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Diane S ☔
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May 08, 2018 03:27PM
Chrissie, I gave up on Warlight after 35%. Words good, plot dragged, couldn't continue.
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I randomly found Keeping Love Alive as Memories Fade: The 5 Love Languages and the Alzheimer's Journey by Gary Chapman while browsing the "new book" section at the library and am really glad that I checked it out. This is a heartwarming book about being a caregiver and giving selflessly to the one in one's care.
The tools in this book could be used in many everyday situations.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Diane S ☔ wrote: "Chrissie, I gave up on Warlight after 35%. Words good, plot dragged, couldn't continue."Thank you for telling me. Have you read In the Skin of a Lion? I thought I would go with this instead.
I just finished All the Beautiful Lies by Peter Swanson, didn't enjoy it as much as Her Every Fear and gave it 3.5 stars rounded down to 3. Here’s my brief review
I loved A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It is my favourite book of the year so far and here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and enjoyed debut mystery The Ruin by Irish (now Aussie) author Dervla McTiernan. Cold, wet, mysterious Galway, Ireland. It's Cormac Reilly #1, so more are coming!
4★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Darkness at Noon is very well written, albeit dark.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Raul wrote: "I loved A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. It is my favourite book of the year so far and here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."Yep A Little Life is totally fantastic; there is hope for contemporary books.
Finally I have finished POW! by Mo Yan. Finally because the last 100 pages or so were really dragging and it's a pity because the book started really very well.My English review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Winnie-the-Pooh narrated by Peter Dennis is short but fantastic.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Unexpected Guest by Charles Osborne and Agatha Christie
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished listening to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker and just loved it. The story is a warm, loving one. I liked it so much I immediately requested the next book by this author. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
my reviews of The Book Ninja by Ali Berg & Michelle Kalus
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Six Ways to Sunday by Karly Lane
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another batch of books I finished over the past couple of weeks – a readaloud with the kids, a public-domain audiobook in the car, and some quick reads that I used to break up a slower journey through a biography of Karl Marx:
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix ★★★★★ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Jewel of Seven Stars by Bram Stoker ★★☆☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks, Obama: My Hopey, Changey White House Years by David Litt ★★★★☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Before I Go to Sleep by S.J. Watson ★★★☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Emerald Circus by Jane Yolen ★★★☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
For fans of Winnie-the-Pooh, I can also recommend these three books:The Enchanted Places
The Path through the Trees
The Hollow On The Hill: The Search For A Personal Philosophy
They are written by Christopher Milne. What was it like to be him?
Finished Every Note Played. An emotional journey through ALS. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I stuck in a short storyThe Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Petra wrote: "I finished listening to The Art of Hearing Heartbeats by Jan-Philipp Sendker and just loved it. The story is a warm, loving one. I liked it so much I immediately req..."Petra, I loved that book. The author lives in a ton not to far from mine, or at least she did. I still need to read her second.
Chrissie wrote: "I stuck in a short storyThe Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I joined Chrissie in reading the little fable, The Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar Wilde and reviewed it here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In her first-ever book, published almost a century ago, Agatha Christie introduced one of the world's best-loved characters, the inimitable M. Hercule Poirot with his very active 'little grey cells'. The Mysterious Affair at Styles is the first of the many classic "it must be one of us" Christie mysteries.
4★ https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "I stuck in a short storyThe Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I joined Chrissie in ..."
The thread is a great way of discussing short stories, isn't it? Glad I could lead yo to it. We both gave it three stars and thought similarly.
I have completed A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It is definitely not as good as Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder!
I just stuck in a short story by Stephen Crane--The Blue Hotel. I read it because I very much enjoyed the author's The Open Boat. My review of The Blue Hotel:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I did NOT like it at all.
Read this short story:Arrangement In Black and White by Dorothy Parker. She wrote for the New Yorker. It will not take you more than five minutes. It is marvelous.There is a link to the story in my mini-mini review. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up on some May reads - Twilight Robbery by Frances Hardinge - reviewed here - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2379070372.
Read A Scanner Darkly by Philip K Dick and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2389312087.
Read The Three Stigmata of Palmer Eldritch by Philip K Dick and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2389312252.
Diane S ☔ wrote: "Petra, I loved that book. The author lives in a ton not to far from mine, or at least she did. I still need to read her second. .."It's always fun to know an author lives around you. I like knowing that Alice Poon and Douglas Coupland live fairly close to me.
Chrissie wrote: "I stuck in a short storyThe Nightingale and the Rose by Oscar WildeMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I read this short story in The Happy Prince, and Other Stories and I liked all the stories in the collection, which also include The Happy Prince, The Selfish Giant, The Devoted Friend and The Remarkable Rocket. They all have a fairy tale feel but with a moral message.
Alice, the fairy tale feel does not work well for me.
I've finished The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone by Olivia Laing.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finally read The Maze in the Heart of the Castle which had been on my TBR since I joined GR! This book I believe is intended for middle-school age people (ages about 10-14)...My review (for once of a decent length) is here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Leslie wrote: "I finally read The Maze in the Heart of the Castle which had been on my TBR since I joined GR! This book I believe is intended for middle-school age people (ages about 10-14)...My ..."
Well done for finally getting round to it ... I've got a lot like that!
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is as good as they say it is! This one's going to be a classic. I prefer reading more in-depth into characters, and really sinking into their worlds, but as a whole, this ambitious historical novel really worked. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Silas Marner. It is a group read here. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Kathleen wrote: "Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi is as good as they say it is! This one's going to be a classic. I prefer reading more in-depth into characters, and really sinking into th..."
Kathleen, I do not want to be argumentative, but thought I would express another point of view about Homegoing
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie wrote: "Kathleen, I do not want to be argumentative, but thought I would express another point of view about Homegoing..."Not at all argumentative, Chrissie, and you make excellent points in your review that provide good info to prospective readers. Those aspects kept it from being a five star read for me, just didn't keep me from enjoying it.
Phew, I do not like upsetting people. Interesting that what bothered me a lot, you also noted, Kathleen
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