My review: Child's Play by Danielle Steel

Child's Play by Danielle Steel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Kate Morgan raised her three children as a single parent following her husband's death. All three are successful in her eyes. She has the perfect life until it begins to unravel. Her conventional way of life is turned upside down by the choices her adult children are making. As usual, this is another great story and doesn't disappoint. I liked all of the characters, for one reason or another. The reason this is such a good story, in my view, is that it reflect the way people change over time, and how we all adapt to change and life in general.

Lynn's List (July 31, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The Half Sister by Sandie Jones
• Category Five by Ann Dávila Cardinal
• Biggest Brother: The Life Of Major Dick Winters, The Man Who Led The Band of Brothers by Larry Alexander
• Hood Feminism: Notes from the Women That a Movement Forgot by Mikki Kendall
• The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
• The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel by Susan Wiggs
• Susan Wiggs Great Chicago Fire Trilogy Complete Collection: The Hostage\The Mistress\The Firebrand by Susan Wiggs
• The Deep: A Novel by Nick Cutter
• House of Glass: The Story and Secrets of a Twentieth-Century Jewish Family by Hadley Freeman
• Soft Target: A Thriller (Ray Cruz Ser. #1) by Stephen Hunter
• What Unbreakable Looks Like: A Novel by Kate McLaughlin
• A Better Place: A Novel by Barbara Hall
• Dividend on Death: A Mike Shayne Mystery (The Mike Shayne Mysteries #1) by Brett Halliday
• Galileo: And the Science Deniers by Mario Livio
• The Flowers in the Attic Series: Flowers in the Attic, Petals on the Wind, If There Be Thorns, Seeds of Yesterday, and a New Excerpt! (Dollanganger) by V. C. Andrews
• House of Secrets: A Novel (House of Secrets #1) by V. C. Andrews
• Lying in Wait: A Novel by Liz Nugent
• Unraveling Oliver: A Novel by Liz Nugent
• The Walk: A Novel (The Walk Series #1) by Richard Paul Evans
• The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence; Finale (Hush, Hush #1, 2, 3, 4) by Becca Fitzpatrick
• When We Were Brave: A completely gripping and emotional WW2 historical novel by Suzanne Kelman
• Breadline USA: The Hidden Scandal of American Hunger and How to Fix It by Sasha Abramsky
• The Fountain Overflows: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, And Cousin Rosamund (The Saga of the Century Trilogy #1) by Rebecca West
• This Real Night: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, And Cousin Rosamund (The Saga of the Century Trilogy #2) by Rebecca West
• Cousin Rosamund: The Fountain Overflows, This Real Night, And Cousin Rosamund (The Saga of the Century Trilogy #3) by Rebecca West
• The Republic of Love: A Novel by Carol Shields
• The War Between the Tates: A Novel by Alison Lurie
• The Procession by Jeff Gulvin
• The Longest Road: A Novel by Jeanne Williams
• The Novels of Stephen Birmingham: Carriage Trade, The Wrong Kind of Money, The Auerbach Will, and Shades of Fortune by Stephen Birmingham
• Never Coming Back: A Novel by Hans Koppel
• The Alice Factor by J. Robert Janes
• Above Suspicion (Anna Travis #1) by Lynda La Plante
• What We Remember by Michael Thomas Ford
• We Resist: Defending the Common Good in Hostile Times by Cynthia Levine-Rasky and Lisa Kowalchuk
• Being at Large: Freedom in the Age of Alternative Facts by Santiago Zabala
