en-US Sun, 11 May 2025 04:49:15 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 68428 What if the whole world were a dead, blasted wasteland?

Mistborn
For a thousand years the ash fell and no flowers bloomed. For a thousand years the Skaa slaved in misery and lived in fear. For a thousand years the Lord Ruler, the "Sliver of Infinity," reigned with absolute power and ultimate terror, divinely invincible. Then, when hope was so long lost that not even its memory remained, a terribly scarred, heart-broken half-Skaa rediscovered it in the depths of the Lord Ruler's most hellish prison. Kelsier "snapped" and found in himself the powers of a Mistborn. A brilliant thief and natural leader, he turned his talents to the ultimate caper, with the Lord Ruler himself as the mark.

Kelsier recruited the underworld's elite, the smartest and most trustworthy allomancers, each of whom shares one of his many powers, and all of whom relish a high-stakes challenge. Then Kelsier reveals his ultimate dream, not just the greatest heist in history, but the downfall of the divine despot.

But even with the best criminal crew ever assembled, Kel's plan looks more like the ultimate long shot, until luck brings a ragged girl named Vin into his life. Like him, she's a half-Skaa orphan, but she's lived a much harsher life. Vin has learned to expect betrayal from everyone she meets. She will have to learn trust if Kel is to help her master powers of which she never dreamed.

Brandon Sanderson, fantasy's newest master tale-spinner and author of the acclaimed debut Elantris, dares to turn a genre on its head by asking a simple question: What if the prophesied hero failed to defeat the Dark Lord? The answer will be found in the Mistborn Trilogy, a saga of surprises that begins with the book in your hands. Fantasy will never be the same again.]]> 541 Brandon Sanderson Simone 0 4.48 2006
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Simone
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2006
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/05/11
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]]> 41807223 How do you stop a murder that’s already happened?

At a gala party thrown by her parents, Evelyn Hardcastle will be killed--again. She's been murdered hundreds of times, and each day, Aiden Bishop is too late to save her. Doomed to repeat the same day over and over, Aiden's only escape is to solve Evelyn Hardcastle's murder and conquer the shadows of an enemy he struggles to even comprehend--but nothing and no one are quite what they seem.

Deeply atmospheric and ingeniously plotted, The 7½ Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle is a highly original debut that will appeal to fans of Kate Atkinson and Agatha Christie.]]> 528 Stuart Turton Simone 4 I’m excited to read more books from this author!]]> 3.92 2018
author: Stuart Turton
name: Simone
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/03/31
date added: 2025/05/03
shelves: danish, mystery-crime, currently-reading, book-club
review:
This book started off a bit slow, but once I reached the point where I was hooked, I raced through it. It is a very cleverly plotted and well-written mystery with the supernatural element of time loops that I thoroughly enjoyed. Be aware, however, that there are A LOT of characters and events to keep track of - this is not the kind of book you put away for a while and then pick back up; you should read it within a reasonable amount of time or I think you’ll be very confused.
I’m excited to read more books from this author!
]]> 4461017 368 David Thomas 0451184211 Simone 2 danish 4.00 1995
author: David Thomas
name: Simone
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1995
rating: 2
read at: 2025/04/24
date added: 2025/05/03
shelves: danish
review:

]]> 59683564
Patrick Sørensen Falk har al mulig grund til at være glad: han har for nyligt forsvaret sin ph.d. i litteraturvidenskab �� om det erotiske element som katalysator for læserens årvågenhed i senmoderne skønlitteratur �� og nu står han på tærsklen til at blive optaget i den magtfulde kritiker Tudses inderkreds. Et selskab af herrer, om hvilket det siges at deres samlede indflydelse er umålelig:

Litteraturhistorien skrives ikke af forfattere; den skrives af os �� som Tudse snart skal formulere det for ham. Patrick går en tid med storhed i møde.

Men der er altid en slange i paradis. På hjemmefronten har ægtefællen Karen travlt med at få sat (begavede) børn i (en tiltagende idiotisk) verden: det seksuelle samkvem er blevet sat i system, og lyst følgelig en latterlig romantisk indbildning.

Og over for dette liv, og Karen, står internetpornografien så med sin altid alle steder frit tilgængelige, ubegrænsede palet af perfektionerede fiktioner. Snart er Patrick godt på vej gennem en psykologisk og moralsk deroute, der ikke stopper, før den verden, han har kendt, brænder sammen.

Inderkredsen kan kaldes en moderne Hærværk �� for den vågne læser er der adskillige referencer �� men først og fremmest på grund af den misbrugets uhjælpelighed og blinde, som vi bliver vidner til: denne tåbelighed. Og så selvfølgelig fordi, det er anmelderstanden, der får lov at være marionetter i denne forestilling �� og er det ikke også oplagt: at lade den højest forfinede smagssans reagere på det lavest tænkelige skidt �� pornoen, og pornoens fortællinger.

I Inderkredsen bliver tidens forestillinger om moralsk renfærdighed sat over for den virkelighed, vi også lever i: en teknologisk amokløben tid, hvor fråds og fristelser og egotistisk selviscenesættelse glorificeres som den egentlige frelse. En narcissistisk tid - storhedsvanvid er den nye folkesygdom, fastslår Tudse.

En tragedie, nuvel, men også en satire over vor samtid �� meget vil være genkendeligt, omend forvrænget i digtningens filtrering.]]> 376 Jacob Skyggebjerg 8793658885 Simone 0 3.06 2021
author: Jacob Skyggebjerg
name: Simone
average rating: 3.06
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: to-read, danish, recommended-to-me
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]]> 17727802
Nobody fights the Epics... nobody but the Reckoners. A shadowy group of ordinary humans, they spend their lives studying Epics, finding their weaknesses, and then assassinating them.

And David wants in. He wants Steelheart—the Epic who is said to be invincible. The Epic who killed David's father. For years, like the Reckoners, David's been studying, and planning—and he has something they need. Not an object, but an experience.

He's seen Steelheart bleed. And he wants revenge.]]> 386 Brandon Sanderson 057510399X Simone 5 4.06 2013
author: Brandon Sanderson
name: Simone
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2013
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
shelves: fantasy, recommended-to-me, sci-fi
review:

]]> 17934530 Annihilation, the first volume of Jeff VanderMeer's Southern Reach Trilogy, we join the twelfth expedition.

The group is made up of four women: an anthropologist; a surveyor; a psychologist, the de facto leader; and our narrator, a biologist. Their mission is to map the terrain, record all observations of their surroundings and of one another, and, above all, avoid being contaminated by Area X itself.

They arrive expecting the unexpected, and Area X delivers—but it’s the surprises that came across the border with them and the secrets the expedition members are keeping from one another that change everything.]]> 195 Jeff VanderMeer 0374104093 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.80 2014
author: Jeff VanderMeer
name: Simone
average rating: 3.80
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/23
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 208931300 An exquisitely moving story about grief, love, and family—but especially love—from the global phenomenon Sally Rooney.

Aside from the fact that they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek seem to have little in common.

Peter is a Dublin lawyer in his thirties—successful, competent, and apparently unassailable. But in the wake of their father’s death, he’s medicating himself to sleep and struggling to manage his relationships with two very different women—his enduring first love, Sylvia, and Naomi, a college student for whom life is one long joke.

Ivan is a twenty-two-year-old competitive chess player. He has always seen himself as socially awkward, a loner, the antithesis of his glib elder brother. Now, in the early weeks of his bereavement, Ivan meets Margaret, an older woman emerging from her own turbulent past, and their lives become rapidly and intensely intertwined.

For two grieving brothers and the people they love, this is a new interlude—a period of desire, despair, and possibility; a chance to find out how much one life might hold inside itself without breaking.]]> 454 Sally Rooney 0374602638 Simone 0 book-club, dnf 3.86 2024
author: Sally Rooney
name: Simone
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/03/12
shelves: book-club, dnf
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]]> 1243783
Kitty's new show is a raging success, but it's Kitty herself who could use some help, not least because her monthly change is a deep and dark secret to all but a very special few.

And when she finds one very sexy werewolf-hunter on her tail, not to mention a few homicidal undead, she realises she may just may have bitten off more than she can chew...

From the Publisher (Golllancz)]]> 272 Carrie Vaughn 0575082437 Simone 2 fantasy 3.37 2005
author: Carrie Vaughn
name: Simone
average rating: 3.37
book published: 2005
rating: 2
read at: 2025/02/25
date added: 2025/02/25
shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> 220609772 Set in the blockbuster and award-winning universe of League of Legends: Arcane and written by award-winning author C. L. Clark, discover a thrilling epic fantasy novel where Ambessa Medarda truly learns what it means to be a Chosen of the Wolf.

Medarda over all.

Ambessa Medarda: Warrior, general, mother. She is a woman to be feared, and the Medardas are unrivaled in their pursuit of glory. She has led conquests and armies. She has slain legendary beasts. She has made grave sacrifices in her ascent up the ranks. And for this she was rewarded: She entered the realm of death and was granted a vision of herself upon the throne of the vast Noxian empire.

But before she can lead her empire, she must become head of her own clan. Yet the title is contested by her cousin and former confidante, Ta'Fik. He knows the bloody sins of Ambessa's past. And he knows he cannot allow her to rise.

They will fight a war for the very soul of the Medardas.

But the war won't be fought on battlefields alone. Ambessa's daughter, Mel, can deftly break through the walls around anyone's heart, and she'll put her talents to use for her mother. Yet despite Mel's strength, Ambessa sees only a child who lacks her killer instincts. Mel knows she can be the leader Ambessa wants her to be, if only she gives her time.

With her family betraying her, enemies closing in on all sides, and unseen forces moving in the shadows, every day proves more dangerous than the last. But Ambessa will not bow. She will burn the world down to claim her place in it.]]> 448 C.L. Clark 0316469955 Simone 0 to-read 3.88 2025
author: C.L. Clark
name: Simone
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 141971066
Først lyder beskeden som en dårlig joke: Tid til en ny leg, Bayview. Men da en elev pludselig forsvinder, er det tydeligt, at denne ’leg�� er blevet alvor �� og ingen forstår reglerne.

Ingen kan føle sig sikre, og da en uventet person vender tilbage til Bayview, begynder tingene at blive ubehagelige ��

En af os vender tilbage er tredje bog i En af os lyver-serien.]]> 384 Karen M. McManus 872701133X Simone 5 danish, mystery-crime, ya 3.98 2023
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Simone
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/21
date added: 2025/02/21
shelves: danish, mystery-crime, ya
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]]> 215054655 453 Boris Hansen 8727128040 Simone 4 danish, fantasy, sci-fi 4.63 2024
author: Boris Hansen
name: Simone
average rating: 4.63
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/03
date added: 2025/02/03
shelves: danish, fantasy, sci-fi
review:

]]> 199094419 516 Boris Hansen 8727018385 Simone 3 danish, fantasy, sci-fi 4.47 2024
author: Boris Hansen
name: Simone
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2024
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/01
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves: danish, fantasy, sci-fi
review:

]]> 61885029
Charlie's life is going nowhere fast. A divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell, all he wants is to open a pub downtown, if only the bank will approve his loan.

Then his long-lost uncle Jake dies and leaves his supervillain business (complete with island volcano lair) to Charlie.

But becoming a supervillain isn't all giant laser death rays and lava pits. Jake had enemies, and now they're coming after Charlie. His uncle might have been a stand-up, old-fashioned kind of villain, but these are the real thing: rich, soulless predators backed by multinational corporations and venture capital.

It's up to Charlie to win the war his uncle started against a league of supervillains. But with unionized dolphins, hyperintelligent talking spy cats, and a terrifying henchperson at his side, going bad is starting to look pretty good.

