Weekly Reading Roundup
August 12, 2013 19 Comments
The week
Nothing happened… more or less! On with the books….
Books I finished in the last week: 6
![Het huis met de schaduw [The Hired Man] by Aminatta Forna](https://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/forna.jpg "Het huis met de schaduw [The Hired Man] by Aminatta Forna")
![Vals alarm [False Alarm] by Marelle Boersma](https://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/valsalarm.jpg?w=91&h=150 "Vals alarm [False Alarm] by Marelle Boersma")
Tulipomania by MIke Dash. Non-fiction. Very readable history book about the tulip fever in 17th Century Netherlands. 4.5 stars
Het reservaat [The Reservation] by Liselotte Stavorinus. Thriller, Dutch. A woman moves with her family to a rich neighborhood, where one of the ladies befriends her. But is she really a good friend? 4 stars
Tongue by Kyung-Ran Jo. Contemporary fiction. South-Korea, when the boyfriend of the main character finds someone else, she gives up her cooking school and goes back to working in a restaurant’s kitchen, all the while considering how to get her man back. 5 stars.
Het huis met de schaduw [The Hired Man] by Aminatta Forna. Contemporary fiction. An English family moves into a dilapidated house in a small town in Kroatia. A neighbour helps her with the refurbishments and a lot of old sores are uncovered. 4.5 stars
The infinite Within by Michael Drakich. Science fiction. A woman astronaut is sent to Mars. When she comes back she poses a problem for the authorities. 3.4 stars
Vals Alarm [False Alarm] by Marellle Boersma. Thriller. A woman’s life is turned upside down when her husband divorces her and tries to take her daughter away from her. 4 stars
Books I’m reading & planning to read
![Doelwit in de nacht [Target at Night] by Ricardo Piglia](https://leeswammes.files.wordpress.com/2013/08/doelwit.jpg "Doelwit in de nacht [Target at Night] by Ricardo Piglia")
Reviews
Killer Queens by Rebecca Chance. Chicklit about two commoners who both marry royalty. 4.5 stars
De boer op [To the Farmer] by Irene van Aart [Dutch]. Memoir about a city girl falling in love with a farmer. 5 stars
Me Before You [Review in Dutch] by Jojo Moyes. Chicklit about a young woman taking a job looking after a paraplegic man who has lost all will to live. 5 stars
And also…
I’m joining the Bout of Books 8.0 Read-a-thon. How about you?
That’s it!
What are you reading this week?
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A very busy week, Judith, I see you also have Het huis met de schaduw, very beautiful, wasn’t it? The orchard of lost souls looks intriguing, I am curious to see what this is about.
Have a good week & kind regards,
I really enjoyed Het huis met de schaduw, Bettina. The Orchard of Lost Souls is situated in Somalia. I’m thinking it’s going to be one of those heart-breaking stories. But we’ll see.
This is the first time I have seen Tongue – sounds interesting and you gave it 5 stars – look forward to hearing more about it in your review. Have a great reading week Judith!
Jo, I think you may love Tongue – it’s a great read, quite literary, about a cook in South Korea who has lost her boyfriend to another woman – a model!
Nice selection of reads. Enjoy them all.
Thanks, Mystica.
Six books this week, woo hooo! Tulipmania sounds fascinating to me. I’m a nonfiction nerd 😉 Have a wonderful week!
Jennifer, I read more this week than during the read-a-thon! Not sure how that happened. Tulipomania is definitely for non-fiction nerds. It’s very well written.
The orchard of lost souls looks interesting
Yep, that’s a LOT of books. I think I would like that tulip book. Looking forward to our postings tomorrow! woo hoo
I better start writing, Care. I’ve been SO bad about this review! Luckily, I wrote most of it after I just finished the book. 🙂
Have a great read-a-thon this week.
Thanks, Ciska.
Wow, nice week. That’s six times more books than I read, but I’ve had a lot of stuff going on the last few weeks so I felt I accomplished a lot finishing a few audiobooks.
I just received a copy of Me Before You in audio. Google translated your review well enough for me to know you liked it so I’m hoping to enjoy it too.
Leslie, Me Before You has a bit of a chicklit feel to it – I don’t know whether you like that. But it’s a good story and it brings up some issues that need thinking about after the book is finished. 🙂
Wow, great accomplisment! Tulipomania sounds like a great book. 🙂
Thanks, Wendy.
Things did happen – you read a ton of books 🙂 Makes up for uneventful days, I’d say.
Nice variety of books and so much productivity on your reviews! I’ve been meaning to read Me Before You.