en-US Sun, 11 May 2025 11:18:55 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 50361357 Tenminste� dat vinden de meeste mensen. Ties vindt dat niet: hij heeft een vriend. Gozert. De tofste, leukste, stoerste, coolste vriend die je je kunt voorstellen.
Alleen is Ties de enige die Gozert ziet en hoort. En de plannen van Gozert zijn zo fantastisch dat Ties erdoor in moeilijkheden komt�
Ties� ouders willen dat Gozert verdwijnt en nemen een ingrijpende beslissing. Maar Ties wil helemaal niet van Gozert af. Wat moet hij doen?]]> 253 Pieter Koolwijk 9047710371 Anne 3 read-in-2025 4.44 2020
author: Pieter Koolwijk
name: Anne
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2025/05/10
date added: 2025/05/11
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Wat een heerlijk kinderboek over Ties, wiens onzichtbare vriend Gozert door iedereen beschouwd wordt als een denkbeeldig vriendje. Maar hoe zit het nu echt?
]]> 60784644
When saving a life leads to her arrest, Hazel seems doomed to rot in prison until a message intervenes: Hazel has been specifically requested to be the personal physician of Princess Charlotte, the sickly granddaughter of King George III. Soon Hazel is dragged into the glamour and romance of a court where everyone has something to hide, especially the enigmatic, brilliant members of a social club known as the Companions to the Death.

As Hazel’s work entangles her more and more with the British court, she realizes that her own future as a surgeon isn't the only thing at stake for her. Malicious forces are at work in the monarchy, and Hazel may be the only one capable of setting things right.]]> 389 Dana Schwartz 1250861012 Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.89 2023
author: Dana Schwartz
name: Anne
average rating: 3.89
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/05/02
date added: 2025/05/11
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
After reading Anatomy, I really needed this sequel. In between I've read a non-fiction book about the historical first female doctors, which made me appreciated Hazel's character even more. Yes, this book has a quirky concept, but it works.
]]> 87177197
Emily Wilde is a genius scholar of faerie folklore—she just wrote the world’s first comprehensive of encylopaedia of faeries. She’s learned many of the secrets of the Hidden Folk on her adventures . . . and also from her fellow scholar and former rival, Wendell Bambleby.

Because Bambleby is more than infuriatingly charming. He’s an exiled faerie king on the run from his murderous mother, and in search of a door back to his realm. So despite Emily’s feelings for Bambleby, she’s not ready to accept his proposal of marriage: Loving one of the Fair Folk comes with secrets and danger.

And she also has a new project to focus a map of the realms of faerie. While she is preparing her research, Bambleby lands her in trouble yet again, when assassins sent by Bambleby’s mother invade Cambridge. Now Bambleby and Emily are on another adventure, this time to the picturesque Austrian Alps, where Emily believes they may find the door to Bambley’s realm, and the key to freeing him from his family’s dark plans.

But with new relationships for the prickly Emily to navigate and dangerous Folk lurking in every forest and hollow, Emily must unravel the mysterious workings of faerie doors, and of her own heart.]]> 352 Heather Fawcett 0356519155 Anne 0 currently-reading 4.29 2024
author: Heather Fawcett
name: Anne
average rating: 4.29
book published: 2024
rating: 0
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]]> 199798179 A time travel romance, a spy thriller, a workplace comedy, and an ingenious exploration of the nature of power and the potential for love to change it all: Welcome to The Ministry of Time, the exhilarating debut novel by Kaliane Bradley.

In the near future, a civil servant is offered the salary of her dreams and is, shortly afterward, told what project she’ll be working on. A recently established government ministry is gathering “expats� from across history to establish whether time travel is feasible—for the body, but also for the fabric of space-time.

She is tasked with working as a “bridge�: living with, assisting, and monitoring the expat known as �1847� or Commander Graham Gore. As far as history is concerned, Commander Gore died on Sir John Franklin’s doomed 1845 expedition to the Arctic, so he’s a little disoriented to be living with an unmarried woman who regularly shows her calves, surrounded by outlandish concepts such as “washing machines,� “Spotify,� and “the collapse of the British Empire.� But with an appetite for discovery, a seven-a-day cigarette habit, and the support of a charming and chaotic cast of fellow expats, he soon adjusts.

Over the next year, what the bridge initially thought would be, at best, a horrifically uncomfortable roommate dynamic, evolves into something much deeper. By the time the true shape of the Ministry’s project comes to light, the bridge has fallen haphazardly, fervently in love, with consequences she never could have imagined. Forced to confront the choices that brought them together, the bridge must finally reckon with how—and whether she believes—what she does next can change the future.

An exquisitely original and feverishly fun fusion of genres and ideas, The Ministry of Time asks: What does it mean to defy history, when history is living in your house? Kaliane Bradley’s answer is a blazing, unforgettable testament to what we owe each other in a changing world.]]> 339 Kaliane Bradley 1668045141 Anne 3 book-club, read-in-2025 3.54 2024
author: Kaliane Bradley
name: Anne
average rating: 3.54
book published: 2024
rating: 3
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date added: 2025/05/05
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This book was a bookclub read which I didn’t manage to finish in time for our meeting. I restarted reading it last week and I wasn’t disappointed. Apparently I just wasn’t in the right mindset when I first tried reading this. It’s an endearing and complex story which combines sci-fi, history, romance and a commentary on politics.
]]> 59381462 It’s the event someone’s dying to attend . . .The grand-opening party at a new bed-and-breakfast in a vintage farmhouse that’s supposedly haunted poses quite the dilemma for Lexie Lincoln. Most of the other guests are noted ghost hunters, and since Lexie actually can see ghosts, she’ll know whether they’re frauds and whether the inn really is haunted. But showing what she knows or honestly reporting on what she sees and hears would make her sound like a tabloid reporter rather than a serious journalist.

Ghosts become the least of Lexie’s concerns when a flash flood blocks the road out and then one of the guests is found dead. Someone in the inn has to be a killer. If they don’t figure out who, there could be more victims. It’s up to Lexie to enlist the aid of the resident ghosts to break the case and save them all, but that may mean revealing her secret talent to the rest of the world.

Or is an angry ghost the real threat?]]> 190 Shanna Swendson Anne 0 to-read 4.34 2021
author: Shanna Swendson
name: Anne
average rating: 4.34
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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]]> 36544917
Gethsemane Brown fought off an attack by a sleazy hotel developer who wanted to turn her Irish cottage into a tourist trap. Now she must face a vengeful ghost determined to exact revenge for her murder centuries ago.

This ghost’s wrath spares no one—not Gethsemane’s students, Inspector Niall O’Reilly, fellow teacher Frankie Grennan, or a group of ghost hunters descended on Dunmullach to capture proof ghosts exist.

Proof Gethsemane has to quash to keep Eamon, her resident ghost and friend, from becoming an internet sensation.

As if a spiteful specter wasn’t bad enough, a crooked music reviewer turns up dead in the opera house orchestra pit, a famous composer is arrested for the crime, and Gethsemane must team up with a notorious true-crime author to clear his name.

If she doesn’t, friends will die, a ghost she cares about will never know peace, and she’ll star in a final act gruesome enough for any opera.]]> 266 Alexia Gordon 1635113040 Anne 0 to-read 3.92 2018
author: Alexia Gordon
name: Anne
average rating: 3.92
book published: 2018
rating: 0
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]]> 56802275 A unique tale that interweaves crime fiction with intimate tales of morality and search for individual freedom.

After Rita is found dead in the bell tower of the church she used to attend, the official investigation into the incident is quickly closed. Her sickly mother is the only person still determined to find the culprit. Chronicling a difficult journey across the suburbs of the city, an old debt and a revealing conversation, Elena Knows unravels the secrets of its characters and the hidden facets of authoritarianism and hypocrisy in our society.]]> 143 Claudia Piñeiro Anne 0 to-read, book-club 4.09 2007
author: Claudia Piñeiro
name: Anne
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2007
rating: 0
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]]> 201465867
Michael is coming undone. Adrift after his wife's departure, he has begun taking himself on long, solitary walks across the English countryside. Becoming ever more reclusive, he’ll do anything to avoid his empty house.

Marnie, on the other hand, is stuck. Hiding alone in her London flat, she avoids old friends and any reminders of her rotten, selfish ex-husband. Curled up with a good book, she’s battling the long afternoons of a life that feels like it’s passing her by.

When a persistent mutual friend and some very unpredictable weather conspire to toss Michael and Marnie together on the most epic of ten-day hikes, neither of them can think of anything worse. Until, of course, they discover exactly what they’ve been looking for.

Michael and Marnie are on the precipice of a bright future . . . if they can survive the journey.]]> 368 David Nicholls 0063394057 Anne 0 to-read 3.97 2024
author: David Nicholls
name: Anne
average rating: 3.97
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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.]]> 387 Suzanne Collins 1546171460 Anne 5 read-in-2025
I would recommend reading these books in order of publication and not in chronological order of the timeline. ]]> 4.60 2025
author: Suzanne Collins
name: Anne
average rating: 4.60
book published: 2025
rating: 5
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This book was just right for me. It was a bit strange but also very helpful to meet some of the characters I know from the other books in this series at an earlier point in their narrative. And I love Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven so that was a plus. Now I need te reread the rest of the series.

I would recommend reading these books in order of publication and not in chronological order of the timeline.
]]> 3720975 An alternate cover edition can be found here
When Willow is born with severe osteogenesis imperfecta, her parents are devastated--she will suffer hundreds of broken bones as she grows, a lifetime of pain. Every expectant parent will tell you that they don't want a perfect baby, just a healthy one. Charlotte and Sean O'Keefe would have asked for a healthy baby, too, if they'd been given the choice. Instead, their lives are made up of sleepless nights, mounting bills, the pitying stares of "luckier" parents, and maybe worst of all, the what-ifs. What if their child had been born healthy? But it's all worth it because Willow is, funny as it seems, perfect. She's smart as a whip, on her way to being as pretty as her mother, kind, brave, and for a five-year-old an unexpectedly deep source of wisdom. Willow is Willow, in sickness and in health.

