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Pirates of the Caribbean 4 at the cinema.

There's going to be a movie? That's great! I just finished all three books a week ago and I totally loved them!

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I started I am Number Four on wednesday.

We came back from London on Friday and we did quite some bookshopping. Who could resist Waterstone's 3 for 2 offers?? And this is what I got for myself: Rachel Caine > Lord of Misrule Rachel Caine > Carpe Corpus Rachel Caine > Fade Out Rachel Caine > Kiss of Death Rachel Caine > Ghost Town Rachel Caine > Bite Club Suzanne Collins > The Hunger Games Suzanne Collins > Catching Fire Suzanne Collins > Mockingjay Christos Tsiolkas > The Slap Harlan Coben > Miracle Cure Stephenie Meyer > The Host

I loved it! And it's a book I wouldn't have noticed without BCF, there are so many great reviews around here which made me buy the book.

I started The chosen one by Carol Lynch Williams yesrtday.

Hi Weave, I'm fine, thank you Hope you're well, too! As you're a great book-recommedation-source, I'm sure that I will read those series rather sooner than later. Just have to save up some bookshopping money, as I went quite crazy in London last week and took 12 books home with me

The forest of hands and teeth trilogy and The Declaration trilogy sound good, I'll put them on my wishlist.

Kelley Armstrong > Bitten synopsis from amazon Elena, heroine of Kelley Armstrong's impressive debut thriller Bitten, never planned that a casual sexual encounter would transform her into a werewolf. Neither did Clay, her lover and one of the leaders of the exclusive werewolf clique known as the Pack; women do not generally change or survive if they do. Elena's considerable reservations about her new life come to a head and she walks out on the Pack to return to something like normality, finding herself a boyfriend who turns a blind eye to her occasional disappearances in the middle of the night. She may have done with the infighting of werewolves, but they have not done with her; her former family call her back when they find themselves under threat from those they have excluded and dominated. Kelley Armstrong is very good on the sheer exhilaration of shape-changing, of running on four feet through forests, suburban greenery and urban back alleys; if there is a weakness here, it is that Elena's relationship with the taciturn, untrustworthy Clay is sometimes a little too conventionally romantic--but the dark poetry of the best of the book overcomes this entirely. my thoughts I found the story to be a bit slow and chewy at times, but still interesting and I will keep on reading the series. Rating: 3/5 Series: Women of the Otherworld 1

Alex Garland > The Beach synopsis from amazon In our ever-shrinking world, where popular Western culture seems to have infected every nation on the planet, it is hard to find even a small niche of unspoiled land--forget searching for pristine islands or continents. This is the situation in Alex Garland's debut novel, The Beach. Human progress has reduced Eden to a secret little beach near Thailand. In the tradition of grand adventure novels, Richard, a rootless traveller rambling around Thailand on his way somewhere else, is given a hand-drawn map by a madman who calls himself Daffy Duck. He and two French travellers set out on a journey to find this paradise. What makes this a truly satisfying novel is the number of levels on which it operates. On the surface it's a fast-paced adventure novel; at another level it explores why we search for these utopias, be they mysterious lost continents or small island communes. Garland weaves a gripping and thought-provoking narrative that suggests we are, in fact, such products of our Western culture that we cannot help but pollute and ultimately destroy the very sanctuary we seek. my thoughts Another great read, probably my favourite book this year, so far. As I already know and love the movie, I just had to finally read the book aswell. I totally loved loved it and couldn't stop reading once I started. The chapters are very short, only a few pages each, which keeps you thinking that you can read just one more chapter before you stop, and then again, just one more chapter ... It's an amazing story of how people find their own little paradise and what they would all do to keep it. Rating: 5/5

Maggie Stiefvater > Shiver synopsis from amazon For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house. One yellow-eyed wolf--her wolf--is a chilling presence she can't seem to live without. Meanwhile, Sam has lived two lives: In winter, the frozen woods, the protection of the pack, and the silent company of a fearless girl. In summer, a few precious months of being human . . . until the cold makes him shift back again. Now, Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy whose familiarity takes her breath away. It's her wolf. It has to be. But as winter nears, Sam must fight to stay human--or risk losing himself, and Grace, forever. my thoughts What a great read this was! I totally loved it! A wonderful mood is set free by the writing style and even though I read the book in hot weather, I could lose myself in this winterly scenerie. I'm glad I already baught the second book in the series and preordered the third book right after I finished the first. Rating: 5/5 Series: The wolves of Mercy Falls 1

Emma Donoghue > Room synopsis from amazon It's Jack's birthday, and he's excited about turning five. Jack lives with his Ma in Room, which has a locked door and a skylight, and measures 11 feet by 11 feet. He loves watching TV, and the cartoon characters he calls friends, but he knows that nothing he sees on screen is truly real - only him, Ma and the things in Room. Until the day Ma admits that there's a world outside . . . Told in Jack's voice, Room is the story of a mother and son whose love lets them survive the impossible. my thoughts This was a wonderful read, very moving. Everything that is so normal for Jack makes you ache for him as he just doesn't know it differently. The book is written from Jacks point of view and there for a bit childlike. As my english is not that good, I struggled a bit to understand everything at first. But I got into it soon enough and finished the book in a few days, beeing practicaly glued to it. Rating: 4/5

Lovely bookshelves Poppy

Hall Pass (funny) and Drive Angry (utterly stupid)

I'm flying through the Hunger Games trilogy and totally love the books!!

I finished Bitten by Kelley Armstrong and started Heat Wave by Richard Castle

I totally loved it! It's probably my favourite book this year so far.

I just finished The Beach and started Bitten by Kelley Armstrong

I finished Shiver yesterday and really loved it! Now I started The Beach by Alex Garland. My mojo is back on track

I joined Goodreads this week

Got a nice mojo-fuelling present from bf today: Richard Castle > Heat Wave

Still enjoying Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater

I finished Room yesterday evening and started Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater this morning.

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