Sunday 12 April 2020

Stay at Home Reading Rush TBR

The month of April is saved! Well, at least half a week of it. When it was announced on the Reading Rush Instagram page that an extra shorter version of the annual Reading Rush would take place on the 16th to 19th of April, it felt like a much needed gift. I'm not typically one for readathons, but I do really enjoy this one. I of course participated in July of last year, and I much look forward to this unique one. For the Reading Rush, I'll be deviating from my 2020 goal of only reading physical books that are over 400 pages. In the pace that I read, it would simply be impossible for me to read four such books in four days. I have of course already thought of a TBR pile based on the five prompts:

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43132607. sy475 1/ Read a book with a house on the cover
"Malamander" by Thomas Taylor
"Herbert Lemon, Lost-and-Founder at the Grand Nautilus Hotel, knows that returning lost things to their rightful owners is not easy – especially when the lost thing is not a thing at all, but a girl. No one knows what happened to Violet Parma’s parents twelve years ago, and when she engages Herbie to help her find them, the pair discover that their disappearance might have something to do with the legendary sea-monster, the Malamander. Eerie-on-Sea has always been a mysteriously chilling place, where strange stories seem to wash up. And it just got stranger..."
Pages: 240

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37556505"Morrigan Crows magiska förbannelse" ("The Trials of Morrigan Crow") by Jessica Townsend
"Morrigan Crow is cursed. Having been born on Eventide, the unluckiest day for any child to be born, she's blamed for all local misfortunes, from hailstorms to heart attacks--and, worst of all, the curse means that Morrigan is doomed to die at midnight on her eleventh birthday.
But as Morrigan awaits her fate, a strange and remarkable man named Jupiter North appears. Chased by black-smoke hounds and shadowy hunters on horseback, he whisks her away into the safety of a secret, magical city called Nevermoor."
Pages: 253

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108694542/ Read a book in the same room the whole time
"The Comedy of Errors" by William Shakespeare
"Two sets of twins are separated at birth by a storm at sea: a pair of masters (both named Antipholus) and a pair of servants (both named Dromio). Years later, the Antipholus-and-Dromio pair raised in Syracuse happen to visit Ephesus, where the respective twins reside—providing the basis for ongoing incidents of mistaken identity, within a lively plot of quarrels, arrests, and a grand courtroom denouement."
Pages: ca 50

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39337278. sy475 3/ Read a book set somewhere you wish you could go
"The Crimes of Grindelwald" by J.K. Rowling
Spoiler alert! "The powerful Dark wizard Gellert Grindelwald was captured in New York with the help of Newt Scamander. But, making good on his threat, Grindelwald escapes custody and sets about gathering followers, most unsuspecting of his true agenda: to raise pure-blood wizards up to rule over all non-magical beings.
In an effort to thwart Grindelwald’s plans, Albus Dumbledore enlists Newt, his former Hogwarts student, who agrees to help once again, unaware of the dangers that lie ahead. Lines are drawn as love and loyalty are tested, even among the truest friends and family, in an increasingly divided wizarding world.
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Pages: 287

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8243894/ Read a book that will make you smile
"Our Man in Havana" by Graham Greene
"Mr. Wormold, vacuum cleaner salesman in a city of powercuts, is, as always, short of money. His daughter, sixteen, followed everywhere by wolf whistles, is spending his money with a skill that amazes him, so when a mysterious Englishman offers him an extra income he's tempted. All he has to do is run agents, file reports: spy. But his fake reports have an alarming tendency to come true, and the web of lies he weaves around him starts to get more and more tangled."
Pages: 225

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I hope you're also planning to participate. Maybe you're also cooped up at home like me, and need a distraction to keep you going. Remember; you don't have to read 4 books. If you can combine several prompts for one or two books to read during the readathon, that works just as well!
Either way, I wish you a happy reading <3

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