The Content Reader

Don't we all love a list? Especially, if it is a reading list? What happens to people when a reading list seems to appear at all impossible places, urging people to read the books on it? "When Aleisha discovers a crumpled reading list tucked into a tattered library book, it sparks an extraordinary journey. For the list fins Aleisha just when she needs it most, the stories transporting her away from everything - her loneliness, her troubles at home - one page at a time. And when widower Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to connect with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha introduces him to the magic of the reading list. An anxious teenager and a lovely grandfather forming an unlikely book club of two. Some stories never leave you. And some change your life, forever." Aleisha has accepter a summer job at the library. She really wanted to work in a clothes shop, but had to take what was available. Without knowing it, her rather unhappy life is about to change. And, whi...

I am reading quite a lot of blogs and I am also following a couple of book vlogs on Youtube. It is very interesting indeed. One thing I have noticed is that many of you are reading new books. Seems natural of course. Why is it then that I tend to read older books. I am not talking exactly about classics, but most of them were published some years back. Probably because I try to read from my TBR shelves and there are very few new books. I don't want to buy new books before I have read most of what I already have. A little bit of catch 22 there, I guess? Time to do something I thought, and ventured down to a book shop here in Innsbruck. Most books are of course in German, and although I speak it, it would take me forever to read one. However, they do have a small English section and I was lucky to find some really nice titles.  The Maidens by Alex Michaelides I loved his first book The Silent Patient  (a short review under link) and am looking forward reading his second one. Sou...