Tatt i betraktning at årets Mammutsalg begynner den 5. mars, tenkte jeg at det ville være passende at jeg kom med en liste over anbefalte bøker en kan kjøpe. Fordelen med Mammutsalget er at det er et assortert utvalg av bøker, så uavhengig av interesser og smak, er det en mulighet for å finne noe som er av interesse. Siden jeg tross alt er en bokdrage, har jeg forhåndsbestilt 13 bøker, men jeg får se hvor mange av dem som jeg faktisk får tak i siden det ofte varierer litt hvilke og hvor mange bøker hver bokhandel kjøper inn.
Hvis du er på jakt etter noen bokanbefalinger i mylderet av Mammutbøker, kan du sjekke ut disse bøkene (tallet framfor titlene er nummeret i katalogen).
Romaner
10 Gåten av Jessie Burton
28 Charlotte av David Foenkinos
63 Menn som hater ulver av Lars Lenth
78 Den forbudte elven av Chigozie Obioma
226 The Hate U Give av Angie Thomas
227 Ringenes Herre av J. R. R. Tolkien
228 Silmarillion av J. R. R. Tolkien
Dikt
146 Dikt av Yahya Hassan
147 melk og honning av Rupi Kaur
149 Av hele mitt hjerte av Håvard Rem
Krim
157 Det som aldri dør av Øistein Borge
175 Ildjegerne av Mons Kallentoft
183 Skinnet bedrar av Agnes Lovise Matre
196 Dragsug av Yrsa Sigurdardottir
206 Evas siste vitne av Tove Alsterdal
212 Syndenes forlatelse av John Hart
Fagbøker
339 60 damer du skulle ha møtt av Marta Breen
433 Ayla the Fox av Leiv Magnus Grøtte/ Silje Elin Matningsdal
I am so excited that CLOUDED BY ENVY by Candace Robinson is available now and that I get
to share the news!
If you haven’t yet heard about this wonderful
book by Author Candace Robinson, be sure to check out all the details below.
This blitz also includes a giveaway for a $10
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Tours. So if you’d like a chance to win, enter in the Rafflecopter at the
bottom of this post.
Brenik has always been
envious of his twin sister, Bray. Growing up as fairy-like creatures, known as
bats, everything came easier to Bray. While Brenik spent his time in her
shadows, never feeling he was enough. After escaping their world of Laith, and
living on Earth for ten years, Brenik attempts to strike a deal with the Stone
of Desire to become human. Though true humanity is not an option, he will
accept the curse that will alter him to get as close as he can.
Living in a tree trunk
for the past year hasn’t been easy for Bray, more so after her brother
disappears again. When a human boy and his brother, Wes, find her, a new
friendship is struck. Through Wes, Bray learns there can be more to life than
waiting within a tree. But worrying over where Brenik has vanished to always
remains in the back of her mind.
When Bray reunites
with Brenik, she realizes she must help him break the curse after she discovers
the need for blood is beginning to overpower him. The curse not only damages
those who get close to Brenik, but it could also destroy whatever is blooming
between Bray and Wes.
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Bray
wasn’t sure how long she had drifted off for, but there was a puddle of wetness
against her cheek when she woke up—okay, so it was only drool from herself.
Lifting a hand up toward her cheek, she swiped the saliva away and rubbed it on
to the hammock. Classy, she thought, but there was already some gathered there
anyway.
Remembering
the events from earlier, Bray headed straight to the hole and peeked out. She
shifted her head from left to right. Nothing. Bray looked up and down—she could
see a few bushes had already been planted in the dirt.
Then
she saw it: a circular stone bowl filled with water sitting on top of a long
thick stem, attached to a circular bottom. A birdbath! Almost giddily, Bray
stepped on the ledge of the hole and leaped off, flapping her wings hurriedly
to the nearest pink and yellow peach. Opening her jaw wide, she bit into the
thin skin. A juicy one. The fruit filled her mouth with delicious pleasure, and
she took one more long bite before diving down to the birdbath.
The top
of her newfound treasure was a perfect circle with tiny mounds around it
resembling hills. Bray landed on the ceramic and bent down to take a seat,
before placing her bare feet into the warm water that had been perfectly heated
from the shining sun.
Peering
down at the clear water, Bray saw no sign of intrusion from other creatures
yet. She rotated her head in every direction, as if she would be caught just by
thinking about slipping into the water—still no sign of life.
