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[PattyMacDotComma]

What mother in her right mind enlists the help of her fourteen-year-old daughter so she can have an affair with her husband's best friend? Adrienne Brodeur had just such a mother, and she tells all in her autobiography, Wild Game: My Mother, Her Lover, and Me. It's all true and quite a read!
4.5★ Link to my Wild Game review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called A Baby for the Sheriff by Mary Leo

[Joy D]

Finished:
How Much of These Hills Is Gold by C Pam Zhang - 4 stars - My Review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished the excellent Pulitzer-Prize winner:


The Way West by A.B. Guthrie Jr.
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


The Time Regulation Institute by Ahmet Hamdi Tanpınar

[Joy D]

Just finished this sad & disturbing, but relevant, book:
A Burning by Megha Majumdar - 4 stars - My Full Review

[Woman Reading]

I finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. It was fascinating!

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3658935172

[PattyMacDotComma]

Woman Reading wrote: "I finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. It was fascinating!

My review- www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3658935172"

That is a heck of a review, WR, and real eye-opener for people like me who have no idea how primitive North Korea is becoming as it deteriorates.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Ian McGuire's highly acclaimed novel, The North Water, is the brutal story of a nineteenth-century whaling expedition that goes terrifyingly wrong. It is also brilliant!
5★ Link to my North Water review

[Michelle]

Piranesi by Susanna Clarke and ten little indians by sherman alexie

[Joy D]

Finished this historical family saga set in Spain, France, Chile, and Venezuela from the 1930s to 1990s:
A Long Petal of the Sea by Isabel Allende - 4 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Colton 911: In Hot Pursuit by Geri Krotow

[Maria]

Currently reading , and loving it!

[Maria]

Zeejane (Sara) wrote: "Maria wrote: "Currently reading , and loving it!"

I keep adding and then taking this one off of my TBR list, you've convinced me to add it back on, again LOL :) I m..."

I'm just finishing it and I personally loved it. I know it had mixed reviews and some are because it does have a lot of "triggers" for some. Hope you enjoy it!

[Joy D]

Finished:
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See - 3 stars - My Review

Trigger warnings for extreme violence (which I was not expecting).

[Woman Reading]

Joy D wrote: "Finished:
The Island of Sea Women by Lisa See - 3 stars - My Review

Trigger warnings for extreme violence (which I was not expecting)."

Yes, I was shocked by that as well, even though I had expected sexual violence because they were a Japanese colony.

[Woman Reading]

PattyMacDotComma wrote: "Woman Reading wrote: "I finished Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea by Barbara Demick. It was fascinating!

That is a heck of a review, WR, and real eye-opener for people like me who have no idea how primitive North Korea is becoming as it deteriorates.

Demick had published her book in 2009 and then added a bit more in 2015 to include the current leader. I wonder what their situation is like now. Pyongyang isn't a good indicator, because money and effort are poured into it as a model showcase. It's usually the only place outsiders are allowed to see.

[Woman Reading]

I finished two in the Otherworld series by Kelley Armstrong -

No Humans Involved

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3680864726

Frostbitten

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3684656204

[Melissa]

I am currently reading Station Eleven, by Emily St. John Mandel.

[Chiara.L]

I'm currently reading The Raven Boys & Northanger Abbey

[Joy D]

Finished:
Silence by Shūsaku Endō - 4 stars - My Review

[PattyMacDotComma]

I was looking forward to reading this children's edition of The Nutcracker by words&pictures during the Christmas season, but I was disappointed. Colourful but confusing (to me).
2.5★ Link to my Nutcracker review with illustrations

[PattyMacDotComma]

I absolutely love What Can You Do With a Line?, that makes my fingers itchy to try drawing! It would be a great Christmas (or other) gift, along with some pencils. Perfect pressie!
5★ Link to my review of What Can You Do With A Line", showing some of the artwork

[Joy D]

Finished:
The Tiger's Wife by Téa Obreht - 4 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Colton's Deadly Disguise by Geri Krotow

[Tara]

Finished Manchester Christmas: A Novel. He's a local news guy. Loved this!

[Joy D]

Finished:
Milkman by Anna Burns - 4 stars - My Review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished reading a book that lots of people love, but I didn't:


Every Dead Thing by John Connolly
Rating: 2 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Dark Places by Gillian Flynn

[Woman Reading]

I looked into Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld anthologies. The majority of the short stories & novels I read preceded Bitten, the beginning of the series. And in hindsight, it would be good, but not necessary, to read many of these stories before starting Bitten.

