Book Haul: Order of Darnkess, A Little Life, Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

by - May 13, 2018




CHANGELING-ORDER OF DARKNESS #1-111 (Changeling; Stormbringers;Fools Gold)

  
This book is the first to third in Philippa Gregory's Order of Darkness Series (3 books). It was first published in 2012. I am very excited to read this book albeit the mix reviews I read about it ranging from exciting to flat :( but I have always love a Philippa Gregory and her impeccable attempt to introduce history through fiction. Plus I love book trilogies and series so I am very excited to give it a read. Anyway here's what the blurb says... Italy, 1453. Seventeen-year-old Luca Vero is brilliant, gorgeous—and accused of heresy. Cast out of his religious order for using the new science to question old superstitious beliefs, Luca is recruited into a secret sect: The Order of the Dragon, commissioned by Pope Nicholas V to investigate evil and danger in its many forms, and strange occurrences across Europe, in this year—the end of days. (goodreads)



A LITTLE LIFE 

This book was published in 2015 by Hanya Hanagihara. This book has receive so many praises and critique  making it one of the most intriguing books in my reading list. This book has also been controversial because of its graphic scenes so on and so forth and I have to admit I am a little bit intimidated. But of course I have to read to know for myself. right?   So here's what the blurb says... When four classmates from a small Massachusetts college move to New York to make their way, they're broke, adrift, and buoyed only by their friendship and ambition. There is kind, handsome Willem, an aspiring actor; JB, a quick-witted, sometimes cruel Brooklyn-born painter seeking entry to the art world; Malcolm, a frustrated architect at a prominent firm; and withdrawn, brilliant, enigmatic Jude, who serves as their center of gravity. Over the decades, their relationships deepen and darken, tinged by addiction, success, and pride. Yet their greatest challenge, each comes to realize, is Jude himself, by midlife a terrifyingly talented litigator yet an increasingly broken man, his mind and body scarred by an unspeakable childhood, and haunted by what he fears is a degree of trauma that he’ll not only be unable to overcome—but that will define his life forever. (goodreads)


Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

“These days, loneliness is the new cancer – a shameful, embarrassing thing, brought uponyourself in some obscure way. A fearful, incurable thing, so horrifying that you dare not mention it; other people don’t want to hear the word spoken aloud for fear that they might too be afflicted.” This is a debut novel by Gail Honeyman publised on May of last year. This book is funny and a light kind of read. I am already halfway in my reading and I have to say it kept me smiling through every page. Eleanor Oliphant is an easy to love character and the way it was written was so straightforward it almost feel like you are "sinfully" spying a neighbor from your window. But as her life unfolds, you began to understand the challenges she has to endure and how she copes with it (no spoiler alert).  I am so excited to know how it ends for her so to resume reading I must :) 


So there's my little book haul. Till next time.

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