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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Love this series. Promise Me by Harlan Coben
My review, five stars: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Stone Sky by N.K. Jemisin
. What a great series!My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Books by Martha Gellhorn are always worth reading. The View from the Ground I have given four stars.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield
. Lovely.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally got to read a book I had heard so much about--Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward. The subject matter was difficult, but it was really well done.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. I think someone in this group recommended it. I thought it was just ok.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Tamara wrote: "Mark Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve. I think someone in this group recommended it. I thought it was just ok.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I did. I thought it was very funny, a humorous look at the differences between men and women.
Chrissie wrote: "I did. I thought it was very funny, a humorous look at the differences between men and women..."Chrissie, thanks for recommending it.
I thought parts of Adam's entries were funny. But I wasn't too keen on the sexism or misogyny. I was particularly disturbed by Eve's gushing declaration of continued love for Adam even if he should beat her up.
I took it with a grain of salt because this was Mark Twain who has a penchant for sarcastic humor. But still . . .
Read book 2 of the S J Deas Civil War series, The Protector, but didn't find it quite came up to the first - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2636045764.
Read book 1 of a series which seems to straddle fantasy and SF genres - The Boy with the Porcelain Blade by Den Patrick - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2639478127.
Tamara wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "I did. I thought it was very funny, a humorous look at the differences between men and women..."Chrissie, thanks for recommending it.
I thought parts of Adam's entries were funn..."
Oh my gosh, I just saw it as funny. I didn't take it seriously and of course it is dated by it being written so long ago.
I've just read a post with this heading: "Seneca Hates Goodreads. On ostentatious reading and the tendency to hoard ... An increasing number of people semi-consciously consume books for the purposes of kicking their tallies up a notch and showing off how they just finished reading another book ... And if you combine the tendency to hoard books and that to read ostentatiously, you get the biggest reason why Goodreads is as successful as it is. The entire platform is built around displaying such statistics as the number of books you have finished reading, or how far you are from completing your current book(s) ". What do you think?(https://bit.ly/2LFbZAE)
Chrissie wrote: "Tamara wrote: "Chrissie wrote: "I did. I thought it was very funny, a humorous look at the differences between men and women..."Chrissie, thanks for recommending it.
I thought parts of Adam's en..."
I've just seen this conversation about Twain's The Diary of Adam and Eve, which seems to have come from his short story Eve's Diary. There's an interesting Wikipedia article about it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eve%27s...
Lara Hawthorne illustrates Silent Night in her own, unique style. Nice one for the season.
Link to my review with pictures(Sorry they may not show in the app.)
In the 1800s, Americans used to have a competition to see how many birds they could shoot on Christmas Day. Fortunately, that all changed! Have a look at the attractive Counting Birds: The Idea That Helped Save Our Feathered Friends and breathe a sigh of relief!
Link to my review with pictures (You may not see them if you're using the app.)
My review of The Dream Daughter by Diane Chamberlain
A brilliant 5 star book
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "My review of Days Without End by Sebastian Barry 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I am reading that at the moment. It is interesting but not fantastic and I am getting a little weary of everything being in the main character's voice.
Finished Ford's Chariot on the Mountainhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Great way to end the year!
I have completed the classic Winesburg, Ohio. It was not to my liking. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I can recommend Animalish by Susan Orlean. It is good and it is funny, but too short for me to give it more than three stars.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Somehow almost the whole month of December has slipped by without me getting back here to post some reviews, so rather than list all six books that I've read so far this month, here's three of them:
There There by Tommy OrangeReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Monk by Matthew LewisReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Gorillas in the Mist by Dian FosseyReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished the audio of The Girls in the Picture by Melanie Benjamin and really enjoyed it. It tells the friendship of Frances Marion and Mary Pickford, while also showing the difficulties women faced in the early Hollywood years, including the "casting couch" and the difficult decision of having children (would it ruin their careers, for example). I listened to this during my jogs and found it well paced and well narrated (by Kimberly Farr).
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed my last book for 2018; the book I just started will not be done until next year! So my last book is the short story Miss Brill by Katherine MansfieldMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
While I like how Mansfield draws people and places and scenes, I am often left wanting a bit more.
This is an interesting take on time travel. The Psychology of Time Travel by Kate Mascarenhas
My review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The City of Wizards by George Mazurek (Jiří Mazurek)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My last two reviews for 2018 up nowBeautiful Liars by Isabel Ashdown
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Sea of Strangers By Lang Leav
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Let Me Go by Helga Schneider 4*Very short but very tough because of the content (WWII memoir) and also thought provoking.
At the bottom my short review in English: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read After You'd Gone. 4 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... Posting this on Jan 1st ,but it was the last book I read in 2018.
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A light read for this time of year,
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...