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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
I read this yesterday BeartownWow what a book. I gave it 4.5 stars
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Wood: The Life & Times of Cockshutt Wood was a delightful and interesting book to listen to / read..My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
What is it about penguins that is so cute? This little Not-So-Brave Penguin surprises herself when her friend is lost. Another lovely Steve Smallman children's picture book.
4★ Link to my review with pictures
I've always enjoyed Maggie O'Farrell's mysterious stories, but I'd never read her debut After You'd Gone until now. Glad I found it! Good book and well worth a read.
4★ Link to my review
Finished Foodopoly: The Battle Over the Future of Food and Farming in Americahttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Behind Her Eyes by Sarah Pinborough
was just an okay read for me. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Accusation by Zosia Wand
4 stars
an involving read
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally read this! Thanks for the recommendation, Julia! Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Orchard of Lost Souls by Nadifa Mohamed. It is about the civil war in Somalia as experienced through the eyes of three females. It was quite good.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished When I Walk Through That Door, I Am: An Immigrant Mother's Questhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I've finished yesterday a mystery I'm afraid has not been translated into English; it is really nice though ...Questa non è una canzone d'amore
Finally, I've read a Bosch mystery, The Black Echo, the first of the popular series by Michael Connelly. In 1992, LA cops fought crime with payphones and state-of-the-art pagers and faxes. And guns. Always guns. Looks like I'm in for a long ride!
4.5★ Link to my review
Read Diana Wynne Jones' last book, completed by one of her sisters - The Islands of Chaldea - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2732386892.
I've finished 3 books over the past few days:Nobody's Fool by Richard Russo: 3 star. While I found the characters interesting and broken in so many ways, I thought the humor was mean-hearted and the ending left me disappointed.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck: 5 star. What a wonderful story of humanity and decency.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
river woman by Katherena Vermette: 5 star. Lovely, lovely poems speaking of love, loss of a native tongue, isolation, hope, caring, history. These are beautifully told poems.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Homecoming by Rosie Howard
An enjoyable read
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being by Madeleine L'Engle
Not my favourite of hers
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Hey Everyone,I just finished reading The Mother-in-Law
It was brilliant, I gave it 5 star!
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here is another book I have liked a lot--Dorothy Parker: What Fresh Hell Is This?!My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hey everyone,I read The Woman in Cabin 10
It was an enjoyable read I gave it 3.5 stars :)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Learning to See. It is historical fiction about photographer Dorothea Lange, a person who I assume needs no introduction.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hi Everyone,I finished Night Road by Kristin Hannah
What an amazing book... I gave it 5 Stars!
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Fairy tale retelling with a feminist point of view Read and enjoyed: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
My 4 ⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd--a heart-warming, feel good book.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Chernobyl 01:23:40: The Incredible True Story of the World's Worst Nuclear Disaster.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished We Were Rich and We Didn't Know It: A Memoir of My Irish Boyhoodhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Dragons in Shallow Waters: Love and Death in the Boxer Rebellion by Clare Kane. A haunting read. 4 stars.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Evan S. Connell created the socially proper, but uncomfortable, Mrs. Bridge in a book that is a new favourite for me.
5★ Link to my review
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5★ Link to my link review
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