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A.F.Th. van der Heijden doet het enige waar hij op dat moment toe in staat is: in zijn herinnering graven, aantekeningen maken, schrijven. Daarbij voortgedreven door twee dwingende vragen: wat gebeurde er met Tonio in de laatste uren en dagen voorafgaand aan de ramp, en hoe kon dit ongeluk plaatsvinden? Een zoektocht naar het wat en het hoe, die leidt langs verschillende ooggetuigen, vrienden, politiemensen, artsen en het mysterieuze meisje Jenny, dat in de laatste weken van Tonio's leven een cruciale rol blijkt te hebben vervuld.

Tonio vormt de neerslag van die zoektocht. Een nauwgezette reconstructie van een jongensleven en een radeloze queeste naar zin en betekenis.]]> 635 A.F.Th. van der Heijden 9023465725 Anne 0 3.91 2011
author: A.F.Th. van der Heijden
name: Anne
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2011
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2022/12/02
shelves: randomizer-2022, did-not-finish
review:

]]> 55858638 New York Times bestselling trilogy that began with A Deadly Education and The Last Graduate.

The one thing you never talk about while you're in the Scholomance is what you'll do when you get out. Not even the richest enclaver would tempt fate that way. But it's all we dream about, the hideously slim chance we'll survive to make it out the gates and improbably find ourselves with a life ahead of us, a life outside the Scholomance halls.

And now the impossible dream has come true. I'm out, we're all out--and I didn't even have to turn into a monstrous dark witch to make it happen. So much for my great-grandmother's prophecy of doom and destruction. I didn't kill enclavers, I saved them. Me, and Orion, and our allies. Our graduation plan worked to perfection: we saved everyone and made the world safe for all wizards and brought peace and harmony to all the enclaves of the world.

Ha, only joking! Actually it's gone all wrong. Someone else has picked up the project of destroying enclaves in my stead, and probably everyone we saved is about to get killed in the brewing enclave war on the horizon. And the first thing I've got to do now, having miraculously got out of the Scholomance, is turn straight around and find a way back in.]]> 407 Naomi Novik 0593158369 Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 4.08 2022
author: Naomi Novik
name: Anne
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/02
date added: 2022/12/02
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
I liked this series a lot. This book isn’t a romance novel and doesn’t have a happy ending in which all villains get punished. I like the blend of trying to change the system from within, sticking with your friends, living up to your legacy and choosing what is right over what is easy.
]]> 6654313 the longing.
Once Grace and Sam have found each other, they know they must fight to stay together. For Sam, this means a reckoning with his werewolf past. For Grace, it means facing a future that is less and less certain.

the loss.
Into their world comes a new wolf named Cole, whose past is full of hurt and danger. He is wrestling with his own demons, embracing the life of a wolf while denying the ties of being a human.

the linger.
For Grace, Sam, and Cole, life is a constant struggle between two forces - wolf and human - with love baring its two sides as well. It is harrowing and euphoric, freeing and entrapping, enticing and alarming. As their world falls apart, love is what lingers. But will it be enough?]]> 362 Maggie Stiefvater 0545123283 Anne 3 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.89 2010
author: Maggie Stiefvater
name: Anne
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2010
rating: 3
read at: 2022/06/15
date added: 2022/11/12
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
What to write about this book? It’s book 2 in a series and I low key enjoyed the first book so I tried this one too. It’s not great but not awful either. Lots of teenage angst and things not being said. Then again, I will read part three because the build up was there.
]]> 360790 324 Alice Hoffman 0099286521 Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
This is not just another book about a boarding school and a sudden death of a student. It’s more than that it my opinion. A lot of the characters are multi dimensional and have their good and bad habits. The storyline has many dimensions as well, including a supernatural one. I did like reading this book, but I didn’t like parts of the ending.]]> 3.57 2000
author: Alice Hoffman
name: Anne
average rating: 3.57
book published: 2000
rating: 4
read at: 2022/11/08
date added: 2022/11/09
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
3.8 stars. This book was heading towards a solid 4 stars just until the final pages.

This is not just another book about a boarding school and a sudden death of a student. It’s more than that it my opinion. A lot of the characters are multi dimensional and have their good and bad habits. The storyline has many dimensions as well, including a supernatural one. I did like reading this book, but I didn’t like parts of the ending.
]]> 6131921 348 Geert Kimpen 9029565330 Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.77 2006
author: Geert Kimpen
name: Anne
average rating: 3.77
book published: 2006
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/15
date added: 2022/10/15
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
Dit is zo’n boek dat ik al tijden had, gesigneerd zelfs, maar nog steeds niet gelezen had. Nu ben ik er maar eens voor gaan zitten. Ik vind het een indrukwekkend verhaal, gebaseerd op echte historische figuren maar geromantiseerd. De stijl van Kimpen is heel leesbaar en het thema intrigerend.
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John Eliot Gardiner grew up passing one of the only two authentic portraits of Bach every morning and evening on the stairs of his parents� house, where it hung for safety during World War II. He has been studying and performing Bach ever since, and is now regarded as one of the composer’s greatest living interpreters. The fruits of this lifetime’s immersion are distilled in this remarkable book, grounded in the most recent Bach scholarship but moving far beyond it, and explaining in wonderful detail the ideas on which Bach drew, how he worked, how his music is constructed, how it achieves its effects—and what it can tell us about Bach the man.

