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Jun 10, 2019 04:55PM
Finished Lost Roses, the prequel to Lilac Girls. Another fabulous one to read. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I loved this book The Flatshare by Beth O'Leary
Here is my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Yes I know, very late to the party! Brokeback Mountain by Annie Proulx
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Graphic novels bring the classics to life for the visual generations. Gareth Hinds has a new take on Homer's great story, The Iliad. Historic, artistic, and detailed - for young and old. I enjoyed it!
4.5★ Link to my review with illustrations
Supersize Cross Sections: Inside Engines by Pascale Hédelin is an illustrated look inside some fascinating vessels from ships to the International Space Station and even a travelling circus! I love these cutaway pictures.
4★ Link to my review with illustrations
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The most beautiful of these is definitly Storia sociale dell'arte. Really an interesting overview on all western art history. Maybe a little old, still really interesting
Today I finished listening to An Echo in the Bone by Diana Gabaldon. I listened to this while out jogging and it was the perfect companion.My short review (so as not to spoil anything for those reading the series and not here yet): https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Rebecca Tope's Peril in the Cotswolds and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2852307721.
My review of Alice to Prague by Tanya Heaslip 
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and a few thoughts about why I did not finish
The Age of Discretion by Virginia Duigan
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Some classic reading:O Pioneers! by Willa Cather. Not a big fan of her writing style, but a good story. Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And some interesting Oscar Wilde. A poem
The Ballad of Reading Gaol
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and essay
Pen, Pencil, and Poison: A Study in Green
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading the brilliant Passing by Nella LarsenMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This little book of poetry took me longer to read than I had expected. The poems touched me and many stabbed me in the heart. Priest Turned Therapist Treats Fear of God: Poems by Tony Hoagland - 5 star (I'd give this book more stars, if I could)
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Ian Rankin's Set in Darkness and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2855932448.
Just finished Poison Orchids by Sarah A. Denzil and Anni Taylor
A great collaboration between these two excellent authors!
My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Book of Collateral Damage by Sinan Antoon about the Iraq war and occupation. Interspersed throughout the narrator's story are short vignettes of objects, plants, and animals speaking in the first person to describe all they have lost. The two narrative threads reinforce each other to emphasize the trauma of a nation in a powerful evocation of the collateral damage caused by a war.
My 5-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A compelling and horrifying true crime story that I listened to and finished last night. My Mother, a Serial Killer by Hazel Baron
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A barely ok read for me Good Samaritans by Will Carver
My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
. This is disturbing and raw and won't be for everyone... My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read The Lamp of the Wicked by Phil Rickman and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2859224316.
My review of If You Want to Make God Laugh by Bianca Marais:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished
金瓶梅 by 蘭陵笑笑生. The Chinese classic novel that has realism flavor. 3.5 stars.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Autumn by Ali Smith, short listed for the 2017 Man Booker Prize. I loved it and intend to read the rest of the series.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Well, once again I have to apologize for somehow letting weeks pass by before I managed to come in and update my recently read books. Here a few of the ones I finished:
Neuromancer by William Gibson Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
God Is Not One: The Eight Rival Religions That Run the World – and Why Their Differences Matter by Stephen ProtheroReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Normal People by Sally Rooney Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Notre-Dame de Paris (a.k.a. The Hunchback of Notre Dame) by Victor Hugo Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Mis-Education of the Negro by Carter G. Woodson:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars
Amalia wrote: "Finished Death of a River Guide
by Richard Flanagan5 stars
My review:www.goodreads.com/review/show/2862525022"
Great review, Amalia - looking forward to reading this one as part of my Aussie Authors' Genre Challenge this year!
Finished:
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers by Max Porter - 4 stars - My Review
right on the heels of:
The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov - 4 stars - My Review
My review of The Impossible Lives of Greta Wells by Andrew Sean Greer
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Upheaval: Turning Points for Nations in Crisis by Jared Diamond:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Done reading Lives of Girls and Women by Alice MunroLoved it very much and gave my thoughts here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed my fifth visit to the lovely Canadian village of Three Pines, which has the occasional, not-so-lovely murder. Another good mystery from Louise Penny.
4★ Link to my review
Read Rebecca Tope's A Death to Record and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946597025.
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