KG - English course 6: Book recommendations by Jenny https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b Pin the book you've read to the map according to where the story is set. In your note, include the following information: author, title, plot in short + your rating (out of 10). en-us 2022-03-27 10:20:17 UTC 2022-04-07 08:47:00 UTC hello@padlet.com Stratford-upon-Avon, Storbritannien jenny_lonnblad https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2123370912 Maggie O'Farrell: Hamnet (fiction)
O'Farrell's novel, set in Stratford-upon-Avon, is loosely based on the life of Shakespeare and the son he lost, Hamnet. Shakespare is never mentioned by name, but his family members are. The main characters are Agnes (the playwright's wife - Anne Hathaway), the twins Judith and Hamnet, and Susanna, their older sister. 

At the beginning of the story, in 1596, Judith comes down with a fever, but it is her twin, Hamnet, who later dies at the age of eleven. The story is about the loss of a child, how it affects a marriage, and maybe also about what Hamnet and his family might have been like, as historical figures. Four years after Hamnet's death, his father wrote a play called "Hamlet". Maybe it was his way of dealing with his grief.

This novel is fairly easy to read; short chapters, regular language, and an intriguing, but sad, story.

My rating: 8.5/10 
/Jenny

]]> 2022-03-31 11:14:41 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2123370912 Spanien https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125274171 The Spanish Love Deception
- Elena Armas
- genre: romance 
- enemies to lovers, where the main character and the love interest pretend to be in love at a wedding, the book starts in New York where they live but then they fly to Spain for the wedding.
- the theme was love and the language was fairly easy with a few exceptions  
- the main character is Catalina Martín, she is from Spain and the love interest is Aaron Blackford and he is American
- 9/10 a very nice book :)) would recommend
- it was fun, and i really liked the book it was what i had expected when i first heard of it

Emma Wik]]> 2022-04-01 11:36:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125274171 Betlehem https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125276549 Author: Matt rees
Title: The collaborator of bethlehem

Theme: Some kind of War in the town

Language: english, pretty easy to understand the language but the plot was sometimes hard to understand.

Omar yussef, a school teacher who wants to be a detective.

Rating: 7/10

The reading experience was good but the names and the israeli touch to it was weird.

Anton Lindholm]]> 2022-04-01 11:38:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125276549 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277156 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Written by J.K Rowling 
The first of many Harry Potter books
Genre:Fantasy
Theme: according to J.K Rowling the Theme is Death 
pretty easy to read language
Plot: Harry Potter becomes a wizard 
Characters: Harry potter, Ron Weasley and Hermione Granger 
8/10 good but not the best book I have read 
Pretty long book. If you like the theme and genre you will enjoy it. 
Kevin Skinnars]]> 2022-04-01 11:39:19 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277156 Middlewood, Worrall, Sheffield, Storbritannien https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277205 Celeste Ng, Everything I Never Told You, fiction, novel
Lydia (child of protagonist family) dies without family knowing. Mystery.

Thriller, english

Lydia, Marilyn, James, Nathan, hannah

Pretty good but pretty boring 7/10

It was interesting at first but then I lost interest in it]]> 2022-04-01 11:39:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277205 Lagos, Nigeria https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277383 My sister, the serial killer - Oyinkan Braithwaite

The genre was fiction.

Plot was that Koredes sister Ayoola stabbed her boyfriend for the third time. Ans she is a sociopathic. And Korede helps Ayoola to clean the evidences away.
Korede is the main character and she is a nurse. 

The language was easy to read. My opinion about the book was that it was interesting and it happened a lot. I would give it a 7.

Minda]]> 2022-04-01 11:39:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125277383 Kalifornien, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125281231 Seize the night (psychological horror)
Written by Dean Koontz

The book is about a guy named Christopher Snow. His ex-girlfriend's son has gone missing and Christopher promises to go look for him. He brings his dog along for the search but they get separated in an abandoned military base. Christopher then decides to call his friend Bobby to help for the search of the lost son as well as the dog. 

Thriller, English

The book was pretty good although it is 500 pages. It was interesting to see how the story unraveled. I'd give Seize The Night a 8/10.


]]> 2022-04-01 11:42:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125281231 Vermont, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282292 Verity

Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Crime & Thrillers

Theme and language: There were some difficult words but the book wasn't hard to read otherwise. The book consisted of a plot happening right now and also a diary that went back in time.

Characters:
 Lowen Ashleigh is a broke and small writer from New York who has a lot of trauma in her life. She likes to write and makes a living out of selling books, but she is not famous. She also sleepwalks.

Verity Crawford: She is a famous writer who has written a famous book series from the villains perspective. She got injured in a car accident so she suffers from brain injuries and needs a nurse for everything. She can't speak or make any contact after the accident. She is a psychopath.

Jeremy Crawford: Veritys husband. Suffers a lot from the loss of his twin daughters. He is handsome and calm.

Plot and setting: After Veritys accident her firm decides to take in a new author to finish her book series. The firm chooses Lowen, since her writing style is close to Veritys. Lowen moves in with Jeremy, Verity and their son to work on the books. Jeremy is suffering from the loss of his daughters and his wife illness. While staying in the house Lowen finds Veritys old diary and starts to read about her life. She finds out how psychotic Verity is and what evil things she has done. At the same time she starts to fall in love with Jeremy, who is married.