Flicking
her braid over her shoulder, Bray pursed her lips together to hide the smile
aching to shine against her face and jumped into the water. The splash echoed.
Her bare feet scraped the rough bottom, while her dress inflated and then clung
to her body as she shot to the surface. She let out a small giggle to herself.
It was sad that the only highlight of the past year was hopping into a shallow
pool of water with no one around except for her.
She
leaned back into the liquid, letting herself float and moving her arms slowly
up and down, while swimming in figure-eight circles.
Bray
closed her eyes and let the water cover her ears, so it felt like nothing in
the world existed, except for the muffled vibrations from the liquid.
A loud
booming sounded from above, and her eyelids thrust open, meeting dark brown
eyes, light brown skin, and that black bowl hair. Tiny human. Luca.
Freeze,
Bray thought to herself, not even blinking her eyes. She held them wide open, thinking
he wouldn’t notice her, or maybe he would just assume she was a bird. Even
though he was staring at her and had spoken something she didn’t hear clearly.
Nope.
That isn’t going to work. He hovered closer, his eyes scrunched halfway closed
to examine her more thoroughly. Unable to hold her eyes open any longer, Bray
blinked several times.
“What
are you?” he asked, genuine amazement creeping into his words, lips slightly
parted.
“A
bat!” Bray yelled, and she jumped up from the warmth of the water, darting
straight for the tree hole.
Breathing
heavily, Bray landed inside and collided with the floor. She rolled to her
back, running both hands down her face. “Why did I come out without paying
attention? I know not to!” Ruth had always told her this.
A quake
trembled through the tree, causing shivers to run up and down her spine. What
is the little beast doing? Oh no, what if he is trying to chop down the tree?
My home—the peaches! Bray didn’t know why she was thinking about stupid peaches
when there was another fruit tree directly next door.
Despite
the thunderous rumbling, Bray grabbed the needle from underneath her hammock
and dodged toward the window. If the little beast thought he could take her
down, then he had another thing coming. She would prick his eye—actually, she
would poke both of his eyes to protect her and Brenik’s home.
When
Bray reached the edge of the window, the sound stopped. She peeped her head out
of the hole, right as a face met hers, his black hair falling forward over a hazel
eye—an eye she was going to poke. Startled, she jumped back instead of toward
him.
A broad
smile crossed the little beast’s face. “Hello.”
Freezing
once again, until she remembered that the staying-still-as-a-statue strategy
didn’t work in the birdbath, she meekly said, “Hi.”
Bray
brought the needle up toward his smiling face, just in case.
“Are
you planning on sewing something?” He tilted his head at the needle.
“Yeah,
your eyeball.” She gave him a hard glare.
“What?”
he asked while laughing hysterically.
He was
laughing? Not scared? Bray brought the needle closer. “Yeah, you need to leave
and never come back. This is my home.”
“No.
Technically, it’s my brother’s home,” he said, still smiling.
“What
brother? You mean your dad out there who was planting this morning?”
Luca
shook his head, and she didn’t miss the wince before he spoke. “No, that’s my
brother, Wes. I don’t have a mom or dad.”
Crestfallen,
Bray lowered the needle. “Oh. Me neither. I only have a brother, but he will be
gone for a while.” She paused and glanced at the note Brenik had left behind,
her chest tightening. Then she shrugged it off and shifted her gaze back to the
boy. “By the way, my name is Brayora, but you can call me Bray.” For some
reason, she wasn’t worried anymore about the human.
“I’m
Luca Duran.” He plopped his thin fingers on the edge of the hole.
“Yeah,
I heard your name this morning, little beast. I mean, Luca.” She thought little
beast suited him better than Luca.
About Candace:
My name is
Candace Robinson. I’m just your average hemiplegic migraine sufferer. My days
are spent writing, book reviewing and traveling through books for my blog,
Literary Dust. I live just outside of Houston, Texas, where it feels like the
hottest place on Earth with the crazy weather. No, seriously, one day it’s 30
degrees and the next it’s 70 degrees! I live with my husband and awesome
daughter!
You can also
follow me on my review blog Literary Dust
It's Tuesday, which means it's time for a new Top Ten Tuesday post, courtesy of That Artsy Reader Girl. The theme of the week was ten books I loved with fewer than 2000 ratings on Goodreads and I decided to narrow it down a bit further with focusing on fantasy novels.
