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[Kelly]

I just finished Steena Holmes's suspense novel The Forgotten Ones which I loved! Now I'm reading The Outsider by Stephen King.

[sonya]

Different Seasons by Stephen king

[J.]

I finished Jane Harper's "The Dry" this week - very atmospheric, a mystery set in a small, drought-ridden town in Australia. Almost done with a re-read of Peter Leithart's "Miniatures and Morals", an analysis (the best one, IMHO) of Jane Austen's novels. On to Carl Heifetz's "Sherlock Holmes: Through the Microscope", and will have to re-read "Pride and Prejudice" (again!) because it's our book club's classic pick.

[Tamara]

I just finished July's People by Nadine Gordimer. It is about South Africa in the 1980's as apartheid begins to crumble. In order to survive, a white family has to escape to the village of their servant of 15 years. Gordimer explores the shift in the balance of power between the Smales family, and their servant, July. It is a short book, but it packs a heavy punch.

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

[Victoria]

If you'd like to see what I read in June - and get an update on my 2018 reading challenge progress while you're at it - you can do so by checking out the post that went up on my blog today.

Find the post here: http://ziglernews.blogspot.com/2018/0...

[Pam]

Read a short story collection - Mango Shake edited by Debjani Chatterjee and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2439123382.

Then did a retrospective review of volume 1 of a Louise Cooper YA trilogy, as I've just read volume 2 - Daughter Of Storms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441623871.

[Pam]

Read volume 2 of the Louise Cooper YA trilogy - The Dark Caller and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441623301.

[Pam]

Read volume 3 of the Louise Cooper YA trilogy - Keepers Of Light and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2441657359.

[Heidi]

The Jane Austen Project by Kathleen Flynn. Great fun about time travel.

[Tamara]

Finished Slave Old Man by Patrick Chamoiseau.

It's an unusual book about a slave escaping from a plantation in Martinique. He is chased into the rain forest by his master and a vicious dog. The rain forest assumes mythic proportions with strange happenings and hallucinations. The novel is more akin to lyric poetry than a straightforward narrative. I thought it was very well done and gave it 4 stars.

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

[Pam]

Finished Traveling with the Dead by Barbara Hambly and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1406034683.

[Samantha]

Currently reading Truthwitch by Susan Dennard

[Mark]

Currently reading the complete Poe. Lots of stories in there that don't get publicized. Some interesting stuff.

[Pam]

Read Frances Hardinge's The Lie Tree and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1725519485.

[sonya]

Just finished Arctic drift

[Pam]

Read volume 7 in the Flavia de Luce series As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817076.

[Pam]

Read volume 8 in the Flavia de Luce series Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638817023.

[Pam]

Also read Nemesis, book 1 in a series by Louise Cooper, and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2448679413.

[J.]

Finished Carl Heifetz's "Sherlock Holmes: Through the Microscope", a collection of essays, commentary and short Sherlockian fiction. Started Doris Miles Disney"s "The Day Miss Bessie Lewis Disappeared."

[Tamara]

Finished The Pickup by Nadine Gordimer. I know it got some mixed reviews, but I loved it. It's about an affluent white South African woman who finds home and family in an Arab village. Just beautifully done.

My five star review
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Keith]

Finished listening to When I'm Gone. Enjoyed it a lot! Currently reading Intricate Deceptions.

[A. J. Deschene]

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I'm currently reading The Stormlight Archive #1: The Way of Kings. It's a wopping 1007 pages long, and there's supposed to be 9 books after it.

It's really interesting how the author sets up such a unique world and a wide range of characters, though I'm only about 100 pages in, so far.

If you have time, I highly recommend reading it!


Mr. Blue

[Pam]

A catchup on my recent reads:

volume 2 of the Louise Cooper series, Inferno, and my review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449661955.

volume 3 of the Indigo series by Louise Cooper - Infanta - and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456839594.

volume 4 Nocturne which was a lot better than the others to date - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2456857195.

and a break from the Indigo series, Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2449554413.

[V.M.]

I have just finished reading Until We Burn by David Kummar. This young author is one to watch. He has a tremendous talent.

[Pam]

Finished Karen Maitland's The Owl Killers and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2353302273.

