Beiträge von Jada84

    Mercy and her sister Charity have never questioned their daily routine, each day unfolding exactly as the next. They live at night, sleep during the day and see their widowed father only rarely - their house shrouded in perpetual winter. Then one day, Mercy is woken to find a snowdrop on her pillow. A sign of spring, a subtle hint at a possible different future. A chance meeting with the mysterious Claudius sets her to questioning everything she has ever known - not least the truth behind her mother's death. Bit by bit Mercy traces her parents' story through the past, travelling back to see herself as a young child, silent witness to the dramatic events Claudius himself plays an enormous part in - only when she has pieced together the truth can her world begin to move on.

    Japan, 1865, the women's palace in the great city of Edo. Bristling with intrigue and erotic rivalries, the palace is home to three thousand women and only one man - the young shogun. Sachi, a beautiful fifteen-year-old girl, is chosen to be his concubine. But Japan is changing, and as civil war erupts, Sachi flees for her life. Rescued by a rebel warrior, she finds unknown feelings stirring within her; but this is a world in which private passions have no place and there is not even a word for 'love'. Before she dare dream of a life with him, Sachi must uncover the secret of her own origins - a secret that encompasses a wrong so terrible that it threatens to destroy her ..

    Jeder hat sich schon einmal die Frage gestellt, wie die Welt wohl in zwanzig oder dreißig Jahren aussehen wird. Was wäre, wenn man heute in ein Koma fallen und in zwanzig Jahren wieder aufwachen würde? Douglas Coupland (1961), offensichtlich fasziniert von dieser Frage, lässt in Girlfriend in a Coma einen Teenager der 70er Jahre in ein Koma fallen und fast zwanzig Jahre später in einer modernen, schnellen Welt wieder aufwachen.


    lese das Buch aber auf englisch :-)

    ooh ich liebe Lush! Leider (oder vielleicht zum Glück...) ist der nächste Laden relativ weit weg von mir, in Heidelberg. Besser für den Geldbeutel....Die Haarkuren find ich klasse, man riecht noch ewig danach. Und die Badekugeln, abgesehen davon dass ich in meiner Wohnung keine Badewanne hab und sie auch nicht mehr verwenden kann ;-) Aber ein bis zweimal im Jahr gönne ich mir was....wird mal wieder Zeit :grin

    Ich habe das Buch vor wenigen Tagen zu Ende gelesen. Bis ungefähr zur Hälfte des Buches war ich begeistert, konnte das Buch auch fast nicht aus der Hand legen. Allerdings hat sich der erste Eindruck nicht bestätigt - leider. Irgendwie ging mir dann alles zu schnell, die Charaktere entwickeln sich nicht wirklich weiter, bleiben zu blass und ich habe leider gemerkt, dass ich mit der Zeit das Interesse an der weiteren Handlung verloren habe. Trotz der überraschenden Wendung (die für mich so gar nicht passt ;-) ) habe ich das Buch am Schluss nur noch überflogen.
    Schade, ich hatte wirklich eine Menge erwartet.

    Ich bin an Weihnachten bei meinen Eltern und wir machen ausnahmsweise mal kein richtiges Weihnachtsessen...sonst immer Fondue oder so, diesmal Salate, Würstchen etc, da ich mt meiner Mutter ganz früh am nächsten Tag in den Norden fahre...kurzer Urlaub :grin

    Nine-year-old Liesel lives with her foster family on Himmel Street during the dark days of the Third Reich. Her Communist parents have been transported to a concentration camp, and during the funeral for her brother, she manages to steal a macabre book: it is, in fact, a gravediggers’ instruction manual. This is the first of many books which will pass through her hands as the carnage of the Second World War begins to hungrily claim lives. Both Liesel and her fellow inhabitants of Himmel Street will find themselves changed by both words on the printed page and the horrendous events happening around them.



    ...und wieder was für "junge Leser" :grin naja so alt bin ich noch nicht

    In the world of ASH, fairies are an older race of people who walk the line between life and death, reality and magic. As orphaned Ash grows up, a servant in her stepmother's home, she begans to realise that her beloved mother, Elinor was very much in tune with these underworld folk, and that she herself has the power to see them too. Against the sheer misery of her stepmother's cruelty, greed and ambition in preparing her two charmless daughters for presentation at court, and hopefully Royal or aristocratic marriage, Ash befriends one of these fairies--a mysterious, handsome man--who grants her wishes and restores hope to Ash's existence, even though she knows there will be a price to pay. But most important of all, she also meets Kaisa, a huntress employed by the king, and it is Kaisa who truly awakens Ash's desires for both love and self-respect...Ash escapes a life with her grim and self-serving stepmother and finds her beloved one...ASH is a fairy tale about possibility and recognizing the opportunities for change. From the deepest grief comes the chance for transformation.