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Finished another 2, leaving still 8 to go.A - Allen Eskens with The Stolen Hours - 4⭐️ - 29/6/22
I - Ilsa Evans with Forbidden Fruit - AA - 5⭐️ - 18/6/22
Halfway through my list and halfway through the year! G Garry Disher
Aussie author Garry Disher is a favourite of mine, and I loved The Sunken Road. It was nominated for the Booker Prize when it was published in 1996, and there's no question in my mind that it belonged on the long list, at least. Wonderfully told story from South Australia's dry country.
5★ My review of The Sunken Road
Woohoo! Done!A-Z Authors
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Great, Marianne! I'm way behind you. 15/26 so farQ
Chinese-born Qian Julie Wang was only five when she was warned she had to behave, be quiet and blend in - or they'd be deported. As she writes in Beautiful Country: A Memoir, it was hard for her to understand why her professor parents became menial workers,
3.5★My review of Beautiful Country
I’ve finished another 2, leaving only 6 left to read.T - T.J. Payne with In My Father's Basement - 3⭐️ - 25/7/22
W - Catriona Ward with The Last House on Needless Street - 3⭐️ - 5/7/22
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And another wrap! Might consider doing this one again maybe, but please tick me off for now moderators. Thanks for the challenge.A-Z Authors
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Another 2 finished.H - Harlan Coben with Missing You - 4⭐️ - 1/8/22
V - John Verdon with On Harrow Hill - 4⭐️ - 29/7/22
Finished my 14th of this Challenge with:-'R' -
Lying Beside You by Michael Robotham
Rated this one as 5* (10/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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K Jess Kidd has taken the difficult history of the 17th century Dutch ship 'Batavia' and tied it to a contemporary Australian story through two wonderful nine-year-old children. The Night Ship is well-researched and beautifully written, with a little bit of magical realism readers should love.
4★ My review
Finished 2 more, leaving only 2 left to finish challenge! 😆P - The Picasso Scam by Stuart Pawson - 4⭐️ - 4/8/22
X - Micheal Maxwell with Diamonds and Cole - 4⭐️ - 11/8/22
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Finished my 15th of this Challenge with:-'C' - Emma Cline - The Girls
Rated this book as 4* (8/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sorted - Thanks, it was fun! 1/1/22 - 31/12/22
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✅ A - Hans Aanrud - Sidsel Longskirt: A Girl of Norway (1903) 13/1/22 - 5★
✅ B - Charles Baudelaire - Les Fleurs du Mal (1857) 11/6/22 - 5★
✅ 🦘C - Marcus Clarke - For the Term of His Natural Life (1874) AA - 15/1/22 - 5★
✅ D - Charles Dickens - Nicholas Nickleby (1838) 21/1/22 - 5★
✅ E - Dorothy Edwards - Rhapsody (1927) 2/2/22 - 5★
✅ F - J.S. Fletcher - The Lost Mr. Linthwaite (1923) 19/1/22 4★
✅ 🦘G - Jeannie Gunn - We Of The Never Never (1908) AA 22/2/22 - 5★
✅ H - Victor Hugo - Les Misérables (1862) 4/2/22 - 5★
✅ I - Christopher Isherwood - Goodbye to Berlin (1939) 2/1/22 - 5★
✅ 🦘J - George Johnston - My Brother Jack (1964) AA 20/5/22 - 5★
✅ K - Erich Kästner - Emil and the Detectives (1929) 18/1/22 - 5★
✅ 🦘L - Norman Lindsay - The Magic Pudding (1918) AA 20/4/22 - 5★
✅ 🦘M - Alan Marshall - I Can Jump Puddles (1955) AA 26/5/22 - 5★
✅ N - Vladimir Nabokov - Pale Fire (1962) 20/1/22 - 5★
✅ O - George Orwell - Down and Out in Paris and London (1933) 20/1/22 - 4★
✅ P - E.R. Punshon - Music Tells All (1948) 11/6/22 - 4★
✅ Q - Thomas De Quincey - Confessions of an English Opium Eater (1821) 16/1/22 - 4★
✅ R - Raymond Radiguet - The Devil in the Flesh (1914) 18/8/22 - 4★
✅ 🦘S - Christina Stead - The Man Who Loved Children (1940) AA - 11/3/22 5★
✅ T - Jun'ichirō Tanizaki - A Cat, A Man, And Two Women (1936) 29/3/22 - 5★
✅ U - Fritz von Unruh - The Way of Sacrifice (1928) 21/3/22 - 4★
✅ V - Jules Verne - From the Earth to the Moon (1865) 18/1/22
✅ W -Evelyn Waugh - Brideshead Revisited (1945) 9/1/22 - 5★
✅ X - Aldous Huxley - Island (1962) 1/3/22 - 3★
✅ Y - Sergei Yesenin - Sergei Esenin: Selected Poetry (1925) 2/8/22 5★
✅ Z - Émile Zola - Nana (1880) 8/2/22 - 5★
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Thank you Brenda! Hope you're enjoying the end of the winter!
