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Great review! I have the Shadow of the Wind on my TBR list, time to move it up a bit I think!

I'm a little late, but a BIG Congrats on the job!!!

Oh how I love to cross a book of the list. I just finished Masquerade by Melissa De La Cruez. It was a good book, easy to read and a good continuation to the series. It's not a series I'm totally hooked on and I don't feel like I need to get the next one right now. It's teen age vampires and high school drama, which is always enjoyable. I've also been listening to Marked by PC Cast. I have about 50 minutes to drive to and from work every day and this is a good book to keep me company. It's a bit predictable but the woman who reads it does the voices really good and the characters are interesting and funny. Now I'm going to try to finish The Book Thief and Dubliners for some reason I can not seem to get into either one of these.

Omg I love that, "it's what we do" That is very very true.

Oh no I bought another book, frick! How did that happen?? No I mean seriously I really did not need to do that. I should not be allowed to watch book hauls on youtube cause they are seriously dangerous. But they said it was mixture of Hary Potter and the golden compass and my hands magically floted over to adlibris and somehow managed to push the but button. Frick! I know I'm in good company here. Why why do we buy more books when we have so much to read? It was Emerald atlas by John Stephens btw.

Today I finished The Perks of being a wallflower. It was such a good book. I started it expecting to love it and I did. It took me longer to get through then I expected since it's a short book. It wasn't that it was boring but I think that for ones I did not skim any pages but read every single word. I highly recommend it. Also I'm to tired to write a proper review. :-P

I've started my new job and oh my world there is so much to learn. My head is not working, like I'm turning the toaster on but forget the bread, not working. I got all my books a few weeks ago and so far I've read two of them. Divergent and Shade. I think this is exactly what I need to get out of my funk. You can say what you want about YA novels but they are a fun and quick read and I have to say Divergent was a real page turner! Now I'm on to The perks of being a wallflower and so far it's been really good!

Also not a book, but if you haven't seen the British TV-series Merlin it's great and has a lot of different Arthurian legend mixed with some really funny scenes.

You have so many great books ahead of you! I really enjoyed Catcher in the Rye, The Bell Jar On the Road and Lovely Bones. I also have To Kill a Mockingbird, Great Expectations and Anna Karenina on my TBR list. Looking forward to seeing what you think of them!

So I recently got a job, a permanenttemporary one with good pay (still think I'm dreaming!) Naturally I wanted to award myself something and then I thought what do I like....books. Yes now I'm gonna buy all those books I've been staring at bu not buying cause I didn't have the money. So today I pressed the buy bottom for these lovely things. ROTH, VERONICA:DIVERGENT REVIS, BETH:ACROSS THE UNIVERSE GREEN, JOHN:LET IT SNOW GREEN, JOHN:WILL GRAYSON WILL GRAYSON SPRUNK, JON:SHADOW'S SON MAGUIRE, GREGORY:WICKED FRANKEL, BETHENNY:NATURALLY THIN COUPLAND, DOUGLAS:GENERATION A SMITH-READY, JERI:SHADE CHBOSKY, STEPHEN:PERKS OF BEING A WALLFLOWER CRUZ, MELISSA DE LA:MASQUERADE edit cause I don't know English all of a sudden, it was supposed to say permanent not temporary... :-P

Thank you, there's a new second hand shop in my town and all the books are like 1 € and almost all of them are in great condition. Very dangerous. Excellent point, I guess I'm just feeling bad for my other unread books. Also I have about 12 books that's just waiting to be ordered at adlibris :-P

I also bought some books cause I'm a bad person, but they were so cheap!! van Gogh by Gerard Knuttel The Naked and the Dead by Norman Mailer How to Succeed in Business without really Trying by Shepherd Mead A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Tool Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea by Jules Verne The Clan of the Cave Bear by Jean M Auel Great Expectations by Charles Dickens

