Paul S's reading list and other stuff - part2

Welcome to my new thread

Beyeler Museum Riehen


Paul Gauguin: When will you marry?

Gauguin: Where do we come from? Where do we go?


Gauguin: The yellow Christ

I visited the Gauguin exhibition yesterday with my mother. There were 21 paintings and sculptures by Gauguin. Among them 'When will you marry?' which is now sold for 300 Million CHF (the most expensive picture ever, I guess).

Some pictures had a 'Do-not-photograph' icon next to it, so I only photographexd those were allowed to make pictures.

Happy new thread, Paul. Wonderful photos of the Gauguin exhibit.
Currently, I'm reading Tod auf der Fähre and I like it very much. Dang, you drawed me to another series I have to red. :-)

>4 Ameise1: Hej Barbara, congratulations on your decision to read Anne Gold ;) I am pleased to know that I have some influence on other LTers

I like Gauguin's colourful paintings and his wooden sculptures are well done. The ticket is quite expensive (28 CHF) but its worth it. There are special train tickets for the exhibition (10% off train fare, tram, and exhibition).

I could not remember who had all of the chocolate on their thread and yes, it is you! I am amazed that you knew that Canada had a Purdy's postal stamp! Even I was not aware of that. Lovely paintings. Wonderful new thread.

I popped into Purdy's just yesterday. I was " good" and did not purchase any for myself - just some chocolates for Valentines for my mom, my sister and my daughter in law to be. She had sent over home baked chocolate covered short bread cookies for Valentines. ( A wee bit early ) . It is a yummy place! :)

>6 vancouverdeb: Hej Deborah, yes, I tried to bring everybody into eating chocolate :) There are a few 'chocolate stamps' around, Switzerland has got one, too. I will try to get all those stamps and post them here (well, another thread, I'm afraid).

Purdy sounds really good, I also checked their chocolate in the net.
My wife wants to visit Vancouver and British Columbia. She came along with a travel agency's tour in BC and we checked all their places on google maps. Her sister lives in California, and on the phone (skype) they had the idea of meeting in Vancouver, hire a camper there and then travel together around in BC for three weeks. Well, it will probably stay a dream only - but its nice to dream of such beautiful places

>1 paulstalder: The museum looks like an art piece in and of itself, doesn't it? Love the Gauguin paintings too!

>8 alcottacre: Hej Stasia, the architect was Renzo Piano, basically 4 parallel walls built with porphyry covered by a glass ceiling, on both sides open to small ponds (well, glass walls). Beyeler didn't want to make the architecture leading away from regarding the art inside the building. And one really feels impressed by the architecture when walking around the whole place but when inside one forgets it and concentrates on the exhibited objects.

19) Bis zum Frühlingsmond : Roman by Volker Wortmann. One day Tobias woke up, hearing a voice telling him to hurry up. When opening his eyes he looks into a horse's face. The horse urges him to come into the forest before the dragons would burn everything... This the beginning of a fantasy novel for young adults. Good story, well done allegories of characters and events, but the characters are not so well worked out.

Gauguin: La luxure

>11 paulstalder: Beautiful.

Hi Paul! When I saw the pictures by Gauguin I thought that I recognized the two ladies in 'When will you marry?'.

I have that one as a jigsaw puzzle!

>12 Ameise1: Isn't it? I wasn't aware of how many statuettes Gauguin carved. This one's entitled La luxure (Wollust = lust), the flower the woman holds in her right hand signifying her lost innocence, and the fox symbolizing the desire, covetousness. He made that piece of art 1890, after the dispute with van Gogh (when van Gogh cut off a piece of his own ear... still nobody knows exactly why), a year before he travelled to Tahiti. But I think that there is no direct connection between the statuette and van Gogh. But the time frame is interesting.

>13 connie53: Connie, you have one of the most expensive pictures as a jigsaw!! The picture is sold to Qatar - that means we will probably never see that picture over here again.

Gauguin: Rupe rupe (Fruit harvest) 1899
Gauguin's vision of (his) paradise, the one he was always looking for but never found

Gauguin: Arearea I (pleasure I)

Gauguin

Gauguin: Aita tamari vahine Judith te parari (woman-child Judith is not yet deflowered) 1893/94
look at the ape at the girl's feet: Gauguin's lover was a dancer who danced on the stage with such an ape, the ape is also the symbol of sinfulness and vice (hint to the painter himself?)

Gauguin: Te raau rahi I (The big tree I) 1891
one of the first paintings Gauguin did in Tahiti (he arrived there in June 1891)

Gauguin: Baigneuse (Bathers) 1902

the other end of the Museum:

I love all the pictures of the paintings by Gauguin.

Maybe I should take my jigsaw puzzle, finish it, glue it together and hang it on my wall ;-))

>23 connie53: Do that - that way you get some colour on the wall :) it is a very colourfull painting after all.

Haha, The colour on my wall is coming from my books!

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Cruzcampo Spain (pils) --- Chocolate nations : living and dying for cocoa in West Africa by Orla Ryan

>25 connie53: sure *grin* but they probably have their backs to the spectator, n'est-ce pas? Or do you placate your walls with the covers of your books? That would definitely give colours. I dream of that but my wife would .... better not imagine that.