Men of the Otherworld

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3689735867

Tales of the Otherworld

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3689753537

[bailey, Challenges]

I just finished A Christmas Carol and The Pearl for the December buddy reads I signed up for and now I’m working on book #8 in the Bloody Jack series, The Wake of the Lorelei Lee: Being an Account of the Adventures of Jacky Faber, on her Way to Botany Bay, while listening to The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and VERY slowly making progress on the ebook version of The Raven King.

[Joy D]

It is hard for me to rate this book. I appreciate its literary merit, but it was hard to listen to 17 hours of an innocent child’s suffering:
Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stuart - 3 stars - My Review

[Joy D]

Finished:
Seeing by José Saramago - 4 stars - My Review

[Woman Reading]

I just finished a holiday-themed novel and a nonfiction.

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3693095107


The White Devil's Daughters: The Fight Against Slavery in San Francisco's Chinatown by Julia Flynn Siler

This book covered an awful part of American history, but I'm quite pleased that it's been revealed. It's not just about Chinese- Americans but about women's slow crawl toward empowerment.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3673134664

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Colton's Secret Bodyguard by Jane Godman

[PattyMacDotComma]

I've just finished Amy Stewart's delightful Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit, the third in this wonderful historical fiction mystery series, based on a real lady cop. New Jersey in 1916. I'm sure glad she won't quit!
5★ Link to my Miss Kopp Just Won't Quit review

[RJ - Slayer of Trolls]

I finished:


Books of Blood: Volume Three by Clive Barker
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

which is part of the larger collection:


Books of Blood: Volumes One to Three by Clive Barker
Rating: 5 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

and I started reading:


Books of Blood: Volume IV AKA The Inhuman Condition by Clive Barker

which is part of the larger collection:


Books of Blood, Volumes 4-6 by Clive Barker

Highly recommended for fans of horror or dark fiction. NOTE: graphically violent in just about every way you can imagine, and many ways that you probably can't.

[Joy D]

This book will make my list of favorites for the year:
Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell - 5 stars - My Review

[Lacey]

I’m reading The Xmas Factor by Annie Sanders. It’s my first and probably only Christmas book this year.

[Nancy from NJ]

I am currently reading the 4th Sister book, The Pearl Sister by Lucinda Riley. I am really enjoying this sayer book since it takes place in Australia and we recently visited there. In addition to this series, I also enjoy Lucinda Riley’s stand alone titles.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Richard Russo's characters always seem like people I'd recognise. In Chances Are, three guys and the girl they all (secretly?) adored were in college together during the draft for Vietnam. The guys are now 66, having a reunion, but where's Jacy?
4.5★ Link to my Chances Are review

[Christine]

[Woman Reading]

I finished Vigil: Hong Kong on the Brink by Jeffrey Wasserstrom - explaining the broader context for all of the violent protests.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3692312325

[Heather]

I just finished listening to Rachel McAdams read Anne of Green Gables and really enjoyed it. Not sure how I missed reading this book as a child, but glad I got to enjoy it now. Anne is a great character.

I'm currently reading The Book Woman of Troublesome Creek and A Single Swallow.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Terrific book by Eleanor Levenson, illustrated by Paul Boston, that is just what is says it is: World Politics in 100 Words: Start conversations and spark inspiration. I give the list of words and share some of the illustrations about how the world works.
5★ Link to my World Politics review with illustrations

Great for adults - not just for kids!

[PattyMacDotComma]

Lucky's by Aussie author Andrew Pippos may have struck me on a bad day. Perhaps I wasn't paying enough attention - I got confused.
3.5★ Link to my Lucky's review

[Ilona]

Currently reading an ARC of Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly. Really enjoying it so far! :)

[Joy D]

The Winter King: A Novel of Arthur by Bernard Cornwell - 5 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called The Christmas Candle by Max Lucado

[Joy D]

First Phone Call from Heaven by Mitch Albom - 3 stars - My Review

[Christine]

I’m reading a book called Mistletoe & Magic by Sandra Madden

[Woman Reading]

I finished Kelley Armstrong's Otherworld Nights #3 - another entertaining collection.

My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3702323080