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The Time Traveler’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
Posted by: femmy on: 2 September 2008
The title promises a tantalizing story. A time traveler? I love stories that involve time paradoxes! Time traveler’s wife? Even better! I’m always drawn to stories that takes a fantasy element and puts it in an everyday context, i.e. focusing on the ordinary rather than the extraordinary. This must be a story about how time [...]
The Gift of Fear
Posted by: femmy on: 25 April 2008
This book teaches you to trust your instinct. If you suddenly feel fear in a situation, it is probably because your instinct is telling you that there’s danger nearby, so you’d better act fast to avoid it.
But you shouldn’t confuse true fear and worry. If each time you walk in a dark alley, you’re scared [...]
The Final Empire – Brandon Sanderson
Posted by: femmy on: 19 Februari 2008
Do you know that old fantasy cliché, where the protagonist is a farm boy with hidden abilities, who is destined to defeat the great villain and save the whole world from destruction? Well, in this series Brandon Sanderson has taken that cliché and given it an imaginative twist, which results in this fantastic first [...]
Life of Pi by Yann Martel
Posted by: femmy on: 15 November 2007
My husband’s friend lent him this book. It was the translated version, but I’ve heard about the book for a long time, so I thought I might as well read it. The translation was good, but reading all the favorite quotations posted on Goodreads makes me wish I read the original.
The first part tells about [...]
I think I’m drunk!
Posted by: femmy on: 15 November 2007
Drunk on books, of course! Yesterday and today I’ve received seven books in the mail! Yay! Three mooched books and four ordered from Amazon.
Receiving them and buying them in a store just don’t feel the same, don’t you think? If you buy a book in a store, you’ve already looked at the book, touched it, [...]
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