Well, backs can be colourful too

Thanks, Connie, that looks good, there is no place for Gauguin, though. You would have to paste it onto one of the cabinet doors in the other book case, or behind the TV maybe? How big is the puzzle anyway

I think about 60 X 50 cm.

Have you been examining my bookcases, Paul? LOL

>30 connie53: well, yes, I clicked your link and that brought me to your photobucket pictures :) (and I remembered having seen your bookcases earlier and checking the titles on the shelves )

O yes of course! That's the way to do that. I always keep forgetting there are pictures there. How far did you get with the titles?

>32 connie53: I don't recall when you first posted a picture of your book shelves, it was then, I zoomed in on the pix and tried to read the titles :) I remember lots of fantasy: Robert Jordan, Goodkind, Tad Williams, Markus Heitz, Hennen, McCaffrey, Marillier, McIntosh, Kerr, Brooks, Canavan ....

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Haldengut Lager --- Schokolade ist nicht alles : ein Leitfaden zur Schweizer Kultur by Margaret Oertig-Davidson (there is more to Switzerland than chocolate alone - but I can't remember what it was *grin*)

They are all there, Paul! I really think I have all fantasy books translated into Dutch since 1990 or so.

Like the Chocolate (book).

>35 connie53: There is an English translation of the book: Beyond chocolate : understanding Swiss culture by Margaret Oertig-Davidson

You have a very good collection there.

daughter and cat: High Five!

Ahh, that's so cute!

The cat wants some goodies and in order to get that it was trained to 'gib Pfötli' (give paw).

The kids all showed up and we celebrated Suki's birthday and the cat got some cake, too. You can see my wife's passion in the back: her orchids.

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Desperados with Tequila --- Chocolate fortunes : the battle for the hearts, minds, and wallets of China's consumers by Lawrence L. Allen

Happy Birthday for Suki!

I admire people who can keep their orchids alive! I really do, mine always die.

Suki has a very green thumb for orchids. She sometimes gets orchids from other people which are about to die and she gives them new life.

true chocolate:
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>43 paulstalder: Divine! It all looks delicious! I like the one with the sprinkles in the second picture. It looks very happy (if chocolate could look happy).

>43 paulstalder: Yum! I'll take one of each.

>43 paulstalder: Oh wow...

>43 paulstalder: Oh Läderachs 'Bruchschoggi' I can't resist ;-).

Welcome to have a piece - I took the pictures on Sunday through the windows - otherwise, I would still be in there

>48 paulstalder: LOL

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Moretti Lager ---- Il cioccolato : industria, mercato e società in Italia e Svizzera (XVIII-XX sec.) by Francesco Chiapparino

I had no idea there were so many books about chocolate, Paul. Amazing.

Happy new thread, Paul! love the museum/Gauguin pictures. What a sweet picture of your daughter and the family feline engaging in a 'high five' moment!

>43 paulstalder: - ooooohhhh....now you are talking chocolate! I love how thin the wafers are.... can't think of another word to call the chocolate.

>51 connie53:, Connie, there are lots more, I think I could post more during the whole month of March...
I just found out that Barry-Callebaut have their headquarters in Switzerland.

>52 lkernagh: Thanks for coming over, Lori. The cat was begging for a treat and had obey its mistress.
Yeah, the Läderach chocolate are famous (and expensive) *sigh*

>53 paulstalder: Al the way through March!

One of my favourite novels is Somerset-Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence which was loosely based on Gauguin.

>20 paulstalder: I like that painting the best, I think.

>54 connie53: don't look forward to more chocolate?!?

>55 PaulCranswick: Hej Paul, I am very pleased about your visit here. The Moon and Sixpence is still on my TBR lists :) the Gauguin exhibition now gives me a good reason reading it.
I also like >1 paulstalder: and another beach scene which I was not allowed to make a picture of. What I also like are some of his carvings (no pix here), very detailed, fine handywork, and also the cup he made of his own head.

Happy New Year to everybody. In Korea one has to finish the customary tteokguk (soup with sliced rice cakes) in order to grow a year: Finish your soup and you are one year older...

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Eichhof Kloster --- National Geographic : Chocolate - November 1984 Vol. 166, No. 5

>56 paulstalder: NO, NO, NO. I like to see what you come up with. I'm just surprised by the amount of books there are on chocolate.

Happy New Year, Paul! Nice looking soup.

>59 connie53: I don't have all the cooking/baking/dessert books about chocolate. I have novels and some historical, economic books about chocolate.

The soup is very tasty and can be quite hot.

Now we are in the year of the sheep *bäh*

>I heard about that year yesterday on the radio. Is it true that it brings misfortune to everyone born in it?

Happy New Year, Paul!

>61 connie53: I don't know about that. I will ask Suki tonight.

>62 scaifea: *Sheepishly waving back*

>63 paulstalder: *grins*

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Ittinger Amber ---- Chocolat by Joanne Harris

Chocolate is a fantadtic book.