Personal opinions: I rate the book 9/10. It was the perfect mix of romance and thriller and it scared me several times while I was reading it. The book has a crazy plot twist in the end, which makes the writer question everything about the book. I liked it very much and would recommend it to anyone who likes romance and crime.

/Sonya





]]> 2022-04-01 11:43:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282292 England, UK https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282443 The sleeping murders

The book is written by Agatha Christie and was published after her death, it is a crime novel.

The book takes place in Southern England after Gwenda reed travels there to find a home before her husband moves to the UK. She does eventually find a house, but when the renovations start and the workers opens a long sealed door she discovers wallpapers that she already had in mind when renovating, doors are also placed in areas where she would have wanted them.
When she travels to London to visit family, during a play when a phrase is uttered she screams out in terror. She see's an image of herself watching a man strangling a blonde woman while uttering the same line.
The main characters in the book are Gwenda and miss Marple. Dr. Kennedy is also an important character and so is Giles Reed, Gwendas husband.
9/10 Dominic

The book was quite exciting at points and it was an excellent reading experience. I recommend this book to people who enjoy crime novels and mysteries.]]> 2022-04-01 11:43:46 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282443 Luxemburg, Luxemburg https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282497 Agatha Christie, Sparkling Cyanide
(Mystery, crime)

Agatha Christie's novel is similar to her other work, except that there is no Hercule Poirot like in her other books. This time it's a colonel Race in the role of the detective.

A family is eating dinner at a restaurant in Luxemburg. Suddenly the wife of George Barton dies from drinking champagne mixed with cyanide. The investigators say that it's suicide. 6 month later George decides to have another dinner with the same people. This time he dies in the same way. People think he also committed suicide. But George's good friend Colonel Race knew that it wasn't suicide. Turns out there he wasn't the target and the whole thing becomes a murder mystery.

The language isn't that hard if you're experienced with English. 
The book was good but it got a bit boring at some points and other times a lot was happening. 
Rating: 8.5/10

Tim ]]> 2022-04-01 11:43:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125282497 California, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125283227 The plot is about a private investigater Sergio Ross who is determined to catch his sister´s killer. Hi is covinced that his sister´s death wasn´t an accident. But with all the clues hinting at a connection to another unsolved murder he has to join forces with Helen, a woman linked to both deaths, to find the truth.

The book is romantic and have a good language.

Helen and Sergio were interesting characters and I did enjoy the majority of the story.

I liked that the characters had to work together to try and solve the case. It was sad the way certain things happened, but realistic. The romance was fine, but not a favorite. I recommend this book for the suspense/mystery. The author kept me guessing throughout the book.

my rating: 7/10
/Miranda]]> 2022-04-01 11:44:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125283227 Goa, India https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125284181 The Island, by Sarah Singelton

They are three teenagers on a gap year in Goa in India. The characters are Otto, Charlotte and Jen. Otto goes first to India, there he meets a girl and they decide to go on a date, but she does not show up. So Otto starts to look for her and finds her dead on the beach. And he ends up in the middle of a murder mystery and the police inspector Sharma, sees him as the prime suspect. When Charlotte and Jen show up they start to solve the mystery, but Otto gets kidnapped.

The theme is suspense and the genre is mystery and thriller.  

I liked the book and give it 8 out of 10, and the reading experience was good, a little hard to find motivation at first but when I got into it it was easy to read.

Erina

]]> 2022-04-01 11:45:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125284181 Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125284719 It's about time - Jeff Porcaro: The man and his music

Author: Robyn Flans
Biography

I think the language of the book was quite normal english. It wasn't too fancy nor too casual. The book is about Jeff Porcaro who was a session drummer and also the drummer for the band Toto. The book follows Jeff Porcaro from his childhood until his untimely death in 1992. The characters in the book are Jeff Porcaro himself, his family, band members and other musicians he has worked with.

8.5/10 Joel Söderström

I thought the book was quite good and also very interesting.]]> 2022-04-01 11:45:51 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125284719 Connecticut, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287127 This is where it ends
Author: Marieke Nijkamp
young adult novel

The book is about a school shooting in Opportunity High. The book is told from four perspectives over the span of 54 harrowing minutes, terror reigns as one of the student's calculated revenge turns into the ultimate game of survival.  A few characters are Autumn, Tomas, Sylv, Claire and Tyler. 

I think the book was very exciting with a few plotwists that I wasn't prepared for. I also liked when you got to read different persons perspectives from the same time. I give the book 8/10. 
/Mirella]]> 2022-04-01 11:47:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287127 London, Storbritannien https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287554 Jojo Moyes is the author that made the book "me before you".
The genre is romance fiction and drama.

