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28 days later and 28 weeks later

I've got The Notebook and Chesil Beach waiting on my shelf. I already saw The Notebook on DVD and absolutely loved it! I'm thinking about reading the book next, as I'm in the mood for some romance, kinda neglected that genre for a while now.

Stieg Larsson > Vergebung (The girl who kicked the hornet's nest) Synopsis from waterstones Salander is plotting her revenge - against the man who tried to kill her, and against the government institutions that very nearly destroyed her life. But it is not going to be a straightforward campaign. After taking a bullet to the head, Salander is under close supervision in Intensive Care, and is set to face trial for three murders and one attempted murder on her eventual release. With the help of journalist Mikael Blomkvist and his researchers at Millennium magazine, Salander must not only prove her innocence, but identify and denounce the corrupt politicians that have allowed the vulnerable to become victims of abuse and violence. Once a victim herself, Salander is now ready to fight back. My thoughts The brilliance continues! I finished the book last friday at 1.15 am, just couldn't stop and go to sleep until I was finished. I highly recommend all three books, they are my surprise-superstars of the year! Rating: 5/5 Series: Millenium 3

Stieg Larsson > Verdammnis (The girl who played with fire) Synopsis from waterstones Millennium publisher Mikael Blomkvist has made his reputation exposing corrupt establishment figures. So when a young journalist approaches him with an investigation into sex trafficking, Blomkvist cannot resist waging war on the powerful men behind this lucrative industry. When the journalist and his girlfriend are found murdered in their apartment, Lisbeth Salander's fingerprints are found on the weapon left at the scene. Now hunted by the entire Swedish police force and officially branded a danger to society, she is forced to go undercover. But how can she prove her innocence? With her computer-hacking skills she is anything but the helpless victim. My thoughts Great book again, it reads so fluently and never gets boring, those many pages just fly away. This book stops with quite the cliffhanger and the story continues seamless in book three. It's amazing how the author keeps me glued to his books, even though there a long passages where nothing big happens. Rating: 5/5 Series: Millenium 2

Stieg Larsson > Verblendung (The girl with the dragon tattoo) Synopsis from waterstones Forty years ago, Harriet Vanger disappeared from a family gathering on the island owned and inhabited by the powerful Vanger clan. Her body was never found, yet her uncle is convinced it was murder - and that the killer is a member of his own tightly knit but dysfunctional family. He employs disgraced financial journalist Mikael Blomkvist and the tattooed, truculent computer hacker Lisbeth Salander to investigate. When the pair link Harriet's disappearance to a number of grotesque murders from forty years ago, they begin to unravel a dark and appalling family history. But the Vangers are a secretive clan, and Blomkvist and Salander are about to find out just how far they are prepared to go to protect themselves. My thoughts My boyfriend made me read the book and it's brilliant! I never really planned on reading this book and when I did, I was very surprised about how much I liked it. I jus couldn't put it aside and finished it within a few days. At first I wasn't so sure about it, because it starts as a business crime novel which I'm not interested in in general. Then it continues as a family saga and forms into a crime novel. Very interesting, very gripping, even though it seems like the main character isn't doing anything else than drinking coffee and eating sandwiches all the time... Rating: 5/5 Series: Millenium 1

How about Nora Roberts - Northern Lights? I really liked it and I think it's one of her best novels. It's set in Alaska.

Oooh, that might be interesting. Amazon germany says: release date April 2011. ISBN 9780152066154 I'm no good in writing reviews, but I'm glad you put those books on your list! I definately liked them and I still got 2 unread Kate Connor books on my shelf. YAY for series

That button is just plainly mean :D I'm buying the books way faster than I can read them, my TBR pile is growing like hell! This week I'm going to need to reorganize my shelves, cause there's not enough space left for all my books.

So far, I've bought 65 books this year. I definately need to come up with a buy-books-per-month-limit, I just can't seem to stop...

I'd recommend Northern Lights and Angels Fall by Nora Roberts, those would be my favourite of her books.

I love this movie!

I don't really have a gap between books. When I come near the end of one book (maybe 50-100 pages left or so) I already start carry around a backup book, so I won't be left without a book on the train or somewhere else. It might take a while to chose the backup book though, cause there are so many on my TBR pile (and on my tbr-library-list and my tbr-boyfriends-books-list and and and) and I always need to be in the right mood for a book.

I tend to need one hour for 50 pages in general. It always depends on the size of the writing and if I can fully concentrate on the book, of course.

I guess they're still working on the site, working out the quirks.

I prefer my books to be new. But sometimes I buy them second hand, if they are as good as new. I like my books to look pretty and neat, all nice in my shelf. It's simply a reason of pretty looks.

Sometimes I go into a bookshop wanting to buy somethin, then I browse for hours and can't find a book worth buying that moment ang leave without a purchase. This gets me into quite a bad mood. But if I really liked to buy one, and nothing "jumps at me", I sadly leave wothout a new book.