>65 paulstalder: Ooh, a classic. Always reminds me of my local arts cinema, which accidentally put up a poster for this film instead of what they were *actually* showing, Clare Denis' Chocolat. Same title, but very different grimness rating, given that Denis' film explored relationships in a French colony. I evilly hoped that someone had booked and spent two hours wondering what had happened to Johnny Depp...

Loved the film, still have to read the book (and its sequels).

>66 Ameise1: >68 connie53: I've seen the film, loved it. So I feel a bit reluctant to read the book. It might change my liking of the film.

>67 charl08: LOL Could you actually watch the movie or were always looking around watching other people whispering about the Depp???

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Eichhof Alkoholfrei --- Männer sind wie Schokolade : Roman by Tina Grube

20) Dubach im Machtpoker : Mord im Bellevue by Norbert Hochreutener. A new Federal Councillor (Bundesrat) was chosen in Bern, the Bernese Katrin Bürgi, an economist, who recently came back from working in Germany, dealing with money and diamond transfers. Three days later she was found dead, fallen from her hotel suite in Bern (the bellevue). The journalist Marc Dubach and policeman Paul von Gunten investigate. A good story with some interesting twists and turns - you never guess the end... (nor did Marc or Paul).
It reminded of Helvetias Traum vom Glück : Kommissär Ferrari by Anne Gold - there too was the new magistrate killed soon after the election, but in Basel only the police investigates, here is a journalist the main character. But both books were published in 2010 (and I read them both in 2015 :) ).
I like Anne Gold more, but, well, I live in Basel....

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Desde Sol Mexiko ---- Schokoladenrebellen : der Sound der neuen KaKaokultur by Holger In't Veld

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Unser Bier Drummler (the beer for today, the Morgesträich in Basel - the beginning of our Fasnacht=Carnival) --- Chocolate! by Carin Kuoni

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Affligem Blonde --- Der Kuss des Schokoladenmädchens : Roman by Katryn Berlinger

Paul, have you been at the Morgestraich yesterday?

>75 Ameise1: No, I haven't been. I had the day off yesterday and used it for starting my tax declaration....

>76 paulstalder: Good boy, we haven't started yet.

>77 Ameise1: :>)

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Eichhof Radler --- Der Geschmack von Schokolade by Stéphan Lagorce

>74 paulstalder: I really liked that book cover for the chocolate!

>80 thornton37814: Lori: the girl is apparently cutting/peeling a cacao fruit

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Erdinger Weissbier --- Kampf um Sprüngli : wie Alexandra Gantenbein eine Schokoladedynastie spaltet by René Lüchinger

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Warteck Lager ---- Le monde selon Suchard by Chantal Lafontant Vallotton

>83 paulstalder: I love that cover.

>84 charl08: that's the way we feed our children: large pans of chocolate which gives them the strength to hold the pan :)

21) Jerusalemverschwörung : ein Roman by Alton Gansky. Max, a crime scene tech from San Diego flies to Jerusalem in order to give a talk on modern forensic science. As he steps out of the hotel, following his guide Joseph, he finds himself in the time of Christ - after the Crucifixion - and he is to do his thing and investigate, collect material on the different places of the events of the Passion week. Well written and a good apologetic arguments.

beer and chocolate book of the day:
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Wikingerbräu ---- Schweizer Schokolade : industrielle Produktion und kulturelle Konstruktion eines nationalen Symbols 1860-1920 by Roman Rossfeld

after drinking all that beer (my son) and eating so much chocolate (me), we need a certain place and look out for such a sign:
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found in Thessaloniki, Greece

We saw the same signs in Naples! :)

>89 drneutron: hej Jim. These are pretty, self-explaining signs. I like them

sign of the day:


seen in Aarau, Switzerland - too expensive, I think I will look somewhere else

sign of the day:


seen in Basel, Switzerland

Oh no! Did the chocolate books run out? Can I offer one? (hope this is not a repeat...)

oh no, I just stopped, there are more:
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okay, these are not acutal books but advertisement brochures from 1914 and 1922. Cute, n'est-ce pas?

Paul, I love all your photos. Gorgeous idea about the toilet signs.

Thanks, Barbara, I was always fascinated by signs and then started to take pictures of some. It's an interesting subject.

>94 paulstalder: These are fascinating. Remind me of the Bournville museum in Birmingham (although without the overpowering smell of chocolate!).

>97 charl08: I first had to check out Bournville (which shows that my knowledge about foreign chocolate companies is upgradeable). We don't have such old brochures from Fry nor Bournville in our archives, but I found this:



Let's see if I can copy some nice advertisements from the book and post them here.

sign of the day:


seen in Basel, Switzerland ---- LOCKED!!!!!!!!!

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seen in Seoul, South Korea

sign of the day:


seen on the Julierpass, Switzerland

>97 charl08: Bourneville


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all scans from Cadbury & Fry through time

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seen in the old prison tower in Baden, Switzerland (with an old postcard showing the tower)

Beer, books, and bathrooms. Interesting thread you have here, Paul!

>104 alcottacre: the 4 Bs of Life: Book, Beer, Bathroom, and Bars of chocolate - is there anything else?

Paul, I wish you a lovely weekend.

