tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10094171758185129622024-03-19T14:16:29.238+01:00Let's readMarianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.comBlogger2587125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-82038278839291000182024-03-19T10:53:00.000+01:002024-03-19T10:53:11.639+01:00Top 5 Tuesday ~ Green Books<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://meeghanreads.com/category/top-5-tuesday/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="639" data-original-width="1140" height="179" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiPU-jzWkfl-w4nBBuLiBBZ1zqDE6_wvlHuHGbijvqP7yLMBGpbSV38CLjFn6FfCTi4lGKnSpErYZgMwYG64S-NLUMzwqs7eTSH6MJ3kqZhJxk05Deu_xQVdW_aLl7X8YfC0fpYSqt-Kl-O6kgKNjCZRbXpa8anxopmshpXvik0Y6iPDqbeqypcuURPraA/s320/Top%205%20Tuesday.png" width="320" /></a><br /></p><p>Top Five Tuesday was originally created by Shanah @ <a href="https://bionicbookwormblog.wordpress.com/">Bionic Book Worm</a>, but is now hosted by Meeghan @ <a href="https://meeghanreads.com/category/top-5-tuesday/">Meeghan Reads</a>. To participate, link your post back to Meeghan’s blog or leave a comment on her weekly post.
I found this on Davida's Page @ <a href="https://tcl-bookreviews.com/">The Chocolate Lady</a>.
<br /></p><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>* * *</b></span></span></div><p>This week’s topic: <b><span style="color: #38761d;">Top 5 Green Books</span></b><br />
<br />17 March is St Patrick’s Day, so to share in the celebration of shamrocks, share your top 5 books with a green cover
This should not be a huge problem for me since green is my favourite colour. I was trying to find some green books that take place in <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Ireland">Ireland</a> or are written by Irish authors. Alas, there weren't any, really. But I managed to find some books with about 99% green on their covers.<br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica; font-size: medium;"><span><span style="text-align: left;"><b>☘ Happy St. Patrick's Day! ☘</b></span></span></span></p><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="1517" height="166" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiFf5NRynl8UGb2mgW3Q-x4ddwNgoYBpBYEVh8bC_RdiEPp-Z6CchyydsY0hekE2rckUBgna2A6DG6rEfc34eGiEvz8Kv2XJrg8BVvjovOSbuaTWkHrOAYHn5MgGTOreisemsd8CiOf3L4tPmXMlaa9_sKT0cb55QiguV-0yQXq7Xi0c4wmfOLK6n7PCeo/w528-h166/Green%20Books.jpg" width="528" /></a></div><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Aitken, Ben "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/11/aitken-ben-dear-bill-bryson-footnotes.html">Dear Bill Bryson: Footnotes from a Small Island</a>" - 2015 </b><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>If you love <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/11/bill-bryson-funniest-author-ever.html">Bill Bryson</a> (like me), you will like this homage. Ben Aitken
travelled the same route as Bill Bryson did in 1995 (as described in his
book "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/08/bryson-bill-notes-from-small-island-1995.html">Notes from a Small Island</a>"), only about twenty years later. <br /><br /><b><span face="">Aleichem, Scholem "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/aleichem-sholem-tevye-dairyman.html">Tevye the Dairyman</a>" (yidd: Tewje, der Milchiger טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Jidd. und טוביה החולב, Hebr.)</span> - 1894-1916</b><br />"<i>Fiddler on the Roof</i>" is one of my favourite movies and this is the original book. This is not just the story of Tevye and his wife Golde but even more that of their
daughters Tzeitel, Hodel, Chawa, Shprintze, Teibel and Beijke. Every
single one of them has their own story.
I love the language in the book. <br /><br /><b><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Ken%20Follett">Follett, Ken</a> </span></span></b><span face=""trebuchet ms" , sans-serif"><b>"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/11/follett-ken-evening-and-morning.html">The Evening and the Morning</a>" (Kingsbridge #0.5) - 2020</b><br /></span>If you love the Kingsbridge series, this is a must. It's especially interesting since it takes place about a thousand
years before us. A whole millennium. We can see how much has changed -
and how much hasn't. Impressive.<br />And if you haven't read any book in the series, it's about time you started. You won't regret it, I promise.<br /><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Guo, Xiaolu (郭小橹) "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/guo-xiaolu-language.html">Language</a>" - 2017</b><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>The story of a Chinese girl who moves to England. At first, her English is rather limited. But you can tell by the
time you get to the end that she gets better all the time. A good book to understand foreigners coming to your country.<br /><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Sand, George "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/sand-george-fadette.html">Fadette</a>" (aka Fanchon, the Cricket) (F: La Petite Fadette) - 1849 </b><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span> This novel gives you an insight into rural life in France of the 19th century
and it isn't a very difficult read which made it worth my while because I like to read in French. But here, I only chose it because of the green cover.<br /><p></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica;"><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b>* * *</b></span></span><span style="color: #38761d;"><br /></span></div><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #38761d; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><b>☘ Happy Reading! ☘<br /></b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">📚 📚 📚</span> <br /></div></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-58294303278912492362024-03-18T11:30:00.000+01:002024-03-18T11:30:01.239+01:00Harris, Robert "Fatherland"<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13154433-fatherland" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1174" data-original-width="760" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXE38XUJFX_nXuYel0Jwdl-HQv0o7zVCJcucqYgH57fSRsMz-dbG94bhJgTwG91KGmGR888hNr7QHE5OCvyZWqYrE-Xb2uebkNO-gGyOnG2w2Ey-xnVzqWBfsms6-bWv0ZKu5VFQO-AabUiMDWLAtD4EUir9FxjhfaA2TW1eEII9oYlNfCMy90wo0A-OE/w259-h400/Harris,%20Robert%20-%20Fatherland.jpg" width="259" /></a></b></div><b>Harris, Robert "Fatherland" - 1992</b><br /><br />What an awful thought. Hitler resp. the Nazis had won the war. I always say, the Germans didn't lose the war, that were the Nazis. The Germans effectively won the war. In this book (and in various others, like my favourite "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/childrens-war-and-change-of-regime-by.html">The Children's War</a>") we can all see why.<br /><br />The story itself concentrates on one particular case. A policemen who is not a fan of the Nazis but still has to wear their uniform for his job, tries to find the secret behind a murder. And with that, he could transform the whole world.<br /><br />We need people like that everywhere, people who don't just blindly follow some dicatators, even if it is an advantage for them.<br /><br />I think, right now is the right time to read this book again. Right now, where the Right is on the rise in many, many countries. Too many, if you ask me. How can people forget what it was? Even if you haven't lived during the war, most of us haven't, lets be honest. My parents would have been ninety had they still lived. And they were five when the Nazis were elected, so anyone responsible for the regime must be about a hundred. Not many of them alive anymore. But we have to remember what our parents or grandparents told us and see where we are heading if we elect those idiots that tell us the foreigners are our enemies. Nope, those who want to abolish our hard-earned democracy are.<br /><br />We should all be happy that the war ended the way it did, this book shows us what could have been had it been different.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>April 1964.<br /><br />The naked body of an old man floats in a lake on the outskirts of Berlin. In one week it will be Adolf Hitler’s 75th birthday. A terrible conspiracy is starting to unravel…<br /><br />What if Hitler had won?</i>"<br /><p></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-536937659375405202024-03-14T10:56:00.007+01:002024-03-14T12:58:41.423+01:00#ThrowbackThursday. My first books by Wally Lamb<span style="font-family: georgia;">I have read quite a few books by <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Wally%20Lamb">Wally Lamb</a><b> </b>and I hope he will write more. These are the first three books I read by him and I have wanted to read more and more ever since.</span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Wally%20Lamb">Lamb, Wally</a> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lamb-wally-shes-come-undone.html">She's Come Undone</a>" - 1997</b><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Mother-daughter relationship, religion, death and coming to terms with
it, obesity, self-delusion, women-men relationships, change in our
culture, this book has it all. A lot of familiarity with the characters,
sometimes you have to laugh about that, sometimes you feel "touché".<br /></span>
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If you like a book that addresses problems and is fun to read, this will be a book for you. I liked it a lot.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Wally%20Lamb">Lamb, Wally</a></b><b> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/lamb-wally-i-know-this-much-is-true.html">I know this much is true</a>" - 1998</b><br /></span>
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This is a very moving book, wonderful and awful at the same time. It's
incredible how much a person can bear if they have to. Dominick has to
deal with so many issues and there is no-one who can help him here but
himself. The author has a very talented way of describing people in any
kind of despair. His accounts are very emphatic, you really can
understand the characters. I loved this.<br /></span>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Wally%20Lamb">Lamb, Wally</a></b><b> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lamb-wally-hour-i-first-believed.html">The Hour I First Believed</a>" - 2008</b><br /></span>
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Columbine High School, Littleton, Colorado, 1999. Caelum Quirk is a
teacher at that school, his wife works there as a school nurse. He is in
Connecticut visiting his aunt after her stroke while his wife hides in
the school hoping not to be killed by the two students to are out on a
warpath.<br /></span>
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This book is not about those unfortunate students and teachers that were
killed on that terrible day, it is about those "lucky" enough to
survive, those that got away.</span><p><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read my original reviews <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/lamb-wally-shes-come-undone.html">here</a>, </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/06/lamb-wally-i-know-this-much-is-true.html">here</a> and </span><span style="font-family: georgia;"> <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lamb-wally-hour-i-first-believed.html">here</a>. </span></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-33357406942043537222024-03-11T11:28:00.000+01:002024-03-11T11:28:40.311+01:00Brontë, Charlotte "The Professor"<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/221024.The_Professor"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEimBpuWqQUPLr_7c4jb1U_on0qRlYO78En0gFZBhtWSreYzaJURGgz6zfvMNVgeKQIxdINm718y8zRHScOYX_F28BFFtepRGfYHzAO8NbEo-BYsCqlsPD-gaOklw73Lmda0YWnfGST0ldpBi26hWjaTvcvX8b08DeHJkizv-KCIKhRFnUfr3RAIHSMN3Nc/w242-h400/Bront%C3%AB,%20Charlotte%20-%20The%20Professor.jpg" width="242" /></a></p><p style="text-align: left;"><b>Brontë, Charlotte "The Professor" - 1857</b><br /><br />This novel has been on my wishlist for quite a while. It was recommended to me by another blogger who, like me, has also lived in Brussels and from her I learned that they have a Brontë society there now. Unfortunately, I knew nothing about that when I lived there but they might have started this after my time.<br /><br />Anyway, if you have not read anything by Charlotte <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Bront%C3%AB">Brontë</a>, you definitely must have heard of <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/bronte-charlotte-jane-eyre.html">Jane Eyre</a>, her most popular book, probably the most popular one of all the books by any of the Brontë sisters.<br /><br />I have yet to find a book by any of them that I don't like at all, they are all fascinating and gripping. Just as this one. I must admit, I might like it even more because it takes place in Brussels but it would have been just as interesting had the protagonist lived elsewhere.<br /><br />What makes this book as interesting as her others, you have the feeling you are in the midst of the story, even though it took place almost two centuries ago. It is so lively. You can feel the problems of the protagonists, you understand how difficult it was for women in former times and how much as changed and how much hasn't.<br /><br />Unfortunately, like <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Jane%20Austen">Jane Austen</a>, the Brontës all died far too early.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>Charlotte Bronte's first novel, </i>The Professor<i>, is narrated from the viewpoint of an ambitious and self-made man.<br /><br />Rejecting his aristocratic inheritance William Crimsworth goes to Brussels to find his fortune. He takes a job teaching at a boarding school for young ladies, where he begins a flirtation with Zoraide Reuter, who, out of jealousy, attempts to frustrate his courtship of Frances Henri, an attractive young woman determined to make her way in the world.<br /><br />In </i>The Professor<i> Charlotte Bronte holds up to scrutiny the Victorian ideals of self-help and individualism. The result is an unusual love story, and a novel profoundly critical of a society in which the relationships between men and women are reduced to power struggles.</i>"<br /></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-14002042142154084352024-03-04T10:44:00.001+01:002024-03-04T10:54:50.335+01:00Spell the Month in Books ~ March<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/tag/spellthemonthinbooks/" rel="_nofollow"><img height="320" src="https://reviewsfromthestacks.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/spell-the-month-in-books.jpg" style="border: 1px solid gray; height: 250px; width: 250px;" width="320" /></a><br /></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/draft-spell-the-month-in-books-august-2022-linkup/">Reviews from the Stacks</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I found this on one of the blogs I follow, <a href="https://booksarethenewblackblog.wordpress.com">Books are the New Black</a> who found it at <a href="https://onebookmore.com/2021/01/05/spell-the-month-in-books-january/">One Book More</a>. It was originally created by <a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/">Reviews from the Stacks</a>, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>March: Caffeine (National Caffeine Month – Books with a beverage on the cover or in the title)</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">It was not that easy to find books that fit the topic but I managed, somehow:</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="1511" height="170" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRSU08DRf3a5N6b0mn9r0FFkx3WVLFwiXMweq60nAduh2DO645Vo90TiohiIxRgZdqYZtbX1yOPe-VpIF4YokCDfQC82xCGB8K0BltiUn54lj6o5VUoAK9F401iNG2bMN5iTtXdpgRVeF2QKcy_5Fr31R9L2ZY1pCsVHlC_zTS_0rWK24sjX4eqA2JlBQ/w539-h170/March%20Collage.jpg" width="539" /></a></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span><p></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>MARCH</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>M</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b></b></span></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Clarke, Stephen </span><span face="">"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/clarke-stephen-merde-actually.html"></a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/clarke-stephen-merde-actually.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>M</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/07/clarke-stephen-merde-actually.html">erde actually</a>" (aka In the Merde for Love) - 2006 </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /><span><i>Paul West, the author's alter ego, has opened a British tea room in Paris. He struggles with the French authorities who don't accept anything not precisely written in French and with French girls, their families and the French in general. <br /></i>(Follow-up to "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/clarke-stephen-year-in-merde.html">A Year in the Merde</a>")</span><span><span><span><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>A</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span><span face=""><br /></span></span></b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Elif%20%C5%9Eafak">Şafak, Elif</a> "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/safak-elif-araf.html"></a></b></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/safak-elif-araf.