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Tuesday, 6 December 2016
Sunday, 4 December 2016
BOOK REVIEW | ALL THE LIGHT WE CANNOT SEE BY ANTHONY DOERR
Title: All The Light We Cannot See
Author: Anthony Doerr
Published: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 531
Rating: 5/5
"Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge."
I loved this book. All The Light We Cannot See really intrigued me from the moment I had heard of it. I was really curious to read from the perspective of a girl who is blind. Besides that, the fact that the other main character, views the war from a totally different point also got me very interested.
This book was so well written. I love short chapters, which this book definitely had (most chapters were 3 to 5 pages). I loved the characters, not only Marie-Laure and Werner but also the side characters like Jutte and Etienne.
I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. It's touching, devastating and wonderful.
Author: Anthony Doerr
Published: 2014
Language: English
Pages: 531
Rating: 5/5
"Marie-Laure lives with her father in Paris near the Museum of Natural History, where he works as the master of its thousands of locks. When she is six, Marie-Laure goes blind and her father builds a perfect miniature of their neighborhood so she can memorize it by touch and navigate her way home. When she is twelve, the Nazis occupy Paris and father and daughter flee to the walled citadel of Saint-Malo, where Marie-Laure’s reclusive great-uncle lives in a tall house by the sea. With them they carry what might be the museum’s most valuable and dangerous jewel.
In a mining town in Germany, the orphan Werner grows up with his younger sister, enchanted by a crude radio they find. Werner becomes an expert at building and fixing these crucial new instruments, a talent that wins him a place at a brutal academy for Hitler Youth, then a special assignment to track the resistance. More and more aware of the human cost of his intelligence, Werner travels through the heart of the war and, finally, into Saint-Malo, where his story and Marie-Laure’s converge."
I loved this book. All The Light We Cannot See really intrigued me from the moment I had heard of it. I was really curious to read from the perspective of a girl who is blind. Besides that, the fact that the other main character, views the war from a totally different point also got me very interested.
This book was so well written. I love short chapters, which this book definitely had (most chapters were 3 to 5 pages). I loved the characters, not only Marie-Laure and Werner but also the side characters like Jutte and Etienne.
I would definitely recommend this book to everyone. It's touching, devastating and wonderful.
Friday, 2 December 2016
NOVEMBER 2016
November was a good reading month, luckily, since I didn't read anything in October. I was in quite the reading slump for a while but I finally got out of it in November. I am very satisfied with what I have read and I'm really excited to continue this in December. What also excites me is the fact that I can almost set 2017 reading goals and share them with you! 2017 is going to be such a good reading year! But for now; here is what I read in November 2016.
Wednesday, 30 November 2016
BOOK REVIEW | THE ROSE AND THE DAGGER BY RENEE AHDIEH
Title: The Rose and the Dagger
Author: Renee Ahdieh
Published: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 416
Rating: 4/5
This review contains spoilers for 'The Wrath and the Dawn', book 1 in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' duology.
"In 'The Rose and the Dagger' we follow the aftermath of what happened to the city Rey and it's ruler who'm are both vulnerable. We follow the multiple characters we first got to meet in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' such as Shazrad, Khalid and Tariq."
It took me two and a halve month to finally finish this book. This was not because I didn't enjoy the book enough, it was all through the lack of time. I do think the fact that it took me so long to read this book, made me enjoy it a little less. I couldn't invest in the story as much as I wanted to, I think that once I will re-read this duology, in a short period of time, I will like it much better.
Anyhow, I did really enjoy this story. I really liked the setting and I liked where Renee brought this story. I loved the characters in this book and the writing style is great. almost poetical.
Although I really loved it, it didn't live up to the kick-ass start we had in the first book. Therefor I gave this book 4/5.
Author: Renee Ahdieh
Published: 2016
Language: English
Pages: 416
Rating: 4/5
This review contains spoilers for 'The Wrath and the Dawn', book 1 in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' duology.
"In 'The Rose and the Dagger' we follow the aftermath of what happened to the city Rey and it's ruler who'm are both vulnerable. We follow the multiple characters we first got to meet in 'The Wrath and the Dawn' such as Shazrad, Khalid and Tariq."
It took me two and a halve month to finally finish this book. This was not because I didn't enjoy the book enough, it was all through the lack of time. I do think the fact that it took me so long to read this book, made me enjoy it a little less. I couldn't invest in the story as much as I wanted to, I think that once I will re-read this duology, in a short period of time, I will like it much better.
Anyhow, I did really enjoy this story. I really liked the setting and I liked where Renee brought this story. I loved the characters in this book and the writing style is great. almost poetical.
Although I really loved it, it didn't live up to the kick-ass start we had in the first book. Therefor I gave this book 4/5.
Friday, 18 November 2016
FRESH START
Hello!
First of all, thank you for taking your time to read this. I have been long-lacking blogging. Same excuse as always; school and internship and work, it was just a bit too much of it all. I couldn't keep up with all the work, let alone blogging beside it. Now I finally am keeping up with my work again (sort of) I want to start blogging again.
Today I finished my first book since the 6th of October (yay) and I really want to keep reading again. I want to make time for it, as I make time for school and internship. I don't know how frequently I will post, but I will definitely try to at least post two times a week again. Pardon me if that fails.
Thank you for sticking with me! Talk to you soon. Lots of love!
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