Maria’s Comments (group member since Sep 06, 2007)

Maria’s comments from the tbr-reading-challenge group.

"Joy for Beginners" and "MTF Seeking BFF" were both excellent books! Highly recommendable :)

"Laced with Magic" was a decent sequel, but too rife with foreshadowing for my taste.

I've given up on "The Scottish Prisoner" - while I love the Outlander series, the spin-off books just can't live up to it.

I failed miserably last year - getting only 6 of 12 books read - but am going to try again this year just the same.

In no particular order...

1) Marco Effekten by Jussi Adler-Olsen
2) Søvnen og Døden by A.J. Kazinski
3) A Dip in the Ocean: Rowing Solo Across the Indian by Sarah Outen
4) The Blythes are Quoted by L.M. Montgomery
5) MWF Seeking BFF: My Yearlong Search For A New Best Friend by Rachel Bertsche
6) The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon
7) Call the Midwife: A True Story of the East End in the 1950s. by Jennifer Worth
8) Joy For Beginners by Erica Bauermeister
9) Meet Me at the Cupcake Café by Jenny Colgan
10) Laced with Magic by Barbara Bretton
11) Shadow Man by Cody McFadyen
12) De danske tigre : Med livet som indsats i Afghanistan by Lars Uslev

Finished "A Modern Witch" and LOVED it! Absolutely a 5+ star book!

Unfortunately "Library of Dreaming Books" was a bit of a disappointment - not the least because it was the first book in a two-volume novel! And nobody thought to mention that on the cover... :-P

Oops! Completely forgot to update here. I've been fortunately, the three books I've read so far ("Major Pettigrew's Last Stand", "Shades of Grey" and "Nordkraft") have all been 4.5 star books! :D

Ambitious! But I love the idea :) And you've got some amazing books on there... Pride and Prejudice, The Count of Monte Cristo and Prince Caspian - just to mention a few :)

My list as it looks now (Dec. 17th). Subject to change if I end up reading any of these books between now and December 31st.

The Running Man by Stephen King
The Owl Killers by Karen Maitland
The Solitude of Prime Numbers by Paolo Giordano
Phantoms by Dean Koontz
Labyrinth of Dreaming Books by Walter Moers
The Magician's Apprentice by Trudi Canavan
Major Pettigrew's Last Stand by Helen Simonsen
Pure by Julianna Baggott
Seraphina by Rachel Hartman
A Modern Witch by Debora Geary
Nordkraft by Jakob Ejersbo
Shades of Grey by Jasper Fforde

Interesting list! I haven't read a single one of those. Good luck :)

Forgot to update this for quite awhile. Finished "Certain Girls", abandoned "The Road" - just couldn't take the writing style.

So that's me all done! :-D

Well done! :) Congratulations :)

Don't think I even knew there was an official sequel. Who wrote that one? Barrie himself? Or somebody else?

And welcome! :-D I'm glad you wanted to join my little group :)

Finished "Peter Pan's NeverWorld". 4/5. If you liked J.M. Barrie's classic, I highly recommend this one :D

Finished "The Stolen Child". 3/5. Interesting, but sad - I don't think I'll be rereading this.

Finished "Pathfinder". 4.5/5. Just as good as his other books :)

Abandoned "Bella Tuscany". I loved "Under the Tuscan Sun", so I had been looking forward to reading this sequel, but it just doesn't live up to my expectations. Rather than finding Frances Mayes writing engaging and charming as I did in UtTS, it just came across as boring and pretentious. I've read half the book in the hopes that it would improve, but am now reaching the sad conclusion that it probably won't. Life is too short for books I have to fight my way through.

Finished "Paganini kontrakten". 4.5/5. Brilliant book - possibly even better than his first book.

Øv, stakkel! Men det kender jeg godt, når jeg er syg står den på velkendte 'comfort reads' - hvis jeg overhovedet har snøvs til at læse.

God bedring.

Så er jeg blevet færdig med bogen. Jeg skulle lige ordentligt i gang med den, men så kunne jeg heller ikke lægge den fra mig, og sad jævnligt og klukkede over den. En skæg beretning om en mand der unægteligt oplever lidt af hvert.

Præcis. Og den virker heller ikke som om det er en vildt tung bog.

This thread discusses Hundraåringen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann by Jonas Jonasson. I don't think it has been translated to English yet, but if you're reading it in Danish or Swedish, feel free to join in (after this initial post, I think most of the discussion will be in Danish).