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*** Enthält unbezahlte, unbeauftragte Werbung *** Es ist kein Geheimnis, dass ich ein großer Fan der Autorin Elizabeth Gilbert bin. Ihr neuster Roman City of Girls beginnt in New York, Anfang der 1940er Jahre. Hierhin wird Vivien geschickt, eine Tochter aus gutem Hause, die nicht so ganz den Konventionen und Erwartungen ihrer Familie entspricht. In …
Pic by Franzi. What would you do if your best friend is secretly having an affair with your fiancé? Would you cry in your sheets and break-up the relationship immediately? I certainly would, but Amy – the heroine of Jane Fallon’s novel Faking Friends – chooses another way… When she arrives unannounced in her flat …
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Pic by Franzi. Merry X-Mas everyone :)! Those days are stuffed with visits of family and friends, big and small dinners and a lot of fun. In case you still have some time for a holiday read – here is this year’s favorite of mine: The Hygge Holiday by Rosie Blake. A Danish girl, Clara …
Pic by Franzi. A few weeks ago I sat on sofa in Osnabrück and had a relaxing break. Suddenly I found the novel Veilchen im Winter (translation: Violets in Winter) by Amei-Angelika Müller, published in 1990, in my hands and started reading: Julia spends her first winter vacations with her skiing-obsessed husband in a sports …
Actually, the title of today’s post should be changed into “The Books I’ve Listened to….”. Bretonische Flut (Breton Flood) by Jean-Luc Bannalec is the fifth book of the „Commissaire Dupin“ series. I only read the very first book and then switched to the audio versions read by Gerd Wameling, who is a fantastic reader and …
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The Signature of All Things is a book I wanted to read for quite some time. First, because it is written by the wonderful Elizabeth Gilbert, whose name is reoccurring regularly on this blog (read my reviews about her book Eat, Pray, Love or about her podcast Magic Lessons, if you like). Then – as a …
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Pic by Franzi. Since Elizabeth Dunkel’s 1980s novel Every Women Loves a Russian Poet is one of my favorite books, I had to read her second novel Under the Mosquito Net as well. Again, the story is about a single woman: Maia Rose is a successful beauty editor living in New York. She seems to …
Pic by Franzi. At this point everyone reading this blog might possibly know that I am totally into novels about women finding their own way of life. The book Reykjavík Café (German title Ganze Tage im Café) from the Icelandic author Sólveig Jónsdóttir falls just into this category and was a real treat to read. …
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Pic by Franzi. Currently I’m reading lots of books about tough women finding their own way. That’s why a colleague of mine lent me her copy of James Miranda Barry by Patricia Duncker. To be honest, I was quite sceptical if I would like it: It deals with the historical figure James Miranda Barry, a …
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Pic by Franzi. This book by Mexican author Laura Esquivel is both, a novel in the style of magical realism and a cookbook. It’s divided into twelve chapters, each one describing one Mexican dish. The main character Tita is cooking it and while this happens her story is told: As the youngest daughter she has …