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Title: Blue (For the Love of Purple #2)
Author: Audrey Faye
Genre: Fiction
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 158 pages
Date read: January 2021, October 2024

Blue’s a builder. A content one, now that she’s found a town that respects her skills and it’s finally stopped raining.

Grim wasn’t expecting anyone to walk in the door of his studio, but he knows better than to ignore the clay when it starts whispering. He just wishes it had something a little less mysterious to say about the woman with dusty boots and wary eyes.

Romance isn’t what either of them are looking for. But it might sneak up on them anyhow.


A lot better than the first one. I loved seeing Blue and Grim together, and read most of it with a huge smile on my face. Just goes to show that I'd much rather read about carpentry and clay throwing than chart reading any day of the week ;-) And the characters are charming as always. Can't wait for the last book in the series now!

Title: Ready Player Two
Author: Ernest Cline
Genre: Sci-fi
Rating: 4/5
# pages: Audiobook ~14hrs
Date read: January 2021

An unexpected quest. Two worlds at stake. Are you ready?

Days after Oasis founder James Halliday's contest, Wade Watts makes a discovery that changes everything. Hidden within Halliday's vault, waiting for his heir to find, lies a technological advancement that will once again change the world and make the Oasis thousand times more wondrous, and addictive, than even Wade dreamed possible. With it comes a new riddle and a new quest. The last Easter egg from Halliday, hinting at a mysterious prize. And an unexpected, impossibly powerful, and dangerous new rival awaits, one who will kill millions to get what he wants. Wade's life and the future of the Oasis are again at stake, but this time the fate of humanity also hangs in the balance.


Surprisingly enough, I think I actually preferred this one to the first one. I thought part of the first one dragged, but didn't have the same problem with this one at all! Of course, that might also have been because I listened to this as an audiobook, and as always, Wil Wheaton did a brilliant job narrating it!

I will have to agree with the people who complain that it follows the exact same formula as the first one (that's never stopped anybody before though - "Catching Fire", I'm looking at you!), but I appreciated that the High Five immediately banded together again, and listened to each others' strengths depending on the world in question. It's really difficult to review this book without spoiling it though, so will leave it at that I thought it brought some interesting ethical issues to light.

However, at the end of the day it was very obviously a sequel written to appease the fans, and I hope that Ernest Cline will let the world rest here.

Title: The 52 Week Project: How I Fixed My Life by Trying a New Thing Every Week for a Year
Author: Lauren Keenan
Genre: Memoir
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 272
Date read: January 202

1It was winter. Lauren Keenan was separated from her husband, lonely, and miserable. Then came the night of Twenty-Seven Rejections of Doom: she asked twenty-seven people to hang out one Friday night, and every single person said no.Lauren realised her life wasn't working for her and that she needed to change it. It was time to try something new. Fifty-two new things, in fact. She made a resolution: she'd try 52 new things in 52 weeks.

From zip lining to entering a stand-up comedy night; swimming with sharks to detoxing from social media; giving up alcohol for six months to going to a music festival alone; Lauren put herself out there with surprising results.

Her year of new experiences was a game changer. It repaired her relationship with her husband, she regained confidence in herself, and she realised how satisfying it can be to push yourself to your limits and to do things on your own..


Disclaimer: I know the author, and am in fact mentioned in this book on enough occasions to make me awfully chuffed :-D

With that bias clearly stated, I really enjoyed the book. It was right up my aisle along with other inspirational memoirs like "The Happiness Project" by Gretchen Rubin and "Sorry I'm Late, I Didn't Want to Come" by Jessican Pan - I especially found a LOT of similarities between this and "The Happiness Project".

I love the idea of trying out 52 new things in a year, and remember the brainstorming that happened on FB when Lauren first asked the question. I was thrilled to see how many of the suggestions came to pass and that it was an awesome mix of adrenaline rushes (both of the shark and of the putting-oneself-out-there variety), self-help/self-care, relationship-building and just plain fun!

All in all I found it extremely relatable (another person who's gone from talking on the phone for hours on end, to feeling like an intruder whenever I want to call "just to chat"!!! Somebody who PUT INTO WORDS what's so amazing about an old friend!!) and extremely inspirational. Which 52 new things would I be brave enough to try?

(And for personal reasons, I loved the epilogue :-D ).

Title: Grønt støv (Louise Rick #1) (Green Dust)
Author: Sara Blædel
Genre: Crime
Rating: 4/5
# pages: 355 pages
Date read: May 2014, January 2021

One weekend, two murders. A young girl is found strangled in a park and a journalist has been killed in the courtyard behind the Royal Hotel

Detective Louise Rick is put on the case concerning the young girl, but quickly becomes involved in the other case as well, when it turns out that her best friend, Camilla Lind, crime reporter at Morgenavisen, knew the victim and is determined to solve it herself.

Louise tries to keep her friend from hedding into deep water, but Camilla isn't the type who listens to advice when she's on the trail of a good story... especially when people from the drug scene suddenly approach her.


Quite an interesting read, especially since it describes the life of a Danish police officer quite thoroughly and, according to a friend of mine who works for the police, rather accurately.

Quite amusing to read this after having gotten addicted to CSI and discovering how many things are much the same (like AFIS) and how many absolutely aren't (CSI are playing a bit fast and loose with how long it takes to get results from a DNA test).

I did think the friendship between Louise and Camilla was a bit more tell than show in this book unfortunately. It wasn't always entirely obvious why they were friends, but if I recall correctly this improves in the later books.