Books 2023

Witold Gombrowicz Pornografie LIT **
John Sellars Aristotle *** SB
Arthus Conan Doyle A Study in Scarlet CRIMEFIC ****
George Saunders A Swim in a Pond in the Rain SB/LIT *****
David Seed Science Fiction: A Very Short Introduction ***
Alex Grecian The Yard (The Guardian’s „review“ is more a puff piece than a critique – an astonishing example of bad writing) CRIMEFIC
Tobias Wolff Bullet in the Brain LIT ****
Fernanda Melchor Paradais LIT ***
Nigel Warburton Free Speech – A Very Short Introduction SB ****
Gregory Claeyes John Stuart Mill – A Very Short Introduction SB ****
Thaddeus Metz Meaning in Life: An Analytic Study SB ***

Currently reading/listening

Serhii Plokhy The Russo-Ukrainian War (audio) SB
Arthus Conan Doyle The Complete Sherlock Holmes Collection: All Books and Short Story Collections CRIMEFIC
John Sellars Lessons in Soicism SB
Brad Inwood Stoicism SB
Henry Jeffreys Emire of Booze (audio) SB
Adrienne Stone The Oxford Handbook of Freedom of Speech SB

Bücher 2022

James Clear Atomic Habits ** SB
Joseph Frank Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time ***** SB
Leonid Borissowitsch Zypkin Ein Sommer in Baden-Baden ** LIT
Muriel Spark A Far Cry From Kensignton **** LIT
Ilona Jerger Und Marx stand still in Darwins Garten ** LIT
David Lodge Thinks… *** LIT
Adam Phillips The Beast In the Nursery ***** SB
Adam Phillips Houdini’s Box ***** SB
Mathias Enart Das Jahresbankett der Totengräber  *** LIT
Ulf Erdmann Ziegler Nichts Weißes * LIT
Emma Smith This Is Shakespeare: How to Read the World’s Greatest Playwright ***** SB
Siegfried König Ludwig Wittgensteins „Philosophische Untersuchungen“ – Eine Einführung *** SB
Serhii Plokhy The Gates of Europe – A History of Ukraine *** SB
Alexandre Lefebvre Interpreting Bergson: Critical Essays *** SB
Jane Austen Persuasion *** LIT

Currently reading…

Catherine Belsey Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction ** SB

On the »to read« pile
Albert Camus Die Pest LIT
Italo Calvino Die unsichtbaren Städte LIT
Daniel Mason The Piano Tuner
Jean-Paul Sartre The Imagination SB
Paul Cartledge Ancient Greece: A Very Short Introduction SB
S. A. Smith The Russian Revolution: A Very Short Introduction SB
Gary Gutting Foucault: A Very Short Introduction SB

Currently in the shopping cart
Pierre Hadot The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

Bücher 2021

Andrew Taylor The Ashes of London HISTCRIMEFIC **
Andrew Taylor The Fire Court HISTCRIMEFIC **
Andrew Taylor The King’s Evil HISTCRIMEFIC **
Jan Jacobs Mulder Joseph, der schwarze Mozart LIT (unratable)
Bill Bryson Notes From A Small Island: Journey Through Britain
James Ellroy L.A. Confidential CRIMEFIC ***
Alain de Botton The Art of Travel (reread) **
E.M. Forster Howard’s End (reread) ******
Sharon Dodua Otoo Adas Raum**
Åsne Seierstad Der Buchhändler aus Kabul * LIT
Conrad Schetter Kleine Geschichte Afghanistans *** SB
Barnett R. Rubin Afghanistan: What Everyone Needs to Know SB

Currently reading…
Daniel Mason The Piano Tuner
Wolfram Eilenberger Zeit der Zauberer – Das große Jahrzehnt der Philosophie 1919 – 1929

Currently listening…
Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything

On the »to read« pile
Albert Camus Die Pest LIT
Paul Auster Talking to Strangers: Selected Essays
Anthony J. Cascardi The Cambridge Companion to Cervantes SB
Italo Calvino Die unsichtbaren Städte LIT

Currently in the shopping cart
Pierre Hadot The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius