en-US Wed, 09 Apr 2025 11:41:19 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 198902277 Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9781250899576.

A propulsive and uncommonly wise novel about one unexpected wedding guest and the surprising people who help her start anew.

It’s a beautiful day in Newport, Rhode Island, when Phoebe Stone arrives at the grand Cornwall Inn wearing a green dress and gold heels, not a bag in sight, alone. She's immediately mistaken by everyone in the lobby for one of the wedding people, but she’s actually the only guest at the Cornwall who isn’t here for the big event. Phoebe is here because she’s dreamed of coming for years—she hoped to shuck oysters and take sunset sails with her husband, only now she’s here without him, at rock bottom, and determined to have one last decadent splurge on herself. Meanwhile, the bride has accounted for every detail and every possible disaster the weekend might yield except for, well, Phoebe and Phoebe's plan—which makes it that much more surprising when the two women can’t stop confiding in each other.

In turns absurdly funny and devastatingly tender, Alison Espach’s The Wedding People is ultimately an incredibly nuanced and resonant look at the winding paths we can take to places we never imagined—and the chance encounters it sometimes takes to reroute us.]]> 384 Alison Espach Rose 0 to-read 4.11 2024
author: Alison Espach
name: Rose
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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Det sender hende ud på en historisk rejse efter svar på, hvordan hendes medsøstre har drukket gennem tiden og hvorledes de er blevet fremstillet, reguleret og udskammet.

For mere end noget andet er kvinders druk forbundet med skam. Men hvad er skammens kulturelle oprindelse? Og hvordan kan vi skrive en ny historie?

Anna von Sperling (f. 1973) er kulturjournalist og vært på Radio Information. Hun står bag en række af Dagbladet Informations større journalistiske projekter, bl.a. den Cavlingnominerede serie Vidnesbyrd (2015) og opfølgningsprojektet Grænseland (2018) om voldtægt og seksuelle gråzoner.


Udgivelsen er støttet af TrygFonden]]> 200 Anna von Sperling 8794272514 Rose 3 2025 3.77 2023
author: Anna von Sperling
name: Rose
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/05
date added: 2025/04/05
shelves: 2025
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Spændende bog, som dykker ned i kvinders forhold til alkohol og den påvirkning som samfundet har haft på kvindernes alkohol forbrug. Jeg savnede lidt flere anekdoter fra Anna, måske fordi jeg synes at hun var en person som jeg selv kunne relatere til, så det havde været en bedre læseoplevelse for mig hvis hun havde uddybet nogle af hendes egne oplevelser med alkohol.
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I tredje og sidste bind i trilogien omkring Ringenes Herre, får Gandalf et indblik i, at Sauron den Stores tropper forbereder sig på det endelige slag - slaget om ringen - ved at angribe Minas Tirith.

Aragon, Legolas og Gimli begiver sig ud ad De Dødes Sti i forsøget på at rekruttere den Døde Hær. Samtidig træder Frodo og Sam ind i Mordor for endeligt at tilintetgøre ringen, der startede det hele.

“Ringenes Herre 3�� af J.R.R. Tolkien er illustreret af Ingahild Grathmer - ligesom de øvrige bøger i trilogien. Til trods for sine mere end 60 år, er bøgerne i Ringenes Herre-trilogien stadig nogle af mest læste bøger i hele verden. “Ringenes Herre 3�� er - ligesom de øvrige bøger i serien - også filmatiseret med stor succes.

J.R.R. Tolkien er også forfatteren bag “Ringenes Herre��, “Ringenes Herre - De To Tårne�� og forgængeren “Hobbitten��.]]> 656 J.R.R. Tolkien Rose 0 4.47 1955
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Rose
average rating: 4.47
book published: 1955
rating: 0
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De to tårne er andet bind i Tolkiens udødelige klassikertrilogi Ringenes Herre. Ringens følgeskab er gået i opløsning. Gandalf er faldet i kampen mod balroggen i Morias Miner, og efter slaget ved Raurosfaldet og Boromirs død er følgeskabet nu spredt over Midgård. Aragorn, Gimli og Legolas begiver sig af sted for at befri Merry og Pippin, som er taget til fange af orkerne, men Frodo og Sam har ikke tid til at standse �� de må fortsætte. Alene må de begive sig ud på den lange vej mod Mordor for at tilintetgøre Ringen. Tror de. For en mystisk, krybende skikkelse følger dem i skyggerne.]]> 459 J.R.R. Tolkien Rose 0 4.54 1954
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Rose
average rating: 4.54
book published: 1954
rating: 0
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]]> 139400713 Kaveh Akbar’s Martyr! is a paean to how we spend our lives seeking meaning—in faith, art, ourselves, others—in which a newly sober, orphaned son of Iranian immigrants, guided by the voices of artists, poets, and kings, embarks on a search that leads him to a terminally ill painter living out her final days in the Brooklyn Museum.

Cyrus Shams is a young man grappling with an inheritance of violence and loss: his mother’s plane was shot down over the skies of Tehran in a senseless accident; and his father’s life in America was circumscribed by his work killing chickens at a factory farm in the Midwest. Cyrus is a drunk, an addict, and a poet, whose obsession with martyrs leads him to examine the mysteries of his past—toward an uncle who rode through Iranian battlefields dressed as the Angel of death to inspire and comfort the dying, and toward his mother, through a painting discovered in a Brooklyn art gallery that suggests she may not have been who or what she seemed.

Electrifying, funny, wholly original, and profound, Martyr! heralds the arrival of a blazing and essential new voice in contemporary fiction.]]> 331 Kaveh Akbar 0593537610 Rose 0 to-read 4.23 2024
author: Kaveh Akbar
name: Rose
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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Det andet køn er både et historisk dokument og en krystalklar filosofisk analyse af de ideer, der ligger til grund for vor tids kønsdebat. I Det andet køn beskriver den franske filosof og forfatter flere århundreders syn på kvinden i biologien, psykoanalysen, litteraturen, religionen og filosofien for at påvise, hvordan meget af det, man i 1949 anså for kendsgerninger, blot var myter �� og skildrer undervejs bedre end nogen anden den kulturelle arv, der stadig skaber ulighed i dag.

”Man fødes ikke som kvinde �� man bliver det,�� skriver Simone de Beauvoir og præsenterer med lysende indsigt sine filosofiske betragtninger over, hvad det vil sige at være kvinde.

Det andet køn (1949) er en moderne klassiker og et hovedværk i kvindefrigørelsens historie. Bogen er oversat til over fyrre sprog.]]> 1008 Simone de Beauvoir 8702339110 Rose 0 4.00 1949
author: Simone de Beauvoir
name: Rose
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1949
rating: 0
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Eventyret om ringen er første bind i Tolkiens udødelige klassikertrilogi Ringenes Herre om hobbitten Frodo, der arver en mystisk ring af sin onkel Bilbo. Men Ringen tilhører Ondskabens Fyrste, Sauron den Store, der kan gøre sin magt fuldkommen, hvis den kommer tilbage i hans besiddelse. Frodo må derfor forlade sit elskede hjem i Herred for at rejse til Dommedagsbjerget og tilintetgøre Ringen. Med sig på rejsen har han troldmanden Gandalf, elveren Legolas, dværgen Gimli, mennesket Boromir, tre af sine nærmeste hobbitvenner samt ikke mindst den hemmelighedsfulde Traver.

Eventyret om ringen er i et smukt seriedesign med illustrationer af Ingahild Grathmer.]]> 564 J.R.R. Tolkien 8702347032 Rose 0 4.41 1954
author: J.R.R. Tolkien
name: Rose
average rating: 4.41
book published: 1954
rating: 0
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]]> 52350
At once a masterpiece of psychological suspense and a savage commentary on a media-driven society that values the pursuit of youth and beauty at all costs, The Stepford Wives is a novel so frightening in its final implications that the title itself has earned a place in the American lexicon.]]> 144 Ira Levin 0060080841 Rose 0 currently-reading 3.85 1972
author: Ira Levin
name: Rose
average rating: 3.85
book published: 1972
rating: 0
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]]> 41886271 A son struggling to grasp his violent future,
A father blind to the danger that threatens them all.

When the winds of war reach their peninsula, will the Matsuda family have the strength to defend their empire? Or will they tear each other apart before the true enemies even reach their shores?

High on a mountainside at the edge of the Kaigenese Empire live the most powerful warriors in the world, superhumans capable of raising the sea and wielding blades of ice. For hundreds of years, the fighters of the Kusanagi Peninsula have held the Empire’s enemies at bay, earning their frozen spit of land the name ‘The Sword of Kaigen.��

Born into Kusanagi’s legendary Matsuda family, fourteen-year-old Mamoru has always known his purpose: to master his family’s fighting techniques and defend his homeland. But when an outsider arrives and pulls back the curtain on Kaigen’s alleged age of peace, Mamoru realizes that he might not have much time to become the fighter he was bred to be. Worse, the empire he was bred to defend may stand on a foundation of lies.

Misaki told herself that she left the passions of her youth behind when she married into the Matsuda house. Determined to be a good housewife and mother, she hid away her sword, along with everything from her days as a fighter in a faraway country. But with her growing son asking questions about the outside world, the threat of an impending invasion looming across the sea, and her frigid husband grating on her nerves, Misaki finds the fighter in her clawing its way back to the surface.]]> 651 M.L. Wang Rose 3 2025 4.46 2019
author: M.L. Wang
name: Rose
average rating: 4.46
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/28
date added: 2025/03/28
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review:
It’s clear to see that M. L. Wang’s biggest asset is her imagination and her character driven stories, but this book suffered from some serious pacing issues. I was having a hard time following this story, which seemed to have an odd pacing that didn’t do the story justice. Blood over Bright Haven was a much better fit for me, so I hope that in the future, Wang’s brilliant writing style will be more like that story, which was a new all time favorite for me.
]]> 6122189
Tove Ditlevsens fantastiske roman "Barndommens gade" har i årevis været anset som en af de største værker indenfor dansk litteratur. Esters barndom og ungdom portætteres i "Barndommens gade", der både indeholder en ærlig, rå og betydningsfuld historie om en piges trænge opvækst.

Overskygger Esters usikkerhed og skrøbelighed hendes trang til at forlade baggården? Kan man elskes af andre, når man ikke elsker sig selv? Dette er en anmelderrost og højtvurderet roman, om håb, drømme og 30'ernes hårde arbejdermiljø.]]> 185 Tove Ditlevsen 8702058200 Rose 0 to-read 4.03 1943
author: Tove Ditlevsen
name: Rose
average rating: 4.03
book published: 1943
rating: 0
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]]> 210223811 Two graduate students must set aside their rivalry and journey to Hell to save their professor’s soul, perhaps at the cost of their own.

Alice Law has only ever had one goal: to become one of the brightest minds in the field of Magick. She has sacrificed everything to make that a reality—her pride, her health, her love life, and most definitely her sanity. All to work with Professor Jacob Grimes at Cambridge, the greatest magician in the world—that is, until he dies in a magical accident that could possibly be her fault.

Grimes is now in Hell, and she’s going in after him. Because his recommendation could hold her very future in his now incorporeal hands, and even death is not going to stop the pursuit of her dreams. Nor will the fact that her rival, Peter Murdoch, has come to the same conclusion.]]> 400 R.F. Kuang Rose 0 to-read 4.11 2025
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Rose
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 220817728 From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and Daisy Jones & The Six comes an epic new novel set against the backdrop of the 1980s Space Shuttle program about the extraordinary lengths we go to live and love beyond our limits.

Joan Goodwin has been obsessed with the stars for as long as she can remember. Thoughtful and reserved, Joan is content with her life as a professor of physics and astronomy at Rice University and as aunt to her precocious niece, Frances. That is, until she comes across an advertisement seeking the first women scientists to join NASA’s Space Shuttle program. Suddenly, Joan burns to be one of the few people to go to space.

Selected from a pool of thousands of applicants in the summer of 1980, Joan begins training at Houston’s Johnson Space Center, alongside an exceptional group of fellow candidates: Top Gun pilot Hank Redmond and scientist John Griffin, who are kind and easy-going even when the stakes are highest; mission specialist Lydia Danes, who has worked too hard to play nice; warm-hearted Donna Fitzgerald, who is navigating her own secrets; and Vanessa Ford, the magnetic and mysterious aeronautical engineer, who can fix any engine and fly any plane.

As the new astronauts become unlikely friends and prepare for their first flights, Joan finds a passion and a love she never imagined. In this new light, Joan begins to question everything she thinks she knows about her place in the observable universe.

Then, in December of 1984, on mission STS-LR9, everything changes in an instant.

Fast-paced, thrilling, and emotional, Atmosphere is Taylor Jenkins Reid at her best: transporting readers to iconic times and places, with complex protagonists, telling a passionate and soaring story about the transformative power of love, this time among the stars.]]> 352 Taylor Jenkins Reid 0593158717 Rose 0 to-read 4.44 2025
author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
name: Rose
average rating: 4.44
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]]> 229290592 Brought to you by Penguin.

A HYMN TO LIFE will tell Gisèle Pelicot’s story in her words, offer solace and hope, and make a positive contribution to changing the conversation around shame and to changing the world.

In 2024, Gisèle Pelicot inspired and moved millions of people with her astonishing courage and dignity as she chose to waive her right to anonymity in her legal fight against her husband and the 50 men accused of her sexual assault. Gisèle Pelicot’s call for shame to change sides in cases of sexual abuse, and the power of the messages she has sent out to the world, have generated an extraordinary public response and moved both women and men all over the world.

Gisèle Pelicot 2026 (P) Penguin Audio 2026]]> Gisèle Pelicot Rose 0 to-read 0.0
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But like science, life is unpredictable. Which is why a few years later Elizabeth Zott finds herself not only a single mother, but the reluctant star of America’s most beloved cooking show Supper at Six. Elizabeth’s unusual approach to cooking (“combine one tablespoon acetic acid with a pinch of sodium chloride��) proves revolutionary. But as her following grows, not everyone is happy. Because as it turns out, Elizabeth Zott isn’t just teaching women to cook. She’s daring them to change the status quo.

Laugh-out-loud funny, shrewdly observant, and studded with a dazzling cast of supporting characters, Lessons in Chemistry is as original and vibrant as its protagonist.]]> 404 Bonnie Garmus Rose 3 2025 4.24 2022
author: Bonnie Garmus
name: Rose
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/23
date added: 2025/03/23
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I adored Zott and her character and how she was absolutely unapologetic about herself, but unfortunately the story dragged on too much for me to give it more than three stars. Perhaps someone else might enjoy it more than me.
]]> 1618 226 Mark Haddon 1400032717 Rose 3 3.89 2003
author: Mark Haddon
name: Rose
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2003
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/23
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]]> 406235 178 James Baldwin Rose 4 books-i-own, 2025 4.40 1956
author: James Baldwin
name: Rose
average rating: 4.40
book published: 1956
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/21
date added: 2025/03/21
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]]> 40613050 381 Charlotte Perkins Gilman 178888115X Rose 0 to-read 3.69
author: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
name: Rose
average rating: 3.69
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]]> 9305362 From global phenomenon C. S. Pacat comes the first in her critically acclaimed trilogy—with a bonus story.

Damen is a warrior hero to his people, and the rightful heir to the throne of Akielos. But when his half brother seizes power, Damen is captured, stripped of his identity, and sent to serve the prince of an enemy nation as a pleasure slave.

Beautiful, manipulative, and deadly, his new master, Prince Laurent, epitomizes the worst of the court at Vere. But in the lethal political web of the Veretian court, nothing is as it seems, and when Damen finds himself caught up in a play for the throne, he must work together with Laurent to survive and save his country.

For Damen, there is just one rule: never, ever reveal his true identity. Because the one man Damen needs is the one man who has more reason to hate him than anyone else��

Includes an exclusive extra story!]]> 240 C.S. Pacat Rose 0 to-read 3.83 2013
author: C.S. Pacat
name: Rose
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2013
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]]> 50202953
There is one other person in the house—a man called The Other, who visits Piranesi twice a week and asks for help with research into A Great and Secret Knowledge. But as Piranesi explores, evidence emerges of another person, and a terrible truth begins to unravel, revealing a world beyond the one Piranesi has always known.]]> 272 Susanna Clarke 163557563X Rose 5 2024, favorites 4.22 2020
author: Susanna Clarke
name: Rose
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2020
rating: 5
read at: 2024/09/15
date added: 2025/03/18
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review:
So interesting!! Don't feel intimated by the weird sentences in the beginning, it will all make sense later on.
]]> 194366 455 Arthur Conan Doyle 0192123173 Rose 3 4.29 1905
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rose
average rating: 4.29
book published: 1905
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/11
date added: 2025/03/18
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]]> 62047984
So what if June edits Athena’s novel and sends it to her agent as her own work? So what if she lets her new publisher rebrand her as Juniper Song—complete with an ambiguously ethnic author photo? This piece of history deserve to be told, whoever the teller. That is what June believes, and The New York Times bestseller list agrees.

But June cannot escape Athena’s shadow, and emerging evidence threatens her stolen success. As she races to protect her secret she discovers exactly how far she will go to keep what she thinks she deserves.]]> 319 R.F. Kuang 000853277X Rose 4 bookclub-babes, 2025 3.69 2023
author: R.F. Kuang
name: Rose
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/03
date added: 2025/03/18
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]]> 36336078 Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliff-side mansion on the Italian Riviera. Unprepared for the consequences of their attraction, at first each feigns indifference. But during the restless summer weeks that follow, unrelenting buried currents of obsession and fear, fascination and desire, intensify their passion as they test the charged ground between them. What grows from the depths of their spirits is a romance of scarcely six weeks' duration and an experience that marks them for a lifetime. For what the two discover on the Riviera and during a sultry evening in Rome is the one thing both already fear they may never truly find again: total intimacy.

The psychological maneuvers that accompany attraction have seldom been more shrewdly captured than in André Aciman's frank, unsentimental, heartrending elegy to human passion. Call Me by Your Name is clear-eyed, bare-knuckled, and ultimately unforgettable.]]> 248 André Aciman 1786495252 Rose 0 to-read 4.08 2007
author: André Aciman
name: Rose
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 60556912
Every day I clean the Winchesters�� beautiful house top to bottom. I collect their daughter from school. And I cook a delicious meal for the whole family before heading up to eat alone in my tiny room on the top floor.

I try to ignore how Nina makes a mess just to watch me clean it up. How she tells strange lies about her own daughter. And how her husband Andrew seems more broken every day. But as I look into Andrew’s handsome brown eyes, so full of pain, it’s hard not to imagine what it would be like to live Nina’s life. The walk-in closet, the fancy car, the perfect husband.

I only try on one of Nina’s pristine white dresses once. Just to see what it’s like. But she soon finds out�� and by the time I realize my attic bedroom door only locks from the outside, it’s far too late.

But I reassure myself: the Winchesters ��Dz�’t know who I really am.

They ��Dz�’t know what I’m capable of��

An unbelievably twisty read that will have you glued to the pages late into the night. Anyone who loves The Woman in the Window, The Wife Between Us and The Girl on the Train won’t be able to put this down!]]> 329 Freida McFadden 1803144378 Rose 0 to-read, bookclub-babes 4.31 2022
author: Freida McFadden
name: Rose
average rating: 4.31
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 208430658 Magic has made the city of Tiran an industrial utopia, but magic has a cost—and the collectors have come calling.

An orphan since the age of four, Sciona has always had more to prove than her fellow students. For twenty years, she has devoted every waking moment to the study of magic, fueled by a mad desire to achieve the impossible: to be the first woman ever admitted to the High Magistry. When she finally claws her way up the ranks to become a highmage, however, she finds that her challenges have just begun. Her new colleagues will stop at nothing to let her know she is unwelcome, beginning with giving her a janitor instead of a qualified lab assistant.

What neither Sciona nor her peers realize is that her taciturn assistant was once more than a janitor; before he mopped floors for the mages, Thomil was a nomadic hunter from beyond Tiran’s magical barrier. Ten years have passed since he survived the perilous crossing that killed his family. But working for a highmage, he sees the opportunity to finally understand the forces that decimated his tribe, drove him from his homeland, and keep the Tiranish in power.

Through their fractious relationship, mage and outsider uncover an ancient secret that could change the course of magic forever—if it doesn’t get them killed first. Sciona has defined her life by the pursuit of truth, but how much is one truth worth with the fate of civilization in the balance?

A standalone dark academia brimming with mystery, tragedy, and the damning echoes of the past. For fans of Leigh Bardugo, V. E. Schwab, and Fullmetal Alchemist.

(Content warnings for gore, sexual assault, and suicidal ideation)]]> 430 M.L. Wang 0593873351 Rose 5 2025, favorites 4.40 2023
author: M.L. Wang
name: Rose
average rating: 4.40
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/03/13
date added: 2025/03/14
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review:
Last year i watched a YouTube video where they asked 100 book tubers which book was their favorite in 2024. Most people answered this one. I can see why they did. I wish I could read it again.
]]> 60585218 Genudgivelse


Hvem slog min far ihjel er en selvstændig opfølger til Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule. Da Louis møder sin far igen efter fem år, er faren en nedbrudt og knækket mand. Med udgangspunkt i en række barndomsnedslag reflekterer Louis over farens liv, fra fødsel til social død. Det er en historie om en søn og en far, der ikke kan finde ud af at tale sammen, men også en historie om en mand fra underklassen, som vi ellers kun sjældent møder i litteraturen. Og det er frem for alt en kollektiv historie �� en refleksion over måden politikere og deres beslutninger påvirker vores kroppe. Hvem slog min far ihjel er en gribende og hårdtslående bog, på en gang en uforbeholden kærlighedserklæring og et rasende anklageskrift mod de navngivne politikere, der med deres økonomiske politik har gjort tilværelsen utålelig for Frankrigs allerfattigste.


���ձ�> 71 Édouard Louis 8702368374 Rose 4 books-i-own, 2025 4.26 2018
author: Édouard Louis
name: Rose
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/10
date added: 2025/03/10
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Voldens historie er Louis�� forsøg på at forstå, hvad der skete den nat, og hvorfor. Det er en rystende selvbiografisk historie om et overgreb, og ikke mindst en historie om racisme, begær og traumer. Igennem bogen fører Louis os gennem sin egen barndom, men også Redas, og fortæller historien om Redas far, der var flygtning fra Algeriet. Med et skarpt blik for hvad sociale strukturer, fattigdom og fordømmelse kan gøre ved et menneske fører Louis os ind i en historie om vold.

