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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
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by Lindy WestGreat book by such a strong female voice. Got laughs and I even teared up a bit.
My Review:
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I finished an interesting look at a modern archeological discovery, The Lost City of the Monkey God: A True Story by Douglas Preston. This is an overall look at many aspects of such a find, from the legend that started the search to disease history.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Edge Chronicles 5: Stormchaser: Second Book of Twig by Paul Stewart
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I continue to appreciate the writing of James Salter. Yesterday I finished Solo Faces.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
my review of Every Last Lie by Mary KubicaNot recommended by me
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans recently wrote Incorrigible Optimist: A Political Memoir about Aussie and international politics and diplomacy since his student days in the 60s. Enjoyable, informative, and still optimistic! 
4★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
my review of The Things I Should Have Told You by Carmel Harrington4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
After hearing so many International Women's Day references to Mary Wollstonecraft, I decided I should find and read A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. She sure was a firebrand!
. 4★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished A Parchment of Leaveshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks, Chrissie, five stars from me too.
I have completed Benediction by Kent Haruf. Both the book and that now I have read all of the author's books, no other ones now being left, makes me sad.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This book brought tears to my eyes.
Patty,Interesting that you mention Mary. I went to high school with one of Mary Shelley’s descendents--Wollstonecraft (or is it Croft?) was her middle name I think. She was incredibly nice but reserved, but I was a sulky, broodish teenager so that was lost on me then. The final day of the semester we watched the Kenneth Branagh version of Frankenstein and basically goofed off.
Not reading anything currently, but David Halberstam, Tom Perrota, and Ben Metcalf lined up for me when I get around to them.
Diane S ☔ wrote: "Finished A Parchment of Leaveshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks, Chrissie, five stars from me too."
Nice, that I led you to one that you loved too. If you had started with the other you might have not gone further.
Diane, another thing I saw was that your favorite of Kent Haruf's books is the same as mine--The Tie That Binds! You wrote that somewhere and I happened to see it.
I finished reading In the Woods by Tana French. I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's quirky, fun and so unreliable. I will be continuing with the series. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
John wrote: "Patty,Interesting that you mention Mary. I went to high school with one of Mary Shelley’s descendents--Wollstonecraft (or is it Croft?) was her middle name I think. She was incredibly nice but re..."
How interesting, John! I was ignorant enough to know the name only as a harbour suburb of Sydney.
As it turns out, according to Wikipedia, it was named after Edward, who migrated to Australia to escape his Aunt Mary's notoriety! She was pretty outspoken, after all.
No wonder it's already a bestseller! Loved The Woman in the Window by A.J. Finn. 
5★ Link to my review
Finished Flight Without End by Joseph Roth 3*I would have rated the book also higher but the end arrived too fast and it has also an open ending, something I don't like a lot. But I liked Roth's prose and descriptions, and the topic of the book: a man that doesn't feel at home anywhere so he moves from one country to another looking for something he will never find because not even him did know what he was looking for.
English review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I did end up liking Liza of Lambeth by W. Somerset Maugham, although it took me a while to get puled in.My review. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin. An intense, mysterious novel. I liked it but can't say I understood it completely.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Green Hills of Africa by Ernest Hemingway.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A short, free book I enjoyed is Mark Colvin's history of his interesting family, Fighting Blood: An Exotic Family History. 
5★ Link to my reviewI included the link to the Melbourne University Press offer.
I gave five stars to My Brilliant Friend by Elena FerranteReview can be read here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Where I Lost Her by T Greenwood3 and a half stars
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my review of When We Were Sisters by Emilie Richards,5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Did a catchup of three reviews:The Book of Skulls by Robert Silverberg - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2318899866.
The Best of C.L. Moore - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2334266276.
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2334278660.
A kind of 'nothing' review Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Went back to 1995 to start at the beginning of Harlan Coben‘s popular Myron Bolitar mysteries with Deal Breaker. 
3.5>4★ My review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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