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Yes Brenda, I will! It's been a horrible heatwave for us, but we live in homes designed to keep us warm and our little fans are working overtime - most businesses don't even have air conditioning! But it's cooler today. Phrynne I loved it, she really was a wonder and I enjoyed reading about her travels in the bush!
R - still got several to go.I've just read and loved The Queen of Dirt Island by one of my favourite authors, Donal Ryan, who captures the sound and cadence of Irish speech better than anyone I can think of. His writing is the best!
5★ My review
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Brenda wrote: "Plenty of time Patty :)"Still going, Brenda, thanks to Alex North for the X 😊
I can see why Alex North's mystery/thriller The Whisper Man was such a hit a couple of years ago. Nothing like a serial killer kidnapping children to get the heart racing!
4.5★ My review
Finished my 16th of this Challenge with:-'M' -
The Lost Boy by S.A. McEwen
Rated this one as 4* (8/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
JJohn Boyne finally wrote an adult sequel to his much-loved The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas and it is terrific! All the Broken Places is older sister Gretel's 'autobiography' from when she was the 12-year-old daughter of a Nazi officer, then passing as French in Australia, and finally to the age of 92 in London. What a story!
5★ My review of All the Broken Places
I often change my choices as the year progresses and new must-read titles emerge! This was one such.E
Elizabeth Strout's Lucy Barton returns in her new book, Lucy by the Sea, where ex-husband William takes her to Maine to escape the pandemic which has brought New York City to its knees. It's American, real and current, but the relationship strengths and strains go beyond geographical boundaries and times. Families are families. Neighbours are neighbours.
5★ My review of Lucy by the Sea
Finished my 17th of this Challenge with:-'S' - John Steinbeck:
East of Eden by John Steinbeck
Rated this one as 5* (9.5/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Z - No Friend but the Mountains: Writing from Manus Prison by Behrouz Boochani...Wow. It took me a long time to get to the end of this book. Not because it was boring but because it is so confronting to be faced with the reality of our countries border 'security' measures.
A blend of first hand narrative, Kurdish literature, journalism and poetry - this book is a must read for any Australian before being able to contribute to the conversation of refugee rights and Australia's border policies.