• Living Under Austerity: Greek Society in Crisis by Evdoxios Doxiadis
• For All My Tomorrows: A Novel (Debbie Macomber Classics) by Debbie Macomber
• The MaddAddam Trilogy Bundle: The Year of the Flood; Oryx & Crake; MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy) by Margaret Atwood
• The Blind Assassin: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• The Heart Goes Last: A Novel by Margaret Atwood
• Deceived No More: How Jesus Led Me out of the New Age and into His Word by Doreen Virtue
• Mayday 1971: A White House at War, a Revolt in the Streets, and the Untold History of America's Biggest Mass Arrest by Lawrence Roberts
• Afterland by Lauren Beukes
• The Next Widow: A gripping crime thriller with unputdownable suspense by CJ Lyons
• The Two Mrs. Carlyles by Suzanne Rindell
• To Start a War: How the Bush Administration Took America into Iraq by Robert Draper
• Their Last Secret by Rick Mofina
• Someone's Listening: A Novel by Seraphina Nova Glass
• Peak Pursuits: The Emergence of Mountaineering in the Nineteenth Century by Caroline Schaumann
• The Virus in the Age of Madness by Bernard-Henri Levy
• Wild Cowboy Country by Erin Marsh
• Come Home to Deep River (Alaska Homecoming #1) by Jackie Ashenden
• Be Kind to Yourself: Releasing Frustrations and Embracing Joy by Cindy Bunch
• Last Mission to Tokyo: The Extraordinary Story of the Doolittle Raiders and Their Final Fight for Justice by Michel Paradis
• The Wife Who Knew Too Much: A Novel by Michele Campbell
• Quintessence by Jess Redman
• The Mall: A Novel by Megan McCafferty
• The Apocalypse Factory: Plutonium And The Making Of The Atomic Age by Steve Olson
• Religion Is Raced: Understanding American Religion in the Twenty-First Century by Penny Edgell and Grace Yukich
• What the Heart Wants: A Novel (The Wish Series #1) by Audrey Carlan
• Amish Beginnings by Jo Ann Brown Vannetta Chapman
• Blue-Collar Cash: Love Your Work, Secure Your Future, and Find Happiness for Life by Ken Rusk
• The Stepping Off Place by Cameron Kelly Rosenblum
• Unspeakable Acts: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession by Sarah Weinman
• My Highland Rogue (The\highland Fling Ser. #1) by Karen Ranney
• Dare to Speak: Defending Free Speech for All by Suzanne Nossel
• The Good Drone: How Social Movements Democratize Surveillance (Acting with Technology) by Austin Choi-Fitzpatrick
• It Is Wood, It Is Stone: A Novel by Gabriella Burnham
• Playing Nice: A Novel by JP Delaney
• Must I Go: A Novel by Yiyun Li
• The Greek Connection: The Life of Elias Demetracopoulos and the Untold Story of Watergate by James H. Barron
• Love and Theft: A Novel by Stan Parish
• Tiny White Lies by Fiona Palmer
• A Case for the American People: The United States v. Donald J. Trump by Norman Eisen
• This Is My America by Kim Johnson
• When She Was Good by Michael Robotham
• White Too Long: The Legacy of White Supremacy in American Christianity by Robert P. Jones
• Until It's Over: A Novel by Nicci French
• The Aunt Who Wouldn't Die: A Novel by Shirshendu Mukhopadhyay
• The Island Child: A novel by Molly Aitken
• Eat the Buddha: Life and Death in a Tibetan Town by Barbara Demick
• The Silence of the White City by Eva Garcia Sáenz
• Florida Man: A Novel by Tom Cooper
• The Secret wish List by Preeti Shenoy
• Wiving: A Memoir of Loving Then Leaving the Patriarchy by Caitlin Myer
• Jackie, Ethel, Joan: Women of Camelot (Core Ser.) by J. Randy Taraborrelli

