2019 Challenges, Wrap-up

Another bookish year has passed and I did accomplish quite a lot this year. I’ve never read 55 books but I wanted to read more so here I am with my record so far, one that I don’t think I will be able to beat for quite some time.

So my first challenge, just like every year, is my Goodreads.com challenge and I planned to read 30 books in 2019 so I passed with flying colours

2019 Reading Challenge
2019 Reading Challenge
Laura has
read 3 books toward
her goal of
30 books.
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Red Queen by Victoria Aveyard was my 30th book and was read (finished) on August 1st.
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New Releases Monday #44

In this category I will publish about new books, according to Goodread.com. Meaning that I will choose a book each Monday, from the “New Releases” page @ GoodReads. I will choose random covers that speak to me, that are nice or cute, without looking at the author, genre or synopsis.

999: The Extraordinary Young Women of the First Official Jewish Transport to Auschwitz

On March 25, 1942, nearly a thousand young, unmarried Jewish women boarded a train in Poprad, Slovakia. Filled with a sense of adventure and national pride, they left their parents’ homes wearing their best clothes and confidently waving good-bye. Believing they were going to work in a factory for a few months, they were eager to report for government service. Instead, the young women–many of them teenagers–were sent to Auschwitz. Their government paid 500 Reich Marks (about $200) apiece for the Nazis to take them as slave labor. Of those 999 innocent deportees, only a few would survive.

The facts of the first official Jewish transport to Auschwitz are little known, yet profoundly relevant today. These were not resistance fighters or prisoners of war. There were no men among them. Sent to almost certain death, the young women were powerless and insignificant not only because they were Jewish–but also because they were female. Now acclaimed author Heather Dune Macadam reveals their poignant stories, drawing on extensive interviews with survivors, and consulting with historians, witnesses, and relatives of those first deportees to create an important addition to Holocaust literature and women’s history.

  • Author: Heather Dune Macadam
  • Series: –
  • Genre: Historical Fiction
  • Release Date: December 31st 2019
  • Publisher: Citadel Press
  • Goodread: link

Book Blogger Hop #52


Click the image above to know what this is about! It’s fun!

This week question:

What bookish goodies did you get for the holidays? (submitted by Billy @ Coffee Addicted Writer)

My answer:

Bookish, none. Books, three. Titles in English are: The Priory of the Orange Tree, A court of Wings and Ruins and Nevernight. Today I’m buying Godsgrave and Darkdawn to close the circle thanks to some discounts from my phone provider and maybe Six of Crows and Crooked Kingdom or The Burial Hour and The Name of the Wind (in a particular edition).

The Thirteen Problems

The Thirteen Problems
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, Book # 2
Harper
June 1932
Paperback
315
English
November 5, 2019 November 8, 2019

One Tuesday evening a group gathers at Miss Marple’s house and the conversation turns to unsolved crimes…

The case of the disappearing bloodstains; the thief who committed his crime twice over; the message on the death-bed of a poisoned man which read ‘heap of fish’; the strange case of the invisible will; a spiritualist who warned that ‘Blue Geranium’ meant death…

Now pit your wits against the powers of deduction of the ‘Tuesday Night Club’.


About the book

Fourth Agatha Christie’s book that I read and I need to say that this is the one that I liked the most. I think I’m going to read other Agatha’s books now that my “Italian publisher”, Mondadori, is publishing the books again with the covers that I like.

Anyway, this book is like the Decameron by Boccaccio in which a group of people are in the same room and everyone tells a story. In this case they are detective stories (and they aren’t escaping the plague) and each person tells her/his story and the others need to find out the culprit. Obviously Miss Marple finds out everything.

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New Releases Monday #43

In this category I will publish about new books, according to Goodread.com. Meaning that I will choose a book each Monday, from the “New Releases” page @ GoodReads. I will choose random covers that speak to me, that are nice or cute, without looking at the author, genre or synopsis.

Lost

Detective Tom Moon and his multi-talented team face off against an international crime ring looking to seize control over America’s most opulent city, Miami.

The city of Miami is Detective Tom Moon’s back yard. He’s always kept it local, attending University of Miami on a football scholarship, then becoming a good enough cop to earn a street name, “Anti”. As the new leader of an FBI task force called “Operation Guardian”, it’s his mission to combat international crime.

Moon’s new investigative team discovers that the opportunistic “Blood Brothers” – Russian nationals Roman and Emile Rostoff – have evaded federal and local authorities while building a vast, powerful, and deadly crime syndicate throughout metropolitan Miami.

Moon played offense for U of M, but he’s on the other side of the field this time. And it’s not a trophy that’s on the line – it’s Tom Moon’s life, and the city of Miami’s future.

  • Author: James Patterson
  • Series: –
  • Genre: Mistery
  • Release Date: December 26th 2019
  • Publisher: Cornerstone Digital
  • Goodread: link