Zombieland

I read the book last week. Unfortunately it was less suspensful than I thought it would be. It got more interesting in the end but that's when the book, well, ends.

I wanted to read Shutter Island before I see the movie, now I'm kinda hoping that the movie's gonna be more thrilling. The book's still good though, just expected more suspense. The reformed vampire support group is real nice, nothing challenging of course. But funny and something different to all the Vampire-Super-Lover-books that are out there right now.

Julie Kenner > Vom Daemon verweht (California Demon) Synopsis from amazon As both a Level Four Demon Hunter and a stay-at-home mom, Kate Connor's days are filled with challenges. If Kate isn't dusting off demons with nothing more than a bottle of holy water and a sharp object, then she is trying to not only meet the many different demands of a toddler, a teenager, and a busy husband running for political office but also keep her house dusted. So far Kate has successfully kept her two different "jobs" separate from one another, but when a new demon--but one with the same old goal of ruling the world--shows up in San Diablo and targets her daughter's high school, it starts becoming more and more difficult for Kate to keep her family from finding out she has another calling, namely, ridding the world of evil. Picking up Kate's story from Carpe Demon (2005), Kenner continues to put her fun, fresh twist on mommy-lit with another devilishly clever book. My thoughts The second fun Kate Connor book. Interesting questions keep you wanting to read more. Rating: 4/5 Series: Kate Connor 2

Julie Kenner > Daemonen zum Fruehstueck (Carpe Demon) Synopsis from amazon What would happen if Buffy the Vampire Slayer got married, moved to the suburbs and became a stay-at-home mom? She'd be a lot like Kate Connor, once a demon/vampire/zombie killer and now "a glorified chauffeur for drill-team practice and Gymboree play dates" in San Diablo, Calif., that's what. But in Kenner's sprightly, fast-paced ode to kick-ass housewives, Kate finds herself battling evil once again. First a demon tries to kill Kate while she's making rigatoni for an important dinner party that her sweet second husband, Stuart, has scheduled—at the last possible minute—to butter up potential allies in his run for county attorney. Kate dispatches the demon handily enough, but she learns that Goramesh, one of the terrible High Demons, has come to town looking for something. Where's he hiding and what does he want? Can she defeat him without exposing her past to Stuart—and without putting two-year-old Timmy in day care? Though Kenner starts off her story by dropping so many brand names the book reads like a how-to manual for product placement, she settles down to the action soon enough, and readers will find spunky Kate hard not to root for in spheres both domestic and demonic. My thoughts I really liked it! It's a real fun book and easy to read, so I just flew through the pages. What got me to buy it, was the comparison to Buffy as an adult. And it fits. After reading this book, I emidiately bought the other 3 parts of the series. Rating: 4/5 Series: Kate Connor 1

Dennis Lehane > Shutter Island (Shutter Island) Synopsis from amazon Shutter Island is something of a departure for Dennis Lehane. It is not like the private eye novels with which he made his name and it is not especially like Mystic River, his distinguished crime novel about murder, loyalty and revenge. Instead, he gives us a classic of psychological suspense--US Marshal Teddy is summoned to a remote hospital for the criminally insane to look for a missing patient and finds his own future and sanity on the line. It is the 1950s and experiments with drugs, conditioning and brain surgery are all the rage both in the psychiatric profession and in the shadow world of government agencies. Teddy rapidly becomes aware that no-one he is talking to is remotely telling him the truth and that he cannot be wholly sure even of his charming new partner. As the island hospital is isolated by a hurricane, we find ourselves unable to trust a single thing that the narrative tells us--Lehane displays a gift for sleight of hand which is showily disorienting. At the same time, this is not just a box of tricks. We find ourselves caring deeply for Teddy and his partner Chuck, whatever is going on and whoever they really are. My thoughts I kinda thought that the book would be more suspensful. It got a little bit boring, until near the end, where the turn kicks in. I would have liked to read more after the turn , cause that was the time the book got interesting. Little bit confusing here, which way is it now? Rating: 3/5

I just bought this book (because I looove the movie) and I can't wait to get started. Need to finish The Tree of Seasons first though.

Catherine Jinks > Blutsbande (The reformed vampire support group) Synopsis from amazon The trouble with being a vampire is...You can't get a decent haircut. You live on guinea-pig blood. And even worse, most of the world's population wants to kill you for no good reason. Nina Harrison became a vampire in 1973, when she was fifteen. Since then, life's been one big drag - mostly because she spends all her time with a bunch of vampires, in a vampire therapy group. Then one of them gets staked by an anonymous vampire slayer, and things become even worse: while tracking down the culprit, Nina and her fellow vampires end up in the middle of an illegal werewolf-fighting racket, and find themselves the target of some genuine villains who'll stop at nothing to get their werewolf back. My thoughts I finished this book yesterday and I really enjoyed it, I simply flew through it. It' s a different take on all the vampire books that are out there at the moment, which is quite refreshing. Rating: 4/5

I saw this one at the cinema and laughed so much my friends got a bit worried about my mental health