Gardiner’s background as a historian has encouraged him to search for ways in which scholarship and performance can cooperate and fruitfully coalesce. This has entailed piecing together the few biographical shards, scrutinizing the music, and watching for those instances when Bach’s personality seems to penetrate the fabric of his notation. Gardiner’s aim is “to give the reader a sense of inhabiting the same experiences and sensations that Bach might have had in the act of music-making. This, I try to show, can help us arrive at a more human likeness discernible in the closely related processes of composing and performing his music.�

It is very rare that such an accomplished performer of music should also be a considerable writer and thinker about it. John Eliot Gardiner takes us as deeply into Bach’s works and mind as perhaps words can. The result is a unique book about one of the greatest of all creative artists. ]]> 672 John Eliot Gardiner 0375415297 Anne 4 4.08 2013
author: John Eliot Gardiner
name: Anne
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2022/10/02
date added: 2022/10/02
shelves: randomizer-2022, non-fiction, letter-hunt, read-in-2022
review:
This is a book which was a journey for me. It took me ages to finish, reading it on and off for 7 months. I’ve been in awe of J.S. Bach’s compositions for as long as I can remember. In this book, Gardiner manages to paint a picture of the man, the husband, the father, the teacher, the musician, the composer, the human Bach. With his shortcomings and his talent, his devotion and obsessions. Highly recommended, but at least basic knowledge about musical theory is necessary to understand this book.
]]> 17684326 449 Robert Galbraith 1408703998 Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.88 2013
author: Robert Galbraith
name: Anne
average rating: 3.88
book published: 2013
rating: 4
read at: 2022/09/24
date added: 2022/09/24
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
When this book was launched, I refused to read it because of the hype. Then I didn’t pick it up because of things the author said. This year, I decided to give it a try. I’m not sorry I did. I did like the old fashioned style of this crime novel.
]]> 19057 protect the diamonds
survive the clubs
dig deep through the spades
feel the hearts

Ed Kennedy is an underage cabdriver without much of a future. He's pathetic at playing cards, hopelessly in love with his best friend, Audrey, and utterly devoted to his coffee-drinking dog, the Doorman. His life is one of peaceful routine and incompetence until he inadvertently stops a bank robbery.

That's when the first ace arrives in the mail.

That's when Ed becomes the messenger.

Chosen to care, he makes his way through town helping and hurting (when necessary) until only one question remains: Who's behind Ed's mission?]]> 357 Markus Zusak Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 4.03 2002
author: Markus Zusak
name: Anne
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2002
rating: 4
read at: 2022/09/16
date added: 2022/09/16
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
I had been warned about this book, since it was quite hard to put down. And indeed, this is a book I wanted to keep reading. Ed is a nobody who somehow becomes a messenger who helps other people. I liked the storyline and characters.
]]> 30255243 271 Alexia Gordon 1635110572 Anne 5 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.71 2016
author: Alexia Gordon
name: Anne
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2016
rating: 5
read at: 2022/05/04
date added: 2022/05/04
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
Somehow this book ended up on my To Read list and was selected for the 2022 Randomizer challenge. I’m glad it did. I loved the whole concept of the book and am looking forward to reading more books in this series.
]]> 39783179
On 7th November 1843, Harriet Monckton, 23 years old and a woman of respectable parentage and religious habits, was found murdered in the privy behind the dissenting chapel she had regularly attended in Bromley, Kent. The community was appalled by her death, apparently as a result of swallowing a fatal dose of prussic acid, and even more so when the autopsy revealed that Harriet was six months pregnant.

Drawing on the coroner's reports and witness testimonies, the novel unfolds from the viewpoints of each of the main characters, each of whom have a reason to want her dead. Harriet Monckton had at least three lovers and several people were suspected of her murder, including her close companion and fellow teacher, Miss Frances Williams. The scandal ripped through the community, the murderer was never found and for years the inhabitants of Bromley slept less soundly.

