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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I have completed All But My Life: A Memoir by Gerda Weissmann Klein. I have given it four stars and recommend it to others.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Living with the Gods: On Beliefs and Peoples by Neil MacGregor. I gave it 5 stars and highly recommend it. I said more about it in the religion and philosophy thread.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've finished The Ice Cream Queen of Orchard Street by Susan Jane Gilman.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Heather wrote: "I just finished How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry and I LOVED it"So did I Heather.
Kim wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Maurice Swift, author, is the thoroughly reprehensible creation of wonderful real author John Boyne in his new book A Ladder to the Sky. Probably my Book of the Year so far - and I've read some great ones earlier in the year!."
I can't even begin to pick a book of the year. I'm hopeless, Kim. But I really did enjoy this one!
In My Real Name Is Hanna, author Tara Lynn Masih gives us a "Ukrainian Anne Frank", based on real, terrifying events during WW2. An excellent read for adults and easy enough for YA readers, who should all read it!
4.5★ Link to my review
I have completed Edith Wharton's The Marne. It is historical fiction.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This morning I finished the audio version of Arcadia by Di Morrissey
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Last Camel Died at Noon by Elizabeth Peters
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Here my review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have read one story in Metak u srcu Svetog Augustina. The book's title translates as A Bullet in the Heart of St. Augustine.One of the stories, "Perhaps the Dog was Dreaming US"' is translated and free online. We will be discussing it in the Reading for Pleasure group's Short Story Breakfast Club Thread. I have included a link to the translated story in my review.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Heartland: A Memoir of Working Hard and Being Broke in the Richest Country on Earth
by Sarah Smarsh.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A very light read Again by Kathleen Gilles Seidel my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished How I Became a Famous Novelist by Steve Hely. My two-sentence review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Month of Borrowed Dreams by Felicity Hayes-McCoy
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
Murder in the Dark by Simon R. Green a quick but rewarding and entertaining read. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished book 1 of Jane Yolen's series, Sister Light, Sister Dark but didn't love it sadly - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2606476310.
A cute Christmas read which was an audio for me. Dashing Through the Snow by Debbie Macomber
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Letters to My Yesterday by Karyn Sepulveda
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I know not everyone loves Toni Morrison, but for me she is one of the absolute best storytellers I've ever experienced. I'm slowly reading through her books, and Song of Solomon was my third. A masterpiece, if you ask me. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished Short Stories by Thomas Murtha, which I loved. Murtha is a neglected Canadian short story writer of the Twenties / Thirties who never had a collection published in his lifetime. The tales really capture the drabness and futility of ordinary lives in the Ontario of that day. The volume makes a strong overall impression.
I finished Rin Tin Tin: The Life and the Legend and I liked it a lot. The author reads her own audiboook and I thought she read it well. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Tales from Outer Suburbia by Shaun Tan are intriguing little stories with his unique illustrations, some of which I shared in my review.
4.5★ My review with pictures
My two reviews up now of Forget My Name by J.S. Monroe
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Art of Friendship by Lisa Ireland
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished reading Remembering the Bones. An interesting, memory-driven story. Serene, in it's way.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've run across a couple of groups reading The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah, so I decided to have a look. Overall, I enjoyed it (if one can be said to enjoy WW2 in France), but with a few niggles.
4★ My review
I have finished Travels with Herodotus by Ryszard Kapuściński.It was interesting though not exactly what I imagined, but this doesn't mean that I liked it less. I thought the author, a reporter, would talk above all about this travels. He talks how his job as a reporter started but the main topic are the travels of Herodotus 2000 years earlier, and how the job of the historian started. So it was one quarter about Kapuscinski's first travels and his first impressions of these countries (there is no deep insight in the politics of the countries he goes to) and three quarters about Herodotus and his history telling about the Persians and Greek.
It was very interesting: now I want to read other books by Kapuscinski but also The Histories by Herodotus.
Finished Volume One (of two volumes) of 近代中國史綱（上）
("A Short History of Modern China").My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Last Woman in the Forest by Diane Les Becquets:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Forbidden Garden by Ellen Herrick
not what I had been hoping for when I started it.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Probably my Book of the Year so far - and I've read some great ones earlier in the year!