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Category Archives: Books
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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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
GermanLitMonth: Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger!
Neger, Neger, Schornsteinfeger! by Hans-Jürgen Massaquoi is my second book for #GermanLitMonth — sort of. I was reading it for Black History Month in October, before things got in the way, but it fits into the rulebreakers week of this … Continue reading
GermanLitMonth: Echtzeitalter
I’ve finished my first book for #GermanLitMonth: Echtzeitalter, by Tonio Schachinger. Deutscher Buchpreis-winner this year, it’s a Bildungsroman following a teen gamer at a Viennese school very similar to the one Schachinger went to, where he encounters first a Snape-like … Continue reading