Sendak, Maurice "Where The Wild Things Are" - 1963
Let's read
Tuesday, 5 May 2026
Top 5 Tuesday ~ Magical Creatures
Sendak, Maurice "Where The Wild Things Are" - 1963
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Top Twelve German authors
Precht, Richard David "Who Am I and If So, How Many?" (GE: Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wie viele?) - 2007
Wells, Benedict "The End of Loneliness" (GE: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit) - 2016
Zeh, Juli "The Method" (GE: Corpus Delicti. Ein Prozess) - 2009
Monday, 4 May 2026
Spell the Month in Books ~ May 2026
I found this on one of the blogs I follow, Books are the New Black who found it at One Book More. It was originally created by Jana from Reviews from the Stacks, and the idea is to spell the month using the first letter of book titles.
Unfortunately, Jana seems to have disappeared and has not given us any new subjects. So, I've decided to come up with the last books I read that started with the letters I need.
All three books were fantastic.
Saturday, 2 May 2026
Six Degrees of Separation ~ Wild Dark Shore
"Wild Dark Shore" - 2025
#6Degrees is a monthly link-up hosted by Kate at Books Are My Favourite and Best. I love the idea. Thank you, Kate. See more about this challenge, its history, further books and how I found this here.
I have never heard of this book, or even this author. So, no surprise that I haven't read the starter book. But, here is the description:
"A family on a remote island. A mysterious woman washed ashore. A rising storm on the horizon.
Dominic Salt and his three children are caretakers of Shearwater, a tiny island not far from Antarctica. Home to the world’s largest seed bank, Shearwater was once full of researchers. But with sea levels rising, the Salts are now its final inhabitants, packing up the seeds before they are transported to safer ground. Despite the wild beauty of life here, isolation has taken its toll on the Salts. Raff, eighteen and suffering his first heartbreak, can only find relief at his punching bag; Fen, seventeen, has started spending her nights on the beach among the seals; nine-year-old Orly, obsessed with botany, fears the loss of his beloved natural world; and Dominic can’t stop turning back toward the past, and the loss that drove the family to Shearwater in the first place.
Then, during the worst storm the island has ever seen, a woman washes up on shore. As the Salts nurse the woman, Rowan, back to life, their suspicion gives way to affection, and they finally begin to feel like a family again. Rowan, long accustomed to protecting her heart, begins to fall for the Salts, too. But Rowan isn’t telling the whole truth about why she set out for Shearwater. And when she discovers the sabotaged radios and a freshly dug grave, she realizes Dominic is keeping his own dark secrets. As the storms on Shearwater gather force, the characters must decide if they can trust each other enough to protect the precious seeds in their care before it’s too late—and if they can finally put the tragedies of the past behind them to create something new, together."
Since today we have a word that leads me to another book, I shall go back to the good old system of using words (which I haven't been able to do since November 2025). I like it because I can come up with lots of different topics.
So, we'll start with the word "Wild".
Sendak, Maurice "Where The Wild Things Are" - 1963
Civardi, Anne; Cartwright, Stephen "Things People Do" - 1986
Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008
Pamuk, Orhan "The Black Book" (TR: Kara Kitap) - 1990
Oates, Joyce Carol "Black Girl/White Girl" - 2006
Storm, Theodor "The Rider on the White Horse" (aka The Dikegrave/The Dykemaster) (GE: Der Schimmelreiter) - 1888
Friday, 1 May 2026
Happy May!
New Calendar picture with this
We just happened to go to an open air museum that has three different kinds of windmills, depending on which part of the construction is moving.
Schubladendenken
I checked whether there is an English translation for that and found pigeonholing and stereotyping. I think I prefer the latter. We are talking about narrow-mindedness, bigotedness, blindness, ignorance, obstinacy. Haven't we all lost friends we thought were nice people until they let out their political thinking?
🌷 I wish you all a very Happy May! 🌷
Wednesday, 29 April 2026
Tuesday, 28 April 2026
Top Ten Tuesday ~ Food
Wilde, Oscar "Only Dull People Are Brilliant at Breakfast" - 1946
Bryson, Bill "It’s teatime, my dear! Wieder reif für die Insel" (German edition of The Road to Little Dribbling: More Notes from a Small Island) - 2015
Mortenson, Greg "Three Cups of Tea" (with David Oliver Relin) - 2006 *
I was very surprised when I found out years ago that for a lot of British people, tea not only describes the drink but the food that we would call dinner in general.








