Pic by Franzi.
During the last four weeks I read a bunch of books I would like to tell you about. Moreover, there was one more audio book and I finally finished two books I started reading a long time ago and never made it to the end.
Edgar Wallace – The Green Pack (Lotterie des Todes)
I started this book because I wanted to read a crime novel by the famous Edgar Wallace. Moreover, I was in love with its retro look. It tells the story of Jacqueline, a doctor’s daughter who looses a vast amount of money in a card game. Because she isn’t able to pay, she makes an unmoral deal with Louis Creet, a rich ‚friend‘ of the family. But this only leads to more conflicts… An easy read and a classic crime play.
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This was an impulsive book buy: The bookseller was recommending it enthusiastically with the words: „You will fall in love with the characters and their different developments during the story.“ She was absolutely right. You get to know the life of two middle-class families, living in Brooklyn. The parents are old friends and had a college band together. Now they have kids and deal with their midlife-crisis(es). On the other hand, their teenage kids have their very own adolescence/coming-of-age problems. A great and entertaining read.
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Jessamyn West – Love Is Not What You Think (Solange es die Liebe gibt)
This is a short non-fiction book about love, written in the 1950s out of a woman’s perspective. Jessamyn West’s views on love, falling in love, relationships and marriage are somehow old-fashioned, but also pretty amazing for a girl in the 1950s living in her parent’s house.
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A book I planned to read for quite some time: It’s the story of Ernest Hemingway’s first wife Hadley. The novel tells how they fell in love with each other, followed by their marriage, their time in Paris, the birth of their son, but also about the end of their marriage and the developments leading to divorce. I had to think a lot about this book – it really triggered something inside me. I even dreamed about Hemingway. Since the book oriented a lot on the real events, I also learned a lot about Hemingway and life the 1920s.
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The books I finally finished:
Eating Animals by Jonathan Safran Foer:
A long time ago, together with my literature club (in Osnabrück), I started this non-fiction book about eating animals and the effect animal farming has on our environment, the animals and consequently also on us. Somehow I never found the time to make it through the last two chapters. Now I finished it and was reminded on a lot of discussions we had back then. A book really everyone should read.
*****
Making Ideas Happen by Scott Belsky:
This one I started reading when I was thinking about starting a business club for scientists. Since then my life was tuned in a completely other direction and I never made it through the book (or founded the business club). Now I finally finished it. It contains a lot of insights into team building and bringing ideas to life.
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One audiobook I listened to:
Erbarmen (Mercy) by Jussi Adler-Olsen: I wanted to start this famous crime series about inspector
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I wish you a wonderful week! Have a fantastic one :)!
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