procedural The Night Whispers by Caroline Mitchell - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020427536.
Read a couple in the Gaby Darin police procedural series by Jenny O'Brien, Silent Cry - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020347001 and Darkest Night - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020394514plus a supernatural/police procedural The Night Whispers by Caroline Mitchell - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5020427536.
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Why would a nurse who is highly sought-after by an attentive, handsome, wealthy doctor ask to Make Me Disappear? This is Jessica Payne's debut thriller, and I think many thriller readers will enjoy it.
3★ My review of Make Me Disappear
Wilma Mankiller
was some woman! Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara picked a remarkable Cherokee woman who rose from 'dirt-poor' to represent her Nation. It's another excellent addition to the Little People BIG DREAMS collection. I'm so glad I met her in this little book.
5★ My review of Wilma Mankiller with a few illustrations
DNF but gave it 2** The Lost Girls of Willowbrook. Sadly disappointing to me at least. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Divider: Trump in the White House, 2017-2021 by Peter Bakerhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Carnival is Over by Aussie author Greg Woodland is an excellent rural crime novel set in a small inland town where people are creating their own 'opportunities' and getting away with it.
4.5★ My review of The Carnival is Over
The Ghost of Gracie Flynn by Joanna Morrison ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Outstanding. Thirty years after she won the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Annie Proulx turned her passion for the natural world into an essay project that became Fen, Bog and Swamp: A Short History of Peatland Destruction and Its Role in the Climate Crisis. She means it, and she's right: “In the end all humans will be ‘haunted by waters.’”
5★ My review of Fen, Bog and Swamp
Was delighted to reconnect with a favourite character in
. A delightful 5***** read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is a classic, banned book, that deserves to be much better known and wider read:
Strange Fruit by Lillian E. SmithReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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