Everything changes, though, after a series of events forces Charlotte and her husband to confront the most serious what-ifs of all. What if Charlotte had known earlier of Willow's illness? What if things could have been different? What if their beloved Willow had never been born? To do Willow justice, Charlotte must ask herself these questions and one more. What constitutes a valuable life?]]> 477 Jodi Picoult 0743296419 Anne 0 4.00 2009
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name: Anne
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]]> 20906536
*From the twine walk of Great Slack to the souks of Zemphis: edifying sights along the route
*Ticketing, nostrums and transporting your swamp dragon: essential hints on the practicalities of travel
* Elegant resorts and quaint inns: respectable and sanitary lodgings for all species and heights.
* From worm-herding to Fustic Cake: diverting trivia on the crafts, foods and brassica traditions of the many industrious people for whom the railway is now a vital link to the Century of the Anchovy

Fully illustrated and replete with useful titbits, Mrs Bradshaw’s Handbook offers a view of the Sto Plains like no other.]]> 144 Terry Pratchett 0857522434 Anne 0 to-read 3.72 2014
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 3.72
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]]> 13515493 At six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, Sam Vimes must go home to read 'The World of Poo', with all the appropriate noises, to his little boy.
A picturebook that picks up a story from 'Snuff!', the brand new Discworld novel.]]> 128 Terry Pratchett 0857521217 Anne 0 to-read 3.73 2012
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 3.73
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]]> 13536811 A Blink of the Screen charts the course of Pratchett's long writing career: from his schooldays through to his first writing job on the Bucks Free Press,; to the origins of his debut novel, The Carpet People; and on again to the dizzy mastery of the phenomenally successful Discworld series.

Here are characters both familiar and yet to be discovered; abandoned worlds and others still expanding; adventure, chickens, death, disco and, actually, some quite disturbing ideas about Christmas,all of it shot through with his inimitable brand of humour.

With an introduction by Booker Prize-winning author A.S. Byatt, illustrations by the late Josh Kirby and drawings by the author himself, this is a book to treasure.]]> 320 Terry Pratchett 0385618980 Anne 0 to-read 4.02 2012
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 4.02
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]]> 34524 Where's My Cow?, with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy. There are some things you have to do. It is
the most loved and chewed book in the world.

But his father wonders why it is full of moo-cows and baa-lambs when Young Sam will only ever see them cooked on a plate. He can think of a more useful book for a boy who lives in a city.

So Sam Vimes starts adapting the story. A story with streets, not fields. A book with rogues and villains. A book about the place where he’ll grow up.]]> 32 Terry Pratchett 038560937X Anne 0 to-read 4.13 2005
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 4.13
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]]> 22886868 A shivering of worlds.

Deep in the Chalk, something is stirring. The owls and the foxes can sense it, and Tiffany Aching feels it in her boots. An old enemy is gathering strength.

This is a time of endings and beginnings, old friends and new, a blurring of edges and a shifting of power. Now Tiffany stands between the light and the dark, the good and the bad.

As the fairy horde prepares for invasion, Tiffany must summon all the witches to stand with her. To protect the land. Her land.

There will be a reckoning…]]> 276 Terry Pratchett 0062429973 Anne 0 to-read 4.34 2015
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 4.34
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]]> 11275323
Moist von Lipwig is not a man who enjoys hard work - as master of the Post Office, the Mint and the Royal Bank his input is, of course, vital... but largely dependent on words, which are fortunately not very heavy and don't always need greasing. However, he does enjoy being alive, which makes a new job offer from Vetinari hard to refuse...

Steam is rising over Discworld, driven by Mister Simnel, the man wi' t'flat cap and sliding rule who has an interesting arrangement with the sine and cosine. Moist will have to grapple with gallons of grease, goblins, a fat controller with a history of throwing employees down the stairs and some very angry dwarfs if he's going to stop it all going off the rails...]]> 377 Terry Pratchett 0857522272 Anne 0 to-read 3.97 2013
author: Terry Pratchett
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]]> 8785374
Commander Sam Vimes of the Ankh-Morpork City Watch is on holiday in the pleasant and innocent countryside, but not for him a mere body in the wardrobe. There are many, many bodies - and an ancient crime more terrible than murder.

He is out of his jurisdiction, out of his depth, out of bacon sandwiches, occasionally snookered and out of his mind. But never out of guile. Where there is a crime, there must be a finding, there must be a chase, and there must be a punishment.

They say that in the end all sins are forgiven.

But not quite all...]]> 378 Terry Pratchett Anne 0 to-read 4.16 2011
author: Terry Pratchett
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average rating: 4.16
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]]> 7576115
Then someone picks up a stone.

Finally, the fires begin.

When people turn on witches, the innocents suffer. . .

Tiffany Aching has spent years studying with senior witches, and now she is on her own. As the witch of the Chalk, she performs the bits of witchcraft that aren't sparkly, aren't fun, don't involve any kind of wand, and that people seldom ever hear about: She does the unglamorous work of caring for the needy.

But someone or something is igniting fear, inculcating dark thoughts and angry murmurs against witches. Aided by her tiny blue allies, the Wee Free Men, Tiffany must find the source of this unrest and defeat the evil at its root before it takes her life. Because if Tiffany falls, the whole Chalk falls with her.

Chilling drama combines with laugh-out-loud humor and searing insight as beloved and bestselling author Terry Pratchett tells the high-stakes story of a young witch who stands in the gap between good and evil.]]> 349 Terry Pratchett 0385611072 Anne 0 to-read 4.34 2010
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
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]]> 6250169
The Big Match draws in an urchin with a gift for kicking a tin can, a maker of jolly good pies, a dim but beautiful young woman, who might turn out to be the greatest fashion model ever, and the mysterious Mr Nutt. (No one knows much about Mr Nutt, not even Mr Nutt).

As the match approaches, four lives are changed forever. Because the thing about football - the important thing about football - is that it is not just about football.

Here we go! Here we go! Here we go!]]> 417 Terry Pratchett 0061161705 Anne 0 to-read 3.99 2009
author: Terry Pratchett
name: Anne
average rating: 3.99
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]]> 116296
Who would not to wish to be the man in charge of Ankh-Morpork's Royal Mint and the bank next door?

It's a job for life. But, as former con-man Moist von Lipwig is learning, the life is not necessarily for long.

The Chief Cashier is almost certainly a vampire. There's something nameless in the cellar (and the cellar itself is pretty nameless), it turns out that the Royal Mint runs at a loss. A 300 year old wizard is after his girlfriend, he's about to be exposed as a fraud, but the Assassins Guild might get him first. In fact lot of people want him dead

Oh. And every day he has to take the Chairman for walkies.

Everywhere he looks he's making enemies.

What he should be doing is . . . Making Money!]]> 394 Terry Pratchett 0061161640 Anne 0 to-read 4.26 2007
author: Terry Pratchett
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]]> 34492 Tiffany Aching is a trainee witch � now working for the seriously scary Miss Treason. But when Tiffany witnesses the Dark Dance � the crossover from summer to winter � she does what no one has ever done before and leaps into the dance. Into the oldest story there ever is. And draws the attention of the Wintersmith himself.

As Tiffany-shaped snowflakes hammer down on the land, can Tiffany deal with the consequences of her actions? Even with the help of Granny Weatherwax and the Nac Mac Feegle � the fightin�, thievin� pictsies who are prepared to lay down their lives for their “big wee hag.�

Wintersmith is the third title in an exuberant series crackling with energy and humour. It follows The Wee Free Men and Hat Full of Sky.

]]> 325 Terry Pratchett 0060890312 Anne 0 to-read 4.23 2006
author: Terry Pratchett
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]]> 62530
But if he doesn't solve the murder of just one dwarf, Commander Sam Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch is going to see it fought again, right outside his office.

With his beloved Watch crumbling around him and war-drums sounding, he must unravel every clue, outwit every assassin and brave any darkness to find the solution. And darkness is following him.

Oh... and at six o'clock every day, without fail, with no excuses, he must go home to read "Where's My Cow?," with all the right farmyard noises, to his little boy.

There are some things you HAVE to do!]]> 439 Terry Pratchett Anne 0 to-read 4.34 2005
author: Terry Pratchett
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]]> 64222
It was a tough decision.

But he has to see that the mail gets through, come rain, hail, sleet, dogs, the Post Office Workers' Friendly and Benevolent Society, the evil chairman of the Grand Trunk Semaphore Company, and a midnight killer.

Getting a date with Adora Bell Dearheart would be nice, too.

Maybe it'll take a criminal to succeed where honest men have failed, or maybe it's a death sentence either way.

Or perhaps there's a shot at redemption in the mad world of the mail, waiting for a man who's prepared to push the envelope...]]> 394 Terry Pratchett 0060502932 Anne 0 to-read 4.40 2004
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]]> 34501
No real witch would casually step out of their body, leaving it empty.

Tiffany Aching does. And there’s something just waiting for a handy body to take over. Something ancient and horrible, which can’t die.

To deal with it, Tiffany has to go to the very heart of what makes her a witch . . .]]> 352 Terry Pratchett 055255264X Anne 0 to-read 4.31 2004
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]]> 34494 Librarian's Note: For an alternate cover edition of the same ISBN, click here.

"Another world is colliding with this one," said the toad. "All the monsters are coming back."

"Why?" said Tiffany.

"There's no one to stop them."

There was silence for a moment.

Then Tiffany said, "There's me."