In a dog-eat-dog world...be a cat.]]> 264 John Scalzi 0765389223 Simone 0 to-read 4.09 2023
author: John Scalzi
name: Simone
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/27
shelves: to-read
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]]> 199534613
“[An] enormously entertaining and lovable book.�� —Nick Hornby, New York Times Book Review

A bold, laugh-out-loud funny, and heartwarming story about one young woman’s attempt to navigate adulthood, new motherhood, and her meager bank account in our increasingly online world—from the PEN/Faulkner finalist and critically acclaimed author of The Knockout Queen.

As the child of a Hooters waitress and an ex-pro wrestler, Margo Millet's always known she’d have to make it on her own. So she enrolls at her local junior college, even though she can’t imagine how she’ll ever make a living. She’s still figuring things out and never planned to have an affair with her English professor—and while the affair is brief, it isn’t brief enough to keep her from getting pregnant. Despite everyone’s advice, she decides to keep the baby, mostly out of naiveté and a yearning for something bigger.

Now, at twenty, Margo is alone with an infant, unemployed, and on the verge of eviction. She needs a cash infusion—fast. When her estranged father, Jinx, shows up on her doorstep and asks to move in with her, she agrees in exchange for help with childcare. Then Margo begins to form a plan: she’ll start an OnlyFans as an experiment, and soon finds herself adapting some of Jinx’s advice from the world of wrestling. Like how to craft a compelling character and make your audience fall in love with you. Before she knows it, she’s turned it into a runaway success. Could this be the answer to all of Margo’s problems, or does internet fame come with too high a price?

Blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight, Margo’s Got Money Troubles is a tender tale starring an endearing young heroine who’s struggling to wrest money and power from a world that has little interest in giving it to her. It’s a playful and honest examination of the art of storytelling and controlling your own narrative, and an empowering portrait of coming into your own, both online and off.

“A wholly original novel. . . . Thorpe is both poetic and profound in the way she brings her remarkable story to an end.�� —The Associated Press]]> 304 Rufi Thorpe 0063356589 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.86 2024
author: Rufi Thorpe
name: Simone
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/18
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]]> 5413 Also contains: One For the Road, Jerusalem's Lot. For standalone novel see ISBN 9780450031069.

Stephen King's second novel, the classic vampire bestseller 'Salem's Lot, tells the story of evil in small-town America. For the first time in a major trade edition, this terrifying novel is accompanied by previously unpublished material from King's archive, two short stories, and eerie photographs that bring King's fictional darkness and evil to vivid life.

When Stephen King’s classic thriller 'Salem's Lot hit the stands in 1975, it thrilled and terrified millions of readers with tales of demonic evil in small-town America. Now, thirty years later and still scaring readers witless, 'Salem's Lot reemerges in a brilliant new edition, complete with photographs, fifty pages of deleted and alternate scenes, and two short stories related to the events of the novel.

While the original edition of 'Salem's Lot will forever be a premier horror classic, 'Salem's Lot: Illustrated Edition, with the inclusion of material from King’s archive, is destined to become a classic in its own right and a must-have for all Stephen King fans. In this edition, the hair-raising story of Jerusalem’s Lot, a small town in Maine whose inhabitants succumb to the evil allure of a new resident, is told as the author envisioned it, complete with fifty pages of alternate and deleted scenes. With a new introduction by the author, two short stories related to the events and residents of Jerusalem’s Lot, the lavishly creepy photographs of Jerry Uelsmann, and a stunning new page design, this edition brings the story to life in words and pictures as never before.

No library will be complete without this ideal collector’s item for any King aficionado, the definitive illustrated edition of the great 'Salem's Lot.]]> 594 Stephen King 0385516487 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 4.28 1975
author: Stephen King
name: Simone
average rating: 4.28
book published: 1975
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/13
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]]> 53152636
Noemí is also an unlikely rescuer: She’s a glamorous debutante, and her chic gowns and perfect red lipstick are more suited for cocktail parties than amateur sleuthing. But she’s also tough and smart, with an indomitable will, and she is not afraid: Not of her cousin’s new husband, who is both menacing and alluring; not of his father, the ancient patriarch who seems to be fascinated by Noemí; and not even of the house itself, which begins to invade Noemi’s dreams with visions of blood and doom.

Her only ally in this inhospitable abode is the family’s youngest son. Shy and gentle, he seems to want to help Noemí, but might also be hiding dark knowledge of his family’s past. For there are many secrets behind the walls of High Place. The family’s once colossal wealth and faded mining empire kept them from prying eyes, but as Noemí digs deeper she unearths stories of violence and madness.

And Noemí, mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.]]> 320 Silvia Moreno-Garcia 0525620788 Simone 4 3.66 2020
author: Silvia Moreno-Garcia
name: Simone
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/11
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: book-club, bookstagram-made-me-do-it
review:

]]> 35133922
Her father forbade hospitals, so Tara never saw a doctor or nurse. Gashes and concussions, even burns from explosions, were all treated at home with herbalism. The family was so isolated from mainstream society that there was no one to ensure the children received an education and no one to intervene when one of Tara's older brothers became violent.

Then, lacking any formal education, Tara began to educate herself. She taught herself enough mathematics and grammar to be admitted to Brigham Young University, where she studied history, learning for the first time about important world events like the Holocaust and the civil rights movement. Her quest for knowledge transformed her, taking her over oceans and across continents, to Harvard and to Cambridge. Only then would she wonder if she'd traveled too far, if there was still a way home.

Educated is an account of the struggle for self-invention. It is a tale of fierce family loyalty and of the grief that comes with severing the closest of ties. With the acute insight that distinguishes all great writers, Westover has crafted a universal coming-of-age story that gets to the heart of what an education is and what it offers: the perspective to see one's life through new eyes and the will to change it.]]> 352 Tara Westover 0399590501 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 4.46 2018
author: Tara Westover
name: Simone
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 60811826 Deep underground, forty women live imprisoned in a cage. Watched over by guards, the women have no memory of how they got there, no notion of time, and only a vague recollection of their lives before.


As the burn of electric light merges day into night and numberless years pass, a young girl—the fortieth prisoner—sits alone and outcast in the corner. Soon she will show herself to be the key to the others' escape and survival in the strange world that awaits them above ground.


Jacqueline Harpman was born in Etterbeek, Belgium, in 1929, and fled to Casablanca with her family during WWII. Informed by her background as a psychoanalyst and her youth in exile, I Who Have Never Known Men is a haunting, heartbreaking post-apocalyptic novel of female friendship and intimacy, and the lengths people will go to maintain their humanity in the face of devastation. Back in print for the first time since 1997, Harpman’s modern classic is an important addition to the growing canon of feminist speculative literature.]]> 184 Jacqueline Harpman 1945492600 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 4.11 1995
author: Jacqueline Harpman
name: Simone
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1995
rating: 0
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]]> 49228706
PSYCHIATRIST: So how can I help you?

ME: I don't know, I'm �� what's the word �� depressed? Do I have to go into detail?

Baek Sehee is a successful young social media director at a publishing house when she begins seeing a psychiatrist about her - what to call it? - depression? She feels persistently low, anxious, endlessly self-doubting, but also highly judgmental of others. She hides her feelings well at work and with friends, performing the calmness her lifestyle demands. The effort is exhausting, overwhelming, and keeps her from forming deep relationships. This can't be normal. But if she's so hopeless, why can she always summon a yen for her favorite street food: the hot, spicy rice cake, tteokbokki? Is this just what life is like?

Recording her dialogues with her psychiatrist over a twelve-week period, and expanding on each session with her own reflective micro-essays, Baek begins to disentangle the feedback loops, knee-jerk reactions, and harmful behaviors that keep her locked in a cycle of self-abuse. Part memoir, part self-help book, I Want to Die but I Want to Eat Tteokbokki is a book to keep close and to reach for in times of darkness. It will appeal to anyone who has ever felt alone or unjustified in their everyday despair.


—�Ĕ�Ĕ�Ĕ�Ĕ���


Aku: Bagaimana caranya agar bisa mengubah pikiran bahwa saya ini standar dan biasa saja?

Psikiater: Memangnya hal itu merupakan masalah yang harus diperbaiki?

Aku: Iya, karena saya ingin mencintai diri saya sendiri.

-----

I Want To Die But I Want To Eat Tteokpokki adalah esai yang berisi tentang pertanyaan, penilaian, saran, nasihat, dan evaluasi diri yang bertujuan agar pembaca bisa menerima dan mencintai dirinya.

Buku self improvement ini mendapatkan sambutan baik karena pembaca meraskan hal yang sama dengan kisah Baek Se Hee sehingga buku ini mendapatkan predikat bestseller di Korea Selatan.]]> 232 Baek Se-hee 6237351035 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.26 2018
author: Baek Se-hee
name: Simone
average rating: 3.26
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 60567915
Single, independent, crazy, aloof, on-the-shelf, lives alone...

It’s safer for Mia to play the part that people expect. She’s a good wife to her husband Tristan, a doting stepmother, she slips on her suit for work each morning like a new skin.

But beneath the surface, there’s another woman just clawing to get out...

When a shocking event shatters the conventional life she’s been so careful to build, Mia is faced with a choice. Does she live for a society that’s all too quick to judge, or does she live for herself?

And if that’s as an independent woman with a cat, then the world better get ready...

Fresh, funny and for anyone who’s ever felt astray, Cat Lady will help you belong �� because a woman always lands on her feet.

7 hrs. 37 min.]]> 400 Dawn O'Porter 0008385394 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.79 2022
author: Dawn O'Porter
name: Simone
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 177841605 Woman's Own Book Club 2023'A truly beautiful book. Rosie's writing makes me want to close my laptop, step outside, and appreciate the magic that each season brings' Jessica Elliot DennisonIn her late-twenties, feeling utterly overwhelmed by the pace of modern city life, Rosie Steer found solace in the traditions she had been brought up with, influenced by her Scottish roots, that celebrated nature and observed the small steady shifts in the seasons.The Celtic Wheel of the year is an ancient seasonal cycle that aligns with solar events �� the solstices, equinoxes and their midpoints. For each mini-season, Rosie shares nature notes for what we can look out for as the days get warmer or cooler, the nights longer or shorter, alongside activities, things to make, flowers or fruit to forage, seasonal recipes to enjoy and a modern take on the traditional celebrations.As the Wheel turns to Samhain on 31st October, we can enjoy foraging apples and berries to make Hedgerow jelly, watch the leaves turn golden, collect pine cones for a Pine cone garland and celebrate pumpkin season with Pumpkin and root veg chilli and Chocolate cake with pumpkin curd.By slowing down and paying attention to the ebbs and flows of nature, we can find moments of calm whenever we need them.]]> 277 Rosie Steer 1526662736 Simone 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.01
author: Rosie Steer
name: Simone
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 18194183
Enter - if you can bear it - the extraordinary private world of frank, just sixteen, and unconventional, to say the least.]]> 244 Iain Banks 0349139180 Simone 4 3.56 1984
author: Iain Banks
name: Simone
average rating: 3.56
book published: 1984
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2025/01/03
shelves: book-club, classics, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 50623468
Det er et år siden, Simon døde, og et år siden, at Bayview-firkløveret blev renset for alle anklager, og i tiden der er gået, har der ikke manglet nye sladderaps på Bayview High. Men ingen har kendt folks hemmeligheder lige så godt som Simon.

Indtil nu.

Denne gang er det ikke en app. Det er en leg. Sandhed eller konsekvens.

Phoebe er det første offer. Hvis du vælger ikke at lege med, afslører gamemasteren en hemmelighed. Og Phoebes er mørk.
Maeve er den næste, og hun burde vide bedre: Vælg altid 'konsekvens'.
Da det bliver Knox' tur, er konsekvenserne blevet dødelige.

Simon er væk, men nogen er fast besluttet på at føre hans arv videre. Og denne gang er der et helt nye spilleregler.

