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• Celebrating the 15th Anniversary of #Quick Reads

  

  I cannot think of a time when I haven’t taken reading and writing for granted. Of course, I was aware that not everyone could read but I don’t think I knew... Read more

  Posted on 27 May 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ljudmila Ulitskaya – The Funeral Party (1997)

  

  I am one of those readers who have a tendency to jump from one new-to-me author to the next. I wasn’t always like that though. Read more

  Posted on 25 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Push by Ashley Audrain (2021)

  

  I don’t usually buy books that have just been published without reading at least one review but in this case, I had to. In December, I saw The Push announced... Read more

  Posted on 18 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Best Books I Read in 2020

  

  Evening at home Edward John Poynter (UK, 1836-1919) I think I’ve been saying this for three years in a row now, but I have to say it again – this wasn’t a... Read more

  Posted on 06 January 2021 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Turncoat – Der Überläufer by Siegfried Lenz – Literature and War Readalong...

  

  The Turncoat, published posthumously in 2016 for the first time, was actually Siegfried Lenz’s second novel. His first novel Es waren Habichte in der Luft came... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• “The End, We Failed It. Both of Us.” (Max Frisch) – Ingeborg Bachmann and Max...

  

  When I was in my early twenties, I went through an Ingeborg Bachmann phase and read almost everything I could find by her. I loved her poetry so much. Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Max Frisch – Montauk

  

  When I decided to do Max Frisch and Ingeborg Bachmann weeks, I wasn’t entirely aware how ideal it was to pick Montauk. Although Frisch and Bachmann were a coupl... Read more

  Posted on 14 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim by Sophie Von La Roche (1771) First German...

  

  Published in 1771, The History of Lady Sophia Sternheim is considered the first German woman’s novel. Sophie von La Roche was born in Kaufbeuren in Germany in... Read more

  Posted on 08 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Welcome to German Literature Month X 2020

  

  The first of November is here and it’s finally time for German Literature Month. As you may know from our intro posts, we have two parallel programs this year. Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Time After Time by Molly Keane

  

  Published in 1983, Time After Time, is Anglo-Irish writer Molly Keane’s second novel under her own name. Before that she published ten novels under her pseudony... Read more

  Posted on 01 October 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Announcing German Literature Month X

  

  10 years, who would have thought it?  But here we are, and in a year when there has been plenty to be glum about, Lizzy and I thought we should buck the trend,... Read more

  Posted on 10 September 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• #WIT – Austrian Crime – Some Reasons Why You Might Like Alex Beer’s Crime Series

  

  Alex Beer is an Austrian crime writer whose books have won many prestigious prizes. The Leo Perutz Preis and the Austrian Krimipreis, among others. Alex Beer wa... Read more

  Posted on 20 August 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• The Stranger Diaries by Elly Griffiths

  

  I’ve long been a fan of Elly Griffith’s Dr Ruth Galloway mysteries, slowly reading one book after the other. There are twelve books by now, four of which I’ve... Read more

  Posted on 10 July 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Some Thoughts on Where the Crawdads Sing by Delia Owens

  

  I don’t read a lot of bestselling mainstream novels. Very often, I don’t even hear about them. But from time to time there’s a book that sells so many copies... Read more

  Posted on 18 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Meetings with Remarkable Trees

  

  The indifference towards old trees makes a mockery of our supposed new respect for the environment. (Thomas Pakenham)There isn’t much that is as beautiful and... Read more

  Posted on 10 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Daisy Miller by Henry James

  

  The novella Daisy Miller was published in 1878, the same year James published his novel The Europeans and two years before the publication of Washington... Read more

  Posted on 08 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• That Old Cape Magic by Richard Russo – Broken Dreams and Childhood Memories

  

  Richard Russo is an American novelist who won the Pulitzer Prize for his novel Empire Falls which came out in 2001. That Old Cape Magic was published in 2009. Read more

  Posted on 05 June 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Looking Back on A Post a Day in May

  

  It’s hard to believe the month is over. And I did it. I posted one post a day all through the month of May. Even though I had such a tough time blogging in the... Read more

  Posted on 31 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Wild Women and Books by Brenda Knight – Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolifi...

  

  I kept this one for last as it’s hands down one of my favourite books. Wild Women and Books – Bibliophiles, Bluestockings, and Prolific Pens contains entries... Read more

  Posted on 30 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Odd and the Frost Giants by Neil Gaiman – A Tale Inspired by Norse Mythology –...

  

  Neil Gaiman wrote Odd and the Frost Giants for World Book Day 2008. The cover on the left is the original cover. The book has since been reissued twice,... Read more

  Posted on 29 May 2020 BOOKS, CULTURE