Enkele maanden geleden toonde ik jullie mijn wintervoorraad.
Onlangs legde ik een kleine Engelstalige herfstvoorraad aan.
Kijken jullie even mee?

Mort (Terry Pratchett)

Equal Rites was mijn kennismaking met Sir Terry Pratchett. En wat voor één! Het boek veroverde meteen een plaatsje in mijn Top 25.
Natuurlijk ben ik nu benieuwd naar de andere boeken uit de Discworld-serie.
Het verhaal van Mort sprak mij meteen aan, maar in geen enkele bib die ik bezoek was het boek aanwezig.
Zo belandde het op mijn herfstvoorraadlijstje ;-)

Death comes to us all. When he came to Mort, he offered him a job. After being assured that being dead was not compulsory, Mort accepted. However, he soon found that romantic longings did not mix easily with the responsibilities of being Death's apprentice.
(Wanneer de Dood een leerjongen neemt en deze een prinses op wie hij verliefd is laat leven, raakt de wereld verdeeld in twee botsende werkelijkheidszones.)

Eats, shoots and leaves (Lynne Truss)

Lieke van de Readers Club bracht een origineel boek onder mijn aandacht via dit artikel.
Taal weet mij altijd te boeien en de verklaring van de titel liet mij al meteen lachen:

A panda walks into a café. He orders a sandwich, eats it, then draws a gun and fires two shots in the air.
"Why?" asks the confused waiter, as the panda makes towards the exit. The panda produces a badly punctuated wildlife manual and tosses it over his shoulder.
"I'm a panda," he says at the door. "Look it up."
The waiter turns to the relevant entry and, sure enough, finds an explanation.
"Panda. Large black-and-white bear-like mammal, native to China. Eats, shoots and leaves."

Anxious about the apostrophe? Confused by the comma? Stumped by the semicolon? Join Lynne Truss on a hilarious tour through the rules of punctuation that is sure to sort the dashes from the hyphens.

We all had the basic rules of punctuation drilled into us at school, but punctuation pedants have good reason to suspect they never sank in. ‘Its Summer!’ screams a sign that sets our teeth on edge. ‘Pansy’s ready’, we learn to our considerable interest (‘Is she?’) as we browse among the bedding plants.

It is not only the rules of punctuation that have come under attack but also a sense of why they matter. In this runaway bestseller, Lynne Truss takes the fight to emoticons and greengrocers’ apostrophes with a war cry of ‘Sticklers unite!’

The secret life of Bletchley Park (Sinclair McKay)

Bletchley Park ... ik hoorde er voor het eerst over in de film The Imitation Game die gaat over Alan Turing die tijdens WO II de Enigmacode hielp te kraken.
Nadien zag ik ook het eerste seizoen van de tv-serie The Bletchley Circle.
Toen ontdekte ik dit boek over deze tot de verbeelding sprekende plaats en nu is de tijd gekomen om het eindelijk te lezen.

Bletchley Park was where one of the war's most famous and crucial achievements was made: the cracking of Germany's Enigma code in which its most important military communications were couched. This country house was home to Britain's most brilliant mathematical brains, like Alan Turing, and the scene of immense advances in technology indeed, the birth of modern computing. The military codes deciphered there were instrumental in turning both the Battle of the Atlantic and the war in North Africa. But, though plenty has been written about the scientists and the codebreaking, fictional and non-fiction from Robert Harris and Ian McEwan to Andrew Hodges' biography of Turing what of the thousands of men and women who lived and worked there during the war?

The first history for the general reader of life at Bletchley Park, this is also an amazing compendium of memories from people now in their eighties of skating on the frozen lake in the grounds (a depressed Angus Wilson, the novelist, once threw himself in), of a youthful Roy Jenkinsuseless at codebreaking, of the high jinks at nearby accommodation hostels, and of the implacable secrecy that meant girlfriend and boyfriend working in adjacent huts knew nothing about each other's work.

Senlin Ascends (Josiah Bancroft)

Wat ben ik blij dat Yvette van de Scifi & Fantasy Club dit pareltje ontdekt heeft en onder de aandacht heeft gebracht!
Lees de leuke duorecensie van de Readers Club en de Scifi & Fantasy Club en je begrijpt waarom ik dit boek móest kopen ;-)

Thomas Senlin is a bookish headmaster from a fishing village who has always wanted to see the Tower of Babel for himself. The Tower is as immense as a mountain and as diverse as a nation. Lured by the grand promises of a guidebook, Senlin takes his new bride, Marya, on the honeymoon of their dreams. But no sooner do they arrive at the Tower than Senlin loses Marya in the teeming throng. Senlin's search for his wife carries him through madhouses, ballrooms, and burlesque theaters. He must survive betrayal, assassination, and the long guns of a flying fortress. But if he hopes to find his wife, he will have to do more than just survive. This quiet man of letters must become a man of action.


The one (John Marrs)

Yvonne van de Readers Club las in februari The One en schreef erover in dit artikel.
Sowieso hou ik van verhalen die verschillende personages volgen. Heerlijk afwisselend!
Bovendien lijkt het mij een luchtig en toch ook spannend boek. Perfect om voor het slapengaan te lezen :-)

How far would you go to find THE ONE? One simple mouth swab is all it takes. A quick DNA test to find your perfect partner - the one you're genetically made for. A decade after scientists discover everyone has a gene they share with just one other person, millions have taken the test, desperate to find true love. Now, five more people meet their Match. But even soul mates have secrets. And some are more shocking - and deadlier - than others...


Godsgrave (Jay Kristoff)

Over deel 1 (Nimmernacht) van deze trilogie was ik zo enthousiast dat het boek in mijn Top 25 belandde.
Aangezien ik eerst niet echt zeker was of dit boek mij wel zou liggen, had ik het uitgeleend bij de bib (in het Nederlands).
Op het Nederlandstalige vervolg is het nu echter nog wachten tot begin 2019.
En dat duurt mij net iets te lang.
Zo komt het dat ik mij deze herfst in het Engelstalige tweede deel ga onderdompelen.

Assassin Mia has found her place among the Blades of Our Lady of Blessed Murder, but many in the Red Church ministry think she’s far from earned it. Plying her bloody trade in a backwater of the Republic, she’s no closer to ending Consul Scaeva and Cardinal Duomo or avenging her familia. And after a deadly confrontation with an old enemy, Mia begins to suspect the motives of the Red Church itself.

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