{"id":19908,"date":"2021-09-05T07:50:50","date_gmt":"2021-09-05T05:50:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/?p=19908"},"modified":"2023-07-27T15:44:28","modified_gmt":"2023-07-27T13:44:28","slug":"boeken-over-boeken-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/2021\/09\/boeken-over-boeken-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Boeken over boeken #1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181115_094016_128-e1542888528782.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-15344 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/11\/IMG_20181115_094016_128-e1542888528782.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"363\" height=\"363\" \/><\/a>Deze blogpost stond al enkele jaren tussen mijn concepten. De reden dat ik het steeds voor me uitschoof was omdat ik al een vermoeden had dat dit een beetje uit de hand kon lopen. Wat dat betreft had ik helemaal gelijk. In plaats van een cover -of titelpost wilde ik het een keer hebben over boeken waarin boeken centraal staan. Boeken over boeken dus \u00e9n wat zijn er daar veel van.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Alle boeken vermelden die hiervoor in aanmerking komen is dus sowieso een mission impossible. Blijkbaar leek zelfs een beperkte selectie te omvangrijk om in \u00e9\u00e9n blogpost te delen.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Dus krijgen jullie de komende weken verschillende van dit soort lijstjes voorgeschoteld. Vandaag toon ik jullie een selectie boeken voor volwassenen waarin zowel boeken als lezen een grote rol spelen. De volledige serie zal vermoedelijk 8 blogposts bevatten. Ik waarschuw jullie bij deze alvast dat mijn boekenwenslijst tijdens het samenstellen van deze lijstjes behoorlijk is aangegroeid en dat ik niet aansprakelijk ben indien jullie hetzelfde overkomt.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thebookishlifeofninahill-e1570190681896.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-17276 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/10\/thebookishlifeofninahill-e1570190681896.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"481\" \/><\/a><strong>The Bookish Life of Nina Hill &#8211; Abbi Waxman<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, an excellent trivia team and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there might be more to life than reading, she just shrugs and picks up a new book.<\/p>\n<p>So when the father she never knew existed dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! She&#8217;ll have to Speak. To. Strangers.<\/p>\n<p>And if that wasn&#8217;t enough, Tom, her trivia nemesis, has turned out to be cute, funny and interested in getting to know her&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s time for Nina to turn her own fresh page, and find out if real life can ever live up to fiction. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41HuCKAzC9S._SY346_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19909 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41HuCKAzC9S._SY346_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"217\" height=\"326\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41HuCKAzC9S._SY346_.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41HuCKAzC9S._SY346_-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 217px) 100vw, 217px\" \/><\/a>Must Love Books &#8211; Shauna Robinson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When Nora landed an editorial assistant position at Parsons Press, it was her first step towards The Dream Job. Because, honestly, is there anything dreamier than making books for a living? But after five years of lunch orders, finicky authors, and per my last emails, Nora has come to one grand conclusion: Dream Jobs do not exist.<\/p>\n<p>With her life spiraling and the Parsons staff sinking, Nora gets hit with even worse news. Parson&#8217;s is cutting her already unlivable salary. Unable to afford her rent and without even the novels she once loved as a comfort, Nora decides to moonlight for a rival publisher to make ends meet&#8230;and maybe poach some Parson&#8217;s authors along the way.<\/p>\n<p>But when Andrew Santos, a bestselling Parsons author no one can afford to lose is thrown into the mix, Nora has to decide where her loyalties lie. Her new Dream Job, ever-optimistic Andrew, or&#8230;herself and her future.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51WrWoumywL._SY346_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19910 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51WrWoumywL._SY346_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"220\" height=\"331\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51WrWoumywL._SY346_.jpg 230w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51WrWoumywL._SY346_-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 220px) 100vw, 220px\" \/><\/a>The Department of Rare Books and Special Collections &#8211; Eva Jurczyk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Liesl Weiss long ago learned to be content working behind the scenes in the distinguished rare books department of a large university, managing details and working behind the scenes to make the head of the department look good. But when her boss has a stroke and she&#8217;s left to run things, she discovers that the library&#8217;s most prized manuscript is missing.