>102 paulstalder: These are wonderful Paul, thank you! I've been racking my brains for the name of the book about the chocolate companies I was reading before Xmas (it was loaned by a family member, and has not been returned!!!). It was full of info about the early days of chocolate making, about just how insecure Cadbury / Fry etc were in their early days of involvement in cocoa. Will keep thinking.

>106 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara. I was up on the highest hill of Basel, celebrating 175 Jahre Chrischona . The church service started of a personal story of a student: He showed a picture of a new born sleepijng baby, and everybody went 'Jöööööh!' and then he told the story behind the picture: Some days ago in their student apartment on St. Chrischona, his wife's labour started around midnight. They called the hospital and the nurse on the phone said, that since that is their first child they should wait some more and then call again.... When they called again, 45 minutes later, he called to cancel the date, he could tell them of the safe delivery of a new baby girl in their bath tub. Among the other students on the campus were two nurses and a midwife who then showed up soon after the baby....

The Pilgermission St. Chrischona sent over 200 missionaries to the USA before WW I. They were among the founders of the German speaking synods in Texas, Missouri etc. And here on St. Chrischona was the first New Testament in Amharic/Ethiopic printed. (I guess that was even the first printed book in that language and script.)

Then we had lunch with 1000 other guests and in the afternoon wer enjoed the musical 'Spittler' (a student production about Christian Friedrich Spittler, the founder of the Basler Mission and Chrischona). Great day with perfect weather (we could the Vosgues in France, the Black Forest in Germany, and the Bernese Alps).

>107 charl08: Glad to be of service. It is an interesting books with a variety of information and some good pictures. I hope that the loaner returns the book soon.

sign of the day:
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help! where do I have to go???
seen in Thessaloniki, Greece

Another book about a chocolate company:
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100 Jahre Stollwerck-Geschichte 1839-1939 by Bruno Kuske

>108 paulstalder: What a beautiful story,Paul. Thanks for sharing it.

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seen in Bad Ischgl, Austria

>111 Ameise1: welcome :)

sign of the day:


seen on Mt Halla on Chejudo, South Korea

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seen on the Würzjoch, South Tirol, Italy

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seen in Lörrach, Germany

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seen in Samnaun, Switzerland

the oldest toilets I have seen so far:
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seen in ancient Philippi, Greece

>117 paulstalder: love them! Really made me smile!

>115 paulstalder: I think these are my favourite so far. Toilets for Minotaurs?

I think I'm missing the chocolate bars here! I wish I had one with me at work tonight.

>119 connie53: I liked them, too. I had to go back in order to make a picture. Samnaun is basically a touristic place. A small village in the Alps on the border to Austria. the main road leads over Austrian territory, so they made Samnaun into a duty free zone, so chocolate, liquor, watches etc. are much cheaper than in the rest of Switzerland. But the hotels are too expensive. This toilet is at a cable car station.

>120 charl08: For tourists, I guess :) It belongs to a farm-turned-into-restaurant house at a hiking trail around the Peitlerkofel. They have some things to eat: Formaggio grigo con cipolla (gray cheese with onions), Tirtlan - agli spinaci, crauti o papaverno (pastry with spinach, kraut and poppy seeds), omelette dell'alpinista (alpinist omelet with cheese, ham, and cherry tomatoes)

>121 thornton37814:

22) Purzelbaum rückwärts by Urs Berner. A booklet my father received from the author (signed), a Swiss journalist. The first of the three short stories is the best: It describes the five kids of a family with their different ideas and wishes. The other two stories are dreamlike, a bit surreal. But I felt like they were not ripe for publishing yet.

sign of the day:


seen in Gwangju, South Korea

23) Des Mauren letzter Seufzer : Roman by Salman Rushdie. A good, but a bit tiring read.

>118 paulstalder: These must been Roman ones. It was very common than.

sign of the day:


seen in Fischleintal, Austria

>126 Ameise1: you're right. Philippi is a fascinating sight. Even more interesting than the toilets is the baptismal, the Octagon.

24) Mariaschwarz : Kriminalroman by Heinrich Steinfest. A man takes a taxi in Milano which is then part of an accident where the taxidriver is killed. After the accident the man is searching his daughter who was in the taxi, but no-one has ever seen a girl in that taxi... Later a corpse is found in an Austrian like and Inspector Lukastik starts to investigate...
Basically a good story with some philosophical touch. But the author describes sexual activities among brother and sister, and that in a positive way. And I think that incest is basically not a good way of life. The author also writes about an Italian woman named Andrea, which is unrealistic. It is illegal to call a girl Andrea - Andrea is a male name in Italy.

>105 paulstalder: Board games!

25) Strange gardens by Michel Quint. A boy is always ashamed when his father, otherwise a good school teacher, is playing the clown, with costumes and all, but a quite sad and. Only when he is a teenager his uncle tells him father behaves like that. A well told little story about the consequences of experiences during World War II in France. Worth reading.

>130 alcottacre: I agree and add that a Board game without a Beer, a Bar of chocolate or a nearby Bathroom is lacking something

>128 paulstalder: Wow, that looks amazingly. Thanks so much for sharing it.

