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Read more about the article “Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury BOOK REVIEW
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“Something Wicked This Way Comes” by Ray Bradbury BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 17th September 1962 Publisher: Gollancz ISBN: 9781473212046 Genre: Fantasy Strong Point: The creepy atmosphere that Bradbury creates, and a set of characters that intensifies that atmosphere.  Weak Point:…

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December 13, 2021
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“Dancing with the Octopus” by Debora Harding BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 7th August 2020 Publisher: Profile Books ISBN: 9781788165174 Genre: True Crime Strong Point: The story itself. And the way the author presents it is impecable. Weak Point: Any!…

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December 1, 2021
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“Make Your Art No Matter What” by Beth Pickens BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 06 April 2021 Publisher: Chronicle Books ISBN: 9781452182957 Genre: Nonfiction, Art Strong Point: The whole vibe of the book is very positive and informal, which I enjoyed. Weak…

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June 15, 2021
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“The Midnight Library” by Matt Haig BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 13th August 2020 Publisher: Canongate Books ISBN: 9781786892713 Genre: Fantasy Strong Point: It is very pleasant to read. The author’s style is very articulate and clean. Formal and…

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June 10, 2021
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“The Madman’s Library” by Edward Brooke-Hitching BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 01 October 2020 Publisher: Simon & Schuster UK ISBN: 9781471166914 Genre: Nonfiction Strong Point: The illustrations included are a very important contribution, without which the book wouldn’t have…

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June 7, 2021
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“Unspeakable Things” by Jess Lourey BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 1st January 2020 Publisher: Thomas & Mercer ISBN: 9781542008785 Genre: Mystery & Thriller Strong Point: The main character is likeable. Weak Point: The author creates a lot of…

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May 11, 2021
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“The Resurrectionist” by A.R. Meyering BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 01 July 2020 Publisher: Books Worth Burning ISBN: 9781940233727 Genre: Fantasy Strong Point: The background story is very interesting and the writing style is excellent.  Weak Point: Any!…

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May 5, 2021
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“The Bookish Life of Nina Hill” by Abbi Waxman BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 9th July 2019 Publisher: Headline Review ISBN: 9781472266217 Genre: Romance Strong Point: The main character Nina Hill is very enjoyable. In fact, most of the characters are very…

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“The Outsider” by Stephen King BOOK REVIEW

Publication Date: 22nd May 2018 Publisher: Scribner ISBN: 9781982150730 Genre: Horror Strong Point: The story is very solid and the characters have depth and personality. Weak Point: Any. Books on…

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Publication Date: 13 January 2021 Publisher: Semiscope ISBN: 9781946948342 Series: The Womanoid Diaries # 1 Narrator: Laci Powers Genre: Sci Fi, Fantasy Strong Point: The mixture of science-fiction and humour…

