Höst 2019 Bookhaul
Det har blivit en hel del nya böcker på sistone, och då fattas det två julböcker från högen. Jag får fixa ett jul-inlägg lite senare i år med all härlig julläsning!
Från det bästa bokförlaget Modernista har jag fått ”Det svarta trädet” av Tana French, ”Förrädare” av Manda Scott, ”Absoluta bevis” av Peter James och ”Det slutna sällskapet” av Elizabth Klehfoth, tusen tack!
Begagnat har jag fyndat Martina Haags ”Livet går så fort och så långsamt”, ”Liv efter liv” av Kate Atkinson, ”Lida” av Stephen King och ”Klappa inte katten” av Maria Lang.
I senaste bokbeställningen från Adlibris låg ”Pumpkinheads” av Rainbow Rowell, ”Steglitsan” av Donna Tartt, ”Nemi – sugar and reptiles” av Lise Myhre, ”Garfield Fat pack vol. 3” av Jim Davis och ”The Bookish Life of Nina Hill” av Abbi Waxman. Vissa har jag redan läst och några håller jag på att läsa.
En bra blandning böcker!
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Boktips – nya böcker hösten 2019
Snart utkommer det en hel hög med nya böcker som verkar intressanta. Perfekt inför hösten och de mörka kvällarna!
In the middle of the night, in a house on a quiet street in suburban Minneapolis, intruders silently murder Luke Ellis’s parents and load him into a black SUV. The operation takes less than two minutes. Luke will wake up at The Institute, in a room that looks just like his own, except there’s no window. And outside his door are other doors, behind which are other kids with special talents—telekinesis and telepathy—who got to this place the same way Luke did: Kalisha, Nick, George, Iris, and ten-year-old Avery Dixon. They are all in Front Half. Others, Luke learns, graduated to Back Half, “like the roach motel,” Kalisha says. “You check in, but you don’t check out.”
In this most sinister of institutions, the director, Mrs. Sigsby, and her staff are ruthlessly dedicated to extracting from these children the force of their extranormal gifts. There are no scruples here. If you go along, you get tokens for the vending machines. If you don’t, punishment is brutal. As each new victim disappears to Back Half, Luke becomes more and more desperate to get out and get help. But no one has ever escaped from the Institute.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world. (Not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is.) They say good-bye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September 1.
But this Halloween is different—Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last good-bye.
Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: What if—instead of moping and the usual slinging lima beans down at the Succotash Hut—they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
The story is supposed to be over.
Simon Snow did everything he was supposed to do. He beat the villain. He won the war. He even fell in love. Now comes the good part, right? Now comes the happily ever after…
So why can’t Simon Snow get off the couch?
What he needs, according to his best friend, is a change of scenery. He just needs to see himself in a new light…
That’s how Simon and Penny and Baz end up in a vintage convertible, tearing across the American West.
They find trouble, of course. (Dragons, vampires, skunk-headed things with shotguns.) And they get lost. They get so lost, they start to wonder whether they ever knew where they were headed in the first place…
With Wayward Son, Rainbow Rowell has written a book for everyone who ever wondered what happened to the Chosen One after he saved the day. And a book for everyone who was ever more curious about the second kiss than the first. It’s another helping of sour cherry scones with an absolutely decadent amount of butter.
Come on, Simon Snow. Your hero’s journey might be over – but your life has just begun.
We’ve been conditioned to think that the most acceptable response to “How are you?” is, “I’m fine.” But our emotions are much more complicated than that! Sometimes we feel a little annoyed, or elated, or afraid. And you know, that’s okay!
In The Little Book of Big Feelings, Maureen “Marzi” Wilson takes us on a journey of self-acceptance and validation. After all, our emotions are only reactions to experiences that we can learn from; there’s no such thing as a “bad” emotion. It’s okay to be scared, it’s alright to feel hopeful, and it’s perfectly fine to feel both at the same time. There is a wide range of human emotions, and it’s time we start embracing each one!
