Category: Reviews & Rezensionen
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Reading Matter(s)
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. Reviews are always the same language I read the book in. Stuart Turton: The Devil and the Dark Water My second Turton after The Seven and a Half Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle! This one features Samuel…
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Movie Night: The Substance
I don’t write film reviews very often – partly because I mostly watch TV shows, mainly because I feel less qualified to write them in comparison to books. However, I do have my opinions, and since this is my blog and not a movie magazine, I might share some of my thoughts and recommendations whenever…
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Reading Matter(s)
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. Reviews are always written in the language or translation I read the book in – every book will also be rated on good reads (in English), yet here you will get a more personal (re)view in…
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Reading Matter(s)
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. After the first issue of Reading Matter(s), I have decided to write my reviews in the language I read the book in – my reviews are heavily based on language and style and words or sentences…
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Reading Matter(s)
Some quick reviews of books I recently read. Consider this a book club where only I get to speak. Ali Hazelwood: The Love Hypothesis. “Carry yourself with the confidence of a mediocre white man!” Okay, so I read this because we have this thing at work where we read books that are related to our…
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Folie à deux
From Wikipedia: Folie à deux (French for ‘madness of two’), also called shared psychosis or shared delusional disorder (SDD), is a psychiatric syndrome in which symptoms of a delusional belief are “transmitted” from one individual to another. Folie à deux is also the subtitle of one of the most anticipated movies in 2024: The Joker…
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Super, and naturally abnosome.
I have a stupid cold and so I am in the bath tub with poison ivy green menthol and eucalyptus essence or chained to the bed (or rather couch, since I prefer to sit out my illnesses and diseases there) and furthermore so, I am incredibly bored. I tried being productive and read some of…
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The rottenest heart in all creation
Mikhail Bulgakov, THE HEART OF A DOG, Harvill Press, 1999 I stumbled upon this beautiful edition outside an antique book store right across the street from the theatre and simply had to buy it. Look at the cover and the author-protagonist-correlation! To all the Nepper, Schlepper and Bauernfänger out there: I can easily be fooled…
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Making cents
A movie night with Leo and the Joker or: how a pun got lost in translation and has been bothering me ever since. It’s the hot topic of late 2019, the second fashionable clown after Pennywise and despite the title serious business no laughing matter: Todd Philipp’s [btw, if you read Todd, don’t you automatically…
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My things really are written with an appalling lack of practicality!
Could be me, to be honest, but comes from non other than one of the greatest German composers: J O H A N N E S B R A H M S 1833-1897 Johannes Brahms. The all-time bachelor with a beard and belly so mighty even Santa Clause envies it. More than 200 songs, concert…