<\/p>\n<p>Liesl tries to sound the alarm and inform the police about the missing priceless book, but is told repeatedly to keep quiet, to keep the doors open and the donors happy. But then a librarian unexpectedly stops showing up to work. Liesl must investigate both disappearances, unspooling her colleagues&#8217; pasts like the threads of a rare book binding as it becomes clear that someone in the department must be responsible for the theft. What Liesl discovers about the dusty manuscripts she has worked among for so long\u2015and about the people who care for and revere them\u2015shakes the very foundation on which she has built her life.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/juliette-of-het-geluk-van-boeken-e1532278795630.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-14492 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/juliette-of-het-geluk-van-boeken-e1532278795630.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"243\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>Juliette of het geluk van boeken &#8211; C.F\u00e9ret &#8211; Fleury<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Het leven van Juliette, een jonge en dromerge Parisienne, is saai en voorspelbaar. Haar uitlaatklep: boeken. Op weg naar haar werk gebruikt ze haar tijd in de metro om te lezen. Soms oberserveert ze de mensen om haar heen, die net als zij in verhalen zijn verdiept.<\/p>\n<p>Het oude vrouwtje dat langzaam bladert. De man met de insectenencyclopedie. Een vrouw die altijd precies op pagina 247 in huilen uitbarst. Het fascineert Juliette wat boeken met mensen doen. In een opwelling besluit ze op een dag twee haltes eerder uit te stappen. Daar ontmoet ze Soliman, een vereenzaamde man die zich omringt met boeken. Hij is ervan overtuigd dat verhalen levens kunnen veranderen. Door hem wordt Juliette een professionele bookcrosser; die boeken brengt bij mensen die ze goed kunnen gebruiken.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/03c220a50ba5e83c01b2edf5786c54d0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19911 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/03c220a50ba5e83c01b2edf5786c54d0.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"383\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/03c220a50ba5e83c01b2edf5786c54d0.jpg 353w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/03c220a50ba5e83c01b2edf5786c54d0-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 255px) 100vw, 255px\" \/><\/a>The Book Worm Crush &#8211; Lisa Brown Roberts<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Shy bookworm Amy McIntyre is about to compete for the chance to interview her favorite author, who hasn&#8217;t spoken to the press in years. The only way to win is to step out of the shadows and into the spotlight, but that level of confidence has never come easy.<\/p>\n<p>The solution? A competition coach. The problem? The best person for the job is the guy she&#8217;s secretly crushing on\u0085local surfer celebrity Toff Nichols.<\/p>\n<p>Hes a player. Hes a heartthrob. He makes her forget basic things, like how to breathe. How can she feel any confidence around him?<\/p>\n<p>To her surprise, Toff agrees to help. And hes an excellent teacher. Amy feels bravermaybe even brave enough to admit her feelings for him. When their late night practices become less about coaching and more about making out, Amys newfound confidence wavers.<\/p>\n<p>But does Toff really like her or is this just another lesson?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7eb9ceab26fbea90825c474015d19e37-e1630673201710.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19912 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7eb9ceab26fbea90825c474015d19e37-e1630673201710.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"247\" height=\"372\" \/><\/a>Talk bookish to me &#8211; Kate Bromley<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Kara Sullivan\u2019s life is full of love\u2014albeit fictional. As a bestselling romance novelist and influential bookstagrammer, she\u2019s fine with getting her happily-ever-after fix between the covers of a book.<\/p>\n<p>But right now? Not only is Kara\u2019s best friend getting married next week\u2014which means big wedding stress\u2014but the deadline for her next novel is looming, and she hasn\u2019t written a single word. The last thing she needs is for her infuriating first love, Ryan Thompson, to suddenly appear in the wedding party. But Ryan\u2019s unexpected arrival sparks a creative awakening in Kara that inspires the steamy historical romance she desperately needs to deliver.<\/p>\n<p>With her wedding duties intensifying, her deadline getting closer by the second and her bills not paying themselves, Kara knows there\u2019s only one way for her to finish her book and to give her characters the ever-after they deserve. But can she embrace the unlikely, ruggedly handsome muse\u2014who pushes every one of her buttons\u2014to save the wedding, her career and, just maybe, write her own happy ending?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/8aca5557a0fcc9820dfea157aff7edd4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19913 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/8aca5557a0fcc9820dfea157aff7edd4.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/8aca5557a0fcc9820dfea157aff7edd4.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/8aca5557a0fcc9820dfea157aff7edd4-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Last Chance Books &#8211; Kelsey Rodkey<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nothing will stop Madeline Moore from taking over her family\u2019s independent bookstore after college. Nothing, that is\u2014until a chain bookstore called Prologue opens across the street and threatens to shut them down.<\/p>\n<p>Madeline sets out to demolish the competition, but the guy who works over at Prologue seems intent on ruining her life. Not only is he taking her customers, he has the unbelievable audacity to be\u2026 extremely cute.