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The Last Reunion by Aussie Kayte Nunn is historical fiction with a war story (Burma), romance, and mystery (stolen works of art).
4★ Link to my review of The Last Reunion
I loved Aussie author Garry Disher's country cop mystery in the dry, dusty (dangerous) outback of South Australia. Peace is the 2nd book featuring demoted cop Hirsch. The powers-that-be did not appreciate his whistle-blowing.
4.5~5★ Link to my review of Peace
The Russia House by John le Carré - about the possible end of the Cold War.My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3990224886
I finally finished Enchanted Knight and Skeleton Keys: The Secret Life of Bone and started Daughters of Night over the weekend. I'm a bit biased to Enchanted Knight since a co-worker wrote it (it was amazing and can't wait for Book 4!); Skeleton Keys was a nice casual ramble/musing on the archaeology, anthropology, and history of bones.
Joy D wrote: "The Tremor of Forgery by Patricia Highsmith - 4 stars - My Review"Good review Joy. I just finished a Highsmith book myself. I'll have to look for a copy of The Tremor of Forgery.
I finished the second book in the "Ripliad" - the sequel to The Talented Mr. Ripley:
Ripley Under Ground by Patricia Highsmith
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading the first book in another series (as part of a group read for the Mystery, Crime and Thriller group here on Goodreads):
The Shape of Water by Andrea Camilleri
Smokejumper: A Memoir by One of America's Most Select Airborne Firefighters by Jason A. Ramos - 3.5 stars - My Review
A Stranger at the Door by Jason Pinter - #2 book with Rachel Marin, a widowed 30-something mother victim-turned-vigilanteMy review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4002217739
I'm reading 2 books right now: "You Had Me At Hello" and "Float Plan."
category five, sci-fi after Maria in Puerto Rico
Blacktop Wasteland is where author S.A. Cosby's Beauregard 'Bug' Montage earned his reputation as a high-speed wheelman and risks everything for one last job. Promise. Yeah, right.
5★ Link to my review of Blacktop Wasteland
Another cute Story Without Words, Polar Bear Bowler: A Story Without Words by Karl Beckstrand. I can imagine little kids making up dialogue and "telling the stories" themselves.
4★ LInk to my review of Polar Bear Bowler with enough of the pictures to get the idea of the story.
William Faulkner was a giant of American Literature (with a capital L!), and I just enjoyed his short story A Rose for Emily. It's about an elderly widow who gets more and more reclusive and peculiar.
4★ Link to my Rose for Emily review with a link to the story.
Burnt Sugar by Avni Doshi. Next up is the Revisioners by Margaret Sexton
Indigo Summer by Monica McKayhan. I remember reading this for my high school English class. I'm on the seventeenth chapter! I love the book! It's an easy read for young black kids.
A Summoner had a pretty free rein in 14th century England. He could decide you were guilty of something and summon you to court - unless of course you bribed him. And he never paid for anything. Who would dare charge him? In The Summoner's Sins, author Keith Moray continues his series, which is pretty gruesome.
3★ Link to my review of The Summoner's Sins
The Uyghurs: Strangers in Their Own Land by Gardner Bovingdon - relevant background for current eventsMy review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3986033911
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - completed 5/22/21 - 1 star - My Review Bleak. Depressing. Not for me.
I am currently reading
small great things by Jodi Picoult
She is one of my favorite authors and this is an amazing read so far!!
Happy Reading everyone!!
Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly, narrated by the author Anthony Bourdain - seeing the brash, profane, yet witty Bourdain during his early years. My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4011406457
The Siege: 68 Hours Inside The Taj Hotel by Adrian Levy and Cathy Scott-Clark - a description and indictment of the "26/11" terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/4011407414
I finished the third book in the Vampire Chronicles: 
The Queen of the Damned by Anne Rice
Rating: 3 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading:
Psycho by Robert Bloch
...which I heard they made a movie out of a few years back?
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