annus_sanctus Reading Through 2017
Talk 75 Books Challenge for 2017
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1annus_sanctus
Well, before you get weird ideas: annus-sanctus actually is Latin for "Holy Year" when I encountered so many email names that were already used I decided to make sure I was the first one to come up with a special name.
I m 54 years old, name is Hans, am working in a Christian bookstore in the heart of Amsterdam, just 5 minutes walk from the Central Railway Station.
I have adopted 3 children in Indonesia, who actually live there. And am turning them into readers as well, their favorites being Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
I read almost anything, even lots of magazines, but I love reading, historical novels, detectives/crime that play in a certain time of history, like Agatha Christia in the 30s to 60s, Medieval crime, but also literature, non-fiction, children's books, classics.
I do read on my phone once in a while, but I need to feel, touch, smell my books :-)
I have no idea how it all works so I'll just start:
JANUARY 2017, read:
Murder Wears A Coil by Paul Doherty as always I feel like I can hear the sounds, smell the food and the stench in the streets and feel the fear of the victims, in the way this great author writes. 5/5
Spy In Chancery by Paul Doherty 5/5
FEBRUARY 2017:
began to read this week:
A Dead Man In Trieste by Michael Pearce 3/5
The Assassin In The Greenwood by Paul Doherty 3/5
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein for the Classic Books Readersclub
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer mystery and humour together, great read 5/5
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for now reading on laptop, but hopefully soon can find a first print or early other print to buy.
Snipperdagen by Max Dendermonde
Lampions der Liefde by Jan Mens
Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer 5/5 glad this irritating bunch is not my family haha
De vlucht by Jesús Carrasco
MARCH 2017:
Een maaltijd in de winter by Hubert Mingarelli
De verdrinking by Roger Martindu Gard
#struggles by Craig Groeschel
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
Pushing Up Daisies by M.C. Beaton
They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
Crippled America: How to Make America great Again by Donald J. Trump
Touching the Stars by Barbara Cartland
Vogel by Oh Jung-hee
Onder vrienden by Amoz Oz
I m 54 years old, name is Hans, am working in a Christian bookstore in the heart of Amsterdam, just 5 minutes walk from the Central Railway Station.
I have adopted 3 children in Indonesia, who actually live there. And am turning them into readers as well, their favorites being Narnia by C.S. Lewis.
I read almost anything, even lots of magazines, but I love reading, historical novels, detectives/crime that play in a certain time of history, like Agatha Christia in the 30s to 60s, Medieval crime, but also literature, non-fiction, children's books, classics.
I do read on my phone once in a while, but I need to feel, touch, smell my books :-)
I have no idea how it all works so I'll just start:
JANUARY 2017, read:
Murder Wears A Coil by Paul Doherty as always I feel like I can hear the sounds, smell the food and the stench in the streets and feel the fear of the victims, in the way this great author writes. 5/5
Spy In Chancery by Paul Doherty 5/5
FEBRUARY 2017:
began to read this week:
A Dead Man In Trieste by Michael Pearce 3/5
The Assassin In The Greenwood by Paul Doherty 3/5
The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein for the Classic Books Readersclub
Death in the Stocks by Georgette Heyer mystery and humour together, great read 5/5
To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf for now reading on laptop, but hopefully soon can find a first print or early other print to buy.
Snipperdagen by Max Dendermonde
Lampions der Liefde by Jan Mens
Behold, Here's Poison by Georgette Heyer 5/5 glad this irritating bunch is not my family haha
De vlucht by Jesús Carrasco
MARCH 2017:
Een maaltijd in de winter by Hubert Mingarelli
De verdrinking by Roger Martindu Gard
#struggles by Craig Groeschel
The Jewels of Paradise by Donna Leon
Pushing Up Daisies by M.C. Beaton
They Found Him Dead by Georgette Heyer
The Winter Garden Mystery by Carola Dunn
Crippled America: How to Make America great Again by Donald J. Trump
Touching the Stars by Barbara Cartland
Vogel by Oh Jung-hee
Onder vrienden by Amoz Oz
2FAMeulstee
Welcome Hans!
Nice to meet another Dutch reader here, I am Anita from Lelystad.
Nice to meet another Dutch reader here, I am Anita from Lelystad.
4countrylife
Glad you found the 75ers, Hans! I've never been to Amsterdam, but I had a lovely time in Haarlem last spring with my son and his family.
6annus_sanctus
I m reading a lot, Nederlands (Dutch) when the author is from the Netherlands, English when English is the native language of the author. Just joined a meet up in Amsterdam "bookclub reading classics" with as first book Getrude Stein with The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas and I have decided to buy first prints if possible, which I did with this one