My review: Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement by Buster Benson

Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement by Buster Benson

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



In these times of almost constant conflict, political and otherwise, I decided to read "Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement" by Buster Benson. It was an excellent choice, and I learned much from this book, including why we argue and the types of arguments. I recommend it even if, like me, you think you're fairly well versed in conflict resolution. The anecdotes and examples are great too.

Lynn's List (July 24, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The Coldest Winter Ever: A Novel (Ann Rule's Crime Files Series) by Sister Souljah
• The Girls in the Garden: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
• Standing Our Ground: The Triumph of Faith Over Gun Violence: A Mother's Story by Rosemarie Robotham
• The Summer Girls: The Summer Girls; The Summer Wind (Lowcountry Summer #1) by Mary Alice Monroe
• Woman in Black by Eileen Goudge
• Catherine Anderson Three Coulter Family Novels by Catherine Anderson
• Clarkton: A Novel by Howard Fast
• The Terrible Tide by Charlotte MacLeod
• Disturbances in the Field: A Novel by Lynne Sharon Schwartz
• 101 More Things To Do With Ramen Noodles (101 Things To Do With) by Toni Patrick
• Tituba of Salem Village by Ann Petry
• The Pledge: A Novel by Howard Fast
• Not That Sort of Girl: A Novel by Mary Wesley
• Blue Eyes (The Isaac Sidel Novels #1) by Jerome Charyn
• Another Woman's House by Mignon G. Eberhart
• Song of the River: Song Of The River, Cry Of The Wind, And Call Down The Stars (The Storyteller Trilogy #1) by Sue Harrison
• Pearl Harbor: Final Judgement by Henry C. Clausen and Bruce Lee
• The Sandra Kitt Collection Volume One: The Color of Love, Close Encounters, and Between Friends by Sandra Kitt
• A Microwave, A Mug, A Meal by Amy Sherman
• Her Mother's Daughter: A Novel by Marilyn French
• The Hymn by Graham Masterton
• Eye of Vengeance by Jonathon King
• The Beauty of the Moment by Tanaz Bhathena
• The Unpassing: A Novel by Chia-Chia Lin
• The Iceman: A Novel by P. T. Deutermann
• Not Her Daughter: A Novel by Rea Frey
• The Deviant's War: The Homosexual vs. the United States of America by Eric Cervini
• Europe Against the Jews, 1880-1945 by Götz Aly
• Travesty of Justice: The Shocking Prosecution of Lt. Clint Lorance by Don Brown
• Inconvenience Gone: The Short Tragic Life of Brandon Sims by Diane Marger Moore
• How Now, Butterfly?: A Memoir of Murder, Survival, and Transformation by Brian Whitney
• Targeted: A Deputy, Her Love Affairs, a Brutal Murder by M. William Phelps
• A Special Kind of Evil: The Colonial Parkway Serial Killings by Blaine L. Pardoe and Victoria R. Hester
• Railroaded: Framed for Murder, Fighting for Justice by Samuel L. Sommer
• Tantamount: The Pursuit of the Freeway Phantom Serial Killer by Blaine L. Pardoe and Victoria R. Hester
• Bullied to Death?: A Story of Bullying, Social Media, and the Suicide of Sherokee Harriman by Judith A. Yates
• Toxic Rage: A Tale of Murder in Tucson by AJ Flick
• My Brother's Keeper: A Thirty-Year Quest to Bring Two Killers to Justice by Chris Russo Blackwood
• The Garden State Parkway Murders: A Cold Case Mystery by Christian Barth