Philippi is a fascinating site

Paul's Prison (well, it was apparently a prison but if Paul really was in that room, is quite another story


the city library of old Philippi

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amazing mosaic floor at the Octagon church

26) Der Kurier : Kriminalroman by Jacques Berndorf. Jobst Grau is a journalist in Bonn and then is told by some three-letter-agency to go to Berlin and look for a certain Steeger who has brought some million dollars and some kilos of kokain to the capital. But Jobst soon realizes that the American and German agencies have some other plans than just finding that diplomat-gone-dealer. Jobst appears very naïve but he finds the right people and the right ways... a complicated plot with a bit of a simplistic main character.

Hi Paul, thanks so much for posting all those forgeous photos. I wish you a wonderful weekend.

>134 paulstalder: Fascinating pictures of Phillipi. Those library ruins makes me wonder what it was like back in the day - I was really intrigued to read (via LT) that they might be able to rescue some of the scrolls from Pompeii and maybe some lost Latin classics.

>136 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara, I was at a mission conference in the Black Forest and there I met Timotheos, the guide who lead us in Greece, and he told me that the toilets in Philippi can not be visited anymore, because of an accident (somebody fell down or into the restroom) .... shame

>137 charl08: Charlotte, that is really an exciting project and I hope that they discover some new classics

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seen on the Hohen Kasten, Appenzell, Switzerland

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Seen on Cheju Island, South Korea

>138 paulstalder: OMG but also LOL, in any case I'm glad you were able to visit it and that you took those photos.

>141 Ameise1: I'm sure glad I was able to visit the whole site. We have seen similar toilets in Corinth but they are almost not recognizable as toilets

27) Die gelbe Zone by André Houot. A French science fiction . In a destroyed world a man is shot dead because he was showing pictures of the world as it was before the new government took power. A witness escapes into the forbidden zone and meets strange and foreign people and life forms. Well drawn, especially the strange living 'things'/'animals', story is okay.



I found out that somebody from Basel moved to Kansas and started a café and a confiserie named André's - so I was able to put it in my chocolate challenge.
http://andreschocolates.com/pages/about-us

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seen in Mainhardt, Germany

Hi Paul, I wish you Happy Easter.

Thanks Barbara, same to you. The Lord is risen!

I forgot to make any statistics. So here they are:
January
1985 pages, 10 books
nationalities: NL 1, F 2, CH 2, D 1, HR 1, B 1, GB 1, USA 1
alive 7, dead 3
females 2, males 7, couple 1

February
1845 pages, 11 books
nationalities: GB 1, F 3, D 3, CH 2, USA 2
females 2, males 9
alive 7, dead 4

28) Ritter des Ku-Klux-Klan : die Geschichte des Richard C. Harris by Damaris Kofmehl. Harris was a school boy and fascinated by the Klan. He wanted to know everything about it. Because he also felt threatened by Blacks coming to his school he wanted to do something against that. He was able to join the Klan as a teenager and became the Dragon for the state of Indiana. He was immersed into the idea of White Supremacy and thought that since Noah cursed his son Ham all Blacks were under that curse of slavery. But then he read the Bible and understood the misinterpretation of Klan theology: Noah cursed Kanaan, his grandson and not Ham. And Jesus in John's Gospel was accepting the Samaritan woman at the well and was clearly not condemning her. He took the consequences, left the Klan, studied theology and is now a preacher. L learned a lot about the wrong presuppositions of Klan ideology and Klan doings. Great story and well written. Kofmehl started with writing adventure books for teenager in Switzerland, then worked as a street worker in Brasil. Her latest books are mainly biographies about people who became Christians form various 'strange' backgounds.

March statistics
1522 pages, 6 books
nationalities: CH 1, GB 1, A 1, F 2, D 1
males 6
alive 6

29) Hänsel & Gretel by Jacob Grimm. A poor woodcutter had two children and one day left them in the forest ... but they found the house of the witch ... A Grimm's tale with nice drawings.

The Lord is risen, he is risen indeed.

1 Corinthians 15,19-20
If we have hoped in Christ in this life only, we are of all men most to be pitied. But now Christ has been raised from the dead,...

Happy Easter, Paul

Hej Paul, thanks for coming by. Happy Easter to you, too.

Paul, you reminded me of my forgotten add-ons...

