Liane Moriarty – Apples never fall (audiobook)
A deliciously sinister thriller from the masterly pen of Liane Moriarty, Apples Never Fall puts a seemingly idyllic family under the spotlight as their matriarch disappears. The brand new novel from the worldwide Number One bestselling author behind Nine Perfect Strangers and the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning HBO series Big Little Lies. From the outside, the Delaneys appear to be…
The Naked Face * Sydney Sheldon (1970)
The Naked Face is the first novel (1970) written by Sidney Sheldon. It was nominated by the Mystery Writers of America for the Edgar Allan Poe Award for Best First Novel by an American author. I found this book in my parent’s library and since I was on holiday I decided to give it a go. Dr. Judd Stevens, a psychoanalyst…
Susan Barker – Old Soul (2025)
In Osaka, two strangers, Jake and Mariko, miss a flight, and over dinner, discover they’ve both brutally lost loved ones whose paths crossed with the same beguiling woman no one has seen since. Following traces this mysterious person left behind, Jake travels from country to country gathering chilling testimonies from others who encountered her across…
Waiting by Ha Jin or the story of a guy who couldn’t commit to his wife
The winner of the 1999 US National Book Award for Fiction, set in China during and after the Cultural Revolution. For more than seventeen years, Lin Kong, a devoted and ambitious doctor, has been in love with an educated, clever, modern woman, Manna Wu. But back in his traditional home village lives the humble, loyal…
The Forge of God * Greg Bear (1987)
A stunning novel of alien invasion from a master of the genre Nominee: Hugo Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988)Nominee: Nebula Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988)Nominee: Locus Award for Best Science Fiction Novel (1988) The disappearance of one of Jupiter’s moons, the appearance of “little green men” in Australia and the American…
La Danza de la Muerte: Seven Stories
We expend every effort to wilfully ignore the fact that each and every last one of us is dying at the rate of one day per day. Some of us faster. The cultures of othertimes and places do not share this ignorance. Medieval Europe had a long tradition of contemplating death, summarized by the Latin…
Joe Hill – King Sorrow or the Long Dark breathing fire again
Fuck. Stephen King’s son is a beast. He’s writing mega novels every 6-7 years or so and they are all brilliant. No need to churn one every year or so like daddy dearest where you complain about Covid and Trump and rake in the dollars. We long for dragons—if only everything we hate could be…
Emily Henry * The Happy Place or how hard it is to keep a three girl friendship going past college
OK, I think I finally reached my limit of how much Emily Henry I can stomach. Second book I read that I completely disliked, even though I previously liked 2 others. Let’s call it even. Two exes. One pact.Could this holiday change everything? Harriet and Wyn are the perfect couple – they go together like…
People we meet on Vacation * Emily Henry or the story of the 12 year friendzone
Apparently it also got made into a movie! Not sure if I wanna watch it since I was pretty disapointed in the book. Meet free-spirited Poppy, quirky, outgoing, social. And her BFF Alex, quiet, introverted, teacher material. They form an unlikely friendship which is made stronger by annual summer vacations in different corners of the…
The Hours * Michael Cunningham
Seen the movie, wanted to read the book. What a load of posh suicidal ideation and Virginia Woolf boot licking… I can’t understand why people liked this book! The movie was better (gave it a 3/10) Blurb: The Hours is a daring and deeply affecting novel inspired by the life and work of Virginia Woolf.…
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