• Thrilled to Death: Volume One (Thrilled to Death) by James Byron Huggins
• An Elegant Woman: A Novel by Martha McPhee
• Siberian Exile: Blood, War, and a Granddaughter's Reckoning by Julija Sukys
• Why Are We Yelling?: The Art of Productive Disagreement by Buster Benson
• Flight by Nicki Bennett
• Daddy's Little Secret: A Daughter's Quest to Solve Her Father's Brutal Murder by Denise Wallace
• Mean Machine by Aleksandr Voinov
• The Truth About Melody Browne: A Novel by Lisa Jewell
• The Book of Lost Names by Kristin Harmel
• A Woman's Place: Inside the Fight for a Feminist Future by Kylie Cheung
• The Indomitable Florence Finch: The Untold Story of a War Widow Turned Resistance Fighter and Savior of American POWs by Robert J. Mrazek
• Sunshine on Silver Lake: Includes a bonus novella (Sweetwater Springs #5) by Annie Rains
• He Started It: The New Psychological Thriller From #1 Bestselling Author Of My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing
• Waiting for an Echo: The Madness of American Incarceration by Christine Montross
• The Lives of Edie Pritchard by Larry Watson
• Some Go Home: A Novel by Odie Lindsey
• Society without God, Second Edition: What the Least Religious Nations Can Tell Us about Contentment by Phil Zuckerman
• Blood Cruise: A thrilling chiller from the 'Swedish Stephen King' by Mats Strandberg
• The Ringmaster's Daughter: A beautiful and heartbreaking World War 2 love story by Carly Schabowski
• John Sandford: Virgil Flowers Novels 1-4 by John Sandford
• Child's Play: A Novel by Danielle Steel
• Hidden Valley Road: Inside the Mind of an American Family by Robert Kolker
• The Boy at the Back of the Class by Onjali Raúf
• The Ice at the End of the World: An Epic Journey into Greenland's Buried Past and Our Perilous Future by Jon Gertner
• Lincoln's Spies: Their Secret War to Save a Nation by Douglas Waller
• Zoom For Dummies by Phil Simon
• Executing Freedom: The Cultural Life of Capital Punishment in the United States by Daniel Lachance
• Toward the Setting Sun: John Ross, the Cherokees, and the Trail of Tears by Brian Hicks
• The Weight of a Feather: A Mother's Journey Through the Opiates Addiction Crisis by Lynda Hacker Araoz
• The FBI Killer by Fiona Zedde and Aphrodite Jones
• Selected Novels Volume One: Songs in Ordinary Time and Vanished by Mary McGarry Morris
• Selected Novels Volume Two: The Lost Mother and A Dangerous Woman by Mary McGarry Morris
• Indemnity Only: 30th Anniversary Edition (V. I. Warshawski #1) by Sara Paretsky
• Deep State: A Thriller (A Hayley Chill Thriller #1) by Chris Hauty
• The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court by Jeffrey Toobin
• Imbeciles: The Supreme Court, American Eugenics, and the Sterilization of Carrie Buck by Adam Cohen
• A Good Apology: Four Steps to Make Things Right by Molly Howes
• When We Were Brave: A completely gripping and emotional WW2 historical novel by Suzanne Kelman
• Sisters in Hate: American Women on the Front Lines of White Nationalism by Seyward Darby
• The Nowhere Girl: A completely gripping and emotional page turner by Nicole Trope
• Close to You: A completely gripping psychological thriller by Kerry Wilkinson
• The Darkest Lies: A Gripping Psychological Thriller With A Shocking Twist by Barbara Copperthwaite
• The Pearl that Broke Its Shell: A Novel by Nadia Hashimi
• The Dublin Girls: A powerfully heartrending family saga by Cathy Mansell

