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OK - confession time! I have commitment issues. There are so many beautiful books out there and so little time, so committing myself to one big book for a period of time is a tough one for me 😉 Mr Murakami also has the habit to bring out these massive tomes but somehow picking them... Continue Reading →
Had to pick Ignatius J. Reilly - because it is a really really funny book and it is a wonderful sunny beach picture. Makes a nice change in this grim wet weather. If you haven't read "The Confederacy of Dunces" it is a Pulitzer prize winning comedy about Ignatius a 30 years-old, "genius", an expert on Boetius with... Continue Reading →
I loved this book so I keep recommending it to my loved one and it made its way at least to the bedside table but has not actually been devoured by her yet. If you have read other books by Jonathan Coe especially his classic "What a carve up" this book might come as a... Continue Reading →
I know - I know. Another combined day, it looks as if I'm getting lazy. But! But! I really had a reason for combining it. It really is both. We did read it at school (ok in German but still) and it is one of my absolute favourite colour cover books. Promise. If you don't... Continue Reading →
My delayed flight home from Hamburg hindered me to send yesterday's posting on time there two days in one today. The book of poems I chose is the one by Emily Dickinson who's poetry I adore. She was an American Poet from Massachusetts who lived a very introverted and isolated life. She was born in... Continue Reading →
What a nice surprise I had when I left the train in Hamburg. Found this book with a nice little note of the former owner saying she is leaving the book for another reader and wishes a merry x-mas. And it came just in time for Day 11 of the Penguin Book-a-Day-Challenge as I did... Continue Reading →
Found this book in my favourite bookshop a few days ago, the story sounded great and only when I was going to pay for it I realised that I had finally picked up the book by this years nobel prize winner Patrick Mondiano ("Ein Stammbaum"). Really happy because I meant to read a book by... Continue Reading →
OK - this is a bit of an embarrassing story. Got this book by a good friend and for some reason I had the book down as a freaky Sci-Fi classic. An inkling that the cover only increased. So I was reading away hoping and waiting for the Spaceships, Time travel bits, Laser weapons but uhmmm... SPOILER... Continue Reading →
This had to be a Philip Marlowe "hardboiled" mystery. I love this tough minded, hard-drinking, philosophical private eye with a - of course - purely professional interest in recurring femme fatales 😉 I was especially happy to find this especially pretty edition in a book exchange in Cambodia. Nothing like cuddling up on the sofa... Continue Reading →
This was a difficult choice between this one and Pippi Longstocking. I love all of Erich Kästners books but Emil always had a special place. It is especially fun reading it in Berlin and I will pack it for my next trip there. In case you belong to the few people who never read it:... Continue Reading →
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