[Vorfreude] Neuerscheinungen im 2. Quartal 2016

Das zweite Quartal 2016 ist etwas ruhiger als das erste, was spannende Neuerscheinungen für mich angeht: statt 21 Titeln finden sich dieses mal auf meiner Leseliste lediglich 8 Bücher. Damit erhöhen sich zu mindestens auch die Chancen, dass ich die Neuerscheinungen innerhalb des Quartals auch lese, und meine Leseliste nicht überwuchert… Von den Neuerscheinungen im ersten Quartal habe ich bisher nämlich nur 5 Titel geschafft. 

aprilvorfreude-apr16.jpgIch bin sehr gespannt, wie sich Dreamology aufbaut… die Idee mit der Traumebene und wie die Träume langsam in die Realität übertreten, klingt schon sehr spannend! Von den verschiedenen Covern gefällt mir dieses schlichte, weiße Cover am besten – mal wieder etwas ungewöhnlicher.

Sei vorsichtig, was du dir wünscht… von Kate Karyus Qinn habe ich schon zwei Bücher gelesen, und musste Down with the Shine einfach vorbestellen. Ich liebe Quinns Schreibstil, und ihre Geschichten sind immer erfrischend anders.

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Kleinstadt, Geheimnisse, Morde – The May Queen Murders sieht a) gut aus und b) klingt spannend. Und ich mag Bücher, die einen bestimmten Zeitbezug aufweisen,zu genau diesem Zeitpunkt lesen zu können.

Bei der Beschreibung von Gena/Finn musste ich direkt an Fangirl denken. Passenderweise wird die Handlung komplett durch Textnachrichten, Chatverläufe und Blogeinträge erzählt, worauf ich sehr gespannt bin.

Eher für eine jüngere Zielgruppe gedacht ist Some Kind of Happiness (die Cover in diesem Quartal sind alle so unglaublich schön!). Die Komponente mit der fiktiven Welt von Everwood, die sich dann in den tatsächlichem Wald spiegelt, sowie das Thema Depression könnten es zu einem kleinen Juwel machen.

Eine weitere Buchreihe, die in einem fiktionalen Russland spielt – hach! Dazu noch mit Magie und einem Wettstreit bis zum Tod… auf The Crown’s Game freue ich mich am meisten von allen Neuerscheinungen in diesem Quartal.

junivorfreude-jun16Das Cover! Jane Grey! Für Fans von Die Braut des Prinzen! Mehr Überzeugungsarbeit muss My Lady Jane gar nicht leisten. Da die gebundene Ausgabe leider mit Rough Cut kommt (ich kann das absolut nicht ausstehen…), werde ich auf das Taschenbuch im September warten müssen…

Mit The Familiar, Vol. 3: Honeysuckle & Pain erscheint bereits das dritte Abenteuer in dieser Serie. Umso besser, dass Volume 2 auf meinem Leseplan für April steht! Ich bin immer noch etwas skeptisch, ob MZD das ursprüngliche Konzept für The Familiar so durchgezogen kriegt, aber so lange es regelmäßig neues von einem meiner liebsten Autoren gibt, bin ich erst mal glücklich.

[mixtape] a mix for the girl who made herself forget

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“Remember me. But do it the right way. Remember it all. The good, the bad, and the ugly. I’d rather be forgotten than remembered the wrong way.”

A mix for the girl who made herself forget, Skylar Gardner, from Kate Karyus Quinn’s novel »(Don’t You Forget) About Me« –– the nineteen songs from the mixtapes as well as nine songs which came to my mind while reading her story.