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>A</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/05/safak-elif-araf.html">raf</a>" (aka The Saint of Incipient Insanities) - 200</b>4</span></span></span></span><b><span> </span></b><span><span><span><br /><i>An interesting book. Three roommates from Turkey, Morocco and Spain in Boston, one has a Mexican-American, another an American girlfriend. All of them have to fit into the society they are in, they struggle in their own different ways. The author managed to describe these diverse characters in such a way that you could feel with them. I loved the way the various stereotypes and prejudices were dealt with, or not.</i><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">McCarthy, Pete </span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">"<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/mccarthy-pete-road-to-mccarthy.html">The </a></span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/mccarthy-pete-road-to-mccarthy.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/mccarthy-pete-road-to-mccarthy.html">oad to McCarthy: Around the World in Search of Ireland</a>" - 2002</span></span></span></span></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span><span><span><i>Pete McCarthy traveled through Ireland to find any bar with his name in "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/mccarthy-pete-mccarthys-bar.html">McCarthy's Bar</a>".<br />This time he travels from Ireland to Morocco, New York, the Caribbeans, Tasmania, all sorts of destinations that somehow have to do with the name McCarthy, places you wouldn't even imagine having a link to Ireland at all. But Pete McCarthy found it.<br /><br /></i></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>C</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><span><span face=""><br /></span></span></b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face="">Mortenson, Greg </span><span face="">"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/mortenson-greg-relin-david-oliver-three.html">Three </a></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/mortenson-greg-relin-david-oliver-three.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>C</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/02/mortenson-greg-relin-david-oliver-three.html">ups of Tea</a>" (with David Oliver Relin) - 2006</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span><span><i><br />A Pakistani proverb says "</i>when you share the first cup of tea you're a stranger, with the second cup you are a friend, and with the third cup you become family<i>."<br /><br />Greg Mortenson gets lost on his way back from K2. He reaches a tiny little village in Pakistan and meets the most helpful people in the world. He see the conditions they live in and promises to come back and build them a school. He keeps his promise and carries on to build more than 50 schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan.<br /></i></span></span></span><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>H</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><br /></span><b><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Alexander%20McCall%20Smith">McCall Smith, Alexander</a> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/09/mccall-smith-alexander-no-1-ladies.html">The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency</a>" - "The </b></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>H</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>andsome Man's De Luxe Café" (15) - 2014</b><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>Mma Ramotswe and her No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency will always have a special place in my heart. I love her kindness and cleverness, she is the type of person you would like to have as a friend. And there are not twenty murders in every book, there are hardly any. Just other everyday problems anyone of us could have.</i></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b>* * *</b></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span>Not all of them are about caffeine drinks or beverages at first sight but, believe me, they all match the brief.</span></span></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><b>Happy Reading!</b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">📚 📚 📚</span></div></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-47295749204227703742024-03-02T10:58:00.002+01:002024-03-02T13:46:29.483+01:00Six Degrees of Separation ~ From Tom Lake to Silent House<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="953" data-original-width="1560" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEisq6vwAcDQ3X-Hi9mvKLY-FThKSvq12JRQneI-A87MoD3NVh-bOAqIZxRdaTXQvy7lLETXiZPawFIomV3PomJ-2FN9BIUVVHyjKDLo-BjOEGCDQUpY9vVz6oR44spS0WzqSz-6JN-IoGVSXc3Pz7ONCti1kIASYYCaIMNmT_q2RA-xSed1PviTuNsz_Ok/w528-h322/Tom%20Lake%20Collage.jpg" width="528" /></a></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b>#6Degrees of Separation:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b>from Tom Lake (<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/123276098-tom-lake">Goodreads</a>) </b></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b></b></span><b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">to <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/pamuk-orhan-silent-house.html">Silent House</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at <a href="https://booksaremyfavouriteandbest.com/6-degrees-of-separation-meme/">Books Are My Favourite and Best</a>. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/six-degrees-of-separation_8.html">here</a>.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">This month we start with "Tom Lake" by <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Ann%20Patchett">Ann Patchett</a>. I have read several books by this author. Some I liked, others not so much.<br /><br />This is the description of the book:<br />"<i>In
this beautiful and moving novel about family, love, and growing up, Ann
Patchett once again proves herself one of America’s finest writers.<br /><br />In
the spring of 2020, Lara’s three daughters return to the family's
orchard in Northern Michigan. While picking cherries, they beg their
mother to tell them the story of Peter Duke, a famous actor with whom
she shared both a stage and a romance years before at a theater company
called Tom Lake. As Lara recalls the past, her daughters examine their
own lives and relationship with their mother, and are forced to
reconsider the world and everything they thought they knew.<br /><br /></i>Tom
Lake<i> is a meditation on youthful love, married love, and the lives
parents have led before their children were born. Both hopeful and
elegiac, it explores what it means to be happy even when the world is
falling apart. As in all of her novels, Ann Patchett combines compelling
narrative artistry with piercing insights into family dynamics. The
result is a rich and luminous story, told with profound intelligence and
emotional subtlety, that demonstrates once again why she is one of the
most revered and acclaimed literary talents working today</i>."<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">I will use a word in the title from one book and find another book with that same word in the title. The starter word is <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Lake</span><span>.</span><br /><b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Mary%20Lawson">Lawson, Mary</a> "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/lawson-mary-crow-lake.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Crow</span> <span style="color: red;">Lake</span></a>" - 2002</span></span></span></span></b></span></div><div><br /><b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">MacDonald, Ann-Marie "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/macdonald-ann-marie-way-crow-flies.html">The <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Way</span> the <span style="color: red;">Crow</span> Flies</a>" - 2003<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face="">Carey, Peter "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/carey-peter-long-way-from-home.html">A Long <span style="color: red;">Way</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">From</span> Home</a>" - 2017</span></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Bill%20Bryson">Bryson, Bill</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">"<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/bryson-bill-notes-from-small-island.html">Notes <span style="color: red;">From</span> a <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Small</span> Island</a>" - 1995 <br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Trollope, Anthony "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/trollope-anthony-barchester-chronicles.html">Barchester Chronicles</a>": </span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">The <span style="color: red;">Small</span> <span style="color: #2b00fe;">House</span> at Allington - 1864<br /></span></span></span></span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Orhan%20Pamuk">Pamuk, Orhan</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/10/pamuk-orhan-silent-house.html">Silent <span style="color: red;">House</span></a>" (TR: Sessiz Ev) - 1983</span></b><br /></span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br />"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/lawson-mary-crow-lake.html">Crow Lak</a>e" by <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Mary%20Lawson">Mary Lawson</a> is one of my favourite books and she is one of my
favourite authors. And the link to the last book is that <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Orhan%20Pamuk">Orhan Pamuk</a> is
also one of my absolute favourite writers. And both the stories are
about families with problems.</span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com18tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-8735783788519044002024-03-01T10:54:00.001+01:002024-03-01T10:59:30.752+01:00Happy March!<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Happy March to all my friends and readers</b></span></span>
</p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <i>New Calendar picture with this </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>beautiful watercolour painting by Hanka Koebsch<br /><i>
</i></i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"Guten Morgen neuer Tag"<br />"Good Morning New Day</span></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"</b></span><br /></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/guten-morgen-neuer-tag-c-aquarell-mit-einem-spatzen-von-hanka-koebsch" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="597" data-original-width="459" height="539" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjFjptwWsb24gWiCCtQroLPM6A-uagxXDY_YNy0X6_CJnUfzbDXSEMnI_RG_-6nb__IKveaACCSiM5ca_WhdvRR1BGJYSnF-sxSZWsU-n0ATVGSJsjPxpN0_WhsZTz8SweLh4I4csVgMhyN2FaiUw3rZ-PcaDPTuaLPeS0GoacIOVXJi3_Y7vFjBc_o7dE/w414-h539/2024-03%20Guten%20Morgen%20neuer%20Tag.png" width="414" /></a></div><div style="text-align: center;">
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Hanka says to this picture:<br /><i>Every morning - between the starry sky and sunrise - I go out with our dog. ... of course the birds also welcome the first rays of sunshine. Frank was in the right place at the right time and took a photo of the sparrow checking the situation from its nesting box early in the morning.</i><br /><br /><i>Jeden Morgen - zwischen Sternenhimmel und Sonnenaufgang - bin ich mit unserem Hund unterwegs. … natürlich begrüßen auch die Vögel die ersten Sonnenstrahlen. Frank war zur richtigen Zeit am richtigen Ort und hat den Spatz, der aus seinem Nistkasten am frühen Morgen die Lage checkte, fotografiert.</i><br />(see <a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/guten-morgen-neuer-tag-c-aquarell-mit-einem-spatzen-von-hanka-koebsch">here</a>)<b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">And Hanka then beautifully immortalized it on her drawing pad Enjoy!
</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Read more </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on their website</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/mama-ist-das-die-welt-c-aquarell-mit-einer-eisbaerenfamilie-von-hanka-koebsch">here</a>. *</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <br />Spring has sprung. Not officially but after our mild winter, this is definitely the beginnning of the next season. I doubt I can wear it much longer, so here is a picture of the scarf my son gave me for Christmas last year. Isn't it beautiful?<br /></span></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="6923" data-original-width="3000" height="640" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnQW0SrXBNsEshj6n6DmzpEKrqc4BCzWhxhYTCXQ2XNSKR5ZxRUrwj0XNNHH3iawYQ3yrM4whUOGt_rSrdlcu2fHnmvQmI7dWCCrkyvUBMYvBQTc2v07udy7og8snWQm_NTmkX57nHsfzHAEzhs1OT9Z0mAAcGScOWPuqKtyGg3BCb9o-Cjt9y1Xa8BiY/w278-h640/Scarf%20Collage%20-%2020230120.jpg" width="278" /></a></div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">It's still theatre time. There are a lot of amateur groups in our district and so we had quite a few theatre plays in our calendar. Wonderful.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">The
German word for March is März. The old German word is </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><b>Lenzing</b> or <b>Lenzmond</b>. Lenz is the old German word for spring.<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /><br /></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* You can also have a look under my labels <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Artist%3A%20Frank%20Koebsch">Artist: Frank Koebsch</a> and <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Artist%3A%20Hanka%20Koebsch">Artist: Hanka Koebsch</a> where you can find all my posts about the two artists. <br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *</span></span><br /><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="font-size: large;">🌷 </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wish you all a Happy March! </span></b><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="font-size: large;">🌷</span></span></span></div>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com21tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-91366905390463021682024-02-29T12:27:00.002+01:002024-02-29T13:09:43.249+01:00#ThrowbackThursday. Half the Sky and A Path Appears<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8941558-half-the-sky"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjvqvFtabZeb_xsLFmGMJjtQxuBNaD9G6ylWcwPrp10u48PSzx-9_ETRQKUJoRGzgykKgpn30jWOT2p2BnLMJRJEPSXEpmK8ZBXAouskR-TGJotBRawB0-up9xaAOUQDTj-Lrm86aWFiAs/w260-h400/Kristof%252C+Nicholas+D.+%2526+WuDunn%252C+Sheryl+-+Half+the+Sky.jpg" width="260" /></a></p>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Kristof, Nicholas D. & WuDunn, Sheryl "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/kristof-nicholas-d-wudunn-sheryl-half.html">Half the Sky. How to Change the World</a>" - 2009</b><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />
"<i>Half the Sky</i>" - The most extraordinary book ever. Nicholas D. Kristof and Sheryl
WuDunn are an American-Chinese journalist couple who have travelled the
world and give us a heart-rendering account of women's lives all over
this globe, women struggling to make ends meet, women who have to fight
for every little thing but especially for their life.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />
This book can change your life. Read it.<b><br /><br /></b></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/20342518-a-path-appears" style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjMDwN3VUf0249OFrJHqI0isSbL-Yj0-JlhEIDw5QecDDzgRFeWdbxVIU1u0J3mXlzp18-KMpGXSiCfMPIeW1SSTSvMSHWd-QfWYG948enHNXQhQlXBy2DRKbWYnQDUU61kC2nXcgCrl5w/w260-h400/Kristof%252C+Nicholas+D.+%2526+WuDunn%252C+Sheryl+-+A+Path+Appears.jpg" width="260" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Kristof, Nicholas; WuDunn, Sheryl "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/kristof-nicholas-wudunn-sheryl-path.html">A Path Appears: Transforming Lives, Creating Opportunity</a>" - 2014 </b><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />This is a fabulous book, so many great causes
that the couple draws our attention to and what we can do to help those
unfortunate people either on the other side of the globe or even next
door who only need a little money to change their life for the better. <br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />The authors have done some great research. If you want
to donate money, find a cause that you consider is worthy and make sure
you give it so that this money really makes a difference to someone. The
authors make us understand that even a small donation can make a big
change. Or if we don't have money that there are still things we can do,
volunteer or write, for example.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />An informative and inspirational book.
