A graphic novel about the atrocities of the Holocaust? Weirdly enough, it works.

Started this yesterday night. It‘s ok, I guess?

Wow. Why did I do this to myself? Yanagiharas style is pleasant, and at first, it is fun to follow the lives of these four friends. But as the story goes on, two of the friends retreat in the background, and there is just too much suffering depicted for my taste. It was at times really hard to go on, but I powered through. I finished it. I loved it. i hated it.

Quality time. My sandwich kid is sick as well. So no chance for me to sleep half the day as I did yesterday. Took an ibuprofen and will try to read.

I‘m tending to my cold while my angel of a husband is taking the kids to Legoland. Mine is one of the40,000 Berlin households that don‘t have Internet because some criminal severed a cable, so I‘m glad all my devices are full of good stories.

I also finished this one this weekend. What a ride! I have read several Gothic Novels before, so I knew what to expect. It still was all over the place. Didn‘t find a photo of a forest in my camera roll, so I added another pic of the Baltic Sea. Including a tree!

What a great read. I placed this book on hold on a whim, because I had seen many people reading it. And it was absolutely worth it. The Big Reveal in the end wasn‘t really surprising because of heavy foreshadowing. But I really warmed to Eleanor.

Hoping to finish this today, although I am a little distracted by the Baltic Sea, to be honest.

I started this last week. I really like it, but am wondering where the story will go. I am reading this on the libby app on my phone because German libraries don‘t allow sending a book to kindle. Bummer.

Looking forward to starting the audiobook tonight.

I really liked this short story collection and am looking forward to reading Lahiri‘s other works.

In a week full of headaches, I did not get much reading done. Started an audiobook, though. I‘m enjoying it so far.

I love Carrie Fisher‘s wit, but it turns out I am not that interested in her affair with Harrison Ford.

Ok, bear with me, I‘m new to this. Thanks @Ingerella for the tag. 1. Die Sendung mit der Maus, a German kids‘ show. 2. Joseph Anton by Salman Rushdie. 3. No food item comes to mind. Does coffee count? 4. We‘ll go to the Baltic Sea for a couple of days during winter school holidays. 5. Taking a pass on this one as it‘s sunday already 😳. #friyayintro #late

I listened to the audiobook, and liked it a great deal. The three point-of-view-characters were read by different narrators, who were all excellent. I absolutely recommend it.

My lunch break had a happy ending when I found Plum in my kindle backlog. I just love Hollie McNish‘s poems. This collection contains some very early poems, some of which I found very impressive.

Really, Libby? 🤣

This one is also a rather slow read. I am enjoying it, but I think I will need to add a fun book this weekend. I have a few audiobooks lined up, but need something for the eyes, too 😋

Am I not hurrying enough? Is it just that I do not care enough about the universe? It‘s just that I don‘t really enjoy this book 😒

A reread, or rather, relisten. Published in 2001, the year I passed the Abitur. I read it for the first time one or two years later, and was deeply moved. This audiobook was abridged, but still gutted me in the end.

It was a fun read. I never read the novel so cannot compare. But I liked the general story and the illustrations.

I read this on my friday lunch break, in a mall of all places. It was absolutely worth the read. I will submit it to the BookRiot reading challenge as a one-sitting book, and to the PopSugar Reading Challenge for several clues: based on a real person, time of day in title, about death or grief, book I borrowed, and a book tied to my ancestry, because, after all, I‘m German.

Impossible to get into. No idea why this book made it on the Booker Shortlist.

After having been a Rushdie Fan in my early twenties, this is the first of his novels that I have finished since Fury. I recognized a lot of what I loved about his style, and I am looking forward to diving in the novels I missed in the meantime. Mr Rushdie, I might have tied all my ribbons to you after all.