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Finished Ketchup Clouds this weekend. Even though it's mostly a YA story it was a good story. It was very suspenseful and developed into a real page turner.
4 out of 5 stars.
I'm only 60 pages into The Keeper of Lost Things by Ruth Hogan. I can't say anything about it yet.
Next on will be Ross Poldark just to understand what the hype is all about.
I fought reading that book because I tell myself I don't like fiction - and I often don't. But dang it, this was a really good, evocative book. I enjoyed every minute of reading it.
I love fiction, that is about all I read, and I've been wanting to read this book, so I'm glad to know it is good. My dtr in law just checked it out from the Library. I'm interested to see what she thinks.
Thanks for your review!
I just finished, The Tattooist of Auschweitz last night and it was a very good book. True story, it sometimes overwhelms you when you stop and consider what all those people had to endure. And to realize that such evil existed and still does in places.
I'd give it 5 stars.
I am sooooo ready to get back to reading again! I changed jobs and had eight weeks of home study reading tons of medical articles a week so didn't allow myself to pick up a pleasure book that would distract me. All done with that and super ready to get back to reading what I want to read!
First stop - going back through dozens and dozens of posts here to see what everyone is reading.
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For nonfiction, I am halfway through Long Haul by Finn Murphy, who describes his 40-year career as a long-distance trucker specializing in high-end (e.g., corporate-paid) residential moves. The author paints a frank and beautifully articulate (yes, written by a trucker) picture of life spent mostly on the road. With much humor and sharp insights into human nature, he reveals the many aspects of the job that most of us don’t stop to think about, despite encountering these anonymous yet important haulers every time we drive on major highways and, often, on local roads.
For fiction, I finally borrowed a copy of Lisa See’s The Island of Sea Women, which I had put on my list months ago. Yay!
Also, I just finished George Takai’s graphic autobiography, They Called Us Enemy. Read it and weep for fear that the US might soon repeat another such atrocity of persecution.
Hurray for libraries and bookstores!
On this recommendation I got the book from the library - my favorite genre of books is books where the author is taking a road trip, or hiking trip.
I only read the introduction and am put off by how very full of himself the author appears to be - does that tone continue through the book?
I just finished, The Tattooist of Auschweitz last night and it was a very good book. True story, it sometimes overwhelms you when you stop and consider what all those people had to endure. And to realize that such evil existed and still does in places.
I'd give it 5 stars.
I read that book and also thought it was quite good. It was a fairly easy read all things considered. Not particularly long, and written well.
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