The story is that a woman, Lou (Louisa) is searching for a job and then gets a job as an assistent to a man named Will (William). He was in an accident and is now paralyzed from the stomach and down. In the beginning he is really rude to her because she is really happy and energic, also he just wants to die because of the accident. Later they will fall inlove with each other, but in the end he dies from assisted suicide.
It is in english and it is a really beautiful and sad story, I´ve also watched the movie and it is really similar to the book. 
Louisa Clark (in the movie the role is played by Emilia Clarke) is the main character and she falls in love with William Traynor (in the movie the role is played by Sam Claflin). Also their families are a big part of the book, but I think Lou and Will are the most important.

I love this story and the book and I recommend reading it. It has around 480 pages. 
9/10 Amanda Forss
I usually do not read books beause I think it is boring and I always forget to keep reading it.]]> 2022-04-01 11:47:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287554 Granite City, Great Western Road, Aberdeen, Storbritannien https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287904 Twelve days of winter
The author is Stuart MacBride and the genre is crime. It is about 12 different people/caracters who live in a smal city in scotland. 

In the city there is a lot of crime and uncertainty. It's about crime, drugs and murder. The language of the text is very easy to understand. 

My rating: 8/10
/Celina



]]> 2022-04-01 11:48:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125287904 Indianapolis, Indiana, Yhdysvallat https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125289781 Title: The Fault in Our Stars

Author: John Green

Plot: the book is about a girl named Hazel Grace Lancaster who has thyroid cancer. She attends a support group where she at one meeting meets a boy named August Waters. He has had osteosarcoma and that has caused him to lose his right leg. Hazel and August find a bond and start to hang out a lot. After a while they fall in love. Hazel recommends August her favorite book "An Imperial Affliction" and he reads the book. They travel to Amsterdam to meet the author of the book because they have some questions to him about the book. After that August reveals that his cancer has returned and that he doesn't have many weeks left to live.

The book was easy to read and I liked it a lot.

9/10
-Viivi


]]> 2022-04-01 11:49:56 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125289781 The White House, Pennsylvania Avenue Northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125290151 The Midnight Runner

By Harry Petterson (Pseudonym: Jack Higgins)
Genre: Thriller, spy
Released: 2002

Plot and setting:

For context, this is the 10th book in a series.

The book is set in the 90s and follows an agent, Sean Dillon. He works for a secret branch of the US government and the president himself. Dillon is tasked with foiling an terrorist plot by a half english, half arabic countess named Kate. 

Theme and language:

The language in the book is remanicent of what you would hear in a James Bond movie. There book is violent and there's alot of talks about conspiracy. 

Characters:

Protaganist:
- Sean Dillon (former IRA pilot, speaks many languages, Irish James Bond)

Main (good) characters
- Daniel Quinn (Vietnam war veteran, senator and spy)
- The president

Villains
- Rupert (Kates sibling and top goon)
- Kate Khadesh (Richest woman in the world. Wants revenge on the president)

Personal opinion:

- The story is intriguing and unfolds nicely
- The book is comical in the way it describes violence. It's so over the top it doesn't feel right. 
- The book ends in an disappointing way. Spoiler: The countess plant is foiled but the characters doesn't change in anyway. This removes alot of tension. I guess it ends the way it does beacuse it's a book in a series.

Score:

7/10

William Sundell




]]> 2022-04-01 11:50:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125290151 Hartford, Connecticut, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125290901 Hunger games 

Author: Suzanne Collins
Plot and settings: after a brutal war and series of natural disastres, the country of Panem was formed by what was left of North America. The nation consists of the capital and thirteen districts, each specializing in an industry such as fishing, agriculture or textile production. The districts rebelled against the central government but were defeated, with the exception of District 13 wich was wiped out to set an example. To keep the districts in check and remind them of the reigme's supremacy, the Hunger Games event is held annually. A girl and a boy between the ages of 12 and 18 from each district are sent to the hunger Games, wich gives 24 "game youths". They are let into an arena that can be anything from a desert to a winter landscape. the winner is the one who survives by avoiding the dangers that exist in the arena and killing his fellow competitors. Everything is broadcast live around the clock so that the entire Panem can follow the game from their TVs. 

Theme and language: Good language!

Charaters: Peeta Mellark, Haymitch Abernathy, President Snow.....






 
]]> 2022-04-01 11:51:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125290901 Manhattan, New York, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293366 The Friend by Sigrid Nunez.

The book tells about a woman who gets her friends Great Dane after he commits suicide. The narrator of the book is the woman and it seems like she talks/writes directly to her friend even though he's dead. She talks about their friendship and love life, about his three wives and other lovers, about teaching and writing and so on. The Great Dane was found, roaming the streets, by her friend and after his suicide she recieved the old Great Dane.

The woman falls quickly in love with the dog who is called Apollo. The dog is traumatised from his past experiences and losses and we get to follow his recovery. But his health gets progressively worse because of his age.

The book talks a lot about suicide, love life /affairs and writing.

The book rating: 8/10

Anton Lindeblad]]> 2022-04-01 11:53:31 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293366 Hanau, Tyskland https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293653 The Brothers Grimm wrote Grimm's Complete Fairt Tales. 
The book is a collection of old folktales from Germany.
The language is old-fashioned and raw.
The main characters are often a royal or poor people or animals.

