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4⭐️ Reading this novel feels like watching Taiwanese family drama series 🤪 I love how Mann jumps from one incident to another, making me alert with much anticipation. Short chapters with total of 11 parts, this chunkster doesn‘t feel like a chunkster at all. It‘s super readable and I enjoyed it so much.

Currently reading…. It‘s so entertaining I cannot stop!

There were aspects of this story that I truly enjoyed, but there were also parts that just seemed to drag on. I seldom felt truly invested in the characters even as I was hearing their entire life stories.

#1001books #audiobook #translated
#ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #Germany

“Ah, to be 25 and to have written Buddenbrooks.”

The Stakhanovite Thomas, who lives his whole life to carry on family heritage. The fragile Christian, who is constantly searching for a different path. The frivolous Antonie, who demonstrates great resilience in the face of life trials. Johann, the only feeble hope for the family's future, he slowly fades away, marking the end of the Buddenbrooks.
For sure not an easy reading (especially for its length!), but definitely recommended. :)

4 stars

It's my birthday! These are my presents, including some books ☺️

This was a really interesting story. It spans decades in the history of a once prominent family in Luebeck, Germany. There were many times when I felt great sympathy for the characters, and other times that really brought what a different time this was, and how high their social class was. There's a part when one character is horribly offended that a working class man would dare to say “Hello,“ to her that really brought that home to me.

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Nothing in this book should be surprising, and still I was surprised. It‘s a feat! After forty years and 730 pages, you feel you really know the family, and so the decline is devastating. Still, there is plenty of humor and insight to be found, as well as questions. Most troubling: What caused the decline? Was it inevitable or did the choices of the offspring gradually doom them?

Got my Round 4 #lmpbc book back, and spent a lovely afternoon reading all the great comments from @sprainedbrain @jmofo and @Butterfinger . Thank you so much ladies, and I am thrilled that you seemed to like this book as much as I did. Anytime you want to do another 20th Century Classics read, count me in!

I‘m blown away by this book... I was definitely not expecting to like it as much as I did. It‘s long, it‘s sad and depressing, but it‘s so very well-written and very readable. Considering it‘s translated from the German, that‘s really impressive. A family saga with some interesting characters. Hard to believe Mann was only 26 when this classic was published.

Thanks for sharing, Deborah! I enjoyed being part of Group F.

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#1001books

I had big plans to finish the tagged book this weekend, but then this guy came to live with us. ❤️

Well that was a humdinger...of sorts. I‘m inclined to be choosy about who I would recommend this book to, but I would love to discuss it with anyone who has read it. I was enjoying the writing a great deal but I am not much of a family drama person. But this book is much more than that, it just takes its time getting there. I wish I could read German.
Thank you @arubabookwoman for choosing this book for group F this round of #LMPBC

Another classic. Great writting but now wowed though. #ThomasMann #OsBuddenbrooks #TheBuddenbrooks #BuddenbrooksVerfallEinerFamilie
#book #bookaholic #booklovers #ler #leitura #leitora #reading #instabook #instaread #instabooks #bookstagram #litsy #booklover #readingabook #amreading #books #Sha2019

I‘m taking a little break to slurp up a root beer float and check in with
#24B4Monday I‘m at 11:47
#24in48 8:07
I‘m hoping maybe to finish tagged book for #LMPBC (with one of my favorite fountain pens with one of my favorite inks) tonight!!! I have some #audiocleaning I have to get this weekend and would love to start in the morning to give myself a relaxing afternoon tomorrow.

#24in48 what your book starts with challenge
This is not a very elegant beginning but one of the beginnings that speaks to my experience. Thank you @arubabookwoman for picking this book! I would not have picked it on my own but the ride is unlike any other book I have read to date. Now...to continue down to the decline...

I haven‘t been on Listy much lately, sort of needing some time to cocoon and prepare for the year, I guess. But I‘m always excited for #24B4Monday with the lovely @Andrew65 and @TheReadingMermaid
Looking to finish Buddenbrooks for #LMPBC this weekend and get started on another for Booked2019
I work today but have already read 2 1/2 hours before getting on the bus.

This is the quote Goodreads displayed when I opened it to add the tagged book to my currently reading list.
#LMPBC @Butterfinger This has just arrived and it is going to be my near-constant companion, I am sure, for the rest of this month. @sprainedbrain I will give you a heads up if I am lagging. @arubabookwoman thanks for the challenge!

I'm glad I read it. I would think I knew what the author wanted to portray, but would be caught off guard. Mann added characters, but they wouldn't add to the plot line. I'm more confused about his purpose to writing it now than before I started. If you are interested in how a prestigious family lived in 19th century Germany, this is for you. On to you, @jmofo. @arubabookwoman, thank you for introducing me to Mann. @sprainedbrain happy New Year.

