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[Renee]

I am readingThe Mirror & the Light I am loving it. This is my favorite historical era to read about,

I read any book about Henry and his wives, It is a comfort read for me. I like knowing what is going to happen. What i enjoy so muck about this is it is from the perspective of Cromwell. It is my comfort read from a new side

[Kristie, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "(Yes I know I am 15 years behind in everything!! lol)"

I bought the first Kate Daniels years ago and never got around to reading it, so I'm super behind too.

[Travis]

I finishedBilly Summers multiple times I thought this is getting predictable I see where we're going. Then I'd look at how much book was left and think huh it wouldn't take that many pages for that maybe I don't know. Well he had some cards up his sleeve for me because I certainly did not have it all figured out.

And by half way much of the Trump mentions were gone so that was nice

[PattyMacDotComma]

Art Garfunkel is the best friend who helped his college roommate, Sanford D. Greenberg deal with his sudden blindness. Greenberg's memoir, Hello Darkness, My Old Friend: How Daring Dreams and Unyielding Friendship Turned One Man's Blindness Into an Extraordinary Vision for Life.

It is fabulous! Greenberg knows everybody who's anybody, worked in the Johnson White House, and tells great stories!
5★ Link to my review of Hello Darkness

[Janice, Moderator]

Rusalka wrote: "(Yes I know I am 15 years behind in everything!! lol)"

Slow poke! :)

[Cherie]

I’m right there with you, Kristie, regarding the first Kate Daniels book. I have a paperback copy hiding “somewhere”.

[Cherie]

I just finished a terrific audiobook, narrated by my favorite guy, Simon Vance. The Anatomist's Apprentice was a complete surprise. Set in London, in about 1775, Thomas Silkstone is a Doctor and a teacher of Anatomy. A young man dies, and Dr. Silkstone is called on to try and find out what killed him. Good mystery! I really enjoyed it - unfortunately, my library has none of the other six books in the series available. (sob!)

I am going to start next. I just downloaded the audiobook from my library wish list. This one is narrated by Anthony Heald. It is a western set in a small Kansas town in the 1870s. I hope it is good. ;o)

[Jan Mc]

Cherie wrote: "I just finished a terrific audiobook, narrated by my favorite guy, Simon Vance. The Anatomist's Apprentice was a complete surprise.

I am going to start Butcher's Crossing by John Williams next. ..."

I have both of those and look forward to listening to them! Please post your opinions, Cherie.

[PattyMacDotComma]

This is the Kopp sisters, World War One style! Norma's in France with her pigeons, young Fleurette is touring in the US with a dance troupe, and Constance is spying. Always fun. Dear Miss Kopp by Amy Stewart is #5 in the series.
3.5★ Link to my review of Dear Miss Kopp

[Cherie]

Jan wrote: "I have both of those and look forward to listening to them! Please post your opinions, Cherie...."

Jan - I loved The Anatomist's Apprentice and gave it 5 stars.

I finished listening to Butcher's Crossing today. I gave it 4 stars - three for the story and one for the narrator. It is a disturbing account of four men who went to Colorado to hunt buffalo for their hides. This is considered a classic western story of the 1870s. It is disturbing in more ways than one, but an amazing account of their character and what they were willing to endure and withstand to make money - in their time.

[Cherie]

I have started Thunderstruck for the monthly challenge and I am still reading Remarkable Creatures for one of the group read choices.

Turning Angel is on deck for my ongoing series reads.

[Lilisa]

I’m listening/reading to The Labyrinth of the Spirits - in a bit of a pause as I find my way through the labyrinth as I’m a bit lost :-) joining the buddy read; with A Recipe for Daphne, which is turning out to be a bit meh; and finished In My Mother's Footsteps: A Palestinian Refugee Returns Home, which was really good - review https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Beneath a Scarlet Sky. I'm the odd person out because I didn't care for this story. I'm not sure if the problem was the narrator, but I felt the performance had a Hallmark Movie feel. I've been reading some research about the authenticity of the "true story", and it appears that quite a bit was fabricated.

I've started Joplin's Ghost. This book will earn me my second badge. Woot!

[Dem]

Finished Listening Still by Anne Griffin

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/3784439556

[Dem]

Finished High Achiever: The Incredible True Story of One Addict's Double Life

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4143742767

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Blood Heir and really enjoyed it. Aurelia is as bad ass as her mother, if not more. Can wait for the next book to be published.

I was going to start the oldest book on my TBR, Revenant: Book one of the Tatterdemon Trilogy but I realized it's only 60 Kindle pages. I got it for free and I'm really not all that interested, so I will cross it off the list and read The Emperor's Edge instead.

[Katrisa]

Lilisa wrote: "I’m listening/reading to The Labyrinth of the Spirits - in a bit of a pause as I find my way through the labyrinth as I’m a bit lost :-) ..."

Me too Lilisa!

[Kristie, Moderator]

I finished The Noise . I thought the ending was a little confusing and I will probably go back and re-read it. I'm not sure if it wasn't thought out well enough or if I just didn't understand it. Otherwise, I thought it was a really great story. I didn't know what was going to happen next and didn't figure out what was going on.

my The Noise review

[Kristie, Moderator]

Currently reading Billy Summers . It's good. It is not horror, but a story about an assassin with some morals. It has some military fiction included, which is a great way to give us insight into our MC, but not my favorite genre. I'm hoping to finish today.

[Sandra, Moderator]

I'm still reading The Twelve, which is being as good as the first book in the series.
I also started The Labyrinth of the Spirits for a buddy read.
I'm also listening to All Fires the Fire by Julio Cortázar which I first read more than 20 years ago.