[Anna]

I have just finished one of the best books I've read in ages: A Necessary Evil

[Susan]

Anna Faversham wrote: "I have just finished one of the best books I've read in ages: A Necessary Evil"

Oooo! Sounds good, Anna. I added it to my TBR. :-)

[Pam]

Read book 5 of Louise Cooper's Indigo series, Troika and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2460147532.

[Pam]

Finished Fireflood and Other Stories, a collection of short stories by Vonda McIntyre and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2461827056.

[Pam]

Finished Blue World by Robert R McCammon and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2464274800.

[Tamara]

I finished Nights at the Circus by Angela Carter. A wild ride!

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

[Pam]

Read Christa Wolf's Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2427107009.

[Pam]

Just read the first two books in Lyndon Hardy's series: Master of the Five Magics - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1420513467
and Secret of the Sixth Magic (Magics, #2) - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473275963.

[Keith]

Just completed Intricate Deceptions. Good story, a bit too much romance though.

Currency reading Barren Waters, a really good post-apocalyptic story.

Listening to The Good Samaritan, a nice psychological thriller.

[Zsofi]

Here is my long overdue 5 star review of Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Simi]

Currently reading The Paper Magician series. Not sure if I specified here. If I did, I apologize. I'm in so many groups ^^;

[Pam]

Just read book 3 of the magic trilogy by Lyndon Hardy, Riddle of the Seven Realms and reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2473327558.

[Victoria]

My July 2018 book reviews post is up on my blog. So, if you want to see what I read last month - and what I thought of the books I read - you can check it out here: http://ziglernews.blogspot.com/2018/0...

[J.]

Read our two book club picks - one was a "category" pick, anything written by an author local to our region, set in our region or about our region. I chose "The Fantastic Castle of Vineland: George Daynor and the Palace Depression" about an eccentric character who built an odd attraction in Vineland, NJ called "The Palace of Depression" out of junk.
The other book club pick was the novel "The Winter Garden" - I was pretty much lukewarm to it. Much of the plot revolved around the siege of Leningrad; went on to read two better novels about that period in history that were, IMHO, were Debra Dean's "The Madonnas of Leningrad" and Helen Dunmore's "The Siege."

[Alice]

I'm about three-quarters through the 900-page tome The Sunne in Splendour by Sharon Kay Penman and am still loving it.

[Tamara]

I finished Laurus by Evgenij Vodolazkin.

It's an unusual book about a fictional 15thC Russian folk hero. The novel is a sort of blend of allegory, magical realism, and mysticism wrapped up in an atmosphere of fable and fairy tale. I enjoyed it.

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

For more of my book reviews, go to www.tamaraaghajaffar.com where I have posted over 145 book reviews.

[Danielle]

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai

[Keith]

Just finished Barren Waters, a good father/daughter, cross country post-apocalyptic story.

Currently reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo".

Currently listening to The Good Samaritan, a really twisted thriller.

[Tamara]

Finished Cassandra: A Novel and Four Essays by Christa Wolf. The novel is in the first-person point of view. The book includes four essays in which Wolf describes her trek through some of the ancient sites in Greece while her vision of Cassandra begins to take shape.

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

[Pam]

Read a fantasy series by R A MacAvoy which I really enjoyed:

Lens of the World - reviewed https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2478479405.

King of the Dead - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745

Winter of the Wolf - known in the USA as Belly of the Wolf - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1649453745.

[Pam]

Then started reading some Mercedes Lackey -

By the Sword - reviewed it - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1423356426.

and an earlier book set in the same country/set up with two of the characters in their much younger days - The Oathbound - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2489520199

[Keith]

Finished listening to The Good Samaritan... dark, twisted thriller with a great "bad gal" character.

Reading Barracoon: The Story of the Last "Black Cargo"... disappointed so far.

Started listening to The China Pandemic.

[A. J. Deschene]

Just started Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles.
It's so much better than I thought it'd be!

[Susan]

A. J. Deschene wrote: "Just started Cinder from the Lunar Chronicles.
It's so much better than I thought it'd be!"

That series gets better with each book. Hope you enjoy it!
Just starting The Silent Sister. So far so good!

[Tamara]

I read Robert Low's The White Raven, his third book in the Oathsworn series about a band of Vikings. It's very well done and totally immerses the reader in the possible sights, sounds, and smells of the era. I recommend it for folks who like historical fiction.

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