Armed only with a frying pan and her common sense, Tiffany Aching, a young witch-to-be, is all that stands between the monsters of Fairyland and the warm, green Chalk country that is her home. Forced into Fairyland to seek her kidnapped brother, Tiffany allies herself with the Chalk's local Nac Mac Feegle - aka the Wee Free Men - a clan of sheep-stealing, sword-wielding, six-inch-high blue men who are as fierce as they are funny. Together they battle through an eerie and ever-shifting landscape, fighting brutal flying fairies, dream-spinning dromes, and grimhounds - black dogs with eyes of fire and teeth of razors - before ultimately confronting the Queen of the Elves, absolute ruler of a world in which reality intertwines with nightmare. And in the final showdown, Tiffany must face her cruel power alone...

In a riveting narrative that is equal parts suspense and humor, Carnegie Medalist Terry Pratchett returns to his internationally popular Discworld with a breathtaking tale certain to leave fans, new and old, enthralled.]]> 375 Terry Pratchett 0060012382 Anne 0 to-read 4.29 2003
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]]> 47989
Living in the past is hard. Dying in the past is incredibly easy. But he must survive, because he has a job to do. He must track down a murderer, teach his younger self how to be a good copper, and change the outcome of a bloody rebellion. There's a problem: if he wins, he's got no wife, no child, no future.

A Discworld Tale of One City, with a full chorus of street urchins, ladies of negotiable affection, rebels, secret policemen, and other children of the revolution.

Truth! Justice! Freedom!
And a Hard-boiled Egg!]]> 480 Terry Pratchett 055215430X Anne 0 to-read 4.49 2002
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]]> 34534
As Maurice and the rats battle for their very survival, a number of provocative themes surface: life after death, good versus evil, and the sacrifice of the few for the many.]]> 256 Terry Pratchett 006001234X Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.05 2001
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]]> 34503 He can remember the good old days of high adventure, when being a Hero meant one didn't have to worry about aching backs and lawyers and civilization. But these days, he can't always remember just where he put his teeth... So now, with his ancient (yet still trusty) sword and new walking stick in hand, Cohen gathers a group of his old -- very old -- friends to embark on one final quest. He's going to climb the highest mountain of Discworld and meet the gods. It's time the Last Hero in the world returns what the first hero stole. Trouble is, that'll mean the end of the world, if no one stops him in time.]]> 176 Terry Pratchett 0060507772 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.17 2001
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]]> 48002
And on the Discworld that is the job of the Monks of History, who store it and pump it from the places where it's wasted (like underwater - how much time does a codfish need?) to places like cities, where there's never enough time.

But the construction of the world's first truly accurate clock starts a race against, well, time for Lu Tze and his apprentice Lobsang Ludd. Because it will stop time. And that will only be the start of everyone's problems.

"Thief of Time" comes complete with a full supporting cast of heroes, villains, yetis, martial artists and Ronnie, the fifth Horseman of the Apocalypse (who left before they became famous).]]> 378 Terry Pratchett 0061031321 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.26 2001
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William just wants to get at THE TRUTH. Unfortunately, everyone else wants to get at William. And it's only the third edition...]]> 444 Terry Pratchett 0552147680 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.40 2000
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Yesterday he was a duke, a chief of police and the ambassador to the mysterious, fat-rich country of Uberworld.

Now he was nothing but his native wit and the gloomy trousers of Uncle Vanya (don't ask). It's snowing. It's freezing. And if he can't make it through the forest to civilisation there's going to be a terrible war.

But there are monsters on his trail. They're bright. They're fast. They're werewolves - and they're catching up. Sam Vimes is out of time, out of luck and already out of breath...]]> 464 Terry Pratchett 0552154229 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.29 1999
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There're the witches - young Agnes, who is really in two minds about everything; Magrat, who is trying to combine witchcraft and nappies, Nanny Ogg, who is far too knowing,.. and Granny Weatherwax, who is big trouble.

And the vampires are intelligent - not easily got rid of with a garlic enema or by going to the window, grasping the curtains and saying, "I don't know about you, but isn't it a bit stuffy in here?" They've got style and fancy waistcoats. They're out of the casket and want a bite of the future.

Mightily Oats knows he has a prayer, but he wishes he had an axe.]]> 296 Terry Pratchett 0061051586 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.16 1998
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It's hot. It's dry... very dry. There was this thing once called The Wet, which no one now believes in. Practically everything that's not poisonous is venomous. But it's the best bloody place in the world, all right?

And it'll die in a few days, except...

Who is this hero striding across the red desert? Champion sheep shearer, horse rider, road warrior, beer drinker, bush ranger, and someone who'll even eat a Meat Pie Floater when he's sober? A man in a hat, whose Luggage follows him on little legs, who's about to change history by preventing a swagman stealing a jumbuck by a billabong?

Yes... all this place has between itself and wind-blown doom is Rincewind, the inept wizard who can't even spell wizard. He's the only hero left.

Still... no worries, eh?]]> 416 Terry Pratchett 0552154180 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 3.99 1998
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A new land has surfaced, and so have old feuds.

And as two armies march, Commander Vimes of Ankh-Morpork City Watch has got just a few hours to deal with a crime so big that there's no law against it. It's called "war."

He's facing unpleasant foes who are out to get him... that's just the people on his side. The enemy might even be worse. And his pocket Dis-organiser says he's got to DIE under "Things To Do Today."

But he'd better not, because the world's cleverest inventor and its most devious politician are on their way to the battlefield with a little package that's guaranteed to stop a battle...

Discworld goes to war, with armies of sardines, warriors, fishermen, squid, and at least one very camp follower.]]> 461 Terry Pratchett 0552154164 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.17 1997
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Where is the big jolly fat man? Why is Death creeping down chimneys and trying to say Ho Ho Ho? The darkest night of the year is getting a lot darker...

Susan the gothic governess has got to sort it out by morning, otherwise there won't be a morning. Ever again...

The 20th Discworld novel is a festive feast of darkness and Death (but with jolly robins and tinsel too).

As they say: "You'd better watch out..."]]> 448 Terry Pratchett 0552154288 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.25 1996
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But for Commander Vimes, Head of Ankh-Morpork City Watch, that's only the start...

There's treason in the air.
A crime has happened.

He's not only got to find out whodunit, but howdunit too. He's not even sure what they dun. But as soon as he knows what the questions are, he's going to want some answers.]]> 411 Terry Pratchett 0552153257 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.31 1996
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... a huge, rambling building, where masked figures and hooded shadows do wicked deeds in the wings...
... where dying the death on stage is a little bit more than just a metaphor...
... where innocent young sopranos are lured to their destiny by an evil mastermind in a hideously deformed evening dress..

Where...

... there's a couple of old ladies in pointy hats eating peanuts in the gods and looking up at the big chandelier and saying things like: "There's an accident waiting to happen if I ever saw one."

Yes... Granny Weatherwax and Nanny Ogg, the Discworld's greatest witches, are back for an innocent night out at the opera.

So there's going to be trouble (but nevertheless a good evening's entertainment with murders you can really hum...)]]> 285 Terry Pratchett 0575058080 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.10 1995
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The oldest and most inscrutable empire on the Discworld is in turmoil, brought about by the revolutionary treatise "What I did on My Holidays." Workers are uniting, with nothing to lose but their water buffaloes. War (and Clancy) are spreading throughout the ancient cities.

And all that stands in the way of terrible doom for everyone is:

Rincewind the Wizard, who can't even spell the word "wizard"...

Cohen the barbarian hero, five foot tall in his surgical sandals, who has had a lifetime's experience of not dying...

...and a very special butterfly.]]> 368 Terry Pratchett 0061056901 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.14 1994
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But what it's got includes Corporal Carrot (technically a dwarf), Lance-constable Cuddy (really a dwarf), Lance constable Detritus (a troll), Lance constable Angua (a woman... most of the time), and Corporal Nobbs (disqualified from the human race for shoving).

And they need all the help they can get. Because they've only got twenty-four hours to clean up the town and this is Ankh-Morpork we're talking about...]]> 377 Terry Pratchett 0061092193 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.39 1993
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Granny Weatherwax and her tiny coven are up against real elves.

It's Midsummer Night.

No time for dreaming...

With full supporting cast of dwarfs, wizards, trolls, Morris dancers and one orang-utan. And lots of hey-nonny-nonny and blood all over the place.]]> 352 Terry Pratchett 055215315X Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.19 1992
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And the Word was: "Hey, you!"

For Brutha the novice is the Chosen One. He wants peace and justice and brotherly love.

He also wants the Inquisition to stop torturing him now, please...]]> 389 Terry Pratchett 0552152978 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.32 1992
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Once upon a time there was a fairy godmother named Desiderata who had a good heart, a wise head, and poor planning skills—which unfortunately left the Princess Emberella in the care of her other (not quite so good and wise) godmother when DEATH came for Desiderata. So now it's up to Magrat Garlick, Granny Weatherwax, and Nanny Ogg to hop on broomsticks and make for far-distant Genua to ensure the servant girl doesn't marry the Prince.

But the road to Genua is bumpy, and along the way the trio of witches encounters the occasional vampire, werewolf, and falling house (well this is a fairy tale, after all). The trouble really begins once these reluctant foster-godmothers arrive in Genua and must outwit their power-hungry counterpart who'll stop at nothing to achieve a proper "happy ending"—even if it means destroying a kingdom.]]> 374 Terry Pratchett 0061020613 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.24 1991
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Which leads to the kind of chaos you always get when an important public service is withdrawn.

Meanwhile, on a little farm far, far away, a tall dark stranger is turning out to be really good with a scythe. There's a harvest to be gathered in...]]> 289 Terry Pratchett 0552152951 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.28 1991
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But what is the dark secret of Holy Wood Hill?

As the alien clichés of Tinsel Town pour into the world, it's up to the Disc's first film stars to find out...

