Welcome back to my blog with the first post (of many, I hope) of 2020! Today I'll bring you 12 books that I would love to read this year.
My Goodreads challenge is to read 12 books and I am already reading two that I started in 2019 so I am not sure if I will be able to read all these books. I am also a mood reader so I don't appreciate tbr's very much. However these 12 books are the ones on my mind at the moment, so let's talk about them!
Without any particular order, here we go:
This one was at the top of my Christmas wishlist but 50% discounts happened I bought it a few weeks earlier. I can't wait to read this book and know how this relationship worked since Edith was only married for survivable and her husband actually knew she was Jewish. XX century history fascinates me and I really need to start reading more about it.
About: "Edith Hahn was an outspoken young woman in Vienna when the Gestapo forced her into a ghetto and then into a slave labor camp. When she returned home months later, she knew she would become a hunted woman and went underground. With the help of a Christian friend, she emerged in Munich as Grete Denner. There she met Werner Vetter, a Nazi Party member who fell in love with her. Despite Edith's protests and even her eventual confession that she was Jewish, he married her and kept her identity a secret.
In wrenching detail, Edith recalls a life of constant, almost paralyzing fear."
I discovered Vera Britain's life through the cinematic adaptation of her memoir, the book in question in this post. Testament of Youth has been one of my favourite films ever since I watched it and I can't wait to finally read the book that inspired it. Here we have the story of a strong woman that saw her entire generation losing their youth for war. I know I'll cry a lot just like in the film but I intend to read it through the year and I really need to know more about this inspiring woman.
About: "Testament of Youth has been acclaimed as a classic for its description of the impact of World War I on the lives of women and the middle-class civilian population of Great Britain. The book shows how the impact extended into the postwar years. It is also considered a classic in feminist literature for its depiction of a woman's pioneering struggle to forge an independent career in a society only grudgingly tolerant of educated women."
When I bought this book two summers ago it was love at first sight. The synopsis got me and I was super excited to read it. But it was a hardback and back in the day, I hated those so I never picked it up. But 2020 is the year. I have the original version in Spanish and the story is my thing so I can't wait to read it and train my Spanish with what I hope to be a great book.
About: "Tasio Ortiz de Zarate, the brilliant archaeologist found guilty of the bizarre murders that terrorised the peaceful city of Vitoria twenty years ago, is about to leave prison on license when the crimes begin afresh: the naked bodies of a twenty-year-old couple are found in the symbolic building of Vitoria's Old Cathedral, killed by bee stings to the throat. Not long afterward, another twenty-five-year-old couple is killed in the Casa del Cordón, a well known medieval building. Young inspector Unai López de Ayala —alias Kraken—, a criminal profiling expert, is obsessed with preventing the crimes before they take place and a recent personal tragedy prevents him from treating the case as just another job. His unorthodox methods annoy his boss Alba, the deputy superintendent with whom he has an ambiguous relationship, marked by the crimes... Time is against him."
I always thought my first English classic would be Pride and Prejudice but after starting it 5 times and always ending up leaving it for another book (maybe because I already know the story) it seems that Wuthering Heights will actually be the one. For what I know it is quite a dark story with complex characters and I am all in for that.
About: "As darkness falls, a man caught in a snowstorm is forced to shelter at the strange, grim house Wuthering Heights. It is a place he will never forget. There he will come to learn the story of Cathy: how she was forced to choose between her well-meaning husband and the dangerous man she had loved since she was young. How her choice led to betrayal and terrible revenge - and continues to torment those in the present. How love can transgress authority, convention, even death."
I only heard great things about this one, a boarding school, a mystery with many years, two timelines. This book was made for me!
About: "Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham. Shortly after the school opened, his wife and daughter were kidnapped. The only real clue was a mocking riddle listing methods of murder, signed with the frightening pseudonym “Truly, Devious.” It became one of the great unsolved crimes of American history.
True-crime aficionado Stevie Bell is set to begin her first year at Ellingham Academy, and she has an ambitious plan: She will solve this cold case. But something strange is happening. Truly Devious makes a surprise return, and death revisits Ellingham Academy. The past has crawled out of its grave. Someone has gotten away with murder.
All I know about this one is that people love it, it has a boy x boy romance and seems really philosophical. I've been wanting to read it for a while. Hope 2020 is the year.
About: Aristotle is an angry teen with a brother in prison. Dante is a know-it-all who has an unusual way of looking at the world. When the two meet at the swimming pool, they seem to have nothing in common. But as the loners start spending time together, they discover that they share a special friendship—the kind that changes lives and lasts a lifetime. And it is through this friendship that Ari and Dante will learn the most important truths about themselves and the kind of people they want to be.