Den længe ventede fortsættelse til bestselleren En af os lyver tager os tilbage til Bayview. Til helt nye karakterer og et helt nyt, dødeligt mysterium. Men også til både Bronwyn, Nate, Addy og Cooper.]]> 381 Karen M. McManus 8711910313 Simone 5
This stunning sequel was just as good as the first one. It started out a bit slower, but it picked up the pace so well, and that ending? I did not see that coming. Once again, Karen McManus managed to make me think I’d figured it out, only to throw in another plot twist and leave me gasping in surprise and shock at the revelations that came to light.

I can feel a serious case of book hangover coming up. Again. There seems to be a pattern with these books. Excuse me while I go put this book on my all-time-favorites shelf next to “One Of Us Lying��.

Welcome back to Bayview. I know I’d missed it.


Edit: I also loved this when I read it for the second time. I can’t wait for the third book to be out next year! ]]> 3.74 2020
author: Karen M. McManus
name: Simone
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2022/11/19
date added: 2024/12/28
shelves: danish, all-time-favorites, mystery-crime, ya
review:
This. Book. Wow.

This stunning sequel was just as good as the first one. It started out a bit slower, but it picked up the pace so well, and that ending? I did not see that coming. Once again, Karen McManus managed to make me think I’d figured it out, only to throw in another plot twist and leave me gasping in surprise and shock at the revelations that came to light.

I can feel a serious case of book hangover coming up. Again. There seems to be a pattern with these books. Excuse me while I go put this book on my all-time-favorites shelf next to “One Of Us Lying��.

Welcome back to Bayview. I know I’d missed it.


Edit: I also loved this when I read it for the second time. I can’t wait for the third book to be out next year!
]]> 75629891
Men efter en traumatisk oplevelse begynder facaden at krakelere, og Alban mister grebet om alt det, han plejer at kunne kontrollere. Samtidig er der hemmeligheder skjult i fortiden, som kan ødelægge fremtiden �� ikke kun for ham selv.

Albans største frygt er, at han ikke kan beskytte dem, han elsker. Men præcis hvor meget er han klar til at ofre for andres skyld?

LYRIDERNE er femte bind i serien SPEKTRUM, hvor venskab, kærlighed og skæbnesvangre valg bindes sammen på tværs af tid.]]> 904 Nanna Foss 8702307103 Simone 0 to-read 4.81 2025
author: Nanna Foss
name: Simone
average rating: 4.81
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/12/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 444387 211 Rosemary Jackson 0415025621 Simone 3 3.67 1981
author: Rosemary Jackson
name: Simone
average rating: 3.67
book published: 1981
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/28
date added: 2024/12/28
shelves: non-fiction, study-books, research
review:
Very interesting theory and observations, although the whole psychoanalysis aspect is very dated by now.
]]> 10464006 215 Blake Snyder 1615930000 Simone 4 non-fiction 4.29 2005
author: Blake Snyder
name: Simone
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2005
rating: 4
read at: 2013/05/20
date added: 2024/09/18
shelves: non-fiction
review:

]]> 42603984
Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students' dark secrets to light.

Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can't escape the spotlight when his private photos go public. Head girl Chiamaka isn't afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.

Someone is out to get them both. Someone who holds all the aces. And they're planning much more than a high-school game...]]> 470 Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé 1474967531 Simone 0 4.15 2021
author: Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé
name: Simone
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/09/10
shelves: ya, currently-reading, bookstagram-made-me-do-it
review:

]]> 61435765 OG NU ER GRÆNSERNE MELLEM VIRKELIGHED OG FIKTION VED AT GÅ I OPLØSNING.

En magtfuld elite er på kanten til at ændre både bøgernes og virkelighedens verden for altid. Og Olivia Alby og hendes team er muligvis de eneste, der kan standse dem.

Olivias efterforskning leder hende til Askekrøniken, en serie af fantasy-bøger, der var i centrum for en af Ministeriets missioner for nylig. Nu er hun nødt til at finde ud af, hvad der gik galt på den mission, inden den næste bog i serien åbner sig i Strømmen, og en altomfattende krig bryder ud.

Men farerne lurer også ude i virkelighedens verden. Den nådesløse massemorder Victor er trådt ud af sin bog i sin egen jagt på sandheden - og på Olivia og hendes hold.]]> 561 Boris Hansen 8727004562 Simone 4 danish, fantasy, sci-fi 4.49 2022
author: Boris Hansen
name: Simone
average rating: 4.49
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/10
date added: 2024/09/10
shelves: danish, fantasy, sci-fi
review:

]]> 58085883
Born in fire. Tempered in blood.

Epheria is a land divided by war and mistrust. The High Lords of the south squabble and fight, only kept in check by the Dragonguard, traitors of a time long past, who serve the empire of the North.

In the remote villages of southern Epheria, still reeling from the tragic loss of his brother, Calen Bryer prepares for The Proving—a test of courage and skill that not all survive.

But when three strangers arrive in the village of Milltown, with a secret they are willing to die for, Calen’s world is ripped from under him and he is thrust headfirst into a war that has been raging for centuries.

There is no prophecy. His coming was not foretold.

He bleeds like any man, and bleed he will. ]]> 494 Ryan Cahill 1838381813 Simone 0 fantasy, dropped-for-now 4.02 2021
author: Ryan Cahill
name: Simone
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at: 2024/09/10
date added: 2024/09/10
shelves: fantasy, dropped-for-now
review:

]]> 57693608
When I Sing, Mountains Dance, winner of the European Union Prize, is a giddy paean to the land in all its interconnectedness, and in it Sola finds a distinct voice for each extraordinary consciousness: the lightning bolts, roe deer, mountains, the ghosts of the civil war, the widow Sió and later her grown children, Hilari and Mia, as well as Mia’s lovers with their long-buried secrets and their hidden pain.

Irene Solà animates the polyphonic world around us, the fierce music of the seasons, as well as the stories we tell to comprehend loss and love on a personal, historical, and even geological scale. Lyrical, elemental, and mythic, hers is a fearlessly imaginative new voice that brilliantly renders both our tragedies and our triumphs.]]> 216 Irene Solà 1644450801 Simone 2 book-club This was a weird book. 4.11 2019
author: Irene Solà
name: Simone
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2019
rating: 2
read at: 2024/09/07
date added: 2024/09/07
shelves: book-club
review:
This was a weird book.
]]> 199415360 Somewhere Beyond the Sea is the hugely anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea, one of the best-loved and best-selling fantasy novels of the past decade. Featuring gorgeous orange sprayed edges!

A magical house. A secret past. A summons that could change everything.

Arthur Parnassus lives a good life built on the ashes of a bad one.

He’s the master of a strange orphanage on a distant and peculiar island, and he hopes to soon be the adoptive father to the six dangerous and magical children who live there.

Arthur works hard and loves with his whole heart so none of the children ever feel the neglect and pain that he once felt as an orphan on that very same island so long ago. He is not alone: joining him is the love of his life, Linus Baker, a former caseworker in the Department In Charge of Magical Youth. And there’s the island’s sprite, Zoe Chapelwhite, and her girlfriend, Mayor Helen Webb. Together, they will do anything to protect the children.

But when Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past, he finds himself at the helm of a fight for the future that his family, and all magical people, deserve.

And when a new magical child hopes to join them on their island home—one who finds power in calling himself monster, a name that Arthur worked so hard to protect his children from—Arthur knows they’re at a breaking point: their family will either grow stronger than ever or fall apart.

Welcome back to Marsyas Island. This is Arthur’s story.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea is a story of resistance, lovingly told, about the daunting experience of fighting for the life you want to live and doing the work to keep it.]]> 406 T.J. Klune Simone 0 to-read 4.21 2024
author: T.J. Klune
name: Simone
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 195580026
Callum Griffin is the heir to the Irish Mafia. He’s ruthless, arrogant, and he wants to kill me.

We got off on the wrong foot when I set a (very small) fire in his house.

Our families believe a marriage pact is the only thing that will prevent all-out warfare.

I think I might need to murder him while he sleeps.

This would all be a lot easier if Callum wasn’t so damned good-looking.

But I’ve got a lockbox around my heart. Because even if I’m forced to marry him��

I could never love a brutal prince.

“Brutal Prince�� is the explosive first act in the epic “Brutal Birthright�� series. It’s a stand-alone Dark Mafia Romance, complete with HEA and no cliffhangers. It contains blazing hot bedroom scenes for mature readers only!!!]]> 376 Sophie Lark Simone 0 recommended-to-me 3.61 2020
author: Sophie Lark
name: Simone
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2020
rating: 0
read at: 2024/08/12
date added: 2024/08/12
shelves: recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 9256412
Dette er den danske oversættelse af s. 1-303 af Terrier]]> 232 Tamora Pierce 8758807977 Simone 5 4.30
author: Tamora Pierce
name: Simone
average rating: 4.30
book published:
rating: 5
read at: 2015/02/15
date added: 2024/07/26
shelves: tamora-pierce, danish, fantasy
review:

]]> 61208569 0 Heather Marshall 1529364124 Simone 4 book-club, historical-fiction 4.24 2022
author: Heather Marshall
name: Simone
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/13
date added: 2024/07/13
shelves: book-club, historical-fiction
review:

]]> 78292425 In this laugh-out-loud funny sequel to the graphic novel Huda F Are You?, the Fahmys are off to Disney World, but self-conscious Huda worries her family will stand out too much.

Huda and her sisters can’t believe it when her parents announce that they’re actually taking a vacation this summer . . . to DISNEY WORLD! But it’s not quite as perfect as it seems. First Huda has to survive a 24-hour road trip from Michigan to Florida, with her sisters annoying her all the way. And then she can’t help but notice the people staring at her and her family when they pray in public. Back home in Dearborn she and her family blend right in because there are so many other Muslim families, but not so much in Florida and along the way.

It’s a vacation of forced (but unexpectly successful?) sisterly bonding, a complicated new friendship, a bit more independence, and some mixed feelings about her family’s public prayers. Huda is proud of her religion and who she is, but she still sure wishes she didn’t care so much what other people thought.]]> 208 Huda Fahmy 0593532805 Simone 0 to-read 4.20 2023
author: Huda Fahmy
name: Simone
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/11
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 2978791 Langdon og Neveu hvirvles ind i en hæsblæsende jagt hvor det efterhånden går op for dem at de er oppe mod en yderst magtfuld modstander. Medmindre de kan gennemskue det net af mystiske meddelelser der dukker op, vil ikke alene morderen gå fri - en ældgammel, skæbnesvanger sandhed vil også være tabt for evigt.]]> 456 Dan Brown 8799015749 Simone 3 danish 3.96 2003
author: Dan Brown
name: Simone
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at:
date added: 2024/07/11
shelves: danish
review:

]]> 26156203
And so he initiates the Crown’s Game, an ancient duel of magical skill—the greatest test an enchanter will ever know. The victor becomes the Imperial Enchanter and the tsar’s most respected adviser. The defeated is sentenced to death.

Raised on tiny Ovchinin Island her whole life, Vika is eager for the chance to show off her talent in the grand capital of Saint Petersburg. But can she kill another enchanter—even when his magic calls to her like nothing else ever has?

For Nikolai, an orphan, the Crown’s Game is the chance of a lifetime. But his deadly opponent is a force to be reckoned with—beautiful, whip-smart, imaginative—and he can’t stop thinking about her.

And when Pasha, Nikolai’s best friend and heir to the throne, also starts to fall for the mysterious enchantress, Nikolai must defeat the girl they both love…or be killed himself.

As long-buried secrets emerge, threatening the future of the empire, it becomes dangerously clear—the Crown’s Game is not one to lose.]]> 407 Evelyn Skye 0062422588 Simone 0 to-read 3.82 2016
author: Evelyn Skye
name: Simone
average rating: 3.82
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/10
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 210211431
Lights. Camera. Lies.

18-year-old Bel has lived her whole life in the shadow of her mom’s mysterious disappearance. Sixteen years ago, Rachel Price vanished and young Bel was the only witness, but she has no memory of it. Rachel is gone, long presumed dead, and Bel wishes everyone would just move on.

