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IX. Currently Reading?
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What are you currently reading (or just finished)?
I read The Spare Room by Helen Garner. Loosely based on one of Garner's friends, the novel takes an unflinchingly honest look at the challenges faced in taking care of a friend with terminal cancer.My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I am rereading Needful Things for its storytelling narrative style and as research for writing what is going on in several characters brain’s at the same time. He is a master at it and I do it often… So homework and fun read combined. Needful Things, Stephen King
I just finished Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt, do not recommend. Just started Finding Mrs. Ford by Deborah Goodrich Royce, only 14% in but really enjoying it so far!
I just finished the 4th book in Mick Finlay's "Arrowood" series. William Arrowood is a down-on-his-luck, slovenly private detective who resents all of the fame and fortune lavished on that fellow Sherlock Holmes.Loved and bought all the books, but this one was a big disappointment. I posted a review.
I just finished The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah and loved it. A historical novel set in the 30s. A thoroughly spellbinding and moving novel.
Enjoyed this helpful book.Let's Get Digital: How to Self-Publish, and Why You Should - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4072171770
A couple of 2 star reads:Old Testament Legends: Being stories out of some of the less-known apocryphal books of the Old Testament edited by M R James - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4140366957
Watcher's Web by Patty Jansen - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4134433859
And a book I enjoyed - Few Are Chosen by M. T. McGuire - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1638826879
I just finished The Merry Band by Katherine Vick and really shouldn't have been reading it while my hubby was sleeping because I kept laughing so hard! Absolutely brilliant book, sequel to the equally brilliant The Disposable! :)
I've almost finished reading The Magic Faraway Tree Collection by Enid Blyton. It has 3 books in it: The Enchanted Wood, The Magic Faraway Tree and The Folk of the Faraway Tree. I've really enjoyed it.
Finished C***sucker by Lucas Milliron and am now onto Our Lady of the Scythe by BJ Swann;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Just finished Summerwater which has a killer ending! Started Orlando - heavy going due to the tiny font and dense formatting (paragraphs a page long with zero line spacing) so I'm alternating with The Dinner Guest, which opens with a real bang!
The Necklace by Matt Witten. I’m 35% in and loving it so far! I will be reviewing it for Goodreads, Amazon, and NetGalley.
Still reading The House of the Spirits, which is HUGELY enjoyable. Also re-reading The Horse Whisperer.
Hi. I'm finishing up "My Gal Sunday" by Mary Higgins Clark. I plan on reading another novel by her, or a mystery by Richard Thorogood.
I am currently reading, arguably, the worst book I have read in a very long time. Laurel K Hamiltons Guilty Pleasures, I suspect I am not going to get anywhere near the end it is so atrocious.
Currently reading " The Children Act" by Ian Mcewan. His prose is so elegant and the story is very engaging
Just completed reading Charles Dickens’ Great Expectations, at long last. I will now delve into much reviewed: The Plot by Jean Hanff Korelitz .
Just finished reading the amazing, Sisters Of Reckoning by Charlotte Nicole Davis which is due to release 10th August.
Just finished The Final Girl Support Group;https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
Just started The Black Farm;
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3...
Bit of a catchup on reviews. The first and third were for group reads in another group:John Bude's The Cornish Coast Murder - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123353959
M, T. McGuire's Escape from B-Movie Hell - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1605378579
The Witch: A History of Fear, from Ancient Times to the Present by Ronald Hutton, reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4136618280
Just finished
The Flower Boat Girl: A novel based on a true story by Larry Feign. It was one of the best reads for me in 2021! 4.4 stars.My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Hi Khalid, how are you? Are you looking for reviewers for your book? If so, I'd love to read and review it in exchange for a physical copy, as I don't really have a good way to read ebooks. My review would be published on Goodreads and my book blog. I can also be reached by email at: justabookishblog@gmail.com
Thank you!
Finished "The Conjure-Man Dies" and put up a review.Published in 1932, it is a murder mystery set in Harlem, among the first, if not the first, to be written by an African-American author featuring a pair of African-American detectives (a police detective and a physician.) Despite some material and language that would be considered stereotype by today's standards, it's a very solid mystery, well-plotted. Before his untimely death at age 37, the author, Rudolph Fisher (doctor, dramatist, novelist, musician) had planned at least two sequels.
Just finished "Gods at Play," now reading "One Got Away," both excellent reads.Robert Drews
www.robert-drews.com
Big catch up on reviews:Stephen King's Under the Dome - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4183947458
The Bear Pit by S G McClean - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3494502002
and in the same series
The House of Lamentations - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4184499200
Forbidden Books of the Original New Testament by William Wake - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4171253572
and Later by Stephen King - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4123218748
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Just started Spider Bunny by Carlton Mellick;
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