Reading German Books in 2020 discussion

I think I can manage, but let's wait and see. I'm not going to plan my books, I just read what I fancy.

Amelia wrote: "I think I can manage, but let's wait and see. I'm not going to plan my books, I just read what I fancy."

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Amelia wrote: "I think I can manage, but let's wait and see. I'm not going to plan my books, I just read what I fancy."

Happy reading in 2020!

I'm going to start my first book for this: Tauben fliegen auf by Melinda Nadj Abonji. I wanted to read this for ages.

Amelia wrote: "I'm going to start my first book for this: Tauben fliegen auf by Melinda Nadj Abonji. I wanted to read this for ages."

Ah, I really enjoyed that one!

Amelia wrote: "I'm going to start my first book for this: Tauben fliegen auf by Melinda Nadj Abonji. I wanted to read this for ages."

I also really liked this one :) Wonder if it will be another case of a book Britta and I like and you are just "so-so" about

I don't think it will always be the case! :)

I have finished my first book. It was only a novella, but I have to blame Stefan Zweig for that, I could have done with more of this book. I've read Schachnovelle and Zweig is one of my favourite German speaking authors (he was Austrian), so this was a re-read for me and I certainly recommend it, even if it is not my favourite book by him.
You can find my review here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Finished my second book.
Tauben fliegen auf
I really recommend it, but don't expect a straight forward narration and a lot of plot.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

Amelia wrote: "Finished my second book.
Tauben fliegen auf
I really recommend it, but don't expect a straight forward narration and a lot of plot.
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show..."

Glad you enjoyed it, I really loved that one as well! (And I added it to our Female-Authors-bookshelf)

:)

Third book finished:
The Hidden Life of Trees: What They Feel, How They Communicate – Discoveries from a Secret World by Peter Wohlleben.
Wasn't overwhelmed by it and the writing style is really basic, but it was a good companion to The Overstory by Richard Powers, which I'm still reading.

The fourth one is Esther Kinsky's River.

Soeben Unterwegs im Namen des Herrn von Thomas Glavinic beendet. Nicht sein bestes Buch und man muss seinen Narzissmus mögen, aber mich hat es unterhalten

Oh, dieses Buch von ihm hat mir super gefallen. Beschreibt die Wahlsin des Wahlfahrt auf einer super lustigen Weise. War doch die Wahlfahrtreise nach Bosnien?

Ja, das war es. Es war auch gut, aber die anderen Bücher, die ich bisher von ihm las, haben mir noch besser gefallen.

Welches oder besser welche 2 Bücher könntest du empfehlen? In einigen bin ich stecken geblieben. Und vermutlich sind noch welche auf dem SUB. Schon danke.

Sowohl Der Kameramoder als auch Die Arbeit der Nacht, aber auch Das bin doch ich. Die beiden ersteren geben einem viel zum Nachdenken, auch wenn das zweite schon sehr sperrig ist.

Danke, ich schaue mal.

Picked up poetry and lyrical prose this time. I've read Die Kunst an nichts zu glauben by Raoul Schrott.

And, yeah, I've finished level one!

Finished my first Heinrich Böll since school and loved it.
Irisches Tagebuch

6 österreicher unter den ersten 5: Roman einer Entpiefkenisierung by Dirk Stermann.
Not really a novel and only funny for insiders.

My 8th book done. I'm slow, but at least I'm making progress. Life, you know.
I've read Geschichten mit Marianne by the Austrian author Xaver Bayer. Weird, but in a way fascinating.
You can find my thoughts here:
https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...

GRM: Brainfuck by Sibylle Berg.
I enjoyed all the anger, but overall it wasn't as good as I expected it to be when I started it.

Die Infantin trägt den Scheitel links by Helena Adler.
Das ist definitiv ein Love-or-Hate Buch. Auf jeden Fall traut sich die Autorin was.

Besser by Doris Knecht, an Austrian writer. But as far as I'm aware of not translated into English. Great book, I will definitely read more by this author.
https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1...

Marzahn, mon amour: Geschichten einer Fußpflegerin by Katja Oskamp. Sometimes charming, but nothing to write home about.

Thanks, I have read some books by him. And he is definitely in another league of writing.

1000 Serpentinen Angst by Olivia Wenzel

Nothing world-shaking, but with interesting parts and the writing was good.

I've been wanting to read the Wenzel, apparently there's an English translation coming out fairly soon, but sounds as if you weren't very keen?

A three star book for me is still a good one (I'm going with the star descriptions). And I found it interesting to read, also the writing style she has chosen, but the book didn't make an impression that is going to last and it kept me at a distance.

Thanks, my three-stars is probably similar, okay but not memorable! I suppose from the reviews I was hoping for something more striking.

Book number fifteen: Der fernste Ort by Daniel Kehlmann. Short novella. Very surreal. Surely not after everybody's taste.

It was actually book number fourteen.

I finished Die Gedichte Part 1 by Hermann Hesse. It is the first volume of a two volume edition. It was okay, but with a book that shows the complete work of a poet, you can't really expect it to be fabulous. Because in hindsight, you would probably decide, that not every poem written is worth being published. Hesse expresses his worries about that himself in the preface.

Der Fall Franza ;Requiem für Fanny Goldmann by Ingeborg Bachmann. First book by her, unfortunately unfinished, but I will definitely read more by her.

Auf eine Zigarette mit Helmut Schmidt by Giovanni Di Lorenzo.

Ich nannte ihn Krawatte by Milena Michiko Flasar.

Mutter. Chronik eines Abschieds jMelitta Breznik. It was okay, but I have read a lot similar to this before, nothing groundbreaking in here, neither the story nor the writing.

Der Parfümierte Tannenbaum by Hans Fallada. Sometimes a bit cosy, sometimes a bit outdated. And this edition was only made to make some extra cash, because it was just put together without any kind of attention.

So I have read 21 books written in German this year. Not too bad.

Well done! You made it to the Dufourspitze!