Voldens historie er en voldsom og intim skildring af Louis' oplevelse med en voldtægt, og om det både retslige, medicinske og personlige efterspil.]]> 288 Édouard Louis 870242553X Rose 4 books-i-own, 2025 4.20 2016
author: Édouard Louis
name: Rose
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/09
date added: 2025/03/09
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Called in to investigate this mystery is Ana Dolabra, an investigator whose reputation for brilliance is matched only by her eccentricities.

At her side is her new assistant, Dinios Kol. Din is an engraver, magically altered to possess a perfect memory. His job is to observe and report, and act as his superior’s eyes and ears--quite literally, in this case, as among Ana’s quirks are her insistence on wearing a blindfold at all times, and her refusal to step outside the walls of her home.

Din is most perplexed by Ana’s ravenous appetite for information and her mind’s frenzied leaps—not to mention her cheerful disregard for propriety and the apparent joy she takes in scandalizing her young counterpart. Yet as the case unfolds and Ana makes one startling deduction after the next, he finds it hard to deny that she is, indeed, the Empire’s greatest detective.

As the two close in on a mastermind and uncover a scheme that threatens the safety of the Empire itself, Din realizes he’s barely begun to assemble the puzzle that is Ana Dolabra—and wonders how long he’ll be able to keep his own secrets safe from her piercing intellect.

Featuring an unforgettable Holmes-and-Watson style pairing, a gloriously labyrinthine plot, and a haunting and wholly original fantasy world, The Tainted Cup brilliantly reinvents the classic mystery tale.]]> 410 Robert Jackson Bennett 1984820702 Rose 0 to-read 4.28 2024
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name: Rose
average rating: 4.28
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]]> 88867 In this extraordinarily powerful epic Gore Vidal recreates America's Gilded Age—a period of promise and possibility, of empire-building and fierce political rivalries. In a vivid and breathtaking work of fiction, where the fortunes of a sister and brother intertwine with the fates of the generation, their country, and some of the greatest names of their day, including President McKinley, Theodore Roosevelt, William Jennings Bryan, William and Henry James, the Astors, the Vanderbilts, and the Whitneys, Gore Vidal sweeps us from the nineteenth century into the twentieth, from the salvaged republic of Lincoln to a nation boldly reaching for the world.


From the Paperback edition.]]> 496 Gore Vidal 037570874X Rose 0 to-read 3.85 1987
author: Gore Vidal
name: Rose
average rating: 3.85
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]]> 54814676
In this exquisite story of family, food, grief, and endurance, Michelle Zauner proves herself far more than a dazzling singer, songwriter, and guitarist. With humour and heart, she tells of growing up the only Asian-American kid at her school in Eugene, Oregon; of struggling with her mother’s particular, high expectations of her; of a painful adolescence; of treasured months spent in her grandmother’s tiny apartment in Seoul, where she and her mother would bond, late at night, over heaping plates of food. As she grew up, moving to the east coast for college, finding work in the restaurant industry, performing gigs with her fledgling band �� and meeting the man who would become her husband �� her Koreanness began to feel ever more distant, even as she found the life she wanted to live.

It was her mother’s diagnosis of terminal pancreatic cancer, when Michelle was twenty-five, that forced a reckoning with her identity and brought her to reclaim the gifts of taste, language, and history her mother had given her.

Vivacious, lyrical and honest, Michelle Zauner’s voice is as radiantly alive on the page as it is onstage. Rich with intimate anecdotes that will resonate widely, Crying in H Mart is a book to cherish, share, and reread.]]> 243 Michelle Zauner 0525657746 Rose 0 to-read 4.25 2021
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name: Rose
average rating: 4.25
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]]> 219848315 Ocean Vuong returns with a big-hearted novel about chosen family, unexpected friendship, and the stories we tell ourselves in order to survive

One late summer evening in the post-industrial town of East Gladness, Connecticut, nineteen-year-old Hai stands on the edge of a bridge in pelting rain, ready to jump, when he hears someone shout across the river. The voice belongs to Grazina, an elderly widow succumbing to dementia, who convinces him to take another path. Bereft and out of options, he quickly becomes her caretaker. Over the course of the year, the unlikely pair develops a life-altering bond, one built on empathy, spiritual reckoning, and heartbreak, with the power to alter Hai’s relationship to himself, his family, and a community at the brink.

Following the cycles of history, memory, and time, The Emperor of Gladness shows the profound ways in which love, labor, and loneliness form the bedrock of American life. At its heart is a brave epic about what it means to exist on the fringes of society and to reckon with the wounds that haunt our collective soul. Hallmarks of Vuong’s writing �� formal innovation, syntactic dexterity, and the ability to twin grit with grace through tenderness �� are on full display in this story of loss, hope, and how far we would go to possess one of life’s most fleeting mercies: a second chance.]]> 416 Ocean Vuong 059383187X Rose 0 to-read 4.35 2025
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name: Rose
average rating: 4.35
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]]> 60672208 Genudgivelse.

Færdig med Eddy Bellegueule er en stærk og personlig mønsterbryderfortælling om at vokse op på samfundets bund. Allerede som lille opdager Eddy Bellegueule, at han ikke er som de andre drenge. Han er tyndere, blidere og mere feminin. Han kunne ikke passe dårligere ind i sin egen familie i den lille nordfranske flække, hvor det gælder om at være et rigtig mandfolk, og ”bøsse�� er det værste skældsord, der findes. Eddys far er som de fleste fædre i byen: Han drikker pastis, kommer op at slås med de andre fædre og slider langsomt og sikkert sig selv ned på den lokale fabrik. 
Eddys eneste chance er at prøve at passe ind eller at komme væk. Og det er imellem disse to muligheder, at der udfolder sig en fantastisk ærlig, barsk og rørende historie om at gøre sig færdig med Eddy Bellegueule. 

Den selvbiografiske roman, som er skrevet af den kun 21-årige Édouard Louis (som engang hed Eddy Bellegueule), har vakt stor debat i Frankrig, hvor den blev en litterær sensation.
���ձ�> 219 Édouard Louis 8702371995 Rose 5 books-i-own, 2025 4.02 2014
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name: Rose
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2014
rating: 5
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]]> 63139946 Welcome to Stanhope - a safe neighbourhood. A place for families.

William Wooler is a family man, on the surface. But he's been having an affair, an affair that ended horribly this afternoon at a motel up the road. So when he returns to his house, devastated and angry, to find his difficult nine-year-old daughter Avery unexpectedly home from school, William loses his temper.

Hours later, Avery's family declare her missing.

Suddenly Stanhope doesn't feel so safe. And William isn't the only one on his street who's hiding a lie. As witnesses come forward with information that may or may not be true, Avery's neighbours become increasingly unhinged.

Who took Avery Wooler?

Nothing will prepare you for the truth. ]]> 336 Shari Lapena 0593489934 Rose 0 to-read 3.75 2023
author: Shari Lapena
name: Rose
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2023
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]]> 140111148
Meghan Michaels is trying to find balance between being a single mom to a teenage daughter and working as a full time nurse. While on duty at the hospital one day, a patient named Caitlin arrives in a coma with a traumatic brain injury, having jumped from a bridge and plunging over twenty feet to the train tracks below. 

But when a witness comes forward with shocking details about the fall, it calls everything they know into question. Was Caitlin  pushed  and if so, by whom and why? 

Meghan has always tried to stay emotionally detached from her patients, but this time, she mistakenly lets herself get too close until she’s deeply entangled in Caitlin’s and her family’s lives. Only when it’s too late, does she realize that she and her daughter could be the next victims.]]> 330 Mary Kubica 0778308065 Rose 0 to-read 3.77 2024
author: Mary Kubica
name: Rose
average rating: 3.77
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]]> 117833 The first complete, annotated English Translation of Mikhail Bulgakov's comic masterpiece.

An audacious revision of the stories of Faust and Pontius Pilate, The Master and Margarita is recognized as one of the essential classics of modern Russian literature. The novel's vision of Soviet life in the 1930s is so ferociously accurate that it could not be published during its author's lifetime and appeared only in a censored edition in the 1960s. Its truths are so enduring that its language has become part of the common Russian speech.

One hot spring, the devil arrives in Moscow, accompanied by a retinue that includes a beautiful naked witch and an immense talking black cat with a fondness for chess and vodka. The visitors quickly wreak havoc in a city that refuses to believe in either God or Satan. But they also bring peace to two unhappy Muscovites: one is the Master, a writer pilloried for daring to write a novel about Christ and Pontius Pilate; the other is Margarita, who loves the Master so deeply that she is willing literally to go to hell for him. What ensues is a novel of inexhaustible energy, humor, and philosophical depth, a work whose nuances emerge for the first time in Diana Burgin's and Katherine Tiernan O'Connor's splendid English version.]]> 372 Mikhail Bulgakov 0679760806 Rose 0 to-read 4.31 1967
author: Mikhail Bulgakov
name: Rose
average rating: 4.31
book published: 1967
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]]> 15823480 Anna Karenina provides a vast panorama of contemporary life in Russia and of humanity in general. In it Tolstoy uses his intense imaginative insight to create some of the most memorable characters in all of literature. Anna is a sophisticated woman who abandons her empty existence as the wife of Karenin and turns to Count Vronsky to fulfil her passionate nature - with tragic consequences. Levin is a reflection of Tolstoy himself, often expressing the author's own views and convictions.

Throughout, Tolstoy points no moral, merely inviting us not to judge but to watch. As Rosemary Edmonds comments, 'He leaves the shifting patterns of the kaleidoscope to bring home the meaning of the brooding words following the title, 'Vengeance is mine, and I will repay.]]> 964 Leo Tolstoy 0345803922 Rose 0 4.11 1878
author: Leo Tolstoy
name: Rose
average rating: 4.11
book published: 1878
rating: 0
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]]> 220604273
Fra sit ophold i Athen sætter Édouard alt ind på at hjælpe hende med at flygte på ny. Han får hende indlogeret i sin tomme lejlighed i Paris, ringes dagligt sammen med hende, guider hende igennem dagene og forsøger at holde hende væk fra tilbagefaldet. Sammen med den søster, som han ikke har haft kontakt med siden sin romandebut, hvori han hudfletter familiens fortid, finder han et hus til hende i den landsby, hvor søsteren nu bor med sine børn.

Monique flygter en rørende, medrivende og intim beretning om et undertrykt menneskes flugt og forvandling. Det er en fortælling om forholdet mellem en mor og en søn, der på trods af deres fælles histories tunge vægt formår at genfinde hinanden. Og ikke mindst er det en roman om frihedens pris: Om hvad den frihed, Édouard nu endelig kan give sin mor, har kostet dem begge.]]> 147 Édouard Louis 8702424622 Rose 4 books-i-own, 2025 4.07 2024
author: Édouard Louis
name: Rose
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2024
rating: 4
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]]> 84204108

Den franske forfatter Édouard Louis�� autofiktive roman Forvandlingens metode er en fortælling om at bevæge sig fra samfundets absolutte bund til de øverste tinder. Om at flygte fra sin baggrund gennem succes og blive en del af Paris�� økonomiske og sociale elite, om de affærer med ældre rigmænd og adelige det involverer, og den først berusende, siden kvalmende omgang med eliten. Det er en roman om at forvandle alt ved sig selv for at nå sit mål, om sejrene undervejs, men også om de hjerteskærende brud, forvandlingen kræver.