41) Nacht der Stachelschweine : Laura Gottbergs erster Fall by Felicitas Mayall
- Der Wald war ein Dschungel.
42) Die Mühlen Gottes : Roman by Sidney Sheldon
- Schlägt der Plan fehl, sterben wir alle.
43) Wüstenfeuer : ein Dirk-Pitt-Roman by Clive Cussler
- Der Trommelschlag brach sich an den Holzwänden und wurde als rhythmisches Stakkato mit makelloser Präzision zurückgeworfen.
44) Grosse, kleine Schwester : Roman by Peter Härtling
- Kurz nach vier wirft um diese Jahreszeit die Sonne, die hinter dem Dach des gegenüberliegenden Hauses untergeht, den Schatten der Gardinen ins Zimmer, ein verzerrtes Waffelmuster.
45) Mord unter Schwestern : Thriller by Lisa Scott
- Bennie Rosato hatte in ihrer Laufbahn schon auf über hundert Geschworenenentscheidungen gewartet, aber das Warten wurde dadurch nicht leichter.
46) Jesus heilt gerne! : Ratschläge für Gebet um Heilung by Christoph Häselbarth
- Wenn wir im Namen Jesu um Heilung beten, werden mehr und mehr Menschen geheilt.
47) Heilung : das göttliche Geschenk annehmen und weitergeben by Christoph Häselbarth
- Wie verhalten wir uns, wenn Krankheitssymptome, Unwohlsein und Schmerzen auftreten, die auch nach Tagen nicht verschwinden, sondern eher schlimmer werden?
48) Isabelle Eberhardt : eine Biographie mit Briefen, Tagebuchblättern, Prosa by Isabelle Eberhardt
- Verloren in der Unendlichkeit der ockerfarbenen Sanddünen des südlichen Oran, angeschmiegt an den Hängen des Dschebel Mekter - das ist Aïn Sefra, die Gelbe Quelle.
49) Luisa : Roman by Paula Fox
- "Ruina! Ruina!" hatte mein Grossvater, Isidro Sanchez, ans Ende seines Abschiedsbriefes an meine Grossmutter gekritzelt.
50) A clockwork orange by Anthony Burgess
- 'What's it going to be then, eh?'
51) Hagakure : die Weisheiten des Samurai by Yamamoto Tsunetomo
- Eigentlich sollte sich ein Samurai mit Hingabe dem Weg des Kriegers widmen, doch ist seltsamerweise allenthalben zu beobachten, wie dieser Weg vernachlässigt wird.
52) Die Frau im Mond : Roman by Milena Agus
- Großmutter lernte den Reduce im Herbst 1950 kennen.
53) Der Jäger by Mark Robson
- Wie eine riesige Spinne, die Arme und Beine weit gespreizt, glitt der Schatten lautlos über die Wand und fand mit scheinbarer Leichtigkeit Halt.
54) Attu : die Aleuten-Saga by Allen Roy Evans
- Zok, der Häuptling der Attu-Aleuten, kam zu den Pribiloffs, um die sommerliche Treibjagd auf Seelöwen zu leiten.
55) Elfenbein vom Aldan : Roman by Joseph Matheus Velter
- "Herrlicher Baikal, du heiliges Meer, Schick du den Sturm mir zu Hilfe her ..."
56) An die Laterne : Roman by Audrey Erskine Lindop
- Ein Leben im Schatten des Todes veredelt manche Menschen.
57) 사악한 영을 대적하라 : 마귀의 역사를 물리치는 방법 by 찰스 H. 크래프트
- (Korean translation of Charles Kraft's 'Defeating dark angels')
58) Offline : warum antwortest du nicht, Gott? by Pete Greig
- Wenn deine tiefsten, verzweifelsten Gebete nicht erhört werden, wenn das Leben manchmal so doll schmerzt, dass du dich im Stillen fragst, ob Gott überhaupt existiert, und wenn er existiert, ob es ihm vielleicht egal ist, und wenn es ihm nicht egal ist, warum um alles in der Welt er dann nicht einfach mal etwas TUT, um zu helfen - wenn du dich das fragst, dann bist du nicht allein.
59) Gottes Heilsplan in der Altenpflege : Gute Nachricht für häusliche und stationäre Pflege by Andreas Mischnick
- Haben es manche Menschen, die auf Hilfe und Pflege anderer angewiesen sind, schwer, sich in eine Pflegeeinrichtung zu begeben?
60) Mit Jesus im Leben herrschen by Christoph Häselbarth
- Vor Jahrtausenden beschrieb ein prophetisch begabter Mann, nämlich Paulus, unsere Zeit so: Das aber sollst du wissen, dass in den letzten Tagen schlimme Zeiten eintreten werden.
61) Die Sache mit der Rippe : die himmlische Idee von den Geschlechtern by Frauke Bielefeldt
- Frausein ist heute gar nicht so einfach.
62) Liebe mit drei Sternen : Roman by Kajsa Ingemarsson
- Es war nicht das erste Mal, dass jemand nach ihren Brüsten griff.
63) Slam : Roman by Nick Hornby
- Eigentlich lief alles gerade richtig gut.
64) Bitteres Geheimnis : Roman by Barbara Wood
- Mary öffnete ihren Bademantel und liess ihn zu Boden fallen.
65) Sing, Zigeuner, sing . . . : Roman by Martin Cruz Smith
- Gott hat den Menschen nach seinem Ebenbilde erschaffen, heisst es.
66) Opernball : Roman by Josef Haslinger
- Reso Dorf bleibt ein "Bauernführer"
67) Les plus beaux dimanches après-midi du monde by Jacques Antoine Daniel Froidevaux
- Au début il n'y avait rien, et on ne savait pas quel jour on était...
68) Houellebecq économiste by Bernard Maris
- La "secte" disait-on du temps de Louis XV, pour ricaner des économistes et de leurs raisonnements compliqués.
69) Vergängliche, glückliche Zeit : Lebtage in Arlesheim by Eleonora Hänggi
- Täglich erfreuen sich Menschen aus nah und fern an der Schönheit unseres Arlesheimer Doms.