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>The authors won the <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/02/pulitzer-prize-for-fiction.html">Pulitzer Prize</a> for their reports about China in the New York Times.</b> They also have started a foundation, read more about it here: "<a href="https://chinadevelopmentbrief.org/ngos/half-the-sky-foundation/">Half the Sky Foundation</a>".<br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read my original reviews <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/kristof-nicholas-d-wudunn-sheryl-half.html">here</a> and <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/kristof-nicholas-wudunn-sheryl-path.html">here</a>.<br /></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-4899593846906595982024-02-27T11:09:00.003+01:002024-03-03T12:06:28.505+01:00Lessing, Doris "The Grass is Singing"<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1035033.The_Grass_is_Singing"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjw8OduM3iFg6vF58Vf5rQmccDFG2TjSnYJtccMJ3NABWi2I-4QELW0mb8P3-FlW6T65WG8CedOLbL4mGcgScVAsOAsQ197pmVGDDf2-R5WtPUnzO55dEeNUgHCVHv5zixlS8f95j7WyBbfCR3gOr5rsOuuapAiRYKtoPVFR8ttXSYEMQLFlwgCcjTN83I/w263-h400/Lessing,%20Doris%20-%20The%20Grass%20is%20Singing.jpg" width="263" /></a><br /></p><p><b>Lessing, Doris "The Grass is Singing" - 1950</b><br /><br />This was our <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-club-history-2017-etc-in.html">international online book club</a> book for February 2024.<br /><br />Doris Lessing's first novel. It received a lot of praise and she was an author of whom much was excepted. She fulfilled it all, her Nobel Prize is a great testimony.<br /><br />The story takes place in Zimbabwe when it was still called Rhodesia. I guess it could have been any other colony where the white rulers made the black natives their subservients. As we all know, that didn't last forever, it couldn't last forever.<br /><br />We can see the trouble by looking at some settlers and their problems. Not only did they not know the land and its very own specifics, they were not meant for a climate and a country like this. It had to lead to disaster, one way or another.<br /><br />Doris Lessing describes the problems very well by looking at Mary, married to a poor farmer, unhappy with her life, not knowing how to improve it. You can tell that she lived in the country herself.<br /><br />Comments by other members:<br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">•</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">We had a really good discussion about this book and it was scored 4/5 or 5/5 by all.</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">•</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">The writing was excellent in making one see and feel the location and climate. We discussed many topics: the main characters, their psychology and motivations, the time and history and societal pressure for marriage and being the "right kind of white" and pressure to conform to the status quo. Gender roles. Mental health. The different ways of farming the land in the story. The slow gradual changes from outright slavery but not yet really an equal society. And obviously the obsessive and very inappropriate thoughts and behaviour that led to the gruesome end.</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">•</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I probably forget a lot of aspects, but very interesting.</span><br /><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">•</span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;"> </span><span style="white-space: pre-wrap;">I again feel older and wiser for having read this book. I might even add some other of her works to my TBR pile.</span><br /><br />Read also the excellent review of another book club member <a href="https://lueskelut.blogspot.com/2024/03/doris-lessing-grass-is-singing-1950.html">here</a>.<br /><br />I have read "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/lessing-doris-golden-notebook.html">The Golden Notebook</a>" years ago. It was a completely different book but just as great. I think I should read more by this remarkable author.<br /><br />Book Description:<br /><br />"<i>Set in South Africa under white rule, Doris Lessing's first novel is both a riveting chronicle of human disintegration and a beautifully understated social critique. Mary Turner is a self-confident, independent young woman who becomes the depressed, frustrated wife of an ineffectual, unsuccessful farmer. Little by little the ennui of years on the farm work their slow poison, and Mary's despair progresses until the fateful arrival of an enigmatic and virile black servant, Moses. Locked in anguish, Mary and Moses - master and slave - are trapped in a web of mounting attraction and repulsion. Their psychic tension explodes in an electrifying scene that ends this disturbing tale of racial strife in colonial South Africa.<br /><br /></i>'The Grass Is Singing' <i>blends Lessing's imaginative vision with her own vividly remembered early childhood to recreate the quiet horror of a woman's struggle against a ruthless fate</i>."<br /><br /><b>Doris Lessing</b> "<i>that epicist of the female experience, who with scepticism, fire and visionary power has subjected a divided civilisation to scrutiny</i>" <b>received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2007.</b><br /><br />I contribute to this page: <a href="http://readnobels.blogspot.com/">Read the Nobels</a> and you can find all my blogs about Nobel Prize winning authors and their books <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/nobel-prize-winners-and-their-books.html">here</a>.</p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-68095514485646702002024-02-26T11:17:00.000+01:002024-02-26T11:17:41.025+01:00Yates, Richard "Revolutionary Road" <p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/48328.Revolutionary_Road" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="301" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-LUI4SiASA_Uuu0Pno_luupzruMBCSk4T6iHsoKQF_nep9o95qcouHZjcYUm51klQHZZBsOMGm6htlGj9tdSqc24fM4kbgHQodlkA9ydnWBHz7LID8I8UYRJl2uBPkVLHMga0qzZgsYQrgZauGV8ytubDludx61JE6X4DBm7aiidkUiNGtm1f3NbNLOc/w254-h400/Yates,%20Richard%20-%20Revolutionary%20Road.jpg" width="254" /></a></b></div><b>Yates, Richard "Revolutionary Road" - 1961</b><br /><br />For the <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/the-classics-club-classics-spin-36.html">Classics Spin #36</a>, we received <a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/your-lucky-spin-number-is-18/">#20</a> and this was my novel.<br /><br /><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/your-lucky-spin-number-is-18/" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="300" data-original-width="656" height="146" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiKafPJcQxNkNCpb50glvcnwu_po0_9H-LXL-fFyOCfsmU89L0mjN_N1AwBpf7ABqp5lkOs3yn0bpAflRQkmYKOllCatJJYExB2PeJ4zbOzRdOiT2p70kzrMtsn5YJ9r1rg8VpU2HZyKXDZqS4j3cMLg8pH_HBPjA9S5zy_ouDtPOzWrwnLhwetNN7klI4/s320/Classics%20Club%20Spin20%20-%2036.webp" width="320" /></a></div><p></p><p>A story about a young American couple in the 1950s. They go through
the typical problems many young couples have, not enough money, too
little time for each other because the children need a lot of it, just
the usual couple, you would think. However, they are both pretty selfish
and therefore can't deal with the usual problems.<br /><br />All in all, I
found this quite a depressing story, nothing too exciting, just
listening to a bunch of selfless people fighting each other. I doubt I
will read another book by the author.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>In the hopeful 1950s,
Frank and April Wheeler appear to be a model American couple: bright,
beautiful, talented, with two young children and a starter home in the
suburbs. Perhaps they married too young and started a family too early.
Maybe Frank's job is dull. And April never saw herself as a housewife.
Yet they have always lived on the assumption that greatness is only just
around the corner. But now that certainty is now about to crumble. With
heartbreaking compassion and remorseless clarity, Richard Yates shows
how Frank and April mortgage their spiritual birthright, betraying not
only each other, but their best selves.</i>" </p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com7tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-84476613252313831512024-02-23T11:53:00.000+01:002024-02-23T11:53:36.392+01:00Clinton, Hillary Rodham "It Takes a Village"<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/2833522-it-takes-a-village"><img height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiQ4R2VmRP7k62_kfDPbOVcxXv_XkyBAkcMWSkouZApTDeKhEKrQFeRwfZov5XmWVVIYC9ey9tfYXDktS-uHRhtuqhm7VBU_k_b2BiEWM7FguvkggyXDuZym3-vwOJvwyiJh8x2yP9cEa3JKNPpItxrVP5zV8sMqmC_-XZC8z9NXmZPZNCJu4q47SADhJY/w273-h400/Clinton,%20Hillary%20Rodham%20-%20It%20Takes%20a%20Village.jpg" width="273" /></a> </p><p><b>Clinton, Hillary Rodham "It Takes a Village: And Other Lessons Children Teach Us" - 1996</b><br /><br />"<i>No Family is an Island</i>" is one of the chapter titles in this remarkable work by Hillary Clinton.<br /><br />Hillary Clinton is a wonderful person. If you don't agree, read this book. You can tell how dedicated she is to help children and families to raise their children. This is what her politics is based on, how most politicians should base their values on. We all need to stand together to help the next generation.<br /><br />The contents of her book can already be seen in the chapter titles. Aside from the one mentioned above, there is "<i>Every Child Needs a Champion</i>", "<i>Kids Don't Come with Instructions</i>", "<i>Child Care Is Not a Spectator Sport</i>", "<i>Children Are Citizens Too</i>", and many more.<br /><br />I totally agree with her in her point. We all need to help each other out. When my children were in school, I always had other kids over to help them with the subjects that were difficult for both themselves and their parents, to feed them or just to give them a home after school when their parents were at work. I was in the lucky position to be at home with our boys but I opened it up for many other kids most of whom are still in touch with us.<br /><br />But that's not the main aim of the book. Society in general should help the children to find their way into this world. Often, when I hear about American politics its those who are against guns (as am I) against those who are against abortion (as am I). We can be against both. We can support children and make sure they don't get pregnant as teenagers. And if they do get pregnant, as long as we don't help them, there will be abortions, and illegal ones are very dangerous. If you I pray for the unborn babies, you should also pray for their mothers for whom it was the last resort, the only way out. And for those kids who get killed in the schools and on the streets through the gun laws. Educate kids better, give everyone access to healthcare, help single mothers that they don't end up in total poverty, those are the things that avoid abortions, making them illegal only makes it worse. The United States has 3 times as many abortions as Germany. They also have one of the highest known rates of adolescent pregnancy and births in developed regions. Being pro-birth and not pro-life increases abortions. So, don't just pray for the unborn children but also for the poor girls who are pushed into a situation where they see only one way out. Amd for those who have their children and end up in poverty because of it. And that those who make the laws will make it better for those girls who do get pregnant and can't help themselves.<br /><br />All in all, Hillary Clinton gives great examples on what we can do better, and we should all strive for a better world, especially for the poorest and weakest among us.<br /><br />Here are some quotes that give us food for thought:<br /><br />"<i>Some of us can recall an aunt who longed to go to college, a grandmother who kept voluminous journals she showed to no one, a female cousin with a head for figures. Much of the fiction written by and about women over the centuries contains an undercurrent of disappointment, dissatisfaction, or simple wistfulness about roads not taken.</i>"<br />I was one of those women, and I had to regret all my life that I was not given the opportunitz to go to university.<br /><br />"<i>Roosevelt's words reflected the popular view that would dominate much of this century. As the private sector grew, people assumed that the excesses of unbridled competition had to be restrained by government. As a result, consumers have been protected by antitrust laws, pure food and drug laws, labeling, and other consumer protection measures; investors have been protected by securities legislation; workers have been protected by laws governing child labor, wages and hours, pensions, workers' compensation, and occupational safety and health; and the community at large has been protected by clean air and water standards, chemical right-to-know laws, and other environmental safeguards.<br />…<br />Over the course of the century, our environment has become cleaner, we have become healthier, our workers safer, our financial markets stronger</i>."<br /><br />"<i>But government is a partner to, not a substitute for, adult leadership and good citizenship</i>."<br /><br />"<i>In Germany, too, there is a general consensus that government and business should play a role in evening out inequities in the free market system and in increasing the ability of all citizens to succeed. Compared to Americans, Germans pay for higher base wages, a health care system that covers everyone but costs less than ours, and perhaps the world's finest system of providing young workers who do not go on to college with the skills they need to compete in the job market. As a result of such investments, German workers command higher wages than their American counterparts, and the distribution of income is not so skewed as ours is</i>."<br /><br />There are also many great people whom she quotes in the book, but I will leave it at this one:<br /><br />"<i>There is not one civilization, from the oldest to the very newest, from which we cannot learn</i>." Eleanor Roosevelt<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>For more than twenty-five years, First Lady Hillary Rodham Clinton has made children her passion and her cause. Her long experience with children - not only through her personal roles as mother, daughter, sister, and wife but also as advocate, legal expert, and public servant - has strengthened her conviction that how children develop and what they need to succeed are inextricably entwined with the society in which they live and how well it sustains and supports its families and individuals. In other words, </i>it takes a village<i> to raise a child. This book chronicles her quest - both deeply personal and, in the truest sense, public - to discover how we can make our society into the kind of village that enables children to grow into able, caring, resilient adults. It is time, Mrs. Clinton believes, to acknowledge that we have to make some changes for our children's sake. Advances in technology and the global economy along with other developments society have brought us much good, but they have also strained the fabric of family life, leaving us and our children poorer in many ways - physically, intellectually, emotionally, spiritually. She doesn't believe that we should, or can, turn back the clock to '</i>the good old days<i>.' False nostalgia for '</i>family values<i>' is no solution. Nor is it useful to make an all-purpose bogeyman or savior of '</i>government<i>.' But by looking honestly at the condition of our children, by understanding the wealth of new information research offers us about them, and, most important, by listening to the children themselves, we can begin a more fruitful discussion about their needs. And by sifting the past for clues to the structures that once bound us together, by looking with an open mind at what other countries and cultures do for their children that we do not, and by identifying places where our '</i>village<i>' is flourishing - in families, schools, churches, businesses, civic organizations, even in cyberspace - we can begin to create for our children the better tomorrow they deserve</i>."</p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com11tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-72799049744182594692024-02-22T11:29:00.000+01:002024-02-22T11:29:56.446+01:00#ThrowbackThursday. Edward Rutherfurd and Salisbury<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on">
