Beiträge von Jada84

Sephy and Callum have been best friends since childhood, and now they are older and they realise they want more from each other. But the harsh realities of lives lived in a segregated society are beginning to take their toll: Callum is a nought--a second-class citizen in a world dominated by the Crosses--and Sephy is a Cross, and the daughter of one of the most powerful men in the country. The barriers they would have to cross to be together at first seem little more than minor obstacles to the two idealistic teenagers, but soon those barriers threaten not only their friendship but their lives.

ist mir grad langweilig. Sonne scheint, es ist warm...und ich hock im Büro und hab nix zu tun...halbe Stunde noch.

Nineteen-year-old cabbie Ed Kennedy has little in life to be proud of: his dad died of alcoholism, and he and his mom have few prospects for success. He has little to do except share a run-down apartment with his faithful yet smelly dog, drive his taxi, and play cards and drink with his amiable yet similarly washed-up friends. Then, after he stops a bank robbery, Ed begins receiving anonymous messages marked in code on playing cards in the mail, and almost immediately his life begins to swerve off its beaten-down path...

eigentlich als Geschenk für meine Mama, ich werde es natürlich auch lesen

...ich hab morgen frei

Hab gerade Kaffee und zwei Datteln gefrühstückt und werd jetzt mal staubsaugen.

heute machen wir einen mexikanischen Abend, ich habe Tortillas gebacken und Guacamole vorbereitet. Außerdem noch ne rote scharfe Dippsoße ohne Namen

"My little Pony" Shirt, Jeans und schwarze Ballerinas. Muss heut arbeiten, aber ich sehs nicht ein mich schick anzuziehen. Sieht mich ja keiner ausser meinem Kollegen, und dem ists egal

The novel is atypical for Murakami: seemingly autobiographical, in the tradition of many Japanese "I" novels, Norwegian Wood is a simple coming of age tale set, primarily, in 1969/70, the time of Murakami's own university years. The political upheavals and student strikes of the period form the backdrop of the novel but the focus here is the young Watanabe's love affairs and the pain (and pleasure) of growing up with all its attendant losses, (self-)obsessions and crises.

Arbeiten am Samstag ist DOOF vor allem wenn man nichts zu tun hat und sich nur fragt, warum man hier ist.

Blaue Bluse mit weißen Blümchen, Jeans, schwarze Ballerinas. Gürtel (muss sein) in dunkelbraun.

vielleicht vielleicht hab ich was wg einem neuen Job in Aussicht
RAUS HIER

heut abend gehts Essen mit meiner Mama und bissl shoppen...auch schön

Ich bin auch mal gespannt ob das Buch weiterhin gut findest.
Ich habe es mir gekauft und seit etwa zwei Wochen bei mir zuhause...werde wohl als nächstes lesen

A mesmerising evolution of a classic contemporary myth' - Simon Pegg. 'R' is a zombie. He has no name, no memories, and no pulse, but he has dreams. He is a little different from his fellow Dead. Amongst the ruins of an abandoned city, R meets a girl. Her name is Julie and she is the opposite of everything he knows - warm and bright and very much alive, she is a blast of colour in a dreary grey landscape. For reasons he can't understand, R chooses to save Julie instead of eating her, and a tense yet strangely tender relationship begins. This has never happened before. It breaks the rules and defies logic, but R is no longer content with life in the grave. He wants to breathe again, he wants to live, and Julie wants to help him. But their grim, rotting world won't be changed without a fight...

Like its cross-country-running heroine, Anderson's (Speak) latest novel starts off promisingly, then loses its pacing about midway through. The narrator, 18-year-old Kate Malone, has placed all of her eggs in one basket: she has applied only to her late mother's alma mater, MIT. Calculus is a cinch, chemistry is her favorite subject, even physics comes easily to her, but when her MIT rejection arrives, it acts as catalyst for the slow unraveling of her delicately balanced life. A preacher's daughter, she struggles between "Good Kate" and "Bad Kate" as she singlehandedly keeps the household running (her mother died nine years ago). Anderson excels in conveying Kate's anxieties and her concomitant insomnia, and frequently intersperses evidence of Kate's sharp humor (she calls Mitchell A. Pangborn III "my friend, my enemy, my lust"). But Kate's relationships with others remain hazy. While this seems to reflect Kate's state of mind, since she slowly shuts everyone out as her MIT-less fate becomes clear, her detachment may create a similar effect for readers. This aloofness becomes most problematic in the dynamics of her relationship with Teri Litch, who once beat her up habitually. After Teri's house burns down, she and toddler Mikey Litch come to live with the Malones, and the action escalates to the point of melodrama. Yet another tragic event spurs a reconciliation between Kate and Teri, but the underlying changes in the individuals that lead up to this event remain unclear.

...mal wieder die liebe Arbeit...

bisschen Kitsch fürs Herz

Parvathi leaves her native Ceylon for Malaya and an arranged marriage to a wealthy businessman. But her father has cheated, supplying a different girl's photograph, and Kasu Marimuthu, furious, threatens to send her home in disgrace. Gradually husband and wife reach an agreement, and the naive young girl learns to assume the air of sophisticated mistress of a luxurious estate. She even adopts his love child and treats Rubini as her own daughter - a generous act which is rewarded by a long-wished-for son. But it is a life without passion, and Parvathi dreams of loving - and being loved - with complete abandon. When the Japanese invade Malaya, in WW2, they requisition the estate. Marimuthu dies and Parvathi is forced to accept the protection of the Japanese general who has robbed her of her home. For the first time, she experiences sexual passion. And gradually, her sworn enemy becomes the lover she has always yearned for ...

Ich hab auf Flohmärkten schon oft spontan Bücher gekauft, die sich hinterher als totaler Flop erwiesen haben. Also lasse ich das, es sei denn ich kenne das Buch bereits bzw habe davon gehört.
Ich bestelle Bücher eigentlich immer gebraucht, ist ja auch ein bisschen wie Flohmarkt. Die Bücherei hier in der Nähe kostet 15€ im Monat, und für das Geld kann ich ne Menge gebrauchter Bücher kaufen. Ich behalte einfach gern, was mir gefällt.

Ab und zu leiste ich mir auch ein ganz neues "frisches" Buch, ich mag den Geruch und es ist was Besonderes

In sensuous prose, Helen, who has been dead for 130 years, describes what it's like to live as Light, clinging to a human host, then reentering an empty human body and becoming physically and emotionally attuned to the world. Helen is startled when she realizes that a student in her host's English class can see her. James, too, is Light, but he has taken over the body of Billy, who almost overdosed on drugs. Their joy at finding one another turns quickly to love, and James helps Helen locate an empty body that she can inhabit. Fellow student Jennifer seems the perfect choice, but the unhappiness in her fundamentalist family, as well as the chaos of Billy's household, mix uneasily with the pleasures the spirits are rekindling.

...Wochenende, heut gehts nach Frankreich zum Einkaufen, Urlaub schriftlich genehmigt, neue Schuhe gefunden.... heut gehts ir echt super!

Momentan nicht ohne meine Familie (inkl. Hunde) und meine Freunde.
Wobei ich schon denke, dass ich ohne sie leben KÖNNTE (wenn ich müsste), aber das Leben wäre nicht mal mehr halb so schön.