THRILL as Victor Tugelbend ("Can't sing. Can't dance. Can handle a sword a little") and Theda Withel ("I come from a little town you've probably never even heard of") battle the forces of evil and cinema advertising...

SCREAM as Gaspode the Wonder Dog nearly saves the day...

EAT POPCORN as you watch the filming of "Blown Away," the oddest Civil War picture ever made...

A Passionate Saga Set Against the background of a World Gone Mad!

This Will Amaze You!

With a Thousand Elephants!

("And afterwards, why not dine at Harga's House of Ribs, for the best in international cuisine; only two minutes from this book...")]]> 396 Terry Pratchett 0552152943 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 3.97 1990
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All he wants is his three wishes granted. Nothing fancy - to be immortal, rule the world, have the most beautiful woman in the world fall madly in love with him, the usual stuff.

But instead of a tractable demon, he calls up Rincewind, probably the most incompetent wizard in the universe, and the extremely intractable and hostile form of travel accessory known as the Luggage.

With them on his side, Eric's in for a ride through space and time that is bound to make him wish (quite fervently) again - this time that he's never been born.]]> 197 Terry Pratchett 0380821214 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 3.76 1990
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Granny Weatherwax was the most highly-regarded of the leaders they didn't have.

But even she found that meddling in royal politics was a lot more difficult than certain playwrights would have you believe...]]> 265 Terry Pratchett 0061020664 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.15 1988
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Death is the Grim Reaper of the Discworld, a black-robed skeleton with a scythe who ushers souls into the next world. He is also fond of cats and endlessly baffled by humanity. Soon Death is yearning to experience what humanity really has to offer, but to do that, he'll need to hire some help.

It's an offer Mort can't refuse. As Death's apprentice he'll have free board, use of the company horse—and being dead isn't compulsory. It's a dream job—until Mort falls in love with Death's daughter, Ysabell, and discovers that your boss can be a killer on your love life…]]> 243 Terry Pratchett 0061020680 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.24 1987
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Bored with their work, three Milanese editors cook up "the Plan," a hoax that connects the medieval Knights Templar with other occult groups from ancient to modern times. This produces a map indicating the geographical point from which all the powers of the earth can be controlled � a point located in Paris, France, at Foucault’s Pendulum. But in a fateful turn the joke becomes all too real, and when occult groups, including Satanists, get wind of the Plan, they go so far as to kill one of the editors in their quest to gain control of the earth.

Orchestrating these and other diverse characters into his multilayered semiotic adventure, Eco has created a superb cerebral entertainment.]]> 623 Umberto Eco 015603297X Anne 5 read-in-2005-and-before 3.92 1988
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rating: 4
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The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Return of the King is the third part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

The Dark Lord has risen, and as he unleashes hordes of Orcs to conquer all Middle-earth, Frodo and Sam struggle deep into his realm in Mordor.

To defeat Sauron, the One Ring must be destroyed in the fires of Mount Doom. But the way is impossibly hard, and Frodo is weakening. The Ring corrupts all who bear it and Frodo’s time is running out.

Will Sam and Frodo succeed, or will the Dark Lord rule Middle-earth once more?]]> 432 J.R.R. Tolkien Anne 5 read-in-2005-and-before 4.67 1955
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]]> 61215351 One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit.

In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.]]> 432 J.R.R. Tolkien Anne 5 4.52 1954
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The inspiration for the upcoming original series on Prime Video, The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.

The Two Towers is the second part of J.R.R. Tolkien’s epic adventure The Lord of the Rings.

One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them.

Frodo and his Companions of the Ring have been beset by danger during their quest to prevent the Ruling Ring from falling into the hands of the Dark Lord by destroying it in the Cracks of Doom. They have lost the wizard, Gandalf, in a battle in the Mines of Moria. And Boromir, seduced by the power of the Ring, tried to seize it by force. While Frodo and Sam made their escape, the rest of the company was attacked by Orcs. Now they continue the journey alone down the great River Anduin—alone, that is, save for the mysterious creeping figure that follows wherever they go.]]> 448 J.R.R. Tolkien Anne 5 read-in-2005-and-before 4.60 1954
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]]> 13356706 THE LORD OF THE RINGS
Ěý
One Ring to rule them all, One Ring to find them, One Ring to bring them all and in the darkness bind them

In ancient times the Rings of Power were crafted by the Elven-smiths, and Sauron, the Dark Lord, forged the One Ring, filling it with his own power so that he could rule all others. But the One Ring was taken from him, and though he sought it throughout Middle-earth, it remained lost to him. After many ages it fell into the hands of Bilbo Baggins, as told in The Hobbit. In a sleepy village in the Shire, young Frodo Baggins finds himself faced with an immense task, as his elderly cousin Bilbo entrusts the Ring to his care. Frodo must leave his home and make a perilous journey across Middle-earth to the Cracks of Doom, there to destroy the Ring and foil the Dark Lord in his evil purpose.

--back cover]]> 407 J.R.R. Tolkien 0547928211 Anne 0 read-in-2005-and-before 4.45 1954
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]]> 56623620 Do you want to play the game?

A crimewave sweeps through the city and no-one is safe. An arson at the docks. A carjacking gone wrong. A murder in a country park. What connects all these crimes without causes, which leave no clues?

Detective Inspector Helen Grace faces the rising tide of cases which threatens to drown the city. But each crime is just a piece of a puzzle which is falling into place.

And when it becomes clear just how twisted and ingenious this web of crime is, D.I. Grace will realise that it may be impossible to stop it.]]> 480 M.J. Arlidge 1409188450 Anne 4 read-in-2025 4.10 2021
author: M.J. Arlidge
name: Anne
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2021
rating: 4
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Since this is the 10th book in the Helen Grace series, I thought I might have seen it all before. This is so not true. I love the concept of this book and the execution is great too! Not writing anything else to avoid spoilers.
]]> 57250805 280 Anna Ruhe 9000374278 Anne 4 read-in-2025 4.10 2020
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average rating: 4.10
book published: 2020
rating: 4
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Alweer een avontuur van Lucie, Mats, Leon, Benno, Daan en Willem. Dit keer met Elodie in een heel andere rol... Spannend jeugdboek met heel veel magie.
]]> 994792 224 John Ehle 0786880317 Anne 3 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 4.04 1971
author: John Ehle
name: Anne
average rating: 4.04
book published: 1971
rating: 3
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This book was a surprise. I have no clue why it ended up on my to read list. The story about August and the way he sees the world in such a difficult time is very intriguing.
]]> 17212235 Levels of LifeĚý is a powerfully personal and unforgettable book, and an immediate classic on the subject of grief.
Levels of Life opens in the nineteenth century with balloonists, photographers, and Sarah Bernhardt, whose adventures lead seamlessly into an entirely personal account of the author's own great loss.Ěý

Ěý"You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed..." Julian Barnes's new book is about ballooning, photography, love and grief; about putting two things, and two people, together, and about tearing them apart. One of the judges who awarded him the 2011 Man Booker Prize described Barnes as "an unparalleled magus of the heart." This book confirms that opinion.]]> 128 Julian Barnes 0345813553 Anne 3 read-in-2025 3.90 2013
author: Julian Barnes
name: Anne
average rating: 3.90
book published: 2013
rating: 3
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I really can't remember why this book made it onto my TBR 12 years ago... It's part autobiographical, part historical essay. It was an interesting read. And I'm quite happy I read it at my current point in life instead of earlier, since I think it resonates better with a bit more life experience. Hopefully it will be decades before I encounter the kind of loss Mr. Barnes describes.
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Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world's first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good at people. She could never make small talk at a party--or even get invited to one. And she prefers the company of her books, her dog, and the Fair Folk.

So when she arrives in the hardscrabble village of Hrafnsvik, Emily has no intention of befriending the gruff townsfolk. Nor does she care to spend time with another new arrival: her dashing and insufferably handsome academic rival Wendell Bambleby, who manages to charm the townsfolk, get in the middle of Emily's research, and utterly confound and frustrate her.

But as Emily gets closer and closer to uncovering the secrets of the Hidden Ones--the most elusive of all faeries--lurking in the shadowy forest outside the town, she also finds herself on the trail of another mystery: Who is Wendell Bambleby, and what does he really want? To find the answer, she'll have to unlock the greatest mystery of all--her own heart.]]> 336 Heather Fawcett 059350013X Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.98 2023
author: Heather Fawcett
name: Anne
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2023
rating: 4
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This book fits a niche I really like. It's part fairy tale, part neurodivergent strong female lead, part supernatural romance and part historical YA. For me, this quirky combination works. I'd like to read more abou Emily and her endevours.
]]> 2410506
How can you know someone you’ve never met?

Joyce Conway remembers things she shouldn't. She knows about tiny cobbled streets in Paris, which she has never visited. And every night she dreams about an unknown little girl with blonde hair.

Justin Hitchcock is divorced, lonely and restless. He arrives in Dublin to give a lecture on art and meets an attractive doctor, who persuades him to donate blood. It's the first thing to come straight from his heart in a long time.

When Joyce leaves hospital after a terrible accident, with her life and her marriage in pieces, she moves back in with her elderly father. All the while, a strong sense of déjà vu is overwhelming her and she can't figure out why …]]> 373 Cecelia Ahern 000723368X Anne 3 letter-hunt, read-in-2025 3.71 2008
author: Cecelia Ahern
name: Anne
average rating: 3.71
book published: 2008
rating: 3
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I love Cecelia Aherns stories. This one was a bit strange because of the subject, but a nice read none the less.
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Een vrouw, een man en twee jongens delen haar lot. Zelfde metalen polsband, zelfde angstige gevoelens, zelfde prangende vragen. En toch kennen ze elkaar niet. Wie heeft die vijf onbekenden daar samengebracht? En waarom?