But the case is dragged up from the past when the Price family agree to a true crime documentary. Bel can’t wait for filming to end, for life to go back to normal. And then the impossible happens. Rachel Price reappears, and life will never be normal again.

Rachel has an unbelievable story about what happened to her. Unbelievable, because Bel isn’t sure it’s real. If Rachel is lying, then where has she been all this time? And �� could she be dangerous? With the cameras still rolling, Bel must uncover the truth about her mother, and find out why Rachel Price really came back from the dead . . .

From world-renowned author Holly Jackson comes a mind-blowing masterpiece about one girl’s search for the truth, and the terror in finding out who your family really is.]]> 430 Holly Jackson 0008617260 Simone 0 to-read 4.18 2024
author: Holly Jackson
name: Simone
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/07/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 199605519
When Lydia takes a job running the Senior Citizens�� Social Club three afternoons a week, she assumes she’ll be spending her time drinking tea and playing gentle games of cards.

The members of the Social Club, however, are not at all what Lydia was expecting. From Art, a failed actor turned kleptomaniac to Daphne, who has been hiding from her dark past for decades to Ruby, a Banksy-style knitter who gets revenge in yarn, these seniors look deceptively benign—but when age makes you invisible, secrets are so much easier to hide.

When the city council threatens to sell the doomed community center building, the members of the Social Club join forces with their tiny friends in the daycare next door—as well as the teenaged father of one of the toddlers and a geriatric dog—to save the building. Together, this group’s unorthodox methods may actually work, as long as the police don’t catch up with them first.]]> 337 Clare Pooley 0593831497 Simone 0 to-read 4.12 2024
author: Clare Pooley
name: Simone
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/06/28
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 212253549 My name is Jean Moreau. My place is at Evermore. I belong to the Moriyamas.

It is a truth Jean has built his life around, a reminder this is the best he can hope for and all he deserves. But when he is stolen from Edgar Allan University and sold to a more dangerous master, Jean is forced to contend with a life outside of the Nest for the first time in five years. The Foxes call his transfer to California a fresh start; Jean knows it is little more than a golden cage.

Captain Jeremy Knox is facing his final year with the USC Trojans and fifth straight year falling short of the championships trophy he desperately craves. Taking in the nation’s best defenseman is a no-brainer, even if that man is a Raven. But Jean is no monster, just a man with no hope or desire for a future, and when Evermore's collapse starts dragging Jean's hideous secrets to light, Jeremy is forced to contend with the cost of victory.]]> 330 Nora Sakavic Simone 4 ya 4.57 2024
author: Nora Sakavic
name: Simone
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/06
date added: 2024/06/07
shelves: ya
review:
Jeremy is precious and should be protected forever. I already can’t wait for the next book!
]]> 208317806
Men da en af deres gamle venner i antikvitetsbranchen bliver myrdet, er freden forbi.

Samtidig forsvinder en mystisk pakke, og så udbryder der kaos. Antallet af forbrydelser og mord begynder at stige, og snart er Torsdagsmordklubben foruroligende tæt på begivenhederne. Klubbens medlemmer står nu over for en kompliceret efterforskning og deres hidtil mest dødbringende modstandere: kunstfalsknere, onlinesvindlere og narkohandlere.

Uret tikker �� Kan de nå at løse gåden?]]> 428 Richard Osman 8702395630 Simone 5 danish, mystery-crime 4.25 2023
author: Richard Osman
name: Simone
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/05/21
date added: 2024/05/21
shelves: danish, mystery-crime
review:

]]> 62949047 Pachinko and A Woman is No Man, a riveting and genre-bending debut of love and survival, set in the demilitarized zone separating North and South Korea. Life near the North Korean border is a zero-sum game, an ongoing battle in which you either win or you lose. This dangerous, shadowed netherworld is home to an unforgettable woman known only as the “trickster.�� Inspired by the story of Lee’s great aunt, one of the oldest women to escape alone from North Korea, 8 Lives of a Century Old Trickster consists of eight dark and spellbinding chapters that follow this remarkable character and her family as they struggle to survive during the most turbulent times of modern Korean history. Mirinae Lee’s trickster is a shapeshifter—throughout the course of these interconnected chapters she is a slave, an escape artist, a murderer, a terrorist, a spy, a lover, and a mother—a woman who must often choose the unthinkable to survive war and conquest in Korea. Her story is a beguiling, complex tale of love and survival that will keep you riveted—and speculating—until the very end thanks to Lee’s brilliant talent for sleight of hand. A fascinating look at survival, trauma, and family, 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster is an incredible literary debut from a bright new talent.]]> 304 Mirinae Lee 0063240424 Simone 0 to-read 3.96 2023
author: Mirinae Lee
name: Simone
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/20
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 54659771 He was supposed to be a myth.
But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth... a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.

Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her—for a price. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close��

A modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet.]]> 380 Katee Robert 1728231736 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.68 2021
author: Katee Robert
name: Simone
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2021
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/20
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 35796008
At the same time, Kazi, a legendary former street thief, is sent by the queen to investigate transgressions against the new settlements. When Kazi arrives in the forbidding land of the Ballengers, she learns that there is more to Jase than she thought. As unexpected events spiral out of their control, bringing them intimately together, they continue to play a cat and mouse game of false moves and motives in order to fulfill their own secret missions.

Mary E. Pearson's Dance of Thieves is a new YA novel in the New York Times bestselling Remnant Chronicles universe, in which a reformed thief and the young leader of an outlaw dynasty lock wits in a battle that may cost them their lives—and their hearts. ]]> 512 Mary E. Pearson 1250159016 Simone 0 to-read 4.11 2018
author: Mary E. Pearson
name: Simone
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2018
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/17
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60147395
There has always been a darkness to Ilmar, but never more so than now. The city chafes under the heavy hand of the Palleseen occupation, the choke-hold of its criminal underworld, the boot of its factory owners, the weight of its wretched poor and the burden of its ancient curse.
What will be the spark that lights the conflagration?
Despite the city's refugees, wanderers, murderers, madmen, fanatics and thieves, the catalyst, as always, will be the Anchorwood �� that dark grove of trees, that primeval remnant, that portal, when the moon is full, to strange and distant shores.

Ilmar, some say, is the worst place in the world and the gateway to a thousand worse places.

Ilmar,
City of Long Shadows.
City of Bad Decisions.
City of Last Chances.]]> 500 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1801108420 Simone 4 book-club, fantasy I actually really enjoyed this book most of the time. It’s well-written, and the world-building was interesting, especially the Reproach. It took me a little bit of time before I had an overview of characters and places, but once I did, I was thoroughly entertained.
However, I feel like there were some questions that weren’t fully answered in the end, and it felt as if the story somehow ended too quickly. I hope we get to learn more in the following books, but seeing how they appear to take place elsewhere in the world, it seems less likely than I’d hope.]]> 3.85 2022
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Simone
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/05/12
date added: 2024/05/12
shelves: book-club, fantasy
review:
3.5 ⭐️
I actually really enjoyed this book most of the time. It’s well-written, and the world-building was interesting, especially the Reproach. It took me a little bit of time before I had an overview of characters and places, but once I did, I was thoroughly entertained.
However, I feel like there were some questions that weren’t fully answered in the end, and it felt as if the story somehow ended too quickly. I hope we get to learn more in the following books, but seeing how they appear to take place elsewhere in the world, it seems less likely than I’d hope.
]]> 25499718
WHO WILL INHERIT THIS NEW EARTH?

The last remnants of the human race left a dying Earth, desperate to find a new home among the stars. Following in the footsteps of their ancestors, they discover the greatest treasure of the past age—a world terraformed and prepared for human life.

But all is not right in this new Eden. In the long years since the planet was abandoned, the work of its architects has borne disastrous fruit. The planet is not waiting for them, pristine and unoccupied. New masters have turned it from a refuge into mankind's worst nightmare.

Now two civilizations are on a collision course, both testing the boundaries of what they will do to survive. As the fate of humanity hangs in the balance, who are the true heirs of this new Earth?]]> 608 Adrian Tchaikovsky 1447273281 Simone 0 to-read 4.29 2015
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Simone
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2015
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 40803025
Bearing witness to the desperate struggle for existence between life old and new, is Stefan Advani, rebel, outlaw, prisoner, survivor. This is his testament, an account of the journey that took him into the blazing desolation of the western deserts; that transported him east down the river and imprisoned him in verdant hell of the jungle's darkest heart; that led him deep into the labyrinths and caverns of the underworld. He will treat with monsters, madman, mutants. The question is, which one of them will inherit this Earth?]]> 602 Adrian Tchaikovsky Simone 0 3.98 2019
author: Adrian Tchaikovsky
name: Simone
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2019
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/05/12
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me, sci-fi
review:

]]> 18161930 Alternate cover edition of American Gods

Days before his release from prison, Shadow's wife, Laura, dies in a mysterious car crash. Numbly, he makes his way back home. On the plane, he encounters the enigmatic Mr Wednesday, who claims to be a refugee from a distant war, a former god and the king of America.

Together they embark on a profoundly strange journey across the heart of the USA, whilst all around them a storm of preternatural and epic proportions threatens to break.

Scary, gripping and deeply unsettling, American Gods takes a long, hard look into the soul of America. You'll be surprised by what - and who - it finds there...

This is the author's preferred text, never before published in the UK, and is about 12,000 words longer than the previous UK edition.

]]> 722 Neil Gaiman Simone 5
Already 60 pages into this book, I was hooked, and it's been a very long time since I read a book that kept me guessing as much as this one. This is the first time I've read anything by Neil Gaiman, and it definitely will not be the last.

"American Gods" seems to keep you guessing from beginning to end. Throughout almost the entire book, I sat with a feeling that cannot be described with anything but this sentence (which I repeated to my friends more than one time): "I know that something is going on with this character/place/etc., but I have no idea what exactly!"
I like the character of Shadow and I also like Wednesday a fair amount. I love the idea that people who move from one country to another bring along their gods and somehow "create them anew", and that gods can only exist if people believe in them. I love the idea of the "old gods" and the "new gods". And I especially love how Gaiman kept surprising me chapter after chapter with his philosophical action work.

In general, I just pretty much love this entire book!]]> 4.07 2001
author: Neil Gaiman
name: Simone
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 2015/02/07
date added: 2024/04/25
shelves: fantasy, all-time-favorites, book-club
review:
Amazing. I think that's the best word to describe this book. If I have to add some more to that, I'd say it's mystifying and intriguing. And very hard to figure out.

Already 60 pages into this book, I was hooked, and it's been a very long time since I read a book that kept me guessing as much as this one. This is the first time I've read anything by Neil Gaiman, and it definitely will not be the last.

"American Gods" seems to keep you guessing from beginning to end. Throughout almost the entire book, I sat with a feeling that cannot be described with anything but this sentence (which I repeated to my friends more than one time): "I know that something is going on with this character/place/etc., but I have no idea what exactly!"
I like the character of Shadow and I also like Wednesday a fair amount. I love the idea that people who move from one country to another bring along their gods and somehow "create them anew", and that gods can only exist if people believe in them. I love the idea of the "old gods" and the "new gods". And I especially love how Gaiman kept surprising me chapter after chapter with his philosophical action work.