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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Skyward Inn” 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Skyward Inn” by Aliya Whiteley
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This is going to be a short review, as I don’t really know what is going on in this book.
Having said so, I will try to explain what it is about.
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Skyward Inn is the name of a small inn run by Isley and Jem. From the beginning, we know that Isley is not “human” but some type of alien, a Qitan, tolerated by the people of the village and the ones who visit the inn every night to drink something called Jarrowbrew.
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Then, one night, a Qitan female called Won appears at the inn with a broken suit. It seems this “suit” serves her as a vehicle. Somehow the appearance of Won makes everyone very suspicious and uncomfortable. Why? No idea. Perhaps because as it unfortunately always happens people are afraid of what they do not understand and are suspicious of everyone and everything which is different from them.
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THE WORD IS “CONFUSING”
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From then on, the author tells us about many different stories apart from this central one at the Inn.
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We learn about Dominic, Jem’s brother, who lives with Jem’s son called Fosse. Dominic is the head of the council and a school teacher.
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We also learn about some more people from the village, like Doctor Clarke, and Reverend Summer (who is their spiritual leader), and Benny Sykes, the village policeman. 
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However all these people act quite weird and very cult-like. Fosse also encounters three people, two women and a man, who are staying in a type of barn. 
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Sounds confusing? Well, that is the best way to describe “Skyward Inn”… 
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Later” by Ste 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Later” by Stephen King
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There’s always a later, I know that now. At least until we die.”
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That Stephen King is one of my favourite writers is not a secret. So as part of Johann’s challenge #50states50horrorbooks I decided to read “Later” for the state of New York. 
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Although I very much enjoyed the story and the characters, I was perhaps expecting a bit more horror than what the book contains. 
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Don’t get me wrong, there are some scenes which are extremely creepy and will stay in my mind forever. But it is not my favourite King. 
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THE STORY
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Jamie Conklin is 22 years old at the start of the book. But he tells us his own story of when he was only 13 years old. 
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He lives with his mum, Tea Conklin who is a literary agent. He is a normal child with a specialty: he has the ability of seeing dead people. 
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Tea, of course, doesn’t believe Jamie can see dead folks. But she slowly realizes it may be true after all. Furthermore, she uses his son’s ability to change their bad economic situation and it worked completely fine. They saved themselves from bankruptcy. 
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For this reason, when NYPD Detective Elizabeth Dutton meets Jamie, she perceives he could be of help to her in order to catch a serial killer. He could be her big “miracle” in a police department where she has only had problem after problem.
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IT IS A STEPHEN KING BOOK AFTER ALL
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From here on, the story gets more and more complex as well as creepy. However, I miss King’s ability to make me shiver with just one sentence. It has happened to me with many of his books but it did not happen with “Later”…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Never Let Me Go 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro
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“What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three “Never Let Me Go”.”
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I like Ishiguro. “The Remains of the Days” is an excellent book so I wanted to read another of his works. 
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I found “Never Let Me Go” in my local bookshop and I decided to give it a try. 
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At the beginning of the book I was startled by how different the style this book felt in comparison with “The Remains” but, of course, between the two books there is a gap of 17 years so the difference in style is normal.
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I liked the book as a whole but it is not a five stars book for me. Let’s get to it, shall we?
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THE STORY
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We find the protagonist in England in the late 1990s. Her name is Kathy H. and she is 31 years old. 
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We are told that Kathy has been a “carer” for almost 12 years now. And we think, ok, she is like a nurse, or works at an old folks’ home or something similar. But no…that is not the case.
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Furthermore, we learn that apart from the “carers” there are also “guardians” and “donors”; of what, we do not know. We also learn that after the third or fourth “donation” people are “completed”. Weird, right? That is why “Never Let Me Go” is considered a dystopia. 
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We go back in time and Ishiguro tells us about Kathy’s past in a kind of boarding school called Hailsham, and about her life there with her friends, especially with Tommy and Ruth.
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We start to sense that something weird and creepy is happening at the place: there are peculiar people like “Madame”, Miss Lucy, etc.
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In addition, the children grow up thinking they are special. They do not have parents, nor they can have children in the future. And yet, they spend their days at that enclosed school because they are different from the rest of the people…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Who’s Afraid 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” by Edward Albee
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“I said I was impressed, Martha. I'm beside myself with jealousy. What do you want me to do, throw up?”
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I always find very difficult to review a play. Plays are written for theatre, for a live audience, and not to be read alone in a room.
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For this reason, I think that I have never fully enjoyed reading a play while I have almost always loved seeing plays in a theatre.
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“Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf” is no exception. The story is powerful (and quite disturbing, to be honest) and Edward Albee writes masterfully. And yet it let me a bit cold.
