Books Read

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(I haven't written reviews for these books, sorry)

Title: Projekt Babylon (German title)
Author: Andreas Wilhelm
Number of Pages: 448 pages
Book Number/Goal: 24/75
My Rating: 3.5/5

Title: One False Move
Author: Alex Kava
Number of Pages: 384 pages
Book Number/Goal: 25/75
My Rating: 3/5

Title: Der Seelenbrecher (literally translated The Soulbreaker)
Author: Sebastian Fitzek
Number of Pages: 368 pages
Book Number/Goal: 26/75
My Rating: 3/5

Title: My Soul to Take
Author: Yrsa Sigurdardottir
Number of Pages: 464 pages
Book Number/Goal: 27/75
My Rating: 4/5

Title: The Murders of Richard III
Author: Elizabeth Peters
Number of Pages: 325 pages
Book Number/Goal: 28/75
My Rating: 3.5/5

Title: Silence of the Grave
Author: Arnaldur Indridason
Number of Pages: 224 pages
Book Number/Goal: 29/75
My Rating: 4/5

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

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Title: The Time Traveler's Wife
Author: Audrey Niffenegger
Number of Pages: 560 pages
Genre: Romance/Science Fiction
Book Number/Goal: 2 of 16 for the year
My Rating: 4.5/5

Review: I really liked this book. The plot was confusing at first with time jumps, but as you get deeper into the book, you start to realise that there really is a method to this madness. Not only that, this book has what I look for (conciously or not) in all my books: character development. Although the language was simple, there was real emotion in it, and I loved to watch the changing point of views and imagine the young couple together change as they interact and deal with Henry's Chrono-Displacement problem. I highly recommend it.

The Old Man and the Sea by Ernest Hemingway

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Title: The Old Man and the Sea
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Number of Pages: 128 pages
Genre: Classic fiction
Book Number/Goal: 3 of 16 for the year
My Rating: 3/5

Review: A really simple tale that takes place over a short period of time. I read it because a friend of mine recommended it to me highly, but I really didn't think much of it. Hemingway spent a lot of time detailing the time spent over a few nights at sea, and I really just got bored with the story halfway through. Happy to have read it, but I doubt I'd ever pick it up again.

After Dark by Murakami Haruki

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Title: After Dark
Author: Murakami Haruki
Translator: Jay Rubin
Number of Pages: 208 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book Number/Goal: 4 of 16 for the year
My Rating: 4/5

Review: This book was recommended to me by a friend. The chronicle of a night in Tokyo starring 19 year old Mari, her sleeping beauty sister, Eri, and an errant trombone player.

The first thing that I found captivating about this book was the language. It was beautiful. I don't know if it was that way in the Japanese, but the language used in the English translation was particularly beautiful. I liked the detached way the characters in the book were somehow related but not really. I liked how the night itself became one of the main characters of the book without doing anything. I liked that it was really different from anything I'd ever read.