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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Read The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2955788832.
M 3 star review of A Bitter Sweet Murder by a prolific author:-https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading God Help the Child by Toni MorrisonMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Also a short review of The Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Your second link is a duplicate of the first review...
if anyone is interested. an interesting read I'm currently reading is called me being me is exactly as insane as you being you
Just started
The Heart of the Ritz by Luke Devenish after finishing the stunning conclusion to J.D. Barker's trilogy
The Sixth Wicked Child. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and on my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Thanks to Amalia's review of the children's book The Piano Recital by Akiko Miyakoshi, I went looking for it, and it's gorgeous! I included some pictures in my review.
4.5★ Link to my 'Piano Recital' review
Read my fourth Toni Morrison: Sula. Unique. Amazing. I think it needs a word that hasn't been invented yet to adequately describe it. My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Evidence Of Life by Barbara Taylor Sissel
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I read Laila Lalami's The Other Americans. I thought it was quite good but not up to the level of The Moor's Account.My 3-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read a biography of Stephen King, Haunted Heart: The Life and Times of Stephen King by Lisa Rogak - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2959462243and
Foxglove Summer, fifth in a series by Ben Aaronovitch - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963683666.
All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque. A World War I classic.My 5-star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My most recent completions:
Five Seasons by Roger Angell - 4 stars - My Review
The Way of Beauty by Camille Di Maio - 2 stars - My Review
Ship of Ghosts: The Story of the USS Houston, FDR's Legendary Lost Cruiser, and the Epic Saga of Her Survivors by James D. Hornfischer - 4 stars - My Review
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Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is a very short read that I'm sure you'd all enjoy by much-loved, Nobel Prize-winning author Toni Morrison, who died recently. Sweetness is available free online. I included a link to the discussion which also has the link to the story.
5★ Link to 'Sweetness' review
Such a classic Agatha Christie mystery! M. Hercule Poirot solves the impossible crime again in Murder on the Orient Express. You should exercise your own little brain cells with this one if you haven’t already. :)
4★ Link to my Orient Express review
I finished two books today and enjoyed both a lot.The Contract With God Trilogy: Life on Dropsie Avenue (4-star) - I enjoyed this look at Faith, contemplation, immigration & change told with one location, Dropsie Avenue, as the background.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Word Is Murder (4-star; audio) = a fun murder mystery. It's not often that one can chuckle through murder.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
About to start
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay after finishing an emotional read about WWII in the German occupied island of Jersey
The Hidden by Mary Chamberlain. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
I finished The Apartment by Danielle Steel the other day and I loved it! ❤
My review of Making Peace by Fiona McCallum
2 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Beach House Reunion by Mary Alice Monroe
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
If you ever needed an example of two over-used words, resilience and resourcefulness, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is it! Betty Smith's classic story of childhood before World War One is barely disguised as fiction. How her mother turned bread into so many different meals is hard to imagine!
5★ Link to my review (with bread recipes!)
I am also reading this book under a group and like it immensely 😃
Nidhi wrote: "I am also reading this book under a group and like it immensely 😃"PattyMacDotComma wrote: "If you ever needed an example of two over-used words, resilience and resourcefulness, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn is it! Betty Smith's classic story of childhood before W..."
I've been meaning to read it forever, but it was the August group read in Catching up on Classics that prompted me to finally do it, and I'm so glad I did Nidhi. I loved it - hope you do, too. :)
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