#FindingMyFather #NetGalley 4.5 stars rounded up to 5. Deborah Tannin has written a remarkable memoir of her father's life- actually of her whole family's lives. She started it many years ago and she was encouraged by her father. It was a labor of love.
I had read her previous books on discourse so I pounced on this one, which turned out to different than I anticipated. The parts I really got interested in where her father's early life in Warsaw, his communism and how it affected his family.
The ending of the books wraps it up and normalizes their somewhat unusual family line. I'm glad I read it and thank NetGalley and Random House for this advanced copy. I will enjoy seeing how others feel about the book.
So glad I was able to see this book on a one day sale and snatched it up. It was a terrific exciting read and I just purchased the next two books (7 and 8) in a kindle bundle. I review books for authors, mostly from NetGalley and am very selective with what I read.
Rev. Clare and Chief Russ are very complex characters and well developed. I'm sure I will need to read the whole series for understanding and that will happen. This book was a finalist for the Agatha Award, and the next two have big time awards also, so I'm sure I have lots of great reads ahead of me.
This edition has migrant workers being targeted with execution style murders and further investigation points to Millers Kill,N.Y being part of a drug cartel with connections to some less-than -savory locals. So add a rookie female police new hire, assaults on almost everyone and culmination in Rev. Clare having her unit called up to Iraq and the plot is intricate and perhaps heavily violent.
I am heartily recommending this one!
Just when I thought I had read the best of Jean Grainger's books, I discovered "Sisters of the Southern Cross" and read it right through!
"Sister Claire McAuliffe has been called from Dungarvan, County Waterford, to do God’s work in Jumaaroo, Queensland. Along with four other sisters she is charged with setting up a Catholic school... But life there is far from the spectacular paradise it seems."
Sister Claire risks life and limb multiple times to rid this area of a unscrupulous wealthy man who had killed and robbed to get to a prominent place in this place. The story painted an idealistic picture of an area that did practice white supremacy, and how the church, the Catholic sisters, and others attempted change.
"Lizzy Moon never wanted Moon Girl Farm."
It was an enjoyable Amazon First Reads from Prime Reading and I appreciate getting the chance to read it. "The Last of the Moon Girls" was a complex novel of nine generations of women, who essentially did not enter into marital relationships, and were tied to their farm. They each left a "life book" for their descendants, and Lizzy gets guidance from her beloved grandmother which free her.
Lizzy (Elzibeth) Moon is said to be the last of this line, although it is still a bit unclear if that holds true as she expects a daughter at the end of the story.. The difference is that she married, and was able to solve some tangled problems about her family saga. The ending was positive although there was a lot of back and forth throughout the book.
What a great Vera Stanhope book this was! 5 Stars thanks #TheDarkestEvening #NetGalley and St. Martin's press for this one! I also want to say Ann Cleeves new series was great and I'm going to grab the 3 Vera Stanhopes I did not yet get to.
"On the first snowy night of winter, Detective Inspector Vera Stanhope sets off for her home in the hills...Vera assumes that the owner has gone to find help. But a cry calls her back: a toddler is strapped in the back seat."
Vera seems to be mellowing with age, as she was more tolerant of her assistants and definitely felt an affinity with her remaining Stanhope cousin.I read it right through except for when I was sleeping.
The mystery held until the end of the book and almost to Vera's end..She left it a bit too long I think.
It ended nicely with most of the (living) characters in a pretty good emotional place.
Recommended for any mystery fan!
Pleasantly surprised to find this small novella for free on Amazon. Thanks to Ann Cleeves and MacMillan her publisher for this small gift.
I enjoyed hearing what Vera might have done on a day off and that she lives close to Hadrian's Wall, just wish it wasn't so short and that the quick confession had a bit more expression to it.
Again I am happy to have read it! Just finished rereading the whole series and recently reviewed the two newest Vera books! Carry on Ann and Vera! Loved the cover also!
This was an extremely well written book on WWII, a book topic I have been enjoying the last several months. Appreciate getting this Amazon First Read free on Prime and will be reading more of her books.
Max serves on the Western Front as a Medic ( he was trained as a dentist), in the Hurtgen Forest 1944-45 where he befriend three young Germans who were in the Resistance. He saves one of their lives and remains attached to them emotionally his whole life. Metta or Margarethe was his first contact of the trio and they had a brief clandestine love affair which resulted in a child.
Max returns to the US but looks for Margarethe through most of his life. His daughter, Dr. Beth Cohen helps him to find his lost love at the end of his life. It was a great read!
