John sent me a link a few days ago to a site where I could find books. I had heard of it before, found links to it in the description under some Booktubers videos, but never actually clicked the link. Mostly I was annoyed since I used GoodReads and really just wanted them to link the book directly to there instead of this other website.
Then I followed the link and I realised that I could order books with FREE DELIVERY! The reaction was quite loud. This was not some site for just keeping track of what kind of books I wanted to read, this was heaven for a book lover who can not buy the wanted books in the country she is currently staying in. Right now I am writing about myself in third person...
Yesterday I went through my GoodReads list of to-read books and searched for the most wanted one on Book Depository. Found many for a fair price and put them in the cart. These two sites are amazing together. GoodReads helped me remembering why I wanted to buy a certain book and I also removed four from my wanted list since the review did not match my own expectations. In the end I reached over a hundred Singaporean dollars and John, being all grown up and smart, told me to go under hundred and then I could order. So I removed the most expensive books and the ones that I could wait for. Still ended up ordering eight books though!
The Shining Girls
by Lauren Beukes
In Depression-era Chicago, Harper Curtis finds a key to a house that opens on to other times. But it comes at a cost. He has to kill the shining girls: bright young women, burning with potential. He stalks them through their lives across different eras until, in 1989, one of his victims, Kirby Mazrachi, survives and starts hunting him back. Working with an ex-homicide reporter who is falling for her, Kirby has to unravel an impossible mystery.
The Golem and the Djinni
by Helene Wecker
Chava is a golem, a creature made of clay, brought to life by a strange man who dabbles in dark Kabbalistic magic. Ahmad is a jinni, a being of fire, born in the ancient Syrian Desert. Trapped in an old copper flask by a Bedouin wizard centuries ago, he is released accidentally by a tinsmith in a Lower Manhattan shop. (...)
All the Light We Cannot See
by Anthony Doerr
For Marie-Laure, blind since the age of six, the world is full of mazes. The miniature of a Paris neighbourhood, made by her father to teach her the way home. The microscopic layers within the invaluable diamond that her father guards in the Museum of Natural History. The walled city by the sea, where father and daughter take refuge when the Nazis invade Paris. And a future which draws her ever closer to Werner, a German orphan, destined to labour in the mines until a broken radio fills his life with possibility and brings him to the notice of the Hitler Youth. In this magnificent, deeply moving novel, the stories of Marie-Laure and Werner illuminate the ways, against all odds, people try to be good to one another.
Yes Please
by Amy Poehler
In Amy Poehler’s highly anticipated first book Yes Please, she offers up a big juicy stew of personal stories, funny bits on sex and love and friendship and parenthood and real life advice (some useful, some not so much), like when to be funny and when to be serious. Powered by Amy’s charming and hilarious, biting yet wise voice, Yes Pleaseis a book full of words to live by.
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
by Lewis Carroll
'I had sent my heroine straight down a rabbit-hole ... without the least idea what was to happen afterwards,' wrote Lewis Carroll, describing how Alice was conjured up one 'golden afternoon' in 1862 to entertain his child-friend Alice Liddell. His dream worlds of nonsensical Wonderland and the back-to-front Looking-Glass kingdom depict order turned upside-down: a baby turns into a pig, time is abandoned at a disordered tea-party and a chaotic game of chess makes a seven-year-old girl a Queen. But amongst the anarchic humour and sparkling word play, puzzles and riddles, are poignant moments of nostalgia for lost childhood. Original and experimental, the Alice books give readers a window on both child and adult worlds.
Arthur Dent hadn't had a day as bad as this since the Earth had been blown up. Depressed and alone, Arthur finally settles on the small planet Lamuella and becomes a sandwich maker. Looking forward to a quiet life, his plans are thrown awry by the unexpected arrival of his daughter. There's nothing worse than a frustrated teenager with a copy of the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in their hands. When she runs away - Arthur goes after her determined to save her from the horrors of the universe. After all - he's encountered most of them before...
Cibola Burn (The Expanse #4)
by James S.A. Corey
The gates have opened the way to thousands of habitable planets, and the land rush has begun. Settlers stream out from humanity's home planets in a vast, poorly controlled flood, landing on a new world. Among them, the Rocinante, haunted by the vast, posthuman network of the protomolecule as they investigate what destroyed the great intergalactic society that built the gates and the protomolecule. (...)
Red Seas Under Red Skies (Gentleman Bastard #2)
by Scott Lynch
After a brutal battle with the underworld that nearly destroyed him, Locke and his trusted sidekick, Jean, fled the island city of their birth and landed on the exotic shores of Tal Verrar to nurse their wounds. But even at this westernmost edge of civilization, they can't rest for long — and are soon back to what they do best: stealing from the undeserving rich and pocketing the proceeds for themselves.
The whole series on GoodReads
Fun with books! Annika and I had a nice day a while ago at the Botanic garden, where Annika was reading the whole Alice in Wonderland for me. :)
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