���ձ�> 300 Édouard Louis 8702364530 Rose 5 2025 4.45 2021
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name: Rose
average rating: 4.45
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]]> 59785417 En kvindes forvandling er fortælllingen om Edouard Louis' relation til sin mor. Om hendes triste tilværelse gennem hans barndom og hendes frigørelse sent i livet. Lige dele tragisk forfaldshistorie og smuk genforeningshistorie. Både et råt portræt af et miljø gennemsyret af armod og et livsbekræftende vidnesbyrd om forvandlingens evige mulighed.


Édouard Louis skriver som ingen anden om udkants - og underklassemiljøer. Med hans indsigt og oprigtighed fremstår de litterært underbelyste miljøer nærværende og autentiske. Tilmed hæver han blikket og sætter armoden ind i større samfundsmæssige perspektiver.]]> 107 Édouard Louis 8763860791 Rose 5 2025 4.17 2021
author: Édouard Louis
name: Rose
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2021
rating: 5
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]]> 18521 A Room of One's Own is an extended essay by Virginia Woolf. First published on the 24th of October, 1929, the essay was based on a series of lectures she delivered at Newnham College and Girton College, two women's colleges at Cambridge University in October 1928. While this extended essay in fact employs a fictional narrator and narrative to explore women both as writers and characters in fiction, the manuscript for the delivery of the series of lectures, titled Women and Fiction, and hence the essay, are considered nonfiction. The essay is seen as a feminist text, and is noted in its argument for both a literal and figural space for women writers within a literary tradition dominated by patriarchy.]]> 112 Virginia Woolf Rose 0 to-read 4.21 1929
author: Virginia Woolf
name: Rose
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1929
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]]> 61079637

En medrivende og øjenåbnende selvbiografi af en af det 20. århundredes mest indflydelsesrige litterære stemmer, Simone de Beauvoir. En velopdragen ung piges erindringer er et på én gang intimt og eksistentielt portræt af, hvordan det er at vokse op i en borgerlig fransk familie og som ung pige gøre oprør mod de sociale konventioner for til sidst at bryde ud af de stramme bånd. Det er et portræt af en kvinde, der drives af en ukuelig frihedslængsel og eksistentielle og intellektuelle ambitioner.


Simone de Beauvoir beskriver sit liv fra fødslen i 1908 til studentertiden på Sorbonne, hvor hun møder Jean-Paul Sartre.


Nyoversat af Lilian Munk Rösing og Birte Dahlgreen.]]> 448 Simone de Beauvoir 8702339943 Rose 0 to-read 4.14 1958
author: Simone de Beauvoir
name: Rose
average rating: 4.14
book published: 1958
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]]> 200488198
Fictional stories have long been imagined to hold an uncanny power over hearts and minds, especially those of young people. These days, everybody frets about according to the National Coalition Against Censorship, the current wave of book bans is the worst since the 1980s, and our cultural debates are consumed by questions about the politics and moral responsibility of storytelling. Can readers and viewers, at any age, be harmed by what they read and see?

In Dangerous Fictions Lyta Gold traces arguments both historical and contemporary that have labeled fiction as dark, immoral, frightening, or poisonous; within each she asks, how “dangerous�� is fiction, really? And what about it provokes waves of moral panic and even censorship?

Fiction is the story of other that, more than anything else, is what makes it dangerous. From YA readers condemning faults in representation, to debates over the moral worth of controversial works like Lolita, to conservative calls to ban literature that might make white readers feel guilty about American history, people of all political stripes clearly believe stories hold considerable political power.

Dangerous Fictions incisively posits that a panic about art is largely a panic about power in disguise. Gold argues that we’ve been having versions of these same fights over fiction for centuries, and that by exposing fiction as a site of social danger, a battleground of immediate public concern, we can see what each side really the right to shape the future of a world deeply in flux, along with an entertaining sideshow to distract from more pressing material concerns about money, access, and the hard work of politics.

From novels about people driven insane by reading novels to “copaganda�� TV shows that impact how viewers regard the police, Gold uses her signature wit, research, and fearless commentary to point readers towards a more substantial fiction may be dangerous to us, but aren’t we also dangerous to it?]]> 352 Lyta Gold 1593767706 Rose 0 to-read 3.94 2024
author: Lyta Gold
name: Rose
average rating: 3.94
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]]> 59316367 448 David Ellis 0399170928 Rose 5 2025, favorites 4.17 2022
author: David Ellis
name: Rose
average rating: 4.17
book published: 2022
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/14
date added: 2025/01/14
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]]> 10956 250 Jeffrey Eugenides 0747560595 Rose 3 2025, bookclub-babes 3.81 1993
author: Jeffrey Eugenides
name: Rose
average rating: 3.81
book published: 1993
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/01/01
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Tough but strangely beautiful.
]]> 60097451 A darkly funny domestic horror novel about a woman who must take drastic measures to save her husband and herself from the vengeful ghost of her mother-in-law.

When Ralph and Abby Lamb move in with Ralph’s mother, Laura, Abby hopes it’s just what she and her mother-in-law need to finally connect. After a traumatic childhood, Abby is desperate for a mother figure, especially now that she and Ralph are trying to become parents themselves. Abby just has so much love to give—to Ralph, to Laura, and to Mrs. Bondy, her favorite resident at the long-term care home where she works. But Laura isn’t interested in bonding with her daughter-in-law. She’s venomous and cruel, especially to Abby, and life with her is hellish.

When Laura takes her own life, her ghost haunts Abby and Ralph in very different ways: Ralph is plunged into depression, and Abby is terrorized by a force intent on destroying everything she loves. To make matters worse, Mrs. Bondy’s daughter is threatening to move Mrs. Bondy from the home, leaving Abby totally alone. With everything on the line, Abby comes up with a chilling plan that will allow her to keep Mrs. Bondy, rescue Ralph from his tortured mind, and break Laura's hold on the family for good. All it requires is a little ingenuity, a lot of determination, and a unique recipe for chicken à la king…]]> 288 Ainslie Hogarth 0593467027 Rose 0 couldn-t-finish 3.65 2022
author: Ainslie Hogarth
name: Rose
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 835547 448 Ovid 0451626222 Rose 2 books-i-own, 2024 3.92 8
author: Ovid
name: Rose
average rating: 3.92
book published: 8
rating: 2
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
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Picked this up on the train to Athens in April and finished it only because my playthrough of Assassin's Creed Odyssey kept me invested in the stories. I cannot say I enjoyed it very much, but Ovid did have a wonderful way of writing.
]]> 55145261 A deeply moving and mind-expanding collection of personal essays in the first ever work of non-fiction from #1 internationally bestselling author John Green

The Anthropocene is the current geological age, in which human activity has profoundly shaped the planet and its biodiversity. In this remarkable symphony of essays adapted and expanded from his ground-breaking, critically acclaimed podcast, John Green reviews different facets of the human-centered planet - from the QWERTY keyboard and Halley's Comet to Penguins of Madagascar - on a five-star scale.

Complex and rich with detail, the Anthropocene's reviews have been praised as 'observations that double as exercises in memoiristic empathy', with over 10 million lifetime downloads. John Green's gift for storytelling shines throughout this artfully curated collection about the shared human experience; it includes beloved essays along with six all-new pieces exclusive to the book.]]> 304 John Green 0525555218 Rose 4 2021, non-fiction 4.37 2021
author: John Green
name: Rose
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2021/10/13
date added: 2024/12/27
shelves: 2021, non-fiction
review:
Loved this! I didn't really care for John Green at first, but this collection of stories really made me feel much more connected to him. A great read for people who either like or dislike John Green but loves anecdotes.
]]> 211028896
Kirsten, Karina, Anita og Hvepsen er hestepiger, og det er dem, der styrer hele lortet. De stjæler Matador Mix og amarone på tanken, strigler hestene og fejer staldgulvet, drikker sig stive i rytterstuen efter galop over stubmarkerne, tager til havnefest, sutter pik, ryger smøger og holder hinandens hår væk fra ansigtet, når de skal kaste op. Men nu har Kirsten og Karina klippet sig korthårede, og Anita svarer ikke på deres beskeder. Der er drama om hesten Don Juan, men Kirsten har andre ting at bekymre sig om, fx hvordan hun kan slå sin stedfar ihjel, den dæmon. Hun skriver det hele ned i sin dagbog for at få et overblik. Hun vil planlægge mordet, udføre det, og så vil hun brænde dagbogen. For hvis nogen læste hendes ord, ville fanden for alvor være løs.

KIRSTENS HÆVN er en hestepigeroman om sex, vold og dæmoni.]]> 134 Bjørn Rasmussen 8702406683 Rose 0 to-read 3.74 2024
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name: Rose
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2024
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]]> 125078616 WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Annie Ernaux's most recent book, dazzling and breathtaking, published in France in 2022, is about her affair with a man 30 years her junior.

“A sublime book.�� —Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle

“Once again the work of the writer Annie Ernaux appears as both a rigorous study of life and an experiment. These fragments of living, however evanescent, are precious, irreplaceable, like a skin that never fades.�� —Caroline Montpetit in Le Devoir

The Young Man is Annie Ernaux’s account of her passionate love affair with A., a man some 30 years younger, when she was in her fifties. The relationship pulls her back to memories of her own youth and at the
same time leaves her feeling ageless, outside of time�� together with a sense that she is living her life backwards.

Amidst talk of having a child together, she feels time running its course, and menopause approaching. The Young Man recalls Ernaux as the “scandalous girl�� she once was, but is composed with the mastery and the self-assurance she has achieved across decades of writing. It was first
published in France in 2022.]]> 64 Annie Ernaux 1644213206 Rose 4 2024 3.59 2022
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Rose
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2022
rating: 4
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]]> 320 417 Gabriel García Márquez Rose 0 4.10 1967
author: Gabriel García Márquez
name: Rose
average rating: 4.10
book published: 1967
rating: 0
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]]> 52180399 The creeping horror of Paul Tremblay meets Tommy Orange’s There There in a dark novel of revenge, cultural identity, and the cost of breaking from tradition in this latest novel from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.