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  1. Journey – Don’t Stop Believin‘
    just a small town girl livin’ in a lonely world
    she took the midnight train goin’ anywheretechnically the last song – literally – but as Sky wants it to be the first thing for Wills to hear on the tapes it also comes first in the mix
    this year
  2. Bonnie Tyler – Total Eclipse of the Heart
    and I need you now tonight, and I need you more than ever
    and if you only hold me tight, we’ll be holding on forever
    and we’ll only be making it right ‚cause we’ll never be wrong togetherfor me it describes the relationship between Skylar and Piper very well – Piper is glorified by Sky who can’t let go off her sister and the memories of her but it’s also very fitting for Piper falling in love and wanting a life of her own
    4 years ago
  3. Bee Gees – Stayin’ Alive
    well now, I get low and I get high, and if I can’t get either, I really try. […] life goin’ nowhere… somebody help me, somebody help me, yeah.Sky’s addiction to the pills and the side effects fit the lyrics but the titel reflects the goal of Piper: surviving the reformatory
    10 years ago
  4. Poison – Every Rose Has Its Thorn
    “I know I could have saved a love that night if I’d known what to say”reflecting the change after Piper falls in love with Elton in the sister’s relationship
    4 years ago
  5. The Doors – People Are Strange
    “when you’re strange no one remembers your name“ an episode from the girl’s childhood: Piper’s „invisibility” to everyone who isn’t close to her is demonstrated
    9 years ago
  6. Tears for Fears – Everybody Wants to Rule the World
    “welcome to your life; there’s no turning back”the girls destroy the Lachman statue and the dark side of their father is shown
    5 years ago
  7. Patrick Swayze – She’s Like the Wind
    “she’s taken my heart but she doesn’t know what she’s done”Piper’s obsession of running with the train before the parade
    4 years ago
  8. Guns N’ Roses – Paradise City
    “you treat it like a capitol crime, everybody’ doin’ their time
    take me down to the paradise city where the grass is green and the girls are pretty – oh, won’t you please take me home?”Skylar wondering whether there is no happy end to their story as they already are from a magical place and have nowhere else really to turn to
    8 years ago
  9. Culture Club – Karma Chameleon
    “every day is like survival”Piper gets collected by Sky after her stay at the reformatory
    6 years ago
  10. Grease – We Go Together
    “we go together, like rama lama lama ka dinga da dinga dong, remembered forever as shoobop sha wadda wadda yippity boom de boom chang chang changitty chang shoobop that’s the way it should be”“See that? We’re one and the same.”
    7 years ago
  11. Madonna – Papa Don’t Preach
    “what I need right now is some good advice, please”Skylar starts recording the tapes and telling their story
    12 years ago
  12. Deniece Williams – Let’s Hear It For the Boy
    “‘cause every time he pulls me near I just wanna cheer”Piper starts talking to Ozzy because of strategy as he works in the reformatory; he later “helps” Sky
    4 years ago
  13. Culture Club – Do You Really Want to Hurt Me
    “give me time to realize my crime”the girls have a picknick in the woods and Piper tricks Sky into eating the dirt from the reformatory for the first time
    7 years ago
  14. Irene Cara – Flashdance… What a Feeling
    “I can have it all (I can really have it all)”the fairy lights incident
    8 years ago
  15. Grease – Hopelessly Devoted to You
    “I’m out of my head, hopelessly devoted to you”Sky realizing it was a suicide plan all along and how she was afraid to be left behind
    4 years ago
  16. The Smiths – Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want
    “for once in my life let me get what I want”getting Piper back into existence after the fairy lights incident
    8 years ago
  17. OMD – If You Leave
    “I touch you once I touch you twice, I won’t let go at any price”Piper trying to talk Sky into leaving Gardnerville – who can’t let go4 years ago
  18. Simple Minds – Don’t You (Forget About Me)
    “will you recognize me? call my name or walk on by”Piper’s recording
    4 years ago
  19. A Flock of Seagulls – I Ran (So Far Away)
    “I just ran, I ran all night and day, I couldn’t get away”Skylar realizing the truth about herself:
    “I started taking the forget-me-nots to forget that I’d forgotten”
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  20. David Bowie – Heroes
    “we can be Heroes, just for one day”fits Piper’s vision of changing Gardnerville by bringing the reformatory done
  21. Fools Garden – Lemon Tree
    “I feel so lonely, I’m waiting for you
    b
    ut nothing ever happens and I wonder“ Skylar’s isolation through her pill abuse and the grief for her sister
  22. Eagles – Hotel California
    „and I was thinking to myself: this could be heaven or this could be hell”

    people coming to Gardnerville believing it to be paradise and how it couldn’t be left behind by Lachman after he realized its powers
  23. Starship – We Built This City
    “say you don’t know me or recognize my face,
    say you don’t care who goes to that kind of place”a song which fits an awful lot of characters very well
  24. Green Day – Misery
    “and she screams why oh why, I said I don’t know”perfect song for Skylar as well as all the inhabitants who left their old lives behind due to misery
  25. The Pierces – Secret
    “got a secret, can you keep it?”

    all about Skylar’s ability
  26. Emilie Autumn – Mad Girl
    “mad girl, can you believe what they’ve done to you?”Skylar realizing the pill abuse as well as the reason behind Piper and what her father did
  27. Deep Blue Something – Breakfast At Tiffany’s
    “you’ll say, the world has come between us –
    our lives have come between us”

    the estrangement of the sisters
  28. Judy Garland – Somewhere Over the Rainbow
    “somewhere over the rainbow, way up high,
    there’s a land that I heard of once in a lullaby

    somewhere over the rainbow, skies are blue,
    and the dreams that you dare to dream, really do come true”a song from the movie which pretty much defined Skylar’s childhood; “there’s no place like home”