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<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1114576.Sarum" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="293" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiw6qPDx_WfNIuNoV4bjCpp-omfMoYgvM9YJE178H3CPKP-dli6wQ2IOyuWtsk9uAVkfulHOFs0Ps0_uzcNI6pfHLLuwoxWOCskAhugBYllsljfSSuZLjJCRBOcJMi23dI1DSm9EisMazw/w246-h400/Rutherfurd%252C+Edward+-+Sarum.jpg" width="246" /></a><b> <br /></b></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: left;"><b style="font-family: georgia;">Rutherfurd, Edward "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/rutherford-edward-sarum.html">Sarum: the Novel of England</a>" - 1987</b><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">I’m a huge fan of England and this is not just the story of Salisbury,
it is first and foremost the story of England, how it first was settled,
what happened next and how did the ordinary people live throughout the
centuries.<br /><br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Edward%20Rutherfurd">Edward Rutherfurd</a>'s style of describing the history of a country or town by their
inhabitants, not by the kings who ruled, the dictators or the rich
aristocracy but by the "little man" is just fantastic. I love how we
always meet a couple of people and then see what their descendants are
up to, how a family feud can go on for generations but also how times
can change and the tides can turn for some, not always positively.<br /><br /></span></div></div><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1403597.Forest" style="font-family: georgia;"><img border="0" height="341" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhUIGIh8h87o3ALR3Tv-QV1u29Z-EOMhZA72Zg-SnKHlWss5oA0OoG86zc5cjik_TEHuRVt-XYJ2xLnCMzpLlOgB_e-oIoj4vhYJE9cLhQGrrYR3vOYraSWXT-7hMkuyJ6ZwA85oEVDFaU/w244-h341/Rutherfurd%252C+Edward+-+The+Forest.jpg" width="244" /></a></div>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Rutherfurd, Edward "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/rutherfurd-edward-forest.html">The Forest</a>" - 2000</b><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />Just like "Sarum", this is a book about the South of England. Edward Rutherford describes the history of the New Forest, from William
the Conqueror until today through the people living there.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />If you love England, this is the book for you. </span><br /></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read my original reviews <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/rutherford-edward-sarum.html">here</a> and <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/rutherfurd-edward-forest.html">here</a>.<br /></span></div>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-33735114067555881722024-02-20T11:21:00.004+01:002024-03-18T11:35:16.798+01:00Reading Challenge - Chunky Books 2024<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixoAnOSjAA2Uyki9UfJsg8smZaj_aP6p3o6fkFvTF5mH6Nj8xgTH8OGtW24UuoOEapbSVDkYBEQKUSd8J_y5111Yud0Qxmu0YbBGnRUjLf_EGzpVjTu0sGcLSod_5PzGxCmf1SQONe70g/s1600/Chunky+Books+IMG_2014-3534+%25C2%25A9.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1200" data-original-width="1600" height="240" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEixoAnOSjAA2Uyki9UfJsg8smZaj_aP6p3o6fkFvTF5mH6Nj8xgTH8OGtW24UuoOEapbSVDkYBEQKUSd8J_y5111Yud0Qxmu0YbBGnRUjLf_EGzpVjTu0sGcLSod_5PzGxCmf1SQONe70g/s320/Chunky+Books+IMG_2014-3534+%25C2%25A9.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p>
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
have taken part in this reading challenge since 2013. The moment I saw
that post, I know this was the most interesting challenge for me. I
signed up for the highest of the four levels "Mor-book-ly Obese" which
meant eight or more chunksters (books over 450 pages) of which three
must be 750 pages or more.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I
have carried on with that challenge without setting goals, I love big
books and I will always read some. And I am more than willing to tell my
friends about them.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">If you are interested in the challenge, check out this <a href="http://chunksterchallenge.blogspot.com/">link</a>. They discontinued their challenge in <a href="http://chunksterchallenge.blogspot.com/p/about-challenge.html">2015</a>.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">You can still find suggestions by page number, in case you can't find any chunksters yourself. 😉</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">Or you can check out my lists from the previous years (below), maybe you are interested in a couple of them.</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><br />I read in<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/reading-challenge.html">2013</a>: 38 chunky books, 13 of them chunksters<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2014.html">2014</a>: 37 chunky books, 15 of them chunksters<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2015.html">2015</a>: 26 chunky books, 8 of which chunksters<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/02/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2016.html">2016</a>: 28 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/03/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2017.html">2017</a>: 35 chunky books, 6 of which chunksters</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2018.html">2018</a>: 29 chunky books, 6 of which chunksters</span></span><br />
<span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/02/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2019.html">2019</a>: 20 chunky books, 7 of which chunksters<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/03/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2020.html">2020</a>: </span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">18<b> </b>chunky books, 7 of which chunksters <br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/02/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2021.html">2021</a>: </span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">24 chunky books, 10 of which chunksters<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/01/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2022.html">2022</a>: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">11 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2023.html">2023</a>: </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">12 chunky books, 3 of which chunksters</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"> </span></span></span></span></span><br />
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<span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">I will be posting the books I have read here:</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">(I add the German title, if available, for my German friends)</span></span><br />
<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;">[<i>I add my own translation of a foreign book title if it's not available in English.</i>]<span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Barbara%20Kingsolver">Kingsolver, Barbara</a> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/kingsolver-barbara-demon-copperhead.html">Demon Copperhead</a>" (</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/02/kingsolver-barbara-demon-copperhead.html">Demon Copperhead</a></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;">) - 2022 - 560 pages<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Yates, Richard "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/yates-richard-revolutionary-road.html">Revolutionary Road</a>" (<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/02/yates-richard-zeiten-des-aufruhrs.html">Zeiten des Aufruhrs</a>) - 1961 - 463 pages<br />Harris, Robert "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/harris-robert-fatherland.html">Fatherland</a>" (<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/03/harris-robert-vaterland.html">Vaterland</a>) - 1992 - 560 pages</span></span><br /><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span><span style="font-size: large;"><br />I read <b>3</b> chunky books in 2024 </span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-size: small;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-size: large;"><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span style="font-size: large;">of which <b>0</b> are considered a chunkster. </span></span></span></span></span></p><p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>If you want to do this challenge or just check at the end of the year what category you are, here is the list:<br /><br /> <b>The Chubby Chunkster</b> - this option is for the readers who want to dabble in large tomes, but really doesn't want to commit to much more than that. <b>FOUR</b> Chunksters is all you need to finish this challenge.<br /> <b>The Plump Primer</b> - this option is for the slightly heavier reader who wants to commit to <b>SIX</b> Chunksters over the next twelve months. <br /> <b>Do These Books Make my Butt Look Big?</b> - this option is for the reader who can't resist bigger and bigger books and wants to commit to <b>SIX</b>
Chunksters from the following categories: 2 books which are between 450
- 550 pages in length; 2 books which are 551 - 750 pages in length; 2
books which are GREATER than 750 pages in length (for ideas, please
refer to the book suggestions page for some books which fit into these
categories).<br /> <b>Mor-book-ly Obese</b> - This is for the truly out of control chunkster. For this level of challenge you must commit to <b>EIGHT</b>
or more Chunksters of which three tomes MUST be 750 pages or more. You
know you want to.....go on and give in to your cravings. </span></span></span></span></span></p><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span style="font-family: "georgia" , "times new roman" , serif;"><span><span style="font-family: georgia;"><span>Looks like I've always been "<i>more book-ly obese</i>". 😂 </span></span></span></span></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-27052098159265762902024-02-15T10:36:00.000+01:002024-02-15T10:36:12.316+01:00Uusma, Bea "The Expedition"<div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><div class="separator" style="-webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; clear: both; color: black; font-family: "Times New Roman"; font-size: medium; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: center; text-decoration-color: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/25246264-the-expedition" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="475" data-original-width="307" height="317" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhRqCzENZHJK1GyBM1DpJbhWY0U5kSbjTGYspCHVALpvSFowBF9EjP-Y4Vngw9ykpE6I43-EezUQdPXp__QZlbZ-TUz5G6TZx8_PZNYYrcbMlskTkdN5EGooHslmPhr1XhJLlxLtHf5cAYnBCyJ0vrnsI2Ty4AW8B43ZoIe0HBXAFnvjDIuF0LCpVdhXAc/w205-h317/Uusma,%20Bea%20-%20The%20Expedition.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="205" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18310467-expeditionen" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="315" data-original-width="224" height="315" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjzFyXRpuGBVe2sQ7KJ8vqVEdoFXHQhDRwwMGu54x5Ye6zViEhAZE2Op904TfGT9ZcqWJiLLUMM48fgmKGQ1FvXOJYJnTnDmpt-fx6VmXZJ-C1DrnLIzuKymbt2JomiTcDCa88Xyt5mYMEBxLkEG4OMo934LiAsm4RF4zfdjs7Y8ScT4EU4eyfe0_sOuPo/s1600/Uusma,%20Bea%20-%20Expeditionen.jpg" style="cursor: move;" width="224" /></a></div></div><p><b>Uusma, Bea "The Expedition: a Love Story: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy" (Swedish: Expeditionen: min kärlekshistoria) - 2013</b><br /><br />This was our <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-club-history-2017-etc-in.html">international online book club book</a> for January 2024.<br /><br />We don't read many non-fiction books in our online book club, so this was quite a change. And a good one.<br /><br />The story is very old. It started at the end of the 19th century when three Swedes wanted to go to the North Pole in a balloon. <br /><br />Unfortunately, they didn't make it. For 33 years, nobody heard from that or knew what had happened. Until some fishermen found their bodies.<br /><br />But what really might have happened, was still a big mystery. Until Bea Uusma, a Swedish author, illustrator and medical doctor happened upon the story and got curious. She found a lot of evidence and put together the story as it most possibly happened.<br /><br />Quite an interesting story, even if some parts of the puzzle will never be solved. I thought it was nice to follow the author on her quest to finding the key to the riddle.<br /><br />A lot of pictures and illustration complete the report about the search.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>11 July, 1897. Three men set out in a hydrogen balloon bound for the North Pole. They never return. Two days into their journey they make a crash landing then disappear into a white nightmare.<br /><br />33 years later. The men's bodies are found, perfectly preserved under the snow and ice. They had enough food, clothing and ammunition to survive. Why did they die?<br /><br />66 years later. Bea Uusma is at a party. Bored, she pulls a books off the shelf. It is about the expedition. For the next fifteen years, Bea will think of nothing else...<br /><br />Can she solve the mystery of </i>The Expedition?"<br /></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-54676855403893424662024-02-05T11:30:00.000+01:002024-02-05T11:30:17.047+01:00Kingsolver, Barbara "Demon Copperhead"<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/62086891-demon-copperhead" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="2339" data-original-width="1523" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj08O7KDwm6gFEPF_PkyY3vTEjW58d-_1mUj6i1Ohl0-SNWund7ApZiLQ_e2Ds2mZRwOvfe3lHNPVm8GGC1bZmM43KKIameYaO_HKPJ0uzUlmcAz7Nq_M2FmE3Aa1yiTdAlCBM1I8Mkbc4fjm9QkrCThe9gTacPDa7_qIDzV2J0LCqJgBIk7BnYcvqon28/w260-h400/Kingsolver,%20Barbara%20-%20Demon%20Copperhead.jpg" width="260" /></a></b></div><b>Kingsolver, Barbara "Demon Copperhead" - 2022</b><br /><br />I must have mentioned this a hundred times. I'm a huge <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Charles%20Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> fan. I really love Barbara Kingsolver's books, so this was just the book for me, a modern version of my favourite Dickens book, "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/07/dickens-charles-david-copperfield.html">David Copperfield</a>".<br /><br />I am not necessarily a fan of rewritten classics. I always say, authors should have their own idea for a story and not pick up that of another one. However, this is just a story that deserves to be picked up and looked upon with fresh eyes. It's easy to say that was so long ago and isn't part of our lives anymore. But what if it is?<br /><br />Barbara Kingsolver managed it perfectly to transform the story into the 21st century. We follow Demon aka David through his sad life where he slides from one problematic situation to the next - or is pushed.<br /><br />So, even if you know "David Copperfield" inside out and know exactly what must be coming next, it still is a highly suspenseful novel, or maybe even because of that. You know what is coming but you wonder how she transformed the story. Brilliant.<br /><br />I think this gives us a good view about today's problems, even in so-called first world countries, and a lot to think about. Something that Barbara Kingsolver does so well.<br /><br />This might even become my favourite book of the year.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><p></p><p>"<i>Demon's story begins with his traumatic birth to a single mother in a single-wide trailer, looking 'like a little blue prizefighter.' For the life ahead of him he would need all of that fighting spirit, along with buckets of charm, a quick wit, and some unexpected talents, legal and otherwise.<br /><br />In the southern Appalachian Mountains of Virginia, poverty isn't an idea, it's as natural as the grass grows. For a generation growing up in this world, at the heart of the modern opioid crisis, addiction isn't an abstraction, it's neighbours, parents, and friends. 'Family' could mean love, or reluctant foster care. For Demon, born on the wrong side of luck, the affection and safety he craves is as remote as the ocean he dreams of seeing one day. The wonder is in how far he's willing to travel to try and get there.<br /><br />Suffused with truth, anger and compassion, </i>Demon Copperhead<i> is an epic tale of love, loss and everything in between.