Seamlessly blending classic horror and a dramatic narrative with sharp social commentary, The Only Good Indians follows four American Indian men after a disturbing event from their youth puts them in a desperate struggle for their lives. Tracked by an entity bent on revenge, these childhood friends are helpless as the culture and traditions they left behind catch up to them in a violent, vengeful way.]]> 305 Stephen Graham Jones 1982136456 Rose 1 2024 3.69 2020
author: Stephen Graham Jones
name: Rose
average rating: 3.69
book published: 2020
rating: 1
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]]> 210199929
En gruppe venner midt i trediverne er samlet i et sommerhus ved en skovsø. Det er midsommer og ugen op til et bryllup. Et vennepar skal giftes. Gruppen forbereder sig og holder samtidig fri, skændes, mindes, flirter, poserer, soler sig i hinandens selskab og roder op i ukurante følelser. Sylvia har altid været forelsket i Esben, brudgommen. Hun er i et trygt og stabilt parforhold med sin kvindelige kæreste, Charlie, men kan ikke finde ro. Kvæde føler sig endelig hjemme i sin krop og er klar til at holde et skov-rave, men der er børn, der skal puttes, og Gry har taget sin kæreste Adam med, der går rundt og ligner en reklame for heteroseksualitet. Karen glæder sig til at blive gift, men hun glæder sig endnu mere til at komme tilbage på arbejde. Og imens samtalerne slår gnister rundt om middagsbordet, kæmper Gry med at føle sig banal blandt sine farverige, excentriske venner.

Hvorfor er nogles drøm at blive gift og andres at leve i et harem med deres yndlingsvenner? Og hvad stiller man op med længslen efter, at alt kunne være anderledes?]]> 287 Linea Maja Ernst 8727048535 Rose 1 bookclub-babes, 2024 3.95 2024
author: Linea Maja Ernst
name: Rose
average rating: 3.95
book published: 2024
rating: 1
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date added: 2024/11/22
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Seriøst? Var klar til at give den 4 stjerner men efter den slutning er jeg SUR
]]> 63094957
Rachel is a student working at a bookstore when she meets James, and it’s love at first sight. Effervescent and insistently heterosexual, James soon invites Rachel to be his roommate and the two begin a friendship that changes the course of both their lives forever. Together, they run riot through the streets of Cork city, trying to maintain a bohemian existence while the threat of the financial crash looms before them.

When Rachel falls in love with her married professor, Dr. Fred Byrne, James helps her devise a reading at their local bookstore, with the goal that she might seduce him afterwards. But Fred has other desires. So begins a series of secrets and compromises that intertwine the fates of James, Rachel, Fred, and Fred’s glamorous, well-connected, bourgeois wife. Aching with unrequited love, shot through with delicious, sparkling humor, The Rachel Incident is a triumph.]]> 304 Caroline O'Donoghue 0593535707 Rose 0 to-read 4.06 2023
author: Caroline O'Donoghue
name: Rose
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 212179308
Underskud er en bog om alt det, vi tager for givet, udpiner og mister, når vi ikke kan måle dets værdi.]]> 288 Emma Holten 8740074137 Rose 5 2024 4.27 2024
author: Emma Holten
name: Rose
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2024/11/11
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Virkelig imponeret over det arbejde Emma Holten har lavet i denne bog. Utroligt velskrevet og nuanceret, med et helt klart mål. Og SJOV! Hun må gerne skrive flere bøger tak :)
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Men Who Hate Women examines the rise of secretive extremist communities who despise women and traces the roots of misogyny across a complex spider web of groups. It includes eye-opening interviews with former members of these communities, the academics studying this movement, and the men fighting back.

Women's rights activist Laura Bates wrote this book as someone who has been the target of many hate-fueled misogynistic attacks online. At first, the vitriol seemed to be the work of a small handful of individual men... but over time, the volume and consistency of the attacks hinted at something bigger and more ominous. As Bates went undercover into the corners of the internet, she found an unseen, organized movement of thousands of anonymous men wishing violence (and worse) upon women.
In the book, Bates explores:

Extreme communities like incels, pick-up artists, MGTOW, Men's Rights Activists and more
The hateful, toxic rhetoric used by these groups
How this movement connects to other extremist movements like white supremacy
How young boys are targeted and slowly drawn in
Where this ideology shows up in our everyday lives in mainstream media, our playgrounds, and our government

By turns fascinating and horrifying, Men Who Hate Women is a broad, unflinching account of the deep current of loathing toward women and anti-feminism that underpins our society and is a must-read for parents, educators, and anyone who believes in equality for women.

Praise for Men Who Hate Women:
"Laura Bates is showing us the path to both intimate and global survival."—Gloria Steinem
"Well-researched and meticulously documented, Bates's book on the power and danger of masculinity should be required reading for us all."—Library Journal
"Men Who Hate Women has the power to spark social change."—Sunday Times]]> 416 Laura Bates 172823624X Rose 0 4.27 2020
author: Laura Bates
name: Rose
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2020
rating: 0
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]]> 42201997 ONE OF NPR’S BEST BOOKS OF 2019

*Most Anticipated Reads of 2019 by Publishers Weekly, BuzzFeed, The Rumpus, Lit Hub, The Week, and Elle.com*

Fifteen brilliant writers explore what we ��Dz�’t talk to our mothers about, and how it affects us, for better or for worse.

As an undergraduate, Michele Filgate started writing an essay about being abused by her stepfather. It took her more than a decade to realize what she was actually trying to write: how this affected her relationship with her mother. When it was finally published, the essay went viral, shared on social media by Anne Lamott, Rebecca Solnit, and many others. The outpouring of responses gave Filgate an idea, and the resulting anthology offers a candid look at our relationships with our mothers.

While some of the writers in this book are estranged from their mothers, others are extremely close. Leslie Jamison writes about trying to discover who her seemingly perfect mother was before ever becoming a mom. In Cathi Hanauer’s hilarious piece, she finally gets a chance to have a conversation with her mother that isn’t interrupted by her domineering (but lovable) father. André Aciman writes about what it was like to have a deaf mother. Melissa Febos uses mythology as a lens to look at her close-knit relationship with her psychotherapist mother. And Julianna Baggott talks about having a mom who tells her everything.

As Filgate writes, “Our mothers are our first homes, and that’s why we’re always trying to return to them.�� There’s relief in breaking the silence. Acknowledging what we couldn’t say for so long is one way to heal our relationships with others and, perhaps most important, with ourselves.

Contributors include Cathi Hanauer, Melissa Febos, Alexander Chee, Dylan Landis, Bernice L. McFadden, Julianna Baggott, Lynn Steger Strong, Kiese Laymon, Carmen Maria Machado, André Aciman, Sari Botton, Nayomi Munaweera, Brandon Taylor, and Leslie Jamison.]]> 288 Michele Filgate 1982107340 Rose 0 to-read 3.76 2019
author: Michele Filgate
name: Rose
average rating: 3.76
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 42734244 A visual exploration of how to embrace emotion at work and become more authentic and fulfilled while staying professional.

When it comes to emotions at work, there's rarely a happy medium. In some offices, your boss might send snaps of her weekend getaway in Vegas, or your coworker might send twenty texts about how Susan ate his clearly labeled lunch...again. Other offices are buttoned-up emotional deserts, where crying is only allowed in the bathroom and you suspect your coworkers might be robots. Either extreme hurts employee health and productivity.

Liz Fosslien and Mollie West Duffy take a charming and deeply researched look at how emotions affect our professional lives and how we can navigate emotions at work. The modern workplace can be an emotional minefield (Do I shake my boss's hand or give her a hug? Did I forget to mute my phone on the conference call?) filled with unwritten rules. As our jobs become more collaborative, complex, and stressful, effectively embracing emotion is more important than ever.

The book combines practical advice and scientific research to give you the tools you need. A

* Forget "unemotional" decisions; there are none. In fact, rational decisions require you to acknowledge and examine your emotions. For instance, fear often indicates anticipated future regret.

* Real, valuable feedback is not going to feel like a gift. Realize that negative feedback often means the criticizer cares about helping you improve and is willing to bear the awkwardness of a difficult conversation.

* Stop letting someone else's bad mood ruin your day. Emotions are viral-- we catch the feelings of those around us. If you're stuck next to a constant complainer, mentally remove yourself from the situation.

* Learn to communicate and interpret digital messages. That "totally normal" email you sent may be seen as hostile because you didn't explicitly state your positive emotions (e.g., "I love what you did here!").

Thanks to Fosslien's sharply funny two-color illustrations, No Hard Feelings is a romp through behavioral economics, psychology, and organizational design.]]> 233 Liz Fosslien 0525533842 Rose 0 to-read 4.02 2019
author: Liz Fosslien
name: Rose
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2019
rating: 0
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]]> 214331246 When you’ve been set up to lose everything you love, what is there left to fight for?

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes.

Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves.

When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight . . . and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.]]> 382 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Rose 0 to-read 4.67 2025
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Rose
average rating: 4.67
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 58724923 A wildly inventive spin on the supernatural thriller, about a woman working as a nanny for a young boy with strange and disturbing secrets.

Mallory Quinn is fresh out of rehab when she takes a job as a babysitter for Ted and Caroline Maxwell. She is to look after their five-year-old son, Teddy.

Mallory immediately loves it. She has her own living space, goes out for nightly runs, and has the stability she craves. And she sincerely bonds with Teddy, a sweet, shy boy who is never without his sketchbook and pencil. His drawings are the usual fare: trees, rabbits, balloons. But one day, he draws something different: a man in a forest, dragging a woman’s lifeless body.

Then, Teddy’s artwork becomes increasingly sinister, and his stick figures quickly evolve into lifelike sketches well beyond the ability of any five-year-old. Mallory begins to wonder if these are glimpses of a long-unsolved murder, perhaps relayed by a supernatural force.

Knowing just how crazy it all sounds, Mallory nevertheless sets out to decipher the images and save Teddy before it’s too late.]]> 372 Jason Rekulak 1250819342 Rose 0 to-read 4.12 2022
author: Jason Rekulak
name: Rose
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 60784409 A haunting Southern Gothic from an award-winning master of suspense, A House With Good Bones explores the dark, twisted roots lurking just beneath the veneer of a perfect home and family.

"Mom seems off."

Her brother's words echo in Sam Montgomery's ear as she turns onto the quiet North Carolina street where their mother lives alone.

She brushes the thought away as she climbs the front steps. Sam's excited for this rare extended visit, and looking forward to nights with just the two of them, drinking boxed wine, watching murder mystery shows, and guessing who the killer is long before the characters figure it out.

But stepping inside, she quickly realizes home isn’t what it used to be. Gone is the warm, cluttered charm her mom is known for; now the walls are painted a sterile white. Her mom jumps at the smallest noises and looks over her shoulder even when she’s the only person in the room. And when Sam steps out back to clear her head, she finds a jar of teeth hidden beneath the magazine-worthy rose bushes, and vultures are circling the garden from above.

To find out what’s got her mom so frightened in her own home, Sam will go digging for the truth. But some secrets are better left buried.]]> 247 T. Kingfisher 1250829798 Rose 2 2024, bookclub-babes Uhmm, what the actual fuck? 3.65 2023
author: T. Kingfisher
name: Rose
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2023
rating: 2
read at: 2024/10/11
date added: 2024/10/11
shelves: 2024, bookclub-babes
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Uhmm, what the actual fuck?
]]> 61686012 “Now and then, language would thrust its way into her sleep like a skewer through meat, startling her awake several times a night.��

In a classroom in Seoul, a young woman watches her Greek language teacher at the blackboard. She tries to speak but has lost her voice. Her teacher finds himself drawn to the silent woman, for day by day he is losing his sight.

Soon the two discover a deeper pain binds them together. For her, in the space of just a few months, she has lost both her mother and the custody battle for her nine-year-old son. For him, it’s the pain of growing up between Korea and Germany, being torn between two cultures and languages, and the fear of losing his independence.

