Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. I love this week’s topic! Bookish quotes are best and I’m so glad Goodreads has that awesome “quotes” function. Makes looking for them quite a lot easier! Compiling an actual “top ten” was pretty much impossible for me, though, because I think an amazing book is […]
Read MoreWe all know the “would you rather”-game, with questions like: would you rather have the hiccups for the rest of your life or always feel like you have to sneeze but not be able to. Most of these questions are impossible to answer, which makes them so much fun. Recently I came across a Bookish Would […]
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Meet Celaena Sardothien. Beautiful. Deadly. Destined for greatness. In the dark, filthy salt mines of Endovier, an eighteen-year-old girl is serving a life sentence. She is a trained assassin, the best of her kind, but she made a fatal mistake. She got caught. Young Captain Westfall offers her a deal: her freedom in return for […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is books from my childhood or teen years I’d like to revisit. I’m a big fan of nostalgia and reminiscing about those good ol’ days, so I’m definitely game for this week’s top ten! I had tons of fun thinking about the […]
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Will has never been to the outside, at least not since he can remember. And he has certainly never got to know anyone other than his mother, a fiercely loving yet wildly eccentric agoraphobe who drowns in panic at the thought of opening the front door. Their little world comprises only the rooms in their […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. This week’s topic is the top ten books on my Spring to be read list. I probably won’t get to all of these in Spring, but I’m going to try my best! Most of these have been waiting on my shelves for quite a […]
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If you’re a regular reader of my blog, you’re probably aware that I’m from the Netherlands. I grew up on Dutch children’s literature, which is awesome (Annie M.G. Schmidt, anyone? Thea Beckman?) although I also read a lot of translated English novels (Roald Dahl!). Either way, I read these books in Dutch, which is the main point here. When […]
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Since its publication in 1847 Jane Eyre has never ceased to be one of the most widely read of English novels. Transmuted by the rare Brontë imagination, the romance of Jane and Rochester takes on a strange and unforgettable atmosphere that lifts it above the level of mere melodrama. But Charlotte Brontë intended more. She portrayed […]
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She’s a fashion model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a sudden freeway “accident” leaves her disfigured and incapable of speech, she goes from being the beautiful center of attention to being an invisible monster, so hideous that no one will acknowledge that she exists. Enter Brandy Alexander, […]
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by The Broke and the Bookish. Wow, look at me doing two top ten Tuesdays in a row! This week’s topic is your top ten favourite books from the past 3 years. That’s definitely a topic I can work with, although you will have seen most (if not all) of […]
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