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[Guapa]

James Patterson. Summer house!!

[Christine]

I finished my 74th book

[Christine]

Guapa I’m a huge fan of James Patterson

[Christine]

[Penelope]

The letters of Adams & Jefferson.

[Christine]

[Tamara]

I read The Translator by Leila Aboulela. A tender love story between a Sudanese widow and a Scottish professor. I've read a couple of Aboulela's novels and love the way she writes. Her writing is elegant and restrained.

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

[Shilah]

I just finished "The Girl in the Love Song" by Emma Scott. SOOOO good! Enduring love for such young people!The Girl in the Love Song

[Christine]

I finished my 75th book

[Mardine]

Just finished, Tips from a Publisher-Scott Pack, on to Over the Edge- Jonathan Kellerman

[Christine]

I finished my 76th book

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Bottom Feeders by Jerry Roth

[Tamara]

I read Fifteen Dogs by André Alexis. It won a few awards, but it just didn't work for me.

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

[Christine]

[Victoria]

Just one review for you this week:

Safeguard (Thor's Dragon Rider, #1)
by Katrina Cope
My rating: five out of five stars
I've been looking forward to getting to read this one ever since I learned this spin-off of one of the author's other series would be happening. I was
not disappointed; it was worth the wait, and I'm glad to have been able to re-enter this world and spend more time with the characters. This was a fun
and exciting start to the new series, and I look forward to following these characters on their latest adventures, and rooting for them in whatever challenges
and battles the rest of the series has in store for them.
*NOTE: I was given a free copy of this book by the author in exchange for an honest review. That fact has in no way influenced either my opinion of the
book or the contents of this review. 

[Christine]

I finished my 77th book

[Debayan]

Just finished "I'm thinking of ending things". Now I've started " One hundred years of solitude"

[Bruce]

I'm reading "Wolf in the Attic". I'm half way through and at this point I' give it 15 stars out of 5.

[Tamara]

I read Island of a Thousand Mirrors by Nayomi Munaweera about the civil war in Sri Lanka told through the voices of two young women on opposite sides of the ethnic divide. The writing was lyrical, eloquent, and immersive. I highly recommend it.

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

[Louy]

Just finished Sea of Grass, a 1936 publication, about the plains during the transition time from wide open prairie with steer running loose to a farmers place with barbed wire and from wild west to a more tame family place. Well written, more a novella than a book.

[Pam]

Catching up on reviews: two Bronte biographies and one Bronte novel, plus one in the Matthew Shardlake series

Daphne du Maurier's biography - The Infernal World of Branwell Bronte - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3468820388

Juliet Barker's biography - The Brontës - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3468826251

Charlotte Bronte's The Professor - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3494592881

and C J Sansom's Sovereign - review - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/2981055749

[Davida]

I recently finished reading The Boys Next Door: A novel about the Beatles by Dan Greenberger. You can find my review here https://tcl-bookreviews.com/2020/08/1...

[J.]

Just finished "The Mystery of the Hidden Room", by Marion Harvey. Lately have been getting into the mystery and suspense fiction of the late 1880s through around 1930. Harvey was one of those writers who turned out several books, but are who are not read today - writers like Fergus Hume, Patricia Wentworth, Cleveland Moffet, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, JJ Farjeon, etc
As with a lot of these books, there is some filler - a good 50 pages could probably be cut - and some preposterous plot twists, but it is imaginative, interesting characters and highly readable.

[Christine]

I finished my 78th book

[Philip]

Just posted a review of The Children's Book by A S Byatt. It's a long story, but you really do inhabit the places it visits. The review is on my blog at https://philipspires.blogspot.com/

[Christine]

[Susan]

Just finished "Long Bright River" by Liz Moore about a police woman who is working to solve a series of murders while trying to keep an eye on her drug addicted sister and keep her own life in order at the same time . Very well written and it keeps your interest.

[Alice]

Currently reading The Jade Peony by Wayson Choy. It's set in 1920s to 40s Vancouver Chinatown and depicts the hard life of Chinese migrants.

[Disha]

Just finished
Death of Darkness (Immortal Guardians, #9)

Do read it its an awesome series!!!