Ill give it a 10/10 because I enjoyed it weary much]]> 2022-04-01 11:53:48 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293653 Anne Of Green Gables https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293691 The tale is about an 11-year-old red haired orphan girl named Anne Shirley who lives on Prince Edward Island. She gets adopted by Matthew and Marilla Cuthbert, an elderly brother and sister duo who live on a farm called Green Gables. Anne starts school and also gets new friends. She brings unexpected adventure into their lives with her curiosity and imagination.

The language is more of an old english with a lot of hard words. Either way I really enjoyed the book and will read the rest of the series. If you would like to know about how it was to live as a girl in the 1900s I recommend this book. 

Anita Poti]]> 2022-04-01 11:53:50 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125293691 Verona, Italia https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125294212 Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
Tragedy

This is the story of two Italian guys, Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet. 
Between them there is an impossible love story.
Because of their surnames they cannot be together, their families are in fact fighting each other.
They decided to secretly continue their love story, devising a plan to escape and be free to love each other without any complications, but unexpected events and misunderstandings will lead them to death.

The main theme, in this book, is the unconditional love.

The book is written in fairly old English, with some words that are difficult to understand, but the context helps to understand the text.

The main characters are Romeo Montague and Juliet Capulet.
Other important characters are The Nurse, Mercutio and Friar Laurence...

This is one of the books you must read once in your life.
I liked every single character, because essential to understand the whole story.
I recommend it to everyone!

10/10!

It was a little complicated to understand the "old English", so it was longer than I expected to read it, since it is not a very long book.
But I still recommend it, because the story it is amazing!

]]> 2022-04-01 11:54:29 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125294212 Pakistan https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125294279 The fiction/fantasy book A Sky Beyond the Storm is written by Sabaa Tahir. She is a amerikan writter with roots from Pakistan.

 This book is the forth i quartet called the emberquartet. It has a four main characters, whom are all narrators. The world in the book consists of different kingdoms and tribes. The plot leads up to a final war. 

One of the main themes of the book is understanding life, right and wrong. The language can be difficult sometimes because it describes creatures from the Koran and other magical things.

The main characters are Laia, Helen, Elias and the Nigthbringer. Laia is a rebel with a special mission. Helen is a leader of her people. Elias is bound to his work and in a consent fight whether to trying to find him self or follow his duty. The Nightbringer seeks justice for his people.

I liked the book but would recommend reading the other three books in the series first. When telling my parents and friends about the book, they have found it brutal but to me it was still beautiful to.

I´d give it a 9 out of 10 

Karin Särs


]]> 2022-04-01 11:54:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125294279 Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125303560 Colleen Hoover: It Ends with Us
It Ends with Us is a book written by Colleen Hoover. The book is about Lily's life and lovelife. 

One night Lily meets Ryle. They fall in love but their relationship is complicated. Everything about him seems to be too good to be true and her life feels too good to be true. Then Lily starts to think much on her first love Aston and her dad who was violent to her mom. 

The main characters are Lily, Ryle (Lily's boyfriend), Aston (Lily's ex boyfriend) and Lily's mom and dad.

The book was easy to read and the language was easy to understand. I enjoyed reading the book. I give it 9/10.

// Nellie]]> 2022-04-01 12:02:54 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125303560 Boston, Massachusetts, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125314383 Shutter Island, is a book written by Dennis Lehanes. The book is about an criminal officer (Teddy Daniels), who is the main character. Teddy and his partner Chuck Aule is assigned to investigate a disapperance of a patient (Rachel Solando) from a mental hospital name Ashecliffe on Shutter Island.

In the beginning of the book Teddy and his partner Chuck travels to the island, but when they get there they notice that weird things are happening on the island. The pair make discoveries about the disappeared patient, but as time passes on the island Teddy starts getting suspicious of his partner Chuck as well as the whole island, including the head of the hospital and the other patients, as people are telling him stories that does not make sense. At one point in the book Teddy even finds a woman who claims she is the real Rachel. Teddy then returns to the hospital and cannot find his partner anywhere, and escapes to the lighthouse in hopes of finding Chuck. When he arrives at the lighthouse, the head of the hospital and Chuck are the only one there. The story then takes a turn, as the head of the hospital tells Teddy that he actually is a patient named Andrew who has been at the mental hospital for two years for murdering his wife Rachel.

The book was easy to read and it was so exciting that you could’nt stop reading it. I give the book a 10/10.

Linnea

]]> 2022-04-01 12:11:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125314383 New York, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125339679 Daniel Keyes: Flowers for Algernon (science fiction)

A story about a mentally disabled, 32-year-old man named Charlie Gordon. He has been chosen for an experimental surgery that researchers hope will increase his intelligence. It has been successful on a lab mouse named Algernon, but Charlie is the first human to be tested. After the surgery Charlie’s intelligence begins to gradually improve. Soon enough he’s smarter than the scientists who developed the treatment. It seems as if the experiment will be a scientific breakthrough, until Algernon’s IQ suddenly starts to get lower. 

The book deals with a lot of topics, one of them being the mistreatment of intellectually disabled. Other themes are the connection between intellect and social relationships, as well as the ethics of scientific experiments.

