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• Literature and War Readalong November 2016 Meets German Literature Month: All Fo...

  

  The last title of this year’s Literature and War Readalong is Walter Kempowski’s All For Nothing – Alles umsonst. It was Kempowski’s last novel. Walter Kempowsk... Read more

  Posted on 04 November 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Welcome to German Literature Month

  

  Finally it’s November. Those of you who follow my blog might have noticed I was a bit quiet in the last weeks. With good reason. I was busy reading German,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Tammy Cohen: When She Was Bad (2016)

  

  I’ve read many crime novels and thrillers this summer. Some of them still make me yawn. Luckily, Tammy Cohen’s novel When She Was Bad wasn’t one of them. On... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Svetlana Lilova: Metaphysical Dictionary (2016) A Collection of Poems with...

  

  Some of you may remember that I participated in Thomas’ (Mystwostotinki) Bulgarian Literature Month in June. Right after the month was finished, I was offered... Read more

  Posted on 11 October 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Ben Fountain: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk (2012) Literature and War Readalon...

  

  Luckily Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk was one of my readalong titles or I might have given up after fifty pages. I found it hard to get into but once I... Read more

  Posted on 30 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Sjöwall & Wahlöö: The Locked Room (1972) Martin Beck Series

  

  One could say that Sjöwall and Wahlöö are the grandfathers of Swedish crime. They wrote long before Nordic crime was the thing it has become. Their Martin Beck... Read more

  Posted on 27 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Announcing German Literature Month VI

  

  “Who would want to be without Caroline and Lizzy’s German Literature Month?” asks Sally-Ann Spencer in the 20th anniversary edition of New Books in German. The... Read more

  Posted on 22 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lee Martin: The Bright Forever (2005)

  

  This has been an odd reading and blogging year so far. I’m only reviewing about one in four or five books I read. Not only because I’m sometimes disappointed... Read more

  Posted on 20 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• How Do You Feel About Errors and Clichés in Short Stories? Or Some Thoughts On...

  

  I’m baffled to say the least. I don’t think I’ve ever come across a story with more factual errors. Since I haven’t read a lot of Ann Patchett’s work, I was gla... Read more

  Posted on 13 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong September 30 2016: Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk...

  

  Next up in the Literature and War Readalong 2016 is Ben Fountain’s novel on the war in Iraq Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk. Billy Lynn is Ben Fountain’s first... Read more

  Posted on 01 September 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Elizabeth Taylor: Angel (1957)

  

  Angel was my fifth Elizabeth Taylor novel and it was nothing like the ones I’ve read before. It’s almost entirely a character portrait, covering one person’s... Read more

  Posted on 29 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Emma Cline: The Girls (2016)

  

  I knew a lot about The Girls and Emma Cline’s publishing deal before the book was even out. It has been sold at an auction for 2,000,000 $ – together with the... Read more

  Posted on 23 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Elizabeth Von Arnim’s “Elizabeth and Her German Garden”

  

  I thought this would be my first book by Elizabeth von Arnim but I’d totally forgotten the wonderful The Enchanted April, which I’ve read a long time ago and... Read more

  Posted on 18 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lisa Jewell: The Girls in the Garden Aka The Girls (2015)

  

  It doesn’t happen often that I stay up late because I have to finish a book but in this case it did. I guess that shows how captivated I was by Lisa Jewell’s... Read more

  Posted on 10 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• All Virago/All August

  

  I have many Virago titles on my piles and always meant to do at least a Virago reading week for myself. So, when I discovered  All Virago/All August, hosted by... Read more

  Posted on 02 August 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Ferdinand Von Schirach’s Terror (2015)

  

  Ferdinand von Schirach’s latest book Terror contains the play Terror and von Schirach’s speech on the occasion of the M100-Sanssouci Media Award for Charlie... Read more

  Posted on 25 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Colm Tóibín: Brooklyn (2009)

  

  I can’t understand why I haven’t read Colm Tóibín before. He’s outstanding. I admire his writing, his luminous prose. It’s not easy to say why it is so great bu... Read more

  Posted on 19 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Georges Simenon: La Chambre Bleue – The Blue Room (1963)

  

  While I’ve read some of Simenon’s Maigret novels, I hadn’t read any of his so-called “romans durs” until now.  Many people say they are far better than the... Read more

  Posted on 08 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lucie Whitehouse: Keep You Close (2016)

  

  This is just a quick review of Lucie Whitehouse’s latest novel Keep You Close. It’s short because it’s more easily spoilt than other crime novels. Read more

  Posted on 04 July 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Maria Stankowa’s Novella The Black Woman and the Archer – Bulgarian Literatur...

  

  I’ve never read Bulgarian literature before and when Thomas (Mystwostotinki) announced he would host a Bulgarian Literature Month in June, I thought it would... Read more

  Posted on 29 June 2016 BOOKS, CULTURE