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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
If you're looking for something a little different, try this novel in verse, The Long Take: A Noir Narrative by Robin Robertson. My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Last Voyage of Mrs Henry Parker by Joanna Nell
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished:
The Elephant Whisperer: My Life with the Herd in the African Wild by Lawrence Anthony and Graham Spence - 4 stars - My Review
Read books 2 and 3 of Joe Abercrombie's First Law trilogy and reviewed them:Before They Are Hanged - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963703654.
Last Argument of Kings - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2963703816.
Prompted by a re-read on another group, read Garth Nix's Sabriel, first of the Abhorsen series, and sadly found it less involving than the first time around - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1274428027.
Next up is
My Name is Eva: An absolutely gripping and emotional historical novel by Suzanne Goldring. I have just finished the thrilling
Elevator Pitch by Linwood Barclay. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Good fun. A real story with plenty of artistic licence, Girl Waits with Gun is the first of a popular mystery series. It takes place in New Jersey, USA, just before World War One. I'll be back for more! 
4★ Link to my review
Finished Thomas Burnett Swann's Lady of the Bees and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2955794217.
Finished C J Sansom's Dissolution and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2498550682.
Read and completely fell in love with the LGBT retelling of Grease, Only Mostly Devastated
My 5⭐️ review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Read Thomas Burnett Swann's Where is the Bird of Fire? and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2979823508.
My review of Little Faith by Nickolas Butler
4 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Five Feet Apart https://g.co/kgs/w3ym9s one of the best books I have read so far. I love the story behind it as well as the awareness it brings about Cystic fibrosis
An enjoyable one! My review of The Lager Queen of Minnesota. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Latest two: 
Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi - 3 stars - My Review
The All-True Travels and Adventures of Lidie Newton by Jane Smiley - 4 stars - My Review
Katlyn wrote: "Five Feet Apart https://g.co/kgs/w3ym9s one of the best books I have read so far. I love the story behind it as well as the awareness it brings about Cystic fibrosis"
Your link leads to the Amazon page.
The Rowland Sinclair historical fiction mystery series just keeps getting better! 1930s Sydney, Snowy Mountains cattle camps, crooks, and a tight-knit group of friends.Miles Off Course by Aussie author Sulari Gentill is #3 and the best so far.
5★ Link to my review (with a couple of illustrations)
My review of The Club: Johnson, Boswell, and the Friends Who Shaped an Age by Leo Damrosch:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Spring on the Little Cornish Isles: The Flower Farm by Phillipa Ashley
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Ancient Nine by Ian K. Smith:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3 stars (almost 2)
About to start
The Lies We Tell by Debra Webb after finishing the delightful
Met Her Match by Jude Deveraux. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
Just starting to listen to
The Widow's House by Carol Goodman after finishing the brilliant
In the Morning I'll be Gone by Adrian McKinty. My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...
My review of The Second Worst Restaurant in France by Alexander McCall Smith
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This is a colourful, fun books for kids. I highly recommend learning and using "Kakistocracy". You'll be glad you did.The Dictionary of Difficult Words: With more than 400 perplexing words to test your wits! by Jane Solomon has a few that tested me, and I'm pretty wordy.
Link to my 'Dictionary' review with pictures
Boy oh Boy: From boys to men, be inspired by 30 coming-of-age stories of sportsmen, artists, politicians, educators and scientists by Cliff Leek is a terrific addition to any library where young boys can't miss it.
Link to my 'Boy Oh Boy' review with lots of illustrations
Hangsaman by Shirley Jackson is a very strange book. As a matter of fact, in the forward,Francine Prose says she wishes she would have taught it in her class called "Strange Books." Definitely not for everyone, but I enjoyed it.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Motion Of Light In Water: Sex And Science Fiction Writing In The East Village by Samuel R. Delany was a fantastic read, wrote a review here:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
And so was Martin and John by Dale Peck and the review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have finished William Faulkner's Light in August and found it wonderful. Faulkner's writing is terrific.This is the third of his books that I've read and I liked them all tremendously. The man can write.
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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This is the third of his books that I've read and I liked them all tremendou..."
I do agree Petra. I love The Sound and the Fury best of all though ...
I thought I'd heard it all about Scientology, but I had no idea how criminally evil their activities have been. Aussie investigative reporter Steve Cannane wrote a blistering exposé, and every allegation is footnoted. Fair Game: The Incredible Untold Story of Scientology in Australia is, indeed, incredible.
4.5★ Link to my Fair Game review
LauraT wrote: "I do agree Petra. I love The Sound and the Fury best of all though ... ..."That's my favorite, too, Laura. I still have a lot of Faulkner to read so it may get knocked off the pedestal......but it would be difficult to do. The Sound & The Fury was terrific.
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That's my favorite, too, Laura. I still have a lot of Faulkner to read so it may get knocked off the pede..."
I do agree; and as you I still have a lot to go ...
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I remember reading this book years ago and loved it.