De wereld volgens AnnevO

boek 89: Letmestayforaday, Ramon Stoppelenburg
In twee jaar tijd reisde Ramon Stoppelenburg door Nederland, België, Frankrijk, Engeland, Ierland, Schotland, Denemarken, Noorwegen, Zweden, Zuid-Afrika, Spanje, Australië en Canada. En het kostte hem geen cent dankzij gulle sponsors, de media die hem prezen om zijn slimme idee en zijn eigen website: www.letmestayforaday.com, waarop mensen van over de hele wereld hem uitnodigden gratis te overnachten. De internationale pers noemde hem the world’s greatest freeloader, anderen zagen in hem een pionier die de mogelijkheden van het internet volledig benutte.
Conclusie: Leuk geschreven dagboek, waarin je een goed beeld krijgt hoe het moet zijn om continu afhankelijk te zijn van de goede wil van anderen.

boek 90: Time stops for no mouse, Michael Hoeye
This is a very nice childrens mystery novel about a mouse, Hermux Tantamoq, watchmaker, who gets sucked into adventures when a nice lady-aviator srops off het watch at his workshop. First of a series; I’m looking forward to reading the other books.
Conclusion: Very nice read, sometimes a bit scary.

boek 91: Girl anatomy, Rebecca Bloom
Lilly, a neurotic twenty-something, still a girl at heart, is trying to grow up and stop throwing huge tantrums when she’s unhappy. The blurb: “A hip and heartwarming story of what it means to be a girl and what it takes to become a woman.”
Conclusion: Not great, but not terrible either.

boek 92: De vlinderplaag, Maria Stahlie
In deze bundel staan twee lange, bevreemdende verhalen. Plaats van handeling is Parijs, in augustus, broeierig en vol vlinders.
Conclusie: Dit boek moest uit en had wel iets, maar of ik het echt mooi vond weet ik niet.

boek 93: Holes, Louis Sachar
Stanley Yelnats gets a choice: to go to a juvenile correction facility or jail. He chooses the camp, in which he has to dig a hole every day. But why? And for whom? FInd out the truth with this brave young boy.
Conclusion: Very good read, I found it hard to put this book down.

boek 94: The doctor game, Howard Olgin
An intensely realistic, no punches-pulled story of medicine…They start as three medical school students and go through a period of acute personal and professional conflict. One of them became a lawyer specializing in malpractice. And then, another makes a mistake, or didn’t he? Once friends, now they stand on opposite sides…
Conclusion: This book is not the medical thriller I expected from Olgin; it’s a legal thriller as well.

boek 95: Koraal en geraniums, Adriaan van Dis
Twee reisverhalen van Adriaan van Dis in een literair juweeltje.
Conclusie: Makkelijk klein boekje.

boek 96: The Murder at the Vicarage, Agatha Christie
In St. Mary Mead, no one is more despised than Colonel Protheroe. Even the local vicar has said that killing him would be doing a service to the townsfolk. So when Protheroe is found murdered in the same vicar’s study and two different people confess to the crime, it’s time for the elderly spinster Jane Marple to exercise her abilities, which until now have been focused on domestic mysteries.
Conclusion: A very nice example of Christie’s style.

boek 97: To kill a mockingbird, Harper Lee
Set in the small Southern town of Maycomb, Alabama, during the Depression, To Kill a Mockingbird follows three years in the life of 8-year-old Scout Finch, her brother, Jem, and their father, Atticus–three years punctuated by the arrest and eventual trial of a young black man accused of raping a white woman.
Conclusion: This is a difficult book, mostly because of the subject, which unfortunately is still current in this century.

boek 98: Moeilijk te geloven, Suzanne van der Schot
Een jong vrouw vertelt over haar zoektocht naar de juiste plek om haar leven door te brengen. Ze gaat naar Parijs om als postulante mee te leven bij een religieuse gemeenschap. Ze beschrijft haar twijfels, de goede en mindere momenten, en de dagelijkse gang van zaken binnen deze orde. En dan moet ze beslissen: wil ik wel of niet intreden?
Conclusie: Dit boek viel mij erg tegen.

boek 99: Northern lights, Philip Pullman
Lyra Belacqua is a precocious orphan growing up within the precincts of Oxford University. There, people there each have a personal daemon, the manifestation of their soul in animal form. Lyra’s carefree existence changes forever when she and her daemon, Pantalaimon, first prevent an assassination attempt against her uncle, the powerful Lord Asriel, and then overhear a secret discussion about a mysterious entity known as Dust. Soon she and Pan are swept up in a dangerous game involving disappearing children, a beautiful woman with a golden monkey daemon, a trip to the far north, and a set of allies ranging from “gyptians” to witches to an armor-clad polar bear.
Conclusion: Captivating. I will definately read the other books in the series.

boek 100: The Mysterious Affair at Styles, Agatha Christie
Christie’s very first novel. In the midst of World War I, the residents of Styles wake one morning to find Emily Inglethorpe has been fatally poisoned. Captain Hastings, staying with the family, enlists the help of his old friend, Belgian detective Hercule Poirot. With the evidence mounting against one member of the family, Poirot uses his technique to prove who really killed Emily.
Conclusion: A great read!

boek 101: Someone like you, Cathy Kelly
They meet eachother on holiday in Egypt: Emma, Leonie and Hannah. And they all want just one thing in life – and then they’ll be truly happy. For one, it’s a baby and a way to escape her dominant father, for the other true love, and the third is looking for independence (and not for a man). Their friendship grows as they fight their own battles, supported by the others.
Conclusion: Very nice example of an “intelligent chick-lit novel”.

boek 102: Paardevijgen, Hylkje Goïnga
Bundel met korte verhalen over Martha, een vrouw die telkens in bijzondere situaties terecht komt. Vertaald uit het Fries door de schrijfster zelf.
Conclusie: Wel aardig, hoewel sommige verhalen wel erg bizar zijn.

boek 103: After the Funeral, Agatha Christie
Richard Abernathie died a natural death – or so his family believes. But right after his funeral, his sister Cora remarks “It was hushed up very nicely … but he was murdered, wasn’t he?” At the time no one takes her seriously. But the next day, Cora is found brutally murdered with a hatchet, and the family lawyer turns to Hercule Poirot for help.
Conclusion: Another great example of Christie’s ability to make you follow red herrings.