Greek Lessons tells the story of two ordinary people brought together at a moment of private anguish—the fading light of a man losing his vision meeting the silence of a woman who has lost her language. Yet these are the very things that draw them to each other. Slowly the two discover a profound sense of unity—their voices intersecting with startling beauty, as they move from darkness to light, from silence to breath and expression.

Greek Lessons is the story of the unlikely bond between this pair and a tender love letter to human intimacy and connection—a novel to awaken the senses, one that vividly conjures the essence of what it means to be alive.]]> 192 Han Kang 0593595270 Rose 0 to-read 3.54 2011
author: Han Kang
name: Rose
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2011
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/10
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]]> 16331 288 Agatha Christie 1579126251 Rose 0 to-read 4.07 1930
author: Agatha Christie
name: Rose
average rating: 4.07
book published: 1930
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/06
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]]> 210349042
Bogen er blevet til gennem dybdegående research og kildearbejde og på baggrund af lange interview med dem, det handler om: “Kvinderne bag vesten��.]]> 212 Stine Lukowski 8775931354 Rose 0 to-read 3.70
author: Stine Lukowski
name: Rose
average rating: 3.70
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rating: 0
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date added: 2024/10/01
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]]> 199635125
Sharply observant and outrageously funny, Rejection is a provocative plunge into the touchiest problems of modern life. The seven connected stories seamlessly transition between the personal crises of a complex ensemble and the comic tragedies of sex, relationships, identity, and the internet.

In “The Feminist,�� a young man’s passionate allyship turns to furious nihilism as he realizes, over thirty lonely years, that it isn’t getting him laid. A young woman’s unrequited crush in “Pics�� spirals into borderline obsession and the systematic destruction of her sense of self. And in “Ahegao; or, The Ballad of Sexual Repression,�� a shy late bloomer’s flailing efforts at a first relationship leads to a life-upending mistake. As the characters pop up in each other’s dating apps and social media feeds, or meet in dimly lit bars and bedrooms, they reveal the ways our delusions can warp our desire for connection.

These brilliant satires explore the underrated sorrows of rejection with the authority of a modern classic and the manic intensity of a manifesto. Audacious and unforgettable, Rejection is a stunning mosaic that redefines what it means to be rejected by lovers, friends, society, and oneself.]]> 272 Tony Tulathimutte 0063337878 Rose 0 to-read 3.89 2024
author: Tony Tulathimutte
name: Rose
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 7842875 Chloe Saunders is on the run and raising hell. Literally.

Chloe Saunders is not your average supernatural teenager. Genetically altered at birth by a sinister team of scientists, she can barely control her terrifying powers. Now the team that created her has decided it's time to end the experiment. Permanently.

Now Chloe is running for her life along with a charming sorcerer, a troubled werewolf and a temperamental young witch. Together they have a chance for freedom - but can Chloe trust her new friends?]]> 388 Kelley Armstrong 0061857823 Rose 2
The plot was boring. We already knew they were going to find Simon and Dereks father, which was just what they told us once again. They didn't even got very far, because they got disracted almost everytime they tried to get away, by a different types of things.

The only thing you actually did in this book was getting to know the different charecters. Mostly Derek and Chloe, but you get a great look int he charevters, to see why they act like they do.
I must say that i don't get Derek - he's nice one time, then the next he acts like a bastard, but still Chloe is obsessed with him.]]> 4.22 2009
author: Kelley Armstrong
name: Rose
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2011/02/01
date added: 2024/09/28
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I think the first book was better. Book number one ended a very bad place, so i just needed to read number two as well. But i have to say that i was a little dissapointed, because the only thing that book number two did, was summarize almost the whole book one, which was really not necassary, because if you are going to read number two, you might as well have read book number one.

The plot was boring. We already knew they were going to find Simon and Dereks father, which was just what they told us once again. They didn't even got very far, because they got disracted almost everytime they tried to get away, by a different types of things.

The only thing you actually did in this book was getting to know the different charecters. Mostly Derek and Chloe, but you get a great look int he charevters, to see why they act like they do.
I must say that i don't get Derek - he's nice one time, then the next he acts like a bastard, but still Chloe is obsessed with him.
]]> 43834909 Two sisters travel the same streets, though their lives couldn't be more different. Then, one of them goes missing.

In a Philadelphia neighborhood rocked by the opioid crisis, two once-inseparable sisters find themselves at odds. One, Kacey, lives on the streets in the vise of addiction. The other, Mickey, walks those same blocks on her police beat. They don't speak anymore, but Mickey never stops worrying about her sibling.

Then Kacey disappears, suddenly, at the same time that a mysterious string of murders begins in Mickey's district, and Mickey becomes dangerously obsessed with finding the culprit--and her sister--before it's too late.

Alternating its present-day mystery with the story of the sisters' childhood and adolescence, Long Bright River is at once heart-pounding and heart-wrenching: a gripping suspense novel that is also a moving story of sisters, addiction, and the formidable ties that persist between place, family, and fate.]]> 482 Liz Moore 0525540679 Rose 4 2024 I'm a Liz Moore fan now! 4.02 2020
author: Liz Moore
name: Rose
average rating: 4.02
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/25
date added: 2024/09/25
shelves: 2024
review:
I'm a Liz Moore fan now!
]]> 203608516
Refusing to allow scandal to cloud the home's important mission, Abby tasks Faith's roommate, May, with tracing Faith's path to Bethany Home. May is desperate to end her year at Bethany Home engaged and on track to her happily-ever-after—even if her prince charming is Hal, a man she's not sure she can trust. As she digs into Faith's shadowy background, May uncovers a Minneapolis she never expected, and her investigation brings her closer to polite society and to Hal. The more she learns, the more she questions the motives of everyone around her, including Abby and Faith, and as more women turn up dead May must reevaluate the future she wants, and which lies she's willing to tell and for whom.]]> 336 Caroline Woods 0385550162 Rose 0 to-read 3.60 2024
author: Caroline Woods
name: Rose
average rating: 3.60
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 62926960
From the pioneering co-founder of cliodynamics, the groundbreaking new interdisciplinary science of history, a big-picture explanation for America's civil strife and its possible endgames

Peter Turchin, one of the most interesting social scientists of our age, has infused the study of history with approaches and insights from other fields for more than a quarter century. End Times is the culmination of his work to understand what causes political communities to cohere and what causes them to fall apart, as applied to the current turmoil within the United States. 

Back in 2010, when Nature magazine asked leading scientists to provide a ten-year forecast, Turchin used his models to predict that America was in a spiral of social disintegration that would lead to a breakdown in the political order circa 2020. The years since have proved his prediction more and more accurate, and End Times reveals why.

The lessons of world history are clear, Turchin When the equilibrium between ruling elites and the majority tips too far in favor of elites, political instability is all but inevitable. As income inequality surges and prosperity flows disproportionately into the hands of the elites, the common people suffer, and society-wide efforts to become an elite grow ever more frenzied. He calls this process the wealth pump; it’s a world of the damned and the saved. And since the number of such positions remains relatively fixed, the overproduction of elites inevitably leads to frustrated elite aspirants, who harness popular resentment to turn against the established order. Turchin’s models show that when this state has been reached, societies become locked in a death spiral it's very hard to exit.

In America, the wealth pump has been operating full blast for two generations. As cliodynamics shows us, our current cycle of elite overproduction and popular immiseration is far along the path to violent political rupture.  That is only one possible end time, and the choice is up to us, but the hour grows late.]]> 368 Peter Turchin 0593490509 Rose 0 to-read 4.02
author: Peter Turchin
name: Rose
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 58416952 At the elite Catenan Academy, a young fugitive uncovers layered mysteries and world-changing secrets in this new fantasy series by internationally bestselling author of The Licanius Trilogy, James Islington.

AUDI. VIDE. TACE.

The Catenan Republic �� the Hierarchy �� may rule the world now, but they do not know everything.

I tell them my name is Vis Telimus. I tell them I was orphaned after a tragic accident three years ago, and that good fortune alone has led to my acceptance into their most prestigious school. I tell them that once I graduate, I will gladly join the rest of civilised society in allowing my strength, my drive and my focus �� what they call Will �� to be leeched away and added to the power of those above me, as millions already do. As all must eventually do.

I tell them that I belong, and they believe me.

But the truth is that I have been sent to the Academy to find answers. To solve a murder. To search for an ancient weapon. To uncover secrets that may tear the Republic apart.

And that I will never, ever cede my Will to the empire that executed my family.

To survive, though, I will still have to rise through the Academy’s ranks. I will have to smile, and make friends, and pretend to be one of them and win. Because if I cannot, then those who want to control me, who know my real name, will no longer have any use for me.

And if the Hierarchy finds out who I truly am, they will kill me.]]> 639 James Islington 1982141190 Rose 0 to-read 4.61 2023
author: James Islington
name: Rose
average rating: 4.61
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 58345 The Awakening shocked readers with its honest treatment of female marital infidelity. Audiences accustomed to the pieties of late Victorian romantic fiction were taken aback by Chopin's daring portrayal of a woman trapped in a stifling marriage, who seeks and finds passionate physical love outside the confines of her domestic situation.

Aside from its unusually frank treatment of a then-controversial subject, the novel is widely admired today for its literary qualities. Edmund Wilson characterized it as a work "quite uninhibited and beautifully written, which anticipates D. H. Lawrence in its treatment of infidelity." Although the theme of marital infidelity no longer shocks, few novels have plumbed the psychology of a woman involved in an illicit relationship with the perception, artistry, and honesty that Kate Chopin brought to The Awakening.]]> 195 Kate Chopin 0543898083 Rose 0 to-read 3.69 1899
author: Kate Chopin
name: Rose
average rating: 3.69
book published: 1899
rating: 0
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]]> 32478572
Often, to get something done that really matters to us, we need to work with people we ��Dz�’t agree with or like or trust. Adam Kahane has faced this challenge many times, working on big issues like democracy and jobs and climate change and on everyday issues in organizations and families. He has learned that our conventional understanding of collaboration—that it requires a harmonious team that agrees on where it’s going, how it’s going to get there, and who needs to do what—is wrong. Instead, we need a new approach to collaboration that embraces discord, experimentation, and genuine cocreation—which is exactly what Kahane provides in this groundbreaking and timely book.]]> 131 Adam Kahane 1626568227 Rose 0 to-read 3.19 2017
author: Adam Kahane
name: Rose
average rating: 3.19
book published: 2017
rating: 0
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]]> 199698485 When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide

Early morning, August 1975: a camp counselor discovers an empty bunk. Its occupant, Barbara Van Laar, has gone missing. Barbara isn’t just any thirteen-year-old: she’s the daughter of the family that owns the summer camp and employs most of the region’s residents. And this isn’t the first time a Van Laar child has disappeared. Barbara’s older brother similarly vanished fourteen years ago, never to be found.