</i>"<br /></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-28015807360323867212024-02-03T10:48:00.000+01:002024-02-03T10:48:09.983+01:00Six Degrees of Separation ~ From Books That Changed the World to Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTm0ea-4Z7SI2EtIowrLLWW_nbWAMrd6SCTzB_L4X5_V46VX7ql6_0CW_fxmD3WDbFnOo-fisVRCZ5fs1WoqyVGVqYKjRoBhxplDzbQrRRtpPwW3YkVkxat8VLn7VWhw7GrdBbibjKUrBv9G-84hmWHypr7hAZxWncUD07H64nwm2BMULsN_o8UtAp1qk/s1567/Books%20Collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="955" data-original-width="1567" height="322" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjTm0ea-4Z7SI2EtIowrLLWW_nbWAMrd6SCTzB_L4X5_V46VX7ql6_0CW_fxmD3WDbFnOo-fisVRCZ5fs1WoqyVGVqYKjRoBhxplDzbQrRRtpPwW3YkVkxat8VLn7VWhw7GrdBbibjKUrBv9G-84hmWHypr7hAZxWncUD07H64nwm2BMULsN_o8UtAp1qk/w528-h322/Books%20Collage.jpg" width="528" /></a></p><p></p><p></p><p style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b>#6Degrees of Separation:</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b>from </b></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b> </b></span><b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/taylor-andrew-books-that-changed-world.html">Books That Changed the World</a> to </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><b><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/coerr-eleanor-sadako-and-thousand-paper.html">Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><b> </b></span></p><p><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at <a href="https://booksaremyfavouriteandbest.com/6-degrees-of-separation-meme/">Books Are My Favourite and Best</a>. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/03/six-degrees-of-separation_8.html">here</a>.</span></p><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">This month we start with the book we finished on last month (or the last book read).</span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"></span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;">My <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/six-degrees-of-separation-from-tomorrow.html">six degrees in January</a> ended with </span><b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/taylor-andrew-books-that-changed-world.html">Books That Changed the World</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"> which is a good starter book for February.<br /></span><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br />I will use a word in the title from one book and find another book with that same word in the title. The starter word is <span style="color: #2b00fe;">World </span><span>(or </span><span style="color: #2b00fe;">that changed</span><span>, whatever you like).</span><br /><br /></span><b><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Winchester, Simon "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/03/winchester-simon-map-that-changed-world.html">The <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Map</span> that Changed the <span style="color: red;">World</span></a>" - 2001<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Palma, Félix J. </span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">"<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/palma-felix-j-map-of-time.html">The <span style="color: red;">Map</span> of <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Time</span></a>" (E: El mapa del tiempo) - 2008<br /><br /></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;">Azevedo, Francisco "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/azevedo-francisco-once-upon-time-in-rio.html"><span style="color: #2b00fe;">Once</span> Upon a <span style="color: red;">Time</span> in Rio</a>" (PO: O Arroz de Palma) - 2008<br /><br /></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Ashworth, Andrea "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/ashworth-andrea-once-in-house-on-fire.html"><span style="color: red;">Once</span> in a <span style="color: #2b00fe;">House</span> on Fire</a>" - 1999 <br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face="">Domínguez, Carlos María "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/dominguez-carlos-maria-house-of-paper.html">The <span style="color: red;">House</span> of <span style="color: #2b00fe;">Paper</span></a>" (E: La Casa del Papel) - 2007<br /><br /></span></span><span face="" style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Coerr, Eleanor "<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/02/coerr-eleanor-sadako-and-thousand-paper.html">Sadako and the Thousand <span style="color: red;">Paper</span> Cranes</a>" - 1977</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br /><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><b style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span><span class="fe5nidar khvhiq1o r5qsrrlp i5tg98hk f9ovudaz przvwfww gx1rr48f gfz4du6o r7fjleex nz2484kf svot0ezm dcnh1tix sxl192xd t3g6t33p" style="background-image: url("img/2617e32ba41ae37a81350005624747b8_w_1857-64.png");"><span class="mpj7bzys xzlurrtv">📚</span></span></b><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br /></span></div><span style="font-family: Ubuntu;"><br />All quite interesting books about the world and time and history. The link between the first and the last. Well, one is a non-fiction, the other a children's book. But they are both about changing the world. Almost like last month.<br /></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com16tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-24497902691168749742024-02-02T11:41:00.000+01:002024-02-02T11:41:40.056+01:00Spell the Month in Books ~ February<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/tag/spellthemonthinbooks/" rel="_nofollow"><img height="320" src="https://reviewsfromthestacks.files.wordpress.com/2021/02/spell-the-month-in-books.jpg" style="border: 1px solid gray; height: 250px; width: 250px;" width="320" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: x-small;"><a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/2022/08/13/draft-spell-the-month-in-books-august-2022-linkup/">Reviews from the Stacks</a></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I found this on one of the blogs I follow, <a href="https://booksarethenewblackblog.wordpress.com">Books are the New Black</a> who found it at <a href="https://onebookmore.com/2021/01/05/spell-the-month-in-books-january/">One Book More</a>. It was originally created by <a href="https://reviewsfromthestacks.wordpress.com/">Reviews from the Stacks</a>, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles</span><span style="font-family: helvetica;">.</span><br /></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>February: Comfort Read</b></span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Comfort Read means something different to everyone. I'm not happy with "easy reads" but there are always those that challenge our minds but are still "nice".</span></p><p style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;">I'm looking forward to seeing what other bloggers will come up with. Here is my month of comfort reads:<br /></span></p><p style="text-align: left;"></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsimNY15GBP7G8oqX4sqjCiPMxCJTNYVY0efLhv_s6TzvrQG5YFARS34nNjwiii4OMhlgSPG79kPJMtQ4Oiv4iOBQIJPl30m0mKWqQSEETsouGgmCTr6pb8PZ3tBZ3APhXFLEinUAG8s1fcdiX_rLbYOPM6u85Pg422A_Y_OQUyxOxl_EeMnwWgxNQhAs/s1433/February%20Collage.jpg" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="999" data-original-width="1433" height="363" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgsimNY15GBP7G8oqX4sqjCiPMxCJTNYVY0efLhv_s6TzvrQG5YFARS34nNjwiii4OMhlgSPG79kPJMtQ4Oiv4iOBQIJPl30m0mKWqQSEETsouGgmCTr6pb8PZ3tBZ3APhXFLEinUAG8s1fcdiX_rLbYOPM6u85Pg422A_Y_OQUyxOxl_EeMnwWgxNQhAs/w520-h363/February%20Collage.jpg" width="520" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>FEBRUARY</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>F</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Agus, Milena "</b></span></span><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/agus-milena-from-land-of-moon.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>F</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/05/agus-milena-from-land-of-moon.html">rom the Land of the Moon</a>" (IT: Mal di Pietre) - 2006</b></span><br /></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>This is a short but very powerful story about family history, told by the granddaughter of the woman in question. Maybe not the ideal "comfort read" for many but I can identify with the protagonist which makes it a good read.</i></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>E</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Jane%20Austen">Austen, Jane</a> "</span><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/austen-jane-emma.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><span>E</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/01/austen-jane-emma.html">mma</a>" </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="">- 1816</span> </span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><br /><i>Jane Austen is alwas a good read and since one of her heroines starts with E, it had to be this one..</i><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>B</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><b><br /></b></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Bourgeois, Paulette "</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/bourgeois-paulette-big-sarahs-little.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>B</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/12/bourgeois-paulette-big-sarahs-little.html">ig Sarah's Little Boots</a>" - 1988</b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>Some might be surprised that I list a children's book. This was one of those that I read and re-read with my children and it always reminds me of the time when they were little. What more is there to say?<br /><br /></i></span></span></span></div><div><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Tracy%20Chevalier">Chevalier, Tracy</a> </span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face="">"</span></span></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/chevalier-tracy-remarkable-creatures.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/10/chevalier-tracy-remarkable-creatures.html">emarkable Creatures</a>" - 2009</span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>Tracy Chevalier is a great author and this is one of her favourites. What's not to like about a book about the girl who discovered dinosaurs?<br /></i></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><br /><b></b></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>U</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><br /></span><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Hanks, Tom "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/03/hanks-tom-uncommon-type-some-stories.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>U</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/03/hanks-tom-uncommon-type-some-stories.html">ncommon Type. Some Stories</a>" - 2017</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>Short stories about a typewriter by a brilliant actor who also seems to be a brilliant author..</i><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>A<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b>Atkinson, John "</b></span><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/atkinson-john-abridged-classics.html"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>A</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/01/atkinson-john-abridged-classics.html">bridged Classics</a>" - 2018</b></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>Hundred classics that you can read in five minutes. Do one at a time and you always have something to laugh.</i><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/search/label/Wladimir%20Kaminer">Kaminer, Wladimir</a> </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">"</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/kaminer-wladimir-russian-disco.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>R</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/10/kaminer-wladimir-russian-disco.html">ussian Disco</a>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2022/08/kaminer-wladimir-russendisko.html">Russendisko</a>) - 2000</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><i>The author is one of the many Russian-Germans that came to Germany shortly after the wall came down. This is a book about all of his compatriots who - like him - ended up in Berlin. His short stories tell us how he got to know his new country by exploring Berlin and finding his way into the discos that were often led by Russians. A hilarious author with a serious background.</i><br /><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>Y<br /></span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;">Johnson, Maureen; Cooper, Jay "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/johnson-maureen-cooper-jay-your-guide.html"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="background-color: white; color: #990000;"><span><span><span><span><span><span style="font-size: x-large;"><b><span>Y</span></b></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></a><b><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/10/johnson-maureen-cooper-jay-your-guide.html">our Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village</a>" - 2021</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></b><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"> </span><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><i>If you like to watch the British crime series "<a href="https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0118401">Midsomer Murders</a>",
you know right away what we are talking about. The authors must have watched the series and drew their conclusions.</i></span><br /><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: left;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span style="color: #990000; font-size: x-large;"><b>* * *</b></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span><br /></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><span><span><span>These are definitely some books you can read in between.<br /></span></span></span></span></div><p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="color: #990000; font-family: helvetica;"><span><span style="font-size: xx-large; text-align: left;"><b>Happy Reading!</b></span></span></span></div><span style="font-family: helvetica;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-size: xx-large;">📚 📚 📚</span></div></span><p></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-116101760076299932024-02-01T11:30:00.003+01:002024-03-01T10:58:05.592+01:00Happy February!<p style="text-align: center;"> <span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Happy February to all my friends and readers</b></span></span>
</p><div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <i>New Calendar picture with this </i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><i>beautiful watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch<br /><i>
</i></i></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">"Frühlingsbeginn"<br />"Beginning of Spring</span></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>"</b></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/fruehlingsbeginn-c-ein-aquarell-mit-schneegloeckchen-und-krokussen-von-frank-koebsch" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="424" data-original-width="567" height="326" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgAj1U9fTCa0hU9vh8VrYpSTNL-K1bN6KlEpcVfVuVw2mNygANciI8-dQOGAqziflIl74FRedu6ceQbZBzTgw2ugH16TiFIZhN3dzsZ15GS-cRt_0F3YnaBhhcoSZSwd3FGe5fDwBO1a2tApLl_8pHLX1NXvPXwwHCls51J8WAnCmu0kedEQxazl6oXlaY/w436-h326/2024-02%20Fr%C3%BChlingsbeginn.png" width="436" /></a></div>
<p style="text-align: center;"></p><p style="text-align: center;"></p><span style="font-family: verdana;">Frank says to this picture:<br /><i>Zum Frühlingsanfang gehören einfach Schneeglöckchen und Krokusse dazu. Es ist schön bereits Anfang März am meteorologischen Frühlingsanfang in den Gärten und Park eine Vielzahl von Frühlingsblühern entdecken zu können.<br /><br />The beginning of spring simply includes snowdrops and crocuses. It's nice to be able to discover a variety of spring bloomers in the gardens and park at the beginning of March, at the meteorological start of spring.</i><br />(see <a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/liebeserklaerung-an-rostock-c-aquarell-von-frank-koebsch">here</a>)<b><br /></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><i><br /></i></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Another great watercolour painting by Frank Koebsch. Enjoy!
