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[Wayne]

I just read and really loved Kings of the Wyld (Book One of "The Band"). it's a sword-and-sorcery-military fantasy but a really pleasant surprise. An unexpected amount of humorKings of the Wyld.

[Alice]

I'm halfway through Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy. A very interesting read - it's a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, who is portrayed as an equal to Elizabeth I in wits and courage. I'm finding the final season of the TV series "Reign" is not that far off from historical facts.

[Pam]

Read Death of a Friend by Rebecca Tope and posted a review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1946596005.

[Alice-Elizabeth (Prolific Reader Alice)]

I have 4 new reviews up! Here they are:

Darkmere: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

The Little Prince: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Star Flight: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Falling For The Rebel Princess: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[J.]

About a third of the way through . I got a copy based on a friend's recommendation and knowing he's a non-stop action fan with lots of shootings, killings and mayhem kind of reader, I am not disappointed. True the beings getting killed are undead, vampires, werewolves and the like so not the same kind of death and destruction as some of the modern thrillers, but certainly this book is action packed.

[Gail]

Be Safe, I Love You. I thought it was excellent; great writing, and a topic that's important: the psychological toll of wars on those who fight them. I'm about to start Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich's The Fact of a Body.

[Tamara]

Finished Men Explain Things to Me by Rebecca Solnit, a collection of feminist essays. A quick and powerful read. I gave it 4 stars.

My review on goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com

[Louise]

Alice wrote: "I'm halfway through Queen of Scots: The True Life of Mary Stuart by John Guy. A very interesting read - it's a biography of Mary, Queen of Scots, who is portrayed as an e..."

Wayne wrote: "I just read and really loved Kings of the Wyld (Book One of "The Band"). it's a sword-and-sorcery-military fantasy but a really pleasant surprise. An unexpecte..."

I'm reading MAYFLOWER by Nathaniel Philbrick and eating it up—all the surprising details about our lauded Pilgrims. As an added bonus, it has reassured me about the history-writers crutch, the subjunctive voice to tell what MAY have happened or COULD have happened. I just finished a bit of history myself and was relieved to see how much Philbrick leaned on this form. The other big take-away from the book was his detailed characterization of the Puritan mind. Now I understand how these Christian men came to hang my many times great grandmother who was a law-abiding Quaker.

[Pam]

Finished Jane Yolen's Merlin's Booke and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040150360.

[Pam]

Just read a short prequel which is available free via a link on the Goodreads page to the Patrick Ness trilogy - The New World - and reviewed it: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2040237297.

[Pam]

Just finished volume 1 in the Chaos Walking series by Patrick Ness, The Knife of Never Letting Go and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505728.

[Logan]

I have less than 50 pages left in The Help . Such a great read. Also working my way thru a space short story anthology Galactic Frontiers

[Veena]

Reading Arundhti's Ministry of Utmost Happened

[Marie]

Recently finished reading "Reflection of the Son" by Todd Coburn. I wrote a review for this, brilliant book.
Currently reading "Next Door Saviour" by Max Lucado.

[Lynda]

I just finished reading It Was the Best of Sentences, It Was the Worst of Sentences by June Casagrande, and it was pretty terrific. I reviewed it here.

I think writers and editors alike can benefit from it.

I'm currently reading Stephen King's On Writing right now as my non-fiction, and fiction for pleasure is currently on hold because I'm doing a final edit on the third and final installment of the Light Bringers Saga by Brandon Ax and prefer to focus when I'm in the middle of edits.

I love this thread! I get so many good "next book" reading ideas!

[Ronit]

I am reading Ruby By Cynthia Bond, Some of it I Iike, but some I don't. I am reading it for a book club.

[Britt isadora]

I recently read An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson and A promise of Shadows by Justina Ireland, both are really good books

[Tamara]

Finished Dreaming the Hound by Manda Scott. This is book 3 of the 4 book series about Boudica, the Celtic warrior who led the rebellion against the Roman invasion of Britannia. I gave it 4 stars. It was an exciting page-turner.

The series is historical fiction, but this book borders more on historical fantasy than historical fiction since the characters communicate with gods and with spirits of dead ancestors. I'm enjoying the series and intend to finish it. I hate starting something and not finishing it.

My review on goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com

[Groovy]

The Most Beautiful: My Life with Prince.

I'm not finished yet, but all I can say is, "Oh my goodness." How sad the way she weaved a love-story from that.

[Pam]

Read The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1811505806

[Michelle]

Just finished 'Manifesto of the Free Humans' and almost finished 'The Museum of Modern Love'.

[Nora]

Exit West one of the most beautiful, original, and important books I've ever read.