[Margo]

I've just finished My Best Friend's Exorcism. It had me chuckling most of the way through, highly recommended if you don't mind a bit of gore!

I've started The Desert Prince. I loved Peter V. Brett demon cycle books but I decided to hold off on buying the new series until it was completed then I came across this in the library and couldn't resist! It picks up 15 years after the last series ended.

[Esther]

I am reading The Angel of the Crows. This is the weirdest take on Sherlock Holmes I ever came across. Whatever the author took was really good stuff. I am having fun with it.

I am listening to the 2nd book of the The Mirror Visitor series. I mention this as I just realised it has been translated in English. It is a great YA fantasy series. If you ever need a translated from French book and like fantasy, look into this one.

[Cherie]

Awesome, Esther! I put the book on my TBR list. You will have to let me know how it is after you finish. 😊

[Esther]

Cherie wrote: "Awesome, Esther! I put the book on my TBR list. You will have to let me know how it is after you finish. 😊"

will do.

[Janice, Moderator]

I've added it too. It sounds fun.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Keep the dream alive! This little book is a great introduction to Martin Luther King Jr.. It's part of an excellent series to inspire little kids (and their parents!).

Author Mª Isabel Sánchez Vegara has produced an amazing library of these.
5★ Link to my review of MLK Jr with several illustrations.

[PattyMacDotComma]

BOX 88 by Charles Cumming, a former secret service recruit himself, describes the mixed-up world of international intrigue.

We may know who the enemy is, but with so many 'agencies' of spies today, nobody is quite sure who the bad guys are. Great read!
4.5★ Link to my review of Box 88

[Saar The Book owl]

I'm currently reading multiple books as usual. Should stop that, though...

[Peggy]

Feels like a while since I posted here!

I'm starting Troy today.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished Joplin's Ghost last night, and with it, Badge 2 of the museum challenge. Woot!

I will start In the Blood for the toppler this morning.

[Peggy]

Congrats Janice!

[Sandra, Moderator]

Awesome, Janice!

[Rusalka, Moderator]

Nice work, Janice!

[Dem]

Finished The Only Woman in the Room byMarie Benedict

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4163053159

[Margo]

Yay Janice!

[Renee]

I just finished Thinner It was creepy fun

[Dem]

Finished An Unusual Boy

My Review: www.goodreads.com/review/show/4014294055

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished my toppler read, In the Blood so will start The Human Division later today.

[Saar The Book owl]

I'm still reading It has good reviews on GR, but still, I'm not overthrown by it...

[Elizabeth A.G.]

Finished The Elephant's Girl by Celesta Rimington.

Intended as a "middle grade" book, this is enjoyable for adults as well - https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

[Margo]

I just finished Snowflake. I found it hard to put this one down. A very compelling story about a college student who is terrified that she is doomed to repeat her repeat her mothers mistakes and waste her potential. It is a sad story told with humour. Excellent narration by Louise Harland.

4.5 stars

[PattyMacDotComma]

I loved Michael Ondaatje's much lauded Warlight, which begins in London, 1945. Bomb flashes were what lit the way for those sneaking around during curfews - criminals, spies, and kids.

Terrific read!
5★ Link to my Warlight review

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished The Emperor's Edge. It was the oldest book on my print TBR. It was a freebie so I wasn't expecting much and I was pleasantly surprised. The books have high ratings. Still, I won't continue on with the series.

I will start Gods of Jade and Shadow when I crawl into bed.

[PattyMacDotComma]

Apples Never Fall is the latest from Aussie author Liane Moriarty. It's a family tree of tennis players, the kind of varied group of characters she's so well-known for. I wish I'd liked it better.
Link to my review of Apples Never Fall

[PattyMacDotComma]

Strange Bliss: Essential Stories is a collection of six of Katherine Mansfield's excellent, quirky short stories. People are just as selfish and awkward and silly today as they were when she was writing.
Link to my review of Strange Bliss

[Saar The Book owl]

I've finished I hoped it was getting better nearing the end, but it wasn't.

My review: Link to my review of Six Stories.

[Janice, Moderator]

I finished The Human Division. Just one more book and that series is done!

Tomorrow I will start The Mystery of Edwin Drood. This has been on my tbr forever. I wonder how I'll make out with it. I don't have much desire to read it after all this time. It looks like I shelved it in 2016.

[Margo]

I DNFed Yours Cheerfully. It wasn't going anywhere after 2 hours so I gave up on it. Unfortunately I didn't give up on I Know Who You Are and ended up giving it only two stars. I was convinced that this one would get better based on the authors previous books - its didn't!

I'm now listening to 56 Days and so far it is gripping. It's my first "lockdown" story so I have high hopes for it. Anything could have happened in those first scary weeks....

[Kristie, Moderator]

Sorry Yours Cheerfully didn't work for you, Margo. I received a widget for that one and didn't accept it because I didn't have time to read it. Early reviews were really good, so I felt like I was missing out. Looks like maybe I didn't really miss much.

I have 56 Days on my wishlist and put in a request for the library to purchase it. Hope you love it.

[Margo]

Kristie wrote: "Sorry Yours Cheerfully didn't work for you, Margo. I received a widget for that one and didn't accept it because I didn't have time to read it. Early reviews were really good, so I felt like I was ..."

I see the GR rating for Cheerfully Yours is high Kristie but I'm not sure why. I liked the first book a lot but this one just doesn't have the same tension. Hope you get hold of 56 days ;-)