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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 […]
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The six books I read during the last two vacation weeks. All pics by Franzi. Our (late summer / early fall) vacations are already over. Those two weeks were incredible relaxing and fun. And finally there was time for reading :)! Here are the six books I indulged in. Cooking for Picasso by Camille Aubray:
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Pic by Franzi. „The whole point of good literature is to make newness durable. You are creating alternative time. You are making vivid that which did not exist before.“ Colum McCann, Letters to a Young Writer Letters to a Young Writer by author Colum McCann comprises fifty-two short texts that give some practical and philosophical
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Pic by Franzi. Today’s post is written under some time pressure: Thus the small picture and only a few lines… Our last book in the literature club was Mein Hirn hat seinen eigenen Kopf (My brain has its own head) by Dong Seon Chang. It’s a book about the wonders of the mind – how
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Pic by Franzi. It was more accidentally than planned that I took the crime novel Lost in Fuseta by Gil Ribeiro (aka Holger Karsten Schmidt) with me at the Algarve. In this first book of a new crime novel series we get to know Leander Lost, a police officer from Hamburg who participates at an
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During the last four weeks I read one book that was famous in the 1970, one book as a follow-up of one I read the month before, one crime novel that waited a long time on my stack of unread books and finally I listened to an audio book I discovered on the Frankfurt Book
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During the last four weeks life was busy. Thus, I only re-read one favorite book of mine and listened to two audio books… Sophie Kinsella – My Not So Perfect Life (Read by Fiona Hardingham) I love all novels by Sophie Kinsella. Only the Shopaholic series is not my cup of tea. But she simply
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I am in the mid of the pre-X-Mas craziness! So, today only a very short introduction into my newest (German) podcast addiction: Seriendialoge by journalist Ulrike Klode. For every episode, she invites a guest to speak about his or her favorite series. Listening to those dialogs, I already learned a lot of background stuff about
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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
Pic by Franzi. I am a fan of the writing of J. K. Rowling from the first Harry Potter book on (1997 – nearly twenty years ago!!). I love her development of real characters and a big storyline with many turns and twists. Finally, I found the time to read her first novel for adults
The Books I’ve Read: The Casual Vacancy by J. K. Rowling! Read More »