Category: Books
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Book Tag
My lovely friend Alison did this tag on her blog a while ago and I thought it was a fun little tag to dig my teeth into. I love me some books, even though I always feel I should read more. Perhaps it’s because my first ever job was at my local library, or the…
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Combined book review #2: Food books
Time for another book review. Over summer I placed a ‘food book’ order on Amazon, containing books solely on diet and nutrition. Now, since these type of books are always hit or miss, I thought it might be useful to share my thoughts on 4 of them. Plus it’s a way for you to stay…
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Combined book review
I’ve said it a few times before: I’ve been reading quite a bit again. Again not as much as I’d like, but there’s a start. Here’s 4 books I finished recently that moved me, were just plain out fun or an interesting read. 1.) The Book Thief by Markus Zusak Starting off with the most…
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Book Review: J.D. Salinger – Catcher in the Rye
Spring break is over and that means that I’ve started reading again. After finally finishing Pride & Prejudice (which I took too long to read, so I can’t review it), I decided to pick up another classic book: Catcher in the Rye. First published in the early 1950s, this tale of adolescent madness is a…
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Book review: Matthew Plampin – The Devil’s Acre
It’s getting colder by the day here in The Netherlands and lately all I have been wanting to do is to curl up with a cuppa and a good book. The book I just finished reading is Matthew Plampin’s The Devil’s Acre. Set in Victorian London and based on historical fact but with plenty of…
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Book Review: The Hunger Games trilogy
I have a thing for trilogies lately. As you may remember, the last book I reviewed was the 50 Shades of Grey trilogy. That was over a month ago and by now I’ve moved on to the Hunger Games. I finished reading it this weekend and enjoyed it a lot. It is a young adult…
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Book Review: Fifty Shades of Grey
Oh boy how to start this review… I honestly don’t know. Because this book is anything but good. The writing style is horrid, the storyline is shallow at best and yet I devoured all three books in record time. How can something so bad, still be so good? Ironically that’s also the crux of the…
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Book review: Jack Kerouac – On the Road
Vacations are the best time for reading books and since I have plenty of interesting titles sitting on my shelves, I picked one up and threw it in my bag to be read during my trip. I chose On the Road, the 1950s novel by Jack Kerouac. Since a movie was released just this year…
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Cosmopolis book & movie review
On Thursday, Cosmopolis the movie was released here in Holland. The movie, which was short-listed for the Palme D’Or at Cannes this year, is an adaptation of the book by the same name by Don Delilo from 2003. It was directed by David Cronenberg (who is apparently known for making weird, yet interesting movies) and…
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Paper books vs ebooks
The other day I read an article (in Dutch) where someone contested the idea of the continuous existence of actual books made out of paper and a cover. He argued that eBooks will soon take over. Many newspapers and magazines are already disappearing and he claimed that it was just a matter of time until…
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Tour of my Book Case
As you may know I like to read the occasional book or two. Instead of showing you what I’m currently reading I though it would be nice to show you the books I have. I have quite the collection. I think I’ve got over 600 books now. Most books I bought when I was a…
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What I’m currently reading
As you all know, I don’t have much time to read, which is why I love books that I can read in small installments. Hence, why I’m sharing this book with you. This is QI’s The second book of General Ignorance by John Lloyd & John Mitchinson. Subtitled: Everything you think you know is still…
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Books I do like
A week ago I posted a blog on the books I don’t like. Since there are more books that I like than those I don’t like, I think it would only be fair to also tell you about books I’ve read and which I loved. I will not list my favorite book, as I wrote…
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Books I don’t like
Books. If there is one thing I love it’s books. However, books are very similar to music: there’s loads out there and it’s a challenge to find the gems between the overkill that is on offer. So unfortunately, you sometimes find yourself reading a book that just doesn’t work for you. It can be anything…
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My Favorite Genre of Reading
I love to read. I do have a very particular taste when it comes to books though. First of all, I absolutely despise romance novels. Anything Mills & Boon like will not enter this house! Or chicklit. I shudder at the thought of having to attempt another try at reading the remaining Shopaholic novels. That’s…
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Book review: Cormac McCarthy – The Road
If you don’t like depressive books, then this is not the book for you. If you like impressive books however, then I can highly recommend this one. The book won the Pulitzer Price in 2007 and is recommended by the one and only Oprah through her book club. The story is about an agonizing journey…
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Book Review: Stephen Fry – The Fry Chronicles
I promised you yesterday that I would be blogging about music today, but unfortunately I haven’t finished updating and reorganizing my music just yet. I will make sure to do a post on that when I’m finished, which is hopefully tomorrow. Instead this post will feature a book review of the latest book by Stephen…
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Book Review: Colum McCann – Let the Great World Spin
Just yesterday night I finally finished reading Colum McCann’s Let the Great World Spin. It took me quite some time to read as I had been so busy. It also took some time since it takes some time to figure out what the book is about and what direction it will go in. All in…