Most people finally take the 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 fine reading material. This is this week’s selection.
What money does to us
Money has to roll in the summer, so why not take a dip in the world of finfluencers, influencers that try to seduce you into certain investments on your hard -earned vacation? Or those who attract them to their (paid) workshops for advice on how you can become very rich. Hanna Bervoets chose this original theme for her literary novel Make money.
In addition, she tells about two girlfriends who find each other again, about human relationships, how we copy each other, how we look at each other, how we can let ourselves be fooled.
In this book it goes horribly wrong when the two friends are tempting more and more people to invest in an Australian winemaker. Who dares to stay in this share for the longest time? Bervoets has deepened this wonderful world of the finfluencers and lets the drama derail in a grotesque way.
Book tips: A missing walker, betrayal in the British Upper Class, drama for a general practitioner and a far -reaching teenage girl covenant
Musical fly
Admittedly: this edition of the Flemish music journalist Denis Michiels is less practical in the beach bag due to the somewhat larger size. However, the reference work guarantees relaxing hours down Memory Lane In the holiday home or on your own bank. 500 Unique One Hit Wonders Tells about both the artists and the creation of musical one -day fly. Among other things Popcorn From Hot Butter and Last Night A DJ Saved My Life From Indep are discussed in chronological order.
The story behind it proves that world stars can also be a one hit miracle miracle Looking for Freedom from Baywatch star David Hasselhoff. The actor sang his megahit on New Year’s Eve 1989 where the Berlin Wall had just fallen and the song became symbolic of the reunification of East and West. Five years later, an attempt failed to give his singing career a new impulse, miserably. The original single covers are included in the book and it contains a QR code that refers to a playlist.
Friends group in Vienna
After the death of his mother, ten -year -old Manno moves from Haarlem to Vienna, a metropolis despite being plagued by the First World War. In the house of his cold aunt, the boy is very unhappy, until he closes friendship with five peers on a summer camp. For years his bond with Béla, Max, Bertl, Lotte and Franzi survived the most diverse trials. Until Hitler invades Austria. “Friendship is supported by respect for each other’s secrets,” says a character. But is that true?
Narcis, Based on the group of friends of the grandparents of writer Judith Fanto, is a dazzling story about betrayal and retribution. In addition, it is a particularly sensory novel. The coffee houses in Vienna are ogling, just like the fields full of flowering Bergnarcissen at the village of Altaussee where the friends spend a holiday every year. You smell the paint that Manno uses as a restorer of paintings with its brushes of squirrel hair and the scents of, among other things, hay, coffee and jasmine who collects his well -to -do friend Béla in his studio to make his dream perfume.
Power and loss of love
After In the spell of my father,, “ Calm chaos and The hummingbird stilt Sandro Veronesi certainly not disappointed with Black september. The Italian Master Teller tells about the twelve -year -old Gigio Bellandi in the summer of 1972, on the northwest coast of Tuscany. His father, a criminal lawyer, blows with all winds, inside his silent mother roaring lions.
The boy discovers music, books, love (for the girl with braids ‘black as black onyx’) but his innocent childhood is brutally disturbed by a tragic event. Half a century later, Gigio thinks his life.
In Black September In a convincing way, Veronesi describes the power and loss of love. Plus the ability to fulfill yourself after sadness to go forward brave again.