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Book Reviews By Sophie McC
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Jul 15, 2019 06:11AM
I’m currently reading, “You Must Be Layla” by Yassmin Abdel-Magied.
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Work It, Girl: Boss the Bestseller List Like J.K. Rowling by Caroline Moss celebrates one of the world's favourite authors. This one is for kids, but adults will enjoy the inspiring story and clever paper pictures. I sure did!
5★ Link to my review
Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara has added another cute book to the Little People BIG DREAMS series for even littler people. Jane Goodall. What a wonderful woman!
4★ Link to my review
It was a treat to re-read One Good Turn by Kate Atkinson. I liked it even better than before. First published in 2007, it was re-released along with the rest of the Jackson Brodie series to get us warmed up for #5.
5★ Link to my new review
I just enjoyed another trip to Prague in A Second Death by Graham Brack, featuring my favourite Czech detective, Josef Slonský, and his police 'family'. The crimes are nasty, but the people are great!
4.5★ Link to my reviewStill available on NetGalley without an archive date (yet), if any of you are NetGalley reviewers.
Christine wrote: "I finished my book called The Perfect Family by Shalini Boland"Did you like it, Christine? I see it's had some good reviews!
I thought I'd revisit James Bond in Ian Fleming's first Bond adventure, Casino Royale. The rakish spy may have done OK with SMERSH, but he wouldn't have survived #MeToo.
3★ Link to my review
I enjoyed a change of mystery pace with Alexander McCall Smith's second book in the #1 Ladies' Detective Agency series, Tears of the Giraffe. Warm, funny characters in warm, sunny Botswana. (Some dodgy people, too. It IS a detective agency.)
4★ Link to my review
I was surprised to find that Chief Inspector Armand Gamache is not his usual reassuring self in Louise Penny's sixth in the series, Bury Your Dead. History, mystery, and haunting flashbacks in Old Quebec make for a good read.
4★ Link to my review
I just enjoyed a re-read of an old favourite, Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck. It's been adapted as a play and a film more than once, and it's as powerful now as ever. People haven't changed.
5★ Link to my review with a couple of illustrations
Another re-read was John Steinbeck's wonderful, funny, poignant Cannery Row. There were some real characters in Monterey, California in the 1930s!
5★ Link to my review
Just finished the second book in The Expanse series by James Corey and now starting a book called "Cutting for Stone."
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