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THE STORY
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We find George and Martha at two o’clock at night coming back home from a party hosted by Martha’s father.
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George is 46 years old and works in the History department of the University from which Martha’s father is the President. They have been married for 23 years. 
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At the party, they have met another couple and they have invited them to their flat for a last drink. And from then on, things escalate and become weirder and weirder.
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A HAPPY MARRIAGE?
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So George and Martha’s marriage is everything but happy. In fact, it is a very toxic marriage. 
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When the other couple arrive, they start having very intense discussions and arguments and we realize that there are a lot of unspoken issues between them.
Furthermore, the other couple, Honey and Nick, seem to be “dragged” by the bad vibe happening between their hosts. 
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They also uncover some dark secrets and make us feel that in a not so far away future, they will become a similar version of George and Martha. 
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The two couples do not know how to deal with their “significant other”. They do not understand each other and they pour their frustration on his/her partner. They are cruel and cannot be civil, even in the presence of strangers. 
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Their lack of communication and understanding is astonishing. And yet, it is quite mundane. We must not forget that marriage is in a way a type of play in which every person involved plays a role, as it happens in any theatrical drama. 
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Becoming” by 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Becoming” by Michelle Obama
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“Becoming requires equal parts patience and rigor. Becoming is never giving up on the idea that there’s more growing to be done”.
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Just to be clear from the beginning: I have a small crush on Michelle Obama. I have always liked her. I admire her elegance and I like her looks. And the most important thing, I love the way she expresses herself and the power and strength of her words.
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For this reason, it was clear to me that I wanted to read “Becoming”. It was a far more interesting reading that any of her husband’s books, to be honest. 
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And what I can say after reading “Becoming”, is that my crush got bigger…So let’s talk about this brilliant, inspiring woman and her book.
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BECOMING ME
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In this first part of the book, Michelle tells us about her family and the people who surrounded and influenced her while being a child and a teenager. 
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As a child, she lived in the South Shore neighbourhood of Chicago in a bungalow belonging to her great aunt Robbie (her mother’s aunt) and her husband Terry. Robbie would teach Michelle to play the piano.
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Her father worked at the city’s water treatment plant. Michelle shows the reader her profound love for him and how he showed her and her older brother Craig to love jazz and art. He had taken classes at the Art Institute of Chicago and had painted and sculpted. He was also the precinct captain for the city’s Democratic Party. 
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Her mother had taught Michelle to read early taking her to the public library. She worked as a secretary and executive assistant at a bank. 
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Her brother Craig, two years older than Michelle, was considered one of the best basketball players in the city…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Oslo, Maine” 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Oslo, Maine” by Marcia Butler
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Thanks to the publisher, HighBridge Audio, the author Marcia Butler and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “Oslo, Maine” for review purposes.
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I am afraid this is going to be a short review. 
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I chose this book in NetGalley because it sounded interesting as I love stories in small, rural areas as well as family stories. The blurb of this book talked about not one but three families which change forever after some traumatic event. 
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However, the book did not meet my expectations… 
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THE STORY
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There is a really small town called Oslo. However, this “Oslo” is not in Norway but in Maine, USA.
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There we find Pierre Roy, a twelve years old boy who lost his memory after a traumatic accident. 
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His father, Claude, does not seem to realize the scope of his son’s situation, nor its implications. 
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Furthermore, Claude seems to believe there is something else wrong with his son, apart from his mental problems: Pierre likes music and reading, nothing to do with what Claude considers to be masculine. 
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Pierre’s mother, Celine, has her own way of coping with Pierre’s illness, namely, pills. She feels responsible in part for the state her son is in, because she has no done what any mother would do, to protect their offspring. 
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Then we find another family, the Kimbrough who are musicians. They established in Oslo like 20 years ago, but are still seen as the “outsiders”. 
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And finally we have Edna Sibley, a wealthy widow. She lives with her grandson Luc, a 29 years old man who is…let’s say, different. His mother died giving birth to him. 
However this is perhaps the family’s story I like the least, as I think it is another case of the typical “we are rich but we also know what it is to suffer” that we repeatedly see in books, movies, etc…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “And Now She’s 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“And Now She’s Gone” by Rachel Howzell
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Thanks to the publisher, Forge Books, the author Rachel Howzell and NetGalley for providing me with a free copy of “And Now She’s Gone” for review purposes.
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I love a good mystery book. It is probably one of my favourite genres, together with horror and classics (what a mixture, right?).
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And this book is a solid mystery book. The story is hard because of the topics it talks about (abuse against women, domestic violence, etc.) but it is well built and the characters are relatable. Let’s talk about it.
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THE STORY
