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Just finished CIRCUS MACHINERY by Less Meier. Great little (65 pp.) book of poems. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6...
I recently published "The Russian" and had a huge opening book signing.This is the 3rd in the Border War series following "Color of the Prism" and "We Were Young Once.
Cecelia wrote: "Very recently finished reading THE ELEPHANT OF BELFAST, a can't-put-it-down historical novel set in WWII Northern Ireland, featuring Hettie Quin, a young woman zookeeper protecting her elephant, Vi..."Wow, with a review like that, I'm going to have to put this on my to read list. Thanks.
Just started 'The Bell' by Iris Murdoch after finishing these two fine books by contemporary authors, one from Scotland, the other from the US.
A Matter of Life and Death
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
In the Shadow of the Hanging Tree
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have recently finished "Under the Stones". It was a detective novel by a lady author - unfortunately I can't remember her name now, but I think her last name was Palmer. Basically, two women were found strangled and the decetive backtracks to find another. Meanwhile his wife has just had a children's book published and is touring Scotland on a promotion tour. As the evidence comes together the profiler realises the dectective's wife fits the profile of the victims...I enjoyed it but solved it before I got to the end.
Big review catchup:The Five: The Untold Lives of the Women Killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4719802886
Richard III by David Baldwin - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737104501
and the 'Dogs of War' series by Adrian Tchaikovsky - Dogs of War - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737135182
and
Bear Head - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4737145116
Scott wrote: "Edge of Eternity, Ken Follet's third in his trilogy about the twentieth century. It is also quite long, as were the first two, but it is not slow in any way."He's one of my favorite authors. I judge a book by how many times I think about it and Pillars of the Earth is very high on my list.
Forgot to review this in my catchup - The Haunted Dolls' House and Other Stories - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4742503137
Re-reading The Hunger Games series, including the prequel: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes, by Susanne Collins.
Greetings, everybody. I am reading
You're Not Crazy - It's Your Mother: Freedom for daughters of narcissistic mothers - new edition
and
Matrix Energetics: The Science and Art of Transformation
, among other things.
Just finishing “Living by Fiction,” by Annie Dillard. A tough row to hoe, but what substance and elegance. I never met a Dillard book I didn’t like.
Re-read Zenna Henderson's The People: No Different Flesh - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367376610and read a police procedural by Margaret Kirk, In the Blood - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4753256649
Seem to have forgotten to post my re-read of Zenna Henderson's first collection of People stories, Pilgrimage: The Book of the People - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/1367373620
"Mercy" by David Baldacci. A very good read.Have a good day, and God bless
Robert Drews
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Finished The Aeneid and Wuthering Heights. Now reading This Side of Paradise and also Anna Karenina.
A few books read recently:Haven't They Grown by Sophie Hannah - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4753282110
Atonement by Ian McEwan - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4758369076
and
The Familiars by Stacey Halls - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769347617
I have read about 70 pages of All The Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. The author has introduced some interesting characters, set pre WW2. It’s very intriguing. I have no idea where this story is heading, but I can’t wait to find out. Right, back to reading…..
A couple of non-fiction reads:Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4769486601
and
Language Of The Night by Ursula K Le Guin -reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/4781491446
I am reading "The pillars of the Earth" by Ken Follet. 140 pages so farJust finished "The History of Bees" by Maja Lunde
I am busily going through ‘ The Hand Maid’s Tale’ by Margaret Atwood. I discontinued my perusal of Riders by Jilly Cooper i recently borrowed from the local library.
Pam wrote: "A couple of non-fiction reads:Ever Since Darwin by Stephen Jay Gould - reviewed - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and
Language Of The Night by Ursul..."Possibly my favorite book of all time. I was totally surprised by it and it seemed so real. It's amazing how people from different eras lived and how their problems are so similar to ours. Frank
I just finished The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, very moving story. Iam now reading Why I Write by George Orwell.
Pope Joan by Donna Woolfolk Cross. Historical fiction set in the Ninth Century. IPope Joan rate it highly.
Borgia wrote: "I just finished The Narrative of Sojourner Truth, very moving story. Iam now reading Why I Write by George Orwell."
I've wanted to read Why I Write for a while now
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