</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Read more </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">on their website</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <a href="https://www.atelier-koebsch.de/p/mama-ist-das-die-welt-c-aquarell-mit-einer-eisbaerenfamilie-von-hanka-koebsch">here</a>. *</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *</span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> <br />Spring is around the corner here. Mind you, we didn't really have a proper winter. And you won't hear me complain about that.<br /><br /></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Here's a picture of our "snowy" winter.<br /></span><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Photo" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="3000" data-original-width="4000" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEg51yJqwmHF2rcK8qNX1GUVjbSTXwFKWYj5cDT-Jm2xc3-apVFNDuW8LClqb0OJWU2bwMr2jZPUiRcDAgZMj01v94UDg5gbhXA3KMYe6o5wvbk1IuZ_bDiGU5GwgMI39YyDMq3dfVfFVG_s92ZUlyRSugF05aZScldEvuHn2EQCQpWtR84se1wfFt-oFxo/w400-h300/20240115_083534.jpg" width="400" /></a></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">We saw several plays this month - what else is new? One of them was a classic: </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">"</span></span><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/09/durrenmatt-friedrich-judge-and-his.html">The Judge and his Hangman</a>" </span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">(</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2022/07/durrenmatt-friedrich-der-richter-und.html">Der Richter und sein Henker</a></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">) by Friedrich Dürrenmatt. A very successful production which we enjoyed a lot.<br /><br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif"><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">The
German word for February is Februar, but the old German word is <b>Hornung</b>,
because in this month the mature red deer sheds the bars of his antlers
and begins to grow new antlers, so you could say the name of the month
is "antlering". But there are also other old names based on natural
phenomena and
seasons. This month it's <b>Schmelzmond</b> (melting moon) and <b>Taumond </b>(dew moon). </span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></div><div style="text-align: center;"><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *<br /><br /></span></span></div></div></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* You can also have a look under my labels <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Artist%3A%20Frank%20Koebsch">Artist: Frank Koebsch</a> and <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Artist%3A%20Hanka%20Koebsch">Artist: Hanka Koebsch</a> where you can find all my posts about the two artists. <br /><br /></span></span></div><div style="text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">* * *</span></span><br /><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="font-size: large;">🌼 </span></span></span><b><span style="font-family: verdana;">I wish you all a Happy February! </span></b><span class="ILfuVd" lang="en"><span class="hgKElc"><span style="font-size: large;">🌼</span></span></span></div>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-72952515268377402972024-01-26T11:01:00.002+01:002024-01-26T12:43:50.147+01:00Dickens, Charles "Barnaby Rudge"<p><b></b></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><b><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9731731-barnaby-rudge" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="282" data-original-width="179" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgvvVvNrroDtGK_JPXJAtY0PI5rhyphenhyphenMS235e61Y6rRdhzBlpVSBfISryFuT2xLD1C_3pT6vUxXGFKceH2VFtt6MJL5-P4JrWnEu-lGoQrb8fGqc4gNADeyVlVdmkeQniVYuGXe9mn8QhRvmefMlxAjJLfiocbonC71U41Vfx3ZrALcRgmxVMxgU-6D1GEng/w254-h400/Dickens,%20Charles%20-%20Barnaby%20Rudge.jpg" width="254" /></a></b></div><p></p><p><b>Dickens, Charles "Barnaby Rudge: A Tale of the Riots of Eighty" - 1841</b><br /><br />I'm a huge <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Charles%20Dickens">Charles Dickens</a> fan. I have never read a book by him that wasn't fascinating. This was so great, as well.<br /><br />I didn't know that this was another historical novel (next to "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/11/dickens-charles-tale-of-two-cities.html">A Tale of Two Cities</a>").<br /><br />What I loved about this book was just what I normally love about Dickens. His description of the little man, the life of people at the time he writes about. How did they live? What were their problem? Why did they revolt in this case?<br /><br />We get a good view about the lives and the problems of the people in the 18th century even though it wasn't the time Dickens lived in.<br /><br />I can see why this is the least read of his books though it doesn't really deserve it. The topic might not seem as interesting to readers or maybe they are missing a really feel-good romance. No matter the reason, this is a great book and if you are a fan of classic literature, you should consider reading at least one of Dickens' books. And if you don't want to carry on then, it is your loss.<br /><br />I would love to read this with a book club since there is so much to talk about. But I don't want to give spoilers on my blog, so I will not go into details.<br /></p><p>From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>Dickens's first historical novel is set against the infamous '</i>No Popery<i>' riots that were instigated by Lord George Gordon in 1780, and terrorised London for days. Prejudice, intolerance, misplaced religious and nationalistic fervour, together with the villains who would exploit these for political ends, are Dickens's targets. His vivid account of the riots at the heart of the novel is interwoven with the mysterious tale of a long unsolved murder, and a romance that combines forbidden love, passion, treachery and heroism.<br /><br />A typically rich cast of comic characters, from the snivelling Miss Miggs and the posturing Simon Tappertit to the half-witted </i>Barnaby Rudge<i> of the title, ensures high entertainment.</i>"<br /></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com14tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-84661679105737339852024-01-25T11:08:00.004+01:002024-01-25T11:13:53.972+01:00#ThrowbackThursday. Tuesdays with Morrie<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6900.Tuesdays_with_Morrie?"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhNnNqFXdwEroliX1Eqh_mkIDSFx3X9cicUL4mAY3CQmb1VE2XI2K51DUDsnOGU1m9rSQw027wcbEatYnqTRnkPFj5btz7v3wbGX2-2GFKMNWQz4Da7Dccy7wzw8gzBd86vfhCbZdXuUZ0/w255-h400/Albom%252C+Mitch+-+Tuesdays+with+Morrie.jpg" width="255" /></a>
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<span style="font-family: georgia;"><b>Albom, Mitch "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/albom-mitch-tuesdays-with-morrie.html">Tuesdays with Morrie</a>" - 1997<br /></b><br />
This book is telling the relationship between Mitch Albom, a sports
reporter, and his former university professor. The author hears about
his professor falling sick and starts visiting him every Tuesday.<br /></span>
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It is a very moving and touching book. You learn about life and death and how to deal with it.<br /></span>
<span style="font-family: georgia;"><br />I thought both these books were very inspiring. </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;"> </span></div><div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><span style="font-family: georgia;">Read my original review <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/albom-mitch-tuesdays-with-morrie.html">here</a>.</span></div>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-72534680626859363262024-01-23T12:46:00.006+01:002024-01-23T13:19:45.601+01:00Gaiman, Neil "Coraline"<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27230649-coraline" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1915" data-original-width="1265" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiB6_JIaFrAd23zZ2ZzaSJ42ZmOW3T17_PiEnyvSfBB93WaCwaY7G20C-25EIDE44BVDxftqiJjboEd8mf402BwWaoWiTe5BSh-RwSN-IQG3PTokNGqQY4DvMTfa8pqySRoOgtDEJ5n57lqkzhkVoqzg9cZB6l6Q6QAYkfUZY-mHMGdzbEf7iqYvKSDW7Q/w264-h400/Gaiman,%20Neil%20-%20Coraline.jpg" width="264" /></a></div></div><p><b>Gaiman, Neil "Coraline" - 2002</b><br /><br />Coraline is only a short novella. It was an alright read though nothing spectacular. I probably would have enjoyed reading it with my boys.<br /><br />I have never been a fan of books where children are heroes and this falls into this category. But I can see the attraction.<br /><br />I loved the pictures by Chris Riddell. He is a wonderful illustrator and makes every book better, even the great ones.<br /><br />And I liked these quotes:<br />"<i>Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten</i>."<br />"<i>When you're scared but you still do it anyway, that's brave</i>."<br /><br />Luckily, there are always several people in a book club who have a different opinion, so here goes:<br />• I absolutely loved Coraline. I listened to it as an audiobook that was narrated by Neil Gaiman himself. His narration was perfect for the story.<br />• The story had everything I want from a book: it was mysterious, a little spooky, thrilling, had thought provoking layers and interesting vivid details. Not to mention a lovely protagonist, very interesting different side characters, especially the CAT, and a really interesting antagonist.<br />• Nice plot twists with playing games with the other mother and everything turning out alright at the end again.<br />• I rather not think about what this says about me and my brain, but this was the most brain stimulating and heartwarming story I read/heard all year. ♥<br /><br />We read this in our <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-club-history-2017-etc-in.html">international online book club</a> in December 2023.<br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>Sometimes, a door is closed for a very good reason…<br /><br />There is something strange about Coraline’s new home. It’s not the mist, or the cat that always seems to be watching her, nor the signs of danger that Miss Spink and Miss Forcible, her new neighbours, read in the tea leaves. It’s the other house - the one behind the old door in the drawing room. Another mother and father with black button eyes and papery skin are waiting for Coraline to join them there. And they want her to stay with them. For ever. She knows that if she ventures through that door, she may never come back…</i>"<br /></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com10tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-69354443601850607072024-01-19T10:46:00.013+01:002024-02-16T13:53:18.491+01:00Statistics 2023<p style="text-align: center;"> <img border="0" data-original-height="512" data-original-width="512" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi6OF2CQwGjfszVvzl0BpH8JqAvQu2_QtNtImdv0KOyQ6r1BkO46hxBVn4x6tqOrFvg4PvcaD3UE52Bm5b6tyGhzpqMO2AefRVOva6vv_nd64e2WV7XHpnQLu_s6U2PhIcJwY8KM_Za588/w400-h400/117322-matte-blue-and-white-square-icon-culture-scroll-sc2.png" width="400" /> <br /></p><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">My statistics for the last years are here:</span><br /></span>
<span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Going back to </span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/01/statistics-2012.html">2009-12</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2014/01/statistics-2013.html">2013</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/01/statistics-2014.html">2014</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/01/statistics.html">2015</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/02/statistics-2016.html">2016</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/01/statistics-2017.html">2017</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/01/statistics-2018.html">2018</a></span></span></span>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/02/statistics-2019.html">2019</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/01/statistics-2020.html">2020</a>, <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2021/12/statistics-2021.html">2021</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/12/statistics-2022.html">2022</a> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"> <br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">And these are the results of my reading lists for 2023:<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><b>* Statistics 2023 *</b><br /> </span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I did 184 posts in 2023 which was about a hundred less than last year before but about the same as many others.</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br />My
regular posts are either weekly (Book Quotes, Top Ten, ThrowBack
Thursday, </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Wordless Wednesday</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">) or monthly (Happy Month), so I posted more or less the amount
of weeks or months in a year.<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2010/12/book-quotes.html">Book Quotes of the Week</a> (5 posts)<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/New%20month">Happy Month</a> (12)<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Top%20Ten%20Tuesday">Top Ten Tuesday</a> (11)<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/ThrowbackThursday">ThrowBack Thursday</a> (41)<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Wordless%20Wednesday"><br />Wordless Wednesday</a> (2)<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Six%20Degrees%20of%20Separation">Six Degrees of Separation</a> (12)<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Spell%20the%20Month%20in%20Books">Spell the Month in Books</a> (12)<br /><br />I also did a few lists that are more or less statistics about half of the year and a comparison to ten years ago </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(see <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Tags">here</a>)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">:<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/10-year-challenge-book-tag-2023.html">10 Year Challenge Book Tag</a> <br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/mid-year-book-freakout-tag-2023.html">Mid Year Freak-Out Tag</a> <br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/12/the-end-of-year-book-tag-2023-edition.html">The End of Year Book Tag</a> <br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/book-tag-54321.html">Book Tag: 5…4…3…2…1…</a> <br /><br />Same as last year, I also participated in <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/non-fiction-november-is-here.html">Non-fiction November</a>.<br /><br />And then there are, of course, all the challenges I have done over the years.<br />I read books that contributed to the following challenges. Some of them count for more than one category:<br /><br /><b>Challenges</b> (number of books read for the challenges in brackets)</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/05/smiley-jane-13-ways-of-looking-at-novel.html">13 Ways of Looking at the Novel</a> (1)<br />
<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/tbr-pile-reading-challenge-2023.html">2023 TBR Pile Reading Challenge</a> (13)</span></span><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/06/top-ten-tuesday-top-ten-anti-racism.html ">Anti-Racism Books</a> (1)<br />I read more on this topic but they were not on this list.<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/04/barack-obama-reading-lists.html">Barack Obama Reading Lists</a> (1)<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/best-european-literature.html">Best European Literature</a> (1)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/bildungsroman.html">Bildungsroman</a> (2)</span></span> <span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/a-century-of-books.html">A Century of Books</a> (1)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/09/childrens-books.html">Children's Books</a> (2)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-classics-club.html">The Classics Club</a> (18): <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-classics-club-classics-spin.html">The Classics Spin</a> (4)<br />5* for the Classics Spin, 18 in total<br />* There was one left from the original list and I finally finished it:<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/dutch-and-french-books.html"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Dutch and French Books</span></a> (0 Dutch, 4 French)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/favourite-german-independent-books.html">Favourite (German) Independent Books</a> (1)<br />(Das Lieblingsbuch der Unabhängigen = The Favourite Book of the Independents)<br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/03/german-books-deutsche-bucher.html">German Books</a> (32)</span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">
