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Jan 05, 2023 04:49PM
Scarlet Lies by Samoan author Lani Wendt Young is a rom-com featuring plus-size heroine Scarlet who has to go home to Samoa for her sister's wedding and ends up falling into the lap of a handsome stranger on the flight home. Here is my review
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AA Anna Spargo-Ryan's new memoir, A Kind of Magic, is a tough but worthwhile read.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
A book that had been sitting on my shelf for some years.
The Christmas Dog by Melody CarlsonMy review 3★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
by AA Luke HortonOne star, did not like it, though I am sure fans of descriptive writing with no plot will. SO will readers who enjoy unlikable characters I suspect.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Kind Worth Killing has been on my TBR for a while but when I saw that Peter Swanson has written a sequel, I thought it was time to read it. A brilliantly plotted crime thriller, 5★s, and The Kind Worth Saving is definitely on my TBRhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
An unexpected find in the caravan.
Do Not Open This Book Again by Andy LeeMy review 3★
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of
Killer Story by Matt Witten, a good premise but disappointing read for me.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of Tea for Two at the Little Cornish Kitchen by Jane Linfoot
3 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Isla by Annie Seaton (a light read to wash the dirty taste from my mouth after the last one!)https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Thanks to Diana for passing on a copy of The Night Diary, which I thought was a successful entrypoint for younger readers learning about the partition of India in 1947.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
With his yummy Scottish accent, Peter Forbes really brings Peter May's latest gripping stand-alone, A Winter Grave, to life. 5★s for this unputdownable thriller.https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
1. The Tamarind Tree by Sundara Ramaswamy
Good for me as an Indian reader, might be good for you if you are open to literary fiction.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2. Folktales for a Better World: Stories of Peace and Kindness by Elizabeth Laird
Definitely a yes for fans of folktales.
3. Frank and Bert: The One Where Bert Learns to Ride a Bike by Chris Naylor-Ballesteros
One of the best and cutest picture book series I have read from Netgalley.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My first historical read for this year, the engrossing
The Mitford Affair by Marie Benedictreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
3.5 stars for
Former.ly: The Rise and Fall of a Social Network by Dane CobainMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
For Lamb by Lesa Cline-Ransome
Impactful. Recommended to all lit fic lovers who don't mind slow reads.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
What an intriguing short story is The Garden of Forking Paths by Jorge Luis Borges. It is a kind of choose-your-own adventure wartime spy story. What really happened?
5★ My review with a link to the story online.
Who would ever have thought the French might like to reclaim Paris as their own after WWII? An American is disappointed to find "his" wartime Paris so changed in F. Scott Fitzgerald's short story,
Babylon Revisited
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3.5~4★ My review with a link to the story online.
My review for Unsolved Australia: Lost Boys, Gone Girls by Justine Fordhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Just finished and reviewed a startlingly good book by an author who I had never heard of! A really vivid description of the WWII deportation of Polish citizens by Russia. Quite fascinating.
by Gaye Hiçyılmazhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
I enjoyed Katherine Kovacic's novel of women who lost a sister to domestic violence taking revenge against the perpetrators after the criminal justice system failed them.
Seven Sistersreview: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Whoever chose Maddy Withington to narrate Nina Kenwood's entertaining second novel, Unnecessary Drama, got it exactly right. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Here's my review for The Bay by Australian author Allie Reynolds 3.5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The fourth book in the Joseph Bridgeman series by Nick Jones, The Quantum Chain is excellent time travel fiction. But do read the series in order. 4.5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
2nd review for the year, historic mystery
Edinburgh Dusk by Carole Lawrence 4★https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Unnatural Ends by Christopher Huang is an unusual murder mystery set in the 1920s, where a murdered man who is father to three adopted children stipulates in his will that his estate will go to the one who solves his murder.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Ingenious and the Colour of Life by J.Y. Sam
An amazing indie YA Fantasy.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
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Murder at the Charity Ball by Helena Dixonhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of The Girl You Forgot by Giselle Green
4 stars
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/5...
and
Farm to Trouble by Amanda Flower
3 and a half stars
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Zuleikha by award-winning debut Russian author Guzel Yakhina is a historical fiction set in 1930s Tatarstan and Siberia based on her grandmother’s memories of being exiled to the Gulag. Zuleikha is an oppressed Tatar housewife taken from her home and taken to a remote camp in Siberia where, despite adversity, she finds her inner strength and will to survive. ⭐⭐⭐⭐ my review
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