My picks are;
Scales by Amity Green
Murder in Absentia by Assaph Mehr
Wytchfire by Michael Meyerhofer
The Twistrose Key by Tone Almhjell
The Laird of Duncairn by Craig Comer
Thread of a Spider by D. L. Gardner
Tompkin's School for the Extraordinarily Talented by Tabi Slick
"The
ghost of a wronged young woman in the village of Thores-Cross waits
230 years to have her story told in Perkins's suspenseful and
atmospheric first Yorkshire Ghost novel" -
BookLife by Publishers Weekly
*Silver
Medal Winner, European fiction - 2015 IPPY Book Awards
*#1
Bestseller in 6 Amazon Categories, including Ghost Suspense, British
Horror and Gothic Romance
*Top
10 Bestseller in 8 more, including Historical Thrillers and Occult
Horror
*Over
100 5-STAR reviews on Amazon.com
Likened
by independent reviewers on Amazon to the Brontë sisters, Edgar
Allen Poe, Barbara Erskine and Nathaniel Hawthorne, Karen Perkins'
novels are filled with unflinching honesty and an acute understanding
of human nature. She explores not only the depths of humanity, but
the depths of human motivation behind the actions and pain people
inflict upon each other, as well as the repercussions of these
actions not only in the short term, but also the later generations
who live with the implications of the past.
Emma
Moorcroft is still grieving after a late miscarriage and moves to her
dream house at Thruscross Reservoir with her husband, Dave. Both Emma
and Dave hope that moving into their new home signifies a fresh
start, but life is not that simple. Emma has nightmares about the
reservoir and the drowned village that lies beneath the water, and is
further disturbed by the sound of church bells - from a church that
no longer exists.
Jennet
is fifteen and lives in the isolated community of Thores-Cross, where
life revolves about the sheep on which they depend. Following the
sudden loss of both her parents, she is seduced by the local wool
merchant, Richard Ramsgill. She becomes pregnant and is shunned not
only by Ramsgill, but by the entire village. Lonely and embittered,
Jennet's problems escalate, leading to tragic consequences which
continue to have an effect through the centuries.
Emma
becomes fixated on Jennet, neglecting herself, her beloved dogs and
her husband to the point where her marriage may not survive. As
Jennet and Emma's lives become further entwined, Emma's obsession
deepens and she realises that the curse Jennet inflicted on the
Ramsgill family over two hundred years ago is still claiming
lives.
Emma
is the only one who can stop Jennet killing again, but will her
efforts be enough?
A
skeleton is dug up at the crossing of the ways on Hanging Moor,
striking dread into the heart of Old Ma Ramsgill - the elderly
matriarch of the village of Thruscross. And with good reason. The
eighteenth-century witch, Jennet, has been woken.
A
spate of killings by a vicious black dog gives credence to her
warnings and the community - in particular her family - realise they
are in terrible danger.
Drastic
measures are needed to contain her, but with the imminent flooding of
the valley to create a new reservoir, do they have the ability to
stop her and break her curse?
‘Jennet
will
have your heart and
your fear in
equal measure’
‘Through
Jennet we
see how cruelty can
drive even the most ordinary people to hatred
and,
in Jennet's case,
evil’
Yorkshire
is in the grip of a heatwave, and Thruscross Reservoir has dried up
to reveal the remains of the drowned village of Thores-Cross beneath.
Playing
in the mud which coats the valley floor, four-year-old Clare
Wainwright finds an old inkpot, and can’t wait to show it to her
best friend, Louise. But when Louise’s mother, Emma, sees it, her
reaction is shocking, and both families are plunged into their worst
nightmares.
Emma
knows what the inkpot portends:
Jennet
has woken.
Now
she wants the children.
This
is not a gore-ridden, jump-scare horror story. This is more real than
that. Jennet is a story about the horrific things that people do to
each other, and the way we react to that maltreatment – which does
not always end with death.
Jennet’s
story is a horror story because it’s not necessarily fiction. It
reflects the way women were treated in the time that Jennet lived. It
reflects the psychology of the abuse cycle. And it reflects real
life. All of it.
If,
as I believe, the spirit does not die when the physical body dies,
then how many spirits are looking for vengeance today?
What
wrongs will you want to right when you pass through that veil? What
will I?
This
is the conclusion of Jennet’s story, which began in The Haunting of
Thores-Cross. I hope she finds peace. I really do.
