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[Joy D]

Mating by Norman Rush - 4.5 stars - My Review

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I’m reading a book called Always Watching by Lynette Eason

[Linda]

Absolutely enjoying _Hamnet_ -

[Joy D]

Great House by Nicole Krauss - 4 stars - My Review

[PattyMacDotComma]

She Doesn't Want the Worms! Ella no quiere los gusanos: A Mystery is a delightful early language book by Karl Beckstrand and talented illustrator David Hollenbach. Kids will laugh and learn Spanish (and so did I) in this cute book.
4.5~5★ Link to my Worms review with lots of illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

The Sympathizer by Asian-American author Viet Thanh Nguyen won the 2016 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, so I thought War + Big prize = Heavy (UGH).

But I loved a preview chapter of his follow-up, The Committed, so I bought this first book and loved it! Some brutality, yes, but funny, informative and thought-provoking.

Plus, it's easy to read. You don't need a thesaurus or a history degree. 😊
5★ Link to my review of The Sympathizer

[Joy D]

Remote Control by Nnedi Okorafor - 3 stars - My Review

[Joy D]

Nutshell by Ian McEwan - 4 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Hot Blooded by Lisa Jackson

[Woman Reading]

The Honourable Schoolboy by John le Carré. It's #2 in the Karla trilogy and one not to skip for those who have read Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy. But it can still be read as a standalone. There's an evocative sensation of time and place, but the themes are timeless.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3910667894

[PattyMacDotComma]

I loved Trent Dalton's first book (Boy Swallows Universe), which was largely autobiographical. There's no question he can write.

All Our Shimmering Skies is good, but I was spoiled by what I know he is capable of.
3.5★ Link to my Shimmering Skies review

[Jess]

Linda wrote: "Absolutely enjoying _Hamnet_ -"

I jut finished Hamnet and loved it. My best book of the year so far.

[Joy D]

A Spool of Blue Thread by Anne Tyler - 3 stars - My Review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I just enjoyed Kopp Sisters on the March by Amy Stewart, number five in the series. It's April 1917, just before America enters WW1, and the sisters are off to army camp with another colourful character.
4.5★ Link to my Kopp Sisters review

[Bonnie]

I’ve just started ‘The Duke and I’ by Julia Quinn.

[Joy D]

Think Again: The Power of Knowing What You Don't Know by Adam M. Grant - 4 stars - My Review

[PattyMacDotComma]

Summer Brother by Dutch author Jaap Robben was a good read and has just been longlisted for the 2021 International Booker Prize.
4★ LInk to my Summer Brother review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I'm sadly nearing the end of Louise Penny's Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series. Number 15 is A Better Man. Freezing spring floods threaten Three Pines and Montreal.
4.5★ Link to my review of A Better Man

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[Joy D]

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch - 5 stars - My Review

[Esther]

I have just finished
The Dictionary of Lost Words
An enjoyable 4.5 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Joy D]

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng - 2 stars - My Review

[Adrienne]

I'm reading The Night Watchman by Louise Erdrich
The Lost Apothecary, by Sarah Penner

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

which is part of this collection:


The Alchemist / The Pilgrimage / By The River Piedra I Sat Down And Wept by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading a book I've had my eye on for a long time:


Sometimes a Great Notion by Ken Kesey

[PattyMacDotComma]

RJ - Slayer of Trolls wrote: "I finished:


By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept by Paulo Coelho
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads...."

I remember reading The Alchemist a long time ago and find it unbearably hokey. There are obviously readers who eat that stuff up, but I've just avoided him since then.

[PattyMacDotComma]

The title story of These Precious Days: Essays, by Ann Patchett is available online for free. It is an essay about her amazing and unexpected friendship with an artist.

The book itself is due out in November - here's a link to the story.
https://harpers.org/archive/2021/01/t...

I thought it was wonderful! 5★ Link to my review of These Precious Days

[Joy D]

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman - 4 stars - My Review

[Jo's Book Nook]

I am currently reading The Outsider by Stephen King. It is very good so far. Very raw, and deep, emotional from different standpoints.

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "I remember reading The Alchemist a long time ago and find it unbearably hokey. There are obviously readers who eat that stuff up, but I've just avoided him since then."

Of the three-book collection I just finished, The Alchemist was by far the best of the bunch. If you didn't like that one, don't read any of the rest of his stuff.

[Joy D]

To Be Taught, If Fortunate by Becky Chambers - 3 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Vanishing Girls by Lisa Regan

[anna]

Machines Like MeIan McEwan
The Reluctant FundamentalistMohsin Hamid

[Esther]

A 5 star page-turner
Greenwich Park

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

[Joy D]

Set in Namibia in the 1990s, this is a wonderful debut by a Rwandan-born Namibian author. I read an arc. It is due for publication in Aug 2021:

The Eternal Audience of One by Rémy Ngamije - 5 stars - My Review

[Woman Reading]

The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath

I can see why this is regarded as a classic of American literature. The explicit sections should have been pretty explosive stuff in the early 1960s. So my intellect can appreciate it, but my heart did not.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3928681107

[Christine]