The Quiet Musings The Book Edition

My favourite reads of 2017

The past years I have written my favourite reads of the year for my local English book store. This year they aren't doing the readers top books. Thus I decided to write it here. I like sharing books I read. I also hope others will chime in what theirs was. Without much ado, here are my top 5 books of...

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‘The Girl in the Spider’s Web’, not worthy of Stieg Larsson

It was five or six years ago that I bought Stieg Larsson's Millennium Trilogy and read them all in less than two weeks. My first encounter with Scandinavian crime mystery that got me hooked, line and sinker. I remember how slow paced Larsson started 'The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo'. He took his time to build the characters, the setting...

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The Hunger Games

It's only recently that I read about The Hunger Games trilogy by Suzanne Collins. I wasn't really sold on the story, but after reading a couple of good recommendation and not having anything else new to read I decided to gibe book one a try. The Hunger Games is another young adult series, unlike Twilight, The Hunger Games doesn't has...

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The Passage

Regarded as "the" summer read and highly anticipated, The Passage by Justin Cronin is yet another vampire story. But don't confuse it with our hero vampire Edward Cullen. Set in the not so distance future of 2014 we follow an U.S. Army secret test with a virus, death row inmates and a six year old girl. Soon we are taken...

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Our Tragic Universe

Our Tragic Universe is Scarlett Thomas newest book. Revolving around Meg, a commercial fiction writer living in Dartmouth in Devon with her boyfriend. The mood settings resembles her previous book "The End of Mr. Y" a lot, only that one plays in a city and the other in a far less urban environment. Since discovering Scarlett Thomas I have realy...

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