Lynn's List (July 17, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• My Mother's House: A novel by Francesca Momplaisir
• Half Broke: A Memoir by Ginger Gaffney
• The German Girl: A Novel by Armando Lucas Correa
• Abigale Hall: A Novel by Lauren A. Forry
• They Did Bad Things: A Thriller by Lauren A. Forry
• And After the Fire: A Novel by Lauren Belfer
• The Explanation for Everything: A Novel by Lauren Grodstein
• The Summer Before (The Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
• Babysitter's Club Collection (Baby-Sitters Club) by Ann M. Martin
• Leading Lives That Matter: What We Should Do and Who We Should Be, 2nd ed. by Dorothy C. Bass and Mark R. Schwehn
• Jewish Mysticism: From Ancient Times through Today by Marvin A. Sweeney
• Tracking the Rise of the Radical Right Globally: CARR Yearbook 2018/2019 by William Allchorn
• An Improbable Life: My Sixty Years at Columbia and Other Adventures by Michael I. Sovern
• The Untold Journey: The Life of Diana Trilling by Natalie Robins
• Following the Harvest: A Novel by Fred Harris
• Very Much a Lady: The Untold Story of Jean Harris and Dr. Herman Tarnower by Shana Alexander
• Letters to My Daughters by Mary Matalin
• Love & War: Twenty Years, Three Presidents, Two Daughters and One Louisiana Home by James Carville and Mary Matalin
• The Posner Files: Case Closed and Killing the Dream by Gerald Posner
• Three Thrillers: The Valhalla Testament, Vortex, and The Doomsday Spiral by Jon Land
• The Cecelia Holland Historical Fiction Collection: Until the Sun Falls, Jerusalem, and Pillar of the Sky by Cecelia Holland
• Urgent Message From Mother: Gather the Women, Save the World by Jean Shinoda Bolen
• Zebra: The True Account of the 179 Days of Terror in San Francisco by Clark Howard
• Heart of the Country by Greg Matthews
• Something Blue by Charlotte Armstrong
• Six Against the Rock: The Searing True Account of Six Unstoppable Men and the Most Spectacular Jailbreak in American History by Clark Howard
• Wars of Terror by Gabriele Marranci
• Racialized Protest and the State: Resistance and Repression in a Divided America (The Mobilization Series on Social Movements, Protest, and Culture) by Hank Johnston
• Fanny J. Crosby: An Autobiography (Hendrickson Classic Biographies Series) by Fanny J. Crosby
• The Limits of Tolerance: Enlightenment Values and Religious Fanaticism (Religion, Culture, and Public Life #4) by Denis Lacorne
• The Hunters by Clark Howard
• Relative Silence by Carrie Stuart Parks
• The Amish Brides of Birch Creek Collection: The Teacher's Bride, The Farmer's Bride, The Innkeeper's Bride (An\amish Of Birch Creek Novel Ser.) by Kathleen Fuller
• The House That Love Built: Why I Opened My Door to Immigrants and How We Found Hope beyond a Broken System by Sarah Jackson
• Survival Instincts: A Novel by Jen Waite
• The Divine Miss Marble: A Life of Tennis, Fame, and Mystery by Robert Weintraub
• Age of Consent: A Novel by Amanda Brainerd
• Well-Behaved Indian Women by Saumya Dave
• The Glare by Margot Harrison
• Never Ask Me by Jeff Abbott
• How Trump Stole 2020: The Hunt For America's Vanished Voters by Greg Palast
• A Walk Along the Beach: A Novel by Debbie Macomber
• The All-Night Sun: A Novel by Diane Zinna
• Never Going Back (Rapid Reads) by Sam Wiebe
• Cold Cases: Unidentified Serial Killers, Unsolved Kidnappings, and Mysterious Murders (Including the Zodiac Killer, Natalee Holloway's Disappearance, the Golden State Killer and More) by Cheyna Roth
• The Nesting Dolls: A Novel by Alina Adams
• Mother Land: A Novel by Leah Franqui
• The Good Citizen: How a Younger Generation Is Reshaping American Politics by Russell J. Dalton
• A Good Family: A Novel by A.H. Kim
• Taking Back the Constitution: Activist Judges and the Next Age of American Law by Mark Tushnet
• Miracle Country: A Memoir by Kendra Atleework
• Dear White Christians: For Those Still Longing for Racial Reconciliation (Prophetic Christianity Series (PC)) by Jennifer Harvey
• Inheriting Clutter: How to Calm the Chaos Your Parents Leave Behind by Julie Hall
• They Didn't See Us Coming: The Hidden History of Feminism in the Nineties by Lisa Levenstein
