Allure of Channel - Book

This week i´ve been reading this great book by Paul Morand. He captured the content of a his meetings with Coco Chanell in the mid 40´s when they meet at the Badrutt´s Palace Hotel in Sankt Moritz. I love how she speaks so straight about her life and creates a different view on her personality just by "hearing" he roppinion on marriage, jewelry and money. if you love fashion and Chanell or just european gossip of the last century you should get your fingers on this gem. The original in in french and is called "L´Allure de Chanel", in english translation it´s available under "Allure of Chanel" and the german edition is called "Die Kunst, Chanel zu sein". This one is from amazon and i love this cover.

http://www.amazon.de/Allure-Chanel-Paul-Morand/dp/1906548102/ref=sr_1_cc_3?s=aps&ie=UTF8&qid=1360273659&sr=1-3-catcorr

                                                                           

Deadlocked - novel and review

This month the new novel by Charlaine Harris came out. "Deathlocked" is the second last book of the Sookie Stackhouse-Novels. I waited patient and wanted to buy this book at least after july so i don´t have so much time to wait till the last book will be out. But i could not wait and i bought it last week. And i love it like the other books. There is not so much action like in the previous ones but Mrs. Harris cleans up with many random plots and figures. But one step after the other. There we go for a complete story retelling session with a huge amount of spoilers. As many of the fans have read before (cause the first chapter was free to view) Sookie and a few friends went to a strip-club owned by her cousin Claude and enjoy a girls-only night. As a surprise her fairy great-great grandfather waits for her as she arrives back and after a talk with Claude and Dermot he takes Claude with him into faery to investigate who had cast a spell on Dermont. Claude was not happy about that!!! Then we have a meeting with Fillipe to attend. This will be at Erics house and Sookie was delated by a phonecall by Mustapha, Erics daytime guy. When she enters the house and goes upstairs she sees Erik drinking form a strange woman he seems not to know. Sookie detects from her brain that she was send to Eric as a trap and that she used fairy-blood to make her more atractive. She is later found at the front lawn of Erics house and the police investigates. Mustapha vanishes and leaves a message to Skookie to call on Alcide but without letting Jeannalynn know that. Sam tells Sookie that the furniture she has sold to an antiques dealer has been stolen and she concludes it must be because of the Cluviel Dór. This guess is confirmed when the antiques dealer showes up on her door and tries to get the fairy item. He is killed by an emerging Mr. Cataliades who tells Sookie she must be carefull. Freya visites Sookie too but i don´t know what will come out of this plot. Then Sookie and Bill free a man captured by Fillipe and right in front of the hotel she is captured by a bunch of rogue weres. She can be rescued by Mustapha and finaly Jeannalyn shows her real face. She was behind the murder scene on Erics lawn but she was payed to do so by: CLAUDE! Yes it was him! Claude wantes to stress Sooky and her relationship with Eric so maybe a fight would break out and her fairy Grandfather would come to her rescue so Claude and his gang of fairies could take him over. It is also revealed he stayed at her house to search extensively for the Cluviel Dór. Sookie, Dermot and other fairies nail him down and Niall comes to this scene to take all the fairies with him back and seal the portal forever. And he tells Sookie that he has told Eric that she has the fairy item so she can see his true intentions. Eric wants her to use the item to get him out of his marriage contract with Freya. But Sookie thinks that he can deal with this situation on his own if he realy loves her. Then Sookie attends a pack meeting at Alcides property when Jeannalynn and the rogues will be jugded. Jeannalynn tries to kill Alcide but instead she knifes Sam and he is dying. Sookie uses the Cluviel Dór to bring Sam back to life and Erik vanishes of into the night. WOW what a storie. So many open questions and subplots were closed to make room for the final storyline of the last book. Oh my, one year to wait, this will be so hard. But on the other hand its good to draw a line under this series, because a good one can not last forwever without loosing some of her genuine quality and esprit.

Finaly TIMELESS

Yesterday, just after 11 o´clock in the morning my postman rang and handed me the last book of the "Parasol Peotectorate" over. I was occupied the whole dy and at past one in the night i finished "timeless" by Gail Carriger. Oh it was great fun. Timeless has more pages than the previous books but then there is more story to tell. Everything has a a more or less happy ending and from my point of viw everything is explained and developed great. I hate it when stories end with an open end and this is definitely ending proper. Now i like to spoil some information, ok i spoil everything but i am so enthusiastic about it, i don´t care. The end is, that Biffy is becoming the new Alpha of the London pack although he can do anubis form and therefor can be acting as alpha. Lyall changes his position to Beta of the Kingair pack as reparration for him stealing Connall. And he and Biffy finaly develop a realtionship - in LOVE!!! Ivy and Tunstell travel with Alexia to Egypt and in a final confrontion with the alexandria hive queen - who made Lord Akeldama - Ivy is transformed and turning into a vampire! Who would have thought of that? Floote is revealt to be more than just Alessandros vallet and even Alexia and Connal develope a plan how they can grew old together. All in one nothing more a fan of the series might desire! And please forgive my horrible grammar but i am so exited i don´t have the mind for overreading the whole txt again.

Release of Timeless TODAY

Today is the great day we al waited for. Ok, when i mean "we all" i mean the fans of Gail Carriger final book of the parasol protectorate series: Timeless. Today is it´s release and i can´t wait too get my fingers on that book. i already ordered it via amazon but i have to wait - aaaahh i am so not patience. But anyway some details have leaked out as always and i´ve read a few pages with delight. The story continues two years after the last book - heartless - and we see Alexias daughter in action right from the start. Gail Carriger already announced to write a spin of with Prudence that can be expected fall 2013. Hurray, that are good news! But for now i am happy to read what is going on this time in egypt and how they get Prodence bathing ...

http://www.amazon.com/Timeless-Parasol-Protectorate-No-5/dp/0316127183/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1330601722&sr=1-1