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We find Grayson Sykes in Los Angeles working already for two years for a company called Rader Consulting. Work is ok, but she is a bit tired of looking for chihuahuas for rich people. What Grayson really wants to do is to be a private investigator. 
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Her boss is Dominick Rader, an old friend of hers. Already at this point, we sense something going on between the two of them, but the author is only giving us bits of info, so we have to wait to know what is happening with these two. 
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Furthermore, something else is going on with Grayson, as she is from the beginning of the book suffering from severe pain as a side effect from a recent laparoscopy. However, she repeats to herself she shouldn’t go to the hospital because there would be “too many questions”. 
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So one of the two central plots starts when a woman called Isabel Lincoln is missing and Gray starts working in the case. 
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She tries to investigate Isabel’s last movements and the people around her, the usual. Meanwhile, she has to deal with her own demons.
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TWO DIFFERENT PLOTS WHICH COMPLEMENT EACH OTHER
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While she investigates Isabel’s disappearance, we also know Gray’s own story, about which I cannot talk about at all, as it is the main turn of the book.
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What I can say, is that I like the way the author, Rachel Howzell, blends the two stories and how it all makes sense at the end…
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Rue de L’Odé 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Rue de L’Odéon” by Adrienne Monnier
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“I was born on the 26th of April 1892 in Paris, where I have always lived”.
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I don’t exactly know how I found this book or when I bought it. But I know for sure it had been sitting on my shelves for way too long.
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I bought it in Spain (it is in Spanish, translated from the original French by Julia Osuna), stayed there for a long time and then travelled to Hamburg, and still I was not finding the right time to read it.
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However, last year on May the time came! And I was very glad to have read it. So let’s dive into it!
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THE STORY
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“Shakespeare & Co.” is probably one of the most famous English bookshops in the entire world. Sylvia Beach was its founder. The shop was situated in Rue de L’Odéon.
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However, what a lot of people do not know is that Adrienne Monnier was also the founder of a bookshop situated in Rue de L’Odéon. It opened its doors in 1915 in Paris under the name of La maison des Amis des Livres. Adrienne was also Sylvia’s friend and lover. But everyone knows Sylvia, and no one has ever heard about Adrienne. And what a pity that is.
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“Rue de L’Odéon” is part memories, part homage to this fantastic woman who, in the middle of a World War and a military occupation, being only 23 years old, opens a small bookshop at the heart of the Quartier Latin.
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Very well educated and with a passion for books, she had been working before opening her bookshop in an academic magazine. Her father helped her a bit economically so that she could make her dream come true.
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With time and much learning (she opened the shop without any experience in running a business), La maison des Amis des Livres changes forever the literary scene of the city. She was what we would call now an entrepreneur. 
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Among its shelves strolled famous authors like James Joyce, Beckett, Proust or Hemingway…
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🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚 . “Burning Girls a 🤓📚Book Review! 🤓📚
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“Burning Girls and Other Stories” by Veronica Schanoes
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Thanks to the publisher, Tantor media, Inc., the author Veronica Schanoes and NetGalley for providing me with a free audiobook of “Burning Girls and Other Stories” for review purposes.
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“They made him dance in thorns and then they hanged him.”
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This has been my first book by author Veronica Schanoes. And I was greatly surprised by it.
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I am always quite reticent about reading short stories because I normally end up with a mixture of very good and very bad stories. Totally normal, by the way.
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However, this collection has been quite entertaining…
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THE STORIES
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In almost every single story there is a quite superb mixture of magical realism and folklore, with an added touch of Judaism, of which, I have to confess, I am a complete ignorant.
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Some of them were quite truculent and obscure, but that is my kind of jam. 
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Among my favourites are “The Revenants” as it slightly touches a topic about which I recently read in “The Resurrectionist” (by A.R. Meyering) last year that I deeply enjoyed. I was as well captivated by the story called “Rats”.
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“The Revenants” tells the story of a girl who has been used by an older man. Once he is tired of her, he abandones her. However, as she grows older, she unravels a “Revenant” (and this is the connection with Meyering’s story), the ghost of her older, more naive self. And this Revenant is thirsty for revenge. 
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Secondly, “Rats” retells the story of Nancy Spungen and Sid Vicious, figures of the punk rock scene of the 70s. This fact, by the way, I learnt after reading the book. Their relationship was, let’s say, quite complicated, and the story rebels against the idealisation that society does of those kinds of relationships.
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Read the complete review and many more at www.booksontour.net ✈️🚀🚙🛳📚
Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇 . Well cho Best Book of the Year 2021 🏅🏆🥇
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Well choosing the best book of the year has been very hard!!😅
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I don’t know if you have ever tried to choose your favourite book of the year among your most beloved ones but, believe me, it took a while…🙄
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As you can see, the best book I read last year was Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë. And this is funny, because I obviously knew before reading the book both the story and the characters from my University studies but even so, I enjoyed every single page in it. And I will for sure re-read it. It is a classic for a reason, right?