• Wonderland by Zoje Stage
• Shuttle, Houston: My Life in the Center Seat of Mission Control by Paul Dye
• The Cowboys of Copper River Boxed Set, Books 1 - 3 (Copper River Cowboys) by Jillian David
• Cajun Justice by James Patterson and Tucker Axum III
• Promised Land: How the Rise of the Middle Class Transformed America, 1929-1968 by David Stebenne
• Too Much and Never Enough: How My Family Created the World's Most Dangerous Man by Mary L. Trump
• When Truth Is All You Have: A Memoir of Faith, Justice, and Freedom for the Wrongly Convicted by Philip Lerman and Jim McCloskey
• The Impostors: How Republicans Quit Governing and Seized American Politics by Steve Benen
• Daniel Silva GABRIEL ALLON Novels 1-4 by Daniel Silva
• Death in a Promised Land: The Tulsa Race Riot of 1921 by John Hope Franklin and Scott Ellsworth
• The Killer Trail (A Chris Ryder Thriller #1) by D. B. Carew
• All We Ever Wanted Was Everything: A Novel by Janelle Brown
• The Other Catholics: Remaking America's Largest Religion by Julie Byrne
• The Making of Lee Boyd Malvo: The D.C. Sniper by Carmeta Albarus
• The Royal Wedding Collection: Once Upon A Prince, Princess Ever After, How to Catch a Prince (Royal Wedding Series) by Rachel Hauck
• Thirteen Moons: A Novel by Charles Frazier
• The Memory Police: A Novel by Yoko Ogawa
• Chances Are . . .: A novel by Richard Russo
• The Warlow Experiment: A Novel by Alix Nathan
• The Stranger's Wife: A totally gripping psychological thriller with a jaw-dropping twist by Anna-Lou Weatherley
• My Husband's Lie: A page-turning and emotional family drama by Emma Davies
• The Girl in the Ice: A gripping serial killer thriller by Robert Bryndza
• Her Watchful Eye: A gripping thriller full of shocking twists by Julie Corbin
• A Terrible Thing to Waste: Environmental Racism and Its Assault on the American Mind by Harriet Washington
• The Lovely and the Lost by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
• The Taken: A twisted, gripping crime thriller - not for the faint-hearted by Casey Kelleher
• Where the Truth Lies: An Unputdownable Psychological Thriller by Julie Corbin
• A View Across the Rooftops: An epic, heart-wrenching and gripping World War Two historical novel by Suzanne Kelman
• The Boy in the Photo: An absolutely gripping and emotional page turner by Nicole Trope
• Little Girls Sleeping: An absolutely gripping crime thriller (Detective Katie Scott Ser. #Vol. 1) by Jennifer Chase
• Her Last Whisper: An absolutely unputdownable crime thriller (Detective Katie Scott Ser. #Vol. 2) by Jennifer Chase
• In Darkness, Look for Stars: An absolutely gripping, heartbreaking and epic World War 2 historical novel by Clara Benson
• Do Me No Harm: A Heart-Pounding Psychological Thriller by Julie Corbin
• Now That You're Gone: A tense, twisting psychological thriller by Julie Corbin
• A Daughter's Hope: A gripping story of resilience, courage and self-discovery by Margaret Kaine
• The Contender: Andrew Cuomo, a Biography by Michael Shnayerson
• The Forgotten Wife: A heartbreaking family drama with a stunning twist by Emma Robinson
• The Promise of Another Life by Red Samuels
• How to Be Happy: 50 Ways to Find Joy at Home (Stay-at-Home Survival) by Adams Media
• The Battle for Room 314: My Year of Hope and Despair in a New York City High School by Ed Boland
• The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1) by N. K. Jemisin
• Long Road to Mercy (Atlee Pine Series #1) by David Baldacci
• Ash Road by Ivan Southall
• The Survivor: An Anatomy Of Life In The Death Camps by Terrence Des Pres
• The Novels of Lisa Alther: Kinflicks, Original Sins, and Five Minutes in Heaven by Lisa Alther
• Closer Than She Thinks by Meryl Sawyer
• Unforgettable by Meryl Sawyer
• Tempting Fate by Meryl Sawyer
• Hard Rain by Peter Abrahams
• Tongues of Fire by Peter Abrahams
• The Helliconia Trilogy: Helliconia Spring, Helliconia Summer, and Helliconia Winter (The Helliconia Trilogy #Bks. 1-3) by Brian W Aldiss
• Fatal Deceptions: Three True Crime Tales of Passion, Murder, and Deceit by Joe Sharkey
• The Furys: A Novel (The Furys Saga #1) by James Hanley

