What is the last book you read, and your rating?

[Kibet Hillary]

The last book I read was 'Corners: Voices on Change' by Amy Lou Jenkins. I rated it 4 out of 4 stars.

[Epilcher]

The last book I read was the Handmaid’s Tale. It was confusing at first, but once you were in there was no way you were coming back out of it. 5/5

[Firstchoice]

The alchemist by paulo coelho. Rating 4.5/5 as of easy and simple vocabulary makes it best interesting book so far.
Thank you

[hamhurger01]

I finished my first book, Heartbreaker by H.M. Irwing. A little discouraging at first, but in the middle became very encouraging

[PepperedPenelope]

The Expansion by Christoph Martin. I rated it a 1 out of 4. I felt the bare bones of the book were there, but the story just needed more development.

[Zora C Penter]

Happy Healing by Dominique Bourlet. I will be giving it a 2/4 in my review.

[Cheshire_wolf]

Nanomorphosis by Marla L. Anderson I loved this book so much I gave it a 4 out of 4 stars in my review, which will be posted soon.

[labibliofile]

The last book I read was Raven's Peak by Lincoln Cole which is an excellent paranormal thriller that I rated 3 out of 4 stars because it does not seem well edited.

[dashadavis]

I just read No Dark Clouds by R.W. Nelson. I have it a 4 out of 4 stars.

[Sangeetha+Narayan]

Good morning everyone. I'm a newbie in online book club and enjoying every minute of it so far. I just finished reading Ironbark Hill, by Jennie Linnane. It was quite an emotional roller coaster ride and I gave it a four out of four stars.

[gali]

I finished "Darkness on the Edge of Town" by Brian Keene. I liked it but didn't care for the open ending, so I gave it 3 out of 4 stars.

[agirlwhowrites]

I recently finished reading My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises, by Fredrik Backman and I fell in love with Mr Backman's writing and storytelling all over again. His other book I had read before this was A Man Called Ove and it was mind-blowing. Fredrick Backman's simply written stories are so full of emotions that by the time you finish reading, all you end up with are tears in your eyes and a smile on your face. His characters are complicated yet plain and funny and flawed and loveable and relatable. Fredrick Backman never fails to touch your heart and I'd recommend his books to all humans on this planet.

[Bighuey]

I just finished an interesting book, Campaigning with Grant by Horace Porter. Porter was on General Grant's personal staff during the Civil war, he tells about his day to day life, military decisions, personal habits and so on. One of the best books I have read for some time, I give it 10 out of 10.

[mmm17]

The last book I read was a children's book called I Can See Peace, by Julie Penshorn. I loved it! Although it’s intended to be a book for children, in my opinion, it can be equally helpful for adults. I rated it 4 out of 4 stars.

[Redlegs]

I may have a new favourite heroine from classic literature that surpasses any created by Austen or the Bronte sisters. Maggie Tulliver from The Mill On the Floss is one of those intelligent, thoughtful and yet occasionally reckless women of the 19th century who fought with the conflicting desires of family duty and the suppression of female individuality that the moral prejudices of the time demanded.

First published in 1860 and set in 1840s rural England, George Eliot (Mary Anne Evans) has interwoven elements of her own upbringing into this tragic tale of love, family, sibling affection and rivalry and rigid moral judgement.

When Mr Tulliver, father of Maggie and her older brother Tom, loses his mill to a wealthy lawyer, Wakem, and subsequently dies of ill health, Tom resolves to become a responsible adult at age 16, pay off his father's debts and ultimately regain family ownership of the mill.

Tom is a fascinating character. It is clear that he and Maggie have a strong bond of sibling love, and yet he has rigid, judgmental and unforgiving notions of how Maggie should behave. He really is the ultimate male chauvinist, despite his honorable intentions and devotion to family and business.

Maggie, by contrast,is imbued with a softer, more pliant love, and is always willing to take fault to herself to maintain harmony and accept her position as a mere woman in a paternalistic society.

The ultimate reconciliation between Maggie and Tom is brief, tragic and very sad. It seems Eliot was determined to avoid a cliched happy ending to this wonderful novel, which I enjoyed even more than Middlemarch. It's not how Austen would have ended it!

4.5 stars out of 5