<br \/>\nBut that doesn\u2019t matter. Jasper is the enemy and he will be destroyed. After all\u2014all\u2019s fair in love and (book) war.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/27bd14d996f05bb6cb7a39c14a6fb86e-e1630673318367.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19914 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/27bd14d996f05bb6cb7a39c14a6fb86e-e1630673318367.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"252\" height=\"392\" \/><\/a>The Book charmer &#8211; Karen Hawkins<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sarah Dove is no ordinary bookworm. To her, books live, breathe, and sometimes even speak. As the librarian in her quaint Southern town of Dove Pond, her gift helps place every book in the hands of the perfect reader. Recently, however, the books have been whispering about something out of the ordinary: the arrival of a displaced city girl named Grace Wheeler.<\/p>\n<p>If the books are right, Grace could be the savior Dove Pond desperately needs. The problem is, Grace wants little to do with the town or its quirky residents\u2014Sarah chief among them. But with a bit of urging, and the help of an especially wise book, will Grace ultimately embrace the challenge to rescue her charmed new community?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7447e6f653c5c426c5f686674093c9e1-e1630673380425.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19915 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/7447e6f653c5c426c5f686674093c9e1-e1630673380425.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"254\" height=\"386\" \/><\/a>The Book Ninja &#8211; Ali Berg &amp; Michelle Kalus<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Frankie Rose is desperate for love. Or a relationship. Or just a date with a semi-normal person. It\u2019s not that she hasn\u2019t tried \u2013 Frankie is the queen of online dating. But she has had enough.<\/p>\n<p>With the help of her best friend and colleague\u00a0Cat, Frankie decides\u00a0to embark on the ultimate dating experiment. Inspired by her surroundings at\u00a0The Little Brunswick Bookshop where she works, Frankie places her hope in her favourite books to find her the perfect man\u2026 Secretly planting copies\u00a0on trains, trams and buses,\u00a0Frankie hopes to find the man of her dreams through a mutual love of good books. The only flaw to the plan? That she may never get her books back!<\/p>\n<p>But that turns out to be\u00a0the least of her worries&#8230; In between crazy dates and writing them up on her blog,\u00a0Frankie stumbles upon her perfect man. There&#8217;s just one problem&#8230;Frankie is strictly a Jane Austen kind of woman and Sunny is really into Young Adult. Seriously, obsessively into it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Can Frankie overcome her book snobbery for the man of her dreams? Or will she be left searching the trains for her modern-day Mr Darcy forever?<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/411rTl5TmmL.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19916 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/411rTl5TmmL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"251\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/411rTl5TmmL.jpg 331w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/411rTl5TmmL-199x300.jpg 199w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 251px) 100vw, 251px\" \/><\/a>Book Lovers &#8211; Emily Henry<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Nora Stephens&#8217; life is books\u2014she\u2019s read them all\u2014and she is not that type of heroine. Not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not the sweetheart. In fact, the only people Nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister Libby.<\/p>\n<p>Which is why she agrees to go to Sunshine Falls, North Carolina for the month of August when Libby begs her for a sisters\u2019 trip away\u2014with visions of a small town transformation for Nora, who she\u2019s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. But instead of picnics in meadows, or run-ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging-forearmed bartender, Nora keeps bumping into Charlie Lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back in the city. It would be a meet-cute if not for the fact that they\u2019ve met many times and it\u2019s never been cute.<\/p>\n<p>If Nora knows she\u2019s not an ideal heroine, Charlie knows he\u2019s nobody\u2019s hero, but as they are thrown together again and again\u2014in a series of coincidences no editor worth their salt would allow\u2014what they discover might just unravel the carefully crafted stories they\u2019ve written about themselves.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51ZBfdqOEFL._SX323_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19917 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51ZBfdqOEFL._SX323_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"393\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51ZBfdqOEFL._SX323_BO1204203200_.jpg 325w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51ZBfdqOEFL._SX323_BO1204203200_-195x300.jpg 195w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 256px) 100vw, 256px\" \/><\/a>The Dictionary of lost words &#8211; Pip Williams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Esme is born into a world of words. Motherless and irrepressibly curious, she spends her childhood in the \u2018Scriptorium\u2019, a garden shed in Oxford where her father and a team of dedicated lexicographers are collecting words for the very first Oxford English Dictionary. Esme\u2019s place is beneath the sorting table, unseen and unheard. One day a slip of paper containing the word \u2018bondmaid\u2019 flutters to the floor. Esme rescues the slip and stashes it in an old wooden case that belongs to her friend, Lizzie, a young servant in the big house. Esme begins to collect other words from the Scriptorium that are misplaced, discarded or have been neglected by the dictionary men. They help her make sense of the world.