In general, I just pretty much love this entire book!
]]> 11482875
With The Sisters Brothers, Patrick deWitt pays homage to the classic Western, transforming it into an unforgettable comic tour de force. Filled with a remarkable cast of characters—losers, cheaters, and ne'er-do-wells from all stripes of life–and told by a complex and compelling narrator, it is a violent, lustful odyssey through the underworld of the 1850s frontier that beautifully captures the humour, melancholy and grit of the Old West and two brothers bound by blood, violence and love.]]> 328 Patrick deWitt 1847083188 Simone 5 3.89 2011
author: Patrick deWitt
name: Simone
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2011
rating: 5
read at: 2024/04/18
date added: 2024/04/18
shelves: historical-fiction, recommended-to-me
review:
I thoroughly enjoyed this read. It was so different from what I usually like, but there was just something special about it, a certain atmosphere that’s hard to pinpoint. I should definitely read more of this type of novel.
]]> 8553672
Langdon hvirvles ind i en intens og farefuld jagt på en nådesløs morder - en jagt, som fører ham gennem Vatikanet og Rom, hvor han kommer på sporet af en række ældgamle, hemmelighedsfulde tegn, der fører ham til broderskabets inderste kerne.]]> 448 Dan Brown 8791746035 Simone 4 danish 3.90 2000
author: Dan Brown
name: Simone
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at:
date added: 2024/04/15
shelves: danish
review:

]]> 55224232 'I have long believed that loving a boyband brings with it a wealth of transferable skills, but I'd never imagined solving a murder would be one of them...'

Harri and her best friends worship Half Light - an internationally famous boyband. When frontman Frankie is arrested on suspicion of murdering his oldest friend Evan, Harri feels like her world's about to fall apart. But quickly she realises that she - and all the other Half Light superfans out there - know and understand much more about these boys than any detective ever could.

Now she's rallying a fangirl army to prove Frankie's innocence - and to show the world that you should never underestimate a teenage girl with a passion...]]> 352 Ava Eldred 024144943X Simone 3 mystery-crime, ya 3.39 2021
author: Ava Eldred
name: Simone
average rating: 3.39
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/04/12
date added: 2024/04/12
shelves: mystery-crime, ya
review:
An alright mystery, but a really lovely book about the importance of fandoms and friends and how much something can mean to you. How much being a fan of something can change your life.
]]> 295 Treasure Island has never been surpassed. From the moment young Jim Hawkins first encounters the sinister Blind Pew at the Admiral Benbow Inn until the climactic battle for treasure on a tropic isle, the novel creates scenes and characters that have fired the imaginations of generations of readers. Written by a superb prose stylist, a master of both action and atmosphere, the story centers upon the conflict between good and evil - but in this case a particularly engaging form of evil. It is the villainy of that most ambiguous rogue Long John Silver that sets the tempo of this tale of treachery, greed, and daring. Designed to forever kindle a dream of high romance and distant horizons, Treasure Island is, in the words of G. K. Chesterton, 'the realization of an ideal, that which is promised in its provocative and beckoning map; a vision not only of white skeletons but also green palm trees and sapphire seas.' G. S. Fraser terms it 'an utterly original book' and goes on to write: 'There will always be a place for stories like Treasure Island that can keep boys and old men happy.']]> 352 Robert Louis Stevenson 0753453800 Simone 3 classics 3.84 1882
author: Robert Louis Stevenson
name: Simone
average rating: 3.84
book published: 1882
rating: 3
read at: 2024/03/28
date added: 2024/03/28
shelves: classics
review:

]]> 11
Together this dynamic pair begin a journey through space aided by quotes from The Hitchhiker's Guide ("A towel is about the most massively useful thing an interstellar hitchhiker can have") and a galaxy-full of fellow travelers: Zaphod Beeblebrox--the two-headed, three-armed ex-hippie and totally out-to-lunch president of the galaxy; Trillian, Zaphod's girlfriend (formally Tricia McMillan), whom Arthur tried to pick up at a cocktail party once upon a time zone; Marvin, a paranoid, brilliant, and chronically depressed robot; Veet Voojagig, a former graduate student who is obsessed with the disappearance of all the ballpoint pens he bought over the years.

Where are these pens? Why are we born? Why do we die? Why do we spend so much time between wearing digital watches? For all the answers stick your thumb to the stars. And don't forget to bring a towel!]]> 216 Douglas Adams Simone 0 4.21 1979
author: Douglas Adams
name: Simone
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1979
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/02/15
shelves: currently-reading, classics, sci-fi
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]]> 74738
As an essay in fictional poetics, The Fantastic is consciously structuralist in its approach to the generic subject. Todorov seeks linguistic bases for the structural features he notes in a variety of fantastic texts, including Potocki's The Sargasso Manuscript, Nerval's Aur lia, Balzac's The Magic Skin, the Arabian Nights, Cazotte's Le Diable Amoureux, Kafka's The Metamorphosis, and tales by E. T. A. Hoffman, Charles Perrault, Guy de Maupassant, Nicolai Gogol, and Edgar A. Poe.]]> 180 Tzvetan Todorov 0801491460 Simone 3 non-fiction, study-books 3.91 1970
author: Tzvetan Todorov
name: Simone
average rating: 3.91
book published: 1970
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/18
date added: 2024/01/18
shelves: non-fiction, study-books
review:
Interesting, but very dated theory (which makes sense as it was published more than fifty years ago). It’s worth a read if you’re interested either in early theory of fantastic literature or in structuralism, but if you’re considering using it for studies of modern fantasy, I’d not recommend it and you should consider e.g. Farah Mendlesohn or Brian Attebery instead.
]]> 15732533
Packed with clever thought experiments, dazzling illustrations and jaw-dropping facts, The Magic of Reality explains a stunningly wide range of natural phenomena. What is stuff made of? How old is the universe? Why do the continents look like disconnected pieces of a puzzle? What causes tsunamis? Why are there so many kinds of plants and animals? Who was the first man, or woman? This is a page-turning, graphic detective story that not only mines all the sciences for its clues but primes the reader to think like a scientist as well.

Richard Dawkins, the world’s most famous evolutionary biologist and one of science education’s most passionate advocates, has spent his career elucidating the wonders of science for adult readers. But now, in a dramatic departure, he has teamed up with acclaimed artist Dave McKean and used his unrivaled explanatory powers to share the magic of science with readers of all ages. This is a treasure trove for anyone who has ever wondered how the world works. Dawkins and McKean have created an illustrated guide to the secrets of our world—and the universe beyond—that will entertain and inform for years to come.]]> 257 Richard Dawkins 0552778052 Simone 0 to-read 3.93 2011
author: Richard Dawkins
name: Simone
average rating: 3.93
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/01/15
shelves: to-read
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]]> 60897825
Men i det jødiske miljø betyder slægten og traditionerne alt, og til den viljestærke mor Bruches sorg forkaster Hannahs brødre de kvinder, ægteskabsmægleren finder til dem. En efter en gifter de sig med danske kvinder, og mor Bruche og far Yitzhak bliver forvist til de bagerste rækker i synagogen. Nu er det kun Hannah, der kan redde familiens ære. Skal hun ofre sig og opgive musikken og den mand, hun elsker?

ANNAS SANG er en dramatisk og medrivende fortælling om pligtens pris, ensomhed og krig, men også om ukueligt livsmod og altovervindende kærlighed. Bogen, der er Benjamin Koppels første roman, er inspireret af sande historier.]]> 505 Benjamin Koppel 8702324644 Simone 0 to-read, book-club, danish 4.20 2022
author: Benjamin Koppel
name: Simone
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/01/15
shelves: to-read, book-club, danish
review:

]]> 51692945 518 Leigh Bardugo 1510104461 Simone 3 fantasy, ya 4.15 2019
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Simone
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2023/12/22
date added: 2023/12/22
shelves: fantasy, ya
review:
I absolutely loved Nina’s part of this, and I liked hearing things from Nikolai and Zoya’s points of view as well. But I wasn’t a big fan of the Saints twist. Curious as to how the next book will finish things off.
]]> 56551296 ÆNDRE DEM INDEFRA.
ET ELLER ANDET FJOLS OPFANDT TEKNOLOGIEN TIL DET.
OG NU PRØVER NOGEN AT MISBRUGE DEN."

Olivia Alby anser ikke ligefrem 'fiktionsagent' for at være et drømmejob. Missionerne tager ofte en livsfarlig drejning, når Ministeriet sender hende ind i en roman for at redde den fra fremmede agenter, og derudover er hun havnet på et dysfunktionelt team, der virker fuldstændig ude af stand til at arbejde sammen. I det mindste er lønnen god, og Olivia har brug for pengene, hvis hun nogensinde skal realisere drømmen om at undslippe sin fortid.

Men da en mission går galt, hvirvles Olivia og hendes holdkammerater ind i en global konspiration iværksat af usynlige fjender. Nogen har store planer for fiktionsteknologiens muligheder, og for at finde sandheden må Olivia følge deres blodige spor på tværs af både bøgernes fiktive verdener og hendes egen ...]]> 608 Boris Hansen 8711989173 Simone 5 danish 4.34 2021
author: Boris Hansen
name: Simone
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2023/12/17
date added: 2023/12/17
shelves: danish
review:

]]> 195743407
I nutiden kæmper Alexandra med at finde fodfæste i sin nye virkelighed, men intet er som før.

I takt med at nutiden og fortidens skæbnetråde vikles mere og mere ind i hinanden, får Alex sværere ved at ignorere, at Ragnarok nok blot er begyndelsen på rækken af de planer, som skæbnen har hvirvlet hende ind i.

Kapløbet med tiden er sat i gang, og Alexandra må søge i de mørkeste afkroge af mytologien �� og i sig selv �� for at redde Nathans slægtslinje. Men hvor langt kan man egentlig gå i retfærdighedens navn uden at miste sig selv undervejs?]]> 447 Dina Kjøng Sjöblom 879433210X Simone 0 to-read, people-i-know 4.48 2023
author: Dina Kjøng Sjöblom
name: Simone
average rating: 4.48
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/12/14
shelves: to-read, people-i-know
review:

]]> 65214203 With over 19 million copies in print and a remarkable record of #1 New York Times, Wall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly bestsellers, Bill O'Reilly's Killing series is the most popular series of narrative histories in the world.

Killing the Witches revisits one of the most frightening and inexplicable episodes in American history: the events of 1692 and 1693 in Salem Village, Massachusetts. What began as a mysterious affliction of two young girls who suffered violent fits and exhibited strange behavior soon spread to other young women. Rumors of demonic possession and witchcraft consumed Salem. Soon three women were arrested under suspicion of being witches--but as the hysteria spread, more than 200 people were accused. Thirty were found guilty, twenty were executed, and others died in jail or their lives were ruined.

What really happened in Salem? Killing the Witches tells the horrifying story of a colonial town's madness, offering the historical context of similar episodes of community mania during that time, and exploring the evidence that emerged in the Salem trials, in contemporary accounts, and in subsequent investigations. The result is a compulsively readable book about good, evil, and how fear can overwhelm fact and reason.]]> 291 Bill O'Reilly 1250283329 Simone 0 to-read 3.49 2023
author: Bill O'Reilly
name: Simone
average rating: 3.49
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/12/10
shelves: to-read
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]]> 61714633 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Killers of the Flower Moon, a page-turning story of shipwreck, survival, and savagery, culminating in a court martial that reveals a shocking truth. The powerful narrative reveals the deeper meaning of the events on the Wager, showing that it was not only the captain and crew who ended up on trial, but the very idea of empire.

On January 28, 1742, a ramshackle vessel of patched-together wood and cloth washed up on the coast of Brazil. Inside were thirty emaciated men, barely alive, and they had an extraordinary tale to tell. They were survivors of His Majesty's Ship the Wager, a British vessel that had left England in 1740 on a secret mission during an imperial war with Spain. While the Wager had been chasing a Spanish treasure-filled galleon known as "the prize of all the oceans," it had wrecked on a desolate island off the coast of Patagonia. The men, after being marooned for months and facing starvation, built the flimsy craft and sailed for more than a hundred days, traversing nearly 3,000 miles of storm-wracked seas. They were greeted as heroes.

But then . . . six months later, another, even more decrepit craft landed on the coast of Chile. This boat contained just three castaways, and they told a very different story. The thirty sailors who landed in Brazil were not heroes - they were mutineers. The first group responded with countercharges of their own, of a tyrannical and murderous senior officer and his henchmen. It became clear that while stranded on the island the crew had fallen into anarchy, with warring factions fighting for dominion over the barren wilderness. As accusations of treachery and murder flew, the Admiralty convened a court martial to determine who was telling the truth. The stakes were life-and-death--for whomever the court found guilty could hang.