#24b42019 @TheReadingMermaid @Andrew65
These are what I plan to read.

Started it tonight. Great beginning. Thanks for sharing with me @arubabookwoman. @jmofo @sprainedbrain

I don't think I will meet the #25in5 readathon. I'm ending with a little over 18 hours, but tomorrow is busy, busy, busy. Going to the North Pole with youngest (Polar Express field trip), parties at dance class, and my eldest is singing in a concert tomorrow night.

1. Finish knitting a baby afghan.
2. Hankering down in a warm house with Buddenbrooks while it snows. I'm going to have a hygge weekend.
3. Gingersnaps
4. Caroline Kennedy's A Family Christmas
5. @hoggman Hope you have a great Christmas.

Well, unless I hear any protests today or tomorrow about the length of this book it‘s my choice for the #lmpbc. @jmofo @Butterfinger @sprainedbrain . My cat Dinah has given her paw of approval.

I love multigenerational family sagas! This one by a German author did not disappoint. It actually reads a little bit like a 19th century novel - sometimes, a bit too long, but enjoyable on the whole.

#chunksteryouread #litsyclassics

https://tracyrowanwrites.wordpress.com/2018/05/13/review-buddenbrooks-the-declin...

I had to look for quite a while, until I found this edition with that #cover. I love this book and wanted to have a special edition for my shelves. 😍💖 #litsyclassics @Bambolina_81

Revisiting an old friend yet again, this time as an audiobook. It's as wonderful as I remembered.

My book just arrived. And then I opened it: Hate the layout ... :( looks like a manual for a blender :(

Though this book is a 700-page beast, it is surprisingly easy to follow! I always find myself thumbing through it, lost in Mann's world, forgetting the dirty dishes! Haha!

#currentlyreading #thomasmann #buddenbrooks

Mann's first novel is impressive; a family saga stretching through the latter half of the ninetheenth century and over several generations following the slowly decline of the family facing the advent of modernity. Mann pulls us in a world of stunning vitality, pieced together from births and funerals, weddings and divorces, recipes, gossip and humor. Fits the #FamilyAffair for day 10 #AugustGrrrl perfectly:)

I think I want to tackle this family saga over the summer

The Buddenbrooks is one of the upperclass families in 19th century Germany. Four generations, one family firm, all in the hands of the eldest son. Everyone obeys the rules of how a well-to-do family should behave. But time goes by and we witness the slow decline of the family traditions. Mann gives us an intimate portrait of their lives, so much that it sometimes made me feel uneasy and feel very sorry for their losses and sorrows. #1001books

Jessica and Luke standing guard over some of my books. Yes, I'm a rotten housekeeper.

Wenn man eigentlich keine Bücher mehr kaufen will... 😄

If you don't want to buy any more books... 😄

Ugh my heart!! Just had an orange juice accident with my book :(

My current long read is the Buddenbrooks. I've just watched a clip from the 1979 TV series on YouTube and discovered that I bought the exact same china at the church jumble sale last year as the Buddenbrook family uses for breakfast 😀☕️ it's not brilliant china, but it was cheap. I don't have the big tea / coffee pot, just cups and saucers and the sugar bowl in the shot.

#readJanuary- This book was #recommendedby both my grandma and aunt. I've really wanted to read it for a while.

Wunderbare Bücher sind bei mir eingezogen. ?Ein bisschen blättern und anschauen, dann geht es aber weiter mit den Buddenbrooks. Frohe Weihnachten Euch allen ?

Weihnachten ohne die Buddenbrooks gibt es bei mir nicht. ??Manchmal lese ich nur das Weihnachtskapitel, oder auch einige Lieblingsstellen. In diesem Jahr lese ich mal wieder (ich schätze zum 30. Mal) den kompletten Roman. ☺

"Wir finden in den Büchern immer nur uns selbst. Komisch, dass dann allemal die Freude groß ist und wir den Autor zum Genie erklären."
Thomas Mann

Readily accessible #booksintranslation . I adore Buddenbrooks! #somethingforsept #bookphotochallenge

"The Decline of a Family." Covering four generations of a German merchant family, Buddenbrooks portrays the ups and downs of family life in the 19th century and is a compelling read. Every character and action is realistically portrayed and Mann's writing is clear. With humour, drama, romance, loss, and strong family values, this book draws in a wide audience. I really enjoyed this book and would highly recommend it to anyone's list of classics!

"We are not separate, independent, self-subsisting individuals, but links in a chain; and it is inconceivable that we would be what we are without those who have preceded us and shown us the path that they themselves have scrupulously trod..."