His dark materials series: Northern lights by Phillip Pullman Synopsis: In a landmark epic of fantasy and storytelling, Philip Pullman invites readers into a world as convincing and thoroughly realized as Narnia, Earthsea, or Redwall. Here lives an orphaned ward named Lyra Belacqua, whose carefree life among the scholars at Oxford's Jordan College is shattered by the arrival of two powerful visitors. First, her fearsome uncle, Lord Asriel, appears with evidence of mystery and danger in the far North, including photographs of a mysterious celestial phenomenon called Dust and the dim outline of a city suspended in the Aurora Borealis that he suspects is part of an alternate universe. He leaves Lyra in the care of Mrs. Coulter, an enigmatic scholar and explorer who offers to give Lyra the attention her uncle has long refused her. In this multilayered narrative, however, nothing is as it seems. Lyra sets out for the top of the world in search of her kidnapped playmate, Roger, bearing a rare truth-telling instrument, the compass of the title. All around her children are disappearing victims of so-called "Gobblers" and being used as subjects in terrible experiments that separate humans from their daemons, creatures that reflect each person's inner being. And somehow, both Lord Asriel and Mrs. Coulter are involved. Review: This is a great fantasy book. Although directed to a younger reader I found it to be both exciting and nice read. Pullman has created a believable and well established world full of wonders and beauty. Lyra is a very strong main character and you can't help but to instantly like her. There are also a lot of side characters that you instantly take to and either love or hate. The only reason this book gave me som trouble was that I had seen the movie and therefore knew what was going to happen. But other then that it was a terrific book if you like fantasy and did not feel like a typical YA book. I give it 4/5

Oh I love her, I always wanted to live there when I was a kid. :-)

I was thinking about starting to read his dark materials, I've been putting it off for so long cause the swedish translation seems so-so. How are you doing with Neverwhere? Sometimes no matter how much other people love a book you just can't get in to it. It was like that with Little Women for me.

Anna and the french kiss by Stephanie Perkins Synopsis: Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic near-misses end with the French kiss Anna—and readers—have long awaited Review: This book is so cute and romantic. We follow Anna through one year in Paris, struggling to learn the language, meeting new friends, learning about life and boys and horrible fathers and love. It's such and easy and delightful read you don't want it to end yet you can't wait to finish it to see what happens. It's romantic and the guy and the girl are just to very normal people who you can believe would fall for each other, but will the end up together or are they just destined for friendship? Read and find out, I absolutely recommend it! I give it: 4/5

You must read the Hunger Games. I think that then thing about Uglies that reminds me most about The Hunger Games is the futuristic feel and the refusal of obeying what is set to be the norm in the society. Also it's just one of those can-not-put-it-down books. :-D

So I went to the library with one intention, to return the books I've borrowed and not get any others. It should not be so hard since you don't even have to enter the actual library to return books. However somehow I ended up having two books in my bag when I left. Not sure how it happened. One was Uglies by Scott Westerfeld and the other The Colour of Magic by Terry Pratchett. I just started to read Uglies and I really like it so far, it reminds me a bit about The Hunger Games series and that's never bad. I also just found out that I got job which is amazing cause this one sounds great and I can't wait to start, it's a trial period of 6 months and then hopefully a permanent job. This does of course also open up a great possibility to extent my book collection! Any suggestions??

So I've read three books in the last few weeks, my mojo is back! Paper Towns by John Green I had to be John Green who made me read again. Not only does he seem to be just a lovely person he is one of my absolute favorite writers. Like all of his books I loved this one. The pace of which he told the story and the way he describes everything makes you, or at least me, feel like there is beauty in every mundane thing in this world. His the characters and believable and you wan to be friends with them. His books are the only once that makes me miss my teenage years. Not best review, mostly ramblings but I LOVED this book. I give it 5/5 The Tenth Circle by Jodi Picoult My first book by Jodi Picoult and it did not disappoint. Well-written characters, believable plot and the comic that was in the book made sense and added to the story. It's a quick read cause you can not put it down and you feel which each person. It's also written in a way that even though you get each persons point of view you are still not sure exactly what happened. I give it 3/5 Post card killers by Liza Marklund and James Paterson Fast paced story, which with the exception of the gruesome details felt like a YA novel. The font was huge and so was the spacing. Every chapter was no longer then 3 pages which gave it over 100 chapters. I read it in two days and I was never really surprised. The charters were okay, but not really that believable. Here you got the follow both the bad and the good guys so you never really had a doubt about who did it and you could easily predict what was going to happen. I give it 2/5.

Thank you, I think it's back!! Oh the feeling of not being able to not buy books, all to familiar to most of us here. I do enjoy reading most of them, but it is getting harder and harder to chose one each time I have to decide what to read. To many options! Looking forward to see what you will be reading this year! Thank you!