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I am not gonna bore you with its plot because I am quite sure you all know what it is about. And if you don’t, buy a copy right now and read it. You won’t be disappointed. 👌🏻
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Along the way I left some amazing books that I read last year, like “The History of Love” by Nicole Krauss, a beautiful, sweet book about one of the most delightful characters I have ever read about, Leo Gursky; or the non-fiction book “Dancing with the Octopus”, by Debora Harding, an emotional, terrible account of an horrendous crime and its survivor which I completely recommend (please look first for its trigger warnings!).
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I have read many amazing stories and discovered new favourite authors like Alma Katsu, A.R. Meyering, Michael McDowell or the amazing Ryūnosuke Akutagawa.
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Anyway, I’d love to know your favourite book(s) of last year. Leave them in the comment section down below. 
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🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚 . “La cuenta 🤓📚Reseña Literaria 🤓📚
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“La cuenta atrás para el verano” de La Vecina Rubia.
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“Hay que sentir que nos pasamos la vida celebrando las cosas, ya sea una victoria o una derrota, porque en el fondo se trata de buscar los motivos para brindar”.
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Esta reseña va a levantar ampollas entre las fieles seguidoras de la autora, cosa que me da bastante igual, por cierto.
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Quería que este libro me gustara. Sin embargo, no solo no ha sido así sino que ha acabado siendo uno de los peores libros del año 2021.
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Os pongo en circunstancias: su autora es una “influencer” española, llamada “La Vecina Rubia” con miles de seguidores en Instagram. Sus historias son bastante divertidas, con mucho humor, y según me parecía a mí, escribía bastante bien, por lo que, cuando descubrí que acababa de escribir un libro, me encantó la idea de poder leerlo.
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Sin embargo, ni la historia ni los personajes me han enganchado, y el estilo de la autora no es para nada de mi agrado.
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Pero vayamos por partes.
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LA HISTORIA
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“La Cuenta atrás” cuenta la historia (aún no sé bien si son historias reales o inventadas) de una chica, algunas de sus relaciones sentimentales, y su grupo de amigas desde la adolescencia hasta la treintena.
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Si están basadas en historias reales, sinceramente, no me las creo. Si son inventadas, genial, pero no dejan de ser un grupo de anécdotas sin importancias, la mayoría de las cuales son bastante superficiales y carecen de todo interés para el lector.
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El libro está lleno de repeticiones innecesarias y de personajes superfluos que nada tienen que aportar a una historia por otra parta anodina. 
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EL LENGUAJE
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Yo soy fan del realismo en literatura. He leído a Pérez Galdós, Clarins, Dickens, Tolstoi, etc. pero lo de La Vecina Rubia ralla la tontería.
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La mayoría de los diálogos parecen copias exactas de chats de whatsapp que yo pueda tener con mis amigas. 
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Todos tenemos un límite de cuántas veces se puede leer la palabra “tía” o “j*der” en una página. Tales repeticiones de vulgarismos simplemente no son aceptables en un libro de un nivel cultural mínimo…
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Do you know what a vision board is? . I am a visua Do you know what a vision board is?
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I am a visual kind of person, so I get inspired by looking at a painting, a photo, or in this case, a board with images.
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So every month, I look for inspiration (mostly in Pinterest) and try to match my monthly goals with photos that motivate me to reach those goals, or at least try.
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This January, among my goals is to finish the 30 days of Yoga by @adrienelouise and enjoy every single minute of it, seek for some kind of balance in my life, take care of myself, try to keep an open mind in order to learn quick at my new job and be grateful, this year more than ever. 
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Have you ever tried using a vision board o similar? Did it help you stay focused? Let me know down in the comments.
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In the second photo you can see the empty vision board that comes with every month of my 2022 Sunset Digital Planner (Etsy shop link in my bio).
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Stay focus. Take care🙏🏻
2021 Reading Stats - Second part 📚📊📈📉 2021 Reading Stats - Second part 📚📊📈📉
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So, here we go! 🙏🏻🤪
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Slide 6: How I got my books: Well, nothing surprising. As I said yesterday, whether I buy my books, or I get them from NetGalley. I don’t use public libraries as I don’t live in an English or Spanish speaking country, and my German is…🙄
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Slide 7: Author’s gender: Also not a surprise as I always tend to pick up female authors, for whatever reason. Not complaining, though. 
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Slide 8: Author’s Racial Identity: 🙄This must change. Very disappointing to see I read such a big amount of books written by white authors. 
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Slide 9: Author’s Nationality: The same as with the previous slide. Too little variety. I must widen the number of books I read from authors from the rest of the world, and not only base my readings in American and British authors. 🤔
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Slide 10: Language: Another disappointment. My 2021 goal of reading more Spanish books has completely failed. 🥵 Must change too. 
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And that is all!
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I always find very interesting to see my yearly stats because my goal as a reader, apart from obviously being entertained by books and learning from them, is to widen my views about other people’s realities and situations, and this obviously means reading books by authors which are not only white and Americans. 😫
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So I will try to improve this during this year 2022. And this is my personal goal, of course. You may agree or disagree. 
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Anyway, I wish you a good reading year 2022.
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Soon I will prepare my post after deciding which one is my favourite book for 2021. It is gonna be quite hard, I am afraid 😅, because I have nine “5 stars” books to choose from…
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Hope you enjoyed these stats. It doesn’t seems so. But I do. 
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Take care & stay healthy 😷🤗🙏🏻
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