Library Haul!

Afternoon lovelies! This is just going to be a short post to show you the books I just took out from the library. Hopefully there will be reviews on at least a few of these in the next couple of weeks. 

Love and Other Near Death Experiences by Mil Millington

'Rob Garland is getting married in two months. Oddly, however, this is the least of his problems. More vexing than the seating arrangements, the choice of wedding stationary - more even than the savagely obscene expense of everything - is the fact that Rob should be dead: and he knows it. He should have been sitting in a pub at the very moment it was wiped from the earth... But he wasn't - thanks only to a series of pointless coincidences. 

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Life; death; defining moments; existential angst and whether or not you should take sugar in your coffee - Love and Other Near Death Experiences is a jack-knifing comedy about those things which are no laughing matter. 

We Are Here by Michael Marshall 

When David knocks into a total stranger in New York he hears two words that change his life for ever: Remember me. Now mysterious, unexplainable things keep happening, and David can't shake the feeling that someone is watching him. 

John and his girlfriend Kristina agree to help a friend who believes she is being stalked. But as they dig deeper, what they uncover is far bigger and more complex than anyone could have imagined. 

We know who you are. We know where you live. You might not be able to see us now, but rest assured... We are here. 

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

Three armies march on New Prentisstown, each one intent on destroying the others. Todd and Viola are caught in the middle, with no chance of escape. 

As the battle a commence, how can they hope to stop the fighting? How can there ever be peace when they're so hopelessly outnumbered? And if war makes monsters of men, what terrible choices await? 

But then a third voice breaks into the battle, one bent on revenge...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

IT IS 1939. NAZI GERMANY. THE COUNTRY IS HOLDING ITS BREATH. DEATH HAS NEVER BEEN BUSIER, AND WILL BECOME BUSIER STILL.

Liesel Meminger and her brother are being taken be their mother to live with a foster family outside Munich. Liesel's father was taken away on the breath of a single, unfamiliar word - Kommunist - and Liesel sees the fear of a similar fate in her mother's eyes. On the journey, Death visits the young boy, and notices Liesel. It will be the first of many nearer encounters. By her brother's graveside, Liesel's life is changed when she picks up a single object, partially hidden in the snow. It is "The Gravedigger's Handbook", left there by accident, and it is her first act of book thievery. So begins a love affair with books and words, as Liesel, with the help of her accordion-playing foster father, learns to read. Soon she is stealing books from Nazi book-burnings, the mayor's wife's library, wherever there are books to be found. But these are dangerous times. When Liesel's foster family hides a Jewish fist-fighter in their basement, Liesel's world is both opened up, and closed down.

Catch-22 by Joseph Heller 

Set in the closing months of World War 2 in an American bomber squadron off the coast of Italy, Catch-22 is the story of a bombardier named Yossarian who is frantic and furious because thousands of people he has never even met keep trying to kill him. Joseph Heller's best selling novel is a hilarious and tragic satire on military madness, and the tale of one man's efforts to survive it. 

There will also be a lifestyle post that will go up tonight so have a good day!