Yesterday I read my new book, ‚Cloud Atlas‘ by David Mitchell, on the bus. It is divided into several parts, the first one being the diary of an American returning from an island in the Pacific in eighteenhundredsomething. The last sentence of that chapter goes like this: Reading my entry for 15th October, when first […]

So, on Saturday we finally drove to Düsseldorf to check out the fancy bookstore I read about. It was awesome. Lots and lots and lots of books, bagels for breakfast, everything I could possibly want. Plus, I got the A1-experience of feeling like a tourist in a town that is not even 30 minutes away […]

Well, sometimes I feel like I have no other chance but double-post, writing nearly the exact same blog entry twice, one for each blog. Now, here’s why I am a media junkie. Check out the pictures at flickr for notes. Exhibit A Exhibit B I definitely need help.

This year I want to read 52 books. One book a week sounds like a reasonable goal, at least as long as there are some short books in between. I guess I can bury these plans right now. I have started „Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell“ and there’s no way I’m going to get through […]

Since I decided I’d rather be a translator, I think a really good project would be to translate Amber Benson’s „Accursed – Ghosts of Albion“. As far as I know nobody has done that so far. Not that I really think that I will manage that, but it seems like a fun idea.

Oh. My. God. I love this book. Love it. It’s everything I hoped it would be. And better. And even better than better than I hoped it would be. Now I can work on my crewel tryptichon. Because I’m a freaking stitch artist.

Generally I love librarything. It’s fun, it’s easy, it even makes sense – kind of. But I have one minor problem with it, more precisely with my authorcloud. See, it looks like I’m a huge Dan Brown/Stephen King fan. Which I’m not. I mean, I enjoyed Brown’s novel and I really really liked everything I […]

I’m very emotional these last days. Today I had tears in my eyes while reading „The Kite Runner“, which after 100 pages may already have qualified for the saddest book I’ve read in a long time. Why didn’t anyone warn me? Are all you people who put it in first place at the Puddly’s Awards […]

The winners of this year’s Puddly Awards are up. I was kind of disappointed to find that I only read two books of the staff choices and ten of the reader’s choices. Considering how much I read last year I thought it would be more. Also, „Neverwhere“ didn’t make it. Instead three other Neil Gaiman […]

Today I got this. …and this. I’m also waiting for this… …and this. Yesterday I ordered this… …and this… …and this… …and this. Do you think there’s something wrong with me?