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Pic by Franzi. A colleague of mine gave me this book: Capital by John Lanchester. Since I follow the good-old book-nerd-rule to always give orange/yellow books a chance, I started to read it. This is what it’s about: The residents of London’s Pepys Road regularly receive postcards with pictures of their own front doors and […]
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Pic by Franzi. Joachim Meyerhoff’s book Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war was the first book I’ve read with my NEW book club in Hamburg. Since my old book club back in Osnabrück read only nonfiction, it was an experiment to start with a novel. It’s the story of Joachim Meyerhoff’s
Pic by Franzi. Since I read Every Woman Loves A Russian Poet, I am on the hunt after novels starring independent women struggling to be content with themselves and realizing their dreams. One may guess that the book shops are full of them but it isn’t the case at all. Luckily, I recently stumbled over
The Books I Loved… Lola Bensky by Lilly Brett ! Read More »
Never Have I Ever: My Life (so far) Without a Date …Wow, that’s a title. What does she mean with „My Life Without a Date“? Those were the first thoughts I had in mind when I discovered Katie Heaney’s book in the book shop. I hoped to find a Bridget Jones – like read that
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Here comes the sentence I always start a book post with: Finally a book post again! This time I would like to recommend you a book that was a freaking long time on my to-read list: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly: A Memoir of Life in Death by Jean-Dominique Bauby. Last summer I found
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I am writing too seldom about the books I’m reading on My so-called Luck. But today I would like to recommend you the book I carry currently in my bag to use every opportunity to read it further: Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It’s what is called a classic chick-lit novel, but with great
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I didn’t read the novel The Summer without Men because the reviews were fantastic when it came out last year. I didn’t read it because of the famous author, Siri Hustvedt, the wife of the not less famous (and incredible) Paul Auster. I just read this one because of its title and all the implications
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