Lynn's List (July 10, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• The End of the Second Reconstruction by Richard Johnson
• Gulf Crisis by Ghazi A Algosaibi
• The Sharing Economy: The End of Employment and the Rise of Crowd-Based Capitalism by Arun Sundararajan
• The Ones We Choose by Julie Clark
• The Last Flight: A Novel by Julie Clark
• The Ruin: A Novel (Di Cormac Reilly Ser. #1) by Dervla McTiernan
• The Scholar: A Novel (The Cormac Reilly Series #02) by Dervla McTiernan
• Voyage Of Mercy: The USS Jamestown, The Irish Famine, And The Remarkable Story Of America's First Humanitarian Mission by Stephen Puleo
• Just After Midnight by Catherine Ryan Hyde
• I Am Spartacus!: Making a Film, Breaking the Blacklist by Kirk Douglas and George Clooney
• Finding Georgina by Colleen Faulkner
• The Inspector Thanet Mysteries Volume One: The Night She Died, Six Feet Under, and Puppet for a Corpse (The Inspector Thanet Mysteries) by Dorothy Simpson
• Portrait of a Marriage: A Novel by Pearl S. Buck
• The Cycles of American History by Arthur M. Schlesinger Jr.
• Love and Rage: The Path of Liberation through Anger by Lama Rod Owens
• The Herd: A Novel by Andrea Bartz
• Trump and His Generals: The Cost of Chaos by Peter Bergen
• The Ship of Brides: A Novel by Jojo Moyes
• All the Pretty Girls: A Thrilling suspense novel (A Taylor Jackson Novel #1) by J. T. Ellison
• 14 (A Taylor Jackson Novel #2) by J. T. Ellison
• Judas Kiss (A Taylor Jackson Novel #3) by J. T. Ellison
• The Invisible Enemy: A Natural History Of Viruses by Dorothy Crawford
• In the Neighborhood of True by Susan Kaplan Carlton
• The Yankee Widow: A Novel by Linda Lael Miller
• Virgin River (A Virgin River Novel #1) by Robyn Carr
• Shelter Mountain: Book 2 of Virgin River series (A Virgin River Novel #2) by Robyn Carr
• Five Past Midnight in Bhopal: The Epic Story Of The World's Deadliest Industrial Disaster by Dominique Lapierre and Javier Moro
• Mitla Pass by Leon Uris
• Mother Daughter Widow Wife: A Novel by Robin Wasserman
• Burn Our Bodies Down by Rory Power
• The Golden Cage: A novel by Camilla Läckberg
• Albert Einstein, Mileva Maric: The Love Letters by Albert Einstein
• Florence Adler Swims Forever: A Novel by Rachel Beanland
• You Again: A Novel by Debra Jo Immergut
• Notes on a Silencing: A Memoir by Lacy Crawford
• The Cold Vanish: Seeking the Missing in North America's Wildlands by Jon Billman
• Everywhere You Look: Discovering the Church Right Where You Are by Tim Soerens
• Lake Life: A Novel by David James Poissant
• 14 Miles: Building the Border Wall by DW Gibson
• The Amish Schoolteacher: A Romance by Jerry Eicher
• The Influence of Soros: Politics, Power, and the Struggle for Open Society by Emily Tamkin
• Survivor Song: A Novel by Paul Tremblay
• The Lost and Found Bookshop: A Novel by Susan Wiggs
• Watching You Without Me: A novel by Lynn Coady
• Levers of Power: How the 1% Rules and What the 99% Can Do About It by Michael Schwartz
• Feminist City: Claiming Space in a Man-Made World by Leslie Kern
• Last One Out Shut Off the Lights by Stephanie Soileau
• The End of White Politics: How to Heal Our Liberal Divide by Zerlina Maxwell
• The Beauty in Breaking: A Memoir by Michele Harper
• Out of Time: A Novel by David Klass
• Open Secrets: A Novel by Sheila Kohler
• The Lost Girls: The True Story Of The Cleveland Abductions And The Incredible Rescue Of Michelle Knight, Amanda Berry, And Gina Dejesus by John Glatt
• How To Keep People From Pushing Your Buttons by Albert Ellis, Kristene A. Doyle, and Arthur Lange
• Prized Possessions: A Novel by Avery Corman
• The Ghost Runner: The Epic Journey of the Man They Couldn't Stop by Bill Jones
• Mawson's Will: The Greatest Survival Story Ever Written by Sir Edmund Hillary and Lennard Bickel
• Climate Change, second edition: What It Means for Us, Our Children, and Our Grandchildren (American and Comparative Environmental Policy) by Pamela Doughman and Joseph F.C. DiMento
• Go Home, Stranger by Charles Williams
• And the Deep Blue Sea by Charles Williams
• The Doll Factory: A Novel by Elizabeth Macneal
• We Were Sisters: An absolutely gripping psychological thriller by Wendy Clarke
• Dark House: An absolutely gripping serial killer thriller by Helen Phifer
• Last Light: An absolutely gripping thriller with unputdownable suspense by Helen Phifer
• The Girl in the Grave: An unputdownable crime thriller with nail-biting suspense (Beth Adams Ser. #Vol. 1) by Helen Phifer
• Cracked: The gripping, dark & unforgettable debut thriller by Louise McCreesh
• Unhallowed Ground: A Novel (Isis Cassettes) by Gillian White
• Constance: The Tragic and Scandalous Life of Mrs. Oscar Wilde by Franny Moyle
• Shiner: A Novel by Amy Jo Burns
• Fast Girls: A Novel of the 1936 Women's Olympic Team by Elise Hooper
• The Fruit of Her Hands: The Story of Shira of Ashkenaz by Michelle Cameron
• Unclear and Present Danger by Michele Cameron
• When Lightning Strikes! by Michele Cameron
• All Is Fair by Dee Garretson
• Wildfire Run by Dee Garretson
• Gone by Nightfall by Dee Garretson

