No idea why but critics hated that book and a lot of readers also very under impressed but I really liked the book. I thought it was an interesting interpretation of what our near future could look like….

Foto: Goodreads Unlike Jonathan Foer I had never given much thought about the consumption of meat and how animals are treated in our large scale meat production and this book certainly changed my mind….

Yep that probably was Sarah Water’s „Fingersmith“which I read years ago on a dark rainy weekend and couldn’t stop for the life of it before I had finished it….

 „Helix – Sie werden uns ersetzen“ schickt uns von München aus, wo der amerikanische Außenminister bei einem Staatsbesuch stirbt und bei der Obduktion ein seltsames Zeichen auf seinem Herz gefunden wird, einmal rund um die Welt. In Brasilien, Tansania und …

Really ? Did I really choose this dumb question for my Challenge well knowing how much I cringe inside when I have to choose my favorite book of the year. Sometimes I’m not so sure about myself…

This would be Mr Borges in my case. Just a slim little book but don’t underestimate it, definitely not a quick or easy read….

You might know by now I love a good Dystopia and I can handle melancholia and some bleak darkness and I was so convinced this is going to be THE book for me….

Gesehen: „Top of the Lake“ Season 1 von Jane Campion mit Elisabeth Moss. Spannende Krimi-Serie mit unglaublichen Bildern….

This is an easy one. I remember the day in Bookclub we went through the list of books that had been voted for for the next six month and I was „What ?…

There were actually quite a few contestants up for that one. Not easy to choose but at this time last year we to the cinema to see „Carol“ and were quite blown away….

Today I’m going to be lazy and re-use an old Book-a-Day Challenge from a few years ago. It still is my favorite first sentence so here we go: „It was the day my grandmother exploded….

Der Roman hat nicht einfach nur ein wunderbares Design,es führt den Leser tief in die Geschichte Twin Peaks‘ hinein. Kein Roman im klassischen Sinn, sondern eine Sammlung an Briefen, Dokumenten, Zeitungsauschnitten und Bildern….

Comedy and Humor are not exactly my strong point – I go for dark and depressing anytime so I’m even more impressed when somebody manages to tickle my humor gene….

Something that does not happen very often I don’t cry at the drop of a hat but this book had me in tears like no other. Yes it is a tearjerker but still a really really good book….

Who would have thought this is going to be so difficult ? Most fictional characters I have ever mentally dated I first saw in movies or TV series first (not that many actually) but the fangirling made me pick up the associated …

I guess I have myself more under control now but it was actually pretty bad for a while. This book completely knocked my socks off and I couldn’t stop talking about it….

Gesehen: „Scanners“ von David Cronenberg. Sci-Fi/Horror mit explodierenden Köpfen aus dem Jahr 1981….

The constant struggle between Mr Mann and me. So far very little luck….

Foto: Sab Qu No Challenge without Mr Murakami. This one is my favourite books ever and well what can I say….

This series got me pretty hooked and I couldn’t wait to cycle to the library every week to pick up the next volume of the Famous Five. I made my way through all of them and I guess nearly everything else …

I think it’s time for a another challenge. As I don’t have an Advent-calendar this year I would like to have a nice little book-a-day Challenge. Couldn’t find THE perfect ready-made one, so I came up with my own….

Im November hatte ich mich konzerttechnisch dann endgültig komplett überladen. Übers Jahr immer mal wieder ein Ticket gekauft und dann festgestellt – hilfe 5 Konzerte in 4 Wochen – puh. Jedes davon hat sich gelohnt, ich hätte keines missen wollen, …

Gesehen: „Arrival“ von Denis Villeneuve mit Amy Adams. Grandioser Sci-Fi über die Kontaktaufnahme mit Außerirdischen die auf der Erde gelandet sind….

Dieser Blog ist ja auch der schonungslose Einblick in die Tiefen der Bingereaderschen Leseseele. Kein Buch bleibt unerwähnt, aber da ich nicht immer Lust auf ausführliche Rezensionen habe und mir dann vermutlich auch nicht genug Zeit zum Lesen bliebe, hier …

Würde Haruki Murakami ein Telefonbuch veröffentlichen, würde ich das vermutlich auch kaufen. Es gibt tatsächlich keinen Autor, dessen „Sound“ ich so sehr schätze….