[null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/big-little-lies/episodes/01/episode-01-1920.jpg", "src": "http://i.lv3.hbo.com/assets/images/series/big-little-lies/episodes/01/episode-01-1920.jpg", "formatted_filename": "episode", "alt_text": "Image result for big little lies", "rendered_width": 400, "rendered_height": 225}, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1494400838l/35107691.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1494400838l/35107691.jpg", "alt_text": "35107691", "rendered_width": 210, "rendered_height": 320}, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/ee/b1/d5eeb1df1433a9c1b1d547d9c0b88c69.jpg", "src": "https://s-media-cache-ak0.pinimg.com/736x/d5/ee/b1/d5eeb1df1433a9c1b1d547d9c0b88c69.jpg", "formatted_filename": "d eeb df a c b d d c b c", "alt_text": "Image result for Time sure flies meme", "rendered_width": 400, "rendered_height": 334}, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485681801l/34041276.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1485681801l/34041276.jpg", "alt_text": "34041276", "rendered_width": 208, "rendered_height": 320}, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1490182164l/34564330.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1490182164l/34564330.jpg", "alt_text": "34564330", "rendered_width": 210, "rendered_height": 320}, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "http://www.linkwithin.com/pixel.png", "src": "http://www.linkwithin.com/pixel.png", "formatted_filename": "pixel", "alt_text": "Related Posts Plugin for WordPress, Blogger..."}, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "//lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WXv9uZkV0e4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABvk/TDlgQh8sP0o/s80-c/photo.jpg", "src": "http://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-WXv9uZkV0e4/AAAAAAAAAAI/AAAAAAAABvk/TDlgQh8sP0o/s80-c/photo.jpg", "formatted_filename": "photo", "alt_text": "My photo", "rendered_width": 80, "rendered_height": 80}, null, null, null, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466335226s/16372.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1466335226s/16372.jpg", "alt_text": "The Mirror Crack'd from Side to Side"}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327883589s/97090.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327883589s/97090.jpg", "alt_text": "The Phoenix and the Carpet"}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424189465s/18304322.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1424189465s/18304322.jpg", "alt_text": "Dumplin'"}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1363935696s/45685.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1363935696s/45685.jpg", "alt_text": "The Canterville Ghost"}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355881478s/9572203.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1355881478s/9572203.jpg", "alt_text": "The Snowman"}, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/groups/1263842492p3/21857.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/groups/1263842492p3/21857.jpg", "alt_text": "South African Book Lovers", "rendered_width": 75}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1357108762s/15507958.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1357108762s/15507958.jpg", "alt_text": "Me Before You"}, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1460560443s/29909674.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1460560443s/29909674.jpg", "alt_text": "Recoil"}, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328732003s/3573415.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1328732003s/3573415.jpg", "alt_text": "The Karma Suture"}, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313772941s/6101718.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1313772941s/6101718.jpg", "alt_text": "The Magicians"}, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1468497023s/16096824.jpg", "src": "https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1468497023s/16096824.jpg", "alt_text": "A Court of Thorns and Roses"}, null, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/challenges/1512582428p2/7501.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/challenges/1512582428p2/7501.jpg", "alt_text": "2018 Reading Challenge"}, null, {"document_url": "http://marelithalkink.blogspot.com/2017/05/", "unformatted_src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/challenges/1486591746p2/5493.jpg", "src": "https://images.gr-assets.com/challenges/1486591746p2/5493.jpg", "alt_text": "2017 Reading Challenge"}, null, null, null]
Greetings! Iv'e been a bit lazy with the weekly features the past couple of weeks. But at least I can honestly say I've spend that time reading. Mostly. Okay, about half of that time. Let's make it a third and call it quits.

Seeing that it's a freebie day on Book Traveling Thursdays, I can wallow in my laziness and just combine this week's BTT with Thursday Quotables hosted by Bookshelf Fantasies.
Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 25, 2017 2 comments: Labels: Book Traveling Thursdays, Thursday Quotables


How We Found You by J.T. Lawrence Title: How We Found YouAuthor: J.T. Lawrence
Series: When tomorrow calls (Book 2)Publication date: 18 May 2017 (Today!!! Launch day is TODAY!!)Read: May 11 - 18, 2015Genre: Thriller; Science Fiction (Futuristic)Mareli's rating: 4 StarsRecommend to: Have you read Why you were taken? Description: There’s something different about Kate’s four-year-old son. He wasn’t created the old fashioned way. Now a violent cult wants him dead and Kate will do anything to protect him – until they take her daughter.