Intussen heeft Amber andere kopzorgen. Net voor ze ontvoerd werd, vertelde haar beste vriendin Laura dat ze niets meer met haar te maken wil hebben. Amber weet wel wat er speelt, maar ze begrijpt niet waarom dat ertoe doet.

Terwijl haar vier onbekende lotgenoten op zoek gaan naar de uitgang, gaat Amber op zoek naar zichzelf.]]> 200 Michael Sels 9463830472 Anne 3 read-in-2025 3.08 2022
author: Michael Sels
name: Anne
average rating: 3.08
book published: 2022
rating: 3
read at: 2025/04/06
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
Op zoek naar een boek met een X kwam ik deze tegen in de collectie van de bibliotheek. Hoofdpersoon Amber moet met verschillende anderen zien te ontsnappen met individuele opdrachten. Arie heeft ze bij elkaar gebracht en waarom? En wat heeft het te maken met dingen waar Amber mee worstelt? Goede thriller voor bovenbouw middelbare school met actuele onderwerpen.
]]> 59027368
Meesterverteller De Kluyver vervlecht de verhalen over ontdekkers, antihelden, wetenschappers en charlatans met zijn eigen persoonlijke verlangen om het uiterste Zuiden te bereiken in de voetsporen van een vergeten Japanse poolheld. Als bemanningslid van een historische driemaster zeilt hij door de kustwateren van Antarctica. Onderweg maakt hij aantekeningen; over pinguĂŻnsnelwegen, de meest zuidelijke pub op aarde en een stukje rood plastic. Niemandsland is een onweerstaanbaar leesavontuur over een vrijwel onbekend werelddeel waar niemand woont en dat van niemand is; een boek voor iedereen die zijn of haar uitzicht wil verbreden.]]> 382 Adwin de Kluyver 9000359120 Anne 4 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 4.23 2021
author: Adwin de Kluyver
name: Anne
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/05
date added: 2025/04/06
shelves: randomizer-2025, read-in-2025
review:
Dit boek is ooit op basis van de voorkant op mijn lijstje gekomen. Het is een bijzondere combinatie tussen de reis van de auteur, het verhaal van een Japanse poolonderzoeker en een flink aantal historische momenten en personages uit de geschiedenis van Antarctica. Met de pinguĂŻns in dit boek loopt het gelukkig beter af dan met de honden en walvissen.
]]> 48898939 272 Anna Ruhe 3401605097 Anne 4 read-in-2025 4.23 2020
author: Anna Ruhe
name: Anne
average rating: 4.23
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2025/04/02
date added: 2025/04/02
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
Dit is het vierde boek in de serie. Voor mij begon dit boek sterk, maar het laatste kwart van het verhaal landde bij mij niet zo lekker. Dat zal vast komen omdat ik de doelgroep niet ben. Daarom heb ik mijn 3,5 ster naar boven afgerond.
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As a newspaper reporter, Lexie Lincoln knows a good story when she sees one, and when a source doesn’t show up for an interview and doesn’t answer her phone, Lexie feels certain there’s something wrong. This woman is a visitor to town, on her own and vulnerable, and Lexie may be the only person to realize she’s gone missing.

The weird thing is that nobody else remembers seeing this woman, even though Lexie met her during a busy night in her friend Margarita’s restaurant. That makes it hard for her to convince anyone that there’s a problem. After all, Lexie can see ghosts most other people don’t. The woman Lexie talked to might not even have been alive.

Sure of her instincts, Lexie sets out to learn more about the woman and what might have happened to her. The plot thickens when the woman’s car is found abandoned. Now Lexie knows she didn’t imagine the visitor, but where is she, and what happened to her?

As the clues line up, Lexie starts to worry that they’re just a bit too neat, too much like a good story. Now that the police are seriously investigating the woman’s disappearance, Lexie’s credibility may be in danger if she got the story all wrong in the first place. She has to find the truth before the police do—and before her next issue goes to press—if she doesn’t want to be the editor who cried wolf.]]> 167 Shanna Swendson Anne 4 read-in-2025
Lexie is a small town newspaper editor with a great sense for things being off, a vivid imagination, an obsession for the local head of police and the ability to communicate with ghosts. In this book, all of those attributes play a role. ]]> 4.18 2021
author: Shanna Swendson
name: Anne
average rating: 4.18
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/28
date added: 2025/03/28
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
I was looking for a light read after finishing a serious nonfiction book and this book fitted the bill.

Lexie is a small town newspaper editor with a great sense for things being off, a vivid imagination, an obsession for the local head of police and the ability to communicate with ghosts. In this book, all of those attributes play a role.
]]> 53288445 The story of three Victorian women who broke down barriers in the medical field to become the first women doctors, revolutionizing the way women receive health care.

In the early 1800s, women were dying in large numbers from treatable diseases because they avoided receiving medical care. Examinations performed by male doctors were often demeaning and even painful. In addition, women faced stigma from illness--a diagnosis could greatly limit their ability to find husbands, jobs or be received in polite society.

Motivated by personal loss and frustration over inadequate medical care, Elizabeth Blackwell, Elizabeth Garrett Anderson and Sophia Jex-Blake fought for a woman's place in the male-dominated medical field. For the first time ever, Women in White Coats tells the complete history of these three pioneering women who, despite countless obstacles, earned medical degrees and paved the way for other women to do the same. Though very different in personality and circumstance, together these women built women-run hospitals and teaching colleges--creating for the first time medical care for women by women.]]> 368 Olivia Campbell 0778389391 Anne 4 non-fiction, read-in-2025
This book is a pleasant read.]]> 3.66 2021
author: Olivia Campbell
name: Anne
average rating: 3.66
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/26
date added: 2025/03/26
shelves: non-fiction, read-in-2025
review:
For me, a girl born in the last quarter of the 20th century, wanting to be a doctor when grown up was a reasonable dream, which I accomplished. But for the women in this book, this was not the case. It's because of these brave, smart, stubborn and persistent women that medicine has changed for the better.

This book is a pleasant read.
]]> 58884736
"A story of love and hope as interweaving characters display: how all moments, big and small, can measure a life. If you want joy, love, romance, and hope—read with us." —Jenna Bush Hager
A luminous, spirit-lifting blockbuster that asks: would you choose to find out the length of your life?

Eight ordinary people. One extraordinary choice.

It seems like any other day. You wake up, drink a cup of coffee, and head out.

But today, when you open your front door, waiting for you is a small wooden box. The contents of this mysterious box tells you the exact number of years you will live.

From suburban doorsteps to desert tents, every person on every continent receives the same box. In an instant, the world is thrust into a collective frenzy. Where did these boxes come from? What do they mean? Is there truth to what they promise?

As society comes together and pulls apart, everyone faces the same shocking choice: Do they wish to know how long they’ll live? And, if so, what will they do with that knowledge?

The Measure charts the dawn of this new world through an unforgettable cast of characters whose decisions and fates interweave with one another: best friends whose dreams are forever entwined, pen pals finding refuge in the unknown, a couple who thought they didn’t have to rush, a doctor who cannot save himself, and a politician whose box becomes the powder keg that ultimately changes everything.

Enchanting and deeply uplifting, The Measure is an ambitious, invigorating story about family, friendship, hope, and destiny that encourages us to live life to the fullest.]]> 353 Nikki Erlick 0063204207 Anne 4 book-club, read-in-2025 3.96 2022
author: Nikki Erlick
name: Anne
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/14
date added: 2025/03/14
shelves: book-club, read-in-2025
review:
I liked the concept of this book a lot. In a world not unlike our own suddenly boxes appear on every adults doorstep. In it is a string which tells the lenght of your life. What would you do? Would you take a look? Would you try to leave your mark on the world?
]]> 34938325 Singing in the brain beschrijft Scherder hoe.
Een aantal bijzondere mensen komt voorbij: de violist die een aardbeving overleefde, het meisje dat uit een coma ontwaakt door haar lievelingsmuziek, de verlamde gitarist die componist werd, de eeneiige tweeling die geen melodie kan volgen maar ritmisch geniaal is.

Waarom wordt een liedje een hit? Waarom houden we van droevige muziek? Dit boek beantwoordt alle vragen over hersenen en muziek.

Boeiende wetenschap wordt afgewisseld met unieke casestudy’s. De meest bevlogen professor van Nederland vertelt zoals alleen hij dat kan: met vaart, vaardigheid en een groot inlevingsvermogen.]]> 432 Erik Scherder 9025307035 Anne 0 3.29 2017
author: Erik Scherder
name: Anne
average rating: 3.29
book published: 2017
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: currently-reading, non-fiction
review:

]]> 53288434 A female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them - setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course.

Rule #1: The poison must never be used to harm another woman.
Rule #2: The names of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register.

One cold February evening in 1791, at the back of a dark London alley in a hidden apothecary shop, Nella awaits her newest customer. Once a respected healer, Nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose - selling well-disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. But when her new patron turns out to be a precocious twelve-year-old named Eliza Fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardizes Nella’s world and threatens to expose the many women whose names are written in her register.

In present-day London, aspiring historian Caroline Parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. When she finds an old apothecary vial near the river Thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders� that haunted London over two centuries ago. As she deepens her search, Caroline’s life collides with Nella’s and Eliza’s in a stunning twist of fate - and not everyone will survive.]]> 301 Sarah Penner 0778311015 Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.72 2021
author: Sarah Penner
name: Anne
average rating: 3.72
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/03/04
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
This book has been suggested to me ages ago and I can see why. I love Victorian London, medicine, strong women who make the best out of their circumstances and detectives. This book combined all of those. Sure, it was slightly predictable, but still...
]]> 70746 268 Paulo Coelho 0007156324 Anne 4 randomizer-2019, read-in-2019 3.59
author: Paulo Coelho
name: Anne
average rating: 3.59
book published:
rating: 4
read at: 2019/12/28
date added: 2025/03/04
shelves: randomizer-2019, read-in-2019
review:
This is a book I’ve read in small portions, a few pages at a time. That way I had a chance to really let the messages get to me. Some were very meaning to me, others more distant.
]]> 61326735
Honestly, it’s a pretty sweet gig—until her carefully constructed Elsie-verse comes crashing down. Because Jack Smith, the annoyingly attractive and broody older brother of her favorite client, turns out to be the cold-hearted experimental physicist who ruined her mentor’s career and undermined the reputation of theorists everywhere. And that same Jack who now sits on the hiring committee at MIT, right between Elsie and her dream job.

