… and the winner is: Lisbeth Salander I would love to be a Hacker like her and the dragon tattoo is also cool….

Maybe a little predictable but I really do love Charles Dickens „A Christmas Carol“ and I usually read or watch it during Christmas in one form or the other….

OK – this is a bit of an embarrassing story. Got this book by a good friend and for some reason I had the book down as a freaky Sci-Fi classic….

Today is another piece from the the popular series of „Findings of a paper trash diver“. This wonderful book I found a few years ago in the paper trash behind the house together with a few dozen others really interesting …

Oh I do that quite a lot actually, so a little difficult to chose. Rob Sheffield’s „Love is a Mixtape“ would be a bit too obvious I guess, so I think I’ll go for John Steinbeck’s „Cannary Row“ …

Gesehen: „Vegetarian“ von Woo-Seong Lim. Koreanische Verfilmung des Romans der Booker-Prize Gewinnerin Han Kang….

Uuuurgh thats a tough one – who on earth chose these questions. How can I come up with just ONE favorite Sci-Fi book? But then again it would probably make sense to choose one of Margaret Atwoods who never seizes …

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….