Prep by Curtis Sittenfield

A good, intruiging book about the life of a teenage girl and her years at a privilegied school. About everyday things at that school, which is basically like a bubble, its all about the people in the school and everything that happens there is huge.
Curtis Sittenfeld’s novel, Prep is an insightful, achingly funny coming-of-age story as well as a brilliant dissection of class, race, and gender in a hothouse of adolescent angst and ambition.

Element Encyclopedia of Secret Societies by John Michael Greer

Another great encyclopedia, focused on the secret socities and things like Atlantis. Very interesting. In fact, so interesting that me and Rozerin used it while we were obsessed over a weekend in trying to figure out how the world truly works, why we are here and what the meaning of this life is. What secret agenda the world leaders and politicians truly have and what will become of us. We were up all night reading about Atlantis among other things and went to bed for three hours, at nine o´clock in the morning because there is just too much knowledge to gain, too many secrets in the world for us to go and ...sleep! Seriously, what a waste of valuable time. Anyhow, great encyclopedia about everything from freemasons to atlantis and much more.

The Element Encyclopedia of Ghosts & Hauntings by Theresa Cheung

Definitely my kind of book! Bought it in the sci-fi store in Old Town, Stockholm. Havent really read through it, but as it is an encyclopedia and a very good one, I find myself going through it often and find a lot of interesting "facts". Love it!

101 historical myths, by Åke Persson & Thomas Oldrup

What a fun book! I laughed several times because when you think about it, it reallys if funny, some of the things we learn in school about some historical events and then go on believing them no matter how stupid they might sound. We rarely look up the true facts, instead, we just go on believing what we heard once in school or what everybody else say because hey, then its gotta be true, right? NO!
 And in most cases its not! This book is written by two Swedish historians, journalists and a writers. They wrote this book with a lot of humour and a lot of knowledge. When you read this you realize how unlogical and unrealistic your view of history and the people in it really was. Ha Ha!

The hobbit, by John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

A great modern classic and the prelude to The lord of the Rings. The author is one of my big inspirations or idols. His works are such an inspiration to me, just incredible. I read the hobbit while I was in 9th grade but I can still remember all of Bilbo Baggins adventures.

The lost symbol, by Dan Brown

Dan Brown is a God! If there is such a thing of course, but what an amazing mind! All of his books which Ive read so far are just, well I cant find the words. They are so enlightning among other great things. They really make you see the world and our lives in a new way, you understand and mostly, you SEE things differently. Great, great, great book! Amazing author! A definite MUST read!!!

Welcome to the Jungle, by Stephen Davis

This is a book about the legend Guns´n Roses! Read it just before I started reading Slash´s biography. Its always different when you read a biography and when you read what someone else has written about a certain thing, event, person etc. When I read Slash´s biography it was easier to relax and just take in everything because it comes from the man himself, all the facts etc. While reading this book, it was a little bit different, although you can always look up the facts and I did, also a lot of the things mentioned in the book I knew from before, since Ive been such a G´n´R freak through the years.
However, I can truly that I liked this book a lot because the facts were all right and the way it is written gives you an objective view, its not taking anyone´s side or whatever.
I never truly understood in what bad shape Axl really was before reading this book.
I think that every fan of G´n´R was happy to see this book out. I know I was. And the pictures included are a plus!

Kissed by an angel, by Elizabeth Chandler

To be honest, I bought this book because I thought that the cover was beautiful. It seemed intruging but I wouldnt have bought it if I had only read what its about. Because it is just another love story and those are not really my favourite. I mean, I liked Twilight and all that but its not something I prioritze to read or enjoy as much as some other genres.
Bought this book at Heathrow Airport and read through the first chapters on the airport, continuing on the plane, so it always makes me think of London. I couldnt stop reading and by the time I got home I had a very few chapters left and I think I read them all the same day. I do read my books fast but not that fast!
Its a story about a young couple, they have a car accident and one of the dies. Everything afterwards is about the dead lover trying to rescue the one who survived from a danger, a danger who was the reason for the accident aswell.
Its not a very special story or something I haven seen on TV before but it was maybe the way it was written, it made special somehow and the story and the people in it were just genuine and simple. Still, the story has a ghost, probably that is a big factor for making me like the book at all. Everything paranormal has always been importnant to me. This book and story gets a 3 out of 5 from me. Whether it is stars or points or whatever. Good book!

Slash, by Slash with Anthony Bozza

I spent a whole day in bed with Slash! Absolutely loved this book! Very easy to read and understand and lots of humour, but at the same time it gave me feelings of anxiety a couple of times while reading. Saul´s life really confirms the picture we all have of rockstars, its full of sex, drugs and rock n´ roll! Or at least it was full of all that. Now of course he still is the greatest rock star, greatest according to me, but his life is very different today with wife and kids, and health issues which often come after a life filled with drugs and alcohol.
However, reading the book was a joy and I really respect Mr Slash even more than I did before. Everyone who  likes rock ´n roll have to read it!

Interview with the vampire, by Anne Rice

 

 

Interview with the vampire by Anne Rice

 Interview with the Vampire is a vampire novel by Anne Rice written in 1973 and published in 1976
Seen the movie ,(1994) yes, the storyline was there aswell as the characters, but as always or as in most cases, the book and the movie should not be compared because its just dumb. It cant be compared unless you of course see the movie first.
If you read the book, in this case, you get a completely different story in your head, you get a picture of the characters which the movie will probably only destroy no matter how good the movie in itself is. Therefore, I would suggest that everyone just stop comparing and just try to see the book and the movie as two different stories.
 Now I really liked this book, I havent read any of Rice´s other works which I can´t believe myself.
"Interview with the vampire" is a story which sounds "realistic" in a world where vampires exist because the way Louis talks about his life makes you truly understand his sufferingsin a true way and you might aswell be able to make metaphors out of the extraordinary characters and events that occur in his life, and translate them into our own ordinary lives and events that we go through in life. 
Out of 5 I would give this book a 3 and a half...probably because I saw the movie first and had a hard time to get away from the annoying famous faces of Brad Pitt, Tom Cruise and Kirsten Dunst playing Rice´s characters which ruined the experience of the great story for me, unfortunately.
Anyhow, Rice surely knows her vampires, so this is a must read!