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Mathilde Apelt Schmidt

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Biographies & Memoirs, Literature & Fiction, Nonfiction

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Mathilde Apelt Schmidt is a naturalized American citizen from the "old country." She was born and raised in Bremen, Germany, grew up during the Hitler years, and went through all kinds of adventures during the war. She finally decided to leave her home country to visit her sister in the United States. How she survived the war, came to the States, met her husband of over fifty years in California, and started writing, is described in her first book, My Life on Two Continents .

Her memoir is followed by a collection of fictional stories set in a frame story (like the Canterbury Tales): The Lake Dwellers .

Her novel The Old Castle in Austria: Sins of the Fathers , and her book Happiness: A Matter of the Mind - Vantage Point of an Oct ...more

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Our great loss

On July 27 we lost our beloved son Marty and our grandson, Denali under the summit of K2 in the Himalayas. Nothing can describe this in words. I went to Germany (a long planned trip) shortly therafter and found that everybody knew about it and was grieving with us (I went with my daughter Doris Schmidt Michaels). There were several memorials for them and my own special memorial will take place on

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Pope Joan

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Mathilde Apelt said: " I'm just beginning to read "Pope Joan" and find it a pageturner! she cleverly starts with a difficult birth, always exciting for a female reader! Mathilde. ...more "

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The Oxford Book of American Short Stories

by Joyce Carol Oates

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Mathilde Apelt said: " Oates selected short stories written by famous writers, most of them rather unknown. She orders them chronologically, from Washington Irving's "Rip van Winkle" to Pinckney Benedict's (1954- )Town Smokes.
56 stories, including works byPoe, Mark Twain, ...more "

Dec 13, 2008 09:20AM · see review

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13 Ways of Looking at the Novel

by Jane Smiley (Goodreads Author)

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Mathilde Apelt said: " This non fiction book about fiction is highly interesting. Smiley favors certain Victorian writers as for instance Charles Dickens. She thoroughly delves into many novels, some of which I have read, some not, but will do so in the future. "

Dec 13, 2008 09:10AM · see review

Mathilde’s Quotes

“Last scene of all that ends this strange, eventful history,
is second childishness and mere oblivion.
I am sans teeth, sans eyes, sans taste, sans everything.”
― William Shakespeare, As You Like It

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“After all, tomorrow is another day!”
― Margaret Mitchell, Gone with the Wind

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Dec 09, 2008 03:14AM

I am an avid reader. I belong to four book clubs in the Bay Area of San Francisco. I have written three books, I just heard about Goodreads yesterday while attending one of my book clubs. Right now I am reading "Eat, Pray, Love" by Elizabeth Gilbert. Yes, I'm interested in the program. How do I go from here?

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