As a panicked search begins, a thrilling drama unfolds. Chasing down the layered secrets of the Van Laar family and the blue-collar community working in its shadow, Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.]]> 490 Liz Moore Rose 4 2024 4.16 2024
author: Liz Moore
name: Rose
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2024
rating: 4
read at: 2024/09/06
date added: 2024/09/06
shelves: 2024
review:
This was so great! The perfect book for the end of the summer. I think I will check out more Liz Moore books in the future.
]]> 70240470 289 Max Marshall 0063099551 Rose 0 couldn-t-finish 3.48 2023
author: Max Marshall
name: Rose
average rating: 3.48
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 133286777 From the New York Times bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and creator of the Grishaverse series comes a highly anticipated historical fantasy set during the Spanish Golden Age

In a shabby house, on a shabby street, in the new capital of Madrid, Luzia Cotado uses scraps of magic to get through her days of endless toil as a scullion. But when her scheming mistress discovers the lump of a servant cowering in the kitchen is actually hiding a talent for little miracles, she demands Luzia use those gifts to better the family's social position.

What begins as simple amusement for the bored nobility takes a perilous turn when Luzia garners the notice of Antonio Pérez, the disgraced secretary to Spain's king. Still reeling from the defeat of his armada, the king is desperate for any advantage in the war against England's heretic queen—and Pérez will stop at nothing to regain the king's favor.

Determined to seize this one chance to better her fortunes, Luzia plunges into a world of seers and alchemists, holy men and hucksters, where the line between magic, science, and fraud is never certain. But as her notoriety grows, so does the danger that her Jewish blood will doom her to the Inquisition's wrath. She will have to use every bit of her wit and will to survive—even if that means enlisting the help of Guillén Santangel, an embittered immortal familiar whose own secrets could prove deadly for them both.]]> 387 Leigh Bardugo 125088425X Rose 2 2024 god, this book was boring.]]> 3.74 2024
author: Leigh Bardugo
name: Rose
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2024
rating: 2
read at: 2024/08/31
date added: 2024/08/31
shelves: 2024
review:
I understand the need to flesh out the details of the Spanish society in the 15th century, but my god, this book was boring.
]]> 31443394
A victory would send star player Kevin onto a brilliant professional future in the NHL. It would mean everything to Amat, a scrawny fifteen-year-old treated like an outcast everywhere but on the ice. And it would justify the choice that Peter, the team's general manager, and his wife, Kira, made to return to his hometown and raise their children in this beautiful but isolated place.

Being responsible for the hopes of an entire town is a heavy burden, and the semifinal match is the catalyst for a violent act that leaves a young girl traumatized and a town in turmoil. Hers is a story no one wants to believe since the truth would mean the end of the dream. Accusations are made, and like ripples on a pond, they travel through all of Beartown, leaving no resident unaffected.]]> 418 Fredrik Backman 1501160761 Rose 0 to-read 4.26 2016
author: Fredrik Backman
name: Rose
average rating: 4.26
book published: 2016
rating: 0
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]]> 50794839 Ambition will fuel him.
Competition will drive him.
But power has its price.

It is the morning of the reaping that will kick off the tenth annual Hunger Games. In the Capitol, eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow is preparing for his one shot at glory as a mentor in the Games. The once-mighty house of Snow has fallen on hard times, its fate hanging on the slender chance that Coriolanus will be able to outcharm, outwit, and outmaneuver his fellow students to mentor the winning tribute.

The odds are against him. He’s been given the humiliating assignment of mentoring the female tribute from District 12, the lowest of the low. Their fates are now completely intertwined—every choice Coriolanus makes could lead to favor or failure, triumph or ruin. Inside the arena, it will be a fight to the death. Outside the arena, Coriolanus starts to feel for his doomed tribute . . . and must weigh his need to follow the rules against his desire to survive no matter what it takes.]]> 528 Suzanne Collins 1338635174 Rose 3 2024, bookclub-babes 3.87 2020
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Rose
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2024/01/18
date added: 2024/08/25
shelves: 2024, bookclub-babes
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]]> 43763
Louis and Claudia travel Europe, eventually coming to Paris and the ragingly successful Theatre des Vampires--a theatre of vampires pretending to be mortals pretending to be vampires. Here they meet the magnetic and ethereal Armand, who brings them into a whole society of vampires. But Louis and Claudia find that finding others like themselves provides no easy answers and in fact presents dangers they scarcely imagined.

Originally begun as a short story, the book took off as Anne wrote it, spinning the tragic and triumphant life experiences of a soul. As well as the struggles of its characters, Interview captures the political and social changes of two continents. The novel also introduces Lestat, Anne's most enduring character, a heady mixture of attraction and revulsion. The book, full of lush description, centers on the themes of immortality, change, loss, sexuality, and power.
source: annerice.com]]> 346 Anne Rice 0345476875 Rose 0 to-read 4.04 1976
author: Anne Rice
name: Rose
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1976
rating: 0
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]]> 144086081 WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

A New York Times Notable Book

Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed his family little affection.

Narrating his slow ascent towards material comfort, Ernaux's cold observation reveals the shame that haunted her father throughout his life. She scrutinizes the importance he attributed to manners and language that came so unnaturally to him as he struggled to provide for his family with a grocery store and cafe in rural France.

Over the course of the book, Ernaux grows up to become the uncompromising observer now familiar to the world, while her father matures into old age with a staid appreciation for life as it is and for a daughter he cautiously, even reluctantly admires. A Man's Place is the companion book to her critically acclaimed memoir about her mother, A Woman's Story .]]> 96 Annie Ernaux 1609804031 Rose 0 to-read 4.00 1983
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Rose
average rating: 4.00
book published: 1983
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]]> 145625252 Considered by many to be the iconic French memoirist’s defining work and a breakout bestseller when published in France in 2008.

The Years is a personal narrative of the period 1941 to 2006 told through the lens of memory, impressions past and present—even projections into the future—photos, books, songs, radio, television and decades of advertising, headlines, contrasted with intimate conflicts and writing notes from 6 decades of diaries.

Local dialect, words of the times, slogans, brands and names for the ever-proliferating objects, are given voice here. The voice we recognize as the author’s continually dissolves and re-emerges. Ernaux makes the passage of time palpable. Time itself, inexorable, narrates its own course, consigning all other narrators to anonymity. A new kind of autobiography emerges, at once subjective and impersonal, private and collective.

On its 2008 publication in France, The Years came as a surprise. Though Ernaux had for years been hailed as a beloved, bestselling and award-winning author, The Years was in many ways a departure: both an intimate memoir “written�� by entire generations, and a story of generations telling a very personal story. Like the generation before hers, the narrator eschews the “I�� for the “we�� (or “they��, or “one��) as if collective life were inextricably intertwined with a private life that in her parents�� generation ceased to exist. She writes of her parents�� generation (and could be writing of her own book): “From a common fund of hunger and fear, everything was told in the “we�� and impersonal pronouns.”]]> 240 Annie Ernaux 1609807871 Rose 0 to-read 4.22 2008
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Rose
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2008
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]]> 129263635
This is the story, written forty years later, of a trauma Ernaux never overcame. In a France where abortion was illegal, she attempted, in vain, to self-administer the abortion with a knitting needle. Fearful and desperate, she finally located an abortionist, and ends up in a hospital emergency ward where she nearly dies.

In Happening, Ernaux sifts through her memories and her journal entries dating from those days. Clearly, cleanly, she gleans the meanings of her experience.

Now an award-winning film by Audrey Diwan

Winner of the Golden Lion at the Venice International Film Festival

Official Selection of the Sundance Film Festival]]> 96 Annie Ernaux 1609809483 Rose 3 2024 4.36 2000
author: Annie Ernaux
name: Rose
average rating: 4.36
book published: 2000
rating: 3
read at: 2024/08/22
date added: 2024/08/22
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]]> 8686068
When Detective Kusanagi of the Tokyo Police tries to piece together the events of that day, he finds himself confronted by the most puzzling, mysterious circumstances he has ever investigated. Nothing quite makes sense, and it will take a genius to understand the genius behind this particular crime...]]> 298 Keigo Higashino 0312375069 Rose 0 to-read 4.16 2005
author: Keigo Higashino
name: Rose
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2005
rating: 0
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date added: 2024/08/19
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]]> 43076988 292 Tommy Orange 0525436146 Rose 1 4.05 2018
author: Tommy Orange
name: Rose
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2018
rating: 1
read at: 2021/07/24
date added: 2024/08/16
shelves: bookclub-babes, 2021, disappointed
review:
I wanted to like this book so much, but I was severely disappointed. RTC.
]]> 36820477 A searching examination of all the dimensions of love, marriage, mourning, and kinship from two-time Booker Prize finalist Deborah Levy.

To strip the wallpaper off the fairy tale of The Family House in which the comfort and happiness of men and children has been the priority is to find behind it an unthanked, unloved, neglected, exhausted woman.

The Cost of Living explores the subtle erasure of women's names, spaces, and stories in the modern everyday. In this “living autobiography�� infused with warmth and humor, Deborah Levy critiques the roles that society assigns to us, and reflects on the politics of breaking with the usual gendered rituals. What does it cost a woman to unsettle old boundaries and collapse the social hierarchies that make her a minor character in a world not arranged to her advantage?

Levy draws on her own experience of attempting to live with pleasure, value, and meaning--the making of a new kind of family home, the challenges of her mother's death--and those of women she meets in everyday life, from a young female traveler reading in a bar who suppresses her own words while she deflects an older man's advances, to a particularly brilliant student, to a kindly and ruthless octogenarian bookseller who offers the author a place to write at a difficult time in her life. The Cost of Living is urgent, essential reading, a crystalline manifesto for turbulent times.]]> 144 Deborah Levy 163557191X Rose 0 to-read 4.18 2018
author: Deborah Levy
name: Rose
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 166997
John Williams’s luminous and deeply moving novel is a work of quiet perfection. William Stoner emerges from it not only as an archetypal American, but as an unlikely existential hero, standing, like a figure in a painting by Edward Hopper, in stark relief against an unforgiving world.]]> 292 John Williams 1590171993 Rose 0 to-read 4.35 1965
author: John Williams
name: Rose
average rating: 4.35
book published: 1965
rating: 0
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]]> 20949594 Selected for the inaugural Fence Modern Prize in Prose by Rivka Galchen.

Salem, Massachusetts, 1851: McGlue is in the hold, still too drunk to be sure of name or situation or orientation—he may have killed a man. That man may have been his best friend. Intolerable memory accompanies sobriety. A-sail on the high seas of literary tradition, Ottessa Moshfegh gives us a nasty heartless blackguard on a knife-sharp voyage through the fogs of recollection.

They said I've done something wrong? . . . And they've just left me down here to starve. They'll see this inanition and be so damned they'll fall to my feet and pass up hot cross buns slathered in fresh butter and beg I forgive them. All of them . . . : the entire world one by one. Like a good priest I'll pat their heads and nod. I'll dunk my skull into a barrel of gin.

Ottessa Moshfegh was awarded the 2013 Plimpton Discovery Prize for her stories in the Paris Review and a creative writing fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts. She is currently a Wallace Stegner fellow at Stanford, and lives in Oakland, California.
]]> 118 Ottessa Moshfegh 1934200859 Rose 0 to-read 3.33 2014
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: Rose
average rating: 3.33
book published: 2014
rating: 0
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]]> 6900
Maybe, like Mitch, you lost track of this mentor as you made your way, and the insights faded. Wouldn't you like to see that person again, ask the bigger questions that still haunt you?