The Wager is a grand tale of human behavior at the extremes told by one of our greatest nonfiction writers. Grann's recreation of the hidden world on a British warship rivals the work of Patrick O'Brian, his portrayal of the castaways' desperate straits stands up to the classics of survival writing such as The Endurance, and his account of the court martial has the savvy of a Scott Turow thriller. As always with Grann's work, the incredible twists of the narrative hold the reader spellbound.]]> 331 David Grann 0385534264 Simone 0 to-read 4.14 2023
author: David Grann
name: Simone
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/12/10
shelves: to-read
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]]> 9326 188 Hiromu Arakawa 1421501759 Simone 0 comics 4.55 2003
author: Hiromu Arakawa
name: Simone
average rating: 4.55
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/04
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 871 184 Hiromu Arakawa 1591169291 Simone 0 comics 4.56 2003
author: Hiromu Arakawa
name: Simone
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2003
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/04
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 868 182 Hiromu Arakawa 1591169259 Simone 0 comics 4.56 2002
author: Hiromu Arakawa
name: Simone
average rating: 4.56
book published: 2002
rating: 0
read at: 2023/12/04
date added: 2023/12/04
shelves: comics
review:

]]> 873
There are many types of alchemy in the world. Edward's commanding officer, "Flame Alchemist" Roy Mustang, can control fire. Shou Tucker, the "Sewing-Life Alchemist," specializes in the most difficult alchemy of all...biological transmutation, the ability to alter the tissue of living things. But no matter what their power, alchemists are still human. And when a mysterious killer begins stalking state alchemists, no one can escape his vengeance...]]> 182 Hiromu Arakawa 1591169232 Simone 0 comics 4.52 2002
author: Hiromu Arakawa
name: Simone
average rating: 4.52
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 870
In an alchemical ritual gone wrong, Edward Elric lost his arm and his leg, and his brother Alphonse became nothing but a soul in a suit of armor. Equipped with mechanical “auto-mail�� limbs, Edward becomes a state alchemist, seeking the one thing that can restore his and his brother’s bodies...the legendary Philosopher’s Stone.

the mystical power to alter the natural world; something between magic, art and science. When two brothers, Edward and Alphonse Elric, dabbled in this power to grant their dearest wish, one of them lost an arm and a leg…and the other became nothing but a soul locked into a body of living steel. Now Edward is an agent of the government, a slave of the military-alchemical complex, using his unique powers to obey orders…even to kill. Except his powers aren't unique. The world has been ravaged by the abuse of alchemy. And in pursuit of the ultimate alchemical treasure, the Philosopher's Stone, their enemies are even more ruthless than they are…]]> 192 Hiromu Arakawa 1591169208 Simone 0 comics 4.53 2002
author: Hiromu Arakawa
name: Simone
average rating: 4.53
book published: 2002
rating: 0
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]]> 66087070 Seven friends throw a 1920s-themed party, where it's all pretend--until one of them is murdered. One of Us Is Lying meets Knives Out in this killer locked-room mystery.

Someone brought a knife to the party.

To celebrate the end of high school, Izzy Morales joins her ride-or-die Kassidy and five friends on a 1920s-themed getaway at the glamorous Ashwood Manor. There, Izzy and her friends party in vintage dresses and expensive diamonds--until Kassidy's boyfriend turns up dead.

Murdered, investigators declare when they arrive at the scene, and now every party guest is a suspect. There's the girlfriend, in love. The other girl, in despair. The old friend, forlorn. The new friend, distressed. The brooding enigma. And then, there's Izzy--the girl who brought the knife.

To find the killer, everyone must undergo a grueling interrogation, all while locked in an estate where, suddenly, the greatest luxury is innocence.]]> 308 Lauren Muñoz 0593617533 Simone 0 to-read 3.64 2023
author: Lauren Muñoz
name: Simone
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/25
shelves: to-read
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]]> 123257687
ASSISTANT WANTED: Notorious, high-ranking villain seeks loyal, levelheaded assistant for unspecified office duties, supporting staff for random mayhem and terror, and other Dark Things In General. Discretion a must. Excellent benefits.

With ailing family to support, Evie Sage's employment status isn't just important, it's vital. So when a mishap with Rennedawn’s most infamous Villain results in a job offer―naturally, she says yes. No job is perfect, of course, but even less so when you develop a teeny crush on your terrifying, temperamental, and undeniably hot boss. Don’t find evil so attractive, Evie.

But just when she’s getting used to severed heads suspended from the ceiling and the odd squish of an errant eyeball beneath her heel, Evie suspects this dungeon has a huge rat…and not just the literal kind. Because something rotten is growing in the kingdom of Rennedawn, and someone wants to take the Villain―and his entire nefarious empire―out.

Now Evie must not only resist drooling over her boss but also figure out exactly who is sabotaging his work…and ensure he makes them pay.

After all, a good job is hard to find.]]> 342 Hannah Nicole Maehrer 1649375808 Simone 0 to-read 3.88 2023
author: Hannah Nicole Maehrer
name: Simone
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/25
shelves: to-read
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]]> 52339313
When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he performs the ritual himself, and then sets out to find the ghost of his murdered cousin and set it free.

However, the ghost he summons is actually Julian Diaz, the school’s resident bad boy, and Julian is not about to go quietly into death. He’s determined to find out what happened and tie up some loose ends before he leaves. Left with no choice, Yadriel agrees to help Julian, so that they can both get what they want. But the longer Yadriel spends with Julian, the less he wants to let him leave.]]> 344 Aiden Thomas 1250250463 Simone 0 4.26 2020
author: Aiden Thomas
name: Simone
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/12
shelves: to-read, bookstagram-made-me-do-it, recommended-to-me, ya
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]]> 1611030 Danish 194 Svend Åge Madsen 8701547925 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.61 1986
author: Svend Åge Madsen
name: Simone
average rating: 3.61
book published: 1986
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/12
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 6653796 198 Svend Åge Madsen 8700734942 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 3.71 1980
author: Svend Åge Madsen
name: Simone
average rating: 3.71
book published: 1980
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/11/12
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 2554483
A literary sensation when it appeared in 1915, Spoon River Anthology earned Edgar Lee Masters comparisons to T. S. Eliot and Walt Whitman. The characters who speak here tarnish the pure image of their Midwestern hamlet by holding forth from the grave with tales of illicit love affairs, betrayed confidences, political corruption, and miserable marriages. The first serious work of psychological naturalism, this artful indictment of small-town hypocrisy influenced Theodore Dreiser, William Faulkner, and other luminaries.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.]]> 294 Edgar Lee Masters 0143105159 Simone 4 classics, study-books 3.96 1915
author: Edgar Lee Masters
name: Simone
average rating: 3.96
book published: 1915
rating: 4
read at: 2014/04/10
date added: 2023/11/04
shelves: classics, study-books
review:
Read this for my Place and Movement in American Literature 1900-1930 class. I actually quite like it, though I don't usually like poems. The first half was the best, however. Afterwards, it gets a bit too philosophical for me at some points.
]]> 24179216
'Elizabeth is missing' reads the note in Maud's pocket in her own handwriting, and the one on the wall.

Maud's been getting forgetful. She keeps buying peach slices when she has a cupboard full, forgets to drink the cups of tea she's made and writes notes to remind herself of things. But Maud is determined to discover what has happened to her friend, Elizabeth, and what it has to do with the unsolved disappearance of her sister Sukey, years back, just after the war.

A fast-paced mystery, an unforgettable voice: you will laugh and cry but you'll never forget Maud.]]> 275 Emma Healey 0241968186 Simone 4 3.70 2014
author: Emma Healey
name: Simone
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2023/10/25
date added: 2023/10/25
shelves: mystery-crime, recommended-to-me
review:
Extremely well-written unreliable narrator
]]> 137702 224 Brian Attebery 0253356652 Simone 0 3.81 1980
author: Brian Attebery
name: Simone
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1980
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/10/21
shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction, research
review:

]]> 1119335 375 Brian Jacques 0099281716 Simone 4 fantasy 4.04 1993
author: Brian Jacques
name: Simone
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1993
rating: 4
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shelves: fantasy
review:

]]> 65213543 When an injury throws a young, battle-hungry orc off her chosen path, she may find that what we need isn't always what we seek.

In Bookshops & Bonedust, a prequel to Legends & Lattes, author Travis Baldree takes us on a journey of high fantasy, first loves, and second-hand books.

Viv's career with the notorious mercenary company Rackam's Ravens isn't going as planned.

Wounded during the hunt for a powerful necromancer, she's packed off against her will to recuperate in the sleepy beach town of Murk—so far from the action that she worries she'll never be able to return to it.

What's a thwarted soldier of fortune to do?

Spending her hours at a beleaguered bookshop in the company of its foul-mouthed proprietor is the last thing Viv would have predicted, but it may be both exactly what she needs and the seed of changes she couldn't possibly imagine.

Still, adventure isn't all that far away. A suspicious traveler in gray, a gnome with a chip on her shoulder, a summer fling, and an improbable number of skeletons prove Murk to be more eventful than Viv could have ever expected.]]> 336 Travis Baldree 1250886104 Simone 0 to-read 4.13 2023
author: Travis Baldree
name: Simone
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 53475231 352 Kristoffer Hughes 0738763829 Simone 0 to-read, non-fiction 4.36
author: Kristoffer Hughes
name: Simone
average rating: 4.36
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]]> 62015302 “Du kan jo overveje, hvorfor der er så mange ord, der aldrig er lavet i feminin form. Som drabsmand og voldtægtsmand. Eller krigsherre.��

I den nye tid er der ingen mænd tilbage i samfundet. Ud over en lille flok hanner, man opbevarer på et avlscenter på Lolland.

Fire kvinders liv vikles ufrivilligt ind i hinanden, men de bliver tvunget til at samarbejde, da der pludselig dukker en dreng op ude i det fri.

Spørgsmålet er, hvornår han indeholder så meget testosteron, at han bliver en trussel for dem alle?]]> 351 Maren Uthaug 8711996781 Simone 3 book-club, danish 3.61 2022
author: Maren Uthaug
name: Simone
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/10/11
date added: 2023/10/11
shelves: book-club, danish
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]]> 28187 Alternate cover for this ISBN can be found here

Percy Jackson is a good kid, but he can't seem to focus on his schoolwork or control his temper. And lately, being away at boarding school is only getting worse - Percy could have sworn his pre-algebra teacher turned into a monster and tried to kill him. When Percy's mom finds out, she knows it's time that he knew the truth about where he came from, and that he go to the one place he'll be safe. She sends Percy to Camp Half Blood, a summer camp for demigods (on Long Island), where he learns that the father he never knew is Poseidon, God of the Sea. Soon a mystery unfolds and together with his friends—one a satyr and the other the demigod daughter of Athena - Percy sets out on a quest across the United States to reach the gates of the Underworld (located in a recording studio in Hollywood) and prevent a catastrophic war between the gods.]]> 377 Rick Riordan 0786838655 Simone 0 to-read 4.31 2005
author: Rick Riordan
name: Simone
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/10/09
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 31307434
Through the first season, Jim and his friends matches wits with the supernatural side of San Francisco, making both new friends �� and a few enemies.

Tempus Investigations mixes the world of TV and books, making a unique kind of story �� a fan fiction so elaborate it needed to create the show itself. In this book, you’ll find the first four episodes, which form Season 1.

