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The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix was not quite what I was expecting, but was fun nevertheless, as a group of Southern housewives take on a vampire.review:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Cottage at Rosella Cove By Sandie Docker
5 stars
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Ever wanted to drop out, disappear, become somebody else? The Last Flight by Julie Clark brings to mind the old saying "out of the frying pan, into the fire"!
4★ Link to my 'Last Flight' review
From the back-cover blurb and the first few chapters, I thought The Safe Place, the debut novel by Aussie author, Anna Downes, was going another direction entirely. Brilliantly plotted!5★s
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Snap Patty!Here's the link to my review of
The Last Flight by Julie Clark, an enjoyable suspense.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Anne Tyler’s latest novel Redhead by the Side of the Road, presents fans with a dilemma: read it slowly to prolong the pleasure; or give in and devour it quickly. I have no will-power with this author’s work so I read it in a day and my only complaint is that I would have dearly loved more of Micah Mortimer, her quirky protagonist.5★s
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This one will grip you from the start!The Hunted by Gabriel Bergmoser
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My review for my favourite SF writer Greg Egan’s latest short story collection Instantiation. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for The Pearl Diver can be found here.
Flawed, but still quite an interesting read. 4 plunges into crystal blue waters.
Note: S. Elliot Brandis is an Australian author
My review of Murder In The Afternoon by Frances Brody
3 and a half stars
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Brave Girl, Quiet Girl is another brilliant read by American author, Catherine Ryan Hyde. Enormously moving and thought-provoking. I had tears streaming down my face several times, so have the tissues ready and maybe don't read it in public? This one is out 19th May.5 big ★s
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Another enjoyable episode (#8) in Sulari Gentill's Rowland Sinclair series 
A Dangerous Languagemy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Marianne wrote: "Brave Girl, Quiet Girl is another brilliant read by American author, Catherine Ryan Hyde. Enormously moving and thought-provoking. I had tears streaming down my face..."I love her books Marianne. She's so good at writing about people and relationships.
Having not read Helen Garner's controversial book, The First Stone: Some Questions of Sex and Power when it was first published, I took the opportunity to read it with some added extras in this 25th Anniversary edition offered by NetGalley and Pan Macmillan. (I also listened to Garner narrating the audio version via Wollongong City Library and Borrowbox. Still much of relevance a quarter of a century on.4★s
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I've had a couple of political reads recently. Colombiano is about the terrifying situation of kidnappings, guerrillas, and drug wars in Colombia.Aussie-born author Rusty Young spent a lot of time there and wrote this compelling, fictionalised, first-hand account of a child soldier.
4.5★ Link to my "Colombiano" review
On an entirely different political note, I just enjoyed this children's biography Work It, Girl: Michelle Obama by Caroline Moss. Written to inspire girls to become leaders, it has lots of details and includes more resources at the end.
4★ Link to my 'Michelle Obama' review with a few illustrations.
Carolyn wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Brave Girl, Quiet Girl is another brilliant read by American author, Catherine Ryan Hyde. Enormously moving and thought-provoking. I had tears strea...I love her books Marianne. She's so good at writing about people and relationships"
Yes, indeed, Carolyn, I'm discovering that
Marianne wrote: "Anne Tyler’s latest novel Redhead by the Side of the Road, presents fans with a dilemma: read it slowly to prolong the pleasure; or give in and devour it quickly. I hav..."Great review, Marianne - looking forward to this one as I love her writing, even though a male reader. What you said about her main protagonist is what I think about Olive Kitteridge in the two books by Elizabeth Strout - only two books, give me more!!
An ok look into alien cults, but honestly not one of the author's best.What You Wish For by Mark Edwards
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Must say I was a little disappointed by this one.Force of Nature by Jane Harper
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Carolyn wrote: "Marianne wrote: "Brave Girl, Quiet Girl is another brilliant read by American author, Catherine Ryan Hyde. Enormously moving and thought-provoking. I had tears strea..."Absolutely agree with that comment.
Another off my A-Z authors challenge, the cosy Dial P For Poison
by Zara Keane is well-worth reading. 4★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for: The River Home by Hannah Richell
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I very much enjoyed this and would easily recommend it.
5⭐️s
Finally read Harry Potter! - My review of Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone by J.K. Rowling
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The Deceptions by Aussie author Suzanne Leal is a Holocaust book that's a little different. But ignore the back-cover blurb, it's a bit misleading.4★s
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My review of The Monkey's Raincoat
by Robert Crais.3.5 stars
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The Janus Stone by Elly Griffithshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2nd in the Ruth Galloway series.
I just finished my ARC from the wonderful Allen & Unwin 
by Erin HortleI actually cannot think of a single person (whose reading taste I know) who would not enjoy this book on some level. A great debut book!
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Deborah wrote: "I just finished my ARC from the wonderful Allen & Unwin by Erin HortleI actually cannot think of a single person (whose reading taste I k..."
That's so good to hear Deborah! I just got a copy of the book from A&U after it originally got lost in the post.
I enjoyed the second book in Sujata Massey's mystery series based on a female lawyer in 1920s India even more than the first.
The Satapur Moonstone.my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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