Elsie is prepared for an all-out war of scholarly sabotage but…those long, penetrating looks? Not having to be anything other than her true self when she’s with him? Will falling into an experimentalist’s orbit finally tempt her to put her most guarded theories on love into practice?]]> 389 Ali Hazelwood 1408725797 Anne 3 read-in-2025
I picked this one up for the sweet and spicy reading challenge. I did love the STEM part and the description of academia, but I wasn’t as fond of the way the NSFW-sections of this book were described. Also, Elsie is a bit too submissive to be relatable as a main character. I]]> 4.07 2023
author: Ali Hazelwood
name: Anne
average rating: 4.07
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/03/02
date added: 2025/03/03
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
3.5 stars

I picked this one up for the sweet and spicy reading challenge. I did love the STEM part and the description of academia, but I wasn’t as fond of the way the NSFW-sections of this book were described. Also, Elsie is a bit too submissive to be relatable as a main character. I
]]> 197175403
Een spannend verhaal over intelligentie, competitie en macht. Kippenvelmomenten voor young adults.]]> 256 Erik Jan Tillema 9044851187 Anne 3 read-in-2025 3.13 2023
author: Erik Jan Tillema
name: Anne
average rating: 3.13
book published: 2023
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/28
date added: 2025/02/28
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
Ik geloof dat YA-horror niet echt mijn genre is. Het verhaal gaat over hoogbegaafde leerlingen op een school waar rare dingen gebeuren en er leerlingen sterven. Op zich zit het plot goed in elkaar.
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Samen met haar vriend Mats reist Lucie naar Parijs om de plannen van Syrell te dwarsbomen. In de stad van de liefde liggen echter talloze gevaren op de loer. En Lucie ontdekt bovendien dat de antwoorden waar ze naar op zoek is in de handen van haar vijand liggen…]]> 290 Anna Ruhe 9000368022 Anne 4 read-in-2025 4.03 2019
author: Anna Ruhe
name: Anne
average rating: 4.03
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/27
date added: 2025/02/27
shelves: read-in-2025
review:

]]> 61111253
Bern Hendricks has just received the call of a lifetime. As one of the world’s preeminent experts on the famed twentieth-century composer Frederick Delaney, Bern knows everything there is to know about the man behind the music. When Mallory Roberts, a board member of the distinguished Delaney Foundation and direct descendant of the man himself, asks for Bern’s help authenticating a newly discovered piece, which may be his famous lost opera, RED, he jumps at the chance. With the help of his tech-savvy acquaintance Eboni, Bern soon discovers that the truth is far more complicated than history would have them believe.

In 1920s Manhattan, Josephine Reed is living on the streets and frequenting jazz clubs when she meets the struggling musician Fred Delaney. But where young Delaney struggles, Josephine soars. She’s a natural prodigy who hears beautiful music in the sounds of the world around her. With Josephine as his silent partner, Delaney’s career takes off—but who is the real genius here?

In the present day, Bern and Eboni begin to uncover more clues that indicate Delaney may have had help in composing his most successful work. Armed with more questions than answers and caught in the crosshairs of a powerful organization who will stop at nothing to keep their secret hidden, Bern and Eboni will move heaven and earth in their dogged quest to right history’s wrongs.]]> 448 Brendan Slocumb 0593315448 Anne 5 read-in-2025 4.22 2023
author: Brendan Slocumb
name: Anne
average rating: 4.22
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/26
date added: 2025/02/26
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
This was a very impressive book, by which I mean it left a big impression on me. I know I’m very privileged being white and European in this day and age. I’ve encountered some disadvantages for being a neurodivergent woman, but only slightly. The story of Josephine, as gifted and cursed as she is being a black woman, neurodivergent and in a very different time, was both a joy to read and a firm reminder that lots of people have it way harder. As the author said in his acknowledgement: listen to the people whose voices are so easily lost and ignored.
]]> 26032825 Of course I want to be like them. They’re beautiful as blades forged in some divine fire. They will live forever.

And Cardan is even more beautiful than the rest. I hate him more than all the others. I hate him so much that sometimes when I look at him, I can hardly breathe.

Jude was seven when her parents were murdered and she and her two sisters were stolen away to live in the treacherous High Court of Faerie. Ten years later, Jude wants nothing more than to belong there, despite her mortality. But many of the fey despise humans. Especially Prince Cardan, the youngest and wickedest son of the High King.

To win a place at the Court, she must defy him–and face the consequences.

As Jude becomes more deeply embroiled in palace intrigues and deceptions, she discovers her own capacity for trickery and bloodshed. But as betrayal threatens to drown the Courts of Faerie in violence, Jude will need to risk her life in a dangerous alliance to save her sisters, and Faerie itself.]]> 370 Holly Black 0316310271 Anne 3 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 4.01 2018
author: Holly Black
name: Anne
average rating: 4.01
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2025/02/22
date added: 2025/02/26
shelves: randomizer-2025, read-in-2025
review:

]]> 157591210 If you could open a door to anywhere, where would you go?

In New York City, bookseller Cassie Andrews is living an unassuming life when she is given a gift by a favourite customer. It's a book - an unusual book, full of strange writing and mysterious drawings. And at the very front there is a handwritten message to Cassie, telling her that this is the Book of Doors, and that any door is every door.

What Cassie is about to discover is that the Book of Doors is a special book that bestows an extraordinary powers on whoever possesses it, and soon she and her best friend Izzy are exploring all that the Book of Doors can do, swept away from their quiet lives by the possibilities of travelling to anywhere they want.

But the Book of Doors is not the only magical book in the world. There are other books that can do wondrous and dreadful things when wielded by dangerous and ruthless individuals - individuals who crave what Cassie now possesses.

Suddenly Cassie and Izzy are confronted by violence and danger, and the only person who can help them is, it seems, Drummond Fox. He is a man fleeing his own demons - a man with his own secret library of magical books that he has hidden away in the shadows for safekeeping. Because there is a nameless evil out there that is hunting them all . . .

Because some doors should never be opened. ]]> 392 Gareth Brown 1787637255 Anne 5 read-in-2025
What if books were truly magical? So you wouldn't just be transferred to other places in your mind, but you could physically visit them just by thinking about the door leading there... In this book, there is a book that can do that and so much more, and lots of other special books.
I'm not going to write more because I don't want to spoiler anything. Just go and read it, especially if you like books with some magic and some science, "good versus evil but what is good anyway"-vibes, mystery or books that make your head spin.]]> 3.96 2024
author: Gareth Brown
name: Anne
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2024
rating: 5
read at: 2025/02/13
date added: 2025/02/14
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
This is a very special book. I liked it very much.

What if books were truly magical? So you wouldn't just be transferred to other places in your mind, but you could physically visit them just by thinking about the door leading there... In this book, there is a book that can do that and so much more, and lots of other special books.
I'm not going to write more because I don't want to spoiler anything. Just go and read it, especially if you like books with some magic and some science, "good versus evil but what is good anyway"-vibes, mystery or books that make your head spin.
]]> 58468990 From the New York Times bestselling author of The Guest List comes a new locked room mystery, set in a Paris apartment building in which every resident has something to hide�

Jess needs a fresh start. She’s broke and alone, and she’s just left her job under less than ideal circumstances. Her half-brother Ben didn’t sound thrilled when she asked if she could crash with him for a bit, but he didn’t say no, and surely everything will look better from Paris. Only when she shows up � to find a very nice apartment, could Ben really have afforded this? � he’s not there.

The longer Ben stays missing, the more Jess starts to dig into her brother’s situation, and the more questions she has. Ben’s neighbors are an eclectic bunch, and not particularly friendly. Jess may have come to Paris to escape her past, but it’s starting to look like it’s Ben’s future that’s in question.

The socialite � The nice guy � The alcoholic � The girl on the verge � The concierge

Everyone’s a neighbor. Everyone’s a suspect. And everyone knows something they’re not telling.]]> 360 Lucy Foley 0063003058 Anne 4 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 3.62 2022
author: Lucy Foley
name: Anne
average rating: 3.62
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/08
date added: 2025/02/08
shelves: randomizer-2025, read-in-2025
review:
It’s quite something, this book. To me, its locked room mystery meets Hotel California� I liked it.
]]> 159607518 A new mess.
A new mystery.
Molly the maid returns . . .

Molly Gray wears her Head Maid badge proudly for every shift at the Regency Grand Hotel, plumping pillows, sweeping up the guests� secrets, silently restoring rooms to a state of perfection.

But when a renowned guest � a famous mystery writer � drops very dead in the grand tea room, Molly has an unusual clean-up on her hands.

As rumours and suspicion swirl in the hotel corridors, it’s clear there’s grime lurking beneath the gilt. And Molly knows that she alone holds the key to the mystery. But unlocking it means thinking about the past, about Gran, and everything else she’s kept tidied away in her memory for so long.

Because Molly knew the dead guest once upon a time � and he knew her . . .]]> 327 Nita Prose 0008435782 Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.74 2023
author: Nita Prose
name: Anne
average rating: 3.74
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/02/02
date added: 2025/02/02
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
I like this book just as much as I liked the first book about Molly the maid. Another sudden death in the hotel means Molly and her friends are once again looking for clues.
]]> 203956639 A student will find that the hardest lessons sometimes come outside the classroom in this stunning dark academia novel from the acclaimed author of The Year of the Witching and House of Hunger.