</span></span><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2010/10/my-favourite-books-ever.html"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">My Favourite Books Ever</span></a> (15) <br />Every year I find some more books I can add to my list of favourite books. 24 this year. Not too bad, I guess.<br /></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/08/nobel-peace-prize.html">Nobel Peace Prize</a> (1)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/04/nobel-prize-winners-and-their-books.html">Nobel Prize Winners and Their Books</a> (13)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/03/oscar-winning-books.html">Oscar Winning Books</a> (1)<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/paris-in-july.html">Paris in July</a> (6)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/10/peace-prize-of-german-book-trade.html">Peace Prize of the German Book Trade</a> (1 + 2 previous ones from this year's recipient)</span></span><br />(German: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels)<br /><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Read%20the%20Year">Read the Year Club</a> (2)<br />We read 1940 and 1962 this year. It's a good idea to add some reads from former years that we might not have touched before.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/reading-challenge-chunky-books-2023.html">Reading Challenge - Chunky Books</a> 2023 (12)<br />I read 12 chunky books in 2023 of which 3 are considered a chunkster. Mor-book-ly Obese again.<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/10/morgan-ann-reading-world.html">Reading the World</a> (1)<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/07/suggestions-from-friends.html">Suggestions from Friends</a> (3)<br />I read suggestions from friends all the time, just haven't kept up with who recommended which book.<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/04/the-piggybank-challenge-2017.html"><br /></a></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Top%20Ten%20Tuesday">Top Ten Tuesday</a> <br />I took part in 11 of the challenges, this is a great way of reminiscing or planning your reads. But I have done so many of them before.<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/06/travel-world-with-books.html">Travel the World Through Books</a> (1)<br /><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Some of the challenges are older and I only add to them if I happen to read one of the books. </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">No new books on these lists:<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/11/the-100-best-non-fiction-books-of-all.html">The 100 best Non-fiction Books of All Time as Chosen by The Guardian</a> (0) <br /></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2010/11/100-books-by-bbc.html">100 Books by the BBC</a></span> (0)<br />
<a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-100-greatest-fiction-books-as.html">100 Greatest Fiction Books as Chosen by the Guardian</a> (0)<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/05/101-best-selling-books-of-all-time.html">101 Best Selling Books of All Times</a> (0)<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/09/20-classic-and-important-books-that_22.html">20 Classic and Important Books</a> (0)<br />Only three more books on my list.<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/07/7-books-that-will-radically-shift-your.html">7 Books That Will Radically Shift Your Perspectives</a> (0)</span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2017/07/taylor-andrew-books-that-changed-world.html">Books That Changed the World</a> (0)<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2016/07/emmas-book-club-our-shared-shelf.html"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">Emma's Book Club - Our shared shelf</span></a></span></span> (0)<br />An
ever growing list of books about and for women, a group started by Emma
Watson (better known as Hermione Granger), UN Woman Goodwill
Ambassador.<br /><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Esperanto%20Book%20Club">Esperanto Books</a> (0)<br />Here we mostly read short stories.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2015/03/le-monde-100-books-of-century.html">Le Monde - The 100 Books of the Century</a> (0)</span></span></span><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2013/05/modern-library-100-best-novels-of-20th.html">Modern Library 100 Best Novels of the 20th Century</a> (0) </span></span></span><br /></div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/oprahs-book-club.html">Oprah's Book Club</a> (0)<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2018/03/the-non-western-books-that-every.html">The non-western books that every student should read</a></span> (0)<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">The
only thing I miss from our old place is the library that would get me
any book I wanted. Not so easy here where we only have a small church
library and they only get the biggest best-sellers. And all of them in
German only, of course.</span><br /><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/07/book-club-history-2017-etc-in.html">Book Club 2017 etc.</a></b> (11)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">I decided not to read the September book since it was not for me and we had read a few like that before.<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>German Book Club</b> (11)</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;">We only read eleven, we usually take a little break in the summer.<br /><br /><b>Books Read</b>: 83<br /><b>Pages read:</b> 26,717 which results in 321 pages/book, 73 pages/day, 7 books/month<br />Last year (2022), I read 73 books with 20,533 pages which resulted in 281 pages/book, 56 pages/day, 6 books/month. So, I have improved a little.<br />The average novel contains between 140 and 320 pages, i.e. 230 which would make 116 average books (compated to 89 last year). Not too bad, I thought I had read less.<br /></span></div><div><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Books dating from which year</b>: </span></span><br />Pre 1800s: 1<br />1800s: 3<br />1900-1949: 8<br />1950-1999: 8<br />2000s: 65 (1 of which from 2023)<br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">
<b>Male Authors</b>: 49<br />
<b>Female Authors</b>: 37<br />
Some are by several authors, so the number is not the exact number of books read.<br /><br />
<b>Nobel Prize Winners</b>: 14<br /><br />
<b>Fiction</b>: 52<br />
<b>Non-Fiction</b>: 33<br />
<br /></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><b>Chunky Books</b> - more than 450 pages: 12, of which more than 750: 3<br /><b>Library</b>: 6<br /><b>Re-Read</b>: 2<br /><b>TBR Pile</b>: 18</span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"></span></span><br /><br /><b></b></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Oldest Book</b>: 1759<br /></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Voltaire "</span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/voltaire-candide.html"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Candide, or Optimism</span></span></span></span></span></span></a><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">" (</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">F: Candide, ou l'Optimism</span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">) - 1759</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><b>Newest Book</b>: 2023<br />Weiler, Jan "<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/02/weiler-jan-alternzeit.html ">Älternzeit</a>" [<i>Eldertime</i>] - 2023<br /><b>Longest book</b>: 1,057 pages<br />Rutherfurd, Edward "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/rutherfurd-edward-new-york.html">New York</a>" - 2009<br /><b>Shortest book</b>: 48 pages<br />Adichie, Chimamanda Ngozi "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/adichie-chimamanda-ngozi-we-should-all.html">We Should All Be Feminists</a>" - 2014<br />Longest book title: 35/38<br />Wickert, Ulrich "<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/08/wickert-ulrich-frankreich-muss-man.html">Frankreich muss man lieben, um es zu verstehen</a>" [<i>You have to love France to understand it</i>] - 2017</span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /><br /><b>Funniest Book:<br /></b><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Shaun%20Bythell">Bythell, Shaun</a> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/bythell-shaun-seven-kinds-of-people-you.html">Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops</a>" - 2020<br /><b>Saddest Book:</b><br />Perry, Matthew "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/perry-matthew-friends-lovers-and-big.html">Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing</a>" - 2022<br /><b>Weirdest Book</b>:<br />Canetti, Elias</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/canetti-elias-auto-da-fe.html">Auto-da-Fé</a>" (<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/07/canetti-elias-die-blendung.html">Die Blendung</a>) </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">- 1935<br /><b>Most disappointing</b>:<br />Kazantzakis, Nikos "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/kazantzakis-nikos-last-temptation-of.html">The Last Temptation of Christ</a>" </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">(Ο τελευταίος πειρασμός, O telefteos pirasmos)</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""> - 1951<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /><b>New author (for me) that I would like to read more from</b>: 13<br /><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/06/arenz-ewald-der-grosse-sommer.html">Ewald Arenz</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/dangarembga-tsitsi-nervous-conditions.html">Tsitsi Dangarembga</a>, <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/06/gungor-dilek-das-geheimnis-meiner.html">Dilek Güngör</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/kurkov-andrey-grey-bees.html">Andrey Kurkov</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/mann-heinrich-man-of-straw.html">Heinrich Mann</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/perry-matthew-friends-lovers-and-big.html">Matthew Perry</a>, <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/08/heidenreich-elke-schroeder-bernd.html">Bernd Schroeder</a>, <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/03/specht-heike-die-ersten-ihrer-art.html">Heike Specht</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/taha-karosh-in-belly-of-queen.html">Karosh Taha</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/theroux-paul-riding-iron-rooster.html">Paul Theroux</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/wells-benedict-end-of-loneliness.html">Benedict Wells</a>, <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/11/wolff-iris-so-tun-als-ob-es-regnet.html">Iris Wolff</a>, <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/wood-levison-eastern-horizons.html">Levison Wood</a> <br /></span><span> <br /></span><span><b>Translated Books</b>: <br />6 from 6 languages<br />1 ea from </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Arabic, Greek, Italian, Russian, Spanish, Swedish</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /></span><br /><span><span><b>Books read in another language:</b></span><br />Dutch: 0<br />French: 4<br />German: 32<br /></span><br /><span><b>Numbers in Book Titles</b>: </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>2, 7, 1913</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span><br /><span><b>Place Names in Book Titles</b>:</span><span><span> </span></span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Brussels,
Constantinople, Crow Lake, Flanders, France, Frankreich, French,
English, German, Greece, Hook of Holland, London, Longbourn, Midaq
Alley, New York, Northern Ireland, Paris (2), Rotenburg, Rue Morgue,
Silk Road, Syria, Turkish</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span><br /><b>Names in Book Titles</b>: </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Barabbas,
Barnaby, Caleb, Candide, Christ, Coraline, Hans, Idefix, Ishmael, Leo,
Lina, Lukas, Maria, Rudge, Schmitz, Sommer, Winter</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span></span><span><br /></span><span><b>Colours in Book Titles</b>: </span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span>Blue, Purple, Red</span></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>My Favourite Books</b>: 24<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Arenz, Ewald "<i>The Big Summer</i>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/06/arenz-ewald-der-grosse-sommer.html">Der grosse Sommer</a>) - 2019<br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Geraldine%20Brooks">Brooks, Geraldine</a> "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/11/brooks-geraldine-calebs-crossing-2011.html">Caleb’s Crossing</a>" <br />- "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/06/brooks-geraldine-people-of-book.html">People of the Book</a>" - 2008</span></span></span><br /><span face=""><a href="Bythell, Shaun https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Shaun%20Bythell">Bythell, Shaun</a> </span>"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/07/bythell-shaun-seven-kinds-of-people-you.html">Seven Kinds of People you Find in Bookshops</a>" - 2020<br /><span face=""trebuchet ms", sans-serif">Dangarembga, Tsitisi "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/dangarembga-tsitsi-nervous-conditions.html">Nervous Conditions</a>" - 1988</span><br />Güngör, Dilek "<i>My Turkish Grandmother's Secret</i>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/06/gungor-dilek-das-geheimnis-meiner.html">Das Geheimnis meiner türkischen Großmutter</a>) - 2007<br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Hajaj, Claire "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/hajaj-claire-ishmaels-oranges.html">Ishmael's Oranges</a>" - 2014</span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/search/label/Elke%20Heidenreich">Heidenreich, Elke</a></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">; Schroeder, Bernd "</span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><i>Rowing Dogs</i></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/08/heidenreich-elke-schroeder-bernd.html">Rudernde Hunde</a>) - 2002</span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Victoria%20Hislop">Hislop, Victoria</a> </span></span>"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/01/hislop-victoria-marias-island.html">Maria's Island</a>" - 2021<br />Ibrahimi, Anilda "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/ibrahimi-anilda-red-like-bride.html"><i>Red Like a Bride</i></a>" (IT: Rosso come una sposa/<a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/05/ibrahimi-anilda-rot-wie-eine-braut.html">Rot wie eine Braut</a>) - 2008<br />Keefe, Patrick Radden "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/keefe-patrick-radden-say-nothing.html">Say Nothing. A True Story of Murder and Memory in Northern Ireland</a>" - 2018<br />Kurkov, Andrej "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/kurkov-andrey-grey-bees.html">Grey Bees</a>" (RUS: Серые пчелы/Seryye Pchely) - 2019<span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><br /></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Naguib%20Mahfouz">Mahfouz, Naguib</a> "</span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/04/mahfouz-naguib-midaq-alley.html">Midaq Alley</a></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">" (arab: </span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">زقاق المدق</span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">/Zuqaq El Midaq</span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">) - 1947 </span></span></span></span></span><span><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Obama, Michelle </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/obama-michelle-light-we-carry.html">The Light We Carry: Overcoming in Uncertain Times</a>" - 2022<br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Perry, Matthew "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/02/perry-matthew-friends-lovers-and-big.html">Friends, Lovers, and the Big Terrible Thing</a>" - 2022</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Carlos%20Ruiz%20Zaf%C3%B3n">Ruiz Zafón, Carlos</a> </span></span></span></span>"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/03/ruiz-zafon-carlos-city-of-mist.html">The City of Mist</a>" (E: La Ciudad de Vapor - El cementerio de los
libros olvidados #5) - 2020<br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">
<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Edward%20Rutherfurd">Rutherfurd, Edward</a> </span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/rutherfurd-edward-new-york.html">New York</a>" - 2009 </span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">