This rich, robust novel is full of suggestion and suspicion, with the innocent looking guilty and the guilty hiding behind their piety. It is also a novel that exposes the perilous position of unmarried women, the scandal of sex out of wedlock and the hypocrisy of upstanding, church-going folk.]]> 504 Elizabeth Haynes 1912408031 Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.73 2018
author: Elizabeth Haynes
name: Anne
average rating: 3.73
book published: 2018
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/21
date added: 2022/04/21
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
This book was an interesting read. Based on a real 1843 murder case, it's the fictionalized story of Harriet Monckton, who found herself pregnant while not married. Surrounded by some who loved her and lots of people who had reasons to wish her out of the way, hers must have been a difficult case. The authors acknowledgement about which parts are fictional was very helpful indeed.
]]> 13521382 From New York Times bestselling author Sam Kean comes incredible stories of science, history, language, and music, as told by our own DNA.

In The Disappearing Spoon, bestselling author Sam Kean unlocked the mysteries of the periodic table. In The Violinist's Thumb, he explores the wonders of the magical building block of life: DNA.

There are genes to explain crazy cat ladies, why other people have no fingerprints, and why some people survive nuclear bombs. Genes illuminate everything from JFK's bronze skin (it wasn't a tan) to Einstein's genius. They prove that Neanderthals and humans bred thousands of years more recently than any of us would feel comfortable thinking. They can even allow some people, because of the exceptional flexibility of their thumbs and fingers, to become truly singular violinists.

Kean's vibrant storytelling once again makes science entertaining, explaining human history and whimsy while showing how DNA will influence our species' future.

Genes, freaks, DNA : how do living things pass down traits to their children? --
The near death of Darwin : why did geneticists try to kill natural selection? --
Them's the DNA breaks : how does nature read --
and misread --
DNA? --
The musical scores of DNA : what kinds of information does DNA store? --
DNA vindication : why did life evolve so slowly --
then explode in complexity? --
The survivors, the livers : what's our most ancient and important DNA? --
The Machiavelli microbe : how much human DNA is actually human? --
Love and atavisms : what genes make mammals mammals? --
Humanzees and other near misses : when did humans break away from monkeys, and why? --
Scarlet A's, C's, G's, and T's : why did humans almost go extinct? --
Size matters : how did humans get such grotesquely large brains? --
The art of the gene : how deep in our DNA is artistic genius? --
The past is prologue --
sometimes : what can (and can't) genes teach us about historical heroes? --
Three billion little pieces : why don't humans have more genes than other species? --
Easy come, easy go? : how come identical twins aren't identical? --
Life as we do (and don't) know it : what the heck will happen now? --
Epilogue : genomics gets personal]]> 416 Sam Kean 0316202975 Anne 4
I've used this book for the Dewey Decimal challenge. 572.8 Natural sciences and mathematics > Life Sciences, Biology > Biochemistry > Not set. This category has books about DNA.]]> 3.99 2012
author: Sam Kean
name: Anne
average rating: 3.99
book published: 2012
rating: 4
read at: 2022/04/19
date added: 2022/04/20
shelves: randomizer-2022, non-fiction, read-in-2022
review:
This book is a gem. It was so much fun to read about the history of DNA research, all kinds of special people involved, weird facts and strange stories. I did my fair share of biology and medicine classes, but managed to learn quite a few new things from this book. And: my guess about the violinist in the books title was correct.

I've used this book for the Dewey Decimal challenge. 572.8 Natural sciences and mathematics > Life Sciences, Biology > Biochemistry > Not set. This category has books about DNA.
]]> 26805441 Detective Helen Grace faces her own dark compulsions in the twisty new thriller from the author of Pop Goes the Weasel and Eeny Meeny.

In the darkest corners of the city, there is a thriving nightlife where people can let loose and cross the lines of work and play, of pleasure and pain. But now that sanctuary has been breached. A killer has struck and a man is dead.

In a world where disguises and discretion are the norm, one admission could unravel a life. No one wants to come forward to say what they saw or what they know—including the woman heading the investigation: Detective Helen Grace.

Helen knew the victim. And the victim knew her—better than anyone else. And when the murderer strikes again, Helen must decide how many more lines she’s willing to cross to bring in a devious and elusive serial killer...]]> 380 M.J. Arlidge Anne 4 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 4.21 2016
author: M.J. Arlidge
name: Anne
average rating: 4.21
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2022/03/10
date added: 2022/03/11
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
Let me start by saying I love this series. The characters are complex and multidimensional and the plot is always interesting. In this installment, the professional and private life of Helen Grace collide head on... The storyline has so many twists and turns it reminded me of an episode of House MD, in a good way. My sole reason for not giving this book a 5 star rating is the cliffhanger at the end. Sure, it makes people buy the next book -which I did within five minutes after finishing this one-, but it feels very unfinished. Normally I wouldn't read two books by the same author back to back, but I now need to know what happens next.
]]> 12546635
Op een Londense school gaat de illegale versie van een nieuwe, verslavende game van hand tot hand. Iedereen wil Erebos spelen - maar wie eraan begint, krijgt maar één kans: zodra je je niet aan de regels houdt of weigert een opdracht uit te voeren, word je eruit geknikkerd en kan je nooit meer inloggen.

