Top Twelve Tuesday ~ Tinker, Tailor ... Butcher, Baker ...

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books With Occupations in the Title.

There are lots of proverbs with occupations and I thought maybe I can make a list of those but I couldn't find any in my library. But - I found lots of books, I stopped at 63 and chose those jobs among them that are closest to my heart. I don't think you are surprised about most of them.

Ahmad, Aeham "The Pianist from Syria" (aka The Pianist of Yarmouk) (GE: Und die Vögel werden singen. Ich, der Pianist aus den Trümmern) - 2017
Alejchem, Scholem "Tevye the Dairyman" (jidd: Tewje, der Milchiger טבֿיה דער מילכיקער, Jidd. und טוביה החולב,  Hebr.) - 1894-1916
Brontë, Charlotte "The Professor" - 1857 
Bythell, Shaun "The Diary of a Bookseller" - 2017
Chabon, Michael "The Yiddish Policemen's Union" - 2007
Dai, Sijie "Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress" (F: Balzac et la Petite Tailleuse Chinoise) - 2002
Dürrenmatt, Friedrich "The Judge and his Hangman" (GE: Der Richter und sein Henker) - 1950

Ingalls Wilder, Laura "Farmer Boy" - 1933
Lahiri, Jhumpa "Interpreter of Maladies" - 1999

Mason, Daniel "The Piano Tuner" - 2002

McCourt, Frank "Teacher Man. A Memoir 1949-1985" - 2005

Roth, Philip "The Ghost Writer" - 1979

📚 Happy Reading 📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ High Page Count

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books with a High Page Count (Share those doorstop books!))

Good thing that I do the chunky book challenge, so I could find my longest books quickly. Maybe some of you have a different page count (especially if I read the German translation of a foreign book), depending on the edition. But these books all have more than 1,000 pages.

Tolstoy, Leo "War and Peace" (RUS: Война и мир = Woina i mir) - 1868/69 - 2,099 pages

Rutherfurd, Edward "Sarum: the Novel of England" - 1987 - 1,376 pages

Mak, Geert "In Europe. Travels Through the Twentieth Century" (NL: In Europa: Reizen door de twintigste eeuw) - 2004 - 1,351 pages

Dostoevsky, Fyodor "The Brothers Karamazov" (RUS: Братья Карамазовы) - 1879-80 - 1,249 pages

Follett, Ken "World Without End" - 2007 - 1,237 pages

Undset, Sigrid "Kristin Lavransdatter" (NO: Kristin Lavransdatter) - 1920-22 - 1,168 pages

Mann, Thomas "The Magic Mountain" (GE: Der Zauberberg) - 1924 - 1,120 pages

Dickens, Charles "Bleak House" - 1852/53 - 1,088 pages

Schami, Rafik "The Dark Side of Love" (GE: Die dunkle Seite der Liebe) - 2004 - 1,043 pages

Clarke, Susanna "Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell" - 2004 - 1,024 pages

I don't think I need to mention that I love large books. The bigger the better!!!

📚 Happy Reading 📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Cheer you up

 

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books Guaranteed to Put an End to Your Book Slump (Which books would you recommend to someone (it’s me, I’m someone) dealing with the dreaded book slump? No book is grabbing their attention or making them excited to sit down and read and they are suffering for it.)

Oh, interesting. And tough. It really depends on what kind of books you like. Let me think of some funny and easy reads that even I enjoyed. They should be great for a lot of people.

