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mystery. magic. puzzles – riddles. secrets. arcane or prosaic. like the horizon: blue-sky, taunting and intimidating. the unknown. the unknowable, yet explained and evident. although I understand, I nonetheless acknowledge its deceitful existence – there it is, I see it and how, then, I ask increduously, can it be a concept, just an idea and not a thing – this, that I see. imperceptibly moving forward, like time – it too, just a figment.

or love. like horizon’s edge, endlessly stretched (like giacometti’s limb) between me and that life, the mirage is measured into existence, as a formula, or seized by a stanza: there – you point at it – there, can you not see it? can you not believe in it? and then, reason, with a slightly raised eyebrow, strokes my childish head with its pitiless palm and says: no, dear child, it is only an illusion.

Bücher 2020

* Monika Maron Munin oder Chaos im Kopf LIT
* Ian McEwan Machines Like Me LIT ****
Alain de Botton The Course of Love (Audio-book) ***
Alain de Botton The Art of Travel REF **
Lea Singer Der Klavierschüler LIT ****
* Salman Rushdie Quichotte LIT ***
H.G. Wells Experiment in Autobiography BIO ****
* H.G. Wells The Time Machine LIT **
* Georgi Gospodinov Physik der Schwermut LIT ***
Henning Mankell Mörder ohne Gesicht (in deutscher Fassung) DETFIC
Raymond Chandler The Big Sleep ***
Renee Patrick Design for Dying: A Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel DETFIC **
Renee Patrick Dangerous to Know: A Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel DETFIC **
Renee Patrick Script for Scandal: a Lillian Frost & Edith Head Novel DETFIC **
* Annie Proulx Das grüne Akkordeon LIT ****
R. N. Morris The Gentle Axe DETFIC *

Currently reading…

Albert Camus Die Pest LIT

On the »to read« pile

Paul Auster Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays
Anthony J. Cascardi The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes SB
Italo Calvino Die unsichtbaren Städte LIT

Bücher 2019…

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Herta Müller Herztier LIT ***** + *
Tom Holland Rubicon SB
Richard Harris Dictator (second time around, to complete the trilogy begun backwards) LIT
Oliver Sacks The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat LIT ***
Mary Stewart Crystal Cave (The Arthurian Saga, Book 1) third or fourth reread, i lost track… LIT
Sibylle Berg Vielen Dank für das Leben LIT **
Mary Stewart The Hollow Hills (The Arthurian Saga, Book 2) LIT
Mary Stewart The Last Enchantment  (The Arthurian Saga, Book 3) LIT
Siri Hustvedt Summer without Men LIT ****
Luciano de Crescenzo Die Geschichte der griechischen Philosophie Band 1 + 2 SB ***
Étienne de La Boétie Von der freiwilligen Knechtschaft des Menschen SB
Jacob und Wilhelm Grimm Kinder- und Hausmärchen LIT
Lukas Rietzschel Mit der Faust in die Welt schlagen LIT **
Alexander Sergejewitsch Puschkin Jewgeni Onegin ( annual reread) LYR (unrateable)
Alain de Botton The Consolations of Philosophy (reread or rather: bedstand companion) SB
Jane Bowles Two Serious Ladies LIT ***
Beryl Bainbridge According to Queeny LIT ****
Amor Towles A Gentleman In Moscow LIT **
Nick Hornby Funny Girl  LIT **
Damon Galgut Arctic Summer LIT***


Miss Gregory is not my cup of tea. 100+ frustrating pages of the first book of the Wideacre Trilogy is all i could endure.
Angelesen: Sibirische Sommer mit Dostojewski von Jan Brokken. Frau Karnovsky schreibt sehr richtig, dass Brokkens Schreibstil eine Geschmackssache sei. Dieser Stil schmekct nach einem amtlichen Bericht: soweit enfernt von Literatur war nur Frau Rossbacher, bisher.

Wishlist/Prospect reading

To compliment my current compulsion
Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

To feed my five-year-old monkey
Tom Holland Dynasty 
Mary Beard SPQR, Women and Power

To dip my toes in the Mediterranean
Roberto Bolaño 2666


On the »to read« stack

Dorris Lessing The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four and Five
Zeruya Shalev Für den Rest des Lebens
Susan Sontag Stories
Jimena Canales The Physicist & the Philosopher

Wishlist/Prospect reading

To compliment my current compulsion
Samuel Johnson The History of Rasselas, Prince of Abissinia

To feed my five-year-old monkey
Tom Holland Dynasty 
Mary Beard SPQR, Women and Power

To dip my toes in the Mediterranean
Roberto Bolaño 2666





Legende
LIT = Literatur Fiction
SB = Sachbuch N(on)F(iction)
CO = Comic Graphic Novel
LYR = Lyrik Poetry
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