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This second part in the Hunger Games trilogy covers the period between Katniss and Peeta winning the 74th Hunger Games and the beginning of a proper rebellion against the Capitol. It includes the 75th Hunger Games, which never come to a proper ending.
The novel is what can be expected of an in-between novel: There are developments and changes, even a lot of suspense when we follow Katniss and Peeta who unexpectedly have to fight in the 75th Hunger Games only one year after winning the games before. There are new aspects of Panem to be discovered, and there is tension - but the tension is not about what is new and what is new never creates tension. This novel is a link, and as such dramaturgically important but not too inspiring. It is quite an ok-ish read because you can follow the characters and their inner developments. It is certainly not material for an interesting movie because all you can see is really only more of what you have already seen.
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This book's aim really is to give an overview over world history through individual objects. All the objects are taken from the British Museum's collections; the book is based on BBC radio series.
The first object is a stone tool from ca. 2.000.000 years ago while object 100 is a solar powered torch which already looks almost as antiquated as the stone tool.
Obviously, this world history is not complete and it does not track developments. The approach to history is a cross-sectional rather than a longituianl one. Almost never do we get to read about a culture more than once, and only very rarely does the author draw connections between cultures or objects. And of course, the objects are more or less randomly chosen. 100 totally different objects would have made for a history just as interesting as the present one.
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Ein eher außergewöhnliches Buch, das ich von alleine sicher nicht gekauft, geschweige denn rezensiert hätte.
Das Außergewöhnliche nimmt seinen Anfang schon bei Titel und AutorInnenschaft: »Löwenbuch« ist nur ein selbst gewählter Hilfstitel, der sich vom freundlich lächelnden und winkenden Löwen auf dem Titel herleitet. Auch AutorIn oder HerausgeberIn werden nicht genannt. Genannt ist lediglch der Verlag. Babylove/dm – ein sonst in der Buchbranche kaum bekannter Verlag. Dafür liegt hier aber das einzige mir bekannte Werk mit eingenähter Waschanleitung vor. »30° (im Wäschenetz)«. Leider schließt die Waschanleitung Bügeln aus.
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This novel was widely advertised as nothing short of sensational and took up very considerable floor- and shelfspace in most bookshops I visited during my stays in Britain this year. Because there was to be a film version coming out soon, I started reading as soon as possibly – bypassing several other novels bought earlier.
The novel is told by several 1st-person narrators, the principal being Rachel, a run-down woman who travels into town by train every day. Every day, the train stops at the same signal and offers her insights into the backyards of the houses along the track, incidentally the neighbourhood where she used to live before her divorce. One day there is a murder, and of course Rachel gets herself involved in the case.
This is a novel that indeed has you hooked quickly and thoroughly. It is also, in several ways, a really harsh story.
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Richard Poplak grew up in the final years of APartheid in South Africa, and he wrote book about it.
The book is precisely what you would expect from such an undertaking: It is personal, a youth-biography collecting all the scraps of memory from birth to age 16 when his family emmigrated to Canada. He claims to have checked and double-checked his facts in interviews and trips to the places of his youth - this sounds credible, at least to a hobby-SouthAfricanist everything sounds true and cohesive.
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