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Reading Like a Writer: A Guide for People Who Love Books and for Those Who Want to Write Them is just what it says it is. Francine Prose is a highly regarded literary authority who knows her stuff, but isn't stuffy. She also knows how to poke fun at herself.
5★ Link to my review of Reading Like a Writer
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. So good!https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Pushing for 4 stars
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Bad link Jeanette...
Finally I had a positive audio book experience! This was a lot of fun!Hard Rain by Irma Venter
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Heres my review for
The Library of the Dead by T.L. Huchu, a dystopian futuristic Edinburgh where a young woman can communicate with ghosts.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Interesting, informative and excellent.
by Marsha LinehanMy review, four stars:
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2 stars for
The Girls Are All So Nice Here by Laurie Elizabeth Flynnhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Diving for Pearls is the debut novel for Irish writer Jamie O’Connell. His version of Dubai is realistically vivid, but one most tourists would not recognise.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Great Circle by Maggie Shipstead, an epic and engrossing saga (600+ pages) about a fictional female pilot and her quest to fly a great circle around the world from pole to pole. https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Brenda wrote: "Gloria that goes to your instagram account :)" fixed thanks so much Brenda
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Thanks Gloria :)
The narrator always makes a big difference to how enjoyable an audio book is. Arianwen Parkes-Lockwood and Jerome Pride are the perfect fit for Two Steps Onward, the follow up to Two Steps Forward, by Anne Buist and Graeme Simsion. 5★s
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While Suzanne McCourt's second novel, The Tulip Tree is a beautifully written story of what a certain Polish family endures through the first half of the 20th Century, it just didn't grab me. Maybe I'm suffering from historical fiction overload fatigue.3.5★s
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I always swap my genres around so that doesn't happen to me Marianne :)
Brenda wrote: "Marianne wrote: "While Suzanne McCourt's second novel, The Tulip Tree is a beautifully written story of what a certain Polish family endures through the first half ..."So do I, Brenda. But there do seem to be a lot of them...
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Popular Aussie author Rachael Johns has written about a mother who is surprised to find herself pushed into Flying the Nest without her kids! Her fans will enjoy this one.
3.5★ Link to my review of Flying the Nest
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For me it is what the HF book is about. I am totally over books set in WW2 and anything to do with persecuting witches but I can read any stories set in for example Regency England and further back.
My review for the brilliantly fun FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
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Tokyo Ever After by Emiko Jean was cute, though entirely predictable.
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4 stars for this domestic drama/romance by an Aussie Author
Magpie's Bend by Maya Linnellhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Phrynne wrote: "Marianne wrote: "While Suzanne McCourt's second novel, The Tulip Tree is a beautifully written story of what a certain Polish family endures through the first half ..For me it is what the HF book is about. I am totally over books set in WW2 and anything to do with persecuting witches but I can read any stories set in for example Regency England and further back.."
Yes, Phrynne, I'm over war and persecution. I think it was the mention in the blurb of the Snowy Mountains Scheme 1953 that drew me in, but that only took up the last six pages...
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Girls in Tin Hats by Annie Murray
3 and a half stars
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The Language of FlowersBy Vanessa Diffenbaugh
4 and a half stars
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Anna Bentinck is an inspired choice for the narration of the audio version of Emma Healey's brilliant debut novel, Elizabeth Is Missing.5★s
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The Essence of Nathan Biddle by J. William Lewis is an impressive literary debut than will appeal especially, but not exclusively, to readers of a certain vintage.4★s
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My Year Of Living Vulnerably sounds like a memoir by talented, tormented Aussie journalist, author, and broadcaster Rick Morton, but it dives into culture, politics, philosophy, and science, especially PTSD and the brain. Fascinating stuff and a great read!
5★ Link to my My Year of Living Vulnerably
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Aussie author Sophie Green's third novel, Thursdays at Orange Blossom House (what a gorgeous cover!) is out 28th July, and l can assure fans they will not be disappointed. Going back to these characters and their stories each time I opened the book was like a much-needed hug, or a blanket on a cold day: pure comfort.5 big ★s from me.
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