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Reading List March 2024
Just eight books finished last month, though I made progress with quite a few that should be completed in April (mostly for my planned non-fiction theme). I missed my targets for women/POC (three out of eight), and German (three); on … Continue reading
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Reading List February 2024
A short month, with just eight books completed, but I managed to squeeze in my four German, one Portuguese, one graphic novel and one reread. The theme: sci-fi! The graphic novel, Melek + Ich, was a great discovery. The back … Continue reading
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Reading List January 2024
A good start to the year: I finished eleven books this month, six by women/POC, four in German, one in Portuguese — all according to plan. My project for the month was to read Fitzcarraldo authors (not necessarily Fitzcarraldo editions) … Continue reading
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Cottbus Bird Census II
It’s become an annual tradition for me to try to record (photo or audio) 50 species of birds in and around Cottbus each December. This year’s results (photos of almost everything this time, but including some dirty record shots): 34 … Continue reading
Reading List December 2023
Just eight books finished this month (but some whoppers): four by women/POC, (just) three in German, one in Portuguese, and just three that were part of my original plan. For the six months, 50 total, 35 by women/POC, 26 in … Continue reading
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Reading List November 2023
Nine books finished this month, six by women/POC, six in German for #GermanLitMonth, and one in Portuguese. I’ve covered the German books in a little more depth than usual in separate posts, so just to summarise: Austria Echtzeitalter, by Tonio … Continue reading
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GermanLitMonth: Knochenlieder
#GermanLitMonth book six completes my perfectly balanced pattern: representing Swiss woman is Martina Clavadetscher, with Knochenlieder. This is a wonderfully strange book. Most obviously, it’s a novel written (pretty much) in verse. That is, there are line breaks, and while … Continue reading
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GermanLitMonth: Sieben Jahre
#GermanLitMonth book five is Sieben Jahre, by my Swiss gentleman for the month, Peter Stamm. It’s narrated by a Munich architect, within a framework of his telling an acquaintance “now” of various events between his student days and middle age. … Continue reading
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GermanLitMonth: Die Inkommensurablen
And my fourth #GermanLitMonth book, my second for Austria, makes a nice pair with Schachinger’s Echtzeitalter: Die Inkommensurablen, by Raphaela Edelbauer. It again takes place in Vienna, and is viewed through the eyes of an outsider teenager, but this time … Continue reading
GermanLitMonth: Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg
My third #GermanLitMonth book completes my pair of German books, and is by chance also non-fiction: Gebrauchsanweisung für Potsdam und Brandenburg, by Antje Rávik Strubel. This is certainly odd — as if Margaret Atwood had decided to write a guide … Continue reading