If you love shows like Buffy, Angel and Supernatural �� tune in for Tempus Investigations!]]> 228 Claus Holm Simone 4 fantasy
“Tempus Investigations: Season 1�� is divided into four “episodes��, written as stories that stand alone to a certain degree, like episodes on most American TV shows, complete with each their own plot, but connected by a continuous development. For now, however, although the fourth and final episode does wrap up elements from the three other cases in a surprising way (I love surprises), the development otherwise seems to have mostly been in character relations. I suspect that there might be a greater story line to come in future “seasons��, though, because the “feel�� of this book is like that of the first five episodes of a show, in which the concept and the characters are introduced, but the main story line has yet to kick in. I’m intrigued to see how things will play out now that the team is assembled and in which direction the story will go, as it is not, at this point, all clear to me.

The characters are likeable and believable. I’m especially a fan of Mercedes (the secretary of PI Jim Corrigan) and Andrew (FBI). Written as a TV show, though, many of the characters seem to embrace certain “TV tropes��, which Holm may or may not have done purposefully. I, for one, would like to see the characters transgress the norms eventually. I do think they have the capacity for it.

So I’m going to stay tuned for season 2. I’m looking forward to new adventures for Jim and his friends at Tempus Investigations.]]> 4.28
author: Claus Holm
name: Simone
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/27
date added: 2023/09/27
shelves: fantasy
review:
In this book, Holm tries something that I haven’t heard of before: He writes a TV show in book form. The concept intrigued me immediately when I first heard about it, because it seemed to be one of those things that can either succeed well or fail miserably. Now, having read the book, I can say that my opinion is that the concept definitely works and makes for an interesting change in the novel genre.

“Tempus Investigations: Season 1�� is divided into four “episodes��, written as stories that stand alone to a certain degree, like episodes on most American TV shows, complete with each their own plot, but connected by a continuous development. For now, however, although the fourth and final episode does wrap up elements from the three other cases in a surprising way (I love surprises), the development otherwise seems to have mostly been in character relations. I suspect that there might be a greater story line to come in future “seasons��, though, because the “feel�� of this book is like that of the first five episodes of a show, in which the concept and the characters are introduced, but the main story line has yet to kick in. I’m intrigued to see how things will play out now that the team is assembled and in which direction the story will go, as it is not, at this point, all clear to me.

The characters are likeable and believable. I’m especially a fan of Mercedes (the secretary of PI Jim Corrigan) and Andrew (FBI). Written as a TV show, though, many of the characters seem to embrace certain “TV tropes��, which Holm may or may not have done purposefully. I, for one, would like to see the characters transgress the norms eventually. I do think they have the capacity for it.

So I’m going to stay tuned for season 2. I’m looking forward to new adventures for Jim and his friends at Tempus Investigations.
]]> 64627957
Not literally, of course. She doesn’t believe in ghosts. Going to her dad’s school just seems like her best hope at figuring out who he was.

But then Este meets Mateo, who is maybe—probably—definitely—a real ghost. And an annoying one at that.

When Mateo frames Este for the theft of a rare book from the library’s secret spire and then vanishes, Este will have to track him down or risk being expelled and leaving Radcliffe early just like her father did.

Except following her father’s footsteps might be more dangerous than Este ever anticipated. As she investigates the library with its secret passageways, hidden tunnels, and haunted halls, she learns that the student disappearances aren’t just myth. And if she isn’t careful, she’ll be next.]]> 366 Rachel Moore Simone 0 to-read 3.56 2023
author: Rachel Moore
name: Simone
average rating: 3.56
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/26
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 112974911 The Inheritance Games meets Ocean's Eleven in this cinematic heist thriller where a cutthroat competition brings together the world's best thieves and one thief is playing for the highest stakes of all: her mother's life.

At only seventeen years old, Ross Quest is already a master thief, especially adept at escape plans. Until her plan to run away from her legendary family of thieves takes an unexpected turn, leaving her mother's life hanging in the balance.

In a desperate bid, she enters the Thieves' Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where killing the competition isn't exactly off limits, but the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world--a wish that could save her mom. When she learns two of her competitors include her childhood nemesis and a handsome, smooth-talking guy who might also want to steal her heart, winning the Gambit becomes trickier than she imagined.

Ross tries her best to stick to the family creed: trust no one whose last name isn't Quest. But with the stakes this high, Ross will have to decide who to con and who to trust before time runs out. After all, only one of them can win.]]> 384 Kayvion Lewis 0593625366 Simone 0 to-read 3.86 2023
author: Kayvion Lewis
name: Simone
average rating: 3.86
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 37584868
Befriending the Foxes was inadvisable. Kissing one is unthinkable. Neil should know better than to get involved with anyone this close to the end, but Andrew's never been the easiest person to walk away from. If they both say it doesn't mean anything, maybe Neil won't regret losing it, but the one person Neil can't lie to is himself.

He's got promises to keep and a team to get to championships if he can just outrun Riko a little longer, but Riko's not the only monster in Neil's life. The truth might get them all killed—or be Neil's one shot at getting out of this alive.

Word count: 138,560.]]> 413 Nora Sakavic Simone 5 4.70 2014
author: Nora Sakavic
name: Simone
average rating: 4.70
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2023/09/21
date added: 2023/09/21
shelves: recommended-to-me, ya, all-time-favorites
review:

]]> 29810293
Except Andrew doesn't give up anything for free and Neil is terrible at trusting anyone but himself. The two don't have much time to come to terms with their situation before outside forces start tearing them apart. Riko is intent on destroying Neil's fragile new life, and the Foxes have just become collateral damage.

Neil's days are numbered, but he's learning the hard way to go down fighting for what he believes in, and Neil believes in Andrew even if Andrew won't believe in himself.]]> 328 Nora Sakavic 1517197708 Simone 4 recommended-to-me, ya 4.47 2013
author: Nora Sakavic
name: Simone
average rating: 4.47
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/18
date added: 2023/09/18
shelves: recommended-to-me, ya
review:
I am annoyingly invested in this series now and will hurry on to the next one. Neil is my favorite and deserves the world <3
]]> 55878227 "I devoured this."—V. E. Schwab, New York Times bestselling author of The Invisible Life of Addie La Rue

An International Bestseller
An NPR Best Sci Fi, Fantasy, & Speculative Fiction Book of 2022
A Book Riot Best Book of 2022
A Vulture Best Fantasy Novel of 2022
A ŷ������ Best Fantasy Choice Award Nominee
A Library Journal Best Book of 2022

Out on the Yorkshire Moors lives a secret line of people for whom books are food, and who retain all of a book's content after eating it. To them, spy novels are a peppery snack; romance novels are sweet and delicious. Eating a map can help them remember destinations, and children, when they misbehave, are forced to eat dry, musty pages from dictionaries.

Devon is part of The Family, an old and reclusive clan of book eaters. Her brothers grow up feasting on stories of valor and adventure, and Devon—like all other book eater women—is raised on a carefully curated diet of fairy tales and cautionary stories.

But real life doesn't always come with happy endings, as Devon learns when her son is born with a rare and darker kind of hunger—not for books, but for human minds.

At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.]]> 294 Sunyi Dean 1250810191 Simone 0 to-read, book-club 3.78 2022
author: Sunyi Dean
name: Simone
average rating: 3.78
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/09/10
shelves: to-read, book-club
review:

]]> 41014257 New York Times bestselling authors of America’s First Daughter comes the epic story of Eliza Schuyler Hamilton—a revolutionary woman who, like her new nation, struggled to define herself in the wake of war, betrayal, and tragedy. Haunting, moving, and beautifully written, Dray and Kamoie used thousands of letters and original sources to tell Eliza’s story as it’s never been told before—not just as the wronged wife at the center of a political sex scandal—but also as a founding mother who shaped an American legacy in her own right.

A general’s daughter��

Coming of age on the perilous frontier of revolutionary New York, Elizabeth Schuyler champions the fight for independence. And when she meets Alexander Hamilton, Washington’s penniless but passionate aide-de-camp, she’s captivated by the young officer’s charisma and brilliance. They fall in love, despite Hamilton’s bastard birth and the uncertainties of war.

A founding father’s wife...

But the union they create—in their marriage and the new nation—is far from perfect. From glittering inaugural balls to bloody street riots, the Hamiltons are at the center of it all—including the political treachery of America’s first sex scandal, which forces Eliza to struggle through heartbreak and betrayal to find forgiveness.

The last surviving light of the Revolution��

When a duel destroys Eliza’s hard-won peace, the grieving widow fights her husband’s enemies to preserve Alexander’s legacy. But long-buried secrets threaten everything Eliza believes about her marriage and her own legacy. Questioning her tireless devotion to the man and country that have broken her heart, she’s left with one last battle—to understand the flawed man she married and the imperfect union he could never have created without her…]]> 652 Stephanie Dray Simone 4 historical-fiction, book-club I loved reading Eliza's story and learning more about how the life of the early Americans might have unfolded. However, I'm glad I'd watched the Hamilton musical before reading this, because there are a lot of politics and events in it that I - as someone who's not from the US - would not have been familiar with beforehand otherwise, and although these are all described in the novel through Eliza's point of view, I think I would have been a bit confused about the story line and importance of events.]]> 4.32 2018
author: Stephanie Dray
name: Simone
average rating: 4.32
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2023/09/09
date added: 2023/09/09
shelves: historical-fiction, book-club
review:
A very interesting and well-written historical novel. Beautiful prose!
I loved reading Eliza's story and learning more about how the life of the early Americans might have unfolded. However, I'm glad I'd watched the Hamilton musical before reading this, because there are a lot of politics and events in it that I - as someone who's not from the US - would not have been familiar with beforehand otherwise, and although these are all described in the novel through Eliza's point of view, I think I would have been a bit confused about the story line and importance of events.
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It is a story about Ayako, a fierce and strict old woman who runs a coffee shop in the small town of Onomichi, where she has just taken guardianship of her grandson, Kyo. Haunted by long-buried family tragedy, both have suffered extreme loss and feel unable to open up to each other. As Flo follows the characters across a year in rural Japan, through the ups and downs of the pair's burgeoning relationship, she quickly realises that she needs to venture outside the pages of the book to track down its elusive author. And, as her two protagonists reveal themselves to have more in common with her life than first meets the eye, the lines between text and translator converge. The journey is just beginning.

From the author of The Cat and The City, Four Seasons in Japan is a gorgeously crafted book-within-a-book about literature, purpose and what it is to belong.]]> 336 Nick Bradley 085752934X Simone 0 to-read 4.19 2023
author: Nick Bradley
name: Simone
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62047992 The moving international sensation about new beginnings, human connection, and the joy of reading.

Hidden in Jimbocho, Tokyo, is a booklover's paradise. On a quiet corner in an old wooden building lies a shop filled with hundreds of second-hand books.

Twenty-five-year-old Takako has never liked reading, although the Morisaki bookshop has been in her family for three generations. It is the pride and joy of her uncle Satoru, who has devoted his life to the bookshop since his wife Momoko left him five years earlier.

When Takako's boyfriend reveals he's marrying someone else, she reluctantly accepts her eccentric uncle's offer to live rent-free in the tiny room above the shop. Hoping to nurse her broken heart in peace, Takako is surprised to encounter new worlds within the stacks of books lining the Morisaki bookshop.

As summer fades to autumn, Satoru and Takako discover they have more in common than they first thought. The Morisaki bookshop has something to teach them both about life, love, and the healing power of books.]]> 150 Satoshi Yagisawa 0063278677 Simone 0 to-read 3.66 2010
author: Satoshi Yagisawa
name: Simone
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/21
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 60246936 283 Nora Sakavic Simone 0 to-read 4.28
author: Nora Sakavic
name: Simone
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/08/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 17259690
Signing a contract with the PSU Foxes is the last thing a guy like Neil should do. The team is high profile and he doesn't need sports crews broadcasting pictures of his face around the nation. His lies will hold up only so long under this kind of scrutiny and the truth will get him killed.