Finished my 18th of this Challenge with:-'H' -
How the Light Gets In by M.J. Hyland
Rated this one as 3* (7/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
19/26 with 7 to go, these authors completedLisa Unger
Caroline Overington
Julia Quinn
Katerina Diamond
Finished my 19th of this Challenge with:-'O' - AA -
Closer Than You Think by Darren O'Sullivan
Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished my 20th of this Challenge with:'Q':-
Anna Quindlen - Miller's Valley
Rated this one as 4* (9/10). My review is here:-
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished!A-Z Authors
1/1/22 - 31/12/22
26/26 AA 9/6
A-Eddie Ayres--Danger Music AA 15/4/22 4 stars
B-Sarah Barrie-Shadows Of Hunters Ridge AA 19/2/22 3 stars
C-Sophie Cunningham-City of Trees: Essays on Life, Death and the Need for a Forest AA 23/9/22 5 stars
D-Lindsey Davis-Last Act in Palmyra 20/6/22 4 stars
E-Emily Edwards- The Herd 3/4/22 4 stars
F -Alan Furst- Red Gold 6/2/22 4 stars
G-Sue Grafton - J Is For Judgment 7/1/22 3 stars
H-Robyn Harding - The Party 4/2/22 2 stars
I- Ian Rankin - Knots & Crosses 25/2/22 4 stars
J- Jennie Jones - A Place to Stay AA 15/1/22 4 stars
K-Philip Kerr - Prayer 6/4/22 3 stars
L-Donna Leon - A Venetian Reckoning 1/3/22 4 stars
M-Ben Macintyre-The Spy and the Traitor: The Greatest Espionage Story of the Cold War 26/1/22 5 stars
N-Celeste Ng-Little Fires Everywhere 25/9/22 4 stars
O-Richard Osman-The Man Who Died Twice12/10/22 5 stars
P-Tony Park - Ghosts of the Past AA 11/3/22 4 stars
Q- Jenny Quintana - The Hiding Place 20/3/22 4 stars
R- Michael Robotham-The Other Wife AA 16/2/22 4stars
S- Ivan Southall-Ash Road AA 23/2/22 4 stars
T-Christina Thompson - Sea People: In Search of the Ancient Navigators of the Pacific AA 7/1/22 5 stars
U-Lisa Unger - The Stranger Inside 15/3/22 4 stars
V-Kurt Vonnegut Jr. - Slaughterhouse 5 18/6/22 5 stars
W-Darren Williams - Angel Rock AA 20/4/22 4 stars
X- Colin Dexter - The Wench is Dead 9/1/22 4 stars
Y- Ovidia Yu - Aunty Lee's delights : a Singaporean mystery16/5/22 3 stars
Z-Shirley Hazzard-Cliffs of Fall and Other Stories 28/4/22 3 stars
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All done 🙂A-Z Authors
1/1/22 - 31/12/22
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A - Alister Hodge - Outbreak (AA) ✅ 4* (29/4)
B - Linwood Barclay - Find You First ✅ 4* (7/1)
C - Lee Child - The Sentinel ✅ 4* (1/12)
D - Dean Koontz - The Silent Corner ✅ 2* (14/1)
E - Erica Stevens - The Divide ✅ 4* (19/3)
F - Skinwalker by Faith Hunter ✅ 1* (3/4)
G - Silvia Moreno-Garcia - Velvet Was the Night ✅ 4* (26/4)
H - Heather Morris - Three Sisters (AA) ✅ 4* (23/2)
I - Ilona Andrews - Ruby Fever ✅ 5* (3/10)
J - J.P. Delaney - Playing Nice ✅ 5* (3/2)
K - Jay Kristoff - DEV1AT3 (AA) ✅ 2* (11/*)
L - Lisa Regan - The Bones She Buried ✅ 4* (2/9)
M - Liane Moriarty - Apples Never Fall (AA) ✅ 3* (2/4)
N - Deadly Start by Phillipa Nefri Clark ✅ (AA) 3* (16/10)
O - Richard Osman - The Thursday Murder Club ✅ 2* (6/10)
P - Peter Papathanasiou - The Stoning ✅ 3* (30/7)
Q - Stella Quinn - The Vet from Snowy River (AA) ✅ 4* (10/4)
R - Ruth Ware - In a Dark, Dark Wood ✅ 4* (21/1)
S - Sarah Lyons Fleming - World Departed ✅ 5* (12/5)
T - Toni Anderson - Colder Than Sin ✅ 2* (1/4)
U - Lisa Unger - Last Girl Ghosted ✅ 4* (25/3)
V - Emma Viskic - And Fire Came Down (Caleb Zelic) ✅ 2* (29/6)
W - Anna Willett - Vengeance Blind (AA) ✅ 3* (16/1)
X - Alix E. Harrow - A Spindle Splintered ✅ 4* (2/8)
Y - Darcy Coates - Hunted (AA) ✅ 2* (18/3)
Z - Richard Chizmar - Chasing the Boogeyman ✅ 4* (21/2)
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Phrynne wrote: "Great work Lorraine"Thanks ☺️
Brenda wrote: "Well done Lorraine!"Thanks ☺️
All done :) A-Z Authors
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