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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Read A Sudden Wild Magic by Dianna Wynne Jones and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2867985171.
Read and enjoyed Grave Expectations
My 3.5⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2868543529
My review of All That's Bright and Gone: A Novel by Eliza Nellums
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just read Rules of Civility by Amor Towles, and learned how the young and beautiful gate-crashed the rich and famous in 1938. I bet it still works!
4★ Link to my review
Nichole wrote: "My review of Behold the Dreamers by Imbolo Mbue4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I'm glad you liked it. I didn't care much for the first part of the book, but it is improving for me now. I don't know if I'll like it as much as you do yet, though, but I'm not even half way through it yet. I'm reading it for a GR discussion because I threw the tie breaking vote, but I don't do too many of those anymore because I have little patience for reading things I don't enjoy now.
Just finished one of the best books I have read this year so far - Fangirl
My 5⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Terminal Uprising by Jim C. Hines. This author has a thing for librarians!
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Murder at the Country Club: Somebody Killed the Cart Girl by Judy Moore
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The One-in-a-Million Boy by Monica Wood
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and really enjoyed Fairy Tales for Fearless Girls
My 4⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Die Trying by Lee Child is the second in the popular Jack Reacher series. Reacher is a larger-than-life, modern-day knight errant, trying to save us all from each other. Lots of action!
Link to my review
Just finished the very enjoyable historical romance The Work of Art
My 4⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished The Egyptian by Mika Waltari. The setting is ancient Egypt at the time of Pharaoh Akhnaton. It is told in the first person point of view of Sinuhe, Akhnaton's physician. The book is long but well worth reading. Waltari's research is impressive. He paints a compelling portrait of life in ancient Egypt at a time of political upheaval.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A very brief review (because it's summer) of The Blackbird Papers by Ian K. Smith:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars
My review of The Lost Gutenberg: The Astounding Story of One Book's Five-Hundred-Year Odyssey by Margaret Leslie Davis
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just read Pieces of Me by Natalie Hart, which was shortlisted for the 2018 Costa First Novel Award. "War-torn" can refer to people as well as countries.
Link to my review
Maja wrote: "Just finished one of the best books I have read this year so far - Fangirl
My 5⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I absolutely loved this book, really emphasised with the character as I felt a similar way when I started university.

My 5⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I absolutely loved this book, really emphasised with the character as I felt a similar way when I started university.
I've finished two wonderful, five-star classics:Scenes of Clerical Life by George Eliot
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Brideshead Revisited: The Sacred and Profane Memories of Captain Charles Ryder by Evelyn Waugh
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "Jen wrote: "Finished
. 5✭. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/edit..."Wrong link Jen:("
Thanks Phrynne
I have read quite a bit at the seaside in Malta. Nice books generally, but one has struck me hard: Suite francese by Irène Némirovsky.
A touching description of life in France under the Nazi occupation. She ment to write 5 books; she only managed 2 before being deported to Auschwitz.
WHat struck me most of these books were her main idea that there are no collective repsonabilities: each and every one of us is responsible of what he does - or doesn't do. No generalization as Germans are all evil, French are all good. You are what you do...
A touching description of life in France under the Nazi occupation. She ment to write 5 books; she only managed 2 before being deported to Auschwitz.
WHat struck me most of these books were her main idea that there are no collective repsonabilities: each and every one of us is responsible of what he does - or doesn't do. No generalization as Germans are all evil, French are all good. You are what you do...
Laura, I totally fell for Suite Française, too. This would have been a perfect saga had Irene lived to write it. I'm glad you enjoyed it so much.
My review of Murder in Morningside Heights by Victoria Thompson
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finished Bellman & Black by Diane Setterfield. It wasn't as good as her novels, The Thirteenth Tale or Once Upon a River. Although it's been described as a ghost story, it's really more about the impact of suppressing a trauma. My 3-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read and greatly enjoyed the historical romance The Lady and the Highwayman
My 4⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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