Lennon Carter’s life is falling apart.

Then she gets a mysterious phone call inviting her to take the entrance exam for Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in a secret pocket of Savannah. Lennon has been chosen because—like everyone else at the school—she has the innate gift of persuasion, the ability to wield her will like a weapon, using it to control others and, in rare cases, matter itself.

After passing the test, Lennon begins to learn how to master her devastating and unsettling power. But despite persuasion’s heavy toll on her body and mind, she is wholly captivated by her studies, by Drayton’s lush, moss-draped campus, and by her brilliant classmates. But even more captivating is her charismatic adviser, Dante, who both intimidates and enthralls her.

As Lennon continues in her studies her control grows, and she starts to uncover more about the secret world she has entered into, including the disquieting history of Drayton College, and the way her mentor’s tragic and violent past intertwines with it. She is increasingly disturbed by what she learns. For it seems that the ultimate test is to embrace absolute power without succumbing to corruption . . . and it's a test she's terrified she is going to fail.]]> 464 Alexis Henderson 0593638301 Anne 0 to-read 3.44 2024
author: Alexis Henderson
name: Anne
average rating: 3.44
book published: 2024
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/02/01
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 212421066
From the author of Reese’s Book Club Pick and New York Times bestseller Wrong Place Wrong Time comes an addictive thriller about a new mother’s world upended when her husband commits a terrifying crime. How well does she truly know the man she loves? And what danger does she face if her entire life has been built on a lie?

It is June 21st, the longest day of the year, and new mother Camilla’s life is about to change forever. After months of maternity leave, she will drop her infant daughter off at daycare for the first time and return to her job as a literary agent. Finally. But, when she wakes, her husband Luke isn’t there, and in his place is a cryptic note.

Then it starts. Breaking news: there's a hostage situation developing in London. The police arrive, and tell her Luke is involved. But he isn't a hostage. Her husband—doting father, eternal optimist—is the gunman.

What she does next is crucial. Because only she knows what the note he left behind that morning says...

Famous Last Words is the story of a crime, a marriage, and more secrets than Camilla ever could have imagined. This novel cements Gillian McAllister’s reputation as “the best at putting her characters in impossible situations and making her readers not only contemplate but feel what it would be like to find themselves in those situations.� (Emily Henry)]]> 336 Gillian McAllister 0063338424 Anne 0 to-read 3.70 2025
author: Gillian McAllister
name: Anne
average rating: 3.70
book published: 2025
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/29
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62226126
An old friend in the antiques business has been killed, and a dangerous package he was protecting has gone missing.

As the gang springs into action they encounter art forgers, online fraudsters and drug dealers, as well as heartache close to home.

With the body count rising, the package still missing and trouble firmly on their tail, has their luck finally run out? And who will be the last devil to die?]]> 421 Richard Osman 0241512441 Anne 4 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 4.44 2023
author: Richard Osman
name: Anne
average rating: 4.44
book published: 2023
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/25
date added: 2025/01/25
shelves: randomizer-2025, read-in-2025
review:
I think this is the most special Thursday Murder Club book so far. Sure, it’s about crime and our gang being caught up in it and solving things before the authorities do. But it is also about connection, unconditional love, care, dementia, friendship and art. And much more. I loved reading it.
]]> 209936758
Woody groeit op als jongste van drie in een liefdevol gezin in een dorp aan de IJssel. Hij is een vrij en onbevangen kind. Met zijn zus Lara heeft Woody een hechte band die zich moeilijk aan anderen laat uitleggen.

Naarmate Woody ouder wordt maakt zijn onbeschroomdheid plaats voor een knellend zelfbewustzijn. Als zijn zus erg ziek wordt, kiest Woody noodgedwongen voor een positie op de achtergrond. Hij moet zich in Ă©Ă©n klap volwassen gedragen, maar blijft zitten met onbeantwoorde vragen en puberale hartstocht. Op zoek naar een uitweg ontdekt Woody een eigen recept voor vrijheid.

Harmen van Liemt schreef met Lentekind een opvallend krachtige, rauwe en ontwapenende coming-of-ageroman over verbeelding, seksualiteit en verlies, over het verlangen gezien en gekend te worden en tegelijk trouw aan jezelf te blijven.]]> 320 Harmen van Liemt 9402321225 Anne 0 to-read 4.28
author: Harmen van Liemt
name: Anne
average rating: 4.28
book published:
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 62322008
Now Sally is the centre of attention, not only from the hungry media and worried police, but also a sinister voice from a past she has no memory of. As she begins to discover the horrors of her childhood, recluse Sally steps into the world for the first time, making new friends, finding independence, and learning that people don't always mean what they say.

But when messages start arriving from a stranger who knows far more about her past than she knows herself, Sally's life will be thrown into chaos once again . . .]]> 384 Liz Nugent 1844885968 Anne 0 to-read 4.14 2023
author: Liz Nugent
name: Anne
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 0
read at:
date added: 2025/01/22
shelves: to-read
review:

]]> 55315487 Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot is a psychologically suspenseful novel about a story too good not to steal, and the writer who steals it.

Jacob Finch Bonner was once a promising young novelist with a respectably published first book. Today, he’s teaching in a third-rate MFA program and struggling to maintain what’s left of his self-respect; he hasn’t written—let alone published—anything decent in years. When Evan Parker, his most arrogant student, announces he doesn’t need Jake’s help because the plot of his book in progress is a sure thing, Jake is prepared to dismiss the boast as typical amateur narcissism. But then . . . he hears the plot.

Jake returns to the downward trajectory of his own career and braces himself for the supernova publication of Evan Parker’s first novel: but it never comes. When he discovers that his former student has died, presumably without ever completing his book, Jake does what any self-respecting writer would do with a story like that—a story that absolutely needs to be told.

In a few short years, all of Evan Parker’s predictions have come true, but Jake is the author enjoying the wave. He is wealthy, famous, praised and read all over the world. But at the height of his glorious new life, an e-mail arrives, the first salvo in a terrifying, anonymous campaign: You are a thief, it says.

As Jake struggles to understand his antagonist and hide the truth from his readers and his publishers, he begins to learn more about his late student, and what he discovers both amazes and terrifies him. Who was Evan Parker, and how did he get the idea for his “sure thing� of a novel? What is the real story behind the plot, and who stole it from whom?]]> 320 Jean Hanff Korelitz 125079076X Anne 0 to-read 3.75 2021
author: Jean Hanff Korelitz
name: Anne
average rating: 3.75
book published: 2021
rating: 0
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The bestselling, prize-winning Adventures on Trains series embarks on a thrilling sixth adventure as Harrison Beck and Uncle Nat climb aboard the night train to Narvik, travelling to the Arctic Circle to see the northern lights for Christmas.

But as their train leaves Stockholm, Hal and Uncle Nat realise they’re being followed by a sinister figure, and Hal’s powers of observation are tested when Uncle Nat’s past comes back to haunt him. Journeying into the never ending night of the arctic winter, our railway detectives must outsmart an assassin in their most chilling adventure yet, in which nothing is as it seems.

The Arctic Railway Assassin can be read as a stand-alone novel, or enjoyed as part of the Adventures on Trains series.]]> 242 M.G. Leonard 152907276X Anne 4 randomizer-2025, read-in-2025 4.33 2022
author: M.G. Leonard
name: Anne
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2022
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/15
date added: 2025/01/15
shelves: randomizer-2025, read-in-2025
review:
This was the first book oif this series which I've actually read and not listened to. Unfortunately, this one doesn't seem to be translated to Dutch (yet) thus I haven't been able to find an audiobook version. Hopefully my boys will try reading this one as wel, since I'm sure they will like it. It involves trains, snow, reindeer, an assassin or two, the Nobel prize and some of our beloved recurring characters.
]]> 54985743 Two best friends. Ten summer trips. One last chance to fall in love.

Poppy and Alex. Alex and Poppy. They have nothing in common. She’s a wild child; he wears khakis. She has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. And somehow, ever since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. For most of the year they live far apart—she’s in New York City, and he’s in their small hometown—but every summer, for a decade, they have taken one glorious week of vacation together.

Until two years ago, when they ruined everything. They haven’t spoken since.

Poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. When someone asks when she was last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill-fated, final trip with Alex. And so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together—lay everything on the table, make it all right. Miraculously, he agrees.

Now she has a week to fix everything. If only she can get around the one big truth that has always stood quietly in the middle of their seemingly perfect relationship. What could possibly go wrong?]]> 400 Emily Henry 1984806750 Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.85 2021
author: Emily Henry
name: Anne
average rating: 3.85
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/13
date added: 2025/01/13
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
When Poppy and Alex meet, they seem to have nothing in common. But as they get to know each other they decide to take a Summer break together each year. This book is filled with the twelve year buildup to one particular summer. I liked the clear labelling of the different timeframes.
]]> 21855279 For fans of Alice Hoffman, Sarah Addison Allen, and Adriana Trigiani, The Dress Shop of Dreams is a captivating novel of enduring hopes, second chances, and the life-changing magic of true love.

Since her parents� mysterious deaths many years ago, scientist Cora Sparks has spent her days in the safety of her university lab or at her grandmother Etta’s dress shop. Tucked away on a winding Cambridge street, Etta’s charming tiny store appears quite ordinary to passersby, but the colorfully vibrant racks of beaded silks, delicate laces, and jewel-toned velvets hold bewitching secrets: With just a few stitches from Etta’s needle, these gorgeous gowns have the power to free a woman’s deepest desires.

Etta’s dearest wish is to work her magic on her granddaughter. Cora’s studious, unromantic eye has overlooked Walt, the shy bookseller who has been in love with her forever. Determined not to allow Cora to miss her chance at happiness, Etta sews a tiny stitch into Walt’s collar, hoping to give him the courage to confess his feelings to Cora. But magic spells—like true love—can go awry. After Walt is spurred into action, Etta realizes she’s set in motion a series of astonishing events that will transform Cora’s life in extraordinary and unexpected ways.

