What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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Re: What is the last book you read, and your rating?
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I really liked this book and loved the style of writing. Set in the US it covers a period from 1930s to the 1960s and is an amazing insight into the lives of descendants of slaves and shines a bright light on the casual cruelties of slavery. The book centres on one family with the ot extraordinary surname of Dead - which is shock enough until you read the first names, Macon & his siter Pilate, daughter Corinthians and Reba (short for Rebecca) ... all suitably biblical. How the names were derived and how a people are separated from their names, their history and their identity is the concern of this book. It is no surprise that Toni Morrison won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1993
Excellent 4/4*
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I've given 3 and a half GKeys.
Its a good story. Its interesting.
But it has its flaws. No matter how much I liked the story.
It was slow and its one of the only books that doesn't makes me involved emotionally...
Which is for me a very important part when reading a book.
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Thank you, Fran, for urging me to continue with the book when I had reservations before even starting it. You were right about the history it involved.
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My pleasure, glad you liked it.milliethom wrote:I finished The Russian Concubine yesterday and gave it 5 stars. Although I found a couple of negative things to mention, at least one of them could be put down to personal taste. The writing, plot and characters were very good and the history aspect was excellent, which, I decided, overrode my few niggles.
Thank you, Fran, for urging me to continue with the book when I had reservations before even starting it. You were right about the history it involved.
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4/5
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"Orphaned, penniless, Jacob Jankowski jumps a freight train in the dark, and in that instant, transforms his future.
By morning, he's landed a job with the Flying Squadron of the Benzini Brothers Most Spectacular Show on Earth. By nightfall, he's in love.
In an America made colourless by prohibition and the Depression, the circus is a refuge of sequins and sensuality. But behind the glamour lies a darker world, where both animals and men are dispensable. Where falling in love is the most dangerous act of all…"
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You have to be very focused when you're reading it to follow the story, but it is a great one!
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Once again I have the unpopular opinion of a book. At first I didn't like the main character and then he showed some promise. He did touch some lives but it wasn't as "big" as the book reviews make it sound. This was also one of the few books that is told in the present and then bam one chapter later it skips about ten years. I'm glad I didn't have to read those ten years though as they were pretty boring. This book was just OK for me. On a good note I did learn about some other books to check out.
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Fearless by Cornelia Finke I would rate 4 out of 5 stars fun YA fantasy romp. It was a good sequel to Reckless the first book in the Mirrorworld verse.
The Last Ship by William Brinkley I've watched the TNT series and was curious how the book told the story. The answer would be very differently from the series but no less compelling. I admit it was a bit of a slow read for me the majority of it was very introspective. I would rate it as 3 out of 5 stars just because I found it very slow going in parts and the ending was not quite what I was hoping for.