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Back from holidays and looking forward to catching up with all your great reviews! This one was a nice surprise: The Ministry of Time
by Kaliane BradleyMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Finished reading
Imperial Twilight: The Opium War and the End of China's Last Golden Age by Stephen R. Platt. My review.
4★s for book 20 in Lisa Regan's addictive Josie Quinn series, Her Dying Secret. I have 16 before this to catch up on...https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Faye Murphy's debut novel, The Dishonest Miss Take is a fun read. 4★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Remember Me by NZ author Charity Norman is an excellent family drama featuring grief and aging and a decades old mystery.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The late Alice Munro's stories are among my favourites.
Hateship, Friendship, Courtship, Loveship, Marriage: A Story
is right up there. Loved it.
My review of Hateship... etc.
I imagine the colourful music scene of Taylor Jenkins Reid's best-selling Daisy Jones & The Six will be better onscreen with real music and everyone looking high and beautiful.
My review of Daisy Jones and the Six
My review of Wings Above The Diamantina] by Arthur W. Upfield
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My review for Flowers for Miss Pengelly by Rosemary AitkenFlowers for Miss Pengelly
3 stars
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Goyhood by Reuven Fenton is a touching and quirky tale of two estranged brothers who embark on a road trip in southern USA after receiving some life changing information on the death of their mother.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Visions in Death by J.D. Robb 21/5 4★
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Death by Water by Kerry Greenwood 22/5 5★
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The Lore Olympus graphic novel series is highly rated, but I couldn't stand the romanticisation of the toxic relationships. Very much the outlier on this one. I read the first two books and then abandoned the series. Book 1: Lore Olympus, Vol. 1
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Book 2: Lore Olympus: Volume Two
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My review for
Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Green
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Weekends with the Sunshine Gardening Society by Sophie Greenhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
The Fall Between by Darcy Tindale is an excellent debut novel, featuring a female detective investigating a series of seemingly unconnected crimes in a small Australian town.review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Cut and Thirst is a clever, funny and utterly delightful short story published under the Amazon Original Stories banner by Margaret Atwood. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for The House at Angel's Beach Phillipa Nefri Clark
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Mandy Weston's rendition of the audio version of the first book in British author Nick Louth's new series, The Two Deaths of Ruth Lyle, really does it justice. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
You can't go past Steve Shanahan for audio narration of Aussie rural crime: his rendition of The Lost Man by Jane Harper is excellent. 5★shttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Death of a Fool by Ngaio Marsh 23/5 3★
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Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith 24/5 4★
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My review for This Skin Was Once Mine and Other Disturbances by Eric LaRocca
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My review for Running Close to the Wind by Alexandra Rowlandhttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for
Life, Loss, and Puffins by Catherine Ryan Hydehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review for Shark Arm: A Shark, A Tattooed Arm and Two Unsolved Murders by Phillip Roopehttps://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
My review of To Capture His Heart by Nancy Campbell Allen
4 stars
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3 stars for historical fiction
The War Nurses by Aussie Author Anthea HodgsonMy review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Sapiens: A Graphic History, Volume 2 - The Pillars of Civilization, a graphic novel adaptation of the second section of 'Sapiens' by Yuval Noah Harari
Great graphics, decent information, highly lopsided.
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