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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Loved this one, narrated by the author Any Ordinary Day: What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life? by Leigh Sales
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I really loved this book,
Sylvie Asleton and the Coven of Glass.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Raising Fire by James Bennett and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2814190900.
A very interesting read The Moment of Lift: How Empowering Women Changes the World by Melinda Gates
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Ransom Riggs' Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2816412565.
This was a disappointing read but I wrote a short review of The Secret Place by Tana Frenchhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just loved these early adventures of the exuberant child (who grew up to become the dashing Sir Robert Carey in his mystery series) in a couple of wonderful introductory works (free!) by P.F. Chisholm aka Patricia Finney. A Pest of a Boy and A Boy in Trouble.
4.5★ Link to my review of A Pest of a Boy
5★ Link to my review of A Boy in Trouble
Read Nora Robert's The Obsession and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818639873.
My review of The Charm Bracelet by Viola Shipman
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm flying through with my five star reviews lately! Trace: who killed Maria James? by Rachael Brown
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Really enjoyed The Metamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz KafkaMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Beautiful! More than a picture book, it's a poignant story of a little girl in wartime. Captain Rosalie by Timothée de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault (illustrator) is out in June and still available on NetGalley.
5★ Link to my review with pictures
My latest two are dark:
Millennium People by J.G. Ballard was strange and didn't really work for me. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dracula by Bram Stoker on the other hand, was excellent. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Lost Children Archive by Valeria Luiselli. The novel has a complex structure with several interlocking threads. The parents are archivists, the father documenting the sounds of land once inhabited by Apaches; the mother documenting the harrowing journey of migrant children. A challenging book, but worth the effort.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Kathleen wrote: "My latest two are dark:Dracula by Bram Stoker on the other hand, was excellent"
I enjoyed this too when I read it some years ago and thought it was very "modern" for its time.
Read The Time of the Ghostby Diana Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2818695927.
If you have not yet read Night, the 60-year old autobiographical account of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's time in Auschwitz (followed by a lifetime of teaching and the Nobel Peace Prize), it's time. Ignorance and silence are still responsible for killing people.
5★ (of course) Link to my comments
My review of The Honourable Thief by Meaghan Wilson Anastasios
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My first graphic novel Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood by Marjane Satrapi
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finally read a book by Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo, Nobody's Fool. Loved it. Can't wait to read other books by him. Here’s my review
My review of Summer On The River by Marcia Willett
Not one I can recommend
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "My review of Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty 
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
Two GR people I know have reviewed this recently, with different reactions, and both of you tend to like Moriarty. This makes me nervous. I have rated three of her books 5, 4 and 3 stars and discarded another (NOT in that order, the discard was in between the 5 and 4 star reads), so once I get to this book it will be interesting to see what I think. The 3 star book was her first (the last one I read) and often debut novels fall a bit short for me if they are not the first book I've ever read by the author.
I finished Akhenaten: Dweller in Truth by Naguib Mahfouz. Akhenaten is the Egyptian pharaoh credited with being the first monotheist. The book is an easy, quick read with an interesting structure. It illustrates how people's prejudices and predilections influence their perceptions.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Karin wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
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Lol! Only you can tell Karin:) Maybe you should try and borrow it from the library - then it doesn't matter if you read it or DNF it!
David Bowie. Whether this makes you think of Major Tom or Ziggy Stardust, you've got to admit he was an artist like no other. Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara's colourful addition to the "little people BIG DREAMS" series will introduce him to kids today. (And she explains his eyes.)
5★ Link to my review with pictures
Read and thoroughly enjoyed the biography Georgiana: Duchess of Devonshire
.My 4⭐ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. If you like the 70's, this is an entertaining one! My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "Karin wrote: "Phrynne wrote: "My review of Nine Perfect Strangers by Liane Moriarty https://www.goodreads.com/review/sho..."
True enough! I read most of my books from the library and then buy ones I really like for gifts--but I do buy some nonfiction before reading. Very few fiction book before reading.
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