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

[intelligentsiagirl]

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Fault Lines
A History of the United States Since 1974
Kevin M Kruse & Julian E Zelizer
W W Norton & Company, copyright 2019

[DrPatti8454]

An Ordinary Guy An Unknown Spy (How to start, be smart and end your career in MI6) by Andrew Gilbrook
This is a 2019 self published nonfiction book and I rated 4 out of 4 stars.

[intelligentsiagirl]

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SONTAG
HER LIFE AND WORK
Benjamin Moser
CCC, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, copyright 2019

9/10

It is a very interesting book to read. Still, she is more a woman of the 1960's. Very intelligent, but, was not really interested with issues or subject that would be in current events for a few weeks or for the summer.

[Oliver_books]

The Unbound Soul
by Richard L. Haight
Rating: 2 out of 4

[Mandi Palfreyman]

I just finished Culinary Mystery 5: Blackberry Crumble by Josi S. Kilpack.

I have read every book in the series so far. I have enjoyed each one of them. This book seemed to move a little slower than the others. But, It really picked up at the end. I give it 3 of 4 stars.

[intelligentsiagirl]

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The LAST LEONARDO
The Secret Lives of the World's Most Expensive Painting
Ben Lewis
Ballantine Books, copyright 2019

1/10

I think his primary source with his book is Wikipedia. His secondary source is news websites.

[Inmyfreetime]

I just read Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert. I give it 4/5. It definitely does the bill of you're looking for a literary classic but it seems to ramble on in parts.

[ohlendorfbe]

I just finished Doppelganger by Marc J. Seifer. I gave it a 3 out of 4 stars due to some erotic language and quite a few grammatical, spelling and comma errors.

[Redlegs]

The Lives of Others by Neel Mukherjee is a complex and intricately detailed examination of the inexorable destruction of an upper middle-class Indian family during the late 1960s and early 1970s.

The Ghosh family, once a relatively wealthy business and property-owning Bengali family is unravelling as divisions, disputes, petty jealousies and unwelcome marriages drive permanent wedges into the fabric of this once successful and admired family.

And beneath all this, one of their own has become deeply involved in the Naxalite movement, a Maoist communist uprising that aims to recruit rural farmers and their families to stand up against social injustice in Indian society.

By going back and forth in time to describe past events in the lives of various characters, Mukherjee has written something of a potted history of India throughout the first 70 years or so of the 20th century, including the time of Partition, which severely impacted the fortunes of the Ghosh family.

This is an intelligent and observant record of family disharmony combined with commentary on an important period of social upheaval in modern Indian history. It is lengthy, but well worth the time and effort to read carefully and appreciatively.

4.5 stars out of 5

[ash_phillips24480]

So the last book I read was The Witch, The Wizard, and the Two Girls From Jersey and I rate it a 9.5 out of a 10
because it kept your mind going and you on the edge of your seat.

[Reynaa]

I just finished reading Murdered by James Schannep. I rate it 3 out of 4 stars. It's a fun choose your own adventure type of book!

[Alexandra1234]

The last book I read is ' The Judge' by Ian R B Morris, a superb mystery novel, that unfortunately, I had to rate 3 out of 4 due to errors.

[Jolyon Trevelyan]

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks

I rate it 5 our of 10, i liked the World War 1 story line, but i did not care for the 1970s story line, i found the main character in the 1970s story line Elizabeth lack of knowledge about World War 1 a bit unrealistic considering that she was 38 years old. Not saying she should be an expert, but a 38 year old woman in England would know that millions of people died during world war 1 and they would be familiar with the big battles. Britain lost a bigger % of the population in World War 1 than what they did during World War 1. So having a 38 year old woman who clearly was intelligent having such a lack of knowledge was unrealistic, i mean even people who don`t care at all about history have heard of the big battles of World War 1 on the western front and they know that million of people died. She did not know this which as i said was just unrealistic.


I where to recommend this book i would say read the World War 1 part and skip the 1970s part.

[Redlegs]

A Modest Proposal by Jonathon Swift is a short satirical pamphlet that takes less than hour to read.

Swift takes aim at English politicians who he obviously considers to be nowhere near up to the job in terms of managing social injustice and rampant poverty.

With his tongue firmly in his cheek, his 'modest proposal' is that children of the poor, after they have been weaned by their mothers for the first year or so, should be sold as 'food', thus ensuring that those who would otherwise be a drag on taxes make a worthwhile contribution to the British economy.

3 stars out of 5

[gali]

I finished "Skyward" by Brandon Sanderson and loved it! 4/4! The second book is coming out in this month, and I look forward to it.