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I have just put up my review for
The Binding by Bridget Collins - it was 3.5 stars for me. I went in really thinking it was a fantasy book (as it is classified as such)...I would honestly say it is a love story in my opinion.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I just reviewed an ARC from S&S
by Todd AlexanderIf it is possible to be effervescently agricultural, I think this book is it. A lot of fun;
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for: Listening to the Animals: Becoming The Supervet by Noel Fitzpatrick
5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Strange Case of the Moderate Extremists is a novella by Alexander McCall Smith in the Detective Varg series (whom we first met in Varg In Love), a little dose of Swedish blanc to keep us going until the full length The Department of Sensitive Crimes is published. As a crime novel, it's very tongue-in-cheek; as a helping of gentle philosophy, it's delightful
5★s from me
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finally, I've read a Bosch mystery, The Black Echo, the first of the popular series by Michael Connelly. In 1992, LA cops fought crime with payphones and state-of-the-art pagers and faxes. And guns. Always guns. Looks like I'm in for a long ride!
4.5★ Link to my review
My review of Sold into Egypt: Journeys into Human Being by Madeleine L'Engle
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars for the highly entertaining and bingeworthy
Tell Me a Secret by Jane Fallon https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have just read SOME of this book and will not finish it.
Here is my review: Its my third for the year in this group.
How could I pay to read this gruesome account??? Well, only to help the victim - as the story was shocking.
Due to this, I could NOT finishing reading after the first few chapters. It beats me how people can be cruel, even more so to children, the elderly or to animals. These sadists do not possess a heart. They are satan's spawn, and the fact of this is in the evidence.
As someone who has suffered abuse I can fully understand the scars that remain. Yes, they never go away but live hidden inside where a remembrance can be triggered at any time. The victim must make a difficult choice that effects the rest of their life, - to be bitter about it or to be a better person.
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Thanks to Simon & Schuster Australia for The Woman From Saint Germain by Aussie author, J.R. Lonie. I think I liked the German detective more than the American author, whom I sometimes wanted to give a good shake. I quite liked the bombshell/twist but I would have appreciated a map.4.5★s
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Just finished Zigzag Street by Nick Earls.Nick Earls (A.A) is an author I have been vaguely meaning to read for years now, and finally did with this one, which turned out to be one of his early ones. Easy, quick read with some laugh out loud moments
★★★☆
To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han was pretty stinkin cute. I'm gonna have to buy the sequel tomorrow.Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Recent reads:Suspicious Minds by Gwenda Bond
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
So Cold the River by Michael Koryta
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Perpetrators by Gary Phillips
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Have just posted my review for the gripping thriller
My Name is Anna by Lizzy Barber - 4 stars from me!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Thirty Thousand Bottles of Wine and a Pig Called Helga by Todd Alexanderhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Shadows Over Wongan Creek by Juanita Keeshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Into the Dark by J.A. Schneiderhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Belle's Secret by Victoria Purmanhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Trouble With Choices by Trish Moreyhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Scandinavian Noir in Twelve Chapters , a free short story by Alexander McCall Smith is another little somewhat tongue-in-cheek dose of Ulf Varg for fans of the Swedish detective.5★s
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Finally got around to reading IlluminaeI thought it was okay, but a little over-hyped.
Here's my review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Huh! I used to post on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.au, but then suddenly I couldn't post on AU any more as I had spent no money with them (my account is with US).Today, I got a message when I tried to post my latest review to UK, saying I wasn't eligible to post reviews (even though I'm a top 500 reviewer with them!). The eligibility includes spending at least 40 pounds in the last 12 months.
I guess soon the US site will do the same and then Amazon will have a lot less reviews...
The second Alex Clayton Art Mystery, Painting in the Shadows by Aussie author Katherine Kovacic is out today. Art and intrigue...4★s
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I loved, loved, loved The Stranger Diaries - best book I've read in months! *EDIT: still available on NetGalley Read Now until early April, I think.
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Next up for me once I've finished my current read Andrea. I'm looking forward to it :)
Marianne wrote: "Huh! I used to post on Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.au, but then suddenly I couldn't post on AU any more as I had spent no money with them (my account is with US).Today, I got a message wh..."
How silly, considering you/we are reviewing books for Goodreads which is owned by Amazon, and people are presumably encouraged to buy books because of reviews on Goodreads or Amazon. It's not as if we're reviewing a car we haven't driven or a hand lotion we've never used!
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5★ Link to my link review
Evan S. Connell created the socially proper, but uncomfortable, Mrs. Bridge in a book that is a new favourite for me.
5★ Link to my review
Dark and delicious, here's my review of Hunter by Jack Heath
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My very short review of Tales of the Peculiar by Ransom Riggs
Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bookworm Blog: https://jazza1997.wixsite.com/thebook...
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Some quick non-fiction reads from the last couple of days:The Curse of the Pharaohs: My Adventures with Mummies by Zahi Hawass: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... 4 ☆.
Tutankhamun and the Golden Age of the Pharaohs: Official Companion Book to the Exhibition sponsored by National Geographic by Zahi Hawass: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... 5 ☆.
The Magical Worlds of Narnia by David Colbert: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show.... 3 ☆.
My review of The Little Italian Bakery by ValentinaCebeni
2 stars
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