It’s Monday! What Are You Reading?

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Is anyone else experiencing the glitch at Goodreads? There are issues with the sort shelf functions, so that several of my shelves aren’t displaying correctly, which is a little irritating. I’ve reported on it, and in reply they say they are aware, and working on it.

It hasn’t been the best of week’s to be honest. 

Of least consequence, though still upsetting, I had an optometrist appointment and was told I need reading glasses. This is due primarily to my astigmatism (lazy eye), a condition I was born with. Apparently as you get older, and the eye muscles naturally weaken, the condition begins to reassert itself. While I’m grateful the recent double vision I’d been experiencing wasn’t related to a more serious issue, the proof of impending ‘old age’ is unwelcome.

Sadly my great aunt passed away from complications of Parkinson’s disease on Saturday, and though we’d been expecting if for months, it’s still a great loss. Despite being my great aunt, she was the same age of my mother and her five children are my contemporaries, I spent several long holidays with them when I was younger, and I’ll miss her.

This week our car also decided to blow a head gasket, which is going to be a very costly repair. Luckily my husband was able to borrow a van from work while we try to figure out how to swing that, but it makes things tricky since the van only has room for a one passenger (and there is six of us), and I, of course, can’t drive it.

Here’s hoping this week is less eventful.

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted

 

The Thousand Dollar Tan Line by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham

Mr. Kiss and Tell by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham

The Dry by Jane Harper

The Cottage at Rosella Cove by Sandi Docker

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New Posts

 

Australian Indie Book Awards 2019

Review: Mr. Kiss and Tell (Veronica Mars) by Rob Thomas & Jennifer Graham

Review: I Can’t Remember the Title but the Cover is Blue by Elias Greig

Review: Wickedly Dangerous (Baba Yaga Trilogy) by Deborah Blake

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What I Plan To Read This Week

(click the covers to view at Goodreads)

 

Five women reluctantly pick up their backpacks and start walking along a muddy track.

Only four come out on the other side. 

The hike through the rugged Giralang Ranges is meant to take the office colleagues out of their air-conditioned comfort zone and encourage teamwork and resilience. At least, that’s what the corporate retreat website advertises.

Federal Police investigator Aaron Falk has a keen interest in the whereabouts of the missing hiker, Alice Russell. Because Alice knew secrets, about the company she worked for and the people she worked with.

The four returning women tell Falk a tale of fear, violence and fractured trust during their days in the remote Australian bushland. And as Falk delves into the disappearance of Alice, he begins to suspect some dangers ran far deeper than anyone knew.

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The irresistible new standalone from Sophie Kinsella is a story of love, empowerment and an IOU that changes everything . . .

Fixie Farr can’t help herself. Straightening a crooked object, removing a barely-there stain, helping out a friend . . . she just has to put things right. It’s how she got her nickname, after all.

So when a handsome stranger in a coffee shop asks her to watch his laptop for a moment, Fixie not only agrees, she ends up saving it from certain disaster. To thank her, the computer’s owner, Sebastian, scribbles her an IOU – but of course Fixie never intends to call in the favour.

That is, until her teenage crush, Ryan, comes back into her life and needs her help – and Fixie turns to Seb. But things don’t go according to plan, and now Fixie owes Seb: big time.

Soon the pair are caught up in a series of IOUs – from small favours to life-changing debts – and Fixie is torn between the past she’s used to and the future she deserves.

Does she have the courage to fix things for herself and fight for the life, and love, she really wants?

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A heartwarming and refreshing debut novel that proves one thing: there’s not enough data in the world to predict what will make your heart tick.

Stella Lane thinks math is the only thing that unites the universe. She comes up with algorithms to predict customer purchases–a job that has given her more money than she knows what to do with, and way less experience in the dating department than the average thirty-year-old.

It doesn’t help that Stella has Asperger’s and French kissing reminds her of a shark getting its teeth cleaned by pilot fish. Her conclusion: she needs lots of practice–with a professional. Which is why she hires escort Michael Phan. The Vietnamese and Swedish stunner can’t afford to turn down Stella’s offer, and agrees to help her check off all the boxes on her lesson plan–from foreplay to more-than-missionary position…

Before long, Stella not only learns to appreciate his kisses, but to crave all the other things he’s making her feel. Soon, their no-nonsense partnership starts making a strange kind of sense. And the pattern that emerges will convince Stella that love is the best kind of logic.

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What would you do if you had the chance to change a pivotal moment from your past?

How far would you go to save someone you loved?

These are just two of the fateful choices a woman must face in this highly original and hauntingly evocative detective story of love and loss.

At the core of the enigmatic Stella’s story, past and present, is a mystery she is compelled to solve, a beautiful young woman who went missing fifty years ago – and a tragedy much closer to home she must try to prevent.

As Stella unravels the dark secrets of her family’s past and her own, it becomes clear that everyone remembers the past differently and the small choices we make every day can change our future irrevocably.

This utterly original, gripping and mind-bending tale will stay with you long after the last page.

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