Mitch Albom had that second chance. He rediscovered Morrie in the last months of the older man's life. Knowing he was dying of ALS - or motor neurone disease - Mitch visited Morrie in his study every Tuesday, just as they used to back in college. Their rekindled relationship turned into one final 'class': lessons in how to live.]]> 210 Mitch Albom Rose 0 to-read 4.19 1997
author: Mitch Albom
name: Rose
average rating: 4.19
book published: 1997
rating: 0
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]]> 754713 242 Arthur Conan Doyle 0755334434 Rose 0 4.26 1917
author: Arthur Conan Doyle
name: Rose
average rating: 4.26
book published: 1917
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2024/08/07
shelves: to-read, books-i-own, classics, tbr-owned, sherlock-holmes
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]]> 62926938 An overworked book publicist with a perfectly planned future hits a snag when she falls in love with her temporary roommate…only to discover he lives seven years in the past, in this witty and wise new novel from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dead Romantics.

Sometimes, the worst day of your life happens, and you have to figure out how to live after it.

So Clementine forms a plan to keep her heart safe: work hard, find someone decent to love, and try to remember to chase the moon. The last one is silly and obviously metaphorical, but her aunt always told her that you needed at least one big dream to keep going. And for the last year, that plan has gone off without a hitch. Mostly. The love part is hard because she doesn’t want to get too close to anyone—she isn’t sure her heart can take it.

And then she finds a strange man standing in the kitchen of her late aunt’s apartment. A man with kind eyes and a Southern drawl and a taste for lemon pies. The kind of man that, before it all, she would’ve fallen head-over-heels for. And she might again.

Except, he exists in the past. Seven years ago, to be exact. And she, quite literally, lives seven years in his future.

Her aunt always said the apartment was a pinch in time, a place where moments blended together like watercolors. And Clementine knows that if she lets her heart fall, she’ll be doomed.

After all, love is never a matter of time—but a matter of timing.]]> 336 Ashley Poston Rose 0 currently-reading 4.18 2023
author: Ashley Poston
name: Rose
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 43518959 From Cara Hunter, the New York Times bestselling author of Murder in the Family, comes the fourth novel in her DI Fawley detective series, one of Britain’s most enduringly popular and mega-selling crime series.

After being abducted and assaulted, a teenage girl somehow managed to escape from her captor. She is traumatized and needs to heal, but the police need her help to catch her assailant—information she clearly knows, but is unwilling to give.

Without the girl’s assistance, DI Adam Fawley’s investigation is at a dead end. When another girl vanishes under the same circumstances, he recognizes a disturbing pattern—and a link to something long buried in his past. . .]]> 416 Cara Hunter 0241985110 Rose 4 2024 4.15 2019
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.15
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/20
date added: 2024/08/03
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]]> 200525230 432 Cara Hunter 0063263815 Rose 4 2024 4.12 2022
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/08/03
date added: 2024/08/03
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review:
I'm just a sucker for a good police procedure.
]]> 41456850
‘De toekomst van Europa is het Europa dat nu al een realiteit is. Europa is het recreatiegebied voor de rest van de wereld,�� zegt een van de personages in Grand Hotel Europa. Het is �� overdrachtelijk �� ook een zelfdiagnose. Alle personages in deze roman zitten immers op verschillende manieren vast aan hun verleden. Voor toekomst is geen plek meer. Het Avondland is vergrijsd en improductief. Geschiedenis is het voornaamste dat Europa nog te bieden heeft. En geschiedenis trekt toerisme. Maar dit verontrustende en au fond weemoedige gegeven krijgt in Grand Hotel Europa zijn beslag in een wervelende en hilarische roman met een tragische liefdesgeschiedenis als hoofdmoot.]]> 547 Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer 902952622X Rose 0 to-read 4.06 2018
author: Ilja Leonard Pfeijffer
name: Rose
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 59693959 In a village in a medieval fiefdom buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself the unlikely pivot of a power struggle that puts all manner of faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet

Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, never knew his mother; his father told him she died in childbirth. One of life’s few consolations for Marek is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him as a baby, as she did so many of the village’s children. Ina’s gifts extend beyond childcare: she possesses a unique ability to communicate with the natural world. Her gift often brings her the transmission of sacred knowledge on levels far beyond those available to other villagers, however religious they might be. For some people, Ina’s home in the woods outside of the village is a place to fear and to avoid, a godless place.

Among their number is Father Barnabas, the town priest and lackey for the depraved lord and governor, Villiam, whose hilltop manor contains a secret embarrassment of riches. The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by Villiam and the priest, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, the natural world and the spirit world, civility and savagery, will prove to be very thin indeed.]]> 313 Ottessa Moshfegh Rose 0 to-read 3.53 2022
author: Ottessa Moshfegh
name: Rose
average rating: 3.53
book published: 2022
rating: 0
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]]> 49569511
Because this time, the predator is a woman and the shining star of the department, and the student a six-foot male rugby player.

Soon DI Fawley and his team are up against the clock to figure out the truth. What they don't realise is that someone is watching. And they have a plan to put Fawley out of action for good...]]> 424 Cara Hunter Rose 3 2024 4.20 2021
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.20
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/31
date added: 2024/07/31
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]]> 60822162
A wedding day brings back memories of sisterhood and betrayals; a motorway service station is the site of explosive violence, but also strange bonds; a trip home forces a reminder of a life-changing, lost friendship; a woman confronts her own infidelity; an artist celebrates a life spent in observation.

This debut collection movingly explores how women and girls are looked at, look at one another, and look at themselves, and how living as an object can shape their passions, fears, and joys. With a clear eye and dark humour, Danielle Pender considers sex, parenting, grief and class as lenses for the ways in which the world watches women �� and how women are always watching back.]]> 272 Danielle Pender 0008472467 Rose 4 bookclub-babes, 2024 3.65 2022
author: Danielle Pender
name: Rose
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2024/04/14
date added: 2024/07/18
shelves: bookclub-babes, 2024
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]]> 8126085 194 Haruki Murakami Rose 4 2024 4.06 2007
author: Haruki Murakami
name: Rose
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2007
rating: 4
read at: 2024/06/26
date added: 2024/07/18
shelves: 2024
review:
I don't know why everything Murakami writes just resonates with me, but I hate Kafka on the Shore with a burning passion???
]]> 39805700
The Christmas holidays, and two children have just been pulled from the wreckage of their burning home in North Oxford. The toddler is dead, and his brother is soon fighting for his life. Why were they left in the house alone? Where is their mother, and why is their father not answering his phone?

Then new evidence is discovered, and DI Fawley's worst nightmare comes true.

Because this fire wasn't an accident.

It was murder.]]> 384 Cara Hunter 0241283493 Rose 3 2024 4.12 2019
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2019
rating: 3
read at: 2024/07/18
date added: 2024/07/18
shelves: 2024
review:
Nothing but Cara Hunter for life, please.
]]> 200230098 From the New York Times bestselling author of the TikTok sensation Murder in the Family and the popular DI Adam Fawley series comes a brand-new gripping thriller in which a true-crime TV show turns up the heat on a controversial case from Fawley’s past��

When Nick Vincent, producer of true-crime show Infamous, hears about an explosive new angle on a high-profile case—the 2016 murder of an eight-year-old girl in Oxford—he leaps at the chance to send a researcher to verify the claims.

Two months later, a dog walker discovers a woman’s body, bound and buried in a shallow grave in the woods. Forensic evidence links the corpse to the disappearance of that same child.

DCI Adam Fawley, the original investigating officer, is called in to run the enquiry. And he remembers the case well—he arrested the child’s mother for murder. A murder he now knows she didn’t commit.

The investigation raises more questions than answers. What connects the two crimes? Where has the dead girl been all these years? How did she manage to disappear? For Adam Fawley, this is personal...]]> 368 Cara Hunter 0063271095 Rose 0 to-read 4.01 2025
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2025
rating: 0
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]]> 40139355 Do you know what they’re hiding in the house next door?

A woman and child are found locked in a basement, barely alive, and unidentifiable: the woman can’t speak, there are no missing persons reports that match their profile, and the confused, elderly man who owns the house claims he has never seen them before. The inhabitants of the quiet street are in shock—how could this happen right under their noses? But Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows nothing is impossible. And no one is as innocent as they seem.

As the police grow desperate for a lead, Fawley stumbles across a breakthrough, a link to a case he worked years before about another young woman and child gone missing, never solved. When he realizes the missing woman’s house is directly adjacent to the house in this case, he thinks he might have found the connection that could bring justice for both women. But there’s something not quite right about the little boy from the basement, and the truth will send shockwaves through the force that Fawley never could have anticipated.

A deeply unsettling, heart-stopping mystery of long-buried secrets and the monsters who hide in plain sight, In the Dark is the second gripping novel featuring DI Adam Fawley.]]> 384 Cara Hunter 0143131060 Rose 5 2024 Devouring. 4.13 2018
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2018
rating: 5
read at: 2024/07/16
date added: 2024/07/16
shelves: 2024
review:
Devouring.
]]> 62703226 At seventeen, Lenora Hope
Hung her sister with a rope

Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody night in 1929. While most people assume seventeen-year-old Lenora was responsible, the police were never able to prove it. Other than her denial after the killings, she has never spoken publicly about that night, nor has she set foot outside Hope’s End, the cliffside mansion where the massacre occurred.

Stabbed her father with a knife
Took her mother’s happy life

It’s now 1983, and home-health aide Kit McDeere arrives at a decaying Hope’s End to care for Lenora after her previous nurse fled in the middle of the night. In her seventies and confined to a wheelchair, Lenora was rendered mute by a series of strokes and can only communicate with Kit by tapping out sentences on an old typewriter. One night, Lenora uses it to make a tantalizing offer��I want to tell you everything.

“It wasn’t me,�� Lenora said
But she’s the only one not dead

As Kit helps Lenora write about the events leading to the Hope family massacre, it becomes clear there’s more to the tale than people know. But when new details about her predecessor’s departure come to light, Kit starts to suspect Lenora might not be telling the complete truth—and that the seemingly harmless woman in her care could be far more dangerous than she first thought.]]> 383 Riley Sager 0593183223 Rose 0 to-read 4.12 2023
author: Riley Sager
name: Rose
average rating: 4.12
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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]]> 35717962 Morten Münster 8702243628 Rose 0 to-read 4.07
author: Morten Münster
name: Rose
average rating: 4.07
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]]> 35458732 They know who did it. Perhaps not consciously. Perhaps not yet. But they know.

When eight-year-old Daisy Mason vanishes from her family’s Oxford home during a costume party, Detective Inspector Adam Fawley knows that nine times out of ten, the offender is someone close to home. And Daisy’s family is certainly strange—her mother is obsessed with keeping up appearances, while her father is cold and defensive under questioning. And then there’s Daisy’s little brother, so withdrawn and uncommunicative . . .

DI Fawley works against the clock to find any trace of the little girl, but it’s as if she disappeared into thin air—no one saw anything; no one knows anything. But everyone has an opinion, and everyone, it seems, has a secret to conceal.]]> 289 Cara Hunter 0143131052 Rose 4 2024 3.87 2017
author: Cara Hunter
name: Rose
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2017
rating: 4
read at: 2024/07/13
date added: 2024/07/13
shelves: 2024
review:
Dig everything but the ending.
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