<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Elif%20%C5%9Eafak">Şafak, Elif</a> </span><span face="">"<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/05/safak-elif-island-of-missing-trees.html">The Island of Missing Trees</a>" - 2021</span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/search/label/Judith%20W.%20Taschler">Taschler, Judith W.</a> "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><i>The German Teacher</i>" (GE: </span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/01/taschler-judith-w-die-deutschlehrerin.html">Die Deutschlehrerin</a>) - 2013 <br />- "<i>Summer and Winter</i>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/09/taschler-judith-w-sommer-wie-winter.html">Sommer wie Winter</a>) - 2011</span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/search/label/Jan%20Weiler">Weiler, Jan</a></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""> "<i>The Awning Man</i>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/10/weiler-jan-der-markisenmann.html">Der Markisenmann</a>) - 2022<br /></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">- "<i>Eldertime</i>" (GE: Älternzeit) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">(Pubertiere #5) </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">- 2023</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br />- "<i>In My Little Country</i>" (GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2023/06/weiler-jan-in-meinem-kleinen-land.html">In meinem kleinen Land</a>)<i> -</i> 2006<span><br /></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">Wells, Benedict "</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/01/wells-benedict-end-of-loneliness.html">The End of Loneliness</a>" </span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><span face="">(GE: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/01/wells-benedict-vom-ende-der-einsamkeit.html">Vom Ende der Einsamkeit</a>) - 2016</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span><br /></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span> </span><br />With my books, I visited places in the following countries:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Africa"><b>Africa</b></a> (4):</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Asia"><b>Asia</b></a> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(13): <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Afghanistan, China, India, Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Jordan, Kuwait, Lebanon, Mongolia, Pakistan, Russia, Syria, Turkey</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Oceania"><b>Australia/Oceania</b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (1):<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">New Zealand</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Europe"><b>Europe</b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (23): <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Albania,
Austria, Belarus, Belgium, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Cyprus, France, Germany,
Greece, Hungary, Italy, The Netherlands, Poland, Portugal, Romania,
Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United
Kingdom</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/North%20America"><b>North America</b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (2): <br />Canada, USA<br /> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/South%20America"><b>South America</b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (3): <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Argentina, Paraguay, Suriname</span><span style="font-family: verdana;">,<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Extra-terrestrial"><b>Extra-terrestrial</b></a></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"> (0):<br />Countries "visited" in total: 46</span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><br /><br />Authors come from:</span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Africa</b> </span><span style="font-family: verdana;">(4):</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;">Egypt, Nigeria, South Africa, Zimbabwe</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Asia</b> (4): <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Iraq, Israel/Palestine, Sri Lanka, Syria</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Australia/Oceania</b> (1):<br />Australia<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>Europe</b> (15): <br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;">Albania,
Austria, Bulgaria, France, Germany, Greece, Poland, Romania, Russia,
Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, Turkey, Ukraine, United Kingdom</span><br /><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>North America</b>: (2): <br />Canada, USA<br /></span><span style="font-family: verdana;"><b>South America </b>(0): <br />Author countries in total: 26<br /><br />See also "<a href="https://www.goodreads.com/user/year_in_books/2023/5897665">My Year in Books</a>" on Goodreads.<br /><br /><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">You may find some even greater statistics by better bloggers than me, e.g. at "<a href="http://stuck-in-a-book.blogspot.com/2013/01/more-statistics.html">Stuck in a Book</a>".</span></span></span></span></span></div><div><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"> </span></span></span></span></span></div><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span style="font-family: verdana;"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif"><span face=""verdana" , sans-serif">If you want more information on any of the lists mentioned, please, let me know.</span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com20tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-70620735630254204192024-01-18T11:36:00.002+01:002024-01-18T11:36:41.965+01:00#ThrowbackThursday. Measuring the World<div dir="ltr" style="text-align: left;" trbidi="on"><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/642231.Measuring_the_World?"><img border="0" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi5EEMQNvDvROjRWaXmr0dRNKiOZC8OWs2Gp5W1rklCDrjUFqENVDuoQ1fZJ3h136Seqs57JOYnVsFyzzvQrnsz5zbazbduCvXpkAc8YXew_kF23hnmtrD4LCjU3AxG5Mhc1TC8Pm-36DU/w258-h400/Kehlmann%252C+Daniel+-+Measuring+the+World.jpg" width="258" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1526595.Die_Vermessung_der_Welt" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="600" data-original-width="363" height="400" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjfxP035eJaEm8Ql3o-Od36FEzJ3ZFnyu_1RQ5p6rnyMMsgxhsdh4ylCTeRc39KvTktn9XvQD8X21R_BJUMWLN6KByQgOpijU_9N3lMRNzJ_PHPJRzCIBprNXSeSCKruwdimri-_gnhs4u4m6aC6528FEt-xebj343n8jUJHs6JVrXD9GCdgjmswWJU/w242-h400/Kehlmann,%20Daniel%20-%20Measuring%20the%20World2.jpeg" width="242" /></a></div><div style="text-align: left;"><span style="font-size: medium;"><b>Kehlmann, Daniel "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/kehlmann-daniel-measuring-world.html">Measuring the World</a>" (</b><b><i>German: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/01/kehlmann-daniel-die-vermessung-der-welt.html">Die Vermessung der Welt</a></i>) </b><b> - 2005 </b><br /></span></div></div><span style="font-size: medium;">
<br />
Apparently, this is the most successful German novel since Patrick Suskind's "<i>Perfume</i>" and has knocked J. K. Rowling and Dan Brown off the bestseller lists.<br />
<br />I can very well believe that. The author talks about two brilliant
German scientists of the 18th century, the explorer and naturalist
Alexander von Humboldt and the great mathematician and physicist Carl
Friedrich Gauss. These two guys were the brain of the late 18th century. <br /><br />Read my original review <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2011/04/kehlmann-daniel-measuring-world.html">here</a>.<br /></span>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-38773208466352249392024-01-17T10:25:00.001+01:002024-01-17T10:25:11.190+01:00Wells, Benedict "The End of Loneliness"<p></p><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40265079-the-end-of-loneliness" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="700" data-original-width="467" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEijdfcSN8-4wfhaJ5vKaezJEmr2tfSIuM_BX06P1KjrxhQ0Lu1Jkgnzr4upCCwNp6uET7JIyxDdOUS-S68bcLzlw24j4Ri8bcMfvCxwHsL57YnOtpZQWsw-QQSShckUclmNpGaE4SBjhUoyv1TZO1cgJjTCH1vzQhYo4GZoGLK4MrbhOBR5H2U8YPKTVJI/s320/Wells,%20Benedict%20-%20The%20End%20of%20Loneliness.jpg" width="213" /></a><a href="https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/42514432-vom-ende-der-einsamkeit" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1000" data-original-width="632" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiUJ_wmqQsQ-erPRVA8aQm7LerIJkfZ3s0FQgh8LPe5C8EmyDEj0ElWC6pifDujCpTS5hR66WzpszyLd6PZqLb2Ny0ohSIXEfwJ9bbEP_tGEMC4MCVHMly4SAbZU1vLZJLhZf-ws1EybHvThBQbZsb1g2xfql0TNJiUMzFpgrlpdT7Z2ZoWxFCQksHQO1s/s320/Wells,%20Benedict%20-%20Vom%20Ende%20der%20Einsamkeit.jpg" width="202" /></a></div><b><div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"></div>Wells, Benedict "The End of Loneliness" (German: <a href="https://derbuecherwurm.blogspot.com/2024/01/wells-benedict-vom-ende-der-einsamkeit.html">Vom Ende der Einsamkeit</a>) - 2016</b><br /><br /><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">A quiet book about a family that suddenly isn't a family anymore.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">How do children cope with the death of their parents, how do they get on?</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb"><br />
</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><br />In this story we can see what happens next.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Or not.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">How this loss accompanies a child throughout their entire life, how it shapes their life.</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb">
</span></span><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><br /><br />After the death of their parents, the children grow up in a boarding school, which is also described very impressively.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Here the author probably drew on his own experiences, as he too was at boarding school at the age of six.</span></span><br /><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb"><br />This is a fabulous book that captures all facets of an entire life (or several).</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Wonderfully written, a fascinating family story that is so comprehensive despite only being just over 350 pages long.</span></span> <span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">Terrific.</span></span><span class="jCAhz"><span class="ryNqvb"> </span></span></span><p></p><p><span class="HwtZe" lang="en"><span class="jCAhz ChMk0b"><span class="ryNqvb">I think I will read more from this young author.</span></span></span><br /><br />From the back cover:<br /><br />"<i>Jules Moreau’s childhood is shattered after the sudden death of his parents. Enrolled in boarding school where he and his siblings, Marty and Liz, are forced to live apart, the once vivacious and fearless Jules retreats inward, preferring to live within his memories - until he meets Alva, a kindred soul caught in her own grief. Fifteen years pass and the siblings remain strangers to one another, bound by tragedy and struggling to recover the family they once were. Jules, still adrift, is anchored only by his desires to be a writer and to reunite with Alva, who turned her back on their friendship on the precipice of it becoming more, but just as it seems they can make amends for time wasted, invisible forces - whether fate or chance - intervene. <br /><br />A kaleidoscopic family saga told through the fractured lives of the three Moreau siblings alongside a faltering, recovering love story, The End of Loneliness is a stunning meditation on the power of our memories, of what can be lost and what can never be let go. With inimitable compassion and luminous, affecting prose, Benedict Wells contends with what it means to find a way through life, while never giving up hope you will find someone to go with you</i>."<br /><br /><br /><b>"The End of Loneliness" has been chosen favourite book of the year 2016 by the <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2020/10/favourite-german-independent-books.html">German Indepent Book Shops</a> and received the European Union Prize for Literature.</b></p>Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1009417175818512962.post-16272775147471750232024-01-16T09:01:00.011+01:002024-03-11T11:44:30.899+01:00The Classics Club: The Classics Spin #36<p style="text-align: center;"> <a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/"><img border="0" height="180" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjEsh7eoZCEyUGpifJ0jNaTahKyNmxU6zpbcRbVQ5eTdrAvCcZ_2kcswz41mR-MMc0wmQw3RrSWHaSCpix7WpwvSUycAPjIkWdcMd4WKAu8XSrEvlcZxJUT1zG6KwDrKdmZt8hnUc6sTiU/s1600/Classics+Club+Spin.jpg" width="320" /></a></p><p>
"<a href="https://wordsandpeace.com/">Words and Peace</a>"
is a blog I've been following for a couple of years and I have always
found some interesting new (or olde) books there, especially French ones.<br />
<br />
On her page, I found the posts by "<a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/">The Classics Club</a>"
asking us to create a post, this time before next <b>Sunday 21<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">st</span></sup> January 2024</b>, and
list our choice of any twenty books that remain "to be read" on our
Classics Club list. They'll then post a number from 1
through 20 and we have time until <b>Sunday 3<sup><span style="font-size: x-small;">rd</span></sup> of March 2024</b> to read it.<br /></p><p>This time, I read only the one book from my old list (<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2023/10/the-classics-club-classics-spin-35.html">Classics Spin #35</a>). But there are always some new books that I can add to my challenge. The books are
all in
chronological order.<br /></p><p>1. Aristophanes "Lysistrata and Other Plays" (Lysistrata) - 411BC<br />2. <a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Charles%20Dickens">Dickens, Charles</a> "Nicholas Nickleby. The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby" - 1838/39<br />3. Dumas, Alexandre fils "Camille: The Lady of the Camellias" (La Dame aux Camélias" - 1848<br />4. <span face=""><span face=""><span face=""><a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Bront%C3%AB">Brontë</a></span></span></span>, Charlotte "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/03/bronte-charlotte-professor.html">The Professor</a>" - 1857 <br />5. Turgenjew, Iwan Sergejewitsch "Fathers and Sons" (Отцы и дети/Otzy i deti) - 1862<br />6. Conrad, Joseph "Victory: An Island Tale" - 1915 <br />7. Hamilton, Cicely "William - an Englishman" - 1920<br />8.<span> </span><span face=""><span face=""><a href="http://momobookblog.blogspot.com/search/label/Author%3A%20Hermann%20Hesse">Hesse, Hermann</a></span></span> "Wir nehmen die Welt nur zu ernst" [<i>We just take the world too seriously</i>] - 1928<br />9.<span> </span>Faulkner, William "The Sound and the Fury" - 1929<br />10.<span> </span>Hemingway, Ernest "A Farewell to Arms" - 1929<br />11.<span> </span>Meigs, Cornelia "Invincible Louisa" - 1933<br />12.<span> </span>Orwell, George "The Road to Wigan Pier" - 1937<br />13. Du Maurier, Daphne "Rebecca" - 1938<br />14. Krleža, Miroslav "On the Edge of Reason" (Na rubu pameti) - 1938<br />15.<span> </span>Némirovsky, Irène "Les biens de ce monde" (All Our Wordly Goods) - 1941<br />16. Cela, Camilo José "The Family of Pascal Duarte" (La Familia Duarte) - 1942<br />17. Zweig, Stefan "Schachnovelle" (The Royal Game/Chess) - 1942<br />18. Wilde, Oscar "Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast" - 1946<br />19. Huxley, Aldous "Ape and Essence" - 1948<b><br />20.</b><span> </span>Yates, Richard "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/yates-richard-revolutionary-road.html">Revolutionary Road</a>" - 1961<br /><br />For the <a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/15/cc-spin-36/">Classics Spin #36</a>, we received <a href="https://theclassicsclubblog.wordpress.com/2024/01/21/your-lucky-spin-number-is-18">#20</a> and this is my novel:<br />Yates, Richard "<a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2024/02/yates-richard-revolutionary-road.html">Revolutionary Road</a>" - 1961<br /><br />This is a great idea for all of us who want to read more classics. Go ahead, get your own list.</p>Here are <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2019/04/the-classics-club.html">all the books on my original Classics Club list</a>.<br />And <a href="https://momobookblog.blogspot.com/2022/07/the-classics-club-classics-spin.html">here is a list of all the books I read with the Classics Spin</a>.Marianne http://www.blogger.com/profile/11810275740213848634noreply@blogger.com16