Menschenskinder. Nicht schon wieder.

by Evelyn Sanders

Menschenkinder, nicht schon wieder! - bk1551; Weltbild Verlag; Evelyn Sanders; pocket_book; 2008

Genres: Humor

Hardcover

Published October 1, 2000

About the author

Evelyn Sanders (* 14. Mai 1934 in Berlin; eigentlich Evelyn Stitz) ist eine deutsche Schriftstellerin.

Evelyn Sanders ist in Berlin aufgewachsen. Später siedelte die Familie nach Düsseldorf um. Die gelernte Journalistin widmete sich nach ihrer Hochzeit der Kindererziehung. Ihr erstes Buch entstand eher zufällig, als sie für ihren ältesten Sohn zum Geburtstag ein Fotoalbum zusammen stellte, welches sie ursprünglich nur mit kleinen Texten versehen wollte. Im Folgenden entstanden viele weitere, heitere Familienromane.

Evelyn Sanders ist verwitwet, hat fünf Kinder und lebt als freie Schriftstellerin in Bad Rappenau.

Reviews

[Manybooks · Rating 2 out of 5]

Although there are indeed a few fun and entertaining bits and pieces to be found in Evelyn Sanders’ Menschenskinder ... nicht schon wieder!, the title of the book itself (which roughly translated means something like holy moly, not again) actually and clearly also demonstrates precisely what I am finding increasingly (and annoyingly) to be the case with Evelyn Sanders’ memoirs as the series progresses, namely that she is both running out of ideas and equally does not really seem to understand that her readers might want to be faced with other, with different scenarios than travel and wedding descriptions. For honestly, even though reading about Nicole and Jörg’s nuptials and the spa vacation the author and daughter Stephanie take together has been mildly amusing (and I certainly do envy Evelyn Sanders the positive relationship she and daughter Stephanie have and that they often and gladly travel together), sorry, but there is really nothing in Menschenskinder ... nicht schon wieder which has thematics wise not been proverbially done to death in previous accounts about Evelyn Sanders’ family (and yes, especially the wedding descriptions and travel logs really do feel to and for me as though the author is like a bovine continuously chewing her cud and rehashing the same tired stories and details over and over again).

Combined with the fact that this is also textually mirrored in and by Evelyn Sanders’ writing style and in particular her choice of certain vocabulary words, that she for example tends to rather continuously and often even something like four times per page make repeated and tedious use of the adverbial expressions seinerzeit (in those days) and weiland (formerly), I do have to admit that my erstwhile enjoyment of and delight in Evelyn Sanders’ family novels, it has certainly begun to rather massively begin to fade and that Menschenskinder ... nicht schon wieder! has been while of course not a terrible reading experience also a rather monotonous and dragging endeavour and indeed also a book I actually if truth be told only finished because I am trying to get all of the Evelyn Sanders novels that are downloaded on my Kindle read and reviewed.