<\/p>\n<p>Over time, Esme realises that some words are considered more important than others, and that words and meanings relating to women\u2019s experiences often go unrecorded. While she dedicates her life to the Oxford English Dictionary, secretly, she begins to collect words for another dictionary: The Dictionary of Lost Words.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/f915e9abebc00781b0ee7c4310f6b27c-e1630673543859.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19918 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/f915e9abebc00781b0ee7c4310f6b27c-e1630673543859.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"257\" height=\"371\" \/><\/a>The Reading List &#8211; Sara Nisha Adams<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Widower Mukesh lives a quiet life in Wembley, in West London\u00a0after losing his beloved wife. He shops every Wednesday, goes to Temple, and worries about his granddaughter, Priya, who hides in her room reading while he spends his evenings watching nature documentaries.<\/p>\n<p>Aleisha is a bright but anxious teenager working at the local library for the summer when she discovers a crumpled-up piece of paper in the back of To Kill a Mockingbird. It\u2019s a list of novels that she\u2019s never heard of before. Intrigued, and a little bored with her slow job at the checkout desk, she impulsively decides to read every book on the list, one after the other. As each story gives up its magic, the books transport Aleisha from the painful realities she\u2019s facing at home.<\/p>\n<p>When Mukesh arrives at the library, desperate to forge a connection with his bookworm granddaughter, Aleisha passes along the reading list\u2026hoping that it will be a lifeline for him too. Slowly, the shared books create a connection between two lonely souls, as fiction helps them escape their grief and everyday troubles and find joy again.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51TsLO1OAWL._SX330_BO1204203200_.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-19919 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51TsLO1OAWL._SX330_BO1204203200_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"253\" height=\"380\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51TsLO1OAWL._SX330_BO1204203200_.jpg 332w, https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/51TsLO1OAWL._SX330_BO1204203200_-200x300.jpg 200w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 253px) 100vw, 253px\" \/><\/a>Eight Perfect Murders &#8211; Peter Swanson<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Years ago, bookseller and mystery aficionado Malcolm Kershaw compiled a list of the genre\u2019s most unsolvable murders, those that are almost impossible to crack\u2014which he titled \u201cEight Perfect Murders\u201d\u2014chosen from among the best of the best including Agatha Christie\u2019s A. B. C. Murders, Patricia Highsmith\u2019s Strangers on a Train, Ira Levin\u2019s Deathtrap, A. A. Milne&#8217;s The\u00a0Red House Mystery, Anthony Berkeley Cox&#8217;s Malice Aforethought, James M. Cain&#8217;s Double Indemnity, John D. MacDonald&#8217;s The Drowner, and Donna Tartt&#8217;s The\u00a0Secret History.<\/p>\n<p>But no one is more surprised than Mal, now the owner of the Old Devils Bookstore in Boston, when an FBI agent comes knocking on his door one snowy day in February. She\u2019s looking for information about a series of unsolved murders that look eerily similar to the killings on Mal\u2019s old list. And the FBI agent isn\u2019t the only one interested in this bookseller who spends almost every night at home reading. The killer is out there, watching his every move\u2014a diabolical threat who knows way too much about Mal\u2019s personal history, especially the secrets he\u2019s never told anyone, even his recently deceased wife.<\/p>\n<p>To protect himself, Mal begins looking into possible suspects . . . and sees a killer in everyone around him. But Mal doesn\u2019t count on the investigation leaving a trail of death in its wake. Suddenly, a series of shocking twists leaves more victims dead\u2014and the noose around Mal\u2019s neck grows so tight he might never escape.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><em>Ik weet dat dit lijstje anders doet vermoeden maar er zijn dus niet enkel romans en romantische verhalen waarbij de focus op boeken ligt. Er zijn evengoed thrillers te vinden waarin dat het geval is.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wasted-Words-by-Staci-Hart-p72kjp0c4qetf8zqbrbzz1ac6h6h6x7ec9lglo17py-e1630673751962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-19920 \" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/Wasted-Words-by-Staci-Hart-p72kjp0c4qetf8zqbrbzz1ac6h6h6x7ec9lglo17py-e1630673751962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"256\" height=\"409\" \/><\/a>Wasted Words &#8211; Staci Hart<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Some universal truths refuse to be ignored.<\/p>\n<p>Peanut butter and jelly are a match made in heaven. Spaghetti and meatballs are best friends forever. And guys like Tyler Knight don\u2019t go for girls like Cam Emerson.