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What have you just read? Opinions, recommendations, reviews Part 2
Finished re-reading Song of Solomon by Toni MorrisonMy review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I finally read the much-acclaimed Slaughterhouse Five, or The Children's Crusade by Kurt Vonnegut, published during the Vietnam anti-war protests, and it's obvious why it made such an impact. It's just as powerful now, 50 years later and almost 75 years after the obliteration of Dresden from Allied bombing.
5★ Link to my review of Slaughterhouse Five
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The first one is the second of a trilogy on England from the '70s (the first book, The Rotters' Club) to nowadays (the third, the recent Middle England). In the second, mainly dealing with the end of last millennium and the beginning of this one, Coe depicts in an exceptional manner England in Blair's times, getting to what it is today -at least as I can see it from away. In the third book I'm reading now it is astonishing how he make some of his characters express opinions I've heard almost exactly with the same words said by a friend of mine who came to see me this Summer with her two kids. Opinions about EC, about immigration, Politically Correct, etch, opinions that more and more we are listening also here in Italy .... Here's my Review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The second, not a novel but a sort of essay between history, sociology, costume, religion in a way, deals mostly on how the deep crisis the European Comunity is going through these days may recall the one seen during the early Middle Ages and that was somehow overcome by Cristianity and the Rule of Benedetto, who is not by chance the Patron Saint of Europe. Liked it a lot; I don't think there's a translation in English, and also my Reviwe is in Italian, but for those interested anyway, this is it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Gideon the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir
. People are either loving it or hating it. I loved it:)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
This was a very interesting read. The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power by Helen Garner
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
History and mystery, a great combination! C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series is terrific, and the third book, Sovereign, finds our favourite hunchbacked lawyer mixed up again in the dangerous power struggles of Henry VIII's England.
4.5★ Link to my review of Sovereign
Completed:
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford: A Novel by Ron Hansen - 3 stars - My Review
I just enjoyed a welcome visit to Three Pines where Louise Penny shows us the Montreal art world and Clara's unique talent - or is it just A Trick of the Light? I love these people, especially Clara, (and I never liked the victim anyway).
4.5~5★ Link to my "Trick of the Light" review
Finished The World That We Knew. Hoffman does it again! My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Catching up a bit. Two reviewsThe Wrong Callahan by Karly Lane
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
The Flower Girls By Alice Clark-Platts
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
It's been awhile since I posted a completed book. Have been in a reading slump. I was gifted this book, which turned out to be an amusing and intriguing story. It pulled me in from the first page and ….voila, reading slump seems to be over:Omens - I really enjoyed this story. The struggle of the main character as she tries to find herself and a rooting in life is real throughout.
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Forgotten Letters of Esther Durrant by Kayte Nunn
5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished Thames: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd. My 3 star review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "History and mystery, a great combination! C.J. Sansom's Shardlake series is terrific, and the third book, Sovereign, finds our favourite hunchbacked lawyer mixed up aga..."I will have to check your review when I've managed to get this book and read it Patty. Have loved the others I've read and daren't risk seeing a spoiler!
First of my catchup - read Clarissa Pinkola Estes Women Who Run With The Wolves: Contacting the Power of the Wild Woman and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2998996188and
PD James' Death in Holy Orders - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3022933473.
Second catchup - Majorie Blackman's Noughts & Crosses - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3022944817
and
Laline Paull's The Bees - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3027116720
Final catchup - read Anthony Horowitz's Crocodile Tears - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3027143904.
My review of The Best of Us by Robyn Carr
3 and a half stars.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Secrets of Primrose Square by Claudia Carroll
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A few of my favorite books from the past couple of months:
The Uninhabitable Earth: Life After Warming by David Wallace-Wells Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
American Apocalypse: A History of Modern Evangelicalism by Matthew SuttonReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Marx's Das Kapital: A Biography by Francis WheenReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A Little Hatred by Joe AbercrombieReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Socialist Manifesto: The Case for Radical Politics in an Era of Extreme Inequality by Bhaskar SunkaraReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Testaments by Margaret AtwoodReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Alexander Hamilton by Ron ChernowReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga TogarczukReview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just enjoyed Aussie author Toni Jordan's new novel, The Fragments. It's a mystery with a double timeline: 1930s New York, 1986 Brisbane. Both believable and both well done!
4★ Link to my review of The Fragments
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Interesting foresight of Western society ...
Here's my review: some really interestng quotations
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished the five star
Deadly Harm by Owen Mullen My spoiler free review can be found at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show... and my webpage https://sandysbookaday.wordpress.com/...Next up is
The Bright Unknown by Elizabeth Byler Younts
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