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

The It’s Monday! What Are You Reading? meme is hosted at BookDate

I’m also linking to The Sunday Post @ Caffeinated Reviewer

And the Sunday Salon @ ReaderBuzz

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Life…

Thank you for indulging my #mummybrag post last week… 3 exams down, 3 to go!

📚 I’ll be all about the bookish things today! 📚

Are you a fan of Miss Phyrne Fisher in print or on TV? Sisters in Crime Australia features the series author Kerry Greenwood in their weekly Crime Craft series on YouTube. Watch it here, and check out the rest of the videos too!

If you like reading, you should be subscribed to Australia’s Good Reading Magazine.

Nonfiction November starts next month! To learn more visit any of the hosts Doing Dewey Decimal, JulzReads, What’s NonFiction, and Shelf Aware

Is Christmas on you radar yet? It seems too early to me but I’ve added these to my wishlist. A fun pair of socks (zoom in to read) from bookgeek.com.au and this DIY Miniature Library Kit by Robotime (available from Amazon)

 

It’s the last Monday of the month so time to check in with my challenge progress.

Nonfiction Reader Challenge: 11/12

Australian Women Writers Challenge: 61/50

Aussie Author Challenge: 23/24

Nerd Reading Challenge: 38/52

Historical Fiction Reading Challenge: 26/25

Social Justice Challenge: 5/5

SwordsnStars Challenge: 7/10

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

Black Cloud by Sandi Wallace

Trust by Chris Hammer

Letters From Berlin by Tania Blanchard

An Unusual Boy by Fiona Higgins

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New Posts…

Review: Letters From Berlin by Tania Blanchard

Review: Trust by Chris Hammer

Review: Black Cloud by Sandi Wallace

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What I’m Reading This Week…

So,’ said Mora Piozzi, her lawyer, looking down at her laptop. ‘In brief: you are charged with the murder of Stuart Robert Rees, on December 21st, between the hours of ten-forty in the morning and half-past three o’clock in the afternoon.’

Tabitha is accused of murder. She is in prison awaiting trial. There is a strong case against her, and she can’t remember what happened on December 21st. She is alone, frightened and confused. But somehow, from the confines of her cell, she needs to prove everyone wrong.

House of Correction is beautifully written, clever, shocking, twisty, so believable and utterly compelling. This is another stunningly brilliant novel to relish from Nicci French.

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Lucky’s is a story of family.

It is also about a man called Lucky.

His restaurant chain.

A fire that changed everything.

A New Yorker article which might save a career.

The mystery of a missing father.

An impostor who got the girl.

An unthinkable tragedy.

A roll of the dice.

And a story of love, lost, sought and won again, (at last).

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At nearly ninety, retired nature writer Hattie Bloom prefers the company of birds to people, but when a fall lands her in a nursing home she struggles to cope with the loss of independence and privacy. From the confines of her ‘room with a view’ of the carpark, she dreams of escape.

Fellow ‘inmate’, the gregarious, would-be comedian Walter Clements also plans on returning home as soon as he is fit and able to take charge of his mobility scooter.

When Hattie and Walter officially meet at The Night Owls, a clandestine club run by Sister Bronwyn and her dog, Queenie, they seem at odds. But when Sister Bronwyn is dismissed over her unconventional approach to aged care, they must join forces — and very slowly an unlikely, unexpected friendship begins to grow.

Full of wisdom and warmth, The Great Escape from Woodlands Nursing Home is a gorgeously poignant, hilarious story showing that it is never too late to laugh — or to love.

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Winter in Tiverton.

Constable Paul Hirschhausen has a snowdropper on his patch. Someone is stealing women’s underwear, and Hirsch knows enough about that kind of crime—how it can escalate—not to take it lightly.

But the more immediate concerns are a call from the high school, a teacher worried about a student who may be in danger at home. Another call, a different school: a man enraged about the principal’s treatment of his daughter.

A little girl in harm’s way and an elderly woman in danger. An absent father who isn’t where he’s supposed to be; another who flees to the back country armed with a rifle. Families under pressure. And the cold, seeping feeling that something is very, very wrong.

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