My review: Dark August by Katie Tallo

Dark August by Katie Tallo

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



A young woman called back to her Great Grandmother's house after the old woman dies, suddenly finds herself confronted with the past--trying to figure out how it all fits together. Why her Great Grandmother abandoned her. How her mother died. Her past relationship with an abusive boyfriend and a dog she thinks she hates. Sounds rather calm doesn't it? But this book is far from that. It's a thriller with so many twists and turns, it's actually dizzying.

At first, I didn't know quite what to make of Augusta Monet. She's a non-conformist, strong and fragile at the same time. She does almost everything differently than most people. That is what kept me reading. I wanted to know more about her. The more I read, the more I began to relate to her. In the end, I really grew to like her.

If you're expecting a standard issue thriller, you'll be disappointed. It's a thriller, with a whole lot of strange twists and turns which, in the end, I found I was comfortable with. They all came together to spin a good story.

My review: The Last Flight by Julie Clark

The Last Flight by Julie Clark

My rating: 4 of 5 stars



Two women, each for very different but compelling reasons, want to disappear and start over and begin totally new lives. And so they do. But it's not simple or easy, and starting over isn't what they expected.

There is much about this book I liked. It was captivating. Very relatable. It got my attention and kept it. The characters were believable and complex. It was just a great read. It also made me think about life and how there are no guarantees. Things can change in an instant. Fiction or not, reality is measured in moments, sometimes.

Lynn's List (July 3, 2020)

Each Friday I publish a list of titles I have come across, during the past week, that I find interesting. Happy reading!

• I, Eliza Hamilton by Susan Holloway Scott
• The Stolen Train by Robert Ashley
• The Years Were Good by Louis B. Seltzer
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