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Interested in history-based fiction, mythology, SciFi, thriller, sometimes fantasy and biographies

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Taylor Jenkins Reid: Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (2021) 4 stars

Aging and reclusive Hollywood movie icon Evelyn Hugo is finally ready to tell the truth …

That was a surprise.

5 stars

The book was gifted to me for Christmas. The life story of a Hollywood diva from the '50s and her seven husbands that spans all the way into the 2010s. I didn't expect much. I, not really a fan of romance novels or even interested in film icons and their lives, wasn't particularly inclined to read this book... until I did.

It didn't even take a full chapter before I couldn't put it down. Jenkins' writing style has something truly special that completely captivated me. So refreshing and the words were appropriately chosen.

I loved the structured writing, which makes the novel easy to read and follow.

Particularly close to the end when everything unfolds, you begin grasping the meaning, that there is more than just the seven marriages of Evelyn Hugo.

I didn't expect the end, though. Conclusive but it left me sad.

Obviously, there was / is a …

Mely Kiyak: Haltung (EBook, Deutsch language, Duden ein Imprint von Cornelsen Verlag GmbH) 5 stars

Quer durch alle gesellschaftlichen und politischen Lager heißt es immerzu: „Haltung zeigen". Klingt erst mal …

Großartiges Essay über das Leisesein

5 stars

Großartiges Büchlein (39 Seiten in meinem eBook-Reader) über das Leisesein und die Ermutigung, nicht über jedes Stöckchen springen zu müssen.

Haltung, mehr als nur ein konsequenzloses Statement.

Ray Bradbury: Fahrenheit 451 (Flamingo Modern Classics) (Paperback, 2008, Flamingo) 4 stars

Fahrenheit 451 is a 1953 dystopian novel by American writer Ray Bradbury. Often regarded as …

Old book, relevant as ever.

4 stars

A dystopian world where critical and individual thinking or human interaction is suppressed by continuous exposure to TV, speed and drugs.

Substitute TV with Social Media and you've got your actuality.

Difficult read for me as a non-native speaker but nonetheless a must-read.

reviewed Three Years Lost by Megan Fatheree (Johnny Smythe, #2)

Megan Fatheree: Three Years Lost (EBook, englis language, Megan Fatheree) 3 stars

Elle's world collapsed when Johnny left her in Venice, 1740. Her trust shattered when he …

Not only inspired by Doctor Who ...

3 stars

Content warning Mentioning part of the end of the book which might take away the suspense.

finished reading Time Bender by Megan Fatheree (Johnny Smythe, #1)

Megan Fatheree: Time Bender (2014, Lulu Press, Inc.) 5 stars

Elain Fairchild Elle to her friends never asked for the trouble that finds her. And …

This could have been a Doctor Who episode. And a good one at that, too.

Very entertaining read. Short and easy, thrilling with the right amount of suspense .. and a cliffhanger that made be purchase the second book of the series.

If you like Doctor Who you will love this little book.

And there's the downside of it. It is too close to the the Doc.

You have a trivial name for a time traveller with a lunatic behaviour. You've got a "weird tech thingy" which he uses all the time. You've got a time machine. And there are the bad guys.

As I said, it would have made a great episode and golden thread for an entire season of Doc Who.

However, I'm beginning to read the 2nd book today. Because I love it.