Advance praise for The Dress Shop of Dreams
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“Bighearted, beautiful, and brushed with magic, this novel celebrates life’s moments of joy, possibility, and transformation. Menna van Praag’s writing is bright with sparkles and lovely grace notes.�—Susan Wiggs, bestselling author of The Beekeeper’s Ball

Look for special features inside. Join the Random House Reader’s Circle for author chats and more.


From the Trade Paperback edition.]]> 326 Menna Van Praag 0804178984 Anne 4 read-in-2025 3.64 2014
author: Menna Van Praag
name: Anne
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2014
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/12
date added: 2025/01/12
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
I loved the magical twist in this romantic novel. Some of the twists and turns were a bit too much for me, but all in all it was a great light read.
]]> 112975658 A gripping historical mystery inspired by the life and diary of Martha Ballard, a renowned 18th-century midwife who defied the legal system and wrote herself into American history.

Maine, 1789: When the Kennebec River freezes, entombing a man in the ice, Martha Ballard is summoned to examine the body and determine cause of death. As a midwife and healer, she is privy to much of what goes on behind closed doors in Hallowell. Her diary is a record of every birth and death, crime and debacle that unfolds in the close-knit community. Months earlier, Martha documented the details of an alleged rape committed by two of the town’s most respected gentlemen—one of whom has now been found dead in the ice. But when a local physician undermines her conclusion, declaring the death to be an accident, Martha is forced to investigate the shocking murder on her own.

Over the course of one winter, as the trial nears, and whispers and prejudices mount, Martha doggedly pursues the truth. Her diary soon lands at the center of the scandal, implicating those she loves, and compelling Martha to decide where her own loyalties lie.

Clever, layered, and subversive, Ariel Lawhon’s newest offering introduces an unsung heroine who refused to accept anything less than justice at a time when women were considered best seen and not heard. The Frozen River is a thrilling, tense, and tender story about a remarkable woman who left an unparalleled legacy yet remains nearly forgotten to this day.]]> 432 Ariel Lawhon 0385546874 Anne 0 to-read 4.37 2023
author: Ariel Lawhon
name: Anne
average rating: 4.37
book published: 2023
rating: 0
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date added: 2025/01/08
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Marieke Smithuis schreef een spannend en magisch avontuur over vriendschap en familie, trouw en verraad. Met sfeervolle illustraties van Jeska Verstegen.]]> 366 Marieke Smithuis 9045129094 Anne 5 read-in-2025, randomizer-2025 4.19 2023
author: Marieke Smithuis
name: Anne
average rating: 4.19
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2025/01/08
date added: 2025/01/08
shelves: read-in-2025, randomizer-2025
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When a fisherman spots a car in the river, it’s the most exciting news during a slow week in Stirling Mills, and newspaper editor Lexie Lincoln is there to cover it. The cops think it was an accident, but a ghost on the scene tells Lexie the drowned driver got what he deserved for cheating her out of her land. Lexie figures the ghost got vengeance.

There are just two problems: A ghost can’t be prosecuted for murder, and the person the ghost named isn’t one of the people found in the car. Still, Lexie thinks it’s worth digging into, and she discovers that someone has been taking advantage of elderly landowners.

She’d have thought the town would rally behind her investigation of a real estate scam, but she finds herself standing alone. Her suspect has an eerie hold over everyone he encounters. If she doesn’t find concrete proof that he committed a crime, she may get run out of town. That’s a real challenge when no one still alive will talk to her.

And then there’s still the case of the drowned driver and his passenger—was it an accident, or did the scheme lead to murder?]]> 188 Shanna Swendson Anne 4 read-in-2025 This series is a weird one for me. I'm usually not a fan of cosy mysteries nor books involving ghosts, but somehow I'm hooked on the adventures of Lucky Lexie. This third novel was no exception. I'm curious to see where the next book will lead Lexie, because I guess there will be romantic involvement with at least one of the other regular characters. I'm not sure who...]]> 4.24 2021
author: Shanna Swendson
name: Anne
average rating: 4.24
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2025/01/02
date added: 2025/01/02
shelves: read-in-2025
review:
First book of 2025!
This series is a weird one for me. I'm usually not a fan of cosy mysteries nor books involving ghosts, but somehow I'm hooked on the adventures of Lucky Lexie. This third novel was no exception. I'm curious to see where the next book will lead Lexie, because I guess there will be romantic involvement with at least one of the other regular characters. I'm not sure who...
]]> 56587382 A rich, magical new book on belonging and identity, love and trauma, nature and renewal, from the Booker shortlisted author of 10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World.

Two teenagers, a Greek Cypriot and a Turkish Cypriot, meet at a taverna on the island they both call home. In the taverna, hidden beneath garlands of garlic, chili peppers and creeping honeysuckle, Kostas and Defne grow in their forbidden love for each other. A fig tree stretches through a cavity in the roof, and this tree bears witness to their hushed, happy meetings and eventually, to their silent, surreptitious departures. The tree is there when war breaks out, when the capital is reduced to ashes and rubble, and when the teenagers vanish. Decades later, Kostas returns. He is a botanist looking for native species, but really, he’s searching for lost love.

Years later a Ficus carica grows in the back garden of a house in London where Ada Kazantzakis lives. This tree is her only connection to an island she has never visited -- her only connection to her family’s troubled history and her complex identity as she seeks to untangle years of secrets to find her place in the world.

A moving, beautifully written and delicately constructed story of love, division, transcendence, history and eco-consciousness, The Island of Missing Trees is Elif Shafak’s best work yet.]]> 354 Elif Shafak 0241434998 Anne 3 book-club, read-in-2024
This is an interesting take on the gruesome history of Cyprus. A lot of it is based on historical facts. ]]> 4.13 2021
author: Elif Shafak
name: Anne
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2024/12/31
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: book-club, read-in-2024
review:
Bookclub read for January 2025.

This is an interesting take on the gruesome history of Cyprus. A lot of it is based on historical facts.
]]> 54822303 International bestseller Karen Swan returns with another moving, surprising and heartwarming novel for the holiday season.

When Lee first came to Amsterdam, it was with a newborn baby and a secret. Five years later, her life is approaching normal: her career as a celebrity photographer is flourishing, her son Jasper is growing up, and they are enjoying the run-up to Christmas with their tight circle of close friends.

But all this changes one morning when Lee finds a book in the basket of her bicycle � and scrawled inside it, a desperate message. Who left it for her, and why? Lee feels compelled to help and tracks down the book’s author, Sam. With an instant, undeniable connection it seems they might have a shot at a real future together.

Until her past comes calling. As the snow falls and ice thickens on the city’s canals, the secret Lee has never told resurfaces. Suddenly everything she holds dear hangs in the balance. Christmas is a time for being together � but what if the truth means she ends up alone?

Escape to the snow-covered streets of Amsterdam in this deeply romantic read, featuring twists, turns and characters you'll fall in love with.]]> 350 Karen Swan 1529006112 Anne 4 read-in-2024
My four star rating is because of the improbability of an Elfstedentocht in december, which happened only once, and some of the other coincidences in this book.]]> 4.13 2020
author: Karen Swan
name: Anne
average rating: 4.13
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2024/12/30
date added: 2024/12/31
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
This was a very nice read, combining Dutch staples like Sinterklaas and the Elfstedentocht with serious subjects like war correspondence and complex relationships. And as the title suggests, Christmas also has a place in this book.

My four star rating is because of the improbability of an Elfstedentocht in december, which happened only once, and some of the other coincidences in this book.
]]> 62816044 Two villains, one girl, and a deadly battle for happily ever after.

Evangeline Fox ventured to the Magnificent North in search of her happy ending, and it seems as if she has it. She’s married to a handsome prince and lives in a legendary castle. But Evangeline has no idea of the devastating price she’s paid for this fairytale. She doesn’t know what she has lost, and her husband is determined to make sure she never finds out . . . but first he must kill Jacks, the Prince of Hearts.

Blood will be shed, hearts will be stolen, and true love will be put to the test in A Curse for True Love, the breathlessly anticipated conclusion to the Once Upon A Broken Heart trilogy.]]> 386 Stephanie Garber 1250851203 Anne 5 read-in-2024 4.14 2023
author: Stephanie Garber
name: Anne
average rating: 4.14
book published: 2023
rating: 5
read at: 2024/12/29
date added: 2024/12/29
shelves: read-in-2024
review:
The final part of this series was everything I hoped for and more. I happened to spot it in a local library during a short vacation, which added to the great vibes of this break.
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Woont de ijsheer,

stil en koud.

De zestienjarige Polly woont met haar moeder en zus in het afgelegen dorp Felsbury. Wanneer de tempratuur onverwachts voorbij het vriespunt zakt en de oogst mislukt, staat hen een ijzige winter vol honger te wachten.

Vastberaden haar gezin van dat lot te redden, vertrekt Polly naar de heer die onlangs in het kasteel van Desplute is komen wonen. Eenmaal daar aangekomen, biedt de afstandelijke heer haar een baan aan.

Maar hoe langer ze in het kasteel verblijft, hoe meer vreemde dingen er gebeuren.

Om de waarheid te achterhalen doet Polly haar best om het hart van de heer te ontdooien. Maar in plaats van antwoorden, krijgt ze gevoelens voor hem. Iets wat al snel gevaarlijker blijkt dan alle vreemde dingen die in het kasteel gebeuren...

Over Sneeuw en Sterren is een hervertelling van het sprookje van Vrouw Holle.]]> 154 Ruby Coene Anne 0 to-read 3.55
author: Ruby Coene
name: Anne
average rating: 3.55
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rating: 0
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