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Did you not do the group read of A Monster Calls?


If you ever get the chance, Margo, read A Monster Calls. It's an awesome book!

I will start Faithful tomorrow for the monthly challenge.

Renee, it was a while ago but I was disappointed in NOS4A2 aswell. He's not a patch on his Da!


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My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/2824084773

Renee, it was a while ago but I was disappointed in NOS4A2 aswell. He's not a patch on his Da!"
I listened to it.

I enjoy this author. She writes believable chars. The stories are all very different. They are a bit romancey. But I still enjoy them



Next up for me is The Burning Chambers which I should be able to slot into the Movie Mania challenge.

I am now listening to The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane and it is promising.

I also started The Mystery of the Yellow Room, which also engaged me right away.


Now, I will start reading The Word Is Murder

We read this as a group read a few years back - search out the old thread!

We read this as a gr..."
I will Sarah, thanks!

I'm starting The Vanishing Season today, which is the next book in The Collector series. Then, next up I'll be reading Dark Site, which is the newest in the Sam Dryden series. All of the books were released in just over a month from April 23rd to May 28th.


Another one I must read soon. It's been in my pile for ages!



I hope you enjoy it, Peggy!

Those were exactly my thoughts when I read it. It's a great opening chapter.

Another one I must read soo..."
Yes, you really must read it, Margo 😉

Saying that, my hold on The Silence of the Girls has just come through (finally!!!) and I am looking forward to that. There have been some negative reviews (yours included I think Lisa) but I will be able to find out for myself now. Circe has set the bar for mythology a bit high this year :-)

Saying that, ..."
Yes, The Silence of the Girls was a DNF for me, Margo. I found it very disappointing. Hopefully you will have better luck with it. I agree about Circe setting the bar high for mythology retellings. Between that and The Song of Achilles, Madeline Miller is really leading the way with that genre at the moment.




I'm about 25% into The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and am really drawn into the story.

I am going to start Wakenhyrst instead, just because. I really enjoyed Michelle Paver's two ghost stories, Dark Matter and Thin Air, so I'm looking forward to seeing what she does with the gothic genre.
I also started Very British Problems Volume III: Still Awkward, Still Raining yesterday. I enjoyed the first two volumes so thought I would check out the third.


My Review: www.goodreads.co,/review/show/2824368593

I am now listening to [book:The Tea..."
Margo, I've just started The Red Tent so I'm glad you read it too. I'll be interested to see what you have to say about it in the thread. I'm not really far enough in yet to have a good idea of where it's going. I'm familiar with the biblical accounts of the characters and am really interested to see how the book stacks up. The female perspective is intriguing.
I read The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane and liked it but didn't love it. As you say in another post, some parts of it were really slow. I did enjoy the way she wrote about the ins and outs of the world of tea. Who knew? Some of that stuff was fascinating.

I liked this one, Gavin. It is intense.


Great that you loved it, Sandra. I'm hoping all the free translated "world books" Amazon made available are stellar, so more readers are encouraged to step into other cultures/countries.

How are you finding the book Gavin? It's one of my favorites - the writing is phenomenal. However, there are very mixed reviews - some folks loved it, others did not care for it at all.

I am now listening to..."
Tricia, I will also be interested to see what I'm going to say about The Red Tent! It was a story that packed so much into those pages, and I loved it so much that, that I am a bit intimided to try to review! I thought that some time to reflect might help but still nothing and time is running out lol
Re: The Tea Girl of Hummingbird Lane - I will never look at the humble cuppa in the same way again :-D

I have moved on to An American Marriage which is slow going.
I had a real fantasy binge buy in a recent audible sale so I have a TON of fantasy to read. I've decided to cancel my Scribd memership, for now, and concentrate of reading what I own. So, my membership ends on june 14th and til then I will be trying to read all I can from my Scribd TBR. It is a great recourse for ebooks and audiobooks and I look forward to returning to it after my solo fantasy read-a-thon. :-)

I need to pick this up again soon. Hope you enjoy!

I am glad this one was good, Lilisa. The only other word book I had tried was from last year's offers and it was a DNF for me. It was The House by the River

Hmm, I have House by the River to read too - I think I got it as an Amazon Prime first reads. it's not on my list to read in a hurry though.
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