Thrifted some books
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This is an overdue post. I think I went to the second hand bookshop more than a week ago because I had quite a few books I wanted to unhaul. I gave like more than twelve books and I only got to buy five more. A bit sad about that but issokay, I still managed to get some books.
(Blurb from Goodreads)
Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.
Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.
But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home
The reason I bought this even though I have already read it is because I wanted to collect the entire Skulduggery Pleasant series.
(Blurb from Goodreads)
They open a door and enter a world
NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever.
I havent read the entire Narnia series which I think is a shame. I have read like three and am planning on finishing this series as well. Since I also dont any of the books I decided to buy this one.
(Blurb from Goodreads)
Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born.
This sounded interesting hence why I bought. I didnt even read the blurb properly when I bought it but came home and checked goodreads. Apparently its a steampunk/science fic sort of novel. Also the reviews are okay so I dont know what to expect.
(Blurb from Goodreads)
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
I think I saw a movie of the same name but I didnt watch the whole thing so now I want to read the book then watch the movie. I have also eard great things about Salman Rushdie.
(Blurb from Goodreads)
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
It's Agatha Christie.
That's it.
That's the reason.
The Big Bad Wolf is in a month insha Allah. Pretty excited for it 😁
Till next time.
With love,
This is an overdue post. I think I went to the second hand bookshop more than a week ago because I had quite a few books I wanted to unhaul. I gave like more than twelve books and I only got to buy five more. A bit sad about that but issokay, I still managed to get some books.
- Skulduggery Pleasant : Playing with Fire // Derek Landy
Skulduggery and Valkyrie are facing a new enemy: Baron Vengeous, who is determined to bring back the terrifying Faceless Ones and is crafting an army of evil to help him. Added to that, Vengeous is about to enlist a new ally (if he can raise it from the dead): the horrible Grotesquery, a very unlikable monster of legend.
Once Vengeous is on the loose, dead bodies and vampires start showing up all over Ireland. Now pretty much everybody is out to kill Valkyrie, and the daring detective duo faces its biggest challenge yet.
But what if the greatest threat to Valkyrie is just a little closer to home
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The reason I bought this even though I have already read it is because I wanted to collect the entire Skulduggery Pleasant series.
- Narnia : The Lion, The Witch, The Wardrobe // C.S.Lewis
(Blurb from Goodreads)
They open a door and enter a world
NARNIA...the land beyond the wardrobe, the secret country known only to Peter, Susan, Edmund, and Lucy...the place where the adventure begins. Lucy is the first to find the secret of the wardrobe in the professor's mysterious old house. At first, no one believes her when she tells of her adventures in the land of Narnia. But soon Edmund and then Peter and Susan discover the Magic and meet Aslan, the Great Lion, for themselves. In the blink of an eye, their lives are changed forever.
↠•↞
I havent read the entire Narnia series which I think is a shame. I have read like three and am planning on finishing this series as well. Since I also dont any of the books I decided to buy this one.
- Incarceron // Catherine Fisher
(Blurb from Goodreads)
Incarceron -- a futuristic prison, sealed from view, where the descendants of the original prisoners live in a dark world torn by rivalry and savagery. It is a terrifying mix of high technology -- a living building which pervades the novel as an ever-watchful, ever-vengeful character, and a typical medieval torture chamber -- chains, great halls, dungeons. A young prisoner, Finn, has haunting visions of an earlier life, and cannot believe he was born here and has always been here. In the outer world, Claudia, daughter of the Warden of Incarceron, is trapped in her own form of prison -- a futuristic world constructed beautifully to look like a past era, an imminent marriage she dreads. She knows nothing of Incarceron, except that it exists. But there comes a moment when Finn, inside Incarceron, and Claudia, outside, simultaneously find a device -- a crystal key, through which they can talk to each other. And so the plan for Finn's escape is born.
↠•↞
This sounded interesting hence why I bought. I didnt even read the blurb properly when I bought it but came home and checked goodreads. Apparently its a steampunk/science fic sort of novel. Also the reviews are okay so I dont know what to expect.
- Midnight's Children // Salman Rushdie
(Blurb from Goodreads)
Saleem Sinai was born at midnight, the midnight of India's independence, and found himself mysteriously "handcuffed to history" by the coincidence. He is one of 1,001 children born at the midnight hour, each of them endowed with an extraordinary talent - and whose privilege and curse it is to be both master and victims of their times. Through Saleem's gifts - inner ear and wildly sensitive sense of smell - we are drawn into a fascinating family saga set against the vast, colourful background of the India of the 20th century.
↠•↞
I think I saw a movie of the same name but I didnt watch the whole thing so now I want to read the book then watch the movie. I have also eard great things about Salman Rushdie.
- Death on the Nile // Agatha Christie
(Blurb from Goodreads)
The tranquillity of a cruise along the Nile is shattered by the discovery that Linnet Ridgeway has been shot through the head. She was young, stylish and beautiful, a girl who had everything - until she lost her life. Hercule Poirot recalls an earlier outburst by a fellow passenger: 'I'd like to put my dear little pistol against her head and just press the trigger.' Yet in this exotic setting, nothing is ever quite what it seems.
↠•↞
It's Agatha Christie.
That's it.
That's the reason.
The Big Bad Wolf is in a month insha Allah. Pretty excited for it 😁
Till next time.
With love,
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