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Hello!
And welcome back
I wanted to tell you a bit about the books that I plane on reading the coming month
because now I still have vacation from school
and therefore some more time.
It's actually quite a large pile and
I don't know if you saw my last video, which is a tour through my bookcase,
it are mainly the books that I am halfway through at the moment.
It seemed like a good idea to finish those first.
The first book is the Raw Shark Texts by Steven Hall.
I bought it at de Slechte and mainly because it was only 2,50
and eh, for such a prise I can take a gamble.
The book is... a little strange.
As you can see I am already quite far in, but whith what I undersood so far
its about a man who waked up one day and has lost his memory
and slowly he keeps finding clues and a lot of strange things happen to him
and it comes down to him being attacked by a conceotual shark
who feeds himself with memories
and now the guy has to go on some sort of quest to beat this shark, but
just like normal people he has no idea what it is, so he has to find that out first.
And hmmm....
I am not sure yet about what I think of it.
The second is a book that's a little more pretentious;
Candide or the optimism by Voltaire.
It's pretty thin and as you can see it's also pretty old,
it actually belongs to my parents.
At uni I has a course about enlightenment and romanticism and we also talked about this
and apparently it's relatively easy to read and is very nice, sarcastic and funny.
Then I have the audiobook from the Fault in our Stars, by John Green,
In dutch it's called een weeffout in onze sterren,
and this edition he narrated himself.
Usually I never listen to audiobooks, but I really like it. I already listed to a few
cds's,
but ehmm... yeah, I just need to finish it.
Next book is a short history of nearly anything by Bill Bryson.
This is a non-fiction book and
with nearly everything he means the eath and how it originated.
Usually Bill Bryson writes travel books if I understood correctly,
And he sort of treats this like a journey.
A journey of knowledge sort of.
If that makes sense...
hmm not really, but ok....
It's written in a really nice way, because he starts with explaining how little he knows
about it
and how he wants to change it,
because he thinks its strange he knows so little about the earth,
while its obviously pretty important in our lives,
so he's really looking for more information, and he talks to many different people,
and he just writes very funny and in a way that makes it very easy to remember things,
which I like, because I am definitely not a science person
and I always hates physics,
but this contains basic information that I think I should know.
I'm at about 1/3 now and I really like it,
so I think it shouldn't be a problem to finish this.
The next book is The once and future kind by TH White.
I've had it for a while, I bought it once because I am a big fan of the tvshow Merlin,
The 5th season is coming out soon, which is exciting!
But I really wanted to know more about the sort of official version king arthur legend.
Just around the courner here is a adorable little bookshop,
with several old man who know a lot about books,
and when I told one of them I wanted to read a book about King Arthur,
he first said, well than you need the Mort d'Arthur,
but that's from the 15th century I believe so that's not really my thing,
and the next one he mentioned was this one.
The book is from 1939, so it's pretty old already
and you really notive that in the writing style.
Therefore I think I should just take my time for this one,
when I am on a plane or something,
to really get into it, because
it's not a very fast story, but I really like it.
Book 6 is Godenslaap by Erwin Mortier,
This is about an old women and actually it is a long flash back on her life,
while she is now almost trapped in her body and can only do very little.
The story moves very slow,
which is why I have some problems getting through,
I am also about 1/3rd into this one.
But the sentences that are in this book....
holy ***....
I wish I could talk like this man writes
it is such beautiful use of language
and that is... yeah...
even if you read just a couple of pages it...
hmm... it always makes me feel happy.
I am going to read one example of such a sentence, because I really think its awesome.
If I could return,
if the Gods would allow me to experience anything of that day again,
I would, not because of nostalgia, but purely for my amusment,
easily be content with just the sounds of that morning;
the slamming of the doors of the carriages,
the porters who yelled at eachother in our crackling city dialect
while loading the luggage of the barrows and passing it on to the men in the cargo wagon,
the sizzling of the locomotive that was already full of steam,
and drove white clouds of steam from his wheels across the platform now and then,
and on the background the ever present heartbeat of the living city,
of which the music in that time did not exist of the raving sounds of engines yet,
but of the flamenco like rythms of hoofs across the cobble stones.
ů......
That is one sentence.
Its effing amazing!
And finally Catch 22
it's one of those books I've heard the title so many times, that I think I should have
read it by now
This too is a bit of an older book, for the people who don't know it, its from 1960
It has a really nice preface by the author
where he describes that there sort of a snowball effect and how the book became such a succes
I have always read several books at the same time, but this time the number is a bit crazy,
so I gave myself the rule that I should finish all of these first,
before I can start the other pile in my bookcase.
Next to that I am also still looking for other Dutch booktubers
booktubers are people you youtube about books.
I have found a few by now which is awesome
and I really enjoy watching them,
but if you know any more of them,
well....