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Just enjoyed Jo Spain's entertaining mystery about a murder and a gated neighbourhood of suspects, all with Dirty Little Secrets. A good read!
Link to my review
Daytona to Dakar! This is one that car racing fans will buy for their kids because they really want it for themselves. : )Fast Forward by Adam Skinner covers major tracks, drivers, cars, and even incidents around the world.
Link to my review (with lots of pictures)
A good read! The Wife by Alafair Burke is a whodunnit where The Wife is caught between loyalty and the need for secrecy as her husband's life unravels.
Link to my review
I just loved these early adventures of the exuberant child (who grew up to become the dashing Sir Robert Carey in his mystery series) in a couple of wonderful introductory works (free!) by P.F. Chisholm aka Patricia Finney. A Pest of a Boy and A Boy in Trouble.
4.5★ Link to my review of A Pest of a Boy
5★ Link to my review of A Boy in Trouble
Beautiful! More than a picture book, it's a poignant story of a little girl in wartime. Captain Rosalie by Timothée de Fombelle and Isabelle Arsenault (illustrator) is out in June and still available on NetGalley.
5★ Link to my review with pictures
If you have not yet read Night, the 60-year old autobiographical account of Holocaust survivor Elie Wiesel's time in Auschwitz (followed by a lifetime of teaching and the Nobel Peace Prize), it's time. Ignorance and silence are still responsible for killing people.
5★ (of course) Link to my comments
David Bowie. Whether this makes you think of Major Tom or Ziggy Stardust, you've got to admit he was an artist like no other. Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara's colourful addition to the "little people BIG DREAMS" series will introduce him to kids today. (And she explains his eyes.)
5★ Link to my review with pictures
If only the world would learn the lessons of the late Elie Wiesel, Holocaust survivor and renowned teacher and peace activist. Ariel Burger was his student and friend, now a teacher himself. His Witness: Lessons from Elie Wiesel's Classroom is a must-read.
5★ Link to my review
Coffin Road is a pretty grim address, but in this case, it's the only starting point a man with amnesia has in the mystery by Peter May. Outer Hebrides, Scotland! Storms, lighthouses, murder!
Link to my review
I started listening to an interview with author Jojo Moyes about her popular Me Before You, and the interviewer warned me to go make a cup of tea if I didn't want to hear spoilers. I decided, better than that, I'll read the book first! And very glad I did, too! I enjoyed both the book and the interview.
4.5★ Link to my review and BBC author interview
Yay! You're Gay! Now What?: A Gay Boy's Guide to Life is just what it says and lot more entertaining than I'd guessed.Riyadh Khalaf is a popular YouTube activist, a colourful guy who's put all the facts and fears in this one, well-illustrated book. Celebrities, photos, cartoons!
5★ Link to my review with many pictures
My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier is a much-loved classic mystery, and I enjoyed it as much as everyone else has.
4★ Link to my review
Currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, after a slogfest of 100 pages now really liking it
Rabiraj wrote: "Currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, after a slogfest of 100 pages now really liking it"I found some of it hysterically funny, but I was also as frustrated as a reviewer I saw on TV who said she wanted to throw it against the wall. A little something for everyone! :)
Any Ordinary Day: What Happens After the Worst Day of Your Life? Acclaimed Aussie journalist Leigh Sales has done an extraordinary job of helping people share their horror stories (I can hardly call them anything less!) so that we might understand how to cope and care. It's a page-turner of a different kind.
4★ Link to my review
What If It's Us and The Princess Bride. I'm also readibg a lot of manga like Detective Conan and One Piece
PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Rabiraj wrote: "Currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, after a slogfest of 100 pages now really liking it"I found some of it hysterically funny, but I was also as frustrated as ..."
Some parts are really funny but the fun is acerbic once you realize that every character has a very harsh backstory.
Rabiraj wrote: "PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Rabiraj wrote: "Currently reading Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace, after a slogfest of 100 pages now really liking it"I found some of it hysterically funny, but I w...
Some parts are really funny but the fun is acerbic once you realize that every character has a very harsh backstory."
Oh, it's black humour, all right.
Young Master Reacher makes his debut, chronologically speaking, in Lee Child's novella, placed in the High Heat of 1977 New York City. Jack, at not quite 17, is already a formidable force!
4.5★ Link to my review
Nobody should pass up the BuzzBook previews! As expected, I enjoyed Buzz Books 2019: Fall/Winter: Excerpts from Next Season's Best New Titles by Susannah Cahalan, Eoin Colfer, J.T. Ellison, Jojo Moyes, Jeanette Winterson and More which, as you can see, has a lot to choose from. I made a few comments, but it's worth checking the Goodreads blurb for a good list.
5★ Link to my notes with where to download free copy
"Now a major film", as the saying goes, Boy Erased: A Memoir of Identity, Faith, and Family by Garrard Conley will make your blood boil. What we DO to kids!
4.5★ Link to my review
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