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What are you currently reading (or just finished)?
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Seem to have forgotten to post a review written some time ago - The Auschwitz Photographer: The powerful true story of Wilhelm Brasse prisoner number 3444 by Luca Crippa and Maurizio Onnis - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5726752964and a recent one by Stephen King - Pet Sematary - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5788347913
Just finished reading The Measure by Kikki Erlick.Began reading (for the 4th. time) The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien.
Yet another, this time co-written with Richard Chizmar - Gwendy's Button Box - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5799903400
After Life, by Michelle Baumann. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...It was a great start to the spooky season, and supports a self-published author. There is a second in the series, as well. Witchy and spooky and easy to read.
Just finished reading The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien for the fourth time.Began reading the first book of The Lord of the Rings trilogy - The Fellowhip Of The Ring by J.R.R. Tolkien for the fourth time.
I’m reading a book called If I Can't Have You: Susan Powell, Her Mysterious Disappearance, and the Murder of Her Children by Gregg Olsen
Seem to have forgotten to post my last review catchup:The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5800594798
Wannabe a Writer? by Jane Wenham-Jones - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5803309411
The Holy Grail: Its Origins, Secrets, and Meaning Revealed by Malcolm Godwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5812958123
Revival by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5819551794
The Dead Town by Dean Koontz - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5819614744
The Mind's Eye by Oliver Sacks - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1299739695
And another:Clytemnestra by Costanza Casati - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5400182664
A re-read of House of Names by Colm Toibin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5591702051
and two books by the late neurologist Oliver Sacks - An Anthropologist on Mars: Seven Paradoxical Tales - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5840261490
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Hallucinations - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5850085066
I've just finished The Challenger by Anders Aaslund and really enjoyed it. It’s a fun read with detailed, but not overdone, world building and an engaging story. The author intertwines elements of life on the Conestoga through the eyes in the MC very well, providing a well-rounded and “visual” depiction of the setting. The choice to present the narrative in first person with Imogen relating the story to her deceased friend works beautifully to provide grounded depth to the MC and real, believable, supporting characters seen through her POV.
To me, the choice of ending this book, part one of a trilogy, where the author did was a good one. It provided a satisfying and flushed-out story while setting up book two and making me want to see what happens next. I’m looking forward to the second installment.
Review catchup:Luther's Ambassadors: A Tudor Mystery by Jay Margrave, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5850442778
The Turnglass by Gareth Rubin, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/5881481055
Slow Horses by Nick Herron, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2286728639
going thru the last 50 pages of Remarkably Bright Creatures. curious take on an old Agatha Christie whose-child-are-you-anyway plot! don't find it particularly enchanting. But Harper Collins deigned to publish it w/ typos!
Just finished The Famished Road. It took everything I had to get through it.Reading Shift and Divine Error. Listening to The First Fifteen Lives of Harry August.
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