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Esther Kleinhage

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July 2011


Average rating: 3.75 · 4 ratings · 4 reviews · 3 distinct works
Abenteuer Via Francigena: 6...

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Paradise Garden by Elena Fischer
"Schwierig zu bewerten.
Irgendwie eine leichte, süße, wenn auch traurige Geschichte, die man gut so „weghören“
kann. Es gibt berührende Momente. Gleichzeitig ist mir vieles viel zu cheesy – vor allem die sehr übermäßig weise Ich-Erzählerin. Schon sehr k" Read more of this review »
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Bemerkenswert, wie die Autorin aus einer eigentlich tragischen Geschichte eines Mutter-Tochter-Duos aus prekären Verhältnissen, deren Situation noch schlimmer wird, ein Wohlfühlbuch macht...

Das Buch ist aus der Sicht der 14jährigen Billie erzählt.
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Paradise Garden by Elena Fischer
"Da haben wir also eine melancholisch, bittersüße Geschichte rund um eine 14jährige Tochter einer alleinerziehenden Mutter in prekären Verhältnissen. Der Vater ist unbekannt (der Tochter natürlich), die mütterliche Großmutter unbeliebt aber dann doch " Read more of this review »
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"Hat mich leider nicht abgeholt. Die Geschichte verläuft mir zu flach, ist vorhersehbar und schlussendlich "märchenhaft". Würde ich als Jugendbuch einstufen."
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Plein ciel by Cécile Wajsbrot
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C'est mon 3eme livre de cet auteur et je crois que je tombe de plus en plus amoureuse de son écriture. Il a une façon d'observer ses personnages, d'écrire leurs actions, leurs sentiments, leurs failles mais aussi leurs forces sans jamais prendre posi ...more
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“Der scheinbar einzige Gast außer mir war ein junger Punker mit Hund. Er leistete mir beim Essen Gesellschaft, ernährte sich selbst aber eher von Flüssigem. Das Gespräch mit ihm war interessant, wenn ich ihm und er mir folgen konnte. Oft hatte ich allerdings das Gefühl, wir redeten einfach aneinander vorbei.”
Esther Kleinhage, Mit der Sonne Richtung Westen: Begegnungen auf dem Jakobsweg

“You've got to get obsessed and stay obsessed.”
John Irving, The Hotel New Hampshire

“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.”
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“Je ne suis pas plus moderne qu'ancien, pas plus Français que Chinois, et l'idée de la patrie c'est-à-dire l'obligation où l'on est de vivre sur un coin de terre marqué en rouge ou en bleu sur la carte et de détester les autres coins en vert ou en noir m'a paru toujours étroite, bornée et d'une stupidité féroce.”
Gustave Flaubert, Correspondance

“When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.”
Salman Rushdie, The Ground Beneath Her Feet

“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
Mark Haddon, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time

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message 5: by Esther (last edited Jan 01, 2019 03:08PM)

Esther Reading statistics for 2018:

Goodreads tells me that I've read 64 books and 20'758 pages in 2018.
Here are my statistics:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
16 % American, French, German
8% Italian
6 % British
4% Swiss
3 % Austrian, Congolese, Spanish
1,5 % American-Nigerian, Cameroonian, Canadian, Canadian-German, Dutch, Finnish, Israeli, Israeli-American, Japanese, Japanese-American, Morrocan, Nigerian, Russian, Saudi Arabian, Vietnamese-American

Sex of the writers I read:
64 % male
36 % female

Genres of the books I read:
75% Fiction
6,5% Biography (in the largest sense)
6,5% Non-Fiction
6,5% Psychology
5% Travel


My ratings:
5* for 9 books
4* for 32 books
3* for 20 books
2* for 3 books

Languages I read this year:
31 % French
31 % English
31 % German
6 % Italian


Form of the book
67 % in paper form
22 % as e-book
11 % as audiobook

Source of the book
52 % library
45 % own
3% from friend

The books I liked the most:
Girl at War Sara Novic
Walking the Nile Levison Wood
Das Genie Klaus Cäsar Zehrer
Small World Martin Suter
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Les Maquisards Hemley Boum
L'Arminuta Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Patria Fernando Aramburu

Oldest work I read this year
Der Meister und Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967

Newest works I read this year:
Speak No Evil Uzodinma Iweala
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
Die kommenden Jahre Norbert Gstrein
The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
Patria Fernando Aramburu
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Von Vögeln und Menschen Margriet de Moor
Unter der Drachenwand: Roman Arno Geiger
La Belle de Casa In Koli Jean Bofane
La Vraie Vie Adeline Dieudonné
Sechs Koffer Maxim Biller

Most voluminous book:
New York Edward Rutherfurd (1'020 pages)

Least voluminous book
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates (152 pages)


Esther Reading statistics for 2014:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
16.18 % German
14.71 % French
13.24 % British, US Amercian
10.29 % Swiss
5.88 % Austrian, Iranian
2.94 % Italian
1.47% Bosnia and Herzegowina, Cameroun, Canada, Colombia, Finnland, Japan, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine

Sex of the writers I read:
70 % male
30 % female

Genres of the books I read:
69.11 % Fiction
14.70 % Travel
5.89 % Non fiction
5.89 % Guide books
4.41 % Biography, Autobiography

Average number of pages per book: 283

My ratings:
5* for 18 books
4* for 24 books
3* for 23 books
2* for 3 books

Languages I read this year:
36.76 % French
29.42 % German
27.94 % English
2.94 % Italian
2.94 % Spanish


Esther Kai wrote: "Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen las..."

Danke für das Angebot! Aber ich bin doch mit einem Ingenieur verheiratet (der mir eine Excel Datei gebastelt hat, die die Statistiken in Prozente umrechnet :-) )


message 2: by Kai

Kai Weber Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen lassen, die rechnet einen Teil der Statistiken automatisch für mich aus.


Esther Following the example of a friend on Goodreads, I have also calculated some reading statistics for 2013:

Nationalities of the writers I read:
25.00 % German
21.88 % French
12.50 % Swiss
6.25 % US Amercian
3.13 % Belgian, Brazilian, British, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, South African, Spanish

Sex of the writers I read:
74.47 % male
25.53 % female

Genres of the books I read:
87.23 % Novel, Stories
10.64 % Travel and Geography
2.13 % Biography, Autobiography

Average number of pages per book: 334

My ratings:
5* for 11 books
4* for 22 books
3* for 12 books
2* for 2 books

Languages I read this year:
36.17 % French
31.91 % German
29.79 % English
2.13 % Italian

(DANKE für die Inspiration, Kai!)


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