Pleasant Surprises: Books That Exceeded Our Expectations

Beschreibung
Our List of the Month this August is devoted to those pleasant surprises that come into our reading lives—books that exceeded our expectations, and ending up providing far more enjoyment than we thought they would. Each participant may vote on ten titles.
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The Red and the Green
von Iris Murdoch
538 Mitglieder
9 Rezensionen
½ 3.4
Globaler Rang 138
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EMS_24
Erklärungen
EMS_24: Chosed this to read for school, because of the colors in the title, turned out to be Surprisingly good and touching.
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The Girl on the Boat
von P. G. Wodehouse
530 Mitglieder
16 Rezensionen
½ 3.6
Globaler Rang 174
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EMS_24
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EMS_24: I'm not a lover of comedies in which misunderstandings arise due to back-and-forth attempts to rectify the situation. But this was a pleasant read, thanks to RV.
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Verblendung
von Stieg Larsson
43,147 Mitglieder
1,747 Rezensionen
4
Globaler Rang 9
10 Members
pgmcc, knerd.knitter, deldevries, perennialreader, JuliaMaria, nagasravika.bodapati, Dammie, HH_Library, finnleyjames, ConantheLibrarianJr,EMS_24 ,Thelamon1
Erklärungen
EMS_24 : It's all about expectations and what you like in a book
perennialreader: Not my kind of book at all, but I took a chance and have read the whole series, even the ones by David Lagercrantz. Just love the Lisbeth Salander character.
JuliaMaria: Ich habe die Serie erst gelesen als der Hype vorbei war - und war dann traurig, dass ich sie nicht doch früher schon für mich entdeckt hatte.
ConantheLibrarianJr: Powerful. What Solander goes thru is horrific, but she proves she is more than just a heroine. She is a survivor!
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Mord im Gurkenbeet
von Alan Bradley
7,736 Mitglieder
654 Rezensionen
3.8
Globaler Rang 25
6 Members
raidergirl3, terran, LDVoorberg, PitcherBooks, kara.shamy, Boand,EMS_24
Erklärungen
LDVoorberg: You must listen to the audiobook: the narrator makes the series amazing.
Boand: Another recommendation of a whodunnit led me to the first of this quirky series and sealed it as one of my all time favourites. What’s not to love about a pesky teenage girl who beats the grownups at their own games, negotiates troublesome sisters and adores her father while they all mourn her mother and saves Britain from evil masterminds.