November Reading Update.

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 November was a very slow reading month for me and I only read five books and am still only halfway through the November author.


 Talk to the Heart is book #3 in the Rose Hill series. Adeline Walsh decides to leave her home in Rose Hill and  join a convent in Smalltown, Victoria, (not real places). She discovers that the plans God has for her might not be the live of a Sister in a religious order.




My November book was Kind of, Sort of, Maybe, but probably not by Imbi Neeme. I'm about halfway through the book and really don't know if I will finish it, (I've read the other five in between starting it and the end of the month.)  I'm curious to know how it ends but...


My next two books are set in the fictional town of Wirralong. They are books #2 and #2 of the Outback Christmas series.

Book 2 One Starry Christmas Night by Barbara Hanny. Old school friends, Jaxon and Bea, have returned to Wirralong, unbeknown to each other, to help out their grandmothers. They rekindle their friendship but a feud between the grandmothers might derail it.

Book 3 The Outback Cowboy's Christmas Baby, by Kelly Hunter. Mac Bodie was abandoned as a baby in Wirralong and is out to find the person who is mother, one of the stalwarts of the town. Jess Lean and her ailing father run the cattle station that Mac has just bought. Sparks fly between Jean and Mac and she falls pregnant. There are some interesting twists in this story.




 
The Queen Who Came in From The Cold, by S.J. Bennett is book #5 of the series Her Majesty the Queen Investigates. Yes, it is the late Queen and all five books have been wonderful to read. The premise is that a mystery is happening an with Her Majesty's 'help' it is resolved. This story is set in Venice and onboard the Britannia. Quirky and fun one can imagine the Queen doing something along those lines.



Nathan Dylan Goodwin, with his new Morton Farrier book, The Hop-Picker Murders has done it again. Starting with Morton being bashed in his own home and ending on a cliff-hanger.  In between we have Nellie Partridge, in 1923 trying to find what happened to her brother Ernest and Molly Moon, Nellie's niece engaging Morton to find out more about her Partridge family. Toss in an unexpected discovery, the bashing, an interview for a job, a drumkit and an electric guitar and you have a really great story. I loved learning about hop-picking.




I've got my December book organised, it is by Judi Dench but I'm also going to read some Christmas theme books as well.

  
























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