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My review for The Secret Life of Shirley Sullivan by Lisa Ireland
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With her Southern voice, Suzy Jackson is the perfect narrator for Charlaine Harris's first novel, Sweet and Deadly.4★s
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I always enjoy Louise Penny's excellent Chief Inspector Gamache series and just finished Glass Houses, where many consciences are troubled.
4.5★Link to my "Glass Houses" review
If you like a bit of sci-fi sitcom that includes aliens and a cat, then go for Delas Heras's debut novel, The Intergalactic Interloper. Very entertaining!5★s
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My review for A Tuscan Memory: Completely gripping and emotional historical fiction by Angela Petch
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My review of the disappointing Die for Me
by Luke Jennings. So glad he left it at 3. 2.5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Alyssa Hanrahan does a great job in bringing to life (excuse the pun) what is possibly my favourite Charlaine Harris series, the Harper Connelly series. Grave Sight merits 5★s in the audio version.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I recently read The Burgess Boys by one of my favourite authors, Elizabeth Strout. When your sister needs you, back in the hometown you so happily escaped, what's a man to do?
4★ Link to my Burgess Boys review
I also just enjoyed another delightful escapade with The Honourable Phryne Fisher, the luscious sleuth created by Australian favourite, Kerry Greenwood. 1920s Melbourne is where Miss Fisher investigates a Murder on the Ballarat Train.
4★ Link to my review of Murder on the Ballarat Train
Here's my review of Truman Capote's modern - albeit almost 60 years old - American classic, In Cold Blood:https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm calling it: The Inner Self: The joy of discovering who we really are by Hugh Mackay is my favourite book of 2020. It affected me so profoundly and I recommend it to everyone - even the cynics!My review is here: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
Close to the Bone by Susan Wilkins, second book in what's shaping up to be a very enjoyable British police procedural series.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I can see from the ratings that not everyone loves Jodi Picoult's latest novel, The Book of Two Ways. There is a LOT of Egyptology, and several other fascinating topics get an airing, but the protagonist won't endear herself to all readers. Definitely interesting and thought-provoking.5★s
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The Tolstoy Estate is a very engrossing, well written historical novel by Australian author Steven Conte. Highly recommended!review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Perhaps it's the tone of voice Alyssa Bresnahan sometimes uses in her narration of the second Harper Connelly book by Charlaine Harris, Grave Surprise, but I don't remember laughing out loud quite so much while reading the print version. 5★s
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Not really 'historical' but set towards the end of apartheid in South Africa and the freeing of Nelson Mandela, so of historic interest. I've been enjoying listening to the audiobook of
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood. He's an excellent narrator and has some very funny stories to tell of his childhood growing up in South Africa as the child of a single black woman and a white man. my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4.5 stars for this fantastic historical fiction by an Aussie Author
The Goldminer's Sister by Alison Stuarthttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here's my review for
Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, which I totally loved!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, which I totally loved!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."
I have this one coming up next Carolyn :)
Brenda wrote: "Carolyn wrote: "Here's my review for Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, which I totally loved!https://www.goodreads.com/review..."
It's so good Brenda! I hope you laugh as much as I did :)
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