Pleasant Surprises: Books That Exceeded Our Expectations

Descrizione
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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Il rosso e il verde
di Iris Murdoch
539 utenti
9 recensioni
½ 3.4
Classifica globale 138
Member
EMS_24
Spiegazioni
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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La ragazza del transatlantico
di P. G. Wodehouse
530 utenti
16 recensioni
½ 3.6
Classifica globale 174
Member
EMS_24
Spiegazioni
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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Uomini che odiano le donne
di Stieg Larsson
43,177 utenti
1,748 recensioni
4
Classifica globale 9
10 Members
pgmcc, knerd.knitter, deldevries, perennialreader, JuliaMaria, nagasravika.bodapati, Dammie, HH_Library, finnleyjames, ConantheLibrarianJr,EMS_24 ,Thelamon1
Spiegazioni
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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Flavia de Luce e il delitto nel campo dei cetrioli
di Alan Bradley
7,749 utenti
654 recensioni
3.8
Classifica globale 25
6 Members
raidergirl3, terran, LDVoorberg, PitcherBooks, kara.shamy, Boand,EMS_24
Spiegazioni
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.