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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
The Flower Garden: How to Grow Flowers from Seed by Clare Fosterhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Family of Strangers by Emilie Richards
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Collector of Treasures and Other Botswana Village Tales by Bessie Head. She evokes the harsh reality of living in a Botswana village in a very understated manner--as if it's part of the fabric of daily existence.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Gentlemen Formerly Dressed by Sulari Gentill
. Loved every minute of it:)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A couple of classics finished up!
His Last Bow by Arthur Conan Doyle (1917)Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Cider House Rules by John Irving (1985)Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed the currently popular The Sealwoman's Gift by Sally Magnusson.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Done reading Bloodchild and Other Stories by Octavia E. ButlerMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Peter Pan grows up and Captain Hook likes what he sees Red and enjoyed Peter Darling
My 4⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed One of Ours by Willa Cather. It has fantastic prose. I liked it a lot.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of How To Keep A Secret by Sarah Morgan
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Hey everyone,I finished reading this gem last night The Kind Worth Killing
Fast paced thriller I gave 5 stars :)
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I recently read In Blossom, a very attractive children's picture book by Cheon Yooju about making friends. I have misgivings about sharing lunch, though!
3.5~4★ Link to my review with illustrations
Mr. Bridge (1969) is the husband of Mrs. Bridge (1959), quite a pair of books by Evan S. Connell. Excellent portrait of a difficult man, which explains a lot about her. (Read hers first.)
4.5★ Link to my review
My review of The Best of the Best Rice Cooker Cookbook: 100 No-Fail Recipes for All Kinds of Things That Can Be Made from Start to Finish in Your Rice Cooker by Beth Hensperger:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan
It didn't quite gel with me as much as it did with some other readers.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished I've Been Meaning to Tell You: A Letter to My Daughterhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Life Is Long!: 50+ Ways to Help You Live a Little Bit Closer to Foreverhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed The Black Count: Glory, Revolution, Betrayal, and the Real Count of Monte Cristo much more than I expected. Tom Reiss makes history interesting. The themes focused upon are certainly relevant still today.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have reread the novella The Call of the Wild by Jack London. I still like it a lot!Myt review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Another catchup:Colin Dexter's The Daughters of Cain, fairly late in the Inspector Morse series - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2733267886.
Clark Ashton's Smith's collection of short fiction, Genius Loci and Other Tales - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2740851097.
Diana Wynne Jones' The Pinhoe Egg - reviewed: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2740855047.
My review of Fatal Inheritance by Rachel Rhys
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished The Storied Life of A.J. Fikry by Gabrielle Zevin. I thought it was a light, easy, and enjoyable read, but I wasn't as thrilled with it as a lot of people seem to be.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished listening to Kurt Vonnegut's Bluebeard. This was an interesting character study of the protagonist, told in his own words as he writes his memoirs. An interesting read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Many of my GR friends have been raving over the new contemporary novel When All Is Said by Anne Griffin. I thought I would give it a try. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Professor Chandra Follows His Bliss
. 3 stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Warlight by Michael Ondaatje. An incredible novel about 1945 post-war London. Ondaatje does a phenomenal job of evoking a haunting atmosphere where nothing is quite what it seems. He explores the process by which shards of memory are pieced together to make sense of the past.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Re-read the first of Lian Hearn's Otori novels, Across the Nightingale Floor and updated my previous review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1404829504.
I read Things My Son Needs to Know about the World
. 5 stars . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Where Hope Begins by Catherine West
An absolute winner
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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not my cup of tea
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