by Peter Buwalda I read it on my vacation in Croatia, the spectacular Dalmation coast had a true contender of my attention. A family novel on my honeymoon travel, one…
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by Rubem Fonseca I had to read something in Portuguese in order to preserve my vocabulary. As always, in front of my bookshelf and in doubt, what book to pick,…
by T.C. Boyle A review just copied from amazon by T.K. Kenyon (link): “… Boyle is one of the best short story writers around today. His short stories are enjoyable…
by Saul Bellow It is widely considerer as a classic of American literature. I read it because it was translated again recently into a more modern German. Here is a…
by Colette Here a copy from the online New York Times, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:“Mitsou,” the story of a love of a little music-hall girl for a nameless lieutenant,…
by Christoph Ransmayr The novel tells the story of the Austro-Hungarian Payer-Weyprecht expedition from 1872 to 1874, during which the northernmost part of Eurasia, the Franz Josef Land, was discovered.…
by Wassili Grossman I listened it in a short version, adapted by a German radio station – the NDR. It is a work of gigantic proportion it deals with totalitarianism,…
by John Le Carre Instead of my own thoughts here is the plot summary from wikipedia, retrieved on Nov 17th 2013:The book tells the story of Ted Mundy, a Pakistani-born…
by J. Keith Murnighan The lesson is rather: make the organization work. If you do not have to do anything, your processes work and you have good people as leaders.…
by Dan Ariely The book caught my attention in Tucson’s Barnes&Noble because I had seen Dan Ariely’s TED Talk. As entertaining as he is a orator as funny and equally…