Aussie Readers discussion
note: This topic has been closed to new comments.
Archives
>
Share Your Reviews (and Thoughts) Here - 2023
message 501:
by
PattyMacDotComma
(new)
Feb 17, 2023 11:54PM
Freddie Mercury had a remarkable impact on today's music. The recent children's biography by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara gives us a bit of his life and the founding of the phenomenon that became Queen.
5★ My review of Freddie Mercury with several illustrations and links to some of the unforgettable music
reply
|
flag
Aussie author Michael Robotham is a favourite of mine.
Bleed for Me
is the fourth in his clinical psychologist Joe O'Loughlin series. It could easily be read as a stand-alone, because he fills in the back stories so well but manages not to spoil the earlier books if you go back and read them later (as I have done). 
5★ My review of Bleed for Me
Finally, my much deliberated on review of: The Death of John Lacey by Ben Hobson
My review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I liked it very much…but I so much wanted to love it more! It has that much potential imho.
I still gave it 4.5 ⭐️s but with reservations.
Apologies in advance for the length of my review, but I believe that anyone who loved The Dictionary of Lost Words by Pip Williams will feel the same way about the companion novel, The Bookbinder of Jericho. 5★s from mehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Dog lovers may enjoy this memoir about a couple who get their first dog in their mid-sixties. Canadian author Rona Maynard's Starter Dog: My Path to Joy, Belonging and Loving This World is very entertaining. 4★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The second book in Stacy Green's Lucy Kendall series, See Them Run is better than the first, but I'm still hoping for improvement with the next two. 3.5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Every Last Fear by Alex Finlay is one of those thrillers I found hard to put down.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
4.5 stars for domestic drama/romance
Reminders of Him by Colleen HooverMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi and pleased to report I loved it! It was a solid 5 stars for me. :)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Forever Girl is not my favourite Alexander McCall Smith novel, but Susan Lyons narration is excellent. 4★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
AA Andrea Goldsmith has given me my first 5★ read for 2023 with Invented Lives. I loved it.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for Marcie Gill and the Caravan Park Cat by Monica McInerney
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Grief Nurse by Angie Spoto
A missed opportunity here, because it had plenty of potential. Might work for fantasy lit-fic lovers.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
If you're looking for something a little different in crime fiction this might just be it; a school for murderers - not assassins, just people who want to kill their employer. Written by musician and producer Rupert Holmes. Quirky and fun.
Murder Your Employer by Rupert Holmesreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Alexander McCall Smith on revenge: delightful!5★s for The Exquisite Art of Getting Even
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
Old Babes in the Wood: Stories by Margaret Atwood
An anthology by the acclaimed writer. Pretty good, though I wanted more.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Torrent by Dinuka McKenzie is set in the aftermath of the NSW Northern Rivers floods, where the mother of a flood victim says he was murdered. Good story with a great new detective, heavily pregnant Kate Miles (as if she didn't have enough to worry about).
4★ My review of The Torrent
3 stars for
The Paris Mystery by Aussie Author Kirsty ManningMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Secret Book of Flora Lea by Patti Callahan Henry and my review.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I always enjoy David Rintoul 's narration of Alexander McCall Smith's Scotland Street series, although he overdoes the broad Aussie accents in The Bertie Project. 5★s https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
The Bootmaker of Berlin by AA Debbie Terranovahttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Mod
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Bit disappointed by this one.The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sebastian Barry has yet to disappoint me: Old God's Time is beautifully written and intensely affecting. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold by Japanese author Toshikazu Kawaguchi is a time-travel novel where people visit a café in Tokoyo which enables them to return to the past. A series of short stories feature different people who choose to travel to revisit a lost love, a departed sibling, or even an unborn child. Here is my review
This topic has been frozen by the moderator. No new comments can be posted.
Aussie Readers
Books mentioned in this topic
Gaudy Night (other topics)The Inconvenient Corpse (other topics)
Even Dogs in the Wild (other topics)
Wild Card (other topics)
The Good Dog (other topics)
More...
Authors mentioned in this topic
Dorothy L. Sayers (other topics)Barbara Cool Lee (other topics)
Simon Rowell (other topics)
Simon Rowell (other topics)
Dorothy Gilman (other topics)
More...