Happy Easter!

Wow, that's a lot of books to add. Happy Easter.

Thanks Lori and Charlotte, I wish you a happy Easter, too.

I guess these books I received in January, maybe I add some more today.

some pix from our garden:
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tiny waterdrops withing the 'leaves'

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rose -- growing in hope on the pathway

I read several poems for the TIOLI poetry challenge #18:
1) Ganymed by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
--- The mythic youth Ganymed is fascinated by the beauty of spring and he is drawn towards god, the all-loving father
----Wie im Morgenglanze
----Du rings mich anglühst,
----Frühling, Geliebter!
2) Der Junggesell und der Mühlbach by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
--- A fellow goes to the brook and talks with it. The fellow is in love with the female miller but is afraid of telling her. The brook tells about its experiences when passing the mill. I had to smile when the brook says
'Und kommt, ihr liebes Angesicht
Zu baden.
Ihr Busen ist so voll und weiss;
Es wird mir gleich zum Dampfen heiss.'
(And then comes her lovely face to bathe. Her breasts are so full and white. I get so hot I start to steam.)
----Wo willst du klares Bächlein hin,
----So munter?
----Du eilst mit frohem leichtem Sinn
----Hinunter.
3) Der Lattenzaun by Christian Morgenstern
- A fun poem about the space between the posts of a paling
---Es war einmal ein Lattenzaun,
mit Zwischenraum, hindurchzuschaun.
Ein Architekt, der dieses sah,
stand eines Abends plötzlich da –
und nahm den Zwischenraum heraus
und baute draus ein großes Haus.
Der Zaun indessen stand ganz dumm,
mit Latten ohne was herum.
Ein Anblick gräßlich und gemein.
Drum zog ihn der Senat auch ein.
Der Architekt jedoch entfloh
nach Afri- od- Ameriko.
(Once there was a paling
with space to look through.
An architect who saw that
took out that space
and built a house with it.
The paling looks quite stupid now
with just the naked pales, nothing around.
A sight so horrible and mean
that the senate took it in.
The architect escaped
to Afri- or Americo.)

>158 paulstalder: Love the roses. I'm still picking the green flies off the new shoots, hoping that the buds will survive to bloom.

Hi Paul, I wish you a fabulous weekend.

>160 charl08: Hej Charlotte, we are happy that the roses grow so well in our garden. Suki is doing a good job. The other roses are just starting to bud, I'll show pictures when they are blossoming.

>161 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara, Suki and the younger daughter are gone away to Sardinia for the weekend (till Tuesday). That gives me time to keep up with church and my books :)

When combining works by Barbara Wood, I accidentally combined Soul flame and Green City in the Sun. Arrghh -- it took me yesterday and today hours to separate the two again, basically checking the other languages titles of the works took endlessly time. So I did sort them out now but the contents of the CK fields I could not restore. I don't have the books myself and so I cannot look up the characters, places, awards, first and last words etc. So if someone has these two books please help to clean up the mess I did

add-ons:
70) Nacht ohne Ende : Roman by Alistair MacLean
--- It was Jackstraw who heard it first - it was always Jackstraw, whose hearing was an even match for his phenomenal eyesight, who heard things first.
71) Der Grosstyrann und das Gericht : Roman by Werner Bergengruen
--- Es ist in diesem Buche zu berichten von den Versuchungen der Mächtigen und von der Leichtverführbarkeit der Unmächtigen und Bedrohten.
72) Atlantis : Roman by Hannu Raittila
--- Ein Zerstörungswerk ... versteht ihr.
73) Birthright by Nora Roberts
--- Douglas Edward Cullen had to pee.
74) Die Schmelze : Öko-Thriller by Risto Isomäki
--- Der Mythos von Atlantis, dem untergegangenen Festland, hat die Menschen so lange beschäftigt, dass man meinen sollte, die Entdeckung von Atlantis hätte einen beträchtlichen Nachrichtenwert.
75) The Donegal woman by John Throne
--- Aw God save me.
76) Der Orchideenpalast : Roman by Laila El Omari
--- Schatten flossen ineinander, trennten sich wieder und malten bizarre Formen in den Raum, wann immer der sanfte Schlag der Wellen gegen den Schiffskörper die Kerzenflammen zum Erzittern brachte.
77) Glaubst du, dass es Liebe war? : Roman by Alex Capus
--- Lasst mich erzählen, wie mein Fahrradmechaniker Harry Widmer junior ein ziemlich guter Mensch wurde - er, der stets ein Prachtkerl von einem Schweinehund gewesen war, ein Lügner, Betrüger und Schläger von Kindesbeinen an, ein Faulenzer und Aufschneider und, spätestens ab dem sechzehnten Altersjahr, ein Wüstling.
78) Enttäuscht oder erfüllt leben? by Christoph Häselbarth
--- Sie sitzen in einer christlichen Versammlung.
79) Goldrausch in Weissbad : eine Abenteuergeschichte by Henri F. Triet
--- Weissbad in einem Juni, anfangs des letzten Jahrhunderts.

