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Here's my review - pardon but the quotations are in italian!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Cards of Grief by Jane Yolan - my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2603217174.
Nichole wrote: "Question: Have you read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. What's it like?"I used to teach Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I love it. I think it's hilarious. But my students never seemed to see the funny side of it. I would laugh so hard that tears trickled down my face. Meanwhile my students would be staring at me with horrified expressions.
Either I have a weird sense of humor or I'm a pretty sick individual. Perhaps both :)
I finished The Fishermen by Chigozie Obioma.Very well written, full of mythic and tragic overtones. I thought it well deserved to be short listed for the 2015 Man Booker Prize.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Miss Lonelyhearts by Nathanael West is a classic I do not like!My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am sure glad it was short.
I recently finished the Whispering Springs duology (Light in Shadow and Truth or Dare) and it was great! Every book I've read by Jayne Ann Krentz has been awesome
Tamara wrote: "Nichole wrote: "Question: Have you read Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka. What's it like?"I used to teach Kafka's The Metamorphosis. I love it. I think it's hilarious. But my students n..."
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A combination of finishing books I'd been working through for months and a couple of quick reads pushed me over my reading goal for the year (75 books) and pushed me just 10 away from topping my total from last year (89). :-)
The Right To The City: A Verso Report★★☆☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley ★★★☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Elevation by Stephen King★★☆☆☆ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Fire and Blood: The European Civil War, 1914-1945 by Enzo Traverso★★★★★ Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Evan Smoak is still answering his phone and asking the desperate callers "Do you need my help?" Well, duh! Of course, that's why were given the secret number of The Nowhere Man! This is #2 in Gregg Hurwitz's action-packed Orphan X series.
4★ My review
Need a little christmas?Finished Letters from Father Christmas
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show
Oh, Stasiland, Amelia, I read that ages ago and like it a lot!
My review of
Post-Truth: The New War on Truth and How to Fight Back by Matthew d'Ancona - 5 starsA short non-fiction, clearly written and extremely topical.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I added in another short story by W. Somerset Maugham --The Luncheon. It was good and will definitely make you laugh.Diane found it and I had to read it too.
My short review with a link to the short story free online:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The early teens sure can be tricky! Crush, by Svetlana Chmakova, is Awkward #3 in a big comic series for kids in middle school. Covers heaps of issues. My review, with many screen shots:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Becoming Mrs. Lewis: The Improbable Love Story of Joy Davidman and C. S. Lewishttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Sir Gawain and the Green Knight again. I've read it umpteen times. It is so delightful that I never get tired of reading it.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dale wrote: "My review of The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Glad you enjoyed it - I have that one on my TBR list already.
Finished The Last Girl: My Story of Captivity, and My Fight Against the Islamic Statehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pam wrote: "Dale wrote: "My review of The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Glad you enjoye..."
Dale wrote: "Pam wrote: "Dale wrote: "My review of The Cottingley Secret by Hazel Gaynor4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Gla..."
I’m sure you will enjoy it Pam.
My reviews of Ravensdale Spring by Kate Fielding
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and The Lost Art of Letter Writing
by Menna Van Praag
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished listening to There There by Tommy Orange. A book about stories and connectivity. This is strong writing, especially for a debut novel. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really, really, really enjoyed The Golden Notebook by Doris Lessing. For once a winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature (2007) that I fall for. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Maurice Swift, author, is the thoroughly reprehensible creation of wonderful real author John Boyne in his new book A Ladder to the Sky. I absolutely loved hating him - Maurice, of course, not John!
My review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry and I LOVED it
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It was a funny book. Question: Have you read Metamorophosis by Franz Kafka. What's it like?