The story is told through progress reports written by Charlie. It’s an interesting perspective, since you can notice the different stages in his intellectual development. In the beginning there’s a lot of misspellings and very simple language, but later on it’s way more varied and complex.

I think the book was interesting, quite different from what I’ve read before, not at all what I expected, and also pretty sad.

My rating: 5.5/10 (probably because I never really got into the book, since I had a lot of other things going on)

Julia
]]> 2022-04-01 12:31:24 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125339679 Indiana, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125534922 Title: The Fault in Our Stars, author: John Green 

"The Fault in Our Stars" is a realistic fiction, a young adult novel. This book is about a girl named Hazel Grace who has thyroid cancer. When Hazel went to a support group meeting for cancer patients she met a boy with osteosarcoma, Augustus Waters. Hazel and Augustus reads each other's favorite novels and after that they went on a trip to Amsterdam, where they spent much time together and fell in love. Unfortunately, Augustus cancer has returned and he doesn't have much time left.

I liked this book very much and recommend it. 10/10

Emma K


]]> 2022-04-01 14:28:22 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2125534922 San Francisco, Kalifornien, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2127082394 Title: Ugly Love 
Author: Colleen Hoover
Rating: 9
Plot: It is a love story about a pilot and a nurse.

]]> 2022-04-03 10:58:15 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2127082394 Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128050044 Stephen Chbosky: the Perks of Being a Wallflower (drama, romance)
 
Through the novel we get to follow Charlie who lives in Pittsburgh during the early 1990. Charlie is about to start his first year
in highschool and doesn't know what to expect. To calm himself down he starts
to write letters, where he talks about all his experineces, feelings and issues.
Charlie has always been a "wallflower" a person who quietly observes
everyone and everything in his environment. In the letters we also get to
read about all of his observations. 
 
In the begging of the year Charlie meets Sam and Patrick, two older students who introduce him to new things. Charli finally get to know how it is to have true friends. 
 
The novel was easy to read: not so many pages, easy languege
to follow and intresting descriptions. The story was beautiful but also quite
sad.
 
My rating 9/10
- Tuva





]]> 2022-04-04 06:16:28 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128050044 🤬 of the Rock Lodge - Inkanatura Travel, Carretera a Manu, Las Cruces, Peru https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128229566 Fictive world

The Hunger Games
Suzanne Collins

In a dystopian society where teenagers fight to the death in the Hunger Games, 14-year-old Katniss decides to take her little sister's place in the arena to save her life

8/10
Aron
]]> 2022-04-04 08:32:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128229566 Oslo, Norge https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128467711 Title: The Son
Author: Jon Nesbo

The book is about Sonny Lofthus who is a drug addict and a drug dealer in prison. He is serving time for crimes that he did not commit. Sonny is the center of a vortex of corruption in the prison. Then one day Sonny hears some long-hidden truths about his father, that Sonnys father in fact was killed Sonny makes a brilliant escape, and begins hunting down the people responsible for the hideous crimes he's paid for.

9/10

/Anton B]]> 2022-04-04 11:55:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2128467711 Ian Rankin, Death is Not the End https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130090157 The book is set in England and it is a crime novel. The language is easy to understand.

The main character is a middle aged man that is a police. He's childhood friends son has disappeared and he agrees to help finding him. The main character talks to friends and enemies of the son who was last seen in a bar. Other character in the book are the over of the bar, his police friends, the sons girlfriend and other friends.

In my opinion the book was quite boring and uninteresting, but it was readable. I rate it 5/10

Axel Schauman]]> 2022-04-05 06:25:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130090157 Massachusetts, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130090297 The dog who danced written by Susan Wilson
fiction novel

The theme in the main characters life is loss, she's lost people she loved but now also her dog.
Justine Meade is the main character but the dog is a very important character too. 

The book is about Justine and her dog Mack, they are going on a roadtrip from Massachusetts to Brooklyn but on the way there they loose each other. Justine then starts searching for Mack.

When reading the book you can read from both Justines perspective but also from the dogs perspective. 

The book was easy to read but also interesting, especially if you are a dog lover and like stories that have something deeper and more emotional behind it. 

I give the book 9/10

Aona




]]> 2022-04-05 06:25:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130090297 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130092789 Harry Potter and the Philosopher's stone
J.K.Rowling
Fantasy


This book is about Harry Potter, an orphan who lives in London with the Dursleys. Harry is getting a lot of letters about Hogwarts, the wizarding school. His uncle Vernon is angry and he's hiding the letters from Harry until Hagrid pays a visit and takes Harry to Hogwarts. At Hogwarts Harry finds his new way of living and his life will change forever...

The main characters are Harry, Ron, Hermione, Hagrid, Dumbledore and Voldemort.

Grade: 8


Oskar Rönnblom]]> 2022-04-05 06:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130092789 Death on the Nile -Agatha Christie https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130093003 The Novel was written by the author Agatha Christie. The book was written year 1937. It's a detective story with the detective Hercule Poirot in the main role.

Hercule Poirot is on a vacation in Egypt. He has taken a break from his work and he needs to rest. He is living on a fancy hotel but out of nowhere he ends up in the middle of a trouble between som people that are deeply in love. But unfortunately there is two women and one man, and the man is married to one of them. After breaking up with the first one a bit earlier before the trip. The unlucky woman is stalking them on their honeymoon and things are fast getting worse. Out of nowhere Hercule Poirot now has multiple murders to solve...

