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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
A Far Country is another book I have liked a lot by Daniel Mason. His books are very different from each other.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This book is not going to fit all readers.
My review of WORTH FIGHTING FOR: A rural romance novel by Susannah Turner
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Silver on the Tree by Susan Cooper and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1398214749.
I finished Radiance by Catherynne M. Valente yesterday. It's described as "decopunk pulp SF alt-history space opera mystery". I loved it! One of the most inventive books I've read in a long time.
Angela M wrote: "I read Dancer
. 4.5 stars rounded up to 5 . My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."It seems I am not the only one who loves McCann. I have been yapping about him for ages!!!!!!!!!!!!! A contemporaneity author that is super fantastic. I have read everything available by him, except that one how to write books. HOW TO DO books tend to, well they are not for me. How do you teach creativity? I know my approach is wrong because I suppose you can get hints.
My review of Redemption by David Baldacci
Five stars of course:)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie, McCann is one of my favorite writers and since I read first read a book by him , I have been working to read all of his books. This was the last one I had left. So glad to have read them, but sad I don’t have another,Chrissie , I loved McCann’s book on writing. I’m not a writer, but he gave me the perspective of the writer . As you would expect, it’s beautifully written.
Here follows my review of When I Was Puerto Rican. It is a memoir that follows the author's life until she was fourteen. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Angela M wrote: "Chrissie, McCann is one of my favorite writers and since I read first read a book by him , I have been working to read all of his books. This was the last one I had left. So glad to have read them,..."OK, so you even recommend his how to write book. I'll think about it. Thanks,
My review of The College Vegan Cookbook: 145 Affordable, Healthy & Delicious Plant-Based Recipes by Heather Nicholds:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
On the weekend I finished this funny little one Aches & Pains by Maeve Binchy
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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The first one is that of Rocco Schiavone, a particular policeman who comes from the outskirts of society - his friends are burglers and cheaters, he smokes marijuana in his office, and things like that.
The second if that of the "Bastardi di Pizzofalcone", a district of Neaples, Now I feel sort of orphan: I'll have to wait for more to come out!
From both of them there have been shot also a tv series; not bad ...
I finished Cairo Modern by Naguib Mahfouz.He tends to hammer the point home, but I think the theme of the novel is as relevant today as it was when he wrote it in 1945.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read a utopian/dystopian novel from the nineties with a difference - Starhawk's The Fifth Sacred Thing - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2783199523.
My review of Losing the Plot by Elizabeth Coleman
2 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Wow, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell was very good! Given that I like this much more thanThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, does anyone have a suggestion of which by the author I should pick up next?My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Sabrina & Corina: Stories. 3.5+ stars. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Glad you liked it, Chrissie.Finished American Bloomsbury: Louisa May Alcott, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Margaret Fuller, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Henry David Thoreau: Their Lives, Their Loves, Their Work
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Chrissie, I really enjoyed all of O'Farrell's novels. My first ever was The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox; maybe that will be the one to start you with.
Chrissie wrote: "Wow, I Am, I Am, I Am: Seventeen Brushes with Death by Maggie O'Farrell was very good! Given that I like this much more thanThe Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, but I also loved The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox, and it sounds like you didn’t, so I can’t really say if I think you’ll like. For what’s its worth, I really did.
I just finished what I think will be one of my favourites for 2019, When All Is Said by Anne Griffin. Unbelievably good debut novel. Here’s my brief review.
Angela, Diane and BWell, I did give Esme three stars. I think I will try The Hand That First Held Mine next. I will see what I think after that.
How to Be a Butterfly by Laura Knowles and artist Catell Ronca is such a pretty, informative picture book that I hope it might attract some kids away from dinosaurs! 
5★Link to my review with lots of illustrations
Who doesn't love a ladybug? Tales From Nature: Ladybug is another cute book for toddlers. 
Link to my review with illustrations
A Few Right Thinking Men by Sulari Gentill is historical fiction with murder, sly grog shops, and the deadly politics of 1930s Sydney.
Link to my review
Read and really enjoyed Athena's Champion
, a prequel to the Iliad about Odysseus' young years, before the Trojan War.My 4.5⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I received an ARC for a book #3 in a series so I read the first 2.They were light, easy reads. They were a nice break from the other books I’ve been reading. These books are similar to other chic-lit authors only not as good in my opinion. The stories actually make reference to other well-known authors like Debbie Macomber and Nora Roberts.
Welcome to Moonlight Harbor by Sheila Roberts
Winter at the Beach
The Summer Retreat
I have completed Death Comes for the Archbishop, a very good book by Willa Cather. It is to be read for its stunning description of the American Southwest.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Amalia wrote: "Two highly disappointing reading experiences.They Call Me the Cat Lady
by Amy MillerThe Porpoise[..."
Sorry about that. It is depressing when you have bad books. Hope your next one is better.
Finished Before She Knew Him. Just didn't give me the thrill I wanted. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have completed Through a Window: My Thirty Years with the Chimpanzees of Gombe by Jane Goodall. It is more a biography of her chimps than it is about her. It has a slow start, but I ended up liking it a lot.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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