[Victoria]

My June 2017 book reviews post is up on my blog. If you want to see what I read last month, you can find it here: http://ziglernews.blogspot.co.uk/2017...

This month's post includes a bit of a look at my reading challenge progress for this year too.

[Jason]

American War, Omar El Akkad.

[Pam]

Read book 5 in the Witch World series by Andre Norton, Sorceress of the Witch World and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1716692837.

Also finished the first in Susan Cooper's Dark is Rising sequence, Over Sea, Under Stone and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1366155267.

[Lexie]

I love The Dark Is Rising sequence - I usually read The Dark is Rising in December, though it's too long since I read the others.

[J.]

Just finished and must say it was a wild ride. All the action, killing and shooting anyone could want, might have been a tad more than I need.

[Pam]

Lexie wrote: "I love The Dark Is Rising sequence - I usually read The Dark is Rising in December, though it's too long since I read the others."

I read the first three I think years ago, well four counting Over Sea, Under Stone which is more like a prequel. Planning to read the whole lot in order this time though interspersed with other things as I'm two thirds through the Chaos Walking trilogy for one thing.

Speaking of which, read the short story by Patrick Ness, The Wide, Wide Sea, which fits after book 2 of his Chaos Walking trilogy, and reviewed it https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2041750455.

[Pam]

Read The Sparrow and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2049505312.

[sonya]

Pretty girls by Karin slaughter

[Jason]

American War, Omar El Akkad...imagine all the war and civil strife and terrorism and opposing factions of today's Middle East superimposed on an America re-fighting the civil war.

[Jaci]

Retribution Falls - Almost finished and loving it - will definitely continue on with the series!

[Tamara]

Finished The Woman Who Read too Much by Bahíyyih Nakhjavání. It is about a 19thC Persian woman who used Islamic texts to defy the cultural restrictions placed on women. She was a fearless advocate for women's rights and women's literacy. Nakhjavani uses irony, humor, and satire to show the hypocrisy of those in positions of power.
I thought it was a great book. A beautiful story, beautifully told, of an amazing woman.
My review on goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com

[Lynda]

I finally read Cyrano de Bergerac! I enjoyed it a lot more than I thought I would. I saw a little farther up the list that someone mentioned the Dark is Rising series, and it makes me want to read it again. It's been at least 10 years since I went through them.

[Lexie]

Just finished The Ghosts of Ardenthwaite Hall which was more satisfying than some in the series. The setting is interesting, a nascent industrial town in the 1830s/40s.

[Tamara]

I finished Baba Dunja's Last Love, a delightful, short novel by a German author, Alina Bronsky, translated into English by Tim Mohr.

It's a quick read with a wonderful portrayal of the delightful octogenarian, Baba Dunja--a feisty, fiercely determined woman who returns to live in her radioactive, abandoned village close to the Chernobyl nuclear power plant. I thought she was beautiful and thoroughly enjoyed the novel.

My review on goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com

[Pam]

Finished Charlotte Gray by Sebastian Faulks - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2053681886.

[Pam]

Finished The Little Friend by Donna Tartt - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2062140806.

[J.]

I am in the middle of which is another Department Q mystery, well to me not so much a mystery as a thriller since the reader knows all along who the killer is. Anyway, I liked the first book in this series so am trying another.

[Pam]

A re-read of Louise Cooper's Lord Of No Time and review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1422905458.

[sonya]

Just finished pretty girls by Karin slaughter and started depraved heart by Patricia Cornwell

[Vicky]

I've gone back to reading Catherine Cookson - Tilly Trotter Wed series after a review of one of my books compared my style of writing to Cookson. Totally honoured. Finished book one, now onto book 2.

[Tamara]

I finished the final book in the Boudica series, Dreaming the Serpent Spear by Manda Scott. I had some minor quibbles with the book, but on the whole I thought it was a great series and I recommend it to folks who like historical fiction. I gave it 4 stars.
My review on goodreads
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and on my website at www.tamaraaghajaffar.com

[Pam]

Re-read of book 1 of Louise Cooper's Time Master series, The Initiate which I reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2064525583

[Lynda]

I just finished Stephen King's On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft and reviewed it here.

[Lau]

I'm reading it´s a collection of short-stories from a portuguese author. I'm enjoying it.

[Andreas]

Currently reading Watership Down. 130 pages in and I am absolutely hooked.

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I have just finished reading the moon's a balloon the david niven memoir loved this book read it in paperback but just read it on my kindle.

[Lynda]

Andreas wrote: "Currently reading Watership Down. 130 pages in and I am absolutely hooked."

That's one I've had on my shelf for years (among hundreds of others) and have never gotten to read yet. I just may bump it into my "very near future" pile now.

[Lau]

I'm reading and hating it, almost finished at least