Most people finally take time to read during the holidays. The choice is huge: an overwhelming amount of books appears in the most diverse genres in the Netherlands every year. The number of literary novels alone is more than a thousand, and then there is also so much more nice reading. This is this week’s selection.
Outsider on the schoolyard
‘I have no career, no love life and all the other mothers hate me. Nobody ever came to save me. Tonight I’m going to do the right one for once in my life. Take the difficult way. ‘
In Hat all mothers Me from Sarah Harman, the American Florence – a thirties and former star of a girl band that now has an insignificant job – falls out of the tone in the schoolyard. Her nerdy son Dylan visits, at the expense of her ex, a London private school in Notting Hill.
Then during a school trip the heir of a frozen meal empire disappears and, moreover, the biggest bully of her son, Alfie. A pence, Florence already trusts the reader on the first pages. “During a picnic in Hampstead Heath, Alfie said, bent over a bowl of sausage rolls, as if we were two adults among each other, that he found my” slutty nails “super cool.” So not nice that she lets her child pay for his disappearance, although Dylan has all the appearance against … nice beach book of which a series is played for Disney+.
Deception behind the screen
In Hey good morning How are you? From Martina Hefter, Ballerina Juno from Leipzig takes care of her seriously ill man during the day, at night she chats with Lovescammers via Instagram. These are often young poor Africans who hide behind profile photos of handsome, white people over 50 for a sailboat or sports car to trick out Western women. But Juno turns the roles and answers their cliché questions (“Hey beautiful woman, what did you eat today?”) With the most ridiculous answers to jen.
Until she starts chatting with the young Nigerian who soon drops his mask and when herself comes into the picture. He is honest, is Juno that now? “If you lie, don’t you lie to yourself in the first place?”, The author’s for this book wonders in this special, and not too thick novel.
Manual for the Japanese Tinder
The French Vanessa Montalbano bought a one -year -old Tokyo six years ago, looked for a home, work and devoted itself to dating life. That is – as applies to even more things – even more complicated than in the West. With all kinds of unwritten rules that she sometimes gets in little gentle way. Of Tokyo Crush has she delivered an interesting, often hilarious description of how she slowly dissects dating codes via the Japanese Tinder, as at what stage she can use which forms of contact, the local fetishes and the crazy Love Hotels Where there is so much to experience that the sex itself sometimes collapses.
Book tips: a novel packed with music, moving ‘slow read’, nostalgia with a Groningen teenager and mourning on the Pieterpad
Jewish-American Familyaga
The successor of Fleishman is in Trouble, of that great mini series, is a family agent describing how the kidnapping of the Jewish-American factory owner Carl Fletcher has now chased three adult children for the rest of their lives. In the compromise of Long Island we see how the hopeless beamer Fletcher delivers worthless film scripts and stunned itself by having cheap hotels humiliated by prostitutes. Everything to not have to stand still in the failure of both his career and his marriage. A thick pill in which with nice spells is scattered, such as: “If everyone were to throw their package problems in a room and pick out another package, you would be guaranteed to choose your own problems.”