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• Literature and War Readalong 2014

  

  The books for Literature and War Readalong 2011 and 2012 were following the different wars in chronological order. This year, 2013, we focused on different... Read more

  Posted on 11 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alice McDermott: Someone (2013)

  

  Someone begins on the stoop of a Brooklyn apartment building where Marie is waiting for her father to come home from work. It is the 1920s and in her... Read more

  Posted on 08 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong December 30 2013: The Sorrow of War Aka Thân Phận...

  

  We’ve all seen movies or read books on the war in Vietnam from an American perspective. Bao Ninh’s The Sorrow of War aka Thân phận của tình... Read more

  Posted on 05 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Lauren Kate: Teardrop (2013) Teardrop Trilogy I

  

  Seventeen-year-old Eureka won’t let anyone close enough to feel her pain. After her mother was killed in a freak accident, the things she used to love hold no... Read more

  Posted on 03 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Looking Back on German Literature Month 2013

  

  German Literature Month 2013 is over. It’s time to thank everyone for participating. Some have shown extraordinary enthusiasm. Read more

  Posted on 02 December 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Hans Keilson: The Death of the Adversary – Der Tod Des Widersachers (1959)...

  

  I wish it hadn’t happened but it did. I couldn’t finish Hans Keilson’s novel The Death of the Adversary – Der Tod des Widersachers. Not because I ran out of tim... Read more

  Posted on 29 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Allegedly Because of Snow – Angeblich Wegen Schnee (2013) A Winter Book Edited b...

  

  Consider this as a hybrid post for German Literature Month as two-thirds of the book include texts from other countries but it’s such an excellent book that I... Read more

  Posted on 27 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Eduard Von Keyserling’s – Schwüle Tage (Sultry Days)

  

  Today we had the first snow. I woke to a fine layer of white in the morning. I don’t think it will stay, it’s already raining. Nonetheless it is strange to writ... Read more

  Posted on 23 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Barbara Honigmann: A Love Made Out of Nothing – Eine Liebe Aus Nichts (1991)

  

  Barbara Honigmann’s A Love Made Out of Nothing tells the story of a young expatriate’s journey back to Weimar to attend her father’s funeral. Read more

  Posted on 19 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Helmut Krausser: The Great Bagarozy – Der Grosse Bagarozy (1997)

  

  To enjoy this novel you don’t need to be a fan of Maria Callas but you should at least be interested in her life, as The Great Bagarozy - Der grosse Bagarozy... Read more

  Posted on 15 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Elke Schmitter: Mrs Sartoris – Frau Sartoris (2000)

  

  Part confessional, part thriller, Elke Schmitter’s explosive first novel is the story of Margaret. Jilted by a rich boyfriend when only eighteen, she finds... Read more

  Posted on 13 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Alissa Walser: Mesmerized – Am Anfang War Die Nacht Musik (2010)

  

  I so wanted to love this book. I liked the premise, the first sentences were evocative and descriptive but then, a few pages later, I just couldn’t stand the... Read more

  Posted on 10 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• On Sarah Kirsch’s Regenkatze – Raincat (2007)

  

  Sarah Kirsch, born Ingrid Bernstein, in 1935, in Prussian Saxony was a German poet and artist. She was widely known and appreciated in Germany and received... Read more

  Posted on 06 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Literature and War Readalong November 29 2013 Meets German Literature Month:...

  

  This months readalong title Death of the Adversary aka Der Tod des Widersachers by Hans Keilson is also part of German Literature Month. Keilson was an... Read more

  Posted on 03 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Welcome to German Literature Month

  

  Lizzy and I are happy to announce the official beginning of German Literature Month. A few introduction posts and lists have cropped up here and there already,... Read more

  Posted on 01 November 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• Vasily Grossman: Everything Flows (1961) Literature and War Readalong October...

  

  Would you inform on people to save your own life? Sign papers knowing very well it will send people to the Gulag? Would you? If you are like me, you are unable... Read more

  Posted on 28 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• German Literature Month – Musical Warm-up

  Just a few songs from the past 12 months. The last two are Swiss bands. Read more

  Posted on 27 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• German Women Writers – A Few More Suggestions

  

  German Literature Month is upcoming and since we’d like to promote women writers I thought, I give you some more suggestions. Two years ago I wrote this post... Read more

  Posted on 24 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• S. J. Bolton: Now You See Me (2011)

  

  I’m one of those who is fascinated by the story of Jack the Ripper or rather its mystery. I’m sure, if the crime had been solved, I would care far less, but... Read more

  Posted on 20 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE

• David Miller: Today (2011)

  

  August 1924. John Conrad arrives at his parents’ home on the outskirts of Canterbury, where family and friends are assembling for the bank holiday weekend. Read more

  Posted on 15 October 2013 BOOKS, CULTURE