Karen
Perkins is the author of eight fiction titles: the Yorkshire Ghost
Stories and the Valkyrie Series of historical nautical fiction. All
of her fiction has appeared at the top of bestseller lists on both
sides of the Atlantic, including the top 21 in the UK Kindle Store in
2018.
Her
first Yorkshire Ghost Story - THE HAUNTING OF THORES-CROSS - won the
Silver Medal for European Fiction in the prestigious 2015 Independent
Publisher Book Awards in New York, whilst her Valkyrie novel, DEAD
RECKONING, was long-listed in the 2011 MSLEXIA novel
competition.
Originally
a financial advisor, a sailing injury left Karen with a chronic pain
condition which she has been battling for over twenty five years
(although she did take the European ladies title despite the
injury!). Writing has given her a new lease of - and purpose to -
life, and she is currently working on a sequel to Parliament of
Rooks: Haunting Brontë Country.
When
not writing, she helps other authors prepare their books for
publishing and has edited over 150 titles, including the 2017 Kindle
UK Storyteller Award winner, The Relic Hunters by David Leadbeater,
and has also published a series of publishing guides to help aspiring
authors realise their dreams.
Karen
Perkins is a member of the Society of Authors and the Horror Writers
Association.
As I was a bit keen on finishing the Godchild manga by Kaori Yuki, I ended up reading volume 8 and today I'll post my review.
Description from Goodreads
It is time for the truth to be told. At last, all the secrets of the Hargreaves family will emerge from the dark into the harsh light of day, as Kaori Yuki wraps up Cain's epic adventures. Is Cain ready to find out who he truly is? Are you ready?
My Thoughts on the Manga
Even though it's still dark and gloomy, I felt this was one of the worst volumes of Godchild that I've read as the storyline was so confusing, even the ending.
I came across the 3 Bookish Things Tag over at Paper Fury and since it looked pretty cool, I decided to play along.
Here's the questions.
3 FAVOURITE AUTHORS
James Holland
Rupi Kaur
Laini Taylor
3 WEIRDEST THINGS USED AS A BOOKMARK Chocolate wrapper, receipt and another book.
3 SERIES BINGED
Daughter of Smoke and Bone trilogy by Laini Taylor
MaddAddam trilogy by Margaret Atwood
Harry Potter by J. K. Rowling
3 CHARACTERS YOU LOVE
Hermione Granger from Harry Potter
Pippi Longstocking from the book with the same name by Astrid Lindgren
Ronja the Robber's Daughter from the book with the same name by Astrid Lindgren
3 UNPOPULAR BOOKISH OPINIONS
I'm torn in terms of retellings - if an author is going to write one, write a good retelling. "Roseblood" and "The Bear and the Nightingale" is good. "Pride and Prejudice and Zombies" is quite a different story as I envision Colin Firth as Mr. Darcy slaying zombies.
I sometimes have an apprehension when it comes to hyped books. Are they hyped because they are GOOD or hyped because they are hyped or contain something "new" (looking at you, Fifthy Shades of Grey)?
There's better vampire fiction of there than Twilight
3 POPULAR BOOKISH OPINIONS
I love bookish candles and wax melts.
Secondhand bookstores are awesome. It's almost like a treasure hunt in search of books to "adopt"/give a new home.
It's more important that people read, than what they read. Classics, non-fiction, YA, graphic novels and yes, even Twilight/Fifthy Shades of Grey.
3 FAVOURITE BOOK COVERS
3 BOOK GOALS FOR THE YEAR
Get my act together and actually catch up with all the ARC's/press copies I've recieved and have max. 5 left in the beginning of 2020.
Read over 120 books.
Get to the 100 books/countries mark for my "World Literature Project".
It's Friday again, which means it's time for another Book Blogger Hop post, courtesy of Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer. The question of the week was "Have you ever thought about taking a break from blogging/Booktubing (if you're a Booktuber)? If you have, how long was the break and what did you learn from it?".
It has been times when I considered taking a break from blogging, and even quit, but I decided not to. Even though I love blogging about books, there was times when I was a bit sick and tired of "everything" related to the blog and I felt uninspired to continue. Even though I didn't take a break, I at least learned to not pressure myself too much in terms of the blog and also do the blogging stuff I thought was fun. There's no point in blogging, if the fun is lacking and it feels like a chore.
