Categorie: american writers
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Bloom
https://us.macmillan.com/books/9781626726413/bloom Review: Ari’s just out of high school and together with some of his friends he has a band and plans on going to live with them in the big city, where they will live of their music. But Ari’s dad wants nothing to hear from these plans, Ari needs to help in their bakery.…
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Lord of the Flies
https://www.faber.co.uk/product/9780571374250-lord-of-the-flies-the-graphic-novel/ (English version) https://scratch-books.com/portfolio-item/lord-of-the-flies/ (Nederlandse versie) Review: I am ashamed to say I haven’t read William Golding’s Lord of the Flies yet, apart from now this wonderful graphic novel and I have seen the movie adaptation when I was younger… so I went in knowing something about the story, but I was also partly going…
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Where the Crawdads sing
Review: For our bookclub we were offered the chance to participate in an October book-swap-challenge. Two people in the club are paired and they had to recommend a book they love very much and the other one had to read it… I got ‘Where the Crawdads sing’ by Delia Owens. I was actually glad to…
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Uitbarsting
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402715316/uitbarsting Review: In 2008 overleed jammer genoeg Michael Crichton, op 66-jarige leeftijd aan kanker. Na zijn dood verschenen nog een aantal boeken waar hij al aan het werken was (Pirate Latitudes, Micro dat door Richard Preston werd afgewerkt en Dragon Teeth) Zijn weduwe Sherri Crichton, wist dat hij ook al lang bezig was aan een…
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Robert Hunter 7. I am Death
https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/I-Am-Death/Chris-Carter/A-Robert-Hunter-Thriller/9781476765723 English Review: Just when you thought Chris Carter couldn’t come up with a new and even more vicious killer, he brings us ‘I am Death’! This thriller picks up where we left Robert Hunter in the previous book, ‘An Evil Mind’, and he just arrives back at his office after catching a manipulative killer.…
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Stephen King Movie Marathon: The shining (1980)
Review: As movie adaptations go, especially Stephen King adaptations, this is one has been very much talked about in the past 44 years, since its release in 1980! Stephen King hated it, the late Shelley Duvall (who recently passed away) was bullied by Kubrick while filming and almost left… The movie had its issues… and…
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Gone Girl
https://www.phoenixbooks.biz/book/9780307588364 Review: Gone Girl is een buddyread met de Twist and Tale Boekenclub (van Booksieman op instagram). Ik had eerlijk gezegd niet verwacht dat ik dit boek nog zou kunnen uitlezen deze maand. Zeker niet toen ik eraan begon en het verhaal zo traag op gang kwam. (het heel kleine lettertype hielp ook niet!), maar…
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Danny Ryan 2. Stad van Dromen
https://www.harpercollins.nl/9789402712117/stad-van-dromen Review: Dit is het tweede deel in de Danny Ryan-trilogie. Na ‘Stad in Brand’ is er dus nu ‘Stad van Dromen’ en later dit jaar (september) verschijnt het derde deel ‘Stad in As’, tevens het allerlaatste boek van Don Winslow die zijn pensioen aankondigde nadat hij dat boek publiceerde. Danny Ryan is na de…
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On Earth we’re briefly gorgeous
Review: Oh boy, I was so excited to reread this book! I had read it the first time in 2020, just before all the sh*t with covid hit the fan. I had bought it on a trip to London, on a whim. And when one of my dearest friends told me she read ánd loved…
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Lavinia
https://www.boekerij.nl/producten/lavinia-9789022598719 Review: Hoewel Lavinia een ‘out my comfortzone’ boek is bleek het veel beter dan ik had verwacht eigenlijk, puur omdat het fantastisch geschreven is! Ik weet dat Ursula K. Le Guin zich vooral met science-fiction bezig hield en deels wat fantasy, dus dit was iets onverwachts vind ik persoonlijk van deze schrijfster. Maar net…
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