<\/p>\n<p>She knew from the second she met him that he didn\u2019t belong on her bookshelf, the six-foot-six ex-tight end with a face so all-American, it could have sold apple pie. So she shelved him next to the supermodels and rock stars and took her place on her own shelf \u2014 the one with the flannel-clad, pasty-faced comic book nerds. Most of her boyfriends have existed between the pages of books, but rather than worrying over her own lacking love life, she puts all her energy into playing Cupid, using her job at the book bar, Wasted Words, as her stomping ground.<\/p>\n<p>Tyler Knight always looks on the bright side. His career-ending injury turned into a job as a sports agent. A horrible breakup led him to Cam, his quirky, smart roommate who is far more beautiful than she realizes. She\u2019s made it perfectly clear she\u2019s not interested in him \u2014 not like that at least \u2014 but if she ever changes her mind, he won\u2019t hesitate. Because he doesn\u2019t see the lines she\u2019s drawn between them, as much as she insists that they\u2019re there. Deep down he knows that despite their differences, they\u2019re a match well made.<\/p>\n<p>*A standalone romantic comedy inspired by Jane Austen\u2019s Emma*<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41pREhQI1ZL-e1630673858866.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-19921  alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/41pREhQI1ZL-e1630673858866.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"255\" height=\"390\" \/><\/a><span style=\"color: #3366ff;\">Me &amp; Mr.Darcy &#8211; Alexandra Potter<\/span><\/strong> <em><span style=\"color: #800080;\">(met op Jane Austen gebaseerde boeken kan je trouwens makkelijk een aparte blogpost vullen.)<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n<p>He&#8217;s every woman&#8217;s fantasy.<\/p>\n<p>After a string of nightmare relationships, Emily Albright has decided she&#8217;s had it with modern-day men. She&#8217;d rather pour herself a glass of wine, curl up with Pride and Prejudice and step into a time where men were dashing, devoted and honourable, strode across fields in breeches, their damp shirts clinging to their chests&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>So when her best friend invites her to Mexico for a week of margaritas and men, Emily decides to book a guided tour of Jane Austen country instead.<\/p>\n<p>But she quickly realises she won&#8217;t find her dream man here. The coach tour is full of pensioners, apart from one Mr Spike Hargreaves, a foul-tempered journalist sent to write a piece on why Mr Darcy&#8217;s been voted the man most women would love to date.<\/p>\n<p>Until she walks into a room and finds herself face-to-face with Darcy himself. And every woman&#8217;s fantasy suddenly becomes one woman&#8217;s reality. . .<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-6717\" src=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/favicon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"32\" height=\"32\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Ik heb duidelijk nog wat leeswerk voor de boeg vermits ik zelf nog maar 3 van deze 15 boekige boeken gelezen heb. Hebben jullie toevallig al \u00e9\u00e9n of meerdere van de andere boeken in deze selectie gelezen?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deze blogpost stond al enkele jaren tussen mijn concepten. De reden dat ik het steeds voor me uitschoof was omdat ik al een vermoeden had dat dit een beetje uit de hand kon lopen. Wat dat betreft had ik helemaal gelijk. In plaats van een cover -of titelpost wilde ik het een keer hebben over &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/2021\/09\/boeken-over-boeken-1\/\" class=\"more-link\">Lees verder <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Boeken over boeken #1<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[7],"tags":[2892,347,2342,493],"class_list":["post-19908","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-boeken","tag-boeken-over-boeken","tag-bookish","tag-lijst","tag-listomania"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p60yYB-5b6","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":19939,"url":"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/2021\/09\/mijn-huidige-tbr-in-cijfers\/","url_meta":{"origin":19908,"position":0},"title":"Mijn huidige TBR in cijfers","author":"Zwartraafje","date":"12\/09\/2021","format":false,"excerpt":"Begin april vorig jaar legde ik voor het laatst mijn TBR onder de loep. Het werd dus stilletjes aan om nog eens werk te maken van deze terugkerende en nog steeds confronterende blogpost. Gelukkig kan ik het veel makkelijker bijhouden sinds ik op Goodreads een aparte plank heb aangemaakt met\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Boeken&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Boeken","link":"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/category\/boeken\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/IMG_20200914_110615_738-e1627138648917.jpg?resize=350%2C200&ssl=1","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":24525,"url":"https:\/\/www.zwartraafje.be\/blog\/2026\/01\/2025-in-lijstjes-mijn-leesjaar-in-cijfers\/","url_meta":{"origin":19908,"position":1},"title":"2025 in lijstjes: mijn leesjaar in cijfers","author":"Zwartraafje","date":"26\/01\/2026","format":false,"excerpt":"We zijn ondertussen al aan de voorlaatste terugblik-blogpost toegekomen. 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Nu ja, het is ondertussen al een hele poos geleden, ondertussen kreeg de blog van Chantal met Hoofdstuk 12 zelfs een nieuwe naam. 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