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Eigentlich wird das wirklich zuviel. Ich finde 12 okay, aber ich beuge mich der Mehrheit, wenn ihr alle noch mehr Leser wollt.

Grüße yelde

Ist mein erster Lesekreis, was die Anzahl der Teilnehmer betrifft, sollen das Leute entscheiden, die mehr Erfahrung haben.


Und was die Diskussionen betrifft, werde ich, was meine beiden betrifft, einen Diskussions-Thread starten (pro Buch einen, wegen Spoilern), sobald zwei bis drei Leute außer mir die Bücher gelesen haben.

Aus persönlichen Gründen muss ich bei Buchticket kürzer treten und werde mich schon etablierten Leserunden zuwenden. DA dies meine Idee ist, tut mir das besonders weh. Aber ich hoffe, ihr macht alleine weiter. Ich bedanke mich bei euch. Grüße yelde

Das ist schade, aber wenn du es nicht mehr schaffst versteh ich das.
Ich denke das läuft hier auch so ganz gut. Momentan haben wir ja noch 3 Bücher im Umlauf. Wer stellt denn als nächstes Bücher vor? Ich schaff es ja dann erst nach Weihnachten.

So langsam sollte vieleicht wieder jemsnd Bücher vorstellen.
Noch sind die drei zwar nicht durch (und da ich das Zweite erst sehr spät losgelessen habe, kann das auch dauern), aber bis alle gewählt haben und die Bücher eventuell bestellt sind, dauert es ja auch noch.

Ich werde heute einen neuen Thread mit meinen beiden Büchern aufmachen. Eins kann dann sofort auf die Reise gehen, das andere habe ich immer noch nicht gelesen :-(

Wird aber sicher noch was diesen Monat...

Ich freue mich auch auf die neuen Buchvorstellungen!

Ich bin schon dabei, mir Gedanken zu machen... eine Vorauswahl ist schon getroffen. Spätestens morgen mehr :-)

Gut, dann gucke ich wieder regelmässiger vorbei. Ich hätte bestimmt auch ein paar interessante Bücher, die ich auf Reise schicken könnte.

Ok nessie, da ich meine erste lesen möchte, wenn sie gewählt wurden, können wir ja deine Abstimmung dann gleich anschließen... dann geht der Lesekreis eben etwas stoßweise vor ;-)

Ich habe versucht, möglichst aktuelle Bücher auszuwählen, allerdings ist mein Geschmack etwas Crime lastig - so als Vorwarnung :-)

1. Sandra Brown - Smoke Screen (533 Seiten)

Five years ago a disastrous fire gutted the police headquarters. Seven people died in the flames but thanks to four brave men, most of those inside were rescued. The next day, and forever after, they would be known to the world as heroes. Now, one of them has called Britt Shelley, a hotshot newswoman, offering her the scoop of her career, and asks her to meet him. The next morning she wakes up naked in his bed to find him lying beside her - dead. She remembers nothing of the evening before but, to her horror,the police don't believe her. As the finger of blame points to her, she realises that she is the next intended victim ..

2. Terry Pratchett - Nation (300 Seiten)
KEIN SCHEIBENWELTROMAN

Finding himself alone on a desert island when everything and everyone he knows and loved has been washed away in a huge storm, Mau is the last surviving member of his nation. He's also completely alone - or so he thinks until he finds the ghost girl. She has no toes, wears strange lacy trousers like the grandfather bird and gives him a stick which can make fire. Daphne, sole survivor of the wreck of the Sweet Judy, almost immediately regrets trying to shoot the native boy. Thank goodness the powder was wet and the gun only produced a spark. She's certain her father, distant cousin of the Royal family, will come and rescue her but it seems, for now, all she has for company is the boy and the foul-mouthed ship's parrot. As it happens, they are not alone for long.Other survivors start to arrive to take refuge on the island they all call the Nation and then raiders accompanied by murderous mutineers from the Sweet Judy. Together, Mau and Daphne discover some remarkable things - including how to milk a pig and why spitting in beer is a good thing - and start to forge a new Nation.

As can be expected from Terry Pratchett, the master story-teller, this new children's novel is both witty and wise, encompassing themes of death and nationhood, while being extremely funny. Mau's ancestors have something to teach us all. Mau just wishes they would shut up about it and let him get on with saving everyone's lives!

3. Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram: A Novel (944 Seiten)

Crime and punishment, passion and loyalty, betrayal and redemption are only a few of the ingredients in Shantaram, a massive, over-the-top, mostly autobiographical novel. Shantaram is the name given Mr. Lindsay, or Linbaba, the larger-than-life hero. It means "man of God's peace," which is what the Indian people know of Lin. What they do not know is that prior to his arrival in Bombay he escaped from an Australian prison where he had begun serving a 19-year sentence. He served two years and leaped over the wall. He was imprisoned for a string of armed robberies peformed to support his heroin addiction, which started when his marriage fell apart and he lost custody of his daughter. All of that is enough for several lifetimes, but for Greg Roberts, that's only the beginning.

He arrives in Bombay with little money, an assumed name, false papers, an untellable past, and no plans for the future. Fortunately, he meets Prabaker right away, a sweet, smiling man who is a street guide. He takes to Lin immediately, eventually introducing him to his home village, where they end up living for six months. When they return to Bombay, they take up residence in a sprawling illegal slum of 25,000 people and Linbaba becomes the resident "doctor." With a prison knowledge of first aid and whatever medicines he can cadge from doing trades with the local Mafia, he sets up a practice and is regarded as heaven-sent by these poor people who have nothing but illness, rat bites, dysentery, and anemia. He also meets Karla, an enigmatic Swiss-American woman, with whom he falls in love. Theirs is a complicated relationship, and Karla's connections are murky from the outset.