Bryson, Bill "Notes from a Small Island" - 1995

Bythell, Shaun "The Diary of a Bookseller" - 2017 

Ephron, Nora "The Most of Nora Ephron" - 2014

Grisham, John "Skipping Christmas: A Novel" - 2001

Johnson, Maureen; Cooper, Jay "Your Guide to Not Getting Murdered in a Quaint English Village" - 2021

Khorsandi, Shappi "A Beginner's Guide to Acting English" - 2009

Roach, Mary "My Planet. Finding Humor in the Oddest Places" - 2013

Rosendorfer, Herbert "Letters Back to Ancient China" (GE: Briefe in die chinesische Vergangenheit) - 1983

Trotter, Derek "Del Boy" (Family of John Sullivan) "He Who Dares" - 2015

Wodehouse, P.G. "The World of Jeeves" (Jeeves #2-4: The Inimitable Jeeves #2, Carry On, Jeeves #3, Very Good, Jeeves! #4) - 1923/1925/1930

📚 Happy Reading 📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Books Set in X

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is a Books Set in/Take Place During X (Pick a place, time, era, etc. Examples: Books set in Europe/Italy/Australia/Chicago, books set in Regency England, books that take place during the 1900s, books set in imaginary worlds/post-apocalyptic/dystopian worlds, books set on the ocean, books set it castles, books that take place during WW2, etc.)

There are so many subjects I could have chosen, places I read about, subjects that were treated in different books. In the end I decided to go for some neighbouring countries of Germany, and some books about Europe generally. I hope you enjoy some of them.

Europe

Bryson, Bill "Neither Here Nor There. Travels in Europe" - 1991
Mak, Geert "The Dream of Europe. Travels in a Troubled Continent" (NL: Grote verwachtingen. In Europa 1999-2019) - 2019
Twain, Mark "The Innocents Abroad" - 1869

Austria

Zweig, Stefan "The World of Yesterday" (GE: Die Welt von Gestern. Erinnerungen eines Europäers) - 1942

Belgium

Menasse, Robert "The Capital" (GE: Die Hauptstadt) - 2017

Denmark

Russell, Helen "The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country" - 2015

France

Clarke, Stephen "Talk to the Snail. Ten Commandments for Understanding the French" - 2006

Netherlands

Mak, Geert "Jorwerd: The Death of the Village in late 20th Century" (NL: Hoe God verdween uit Jorwerd) - 1996

Poland
Tokarczuk, Olga "Drive your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead" (PL: Prowadź swój pług przez kości umarłych) - 2009

Switzerland
Tremain, Rose "The Gustav Sonata" - 2016

📚 Happy Reading!📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Honorifics

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is a Books With Honorifics in the Title

("… an honorific is a form of address conveying esteem, courtesy or respect. These can be titles prefixing a person’s name, e.g.: Mr., Mrs., Miss, Ms., Mx., Sir, Dame, Dr., Cllr, Lady, or Lord, or other titles or positions that can appear as a form of address without the person’s name, as in Mr. President, General, Captain, Father, Doctor, or Earl.")

This was an easy one. The word Lady appears dozens of times in titles. So, I could choose books that I really liked for this one.

Austen, Jane "Lady Susan" - 1795

Bernières, Louis de "Captain Corelli's Mandolin" - 1994

Carnarvon, Countess Fiona of "Lady Almina and the Real Downton Abbey: The Lost Legacy of Highclere Castle" - 2011

Chevalier, Tracy "The Lady and the Unicorn" - 2003
García Márquez, Gabriel "The General in His Labyrinth" (E: El general en su laberinto) - 1989

Guterson, David "Our Lady of the Forest" - 2003
Ilibagiza, Immaculée with Erwin, Steve "Our Lady of Kibeho: Mary Speaks to the World From the Heart of Africa" - 2008

Pasternak, Boris "Doctor Zhivago" (RUS: Доктор Живаго) - 1957
Schmitt, Éric-Emmanuel "Oscar and the Lady in Pink" (F: Oscar et la dame rose) - 2002
Trollope, Anthony "Doctor Thorne" - 1858 from "Barchester Chronicles"

They are all good reads, my favourites are probably "Doctor Zhivago" and "Barchester Chronicles", all of them.

📚 Happy Reading!📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Books I'd like to Re-Read

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is a Books I'd Like to Re-Read

As part of the commemoration of Jane Austen's 250th birthday, the Classics Club has started a #Reading Austen project. We are reading a book by her every other month. But I've mentioned that several times in the last couple of months and I will not bore you with that again. If you would like to see my latest post about her books, you can find it here: Alphabet Authors ~ A is for Austen.

