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WOW! Fascinating read about the life of one hermaphrodite and her journey from Calliope to Cal.
My review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Starting From The Fifteenth District and Rodin's Lover


WWII- Poland: Nine year old Bruno notices that the people behind his house, behind the other side of the barbed wire fence are all wearing grey striped pajamas and he's intrigued... The innocence of Bruno is the piece that pushes this book further for me.
My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...





Wasn't expecting to enjoy this one as much as I did. Really surprised by how wrapped up in the lives of the characters as I was.
My Review:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...


Tough read-- hard characters, and lots of mental entrapments...
My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Started The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I

Finished Family Album by Penelope Lively. My review is at:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

I have set aside The Marriage Game: A Novel of Queen Elizabeth I for now . Just not holding my interest .


Third and final installment in the series. Nice way to tie up all the loose ends, and my favorite of the three...
My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...




Mamey , this was the first Stephen King book I read and I loved it . I am not a fan of the creepy , horror stories but this let me see what a good writer SK is. Since then I read Joyland which I also loved .

Lela

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I'm fairly new here so hello everyone and I hope you're all well. Thank you for letting me share. So exciting and a Fantastic start to the 2015 releases.


Russian fairytale retold on the Alaskan frontier in the 1920s. Magical, Chilly, and powerful characters make this book worth reading...
My Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Just completed Dorothy Day's autobiography, The Long Loneliness and am now immersed in Thomas Merton's The Seven Storey Mountain. (This year is the centennial of his birth.)
Am also revisiting classics I read in my life when I was too young to fully understand them. Right now I'm about a quarter of the way through William Faulkner's The Sound and The Fury.

I'm now reading Deception by Lisa Clark O'Neill, Southern Comfort #3.






Also as for the Steven King Disscussion

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I'm now reading Nemesis, the next book in the series.




The novel also never really got to the root of why Hattie was so angry even before August and the children abd worrying of their survival her sister Pearl had said Hattie was always impossible to please.
Throughout the book I did not find one character likeable and especially Hattie. She was just so angry. Even though August was not the man he needed to be for Hattie, his moments of tenderness towards his children were th few redeeming moments in the entire novel. Not a good or enjoyable read.

Starting today Cardigan Bay

Dear Ten:
Great review and I couldn't agree with you more. I hated that book. Thought it was terrible and couldn't understand all the wonderful hype I'd heard abou it at the time.
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