The idea of this gentleman arrested at home, more precisely a luxurious hotel while he sees the history of Russia unfold from his window just gets me really intrigued and here is another book I only heard great things about.
About: "In 1922, Count Alexander Rostov is deemed an unrepentant aristocrat by a Bolshevik tribunal, and is sentenced to house arrest in the Metropol, a grand hotel across the street from the Kremlin. Rostov, an indomitable man of erudition and wit, has never worked a day in his life, and must now live in an attic room while some of the most tumultuous decades in Russian history are unfolding outside the hotel's doors. Unexpectedly, his reduced circumstances provide him entry into a much larger world of emotional discovery.
Brimming with humor, a glittering cast of characters, and one beautifully rendered scene after another, this singular novel casts a spell as it relates the count's endeavor to gain a deeper understanding of what it means to be a man of purpose."
I don't know much about the story, apart from two people that kinda belong to different worlds and that the book is set in Dublin. Was all I needed to know to be interested.
About: "At school, Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers—one they are determined to conceal.
A year later, they’re both studying at Trinity College in Dublin. Marianne has found her feet in a new social world while Connell hangs at the sidelines, shy and uncertain. Throughout their years in college, Marianne and Connell circle one another, straying toward other people and possibilities but always magnetically, irresistibly drawn back together. Then, as she veers into self-destruction and he begins to search for meaning elsewhere, each must confront how far they are willing to go to save the other."
One of my missions in life is to read all the Fjallbacka series by Camilla Lackberg. The eighth book is one of my all-time favourites and my dad read a few and liked them so I decided to read it all from the beginning. This is the second book!
About: "During an unusually hot July, detective Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck are enjoying a rare week at home together, nervous and excited about the imminent birth of their first baby. Across town, however, a six-year-old boy makes a gruesome discovery that will ravage their little tourist community and catapult Patrik into the center of a terrifying murder case.
The boy has stumbled upon the brutally murdered body of a young woman, and Patrik is immediately called to lead the investigation. Things get even worse when his team uncovers, buried beneath the victim, the skeletons of two campers whose disappearance had baffled police for decades. The three victims’ injuries seem to be the work of the same killer, but that is impossible: the main suspect in the original kidnappings committed suicide twenty-four years ago.
When yet another young girl disappears and panic begins to spread, Patrik leads a desperate manhunt to track down a ruthless serial killer before he strikes again."
Sun Storm by Asa Larsson
This was supposed to be one of my summer reads of 2019, but when I was going to read it I got otitis and I just couldn't read so when the otitis was gone I looked at the book and it reminded me of the pain, so I ended up not reading it. But I was so excited I can't let this book be forever tagged as the book that reminds me of my otitis. So let's read it in 2020!
This was supposed to be one of my summer reads of 2019, but when I was going to read it I got otitis and I just couldn't read so when the otitis was gone I looked at the book and it reminded me of the pain, so I ended up not reading it. But I was so excited I can't let this book be forever tagged as the book that reminds me of my otitis. So let's read it in 2020!
About: "Rebecka Martinsson is heading home to Kiruna, the town she’d left in disgrace years before. A Stockholm attorney, Rebecka has a good reason to return: her friend Sanna, whose brother has been horrifically murdered in the revivalist church his charisma helped create. Beautiful and fragile, Sanna needs someone like Rebecka to remove the shadow of guilt that is engulfing her, to forestall an ambitious prosecutor and a dogged policewoman. But to help her friend, and to find the real killer of a man she once adored and is now not sure she ever knew, Rebecka must relive the darkness she left behind in Kiruna, delve into a sordid conspiracy of deceit, and confront a killer whose motives are dark, wrenching, and impossible to guess..."
War and Peace Vol. I by Lev Tolstoy
Same case of the English classics. I always thought I would read Anna Karénina first but it seems that War and Peace, at least the first volume is the chosen. I am really excited to read about Russia and to read something by Tolstoy.
Same case of the English classics. I always thought I would read Anna Karénina first but it seems that War and Peace, at least the first volume is the chosen. I am really excited to read about Russia and to read something by Tolstoy.
About: "In Russia's struggle with Napoleon, Tolstoy saw a tragedy that involved all mankind. Greater than a historical chronicle, War and Peace is an affirmation of life itself, `a complete picture', as a contemporary reviewer put it, `of everything in which people find their happiness and greatness, their grief and humiliation'."
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
A 700 pages long book in English with a sad story? Why will I put myself through it? Why am I so interested? I don't know, but I have to find out. And the only way is reading this brick.
A 700 pages long book in English with a sad story? Why will I put myself through it? Why am I so interested? I don't know, but I have to find out. And the only way is reading this brick.
About: "When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity.
Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever."
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