NookAndCanny started reading The Salt Path by Raynor Winn
Just days after Raynor learns that Moth, her husband of 32 years, is terminally ill, …
Read the first chapters and I am hooked.
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NookAndCanny finished reading Landlines by Raynor Winn
Landlines by Raynor Winn
As the fracture lines between nations grow wider, how do we relate to each other, and to the land? Are …
NookAndCanny reviewed Tankred: Krone und Kelch by Michael Römling
Kämpfe und Abenteuer, Machtspiele und Intrigen, Liebe und Rache: Band 3 der spannenden Reihe um …
Läuft alles ein wenig zu glatt.
3 stars
Die Trilogie ist ein netter Zeitvertreib. Nicht mehr, nicht weniger. Die Geschichte hat mich sehr stark an die Last Kingdom Bücher von Bernard Cornwell erinnert. Held wird verstoßen und macht sich auf, sein angestammtes Erbrecht zurückzuerobern. In dieser Reihe halt aus Sicht eines Christen und nicht eines Wikingers.
Streckenweise verliert sich der Autor in allzu langen und hochdetaillierten Beschreibungen, die es mir schwer gemacht haben, ein ganzes Kapitel am Stück zu lesen.
Interessant sind tatsächlich die historisch belegten Fakten. Ich wusste z.B. nicht, dass die Dänen so weit in den Süden vorgedrungen sind. Auch die kaiserliche Hoheit über den Vatikan zu der Zeit war interessant zu lernen. Ich habe das eBook (Tolino) gelesen. Ein wenig schade hierbei war, dass die Karten, die wohl im Buch enthalten sind, hier nicht Bestandteil waren. Ich hab sie dann im Internet gefunden. Von Kindle kenne ich das anders. Kann aber auch sein, dass es …
Die Trilogie ist ein netter Zeitvertreib. Nicht mehr, nicht weniger. Die Geschichte hat mich sehr stark an die Last Kingdom Bücher von Bernard Cornwell erinnert. Held wird verstoßen und macht sich auf, sein angestammtes Erbrecht zurückzuerobern. In dieser Reihe halt aus Sicht eines Christen und nicht eines Wikingers.
Streckenweise verliert sich der Autor in allzu langen und hochdetaillierten Beschreibungen, die es mir schwer gemacht haben, ein ganzes Kapitel am Stück zu lesen.
Interessant sind tatsächlich die historisch belegten Fakten. Ich wusste z.B. nicht, dass die Dänen so weit in den Süden vorgedrungen sind. Auch die kaiserliche Hoheit über den Vatikan zu der Zeit war interessant zu lernen. Ich habe das eBook (Tolino) gelesen. Ein wenig schade hierbei war, dass die Karten, die wohl im Buch enthalten sind, hier nicht Bestandteil waren. Ich hab sie dann im Internet gefunden. Von Kindle kenne ich das anders. Kann aber auch sein, dass es an der elektronischen Form des Buches selbst liegt.
NookAndCanny rated Tankred: Weihrauch und Schwert: 5 stars
Tankred: Weihrauch und Schwert by Michael Römling
Kämpfe und Abenteuer, Machtspiele und Intrigen, Liebe und Rache: die Wikinger an Rhein und Maas. Januar 882. Die Normannen nähern …
NookAndCanny finished reading Tankred: Weihrauch und Schwert by Michael Römling
Kämpfe und Abenteuer, Machtspiele und Intrigen, Liebe und Rache: die Wikinger an Rhein und Maas. …
spannende Geschichte, die - zumindest ab der zweiten Hälfte des Buches - Lust auf mehr macht.
Ich liebe ja Geschichten aus der Wikinger Zeit und Tankred ist die erste Reihe aus Sicht der Gegenseite. Interessant vor allem, wenn man sich ein wenig in der Ecke um Maastricht/Aachen, Köln/Bonn, Trier auskennt.
Freue mich jetzt auf Band 2 "Tankred: Hammer und Kreuz"
NookAndCanny rated Norse Mythology: 5 stars
Norse Mythology by Neil Gaiman
Neil Gaiman, long inspired by ancient mythology in creating the fantastical realms of his fiction, presents a bravura rendition of …
NookAndCanny reviewed The House in the Pines by Ana Reyes
Armed with only hazy memories, a woman who long ago witnessed her friend’s sudden, mysterious …
Couldn't lay it aside (but I had to)
5 stars
The book should come with a warning label since the protagonist Maya is heavily addicted to drugs (pills) and alcohol. The way it is written it could be a trigger for all of those fighting an addiction.
I haven't read a thriller in ages. This one is one I'd call a psycho/mystery thriller. There is no violence, no blood shed, just mind games.
