Dieses Buch habe ich immer und immer wieder gelesen und jedes Mal begeistert es mich aufs Neue: Die Abenteuer von Aguila und Jaguar. Ich habe letztens eine Rezension (hier) geschrieben, als ich das Buch zum 100sten Mal gelesen habe und ich glaube man kann hören, wie begeistert ich bin.
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Wie viel Leben passt in eine Tüte? ist ein Roman von Donna Freitas, der unter dem Originaltitle The Survival Kit veröffentlicht wurde. Ich habe den Blog in Englisch geschrieben, weil das Original Englisch ist und der Eintrag ist hier zu finden. Allerdings möchte ich das Buch noch einmal kurz auf Deutsch zusammenfassen (bzw anpreisen). Es geht um Rose, die nach dem Tod ihrer Mutter in ein Loch fällt. Es kriselt zwischen ihr und ihrem Freund, ihr Vater fängt wieder an zu trinken und auch sonst läuft es nicht gut. Ihre Mutter hat ihr aber ein Survival Kit hinterlassen, Die Objekte darin helfen Rose ihre Fröhlichkeit wiederzufinden, aber sie haben auch alle mit einem ganz speziellen Jungen zu tun (der nicht ihr Freund ist mit dem es kriselt... ;) ). Ich liebe das Buch, weil es absolut wunderschön geschrieben ist und die Charaktere realistisch rüberkommen. Man kann sich gut in Rose (oder auch einem anderen Charakter) wiederfinden. Außerdem finde ich, dass das Buch es schafft eine Balance zwischen Liebesgeschichte und dem Thema Trauer und Verlust zu finden, ohne irgendwie kitschig oder übermäßig traurig zu sein. Meine Empfehlung ist: unbedingt lesen, dieses Buch bleibt im Regal! - Nicole Der Ursprungsblog für diese Aktion ist übrigens www.damarisliest.de! New year, new me? Nope. Resolutions rarely work out and apparently there is a lot of science behind why they don't. But I also read that nevertheless, new years is a good time to make a change. To be honest, I have change enough soon so I won't exactly do that yet. My most important reolution will be to have time to READ. A. LOT. OF. BOOKS. Hopefully good books. So far it's been going great and I'll share them with you as soon as I can.
Yay we have been doing this for about a year now! Just saying :)
Ursula Poznanskis neues Buch ist da. Es heißt Layers und es ist toll. Und hier ist die atemberaubende Geschichte "Wie es dazu kam, dass Ursula Poznanski mein Exemplar von Layers signierte, und Erebos noch dazu". Es ist nämlich so, dass Frau Poznanski, wie man den Büchern entnehmmen kann, aus Wien kommt, und dass meine LK-Fahrt nach Wien ging. Was für ein grandioser Zufall, der mir denkbar ungelegen kam, denn zu der Zeit, zu der ich in Wien war, war Frau Poznanski in meiner deutschen Heimatstadt und hat dort in meiner kleinen Lieblingsbuchhandlung eine Zeugenberichten zufolge sehr unterhaltsame Lesung gehalten. Blöd gelaufen. Würde man denken.
Zum Glück habe ich bücherbegeisterte Verbündete, die sich mit Erebos und Layers bewaffnet auf den Weg gemacht haben, um sich die Lesung anzuhören und anschließend die Bücher signieren zu lassen. Jetzt bin ich im Besitz von zwei von Ursula Poznanski höchstpersönlich signierten Büchern, und habe sie trotzdem noch nicht getroffen. Insofern sind die Unterschriften irgendwie nur ein schwacher Trost. Aber ein Trost immerhin, ich meine, wer hat schon das Autogramm von seinem zweitliebsten Autor/seinem liebsten Thrillerautor? Außer mir natürlich ... wahrscheinlich die wenigsten. - Julia Guess what. My previous post was about ereaders vs real books. I had a French test. And I had to write a blog entry about real books vs ereaders. Oh the irony. I didn't know how to translate "real books have curves" but apart from that I think I knew exactly what to write ;)
- Nicole Peut-être ton prof de français a lu le blog et pensé que les livres et les livres électroniques soient un bon sujet pour l'interrogation prochaine. My french is horrible. I'm so glad it was YOUR french test and not mine. - Julia Peut-être. Il n'aime pas la téchnologie alors je pense que c'est parce qu'il a choisi le sujet. Ton francais est bien :) - Nicole Ebooks vs real books have been a debate for quite a while. I have an ebook reader, but mainly because my mum didn't want to "waste" luggage allowance with the 10 books that I had packed for a two week holiday. And that is the only good argument for ebooks. Really, those things save a lot of books and you can even borrow some but overall they are electronics, that means they do lose battery and sometimes don't work the way you want them too. And who doesn't love the feeling of cold hand after laying in your bed until 1 am in the morning, holding that 700 pages or more book and not stoppig because you really want to know the end? Or the smell of new books? Or the smell of old books? Or the sound of pages turning? Or the look of a book that you've read so many times? You don't have that with an ebook reader. If they make that possible, we'll talk again. But until then... -Nicole Yes you're right. Ebooks suck. The place you're in when you read a book for the first time will be kept between the pages. And when you open it again, it will instantly remind you of that place. If it has pages and if it can be opened.
-Julia I decided to make use of all the cool features this website creator thingie has and I'll show you my reading list in a slide show. I'll probably review most of them after I read them: There is much more to come and I will have a lot to read for a while. Most of the pictures are from www.goodreads.com which is also a book page.
- Nicole Discussions can go a long way. My friend and me started off in English class, discussing about a text we read (Mother Tongue by amy Tan, quite interesting). After 1h we ended up at talking about the origin of human mankind... a long way. This is what we came up with:
I was wondering were language comes from. I mean apparently humans didn't have a language a long time ago and now there are thousands, and some are complicated. I mean who came up with grammar and all that? Obviously it developed over time, languages still develop. The best example for that is slang. You didn't say "to google" 50 years ago. But there has to be a beginning, just like with the chicken and the egg.. My English teacher said that it started with someone making a sound, that sound you make when a mammut is standing right behind you when you turn around, and from there it developed. Seems legit. But our discussion continued, we came up with the question of where we actually come from and my friend recommended me the following book: A short story of nearly everything by Bill Brison. It explains the newest theories of how the earth was created. Careful, it is mindblowing though! So we were debating and wondering about whether there is something outside the universe we know and if yes, then what. We wondered if there is a "nothing". And if there are aliens, of cause, that laugh at us because we are so stupid and don't get the big picture. You know, the usual stuff you wonder about in English class and that pops up into your head at midnight when you are supposed to sleep but your brain just wouldn't shut up. Anyways, it was a deep discussion and obviously there was no conclusion, we were just a little more mindblown than before. I am ending this by recommending the book mentioned above and by saying that philosophy is actually quite interesting... having your mind blown now and then is actually okay :) -Nicole English is not my first language.
So, I read Nicole's latest review. She used the word nowhere. It took me fife minutes to find out that it is no-where and not now-here. I believe it is important to know whether it is meant to be no-where or now-here. The difference is huge. But how could you if your first language is not English? If no one ever told you? Nowhere just became my favourite english word. Nowhere. For some reason I make a break after the W when I write it. My second favourite word is bellybutton. -Julia |