I will therefore, add some of my all-time favourite books other than by Jane Austen which I might re-read next year. A lot of them are the first books I read by some of my favourite authors that I haven't read again since the first time.

Eliot, George "Middlemarch" - 1871-72 
Falcones, Ildefonso "Cathedral of the Sea" (E: La catedral del mar) - 2008
Ghosh, Amitav "The Glass Palace" - 2000 

Kingsolver, Barbara "The Poisonwood Bible" - 1998
Lamb, Wally "She's Come Undone" - 1997
Mercier, Pascal "Night Train to Lisbon" (GE: Nachtzug nach Lissabon) - 2004

Oates, Joyce Carol "We Were the Mulvaneys" - 1996

Pamuk, Orhan "My Name is Red" (TR: Benim Adım Kırmızı) - 1998
Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Shadow of the Wind" (E: La sombra del viento - El cementerio de los libros olvidados #1) - 2001

Schami, Rafik "The Calligrapher’s Secret" (GE: Das Geheimnis des Kalligraphen) - 2008

I was surprised that I had re-read many of the first books I read by a lot of my favourite authors. So, I might choose the second book the next time.

Although, having said that, I might have read one or two of the books again before.
But this will probably take me longer than a year since I have so many books on my TBR pile.

📚 Happy Reading!📚

Top Ten Tuesday ~ ThrowBack Freebie Eiffel Tower ~ Paris in July

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is a Freebie

There are so many different topics that I missed but sometimes I can't decide which one to take next. This one was easy because it's July and we have "Paris in July" again.

I doubt I will read many books about Paris this month, so I thought I show you a few books with the Eiffel Tower on the cover. Some of them are originally written in another language but I will give you the English link if it is available.

Broerken, Hella "Paris Walks" (GE: Paris-Spaziergänge) - 2013

Clarke, Stephen "A Year in the Merde" - 2004
- "Merde actually" (aka In the Merde for Love) - 2005

Dorling Kindersley "Eyewitness Guide Paris" - 2020

Lundberg, Sofia "The Red Address Book" (SW: Den röda adressboken) - 2015

MacLeod, Janice "Paris Letters": A Travel Memoir about Art, Writing, and Finding Love in Paris" - 2014 (on my TBR pile, Goodreads)

Orwell, George "Animal Farm" "Down and Out in Paris and London" - 1933

Rutherfurd, Edward "Paris" - 2013

Stein, Gertrude "Paris France" - 1940

Wickert, Ulrich "Everything About Paris" (GE: Alles über Paris) - 2004

Find more information about Paris in July here on Emma's page: Words & Peace.

📚 Happy Reading! 📚 

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Books That Feature Travel

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books That Feature Travel

That is a nice topic. Not only do I love travel, I also love books about it. We've had this topic before (see here and here), so I tried to use ten different books. I have not enjoyed all of them the same, but I am sure there is someone here who will.

Boschwitz, Ulrich Alexander "The Passenger" aka "The Fugitive" (GE: Der Reisende) - 1939

Brooks, Geraldine "Foreign Correspondence: A Pen Pal's Journey from Down Under to All Over" - 1997

Clarke, Stephen "Talk to the Snail. Ten Commandments for Understanding the French" - 2006

Goethe, Johann Wolfgang von (Goethe German) "Italian Journey" (aka Letters from Italy) (GE: Italienische Reise) - 1817

Mayle, Peter "A Year in Provence" - 1998

Melville, Herman "Moby Dick or The Whale" - 1851

Orth, Stephan (Orth German) "Couchsurfing in China: Encounters and Escapades Beyond the Great Wall" aka "High Tech and Hot Pot: Revealing Encounters Inside the Real China" (GE: Couchsurfing in China. Durch die Wohnzimmer der neuen Supermacht) - 2019

