We have met Patricia Highsmith as a writer of mystery books, ones that keep the reader hooked to the book till the very end. This is one of her main characteristics, as whatever she is up to, she fulfills to the very end with professionalism and totally devoted to it. Having that said, let’s get… Read More “The Price of Salt” by Patricia Highsmith
This one took some time, yet it worth every one of the 900+ of its pages. It’s monstrous in size, reading and messages. A must read to all. New York of the late 70s is drifting away in drugs and punk rock, people in pins and rebels of any kind. It is after Nam… Read More “City on Fire” by Garth Risk Hallberg
An amazing literary debut from a young writer, Hannah Kent, describing in the most atmospheric way the last days of a young woman accused of murder. Agnes lives in the 19th century Island, when death penalty is still on. She is a young woman, who was abandoned early in her life by her single mother. Children… Read More “Burial Rites” by Hannah Kent
Secret service agent Ethan Burke arrives in Wayward Pines, Idaho, with a clear mission: locate and recover two federal agents who went missing in the bucolic town one month earlier. But within minutes of his arrival, Ethan is involved in a violent accident. He comes to in a hospital, with no ID, no cell phone, and… Read More “Wayward Pines” by Blake Crouch
It is the 1950s. Scout is now away, living in New York City on her own. She is a grown up woman of twenty something. She returns to Maycomb for two weeks to see Atticus, her father, and aunt Alexandra. There is also Hank waiting for her, an old friend of Jem and hers, an… Read More “Go Set a Watchman” by Harper Lee
Here is a classic piece of work read by most teens in the US and a few other in the world… Just to mention that the book has been translated into forty or more languages! Harper Lee has written only two books. The first one, “To Kill a Mockingbird”, is one of the most well… Read More “To Kill a Mockingbird” by Harper Lee
Now this is a book a little different than many, yet it could make you think of another one. The scenery is a remote island off the coast of Wales, where sixteen-year-old Jacob and his father set foot on after a family tragedy. Jacob’s grandfather was always a mysterious person, travelling all over the world… Read More “Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children” by Ransom Riggs
Room is the place where 5-year-old Jack was born and grows up along with his mother. This space is his reality. Everything outside of it is television (not real!). Inside Room, Jack and Ma sleep and wake up, eat and drink, read and get exercise, learn and play. Room is the center of their world,… Read More “Room” by Emma Donoghue
Emily “Mickey” Hahn is a woman that has lived life years ahead her times. Emily Hahn is a writer and a traveler, a daughter, a sister and a mother. Emily Hahn is a person that has not followed the rules, but created her own. Emily Hahn is above and beyond all, a woman. Mickey was… Read More “Nobody Said Not to Go: The Life, Loves, and Adventures of Emily Hahn” by Ken Cuthbertson
Snow White, is an alone but not lonely girl that has learned to go under the radar, as a way of life. She now leaves alone in Tampere, while still going to school, when she discovers something really unusual in the school’s darkroom… The main character is very interesting, smart and strong. She becomes kind of… Read More “As Red as Blood” by Salla Simukka
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