Rainy Day Reads

I picked this one up because I saw it making the rounds on Booktube and it sounded really interesting. It takes place after the apocalypse. A virus has swept the world and only a small number of survivors are left. We mainly follow a touring company of actors and musicians who travel a circuit between a number of cities and perform Shakespeare 20 years after the collapse.  What I think is the main story is set about 20 years after the virus, but we have a number of quite lengthy flashbacks to the time before the collapse and just after. These flashbacks are interesting, as we learn the backstory of some of the characters, but some of them seem way too long and unconnected with the story. At least at first glance.  As for the characters we follow a number of people, but they all tie back to this one particular person who dies at the very start of the book. All the rest of the characters are connected to him in some way. I thought this was an interesting way of st...

So I know I said a few posts ago that I wasn’t being books these days. But then my favorite online book shop had a sale…and I caved! I bought 8 books, but they all had 20% off, so I couldn’t not buy them, right? First I got the two first books in the Harry Potter series. I bought these, because I have them in Danish, and I really wanted the complete set in English. I don’t know if you can call it a “set” as such, as they are in three different editions….But I actually really like this edition, so I don’t mind the mis-matching set too much. Then I got “Between Shades of Gray” by Ruta Sepetys. I have heard nothing but good things about this book. It is set during WWII, and deals with the deportation of Lithuanians to Siberia on the order of Stalin. I just read the synopsis and the main character is a young girl who encodes her drawings to give her imprisoned father a chance to find them again. Now I want to read it even more! I also got “365 Ways to Change t...