Theroux, Paul "Riding the Iron Rooster" - 1988

Twain, Mark "A Tramp Abroad" - 1880
Uusma, Bea "The Expedition: a Love Story: Solving the Mystery of a Polar Tragedy" (SW: Expeditionen: min kärlekshistoria) - 2013

📚 Happy Reading! 📚 

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Authors (or books by authors) Who Live In My State/Country

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Authors (or books by authors) Who Live In My State/Country 

That should be no problem, and I will probably have different ones from everybody else, unless there are other Germans participating here. I have tried to list some newer authors and didn't come up with popular classic authors like Goethe, Grass, Mann, etc.

Emcke, Carolin "Against Hate" (GE: Gegen den Hass) - 2016

Hansen, Dörte "This House is Mine" (GE: Altes Land) - 2015
Hermann, Judith "The Summer House, Later" (GE: Sommerhaus, später) - 1998
Kehlmann, Daniel "Measuring the World" (GE: Die Vermessung der Welt) - 2005

Leky, Mariana "What You Can See From Here" (GE: Was man von hier aus sehen kann) - 2017

Orth, Stephan (German reviews) "Couchsurfing in Russia: Friendships and Misadventures Behind Putin’s Curtain" (GE: Couchsurfing in Russland. Wie ich fast zum Putin-Versteher wurde) - 2017
Precht, Richard David (German reviews) "Who Am I and If So, How Many?" (GE: Wer bin ich und wenn ja, wie viele?) - 2007

Sendker, Jan-Philipp (German reviews) "Whispering Shadows" (The Rising Dragon #1) (GE: Das Flüstern der Schatten) - 2007

Tellkamp, Uwe "The Tower" (GE: Der Turm) - 2008
Wells, Benedict "The End of Loneliness" (GE: Vom Ende der Einsamkeit) - 2016

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Books with the Word History in the Title

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books with the Word [Insert Word Here] in the Title (We can choose a word and find ten books with that word in the title.)

For me, there was no big question which word to choose because I read a lot of books about that topic: History.

Ackroyd, Peter "The History of England, Vol. 2 Tudors" - 2012 (my favourite period)

Bryson, Bill "A Short History of Nearly Everything" - 2003

Carey, Peter "True History of the Kelly Gang" - 2001

Clinton, Hillary Rodham "Living History" - 2003 
Hawking, Stephen "A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes" - 1988
Hirst, John "The Shortest History of Europe" - 2009 

Lewycka, Marina "Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian" - 2005
O'Farrell, John "An Utterly Impartial History of Britain or 2,000 Years of Upper Calls Idiots in Charge" - 2007
Rhoides, Emmanuel (Emmanuel Roidis) "The Curious History of Pope Joan" (GR: Πάπισσα Ιωάννα/Papissa Ioanna) - 1866

Tartt, Donna "The Secret History" - 1992

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Books You'd be a Fool not to Read

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books You’d be a Fool Not to Read (Happy April Fool’s Day! In honor of this silly holiday, share the books you think people must read for whatever reason. They could be your favorites, books you deem classics, books that you learned something important from, books you wish you’d read sooner, etc. You could even narrow it down to a specific genre and share the must-reads for that genre. Get creative!)

This is such a nice topic. And even though we've had similar subjects before, I'm not going to bore you with the list I published before but mention some of my all-time favourites by some of the best authors ever and also some more recent reads.

Brooks, Geraldine "People of the Book" - 2008

Chevalier, Tracy "Girl with a Pearl Earring" - 1999

Follett, Ken "The Pillars of the Earth" (Kingsbridge #1) - 1989

Haig, Matt "The Midnight Library" - 2020

Hislop, Victoria "The Island" - 2005

Kingsolver, Barbara "The Poisonwood Bible" - 1998

Pamuk, Orhan "My Name is Red" (TR: Benim Adım Kırmızı) - 1998

Ruiz Zafón, Carlos "The Shadow of the Wind" (E: La sombra del viento - El cementerio de los libros olvidados #1) - 2001 

Rutherfurd, Edward "Sarum: the Novel of England" - 1987

Şafak, Elif "The Island of Missing Trees" - 2021

All of the authors that have a link to their name are some of my favourites. For some of them, I mentioned the first book I read by them, others the first one they wrote, even others the last one they wrote so far. And as you can see, some belong to a series. And I can recommend them all.