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Nya böcker på min TBR våren 2019
Daisy is a girl coming of age in L.A. in the late sixties, sneaking into clubs on the Sunset Strip, sleeping with rock stars, and dreaming of singing at the Whisky a Go Go. The sex and drugs are thrilling, but it’s the rock and roll she loves most. By the time she’s twenty, her voice is getting noticed, and she has the kind of heedless beauty that makes people do crazy things.Also getting noticed is The Six, a band led by the brooding Billy Dunne. On the eve of their first tour, his girlfriend Camila finds out she’s pregnant, and with the pressure of impending fatherhood and fame, Billy goes a little wild on the road. Daisy and Billy cross paths when a producer realizes that the key to supercharged success is to put the two together. What happens next will become the stuff of legend.
The making of that legend is chronicled in this riveting and unforgettable novel, written as an oral history of one of the biggest bands of the seventies. Taylor Jenkins Reid is a talented writer who takes her work to a new level with Daisy Jones & The Six, brilliantly capturing a place and time in an utterly distinctive voice.
Imogen Lovelace is an ordinary fangirl on an impossible mission: save her favorite character, Princess Amara, from being killed off from her favorite franchise, Starfield. The problem is, Jessica Stone—the actress who plays Princess Amara—wants nothing more than to leave the intense scrutiny of the fandom behind. If this year’s ExcelsiCon isn’t her last, she’ll consider her career derailed.
When a case of mistaken identity throws look-a-likes Imogen and Jess together, they quickly become enemies. But when the script for the Starfield sequel leaks, and all signs point to Jess, she and Imogen must trade places to find the person responsible. That’s easier said than done when the girls step into each other’s shoes and discover new romantic possibilities, as well as the other side of intense fandom. As these ”princesses” race to find the script-leaker, they must rescue themselves from their own expectations, and redefine what it means to live happily ever after.
Clare Cassidy is no stranger to murder. A high school English teacher specializing in the Gothic writer R. M. Holland, she teaches a course on it every year. But when one of Clare’s colleagues and closest friends is found dead, with a line from R. M. Holland’s most famous story, “The Stranger,” left by her body, Clare is horrified to see her life collide with the storylines of her favourite literature.
To make matters worse, the police suspect the killer is someone Clare knows. Unsure whom to trust, she turns to her closest confidant, her diary, the only outlet she has for her darkest suspicions and fears about the case. Then one day she notices something odd. Writing that isn’t hers, left on the page of an old diary: ”Hallo, Clare. You don’t know me.”
Clare becomes more certain than ever: “The Stranger” has come to terrifying life. But can the ending be rewritten in time?
Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London.
Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him…
The mermaid is known for her siren song, luring bedroom-eyed sailors to their demise. However, beneath these misguided myths are tales of escapism and healing, which Lovelace weaves throughout this empowering collection of poetry, taking you on a journey from the sea to the stars. They tried to silence her once and for all, but the mermaid’s voice returns in this one.
En uppslukande roman om familjehemligheter och förbjuden kärlek på den engelska landsbygden. På samma släktgods, men med många år emellan, är två kvinnor med om varsin omvälvande sommar.
Lillian Oberon känner sig instängd i ett olyckligt äktenskap men ser ingen väg ut. När den karismatiske konstnär som hennes man anlitat kommer till godset vänds allt upp och ner.
Årtionden senare kliver Lillians barnbarn Maggie över tröskeln till det nedgångna huset. Hon har återvänt från Australien, dit hon flydde efter ett stort kärlekssvek. Tiden är inne att se sanningen i vitögat och konfronteras med det förflutna. Nutid och dåtid flätas samman och bildar en gripande historia.
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Juli 2018 Bookhaul
Reptilrummet – andra delen i Syskonen Baudelaires olycksaliga liv – från loppis
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets – Ravenclaw edition (20th Anniversary edition) – från Bookdepository
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Maj 2018 Bookhaul
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April 2018 Bookhaul
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Mars 2018 Bookhaul
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Februari bookhaul
Februari hämtade med sig lite böcker igen än gång! Jag är jättetaggad för allihop och hoppas att jag under min vintersemester, som kommer nu i början på mars, hinner sätta tänderna i åtminstone någon av dessa. Tack till Vargnatts bokhylla för tipset om Meddling kids, visst är den SÅ snygg?
Carol har jag velat läsa jättelänge, det har bara inte blivit av att skaffa den.
Lola Dutch skrev jag om i ett tidigare inlägg.
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January bookhaul
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Oktober bookhaul
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