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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
This was a good one!!!My review of Jar of Hearts by Jennifer Hillier
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Wolf and the Watchman by Niklas Natt och Dag:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A couple of great reads!The Lost Man by Aussie author Jane Harper is a terrific standalone Outback story and mystery.
My review of The Lost ManA new favourite author is the late Lucia Berlin. Her much acclaimed A Manual for Cleaning Women: Selected Stories is full of unforgettable stories and characters. Loved it!
My review of A Manual for Cleaning Women
Stephen King's The Green Mile impressed me. I definitely recommend it. This book does not at all fit into those genres of books that usually attract me. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "My review of The Body in the Beach House by Grace York 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
For some reason when I click on this one I'm getting the Diary of a Young Girl in Evelyn's reviews?
Big catchup - have read and reviewed the following:Hitler's Girls: Doves Amongst Eagles by Tim Heath - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679671250
The Black Friar by S G Maclean - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2680546173
Mystery Walk by R A McCammon - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2653212301
plus two books by Diana Wynne Jones:
Minor Arcana - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679685374 and
Hexwood - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2679724116"
I finished Delta Wedding by Eudora Welty. It was ok, but I much prefer her short stories. My 3 star review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I loved A River Runs Through it and Other Stories by Norman Maclean. I know the title story has been made into a movie starring Robert Redford, but the book is even better. It deserves to be read.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished reading The Orenda by Joseph Boyden.I liked this story of culture, change (devastating) and the spirit or will or life force continuing. There was an interconnectivity between the past, present and future.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Pam wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of The Body in the Beach House by Grace York https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"
Thanks Pam. I have fixed it now. Somehow a 1 got lost off the end of the review number:)
My review of Coffeehouse Knits: Knitting Patterns and Essays with Robust Flavor by Kerry Bogert:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Three reviews now upThe Lost Girls by Jennifer Spence
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Summer of Secrets by Barabara Hannay
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Dreamers by Katherine Thompson Walker
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dale , the link to your Dreamers review goes to the review for the previous book you listed .
Angela M wrote: "Dale , the link to your Dreamers review goes to the review for the previous book you listed ."Thanks Angela. And I can't even blame the heat today. Fixed now.
This is such a fun series and an easy way to absorb history.A Season of Knives by P.F. Chisholm is the second time we meet swashbuckling Sir Robert Carey on the Scottish border in Elizabethan England. Love it!
5★ My review
Finished This Is Cuba: An American Journalist Under Castro's Shadowhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I have completed My First Summer in the Sierra by John Muir.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really enjoyed
The Parisians by Marius Gabriel. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my sandysbookaday.wordpress.com page https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Read The Various Haunts of Men by Susan Hill and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2683554462.
My review of The Hotel on Mulberry Bay by Melissa Hill
not one I can recommend
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump by Asad Haider Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
LauraT wrote: "I've finished some books this past week end,some really good - Mercè Rodoreda Giardino sul mare, here my review in Italian! https://www.goodreads.com/review/show......"How on earth do you guys do it? How do you manage to read so many books so quickly? Do you speed-read?! Forgive me for my frustration, Paul, but I really want to know. Is there a fast reading technique I don't know or something?!
I just finished Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Loved it, very funny, I thought it was a great choice for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 5 stars. Here’s my review
Paul wrote: "I just finished Less by Andrew Sean Greer. Loved it, very funny, I thought it was a great choice for the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. 5 stars. Here’s my review"Less was one of my surprises from 2018. From the blurb and the fact is was a prize winner I suspected it might be too little too literary for my taste but I enjoyed it so much.
Finished What It Means When a Man Falls from the Sky, a wonderful collection of short stories by Lesley Nneka Arimah.Thanks to Raul for recommending it.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Devil & Sherlock Holmes: Tales of Murder, Madness & Obsession by David Grann
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Aussie Author Kerry Greenwood takes us to Melbourne and introduces us to the naughty, clever, stunning Miss Phryne Fisher in Cocaine Blues, the first of a long and popular cosy mystery series. TV viewers know her from Miss Fisher’s Murder Mysteries.
4.5★ Link to my review
I just read an absolutely captivating book I think everyone should read: The Street by Ann Petry. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed The Road Back. It is the second in a series of two beginning with All Quiet on the Western Front--by Erich Maria Remarque. I recommend both although the second does not reach up the the caliber of the first.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls. 4.5 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read The Eating Instinct: Food Culture, Body Image, and Guilt in America
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just finished Shadow of The Fox I really enjoyed the Japanese folklore interspersed throughout this book but found the plot and characters a bit dull and cliche.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here follows my review of The Most They Ever Had by Rick Bragg:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished listening to The Clay Girl by Heather Tucker on yesterday's commute. This is my last commuting audio book as yesterday was my final day of work. I am now officially on vacation and will go into retirement after that. This was a perfect audio for my final commuting listen. It was lyrical, funny, hard hitting, emotional. I really enjoyed Ari, the character, and wish her well. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Petra, congratulations! I wish you the best.
Thanks, Chrissie! It's going to be interesting. I'm not sure at all which direction Life will take me now.
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Finished The Strange Case of Dr. Couney: How a Mysterious European Showman Saved Thousands of American Babies
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