The Reading Challenge Group discussion

I've finally finished a book in 2015! It's the biography of Dennis Bergkamp written by Jaap Visser. 500+ pages.

The second book for 2015 was Suite Française by Irène Némirovsky. 500+ pages again.

How was it? I've often considered reading it.

I gave it four stars and I enjoyed it. I would recommend this book if you are interested in WW2 stories.

This afternoon I read the final chapter of 12 Years a Slave the Dutch version that is. 300+ pages

How is it? I watched the film last year, I couldn't stop crying. How does it compare with the film?

I don't know I haven't watched the film yet. If I do in 2015 I'll try to remember to post my opinion on here! The story is indeed very moving and very sad.

The 4th book for 2015 was a book about the liberation of The Netherlands 1945-1950 Na de bevrijding: De loodzware jaren 1945-1950 The first part of the book was a bit boring because I knew many things from history lessons in school. The second part contained new information for me and was interesting to read. Glad I borrowed it from the library instead of buying it! 300+ pages

I've finally finished Amsterdam: geschiedenis van de meest vrijzinnige stad ter wereld A complete history of the city of Amsterdam. 400+ pages.

Margriet wrote: "The 4th book for 2015 was a book about the liberation of The Netherlands 1945-1950 Na de bevrijding: De loodzware jaren 1945-1950 The first part of the book was a bit boring because..."

Sounds interesting. Is it available in English?

I don't think this book was translated in English, Becca. He wrote it to explain more about the period after the liberation of The Netherlands. A tv program was also made: http://www.nadebevrijding.nl/ (This is also in Dutch unfortunately). Another interesting book by Ad van Liempt is Hitler's Bounty Hunters: The Betrayal of the Jews

I finished reading Exil in Sjanghai today. Finally another fictional work. I enjoyed this book because it was based on the true story of jews fleeing to Shanghai during WW2. 400+ pages again

I've abandoned Hillary Clinton's book. I want to read a novel next.

Margriet, that book is on my TBR. Do you mind sharing what you did not like about the book? I might remove it from my list!

If I owned the Hillary Clinton book I would keep it and try again later but since it is a library book I am going to return it. The book goes into a lot of details about her live and the things she did while serving in the Obama administration. After 100+ pages it still only discusses Asia... Kassandra you might still want to try it if you are more patient than I am.

Thanks Margriet!

I've finally read a novel! Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros or ' Een huid van karamel' in Dutch. It took me a while for sure but it was entertaining. 500+ pages

While on holiday I've read Stasi-kinderen So I added it to my list when I had reliable wifi again. Quite a serious book for the summer but very interesting!
was the other one I took to Greece and I finished the first half of it.

My holiday is over and I am back in The Netherlands. Today I read the last chapter of Tranen van de giraffe
I will now continu to read

Last week I finished reading De baby's van Mauthausen

This is my 10th book for 2015. Probably I'm not going to meet my goal of 20 books, but a few more books for this year, who knows!

This evening I read the last chapter of

200+ pages again!

Today I finished De Premier 200+ pages.
Will I be able to finish another book in 2015? December is a busy month

I did manage to finish another book in 2015! Schoolland 262 pages

This means I read 5004 pages in total this year! Woohoo!

See you in 2016!