Books I've been reading this month.

( Crossing California, Adam Langer )

I finally (underline that too) finished Carlos Ruiz Zafon's The Shadow of the Wind last night. While the main reason it took me forever to read this book was that I was also reading mass numbers of short stories for English, it was also a slow start for me just in terms of the story ( Read more... )

I finished reading a book last night called Honor Lost: Love and Death in Modern-Day Jordan, by Norma Khouri. It was a "true" story about honour killing in Jordan. It was about Khouri's best friend Dalia, a Muslim girl that fell in love with a Catholic boy. When her family found out about the relationship her father killed her.

The story was heart ( Read more... )

There is almost nothing that I enjoy more than getting engrossed in a book. I love it when I am out for the night and all I can think about is getting back home to read; or stealing every second that I can to read a book. What makes it even more worthwile is the ending. Feeling like you just can't read it fast enough and being completely and ( Read more... )

Captain Alatriste is not a new book by Arturo Perez-Reverte, but it is newly translated into English. This book, unlike his others, is a direct imitation of the adventure novels the author loves so much, especially Alexandre Dumas'. The story follows the adventures of Captain Diego Alatriste and his loyal page, Inigo Balboa, as he meets and makes ( Read more... )

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Last week, I finished reading Buket Uzuner's The Sound of Fishsteps. Written in 1993, the book follows the story of Afife, a 20 year old Turkish special who gets invited by a UN-like organization to come to Scandinavia with 88 other world nationals to engage in a sort of eternal symposium. While there, she meets Romain Gary, Cervantes, Anais Nin, ( Read more... )

I just finished reading 2 Girls (ot: İki Genç Kizin) by Perihan Mağden ( Read more... )

In September, my cousin Almut gave me a book called The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon, in German. I started reading it and was surprised at what an easy read it was, considering my German is not the best. After about 20 pages, I stopped reading and got distracted by work, etc. In January, I saw the book again in English in the bookstore ( Read more... )

{I like to write short book reviews. I hope it's okay if I post some of them here. Hi! btw.}

Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake is an excellent peace of post-apocalyptic literature in a genre filled with little gems such as Alas, Babylon, The Stand, and On the Beach. In my opinion, this book is quite superior in many ways ( Read more... )