Nun ein etwas älteres mit einem etwas unglücklichen Titel

4. J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific (Billard mit Kokusnüssen, 288 S)

t the age of twenty-six, Maarten Troost - who had been pushing the snooze button on the alarm clock of life by racking up useless graduate degrees and muddling through a series of temp jobs-decided to pack up his flip-flops and move to Tarawa, a remote South Pacific island in the Republic of Kiribati. He was restless and lacked direction, and the idea of dropping everything and moving to the ends of the earth was irresistibly romantic. He should have known better.

The Sex Lives of Cannibals tells the hilarious story of what happens when Troost discovers that Tarawa is not the island paradise he dreamed of. Falling into one amusing misadventure after another, Troost struggles through relentless, stifling heat, a variety of deadly bacteria, polluted seas, toxic fish-all in a country where the only music to be heard for miles around is "La Macarena." He and his stalwart girlfriend Sylvia spend the next two years battling incompetent government officials, alarmingly large critters, erratic electricity, and a paucity of food options (including the Great Beer Crisis); and contending with a bizarre cast of local characters, including "Half-Dead Fred" and the self-proclaimed Poet Laureate of Tarawa (a British drunkard who's never written a poem in his life).

With The Sex Lives of Cannibals, Maarten Troost has delivered one of the most original, rip-roaringly funny travelogues in years-one that will leave you thankful for staples of American civilization such as coffee, regular showers, and tabloid news, and that will provide the ultimate vicarious adventure.

David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle (576 S)

Born mute, speaking only in sign, Edgar Sawtelle leads an idyllic life with his parents on their farm in remote northern Wisconsin. For generations, the Sawtelles have raised and trained a fictional breed of dog whose thoughtful companionship is epitomized by Almondine, Edgar's lifelong friend and ally. But with the unexpected return of Claude, Edgar's paternal uncle, turmoil consumes the Sawtelles' once peaceful home. When Edgar's father dies suddenly, Claude insinuates himself into the life of the farm - and into Edgar's mother's affections.

Grief-stricken and bewildered, Edgar tries to prove Claude played a role in his father's death, but his plan backfires - spectacularly. Forced to flee into the vast wilderness lying beyond the farm, Edgar comes of age in the wild, fighting for his survival and that of the three yearling dogs who follow him. But his need to face his father's murderer and his devotion to the Sawtelle dogs turn Edgar ever homeward.

6. Douglas J. Preston - The Monster of Florence ( 336 Seiten) (real story)

Starred Review. United in their obsession with a grisly Italian serial murder case almost three decades old, thriller writer Preston (coauthor, Brimstone) and Italian crime reporter Spezi seek to uncover the identity of the killer in this chilling true crime saga. From 1974 to 1985, seven pairs of lovers parked in their cars in secluded areas outside of Florence were gruesomely murdered. When Preston and his family moved into a farmhouse near the murder sites, he and Spezi began to snoop around, although witnesses had died and evidence was missing. With all of the chief suspects acquitted or released from prison on appeal, Preston and Spezi's sleuthing continued until ruthless prosecutors turned on the nosy pair, jailing Spezi and grilling Preston for obstructing justice. Only when Dateline NBC became involved in the maze of mutilated bodies and police miscues was the authors' hard work rewarded. This suspenseful procedural reveals much about the dogged writing team as well as the motives of the killers. Better than some overheated noir mysteries, this bit of real-life Florence bloodletting makes you sweat and think, and presses relentlessly on the nerves.

7. Rebecca Stott - Ghostwalk (368 Seiten)

In 2002, a Cambridge historian is found dead, floating down the river Cam, a glass prism in her hand, after researching a book about a series of suspicious circumstances surrounding Newton's appointment as a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1667. That year, two Fellows died by falling down staircases, apparently drunk; another died in a field, apparently drunk; and a fourth was expelled, having gone mad-leaving vacancies for new appointments and paving the way for Newton's extraordinary scientific discoveries. When Lydia Brooke, at the request of her ex-lover, the historian's son, steps in to finish the book, strange shows of light begin to play on the walls, and papers disappear only to reappear elsewhere. And when events escalate to murder, and Lydia's rekindled romance appears increasingly implicated in the danger, the present becomes entangled with the seventeenth century, with Isaac Newton at the center of the mystery.

Filled with evocative descriptions of Cambridge, past and present, of seventeenth-century glassmaking, alchemy, the Great Plague, and Newton's scientific innovations, Ghostwalk centers on a real historical mystery that Rebecca Stott has uncovered, involving Newton's alchemy. A riveting literary thriller, Ghostwalk is a rare debut that will change the way most of us think about scientific innovation, our perception of time, and the force of history.

Bücher von Flaemmle zur Abstimmung:

1. Sandra Brown - Smoke Screen
2. Terry Pratchett - Nation
3. Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
4. J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
5. David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
6. Douglas J. Preston - The Monster of Florence
7. Rebecca Stott - Ghostwalk

abgestimmt hat:

Ich habe menollyts auch angeschrieben und, da wir ja länger nicht abgestimmt haben:
Jeder hat eine * Stimme und eine ** Stimme.

Dann mach ich mal den Anfang

1. Sandra Brown - Smoke Screen
2. Terry Pratchett - Nation
3. Gregory David Roberts - Shantaram
4. J. Maarten Troost - The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific *
5. David Wroblewski - The Story of Edgar Sawtelle **
6. Douglas J. Preston - The Monster of Florence
7. Rebecca Stott - Ghostwalk

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-Rajko