In tomorrow’s world, Kate is haunted by a brutal past. Struggling to navigate a life that seems like an experiment in virtual reality, her paranoia threatens to consume her. But when someone tries to kidnap Mally, she realizes she was absolutely right to be afraid. With only hours to go before the cult's prophecy is to be fulfilled, Kate and Seth face more danger than they’ve ever imagined, desperate to keep him safe. However, the charismatic leader of the cult has other ideas, which puts Kate in an impossible position. Who will she choose to live, and who will she have to sacrifice? Amazon
Browsing through my Goodreads Read Shelf, I came to realize that I haven't read a series back to back in years. Oh what bliss, what a thrill - how quickly can the next one be available Janita Lawrence?
Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 18, 2017 4 comments: Labels: 4 Star Rating, ARC, Book Review, South Africa


TTT: "Bring me her heart!" said every Stepmom in history Ever since The Evil Queen uttered those damning words, we have all been terrified of Stepmoms. I for one, was much more afraid of The Evil Queen than I was of the Devil in the Children's Bible. No jokes.

I didn't get to celebrate Mother's Day on Sunday. But I do have a number of wonderful friends who all got to spend the day with their children. Some of those friends are stepmoms or a stepmom-to-be real soon. When I saw today's theme for Top Ten Tuesday (Mother's Day Related), I immediately thought of my dearest stepmom friends. Are they all evil? I honestly don't think so.  But yes, I do believe their only request is: "Bring me her/his heart!". Maybe just not literally all the time. Sometimes they really just want to capture their stepchildren's hearts.Thankfully Literature, the wisest of all, agrees with me. Let's have a look at a few notable Stepmoms in literature:

Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 16, 2017 23 comments: My goodness - it's Friday again. Time sure flies lately, but are we having fun? As long as there's a book lying on your bedside table and a kindle in your bag, of course we are!

Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 12, 2017 30 comments: 


Misverstand deur Marita van der Vyver Titel: MisverstandSkrywer: Marita van der VyverUitgewer: Penguin Random House SAPublikasie datum: Maart 2017Bladsye: 270 (sagteband)My gradering: 2 SterreBeveel aan vir lesers van: Marita van der Vyver (dis nie 'n genre nie, ek weet, maar dit is 'n onmisbare stem). As jy worstel met die vraag, Wroeg jy met jou middelmatigheid? Kort opsomming: Willem Prins bewandel die strate van Parys. Eens was hy op koers om ’n gerekende skrywer in Suid-Afrika te word, maar na jare se probeer wink die koue water van die Seine – miskien sal sy verdrinking sy boekverkope bietjie opstoot, dink ’n swartgallige Willem.
Tot sy skaamte is dit die erotika wat hy onder ’n skuilnaam skryf wat hom na Frankryk gebring het. Terug na die stad waar een van sy drie eksvroue saam met sy oudste seun woon, ’n jong man wat sy pa skaars ken.Vir Willem is Parys nie juis die stad van liefde nie, maar dit is hier waar hy vir Jackie ontmoet, ’n jong Suid-Afrikaner wat as au pair werk. Dit is ook sy wat saam met hom is dié Vrydagaand die dertiende toe terreur in Parys losbars.Misverstand is die dertiende roman van een van Suid-Afrika se gewildste skrywers. ’n Roman oor die ontnugtering van die middeljare, die lewe se onweerswolke wat dikwels dreig, en oor bande tussen mense wat beskut. Goodreads

Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 11, 2017 No comments: Labels: 2 Star Rating, Afrikaans, Book Review, South Africa


Why you were taken by J.T. Lawrence Title: Why You Were Taken
Author: J.T. Lawrence
Published by: Pulp Books
Publication date: 29 March 2015
Read: April 25 - April 30, 2015
Genre: Thriller; Science Fiction (Futuristic)
Pages: 358
ISBN:  9780620655583
Mareli's rating: 3.5 stars
Recommend to: Sci-fi junkies who love the thrill of something "different". J.T. Lawrence's fan-club (this woman can write!)
Description: In tomorrow's world prowls a creative and ruthlessly efficient assassin who won't stop until Kirsten is killed. A troubled woman approaches Kirsten with a warning and a key and is later found dead. Was the woman just another victim of the Suicide Contagion or is there something more sinister at play? The key leads Kirsten to the Doomsday Vault and a hit list of seven people - and her barcode is on it. Edgy and original, Why You Were Taken is a dark cinematic thriller that will keep you guessing till the last page. Goodreads

Nah, that blurb just doesn't do enough justice to this book. Let's try this one:

Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 07, 2017 4 comments: Labels: 3.5 Star Rating, Book Review, Giveaway, South Africa


Library Card May 2017

Greetings! Another month has passed and it's been a rather hectic time at the new house. Renovations and alterations and gardening and all those housy thingies that keep you from reading and blogging. So when the looong weekend in SA finally arrived on Thursday, I was all excited to just relax and take it easy.  I actually had a number of posts planned and all the books from April's Library Card lined up for completion. Alas.... Maybe this house is haunted. It keeps beckoning to me. It keeps pulling me away from the books..... Nah. Or at least I don't think so. I love my new house. Nothing weird here. Or scary.

I'm just making excuses for not completing my Library List. But let's have a quick look at what I did finish in April:
Posted by Mareli Thalwitzer at May 01, 2017 14 comments: Labels: It's Monday, Library Card, Stacking the shelves