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Expats

     

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books that Include/Feature [insert your favorite theme or plot device here] (for example: unreliable narrators, coming of age, darkness vs. light, time travel, metafiction, a specific romantic trope, good vs. evil. cliffhangers, flashbacks, plot twists, red herrings, loose ends, stories within stories, meet cutes, symbolism, etc.) Since I lived half of my life abroad, I picked books about expats.

Alexievich, Svetlana "Second Hand Time. The Last of the Sovjets" (Russian: Время секонд хэнд = Vremja sekond khend) - 2013 

Russian-Soviets abroad

Barnes, Valerie "A Foreign Affair. A Passionate Life in Four Languages" - 2004 

An Australian in Switzerland

Brontë, Charlotte "Villette" - 1853

An Brit in Belgium

Buck, Pearl S. "My several worlds: A Personal Exile" - 1954

A US American in China

Drinkwater, Carol "The Olive Series" - 2001-2010

A Brit in France

Clarke, Stephen "A Year in the Merde" - 2004

Another Brit in France

McLain, Paula "The Paris Wife" - 2012

A US American in France

Russell, Helen "The Year of Living Danishly: My Twelve Months Unearthing the Secrets of the World's Happiest Country" - 2015

A Brit in Denmark

Sendker, Jan-Philipp "Whispering Shadows" (German: Das Flüstern der Schatten) - 2007 

A US American in China (written by a German)

Zweig, Stefanie "Nowhere in Africa" (German: Nirgendwo in Afrika) - 1995

A German in Kenya

It seems like there are a lot of British people living abroad but that could also be because I just happened to read many books by Brits.

Top Ten Tuesday ~ Another time

      

"Top Ten Tuesday" is an original feature/weekly meme created on the blog "The Broke and the Bookish". It was created because they are particularly fond of lists. It is now hosted by Jana from That Artsy Reader Girl.

Since I am just as fond of them as they are, I jump at the chance to share my lists with them! Have a look at their page, there are lots of other bloggers who share their lists here.

This week's topic is Books Set in Another Time (These can be historical, futuristic, alternate universes, or even in a world where you’re not sure when it takes place you just know it’s not right now.)

This is a tough one. I love historical fiction but I have also read quite a few dystopian books that take place in another world. I don't want to repeat the same titles over and over, therefore I have chosen the last ten historical fiction novels I read. I have added the approximate times of the stories.

Alvarez, Julia "In the Time of the Butterflies" - 1994
1924-1960

Barbal i Farré, Maria "Stone in a Landslide" (Catalan: Pedra de tartera) - 1985
Beginning of the 20th century

Brooks, Geraldine "Caleb's Crossing" - 2011
1660s

Chevalier, Tracy "The Last Runaway" - 2013
Middle of the 19^th century

Follett, Ken "The Armour of Light" - 2023
997 until the 16^th century

Ibrahimi, Anilda "Red Like a Bride" (Italian: Rosso come una sposa) - 2008
Beginning of the 20^th century

Mahfouz, Naguib "Midaq Alley" (Arabic: زقاق المدق/Zuqaq El Midaq) - 1947
1940s

Mann, Heinrich "Man of Straw", or "The Patrioteer", or The Loyal Subject (German: Der Untertan) - 1914
Beginning of the 20^th century

Şafak, Elif "The Island of Missing Trees" - 2021
1970s

Vargas Llosa, Mario "The Feast of the Goat" (Spanish: La fiesta del chivo) - 2000
1960s