It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? #SundayPost #SundaySalon

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Life…

Spring is here! September 1st is the official start of Spring in Australia.

My daughter had a wonderful time on her school trip, and it actually did snow on their last day on the slopes! She has come home with yet another cold though.

Yesterday was Father’s Day and we met my parents for coffee and cake at the club. I always forget to take photos on these occasions, but I remembered this time, just as we were leaving. My parents are in the middle, my husband is on the far right being dwarfed by our boys (who are just 13 & 15), and our girls are on the left (who are 23 & 16).

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

The Ruin by Dervla McTiernan

Things You Save In a Fire by Katherine Center

Going Under by Sonia Henry

The Woman In the Window by A.J. Finn

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New Posts

Review: Matters of the Heart by Fiona Palmer ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Review: The Ruin (Cormac Reilly #1) by Dervla McTiernan ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Review: Things You Save In a Fire by Katherine Center ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Review: Going Under by Sonia Henry ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️1/2

Happy Father’s Day, Dad!

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What I’m Reading This Week

 

Reclusive Irish bookseller Shaun Ryan has always believed that his older brother, Teddy, died in a car accident. It’s only on his mother’s deathbed that he learns the truth: Teddy, who was gay, fled the Catholic, deeply conservative County Wicklow for New York decades earlier. Shaun finds no sign of him in New York or anywhere else–until he comes across the unsolved murder of a John Doe whose description matches Teddy’s.

Desperate for information, Shaun tracks down Chris Guzman, a woman who runs a website dedicated to matching missing persons cases with unidentified bodies. Through Chris’s site, a group of online cold case fanatics connect Teddy with the notorious “Boy in the Dress” murder, believed to be one of many committed by a serial killer targeting gay men.

But who are these cold case fanatics, and how do they know so much about a case that left the police and the FBI stumped? With investigators, amateurs, and one sadistic killer on a collision course, Missing Person is Sarah Lotz at her most thrilling and terrifying

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Two best friends. Eight pub quizzes. One shot at love…

There are some people who seem like they have all the answers in life. Clarrie Midwinter isn’t one of them.

At the age of 26, tomboy Clarrie is still struggling to become a ‘proper’ grown-up. She’s eternally strapped for cash, she hasn’t had a date in nearly a year and her attempts to quit smoking tend to take a nosedive after the second pint. Most annoyingly of all, her ladykiller best friend Simon just won’t stop asking her out. The only thing keeping her sane is her pub quiz team, the Mighty Morphin Flower Arrangers.

But when Simon bets her a date their team will win the quiz league, Clarrie is forced to confront what she really wants out of life – and love. Is it finally time for her to grow up?

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For over ten years, Ros, Adele, Judy and Simone have been in an online book club, but they have never met face to face. Until now…

Determined to enjoy her imminent retirement, Adele invites her fellow bibliophiles to help her house-sit in the Blue Mountains. It’s a tantalising opportunity to spend a month walking in the fresh air, napping by the fire and, of course, reading and talking about books.

But these aren’t just any books: each member has been asked to choose a book which will teach the others more about her. And with each woman facing a crossroads in her life, it turns out there’s a lot for them to learn, not just about their fellow book-clubbers, but also about themselves.

Liz Byrski has written a beautiful novel about the joy and comfort reading a good book can bring to us all.

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The gripping true story of a young law student, an unspeakable crime and a past that refuses to stay buried. When Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich begins a summer job at a law firm in Louisiana, working on the retrial defence of death-row convicted murderer and child molester Ricky Langley, she is staunchly anti-death penalty. But as soon as she watches footage of Ricky talking about his crimes, she has a shocking realization: she wants him to die.

As Alexandria pores over the facts of the murder delving deeper and deeper into Ricky’s difficult and unhappy childhood, she is also forced to face her own story, to unearth long-buried family secrets, to reckon with how her own past colours her view of this crime.

The Fact of a Body is a heart-stopping account of how crime, even the darkest and most appalling acts, can happen to any one of us. It is also proof that the truth – and how we reveal it – is more complicated, and powerful, than we could ever imagine.

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