The language in the book is pretty easy to understand. It's extremely entertaining even if I didn't solve the mystery. It was even quite unpleasant when I find out what really happened. 

I really loved the book and I even went and saw the movie that is based on the book but I got a little disappointed. They changed many things from the book in the movie and it quite destroyed my experience.

The book 9/10 and the movie gets 5/10.

/Zacharias Wikström

]]> 2022-04-05 06:27:21 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130093003 With our Blessing - Jo Spain (Crime novel) https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130093905 Detective Tom Reynolds is investigating a recent murder in a city park in Dublin when he finds connections to a heap of decades-old crimes. In 1975 a baby is abducted from its mother only minutes after its birth. 35 years later a reeking fresh corpse of a nun is found in a city park, and the weirdest thing of it all, these crimes seems to have a connection. Reynolds goes on a search for the missing links to puzzle these crimes together and eventually finds the gruesome truth.

The book takes place in the city of Dublin during the early 2010s. The description of the environment makes the reading more cozy but also thrilling at the same time.

The language used in the book was fairly simple and easy to comprehend. The text in the book was also written in quite a big font which made reading the 400 page-long-book not so prolonged at all.

The very dramatic beginning of the book made the "middle-pages" a bit too long but otherwise it was a decent book. 7/10¨

-Emil]]> 2022-04-05 06:28:05 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130093905 Chicago, Illinois, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130096446 This books title is Four and the author is Veronica Roth. The genre of this book is action and adventure. 

This book is a collection of 5 different stories in the divergent collection. The main books are Divergent, Insurgent and Allegiant. 

"Four" is a prequel to the main 3 books. 

The 5 stories that are collected in this book are "The Transfer, "The Initiate", "The Son", "The Traitor" and three exclusive scenes.

The book is set in a dystopian world in Chicago. The people that live in chicago are split in to factions depending on their own personal traits. 


The book is set in a dystopian chicago that occurs after a war that has destroyed the world. Tobias Eaton has just changed his faction to dauntless and tries to rise up in the ranks. He learns more about himself and meets new important characters. 

The theme of the book is excititing and adventurous. The language used is not too advanced but a good understanding of the English language is definetly needed. 

The main character is Tobias Eaton or as he is called "Four". He is a brave and generous character. 

The co-main character is Beatrice Prior "Tris". She learns the way of the dauntless faction and more about the "truth". 

My personal opinions about the book are that the book is a very well written book and it's easy to put yourself in the world of the book. I would give a personal rating of 9/10.


 

]]> 2022-04-05 06:30:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130096446 Helsingfors, Finland https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130097463 101 Very Finnish Problems 
-Joel Willans
-Biography

This book is about Joel Willans, a Brit, when he visited Finland for love but he ended up falling in love with the country. He now lives in Finland since 2002. This book has everything you need as a reader to know about Finland if you may visit it. For example "when people stare at you in the eye, but ignore you when you say hello". 

This book is easy to read and quite short. It  is fun to read it as a Finn because you get to know yourself how others view you. 
- 9
-Amanda


]]> 2022-04-05 06:30:59 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130097463 New York, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130098447 They both die at the end, Adam Silvera (romance, YA-fiction)

They both die at the end is a story about two boys who know they will die today. In the world they live in there's this thing called "Death Cast" who calls you on the day you die. The boys don't know each other before the day they die and meet through an app called "Last Friend". During their last day together they do a lot of new stuff and they are in several situations were they are close to death.

The characters are Matteo and Rufus. Matteo is 18 and very shy. He has one friend. His mum is dead and his dad is in a coma. Rufus' family is dead and he lives in an orphanage. He is 17 and isn't always within the law. They are very different each other. 

The language was easy to understand for me. You have to be able to read a little between the lines to understand what's happening sometimes. Personally I give this book a 8/10. 

/Liza ]]> 2022-04-05 06:31:44 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130098447 South Alabama Regional, Andalusia, Alabama, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130101426 Harper Lee: To kill a mockingbird (fiction)
The novel is set in a fictional town, Maycomb, in South Alabama. The book is written from a little girl, Scout's, perspective. Her father, Atticus Finch, is a lawyer and takes on a case where he defends a black man who is accused with 🤬 of a white girl. This has an impact on the whole family and it affects Scout. 

The story is from the thirties, so it's a very different environment from now. It's about racism, and how Scout and her brother is affected by what's happening around them. 

I think the novel was quite hard to read, when you're not used to english dialects. It took a while to get into the book, but beside that I think that it's a well written story. It deals with things that also is important today. 

My rating: 8/10
/Felicia Jansson




]]> 2022-04-05 06:34:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130101426 USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130101490 Judy Blume: It's Not the End of the World (yuong adult novel)

It is about a girl named Karen and her family. Karen have a brother Jeff and a little sister Amy. She also has a cat named Mew that only loves Karen. 

