NEW feature: 10 words bookreviews!

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Do you also have problems to find the time (and words) to write essays on the books you've read? But still want to tell people about them? Why not try this method: summaries in only five words (5!) and my opinion in ten (10!)
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STATISTICS:
Title: De Liefde Komt Altijd Te Laat (Love Always Arrives Too Late)
Author: Karel Glastra Van Loon
Genre: Short Stories
Publisher: B for Books
Pages: Hardcover, 61
Language: Dutch
Rating: 8/10
5 WORDS SUMMARY: Journalist travels through war-struck Armenia

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STATISTICS:
Title: Liefste In De Verte (Darling From A Far)
Author: Jeroen Brouwers
Genre: Short Stories
Publisher: B for Books
Pages: Hardcover, 42
Language: Dutch
Rating: 7/10
5 WORDS SUMMARY: His memories of catholic boardingschool

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STATISTICS:
Title: Kijk Naar Me (Look At Me)
Author: Susan Smith
Genre: Short Stories
Publisher: B for Books
Pages: Hardcover, 40 (*read about 10)
Language: Dutch
Rating: 4/10
5 WORDS SUMMARY: She can not resist him

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STATISTICS:
Title: Mannenwerk (A man's job)
Author: Yvonne Kronenberg
Genre: Short Stories
Publisher: B for Books
Pages: Hardcover, 46
Language: Dutch
Rating: 9/10
5 WORDS SUMMARY: Differences between men and women

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Bookreview: Happiness™ - Will Ferguson

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Title: Happiness™ (originally published as 'Generica*')
Author: Will Ferguson
Genre: novel
Publisher: Canongate, 2003 (*Penguin 2001)
Pages: Paperback, 309
Language: English
Rating: 8/10
Summary: Edwin de Valu is an editor for self-help books. His job is to go through manuscripts and find the next big thing, or at least the book that will make the publisher some money. Edwin hates his job, his wife, his life. When he once again fucks up at a meeting and needs to impress his boss fast, he desperately mentions a massive manuscript he had already dismissed as worthless. The author promisses it will be the self-improvement book that will make every other book redundant. It offers solutions for EVERYTHING: how to stop smoking, become rich, lose weight, how to have a phenomenal sex life, etcetera. To Edwin's relieve the book is a best-seller. What's even more of a surprise: it seems to work! Suddenly there’s a shift in the country; people actually manage to stop smoking, they make money, they lose weight. As for the phenomenal sex life... exactly: everyone is… happy. It's annoying and unnatural. It has to stop.

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