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

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Catherine Belsey Poststructuralism: A Very Short Introduction ** SB

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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

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Pierre Hadot The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

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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

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Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything

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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

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Pierre Hadot The Inner Citadel: The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius

little i knew not

late for bela. we were almost late.
in november drizzle 
lost and kissing,
darkness slowing our gait.

wishing, when I play
i play like booker
angry, and incredulous
words in vain,
that I knew,
knew little not.

rushing past us rows of languid lights.
vowels inhaled –
words in vain,
in the darkness,
of november rain.

from here

from here
we cannot see the harbor,
where a vendor – hoarse and reeking,
sings,
and whores – gray and foreign
drift, 
gossiping of fishy things,
along the creaking gangplank.

bottles bob, barrels roll
miles of mesh lie limp and waste
windless years –
on the creaking gangplank. 

in this vast paradise – 
horizonless and edgeless –
we are bunched up 
in the middle of our dinghy.
i raise my hand above your head 
at midday.

poetry slam-dunk

Oh my sloppy joe, forlorn,
rippling with mirth, 
down my chin you ran, 
like a plantain.

Once upon a hot summer ragu
In the blue bayou.
Of mint and thyme
And bristly porcupine

speak, if you must
smile, only just…

Your skin – soft and golden
In the august sun – slow and swollen
Sesame and quints
Saucy vitamins.

But my memory 
fades as the twilight 
till just the secret melody lingers 
in the bare boughs –

and whispers to me, 
whispers of charles mingus

Rains will surely come
and wash you away
or on a ship you’ll depart 
to return never
into the haven of my heart.

But perhaps on a rainy day –
Dark and gaunt –
I may forget

To remember never that day
in september.