If not for work (well, I have to pay rent and fill my fridge) I could have read it in a day or two.
The author really kept the suspense and the need to know high up.
The end was a bit ... flat hence disappointing (for me) but nonetheless, this debut thriller totally worth reading it.
NookAndCanny reviewed Tina Turner by Tina Turner
Love's got everything to do with it.
Tina Turner was the Queen of Rock 'n' …
Simply the Best
5 stars
After watching the the documentary Tina I felt some questions unanswered so I had to read her autobiography. I guess it was the first autobiography I ever read.
I don't regret it.
It reads as if she is sitting with you at your kitchen table telling you her story.
A story that affected so many people. Me, too.
NookAndCanny rated The Wolf: 5 stars
NookAndCanny rated The Spider: 5 stars
The Spider by Leo Carew
Roper, the Black Lord of the northern people, may have vanquished the Suthern army at the Battle of Harstathur. But …
NookAndCanny rated Cuckoo (the under the NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3): 5 stars
Cuckoo (the under the NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3) by Leo Carew
Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made anew.
Driven obsessively for glory, …
NookAndCanny finished reading Cuckoo (the under the NORTHERN SKY Series, Book 3) by Leo Carew
Albion continues to be divided by revolt and bloodshed, as alliances collapse and are made …
Content warning There is no happy end. Not even an evening of. Not for the story and not for the bigger story behind. The Humans (The Sutherners) won, Nature (The Anakim) lost fatally. It leaves you with a feeling of .. That can't be it.
The trilogy is about the war between The Sutheners with its canny spymaster Bellamus and the Anakim with its exceptional Black Lord Roper, a long living folk full of tradition, honour and pride.
The books are amazing telling the story between the uniqueness of a folk facing a greediness for power and control, conquering but more so gold and wealth.
I have to admit that I needed way longer than expected for The Spider but the story is thrilling, the characters fantastically created. You feel with them, you fight with them, you die with them. Literally.
Only when I read the last book The Cuckoo I realised that this story is more than a fantasy. It tells the story about us, the greedy manhood. Always wanting more, more, more. And on the way to getting more, in that never satisfied wanting we destroy everything that makes this world so beautiful, so divers, so stunningly magical.
The last book shows perfectly how desperate manhood is to extinguish everything that does not align with their own values, which - in the books as well as in reality - is gold, wealth, power. No matter the cost.
That's probably the reason I cried my heart out when I finished the last one in this series.
Even for the ones who don't like to read fantasy I highly recommend the Northern Sky series by Leo Carew. He combines Northern Mythology with Islandic, European, British and Scandinavian culture. Truly a gem.
NookAndCanny started reading The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Achilles, "the best of all the Greeks," son of the cruel sea goddess Thetis and the legendary king Peleus, is …
NookAndCanny reviewed Not Alone by Sarah K. Jackson
In a dying world, how far will a mother go to save her child? Five …
Potential not used
3 stars
Normally I don't like postapocalyptic stories too much but this one sounded promising. It didn't meet my expectations.
Story starts 5 years after a micro plastic storm which eliminated most of the population. It tells the story on how a mother survives with her almost 5 yro boy in a world full of poison and dangers by other survivors. Until she found signs that her fiancé might have survived and she starts a journey high up to the north through the country.
The story is mostly about how she overcomes and survives dangerous situations with other survivors or even animals. At times I was even annoyed by yet another obstacle to overcome. A bit too much for my taste
Imho the author missed the chance to write a lot more about how it ever came that far (she did mention it but only as a side line). Especially with her …
Normally I don't like postapocalyptic stories too much but this one sounded promising. It didn't meet my expectations.
Story starts 5 years after a micro plastic storm which eliminated most of the population. It tells the story on how a mother survives with her almost 5 yro boy in a world full of poison and dangers by other survivors. Until she found signs that her fiancé might have survived and she starts a journey high up to the north through the country.
The story is mostly about how she overcomes and survives dangerous situations with other survivors or even animals. At times I was even annoyed by yet another obstacle to overcome. A bit too much for my taste
Imho the author missed the chance to write a lot more about how it ever came that far (she did mention it but only as a side line). Especially with her acclaimed interest in micro plastics in the oceans and in our times with climate change.
The book is more about survival in the wilderness to find the love of her life. If you like that this is definitely a book for you. I would have loved to read more about climate change and the issue itself.
NookAndCanny rated Excalibur Bk. 3: 5 stars
Excalibur Bk. 3 by Bernard Cornwell
A story of love, war, loyalty and betrayal, EXCALIBUR begins with the failure of Lancelot's rebellion and the ruin of …