Her parents fight all the time and they have decided that they are getting a divorce. Karen meets a new friend named Val and she says it is normal to get a divorce. But it is not that easy for Karen. 

Karen have promised her Grafa (granfather) that she will get them back together. But in the end they never get back together even when she as tried many times. 

I think the book was very easy to understand. 

My rating: 7/10 
/Maya Vehkoja]]> 2022-04-05 06:34:10 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130101490 Sunset Boulevard, Los Angeles, Kalifornien, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130102837 The book W. Axl Rose The unauthorized Biography by Mick Wall is a biography about the frontman of Guns N Roses; Axl Rose.
The book is about Axls childhood and life. In the beginning it is set in Lafayette, Indiana, later Axl moves to LA. 
The book was fairly easy to read and had a normal language. The theme was music and the bands destructive lifestyle.

I thougt the book was very good 9/10. You get alot of insight in Axls life and you understand him more as a person.

It was a fun and thrilling book to read.

Michelle Martin

]]> 2022-04-05 06:35:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130102837 Washington State University, Pullman, Washington, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130103740 It's a story about a girl, Tessa, seeking her independence from her controlling mom and the boy she doesn't love. Tessa moves out to attend a college in Washington. Tessas dorm mate introduces her to a boy, Hardin Scott, who stands for everything Tessa detests, and she falls for him.

The main character is Tessa Young, an organised and well-behaved girl who are not used to the life her new friends live. Hardin Scott is a tattooed rebel who only loves himself.

The book is written in standard/modern english, so the book is easy to understand.

I loved this book, I've seen the movie before and the book is so much better. I give it a 9/10.
/Felicia L]]> 2022-04-05 06:35:55 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130103740 Skottland, Storbritannien https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130104499

Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

J.K.Rowling

It follows Harry Potter's struggles through his fifth year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, including the surreptitious return of the antagonist Lord Voldemort, exams, and an obstructive Ministry of Magic. The Order of the Phoenix is a secret organisation in the Harr Potter universe. It was founded by Albus Dumbledore to fight Lord Voldemort and his followers, the Death Eaters.

The language is generally easy to understand.

It was a pleacent read for me. Nothing else to say really.
8/10


Joel






]]> 2022-04-05 06:36:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130104499 Oldcastle, County Meath, Irlanti https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130105906 Twelve Days of Winter by Stuart MacBride, a crime novel.
The book is about 12 different people and the different crimes and drama they go through the twelve days before christmas. The book has 12 different chapters and each is about a different person, all the stories are somehow connected with each other. The story is set in a town in Ireland and every story is very dark and twisted.

The theme is crime and how it affects people. The language was pretty easy to read.

The characters are:
1. Fat Billy Partridge, he is a drug addict turned burglar because of some debt he owes a drug dealer named Dillon Black.

2. The second one is Sandra and she works at the mortuary int he city and examines three different suicide cases.

3. The third ones are the French chef Philippe and the restaurant owner Alexander, they work at a restaurant in the city. They have to get rid of a body Alexander found in the freezer.

4. The fourth chapter is about Tracy, she is a pregnant woman that works in an office with salesmen and women who work with telephone-sex. Tracy tries to make som extra money for her mothers funeral as one of the call girls because they make more money than her.

5. Mr Unwin, he works at the funeral home in the city, which he owns. He is preparing his business partners wife for her funeral.

6. Then there is Kathy Geddes, a prisoner. And Val Macintyre her prison guard. Kathy has a baby she doesn't want ans Val can't have children of her own, so they strike a deal.

7. James Kirkhill, he is a swim team coach for the girls under 15. One of his swimmers dies on a field trip and the police is investigating him.

8. The eight one is Brian Calder, he is a 13-year-old drug dealer and sells drugs for Dillon Black, he gets a job offer from Big Johnny that he had to take after Big Johnny threatened  him.

9. Andy "Twitch" McKay, Andy was Fat Billy's partner in the theft and he still owes Dillon money. Andy is at a strip club trying to drink his sorrows away and is flirting with a stripper.

10. Lord Peter Fortsyth-Leven is a rich man pondering over suicide and having flashbacks to events in his life. He is also the guy that Fat Billy and Andy robbed.

11. Craig and Stephen Wilson (a.k.a. mall santa). Craigs wife cheated on him with a mall santa, but she didn't say who or in which mall he works. Craig is on a whiskey bender in the mall with a gun.

12. The last people are DI George "Stinky" McClain and PC Ewan Richardson. PC Richardson finds out he has HIV and the police are on their way to bust the drug lord Dillon black.

I liked this book, it was short and interesting I'd probably give it a 9. There were so many twists in this book and you could never figure out where the story was heading. 

- Evelina]]> 2022-04-05 06:37:45 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130105906 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130106738 The Fault in Our Stars (romance novel)
- John Green

The book written by John Green is a romance novel mostly based on how it is to suffer from cancer. Hazel, a 16-year-old teenager suffers from cancer and knows that she'll die soon. She attends meetings where she meets a boy named Augustus. The boy is also sick and lives with osteosarcoma, bone cancer. Even though Hazel was a bit "off" against Augustus in the beginning, the couple fall deeply in love and explore life together. 

