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• Best Books I Read 2025

  

  I had a couple of underwhelming reading years in the past but 2024 was excellent. I can’t remember why I never posted my best of that year but, sadly, I didn’t. Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2026 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Blackwell’s Best Books of 2025

  

  I sometimes order from Blackwell’s, a UK bookshop located in Oxford and regularly get their newsletter.They just published their best of 2025 and I thought I... Read more

  Posted on 15 December 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Is Heartwood the “Thriller of the Year”?

  

  Every year there’s a book that is called “thriller of the year”. Last year it was The God of the Woods, a book I read and liked but wouldn’t have called a... Read more

  Posted on 13 December 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• R.I.P. Lizzy – We Will Miss You

  

  I’m under a great deal of shock. GLM has ended and I just found out my former co-host, who was known under the blog name Lizzy Siddal, has died. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Christa Wolf – Accident – A Day’s News/ Störfall – Nachrichten Eines Tages (1987)

  

  German Literature Month is almost over and we’re closing this year with a GDR week. I chose a book by one of the most famous authors from the former German... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain Part 4 – Time, Boredom, Madness, and Final...

  

  Time – Boredom – MadnessThomas Mann said that The Magic Mountain was first and foremost a “Zeitroman”, a novel about time. Time in a double sense. First about... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain – Part 3 Illness, Therapy, and Death

  

  Illness – Therapy – DeathSet in a lung sanatorium, The Magic Mountain is not only a novel about time (which I will discuss in part 4) but also a novel about... Read more

  Posted on 22 November 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Welcome to German Literature Month XV November 2025

  

  Welcome to German Literature Month XVHopefully many of you have a nice selection of books or a reading list for #germanlitmonth.Remember  – anything that was... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Announcing German Literature Month XV November 2025

  

  November isn’t far away, and you all know what that means – German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (! Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2025 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Judith Hermann – We Would Have Told Each Other Everything (Wir Hätten Uns Alles...

  

  We all have authors whose every book we read. For me, Judith Hermann is one of those authors. She’s best known for her short stories but has also written... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daniela Krien’s My Third Life (Mein Drittes Leben)

  

  German author Daniela Krien who was born in the former G.D.R. published her first novel We Will Tell Each Other Everything (Wir werden uns alles erzählen) in... Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Trap – Die Falle by Melanie Raabe

  

  The Trap, Melanie Raabe’s debut novel, was published exactly ten years ago. Several publishers went to auction to get it and it was translated into 16 languages... Read more

  Posted on 09 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Jan Costin Wagner – Days of Last Snow – Tage Des Letzten Schnees – Kimmo...

  

  I discovered Jan Costin Wagner ten years ago during another German Literature Month and absolutely fell in love with his writing. Read more

  Posted on 05 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Welcome to German Literature Month XIV November 2024

  

  Welcome to German Literature Month XIVHopefully shelves have been scoured, reading material has been chosen, and everyone has a reading list for #germanlitmonth. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Announcing German Literature Month XIV November 2024

  

  November is coming and you all know what that means: German Literature Month is back. Dust off the German/Austrian/Swiss books on your piles, rush to the book... Read more

  Posted on 03 October 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Whatever Happened to My 20 Books of Summer?

  

  Goodness did I fail spectacularly at Cathy’s 20 Books of Summer. My intentions were good, my choices were excellent, and, for a while, I read one book after... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• 20 Books of Summer

  

  I just realized, I’m late to Cathy’s 20 Books of Summer. It’s my first time participating and I had no idea it didn’t start at the beginning of summer but at th... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Leonard and Hungry Paul by Rónán Hession #ReadIndies – Bluemoose Books

  

  I’ve always liked the idea of #ReadIndies but was never able to participate. This year, the hosts, Kaggsy and Lizzy, are focusing on micro publishers,... Read more

  Posted on 27 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Thornhedge by T. Kingfisher (2023)

  

  My first encounter with fairy tale retellings dates back to my teenage years when I discovered Angela Carter’s The Bloody Chamber. Read more

  Posted on 21 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Where Have All the Bloggers Gone?

  

  Since I returned to blogging, I’m trying to solve the mystery of the vanished bloggers. Where have they gone? Why did they stop blogging? Are they OK? Will... Read more

  Posted on 06 February 2024 BOOKS, CULTURE