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GidgetsTreasures75
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11-26-23: My 97th finished book of 2023! This was just eh for me. Book 5 in the series. This one centers on brother Heath, just back to England from LA. He gets called for jury duty as does the fictional Sherlock Holmes. The majority of the story takes place in the courtroom with the jurors. Many mishaps occur here to bring them to an island to search for proof of an alibi. It could have been better. ⭐️⭐️⭐️📖#️⃣9️⃣7️⃣

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GidgetsTreasures75
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11-24-23: I‘m catching up on my reading while my husband is cooking a feast for our daughters. We are doing Thanksgiving a day late so we could have everyone together. 🍽📖💖

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Eggs
Pay Attention, Carter Jones | Gary D. Schmidt
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Pickpick

Carter Jones, his mom, and his sisters are puzzled by an impressive real-life butler showing up on their doorstep at 7:15 one morning. They have no idea how their lives will change! A beautiful, humorous, and compassionate story MG

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Smarkies
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I like this series for the potrayal of its characters as much as for the food tour of India. The mystery in this was approached from 2 angles - one from Puri's and the other from his always delightful mummy-ji. This book highlighted a part of Partition history which I had no knowledge of - which were the Indian women who saved the abductees from across the newly created border.

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andrew61
Netherland: A Novel | Joseph O'Neill
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Pickpick

When I was in the pub on Monday my second pint found me starting this interesting story of Hans, a Dutch advisor to finance whose marriage collapses immediately after 9/11. His life in New York is rescued by the discovery of cricket played on overgrown pitches across the city. He recounts the meetings with diverse characters while he tries to journey back to normality and finding himself as a father/husband.

TrishB Great review 👍🏻 2y
CarolynM Excellent review. I liked this book a lot. 2y
Cathythoughts Great review, I must investigate this one 👍🏻 2y
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The_Penniless_Author
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What to make of C.L.R. James, a black, Marxist, anti-colonialist "founding father" of independent Trinidad who considers his two foundational passions to be classical English literature and cricket? This book - equal parts autobiography and examination of cricket as an art form and political driver - explains the seeming contradiction and shows that it's not really contradictory at all. A man with a fascinating, wide-ranging mind. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

The_Penniless_Author I should add that as an American, I was utterly baffled by the cricket terminology and descriptions of specific matches, and it still didn't dampen my enjoyment of the book or understanding of the broader themes one bit. 2y
CarolynM I love a good cricket book 🙂 Stacked 2y
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ClairesReads
Willowman | Inga Simpson
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A novel that is very much about cricket, but also is about so much more than cricket. Simpson captures the energy of a summer in cricket-loving nation, the pressure of performance, the complexity of competition against people you love, and the art of balancing our passions against the maintenance of our relationships. I‘m really happy that Books on the Go podcast brought this one to my attention, I might not have chosen to read it myself.

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The_Penniless_Author
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1. Beyond a Boundary (CLR James)
2. Gringos (Charles Portis)
3. Dandelion Wine (Ray Bradbury)
4. The Lady Killer (Masako Togawa)
5. A Drinking Life (Pete Hamill)

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RaeLovesToRead Oh Randy, this is gonna be a hard one to answer... thinking of books I want but don't own.... 🤔 2y
Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks ❤️📚❤️ 2y
The_Penniless_Author @RaeLovesToRead I was thinking of that as I tagged you - must be a hard list to come up with when you already own ALL the books 😆 2y
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