John Green has a very beautiful and poetic language. He writes and express feelings through quotes, for example "My thoughts are stars I can't fathom into costellations". The quotes make the reading a lot more interesting and deep. 

I think the book was really good. The author writes about sad subjects, and I got very emotional at some parts. I'd give the book a 9/10. Sometimes it was a bit hard to tag along but I did find the book very interesting and beautiful. I do recommend the book strongly.

- Janina


]]> 2022-04-05 06:38:26 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130106738 Sydney, Australia https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130111130 Sydney, Australia

Jo Nesbo, "The bat"

This book is about a norwegian detective, named Harry Hole. He travels to Australia to take part in the investigation of the murder on a norwegian woman, Inger Holter. The investigation is led by the local detective Andrew Kensington, and together Harry and Andrew try to find out who murdered Inger, whose death seems to be a part of a long list of unsolved murders. This leads to many suspects and shocking findings. Eventually Harry finds the murderer, but by then it might already be too late...

The story in this book is set in Sydney, Australia. Most of the book takes place in various locations around Sydney, such as the Police station and local parks.

The main character of this book is Harry Hole, a Norwegian police officer. He is very respected as a detective but has a fairly unclear background. He is known to fall into bad habits, such as drinking, when he consideres himself unsuccesful. Other important characters are Andrew (local detective) and Robin Toowoomba (local boxer)

The book is written in a standard English language, which made it easy to understand. This was the first book in the Harry Hole series, and it was really good!

I rate it a 9/10,
/Jakob]]> 2022-04-05 06:41:52 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130111130 Edinburgh, Storbritannien (around here) https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130117083 Edward St Aubyn: Dunbar (fiction)

The story is about a business man who gives his corporation to his daughters. their relationship suffers and he is placed in a care home. this is basically a prison for him and he escapes but his family is closely behind.

The theme I'm picking up is regret and the language was quite hard to understand because of the happy use of extravagant words. 

Dunbar is the main character, Peter is his drunken friend and the daughters.

I liked the book but it was a bit dull at times and a bit hard to understand sometimes but I give it a 8/10

Marcus Liimatainen]]> 2022-04-05 06:46:27 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130117083 Kabul, Afghanistan https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130125821 A Thousand Splendid Suns

Author: Khaled Hosseini 
Genre: Novel

This book is about the women of Afghanistan during the late 20th century. The book tells the story of Mariam and Laila. When Mariam is fifteen, she is sent to Kabul to marry Rasheed, who is over 40. Almost two decades later, a friendship forms between Mariam and a local teenager, Laila, as strong as the bond between mother and daughter. 

The book's  theme is that love can make people act in unexpected ways, and a mothers love.

The language in the book is a bit difficult, I wouldn't recommend it as the first English book you read.

I liked the book, it was intriguing and heartbreaking.

Reading the book I got all the feels.

Grade: 9/10 
Nella Heikkinen]]> 2022-04-05 06:53:08 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130125821 West Hollywood, Kalifornien, USA https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130127848 The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo

Author: Taylor Jenkins Reid
Genre: Romance novel

The book is about an old Hollywood star, Evelyn Hugo who tells her life story to an unknown reporter. Throughout the book you get to know about her rise to fame, her seven marriages and her secrets and lies. 

The book is set in both Hollywood in the 50's to the 80's and the present.

The book explores themes of loyalty, betrayal, loss, love and more. The language in the book was written in a way that made the book easy to understand. 

The two main characters in the book is the reporter, Monique Grant and the woman who the story is about, Evelyn Hugo.

I really enjoyed reading the book.

Grade: 8/10 Elin Källroos]]> 2022-04-05 06:54:43 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2130127848 Looking for Alaska https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2132384108 Title: Looking for Alaska

Author: John Green 

Plot: The story is split in two parts: before and after. A student named Miles Harter arrives to a boarding school and meets a girl named Alaska. He gets to know her and at the same time he slowly falls in love with her. But as he spends more time with her, he finds put that her life isn’t as perfect as he thought.

My rating: 9/10

/ Elvira Appel







]]> 2022-04-06 10:41:06 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2132384108 One of Us Is Lying https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2134221124 5 people got detention and then one of them died. Simon was the one who died and the other four was Nate, Addy, Bronwyn and Cooper. Then the other four became suspects int the murder. Bronwyns boyfriend nate got arrested one time because they found things in his locker. But it was Simon him self who was the murder. He just hated the other four so he set up everything and wanted them to go in jail. In the end they found out that Simon killed him self and took help from Addys boyfriend Jack.

9/10

Emilia Boberg]]> 2022-04-07 08:41:39 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2134221124 Two can keep a seacret https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2134228115 The book takes place in a small town. Ellery's mom is from there but Ellery has never been there. Ellery's aunt went missing there at age seventeen. And only five years ago, a homecoming queen was killed. Now Ellery has to move there to live with a grandmother she barely knows. And before school even begins for Ellery, the killer might be back and promises to kill again. And another girl goes missing.
I would give it 9/10.
Celina Österback]]> 2022-04-07 08:47:00 UTC https://padlet.com/jenny_lonnblad/671ernygcysyyb3b/wish/2134228115