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

 

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Life…

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It’s Fathers Day in Australia! We had a family lunch with my parents yesterday at the restaurant where my youngest son works. Today my husband has been content to play Fallout on the PlayStation for 9 hours straight, and then I made him his favourite beef stroganoff for dinner.

My eldest has moved out..mostly. Half of her stuff is still here, so she’s back & forth to pick up stuff, and she doesn’t have a washing machine so she came home to do her laundry today. My youngest daughter has a week off between terms so she will be coming home from uni on the weekend.

I’m looking forward to the BAD Sydney Crime Writers Festival this week. I used my Parents NSW vouchers (part of a government program to stimulate post CoVid spending on entertainment) to book live stream tickets to six sessions. I’ll also be attending my first author event since CoVid later this month as Petronella Govern is coming to my local library.

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What I’ve Read Since I last Posted…

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The Manhattan Girls by Gill Paul

Dirty Deeds Down Under Edited by Craig Sisterson and Lindy Cameron

Gone To Ground by Bronwyn Hall

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New Posts…

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Slowly getting caught up…

 

Review: Someone Else’s Child by Kylie Orr

Review: Counterfeit by Kirsten Chen

Review: Godmersham Park by Gill Hornby

Review: Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson

Review: The Angry Womens Choir by Meg Bignell

Review: Five Bush Weddings by Clare Fletcher

Review: The Littlest Library by Poppy Alexander

2022 Nonfiction Reader Challenge Monthly Spotlight #8

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What I’m Reading This Week…

 

How well do you really know the people you work with?

For work wives Debra and Quinn, it’s a case of opposites attract. They are each other’s lifelines as they navigate office politics and jobs that pay the bills but don’t inspire them.

Outside work, they are also friends, but where Quinn is addicted to dating apps and desperate to find love, Deb has sworn off men. Although Deb is not close to her own mother, her teenage daughter is her life and there’s nothing she wouldn’t do to protect her. But Ramona has other ideas and is beginning to push boundaries.

Life becomes even more complicated by the arrival of a new man at the office. One woman is attracted to him, while the other hoped she’d never meet him again.

But when Deb, Quinn and Ramona are forced to choose between friends, love and family, the ramifications run deeper than they could ever have expected.

The latest novel by bestselling, ABIA award winning author Rachael Johns will make you laugh, cry and wonder what secrets your friends are keeping!

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What if your search for the truth puts your family at risk?

The close-knit community of Kinton Bay is shocked when fifteen-year-old Siena Britton makes a grisly discovery in the national park. She believes it’s a skull from the town’s violent colonial past and posts a video which hits the news headlines.

Her parents, Meri and Rollo, aren’t so sure. In 1998, their classmate went missing after a party in the Killing Cave. They’re horrified to discover the destructive teenage parties are still happening, and Siena was there last weekend.

While Meri is trying to keep her daughter out of trouble, she doesn’t realise her son, Taj, has his own problems. And none of them foresees the danger that Siena’s actions will create for the whole family.

As more secrets are exposed, the police investigate whether multiple murders have been committed. If so, by whom? And is the killer still living in Kinton Bay?

The Liars is a heart-stopping cocktail of family secrets, sinister unsolved killings and a community at war with itself.

A wife burning with resentment. A husband hiding the past. Their teenage daughter crusading for the truth. Who can we trust?

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Tom Phillips (Humans; Truth) and Jonn Elledge (The Compendium of Not Quite Everything) team up to debunk the greatest conspiracy theories humans have ever espoused – to teach us how not to fall for them

From the Satanic Panic to the anti-vaxx movement, it’s always been human nature to believe we’re being lied to by the powers that be (and sometimes, to be fair, we absolutely are).

But while it can be fun to indulge in a bit of Deep State banter on the family Whatsapp group, recent times have shown us that some of these theories have taken on a life of their own – and in our dogged quest for the truth, it appears we might actually be doing it some damage.

In Conspiracy, Tom Phillips and Jonn Elledge take us on a fascinating, insightful and often hilarious journey through conspiracy theories old and new, to try and answer an important question: how can we learn to log off the QAnon message boards, and start trusting hard evidence again?

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Obstetrician Riley Brand leaves the city behind to go in search of her mother, who’s taken leave from her marriage to pursue a passion for opal mining in the dry backblocks of an old mining town. Accepting a short-term posting as a fertility expert in Lightning Ridge, Riley plans to assist women pursue their baby dreams in remote and regional areas, while at the same time helping to rekindle her parents’ love for each other.

The small dusty community is a far cry from her polite medical practice on the North Shore of Sydney, but the down-to-earth locals soon welcome her into the fold with their Friday night social gatherings. But no one is more welcoming than enigmatic doctor Konrad Grey, the GP who’s working alongside her.

When an employee of their medical practice confesses she’s hiding an unexpected pregnancy, Konrad and Riley are thrown together in challenging and wonderful ways.

A moving and heartwarming story about new life and new loves, about the treasures to be found above and beneath the surface of a small country town, and about the important choices women must make in life.

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