I've been doing ThrowbackThursdays for a while but I noticed that I wrote a lot of reviews in a short time when I first started. So, I post more than one Throwback every week. These are my reviews from October 2013.
Basti, Abel & van Helsing, Jan "Hitler in Argentina" (GE: Hitler überlebte in Argentinien) - 2011
A great and interesting book, whether you believe the authors or not. According to their research, Hitler survived the end of the far and fled to Argentina.
Bernières, Louis de "Birds Without Wings" - 2004
Greece and Turkey at the beginning of the last century with a lot of information about their history, a great addition to Victoria Hislop's "The Thread" which I read earlier.
Binet, Laurent "HHhH" (F: HHhH) - 2010
Civardi, Anne; Cartwright, Stephen "Things People Do" - 1986
Little kids just love the illustrations of animals and people in all sorts of jobs and activities. When they get older, they love the humour behind the names.
A great and interesting book, whether you believe the authors or not. According to their research, Hitler survived the end of the far and fled to Argentina.
Bernières, Louis de "Birds Without Wings" - 2004
Greece and Turkey at the beginning of the last century with a lot of information about their history, a great addition to Victoria Hislop's "The Thread" which I read earlier.
Binet, Laurent "HHhH" (F: HHhH) - 2010
German subtitle: "Himmlers Hirn heißt Heydrich". The translation: "Himmler's Brain is called Heydrich". The story is not about Hitler or Himmler but about Reinhard Heydrich, a high ranking German Nazi officer and Jozef Gabčík, a Slovak soldier, and Jan Kubiš, a Czech solider and their "Operation Anthropoid" whose goal was Heydrich's assassination.
Civardi, Anne; Cartwright, Stephen "Things People Do" - 1986
Little kids just love the illustrations of animals and people in all sorts of jobs and activities. When they get older, they love the humour behind the names.
Collins, Wilkie "Armadale" - 1866
Like in his other books, the author partly lets his characters tell his different characters tell the story, either through their letters or their diaries. It takes us from the deathbed of an old man in Germany to various other places in Europe but is definitely an English novel through and through.
Guterson, David "Ed King" - 2011
This is the story of Ed King as well as his parents and foster parents, a child born out of wedlock at a time where this was definitely not possible to raise a child alone without the support of anybody. You only notice to the very end that you know the story already and I am not going to reveal here what I mean but if you read any other description
Pamuk, Orhan "Silent House" (TR: Sessiz Ev) - 1983
Turkey in the late 20th century. Three siblings, a sister and two brothers, visit their grandmother who lives outside of Istanbul. Everyone seems to have their own problems.
I've only read Armadale...which I didn't love. I prefer Collins' other books. :D
ReplyDeleteI've also read The Woman in White and The Moonstone. You are right, Lark, they are better. But I liked this one, as well.
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