[Victoria]

Here's my review for what I read this week:

Warriors (Hell Divers, #7)
byNicholas Sansbury Smith
My rating: five out of five stars
This series is not for the squemish, but it's a fantastic one if you can deal with it, and this book was no exception; this was an awesome addition to
the series. The worldbuilding and character development is excellent, the descriptions are awonderfully detailed (like I said, if you can deal with them)
and the author really makes you feel like you're right there. Thank goodness it's only fiction though, because I sure wouldn't have thought it was so amazing
to be living through all of it.

[Tom]

I'm reading a double book by Sir Max Hastings, All Hell Let Loose: The World at War 1939-1945 and Catastrophe: Europe Goes to War 1914
It's been a long haul reading, but nowhere near as long as those who had to live through the periods in question.
Both books are fascinating with many snippets from people who lived through those trying times. Highly recommended.

[Christine]

I finished my 79th book

[Pam]

Read Anne Bronte's two novels though probably unfortunately in the wrong order:

The Tenant of Wildfell Hall - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3498646951

Agnes Grey - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3506361609

[Christine]

[Tamara]

Finished Just Call Me Superhero by Alina Bronsky, translated from the German by Tim Mohr.
I've loved everything I've read by her so far. This is a compelling coming-of-age story about a seventeen-year-old boy whose face has been badly disfigured by a Rottweiler. The boy has a strong narrative voice and he's very funny.

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

[Christine]

[Christine]

[Philip]

I have just finished The Umbrella Men by Keith Carter, 400 pages of ebook which takes several characters in different places across the globe through the known events of the 2008 financial crisis. For this reader, this fast-moving, action-based plot was swimming through a mess of potage. Ten pages seemed an eternity. I then started SPQR: A History of Ancient Rome by Mary Beard, a 600 page paperback, which is a walk through the known events of Ancient Rome. After one sitting, I find I am 150 pages in, wiser, eager to read on and already wishing the book was longer. I wonder which of these two books would have the label “easy read”.

[Christine]

I finished my 80th book

[Peter]

The Wuhan Mission
I finished this spy book : "The Wuhan Mission" a little while ago, and waiting for the author to write the next one as I really enjoyed this one. I have been recommending it to my family members and most of them, though a bit dubious about reading a book about the virus during the virus, all of them have passed it around. I think the thing that they all appreciated most was the humour that pops up here and there the way the author treats the conspiracy theories.
Has anyone else here read it ?

[Philip]

I am half way through SPQR by Mary Beard. It is a very easy read, but covers a massive amount of material in depth. What a communicator she is! But one thing has surprised me, largely as a result of my previous lack of understanding. In the book, we are in the Republican period, the fourth century BCE, to be more precise. It is only now that I fully appreciate that Rome was expanding fast at the same time that Alexander was empire building. I started to imagine the consequences if he had turned left, so to speak, and had met the Romans. Has anyone else grown up with the idea these were separate cultures, unlikely to interact?

[Christine]

[Peter]

Christine wrote: "I finished my 80th book"
amazing.
I am about to buy a new kindle and try in vain to catch up with you!

[Tamara]

Read The Memory Police by Yōko Ogawa. It takes place on an unnamed island where things keep disappearing and where the population is under strict surveillance by the Memory Police. Weird and haunting but very good.

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

[Ash]

Beach read by Emily Henry

[Atharva]

Currently reading 'Being Mortal' by Atul Gawande

[Christine]

I finished my 81st book

[Pam]

Back to science fiction/ fantasy with:

Tanith Lee - Day by Night - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3506425954

and a re-read of one of my favourites, the first two volumes of Barbara Hambly's Darwath series - The Time of the Dark - original review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405987192
and The Walls of Air - updated review at https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1405994598

[Michael]

I recently finished 'Of Mice and Men' by John Steinbeck, and am now re-reading 'Salem's Lot' by Stephen King, which if I'm not mistaken, is the 33rd book of the year for me.

[Victoria]

Here's my review for this week:

HMS Lanternfish (The Lanternfish, #2)
by C.S. Boyack
My rating: five out of five stars
I was eager to read this book, having read the first in the trilogy. I was not disappointed. It was a well-written entertaining and action-packed read,
with a plot that moves at a nice pace and keeps you guessing, an awesome cast of characters - especially those root monsters, which I'm so glad to see
make a return in the pages of this book - and plenty of evidence that the author has a wonderful imagination. Had it not been for life stuff getting in
the way, I could have happily devoured this book in one sitting. I highly recommend this series, especially if you enjoy a good pirate adventure story.
I can't wait to see what the crew get up to - or get themselves in to - in the third installment of the trilogy!