Categorie: Penguin Random House UK
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Frankenstein or the Modern Prometheus
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/372881/frankenstein-by-shelley-mary/9781529954302 https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311812/frankenstein-by-mary-shelley-series-editor-guillermo-del-toro-introduction-by-elizabeth-kostova-editorial-apparatus-by-charles-e-robinson/ Review: Who is the real Monster? After all these years I finally, finally read Frankenstein… and I wonder now why I waited this long to pick this amazing novel up. In short the story about Frankenstein: The story begins with letters from a ship’s captain Walton, who reports the rescue of a man…
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The Haunting of Hill House
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/311814/the-haunting-of-hill-house-by-shirley-jackson-series-editor-guillermo-del-toro/ Review: Welcome to Hill House My review will be in English because I read it in English although it was chosen by someone in our bookclub for October where most of the people will read it in a Dutch translation. Let me begin by saying that I read it a first time 21 years…
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Robert Langdon 6. The Secret of Secrets
https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/670325/the-secret-of-secrets-by-dan-brown/ Review: (Dutch review below) Consciousness Robert Langdon is in Prague with his newfound love, Katherine Solomon. Katherine was invited to this mythical city to have a lecture on noetic science, the study of human consciousness. She has just written a book on a groundbreaking discovery she made, one that will shatter the current beliefs.…
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Orbital
https://www.penguin.co.uk/books/454068/orbital-by-harvey-samantha/9781529922936 Review: ‘Orbital’ is the 2024 Booker Prize Winner! This books lasts 24 hours on Earth or 16 orbits in space. 16 earthly sunsets and 16 sunrises. 16 orbits and six people in the spacestation: 4 astronauts (2 Europeans – a Brit and an Italian- , 1 American, 1 Japanese) and 2 cosmonauts (so 2…
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Strange Sally Diamond
Review: Thomas Diamond had said to Sally: “Put me out with the bins. When I die, put me out with the bins. I’ll be dead, so I won’t know the difference.” So that’s what Sally Diamond did. She put him with the trash and tried to incinerate her (adoptive) father. Little did she know that…
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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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