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"The postwoman Eva Kluge slowly climbs the steps of 55 Jablonski Strasse."

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This is basically a love story set against the end of a divided Germany. I think it was well written. But tbh it took me forever to get into this and it might be my only Erpenbeck for the time being.

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I really enjoyed this book and learned a huge amount about the Berlin Wall - the story revolves around twin sisters separated in Berlin on the night of the construction of the dividing wall between east and west - really interesting good story line and well written.

This is my haul from the SF convention I went to last weekend. I've been a good girl this year, partly because I did not manage to explore the bookshop thoroughly. It was either too crowded or I was running after an overexcited toddler. She's the one who found the 2 books with the graphic covers. She - and I - wanted all the books in this collection, but I whittled it to 2 😁. There is also 1 kids' book and 1 non-fiction ab. plurality in SF.

An omnibus classic that combines two novels into one and was inspired by real-life people that author Isherwood encountered. In Mr Norris Changes Trains, a British expatriate meets an enigmatic man named Norris who is concealing secrets. In Goodbye to Berlin, the reader is introduced to a cast of Bohemian characters who would later influence the musical Cabaret.

Proud of myself! With Stettin Station I've finished my Roll100 for the month.

Stettin Station is the best so far of this series set in Hitler's Berlin. Characters you are cheering for, even as you're horrified by what is happing in the city and the world.

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I found this book hauntingly real. It brought back so many memories of that febrile time in the 80s. When the East Germans came to the west en masse and then the wall fell. What‘s depicted here is the complicated and toxic relationship that came before and after reunification. Anna Funder writes about what was lost in Stasiland. The question to me is ‘we‘ve ended the Cold War, is life better now‘ I highly recommend this book.

As expected, I didn‘t do as well with actually watching the movies in which last week‘s songs appeared. My score is 52/100, and on the flip side I caught a few songs I missed that would have made last week‘s score higher. 😂

I‘m highlighting movies on my TBW to prioritize based on the survey. Link to the AFI survey: https://shorturl.at/HXD3g

1. Cabaret
2. Singin‘ in the Rain
3. Moulin Rouge
Plus the second half of Gigi.

#TLT #ThreeListThursday @dabbe
1. I know 85 of these songs! And wow, what a list.
2. Favourites would be Cabaret, from the film version of the tagged book,Stayin Alive and absolutely everything from Singin in the rain.
3. Share your favourites!! What absolute tunes this list has.

Reading Fallada after Zweig was an interesting juxtaposition of perspectives on the same time period. One raw and jagged, the other ephemeral and transcendent. The German resisters were not successful. The Nazis were taken down by outside forces. Rarely do you get to hear the story of those who failed in their pursuit. Here‘s your chance.