But Neil's not the only one with secrets on the team. One of Neil's new teammates is a friend from his old life, and Neil can't walk away from him a second time. Neil has survived the last eight years by running. Maybe he's finally found someone and something worth fighting for.]]> 237 Nora Sakavic 1301529044 Simone 4 4.03 2013
author: Nora Sakavic
name: Simone
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2023/08/10
date added: 2023/08/13
shelves: bookstagram-made-me-do-it, recommended-to-me, ya
review:

]]> 62052996 Some books should never be opened.

Ink Blood Sister Scribe follows a family tasked with guarding a trove of magical but deadly books, and the shadowy organisation that will do anything to get them back...even murder.
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Joanna Kalotay lives alone in the woods of Vermont, the sole protector of a collection of rare books; books that will allow someone to walk through walls or turn water into wine. Books of magic.

Her estranged older sister Esther moves between countries and jobs, constantly changing, never staying anywhere longer than a year, desperate to avoid the deadly magic that killed her mother. Currently working on a research base in Antarctica, she has found love and perhaps a sort of happiness.

But when she finds spots of blood on the mirrors in the research base, she knows someone is coming for her, and that Joanna and her collection are in danger.

If they are to survive, she and Joanna must unravel the secrets their parents kept hidden from them - secrets that span centuries and continents, and could cost them their lives...]]> 416 Emma Törzs 152915944X Simone 0 4.20 2023
author: Emma Törzs
name: Simone
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/31
shelves: to-read, bookstagram-made-me-do-it
review:

]]> 61457585 She's done slaying monsters. She's ready to serve coffee.

After decades of adventuring, Viv the orc barbarian is finally hanging up her sword for good. Now she sets her sights on a new dream - for she plans to open the first coffee shop in the city of Thune. Even though no one there knows what coffee actually is.

If Viv wants to put the past behind her, she can't go it alone. Help might arrive from unexpected quarters - yet rivals old and new stand in the way of success. And Thune's shady underbelly could make it all too easy for Viv to take up the blade once more.

But the true reward of the uncharted path is the travellers you meet along the way. Whether bound by ancient magic, delicious pastries or a freshly brewed cup, they may become something deeper than Viv could ever have imagined.

Legends & Lattes is a cosy, heartwarming story of found family, fresh starts - and the perfect cup of coffee.]]> 308 Travis Baldree 1035007304 Simone 4 Light and cozy read 4.09 2022
author: Travis Baldree
name: Simone
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/31
date added: 2023/07/31
shelves: bookstagram-made-me-do-it, fantasy
review:
Light and cozy read
]]> 57717417 Witness what the gods do after dark in the second volume of a stylish and contemporary reimagining of one of the best-known stories in Greek mythology, featuring a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe.

Persephone was ready to start a new life when she left the mortal realm for Olympus. However, she quickly discovered the dark side of her glamorous new home �� from the relatively minor gossip threatening her reputation to a realm-shattering violation of her safety by the conceited Apollo �� and she's struggling to find her footing in the fast-moving realm of the gods. Hades is also off balance, fighting against his burgeoning feelings for the young goddess of spring while maintaining his lonely rule of the Underworld. As the pair are drawn ever closer, they must untangle the twisted webs of their past and present to build toward a new future.

This edition of Smythe’s original Eisner Award–winning webcomic Lore Olympus features a brand-new, exclusive short story from creator Rachel Smythe and brings the Greek pantheon into the modern age in a sharply perceptive and romantic graphic novel.

This volume collects episodes 26��49 of the #1 WEBTOON comic Lore Olympus.]]> 368 Rachel Smythe 059335608X Simone 4 4.42 2022
author: Rachel Smythe
name: Simone
average rating: 4.42
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2023/07/27
date added: 2023/07/27
shelves:
review:

]]> 137590858
This riveting and well-researched volume by Lisa Perrin weaves together the stories of more than twenty-five accused women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime.

You might find yourself rooting for some of them—like Sally Bassett, who helped poison her granddaughter’s enslavers in Bermuda, or Giulia Tofana, who sold her name-brand concoction to women wanting to be rid of their abusive (or otherwise undesirable) husbands. Other stories, though—including that of Yiya Murano, one of Argentina’s most notorious swindlers and serial killers, or the terrifying Nurse Jane Toppan—may prove less palatable.

Organized into��thematic chapters based on the women’s motives, the book also includes an illustrated primer that delves into the origins and effects of common poisons throughout history, as well as a foreword by Holly Frey and Maria Trimarchi, creators and hosts of the podcast Criminalia. It is a treat for true crime fans, feminist history buffs, and any curious readers fascinated by the more macabre side of human nature.

TRUE CRIME Women can do anything—even commit murder. This thoughtfully researched and insightful survey into the lives of the poisoners explores the toxic events that put these women in the spotlight, the deceptive methods and substances they used, and their legacies today. The League of Lady Poisoners is a thrilling deep dive for fans of true crime podcasts, docuseries, and books.

EYE-CATCHING Illustrator and author Lisa Perrin’s beautiful and distinctive art style blends the romantic allure of these pop culture legends with the disturbing and twisted facts of their lives. The hardcover is decorated with shining foil, and the interior contains clever Victorian-inspired lettering, borders, and diagrams that complement the text. Readers and illustrated book collectors will love all the details honoring the Golden Age of Poison.
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FASCINATING, DIVERSE STORIES OF WOMEN WHO These women lived in different time periods and had varying cultural and socioeconomic backgrounds that influenced their motives. Some acted out of defiance—like the Angel Makers of Nagyrév, who taught women how to dispose of their abusive husbands in Hungary. Others schemed their way to power and money, including Empress Wu Zetian of China and Belle Gunness, who killed more than 14 people in the American Midwest. Discover all their stories in this engaging collection . . . if you have the stomach for them.

Perfect]]> 208 Lisa Perrin 1797215884 Simone 0 to-read 4.08 2023
author: Lisa Perrin
name: Simone
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2023/07/27
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 6690798 THIRTY-TWO MINUTES FOR ONE WORLD TO DIE, ANOTHER TO BE BORN.

First, the unthinkable: a security breach at a secret U.S. government facility unleashes the monstrous product of a chilling military experiment. Then, the unspeakable: a night of chaos and carnage gives way to sunrise on a nation, and ultimately a world, forever altered. All that remains for the stunned survivors is the long fight ahead and a future ruled by fear—of darkness, of death, of a fate far worse.

As civilization swiftly crumbles into a primal landscape of predators and prey, two people flee in search of sanctuary. FBI agent Brad Wolgast is a good man haunted by what he's done in the line of duty. Six-year-old orphan Amy Harper Bellafonte is a refugee from the doomed scientific project that has triggered apocalypse. Wolgast is determined to protect her from the horror set loose by her captors, but for Amy, escaping the bloody fallout is only the beginning of a much longer odyssey—spanning miles and decades—toward the time and place where she must finish what should never have begun.

With The Passage, award-winning author Justin Cronin has written both a relentlessly suspenseful adventure and an epic chronicle of human endurance in the face of unprecedented catastrophe and unimaginable danger. Its inventive storytelling, masterly prose, and depth of human insight mark it as a crucial and transcendent work of modern fiction.]]> 784 Justin Cronin 0345504968 Simone 0 to-read, recommended-to-me 4.04 2010
author: Justin Cronin
name: Simone
average rating: 4.04
book published: 2010
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/15
shelves: to-read, recommended-to-me
review:

]]> 60495147
Relief comes when David invites Stevie and her friends to join him for study abroad, and his new friend Izzy introduces her to a double-murder cold case. In 1995, nine friends from Cambridge University went to a country house and played a drunken game of hide-and-seek. Two were found in the woodshed the next day, murdered with an ax.

The case was assumed to be a burglary gone wrong, but one of the remaining seven saw something she can’t explain. This was no break-in. Someone’s lying about what happened in the woodshed.

Seven suspects. Two murders. One killer still playing a deadly game.]]> 445 Maureen Johnson 0063032651 Simone 3 mystery-crime, ya 3.79 2022
author: Maureen Johnson
name: Simone
average rating: 3.79
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2023/07/13
date added: 2023/07/13
shelves: mystery-crime, ya
review:
3.5 ⭐️ The writing is great as always, and I loved the setting of London and an English manor. Unfortunately, I wasn’t as hooked on the mystery as with the previous books, although I liked the characters involved in it and would have liked more flashbacks with them. Also, I’ve never been a huge fan of David, and he took up a lot of space in this one compared to Stevie’s other friends. There were some really amazing Nate moments, however, and he is still my favorite character <3
]]> 62667955
Theo hvirvles ind i en strøm af overraskende hændelser med nådesløse modstandere og usandsynlige venskaber, alt imens han sammen med sine nye fæller planlægger at udføre et kup, som ingen før har turdet begå.

Onyxkuppet er en hæsblæsende fantasyroman om venskaber, hemmeligheder og særlige evner.]]> 300 Judith Sølvkjær 8775920700 Simone 0 to-read 4.09 2022
author: Judith Sølvkjær
name: Simone
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2022
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/13
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 123677715
Desperat prøver de at finde allierede til kampen mod Skyggefjenden, som nu strammer grebet om riget. Men at samle en hær tll at gå mod Kejseren selv... det er lettere sagt end gjort.

Mens de mørke kræfter trækker sammen om Kejserstaden, må Alain, Rowena, Duncan og Aruthan bruge alle deres evner for at holde sig et skridt foran. Da en magisk kuppel lukker sig over Kejserstaden, må mennesker, elvere, feer og Irari stå sammen for at udkæmpe det sidste og afgørende slag.
Men det er ikke alle, man kan stole på...

Slaget om Kejserstaden er det tredje og sidste bind i serien om Skyggefjenden.]]> 455 Claus Holm 8743021425 Simone 0 4.57 2023
author: Claus Holm
name: Simone
average rating: 4.57
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at: 2022/06/14
date added: 2023/07/13
shelves: danish, fantasy, people-i-know
review:

]]> 32796253 ��
Now, Quincy is doing well—maybe even great, thanks to her Xanax prescription. She has a caring almost-fiancé, Jeff; a popular baking blog; a beautiful apartment; and a therapeutic presence in Coop, the police officer who saved her life all those years ago. Her memory won’t even allow her to recall the events of that night; the past is in the past.
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That is, until Lisa, the first Final Girl, is found dead in her bathtub, wrists slit, and Sam, the second, appears on Quincy's doorstep. Blowing through Quincy's life like a whirlwind, Sam seems intent on making Quincy relive the past, with increasingly dire consequences, all of which makes Quincy question why Sam is really seeking her out. And when new details about Lisa's death come to light, Quincy's life becomes a race against time as she tries to unravel Sam's truths from her lies, evade the police and hungry reporters, and, most crucially, remember what really happened at Pine Cottage, before what was started ten years ago is finished.]]> 352 Riley Sager 1101985364 Simone 0 to-read 3.81 2017
author: Riley Sager
name: Simone
average rating: 3.81
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/12
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 25817162
From her earliest days, Patsy Jefferson knows that though her father loves his family dearly, his devotion to his country runs deeper still. As Thomas Jefferson’s oldest daughter, she becomes his helpmate, protector, and constant companion in the wake of her mother’s death, traveling with him when he becomes American minister to France.

It is in Paris, at the glittering court and among the first tumultuous days of revolution, that fifteen-year-old Patsy learns about her father’s troubling liaison with Sally Hemings, a slave girl her own age. Meanwhile, Patsy has fallen in love—with her father’s protégé William Short, a staunch abolitionist and ambitious diplomat. Torn between love, principles, and the bonds of family, Patsy questions whether she can choose a life as William’s wife and still be a devoted daughter.

Her choice will follow her in the years to come, to Virginia farmland, Monticello, and even the White House. And as scandal, tragedy, and poverty threaten her family, Patsy must decide how much she will sacrifice to protect her father's reputation, in the process defining not just his political legacy, but that of the nation he founded.]]> 606 Stephanie Dray Simone 0 to-read 4.17 2016
author: Stephanie Dray
name: Simone
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2016
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2023/07/12
shelves: to-read
review:

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