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Esther’s 2025 Year in Books
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I have mixed feelings about this book - and this despite the fact that I am a huge Irving fan (I have read ALL of his books, most of them two times). I know that most (if not all) of Irving's books need some time to get into. And I feel it was the sa ...more |
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"Typical John Irving. Unusual characters with heart. "
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"Out of all of the books in the world, I chose A Prayer for Owen Meany to accompany me into heart surgery. If ever I could pick my last book, it would be John Irving’s.
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Ein merkwürdiges Buch. Ich glaube, ich habe die Parallele verstanden zwischen dem Garten und dem Älterwerden ("Er jätete sich seinen Weg in den Tod"), allerdings nicht, was die Schönheit des Gartens im Leben eines mit einer solchen Vergangenheit bela ...more |
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“Der scheinbar einzige Gast außer mir war ein junger Punker mit Hund. Er leistete mir beim Essen Gesellschaft, ernährte sich selbst aber eher von Flüssigem. Das Gespräch mit ihm war interessant, wenn ich ihm und er mir folgen konnte. Oft hatte ich allerdings das Gefühl, wir redeten einfach aneinander vorbei.”
― Mit der Sonne Richtung Westen: Begegnungen auf dem Jakobsweg
― Mit der Sonne Richtung Westen: Begegnungen auf dem Jakobsweg
“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.”
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“Je ne suis pas plus moderne qu'ancien, pas plus Français que Chinois, et l'idée de la patrie c'est-à-dire l'obligation où l'on est de vivre sur un coin de terre marqué en rouge ou en bleu sur la carte et de détester les autres coins en vert ou en noir m'a paru toujours étroite, bornée et d'une stupidité féroce.”
― Correspondance
― Correspondance
“When we stop believing in gods we can start believing in their stories, I retort. There are of course no such things as miracles, but if there were and so tomorrow we woke up to find no more believers on earth, no more devout Christians, Muslims, Hindus, Jews, why then, sure the beauty of the stories would be a thing we could focus on because they wouldn't be dangerous any more, they would become capable of compelling the only belief that leads to truth, that is, the willing, disbelieving of the reader in a well-told tale.”
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
― The Ground Beneath Her Feet
“I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them”
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
― The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Bouquins en Francais
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— last activity Apr 02, 2018 11:57AM
Un Groupe ou tous les lecteurs Francophones peuvent discuter de ce qu'ils ont lu. Tous genres sont bienvenus. ...more
Literatur-Community.de
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— last activity Jul 14, 2014 01:04AM
In dieser Gruppe tummeln sich die Piraten der Literatur-Community! • mit virtuellem, holzechtem Bücherregal • mit Community, Magazin und Lexikon • je ...more
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All journeys are inner. All journeys are sacred. Whether your travels take you around the corner or around the world; whether you walk, hike, bike, ...more
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Romans français et francophones de l'an 2001 à nos jours. ...more
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Reading statistics for 2014:Nationalities of the writers I read:
16.18 % German
14.71 % French
13.24 % British, US Amercian
10.29 % Swiss
5.88 % Austrian, Iranian
2.94 % Italian
1.47% Bosnia and Herzegowina, Cameroun, Canada, Colombia, Finnland, Japan, Nigeria, Peru, Rwanda, South Africa, Spain, Ukraine
Sex of the writers I read:
70 % male
30 % female
Genres of the books I read:
69.11 % Fiction
14.70 % Travel
5.89 % Non fiction
5.89 % Guide books
4.41 % Biography, Autobiography
Average number of pages per book: 283
My ratings:
5* for 18 books
4* for 24 books
3* for 23 books
2* for 3 books
Languages I read this year:
36.76 % French
29.42 % German
27.94 % English
2.94 % Italian
2.94 % Spanish
Kai wrote: "Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen las..."Danke für das Angebot! Aber ich bin doch mit einem Ingenieur verheiratet (der mir eine Excel Datei gebastelt hat, die die Statistiken in Prozente umrechnet :-) )
Wow, Du bist ja noch vieeel fremdsprachiger unterwegs als ich. Was die Inspiration angeht: Gern geschehen ;-) Falls es Dich interessiert, kann ich Dir auch meine Excel-Datei als Muster zukommen lassen, die rechnet einen Teil der Statistiken automatisch für mich aus.
Following the example of a friend on Goodreads, I have also calculated some reading statistics for 2013:Nationalities of the writers I read:
25.00 % German
21.88 % French
12.50 % Swiss
6.25 % US Amercian
3.13 % Belgian, Brazilian, British, Israeli, Italian, Japanese, Norwegian, South African, Spanish
Sex of the writers I read:
74.47 % male
25.53 % female
Genres of the books I read:
87.23 % Novel, Stories
10.64 % Travel and Geography
2.13 % Biography, Autobiography
Average number of pages per book: 334
My ratings:
5* for 11 books
4* for 22 books
3* for 12 books
2* for 2 books
Languages I read this year:
36.17 % French
31.91 % German
29.79 % English
2.13 % Italian
(DANKE für die Inspiration, Kai!)
Goodreads tells me that I've read 64 books and 20'758 pages in 2018.
Here are my statistics:
Nationalities of the writers I read:
16 % American, French, German
8% Italian
6 % British
4% Swiss
3 % Austrian, Congolese, Spanish
1,5 % American-Nigerian, Cameroonian, Canadian, Canadian-German, Dutch, Finnish, Israeli, Israeli-American, Japanese, Japanese-American, Morrocan, Nigerian, Russian, Saudi Arabian, Vietnamese-American
Sex of the writers I read:
64 % male
36 % female
Genres of the books I read:
75% Fiction
6,5% Biography (in the largest sense)
6,5% Non-Fiction
6,5% Psychology
5% Travel
My ratings:
5* for 9 books
4* for 32 books
3* for 20 books
2* for 3 books
Languages I read this year:
31 % French
31 % English
31 % German
6 % Italian
Form of the book
67 % in paper form
22 % as e-book
11 % as audiobook
Source of the book
52 % library
45 % own
3% from friend
The books I liked the most:
Girl at War Sara Novic
Walking the Nile Levison Wood
Das Genie Klaus Cäsar Zehrer
Small World Martin Suter
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood
Les Maquisards Hemley Boum
L'Arminuta Donatella Di Pietrantonio
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Patria Fernando Aramburu
Oldest work I read this year
Der Meister und Margarita Mikhail Bulgakov 1967
Newest works I read this year:
Speak No Evil Uzodinma Iweala
The Immortalists Chloe Benjamin
Die kommenden Jahre Norbert Gstrein
The Refugees Viet Thanh Nguyen
Patria Fernando Aramburu
Un océan, deux mers, trois continents Wilfried N'Sondé
Von Vögeln und Menschen Margriet de Moor
Unter der Drachenwand: Roman Arno Geiger
La Belle de Casa In Koli Jean Bofane
La Vraie Vie Adeline Dieudonné
Sechs Koffer Maxim Biller
Most voluminous book:
New York Edward Rutherfurd (1'020 pages)
Least voluminous book
Between the World and Me Ta-Nehisi Coates (152 pages)