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May 17, 2021 05:01PM
Haha, great timing Sarah :)
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An Iron Rose
by AA Peter Temple had been on my TBR list for some time, and I finally got the ebook version. So glad I did. 4.5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished
. Heartwarming and inspiring. Here's my review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bones of Hilo by Eric Redman, a murder mystery set in Hawaii.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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.
3.5 stars for this debut novel by an Aussie Author
My Best Friend's Murder by Polly Phillipshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I'm not vegetarian but love finding new ideas for cooking vegetables on the BBQ, so enjoyed this cookbook from Netagalley: 
How to Grill Vegetables: The New Bible for Barbecuing Vegetables over Live Fire by Steven Raichlenreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The fourth novel by Jaimee Wriston aka Jaimee Wriston Colbert, How Not to Drown is filled with quirky characters doing quirky things: a very imaginative read!4★s
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The second instalment in the Justice Jones series by Elly Griffiths, A Girl Called Justice: The Smugglers' Secret is at least as good, if not better than, the first. I'm looking forward to what Justice (and all the other characters) will get up to in #3.5★s for this one
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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
My review of The Annual Migration of Clouds by Premee Mohamedhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
An epic scifi that could easily have been great. 4*sChildren of Time
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dorje Swallow is the perfect voice for Chris Hammer's Martin Scarsden series. 5★s for the audio version of Scrublandshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
You Had It Coming by Australian author B.M. Carroll is topical and gripping: brilliant Aussie crime fiction. 5★s
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Little Brother: A Refugee's Odyssey gives an inside look at the refugee experience in West/North Africa. A quick read that packs a punch, but I suspect may have been even more powerful in the original Basque language.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Holden Sheppard's novel based on his experience of growing up gay in a small WA town.
Invisible Boysreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Having finished A Testament of Character, I now have to patiently wait until the next instalment in this excellent series is published. Luckily Sulari Gentill does have a few other books up her sleeve to keep fans satisfied. And I can listen to Rupert Degas reading the audio....5 ★s
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4 stars for this romance/domestic drama by an Aussie Author
Snowy Mountains Daughter by Alissa Callenhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of
The Lady from Zagreb by the late Philip Kerr 4.5★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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I just enjoyed NZ/Aussie author Jacqueline Bublitz's new mystery, narrated by a murdered girl, that should stir up some good book club conversations, Before You Knew My Name.
3.5~4★ Link to my review of Before You Knew My Name
After many years, I loved my second reading of a favourite, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, which won author Mark Haddon many awards. Young Christopher is a persistent, special, very trying kid. Love him!
5★ Link to my Curious Incident ... review
My review of The Good Wife of Bath: A (Mostly) True Story by Karen Brookshttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Last Days in Cleaver Square by Patrick McGrath is a powerful and beautifully written tale. The lack of quote marks for speech loses it half a star because that really irritates me.
4★s
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here are my latest reviews, all good reads...And Then There Were 9 by C.A. Larmer
4* review hereThe Impossible Resurrection of Grief by Octavia Cade
4* review hereThe Morbids by Ewa Ramsey
5* review here
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