Ook Nick weet zijn handen op de game te leggen en komt terecht in de virtuele wereld van Erebos. Al gauw is er hij niet meer uit los te rukken, tot hij de opdracht krijgt iemand te doden. Hij weigert en wordt genadeloos uit het spel gegooid. Als zijn beste vriend vervolgens een ernstig ongeluk krijgt, realiseert Nick zich dat Erebos niet langer alleen een game is - het is angstaanjagende werkelijkheid.

Erebos krijgt je net zo stevig te pakken als de game - je kan je niet meer eruit losrukken.]]> 411 Ursula Poznanski 9047703731 Anne 5 randomizer-2022, read-in-2022 3.91 2010
author: Ursula Poznanski
name: Anne
average rating: 3.91
book published: 2010
rating: 5
read at: 2022/03/04
date added: 2022/03/05
shelves: randomizer-2022, read-in-2022
review:
Dit is een heel goed jeugdboek; zeker ook voor volwassenen die van spannende boeken over tieners houden. Ik was verbaasd dat dit boek als 12+ wordt aangeboden in de bibliotheek en niet als 15+, maar dat zou zomaar aan mij kunnen liggen. Het gaat over een geheimzinnig computerspel, Erebos, dat wel heel veel invloed heeft op het leven van de tieners die het spelen... Meer ga ik niet verklappen, lees het zelf maar!
]]> 10299546 384 Barbara Voors 9044511521 Anne 3 read-in-2022, randomizer-2022 3.14 2008
author: Barbara Voors
name: Anne
average rating: 3.14
book published: 2008
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/26
date added: 2022/02/09
shelves: read-in-2022, randomizer-2022
review:
Dit was een heel ander boek dan ik van tevoren dacht. Ik wil niet te veel zeggen over de plot; dat zou de leeservaring van een ander kunnen beïnvloeden. Wat ik wel wil zeggen is dat het niet een standaard Scandinavische thriller is, zoals ik van tevoren dacht.
]]> 41044147 An army of deadly monsters.
An epic battle for the future of peculiardom.

The adventure that began with "Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children" and continued in "Hollow City" comes to a thrilling conclusion with "Library of Souls."

As the story opens, sixteen-year-old Jacob discovers a powerful new ability, and soon he’s diving through history to rescue his peculiar companions from a heavily guarded fortress. Accompanying Jacob on his journey are Emma Bloom, a girl with fire at her fingertips, and Addison MacHenry, a dog with a nose for sniffing out lost children.

They’ll travel from modern-day London to the labyrinthine alleys of Devil’s Acre, the most wretched slum in all of Victorian England. It’s a place where the fate of peculiar children everywhere will be decided once and for all.]]> 465 Ransom Riggs 1594747784 Anne 3 read-in-2022, randomizer-2022 4.16 2015
author: Ransom Riggs
name: Anne
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/13
date added: 2022/02/09
shelves: read-in-2022, randomizer-2022
review:
Part three of the Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. It’s another entertaining instalment with loads of strange, scary, weird stuff happening. For me it’s not on par with the first two books but still a nice read.
]]> 52067336
Negen vrienden vieren oudejaarsavond in een idyllische villa in de Schotse Hooglanden. Het lijkt de perfecte plek om hun gehaaste Londense leven achter zich te laten en van elkaars gezelschap te genieten. Het ontbreekt de vrienden aan niets: ze hebben een prachtig uitzicht, een knappend haardvuur, een provisiekast vol eten en liters champagne. Maar wat ze ook hebben is geheimen voor elkaar, langgekoesterde jaloezie en bergen opgekropte woede. Terwijl de sneeuw buiten valt, wordt de spanning in de villa ondraaglijk.

Als de lucht op nieuwjaarsdag opklaart is een van de gasten dood. En één van de anderen is de moordenaar.

Maar wie?]]> 349 Lucy Foley 9022588378 Anne 3 read-in-2022, randomizer-2022 3.55 2018
author: Lucy Foley
name: Anne
average rating: 3.55
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/24
date added: 2022/02/09
shelves: read-in-2022, randomizer-2022
review:
3.5 sterren. Voor mij was dit het tweede boek van Lucy Foley; ik had The guest list, wat ze na dit boek schreef, eerder gelezen. De opbouw van dit boek deed me erg aan The Guest List denken. Het was dus niet zo verrassend als in het eerste boek. Toch was het niet onaardig.
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