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A Hope More Powerful Than the Sea: One Refugee's Incredible Story of Love, Loss, and Survival by Melissa Fleming - 3 stars - My Review
Jane Harper's Tasmanian coast in The Survivors is just as compelling as her outback in The Dry and The Lost Man. Evelyn Bay is such a small town that it's almost a locked room mystery. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Survivors review
Been awhile since I commented here.I just finished Taipei by Tao Lin and wrote a short review of it. 5/5 because I loved it!
Here's my review, if interested.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I have just finished The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie by Alan Bradley and adore his 11-year-old experimental poisoner/investigator, Flavia de Luce. This is the first of what seems to be a terrific mystery series - can't wait to find the rest! 
5★ Link to my Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie review
The Last Leonardo: The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting by Ben Lewis - 4 stars - My Review
A Christmas Carol by Charles DickensThis was much better than I had expected - not only because it's by Dickens (because I didn't like my HS experience with A Great Expectations) but because many adaptations had overplayed the sentimental aspects.
My review - www.Goodreads.com/review/show/3697267054
Jane Eyre is my bedtime book. I only read a few pages a night so it is taking me a long time. I have watched probably 6 different movies of the book and so far the most faithful is the Timothy Dalton one.
I am on tenterhooks now, waiting to see where Gregg Hurwitz takes the Nowhere Man next! Terrific, disturbingly real warfare concerns in Prodigal Son.
4.5★ Link to my Prodigal Son review
Rainbow Colors by words&pictures is a cute little book for very young kids to enjoy with an older friend to help them find the things that are red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.
4★ Link to my Rainbow Colors review
The Snow Queen by Michael Cunningham - 2 stars - My ReviewBe Still the Water by Karen Emilson - 3 stars - My Review
I finished 
Blackout by Connie Willis
Rating: 4 stars
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
and I started reading
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul by Douglas Adams
Jennifer just wanted to kill someone, make the world a better place, but Judy Fitzwater's aspiring murder mystery writer, who was Dying to Get Published, had a lot of (amusing) trouble getting her act together in real life.
3.5★ Link to my Dying to Get Published review
Frederik Backman's thought-provoking short novella, The Deal of a Lifetime is about a meeting between a somewhat estranged father and son that happens to take place on Christmas Eve. Loved it!
5★ Link to my Deal of a Lifetime review
Finally got around to reading the final book in The Hunger Games Trilogy:Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins - 2 stars - My Review
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