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80) Vom Wasser : Roman by John von Düffel
--- Sie hatten sich schon Lebwohl gesagt, als sie ihn fragte, und wo willst du jetzt hin?
81) Treffbube ist Trumpf. Käthe und ihre Zehn by Edgar Wallace
--- Der junge Mann, den man Koks-Gregory nannte, wurde in einem Rinnstein des östlichen London aufgelesen.
82) Manon Lescaut by Antoine François Prévost
--- Ich möchte den Leser bitten, mir in jene Epoche meines Lebens zu folgen, in der ich dem Chevalier des Grieux zum ersten Mal begegnet bin.
83) "Tochter bleibt man ein Leben lang ..." : von Frauen und ihren Vätern by Victoria Secunda
--- Es war an einem eisigkalten Dezembertag.
84) The last dragonlord by Joanne Bertin
--- The storm was close now.
85) Peony in love by Lisa See
--- Two days before my sixteenth birthday, I woke up so early that my maid was still asleep on the floor at the foot of my bed.
86) Ein ganzes halbes Jahr : Roman by Jojo Moyes
--- Als er aus dem Bad kommt, ist sie wach, hat sich gegen das Kopfkissen gelehnt und blättert durch die Reiseprospekte, die neben seinem Bett gelegen haben.
87) Eine Liebe und so viele Sterne : Roman by Dimiter Natschew
--- Es regnete.
88) Revelation by Carol Berg
--- Verdonne was a beauteous woodland maid, a mortal who caught the eye and heart of the god who ruled the forest lands of earth.
89) Transformation by Carol Berg
--- Ezzarian prophets say that the gods fight their battles within the souls of men and that if the deities mislike the battleground, they reshape it according to their will.
90) Restoration by Carol Berg
--- I was living in the land of demons when I first came to believe that the god-stories of the Ezzarians were true.

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add-ons:
91) Two caravans by Marina Lewycka
--- There is a field--a broad south-sloping field siting astride a long hill that curves away into a secret leafy valley.
92) Ich Bruder Klaus von Flüe : eine Geschichte aus der inneren Schweiz by Pirmin Adrian Meier
--- Für seine Macht im Bann des Unsichtbaren, seinen tatsächlichen oder seinen ihm zugeschriebenen Einfluss, als Friedensstifter, Retter der Nation und sogar "Schweizerarzt", haben sich die Chronisten zu allen Zeiten interessiert.
93) Nachts, wenn die Schatten fallen by Robert Cormier
--- Me and my sister.
94) Der Eindringling : Erzählung by Melvin J. Sandström
--- Der knorrige Alte mit dem weissen Stoppelbart wälzte sich unruhig im Bett hin und her.
95) Vanilla orchids : natural history and cultivation by Kenneth Michael Cameron
--- The word vanilla has become synonymous with plain, boring, white, common, ordinary, and flavorless.
96) The fisher king by Anthony Powell
--- Exile is the wound of kingship.
97) The world according to Garp by John Irving
--- Garp's mother, Jenny Fields, was arrested in Boston in 1942 for wounding a man in a movie theater.
98) Dubach im Machtpoker : Mord im Bellevue by Norbert Hochreutener
--- Man soll die Menschen so nehmen, wie sie sind, da es ja keine anderen gibt.
99) Matthias Berg : Roman by Yvette Z'Graggen
--- "Dort Herr Berg kommt", sagt der türkische Lebensmittelhändler.
100) Watchman Nee : ein Leben gegen den Strom by Angus Ian Kinnear
--- Im Mittleren Königreich war der Frühling schon weit vorgerückt, und die Zeit der "Reinen Heiterkeit" war der des "Kornregens" gewichen.

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30) Noch schöner küssen by Hans Borghorst. Not a serious read ... cartoons and comments about kissing. for example: Kissing under the influence of alcohol: advantage: the attractivness of the partner increases - disadvantage: the next morning may bring a rude awakening.
A book for waiting and bath rooms.

31) Aëlita : Roman ; ein Marsroman by Alexej Tolstoi. A Russian science fiction by a far removed cousin of Leo. A Russian, Losj, builds a space rocket and flies with an ex-Soviet soldier to the Mars within a few hours. There they meet the humanoid Marsians. Lojs explores the philosophy and history of the Mars, taught by Aelita, a Marsian noble. The Soviet helps in an upraising of the working class... Interesting idea, but a weak and flat outcome. But good for a 1923 description of a modern world (e.g. video phones).

Hi Paul, I love Manon Lescaut. I've read it in my teens - sigh - way ago. I wish you a relaxed weekend.

Hej Barbara, it's sunny and reasonably warm - a good day for a walk. I wish you a good weekend, too.

32) Das Schloss und die Insel : Die gespiegelte Pilgerreise by C. S. Lewis. John starts out his pilgrimage in Puritania, meets different characters and places of philosophical and theological views till he meets Mother Ekklesia who shos him the way to his longings. A good allegory of Christian apologetics in the spirit of John Bunyan's The pilgrim's progress

33) The body in the library by Agatha Christie. A dead blond is found in Colonel Bantry's library. Miss Marple, a friend of the Bantry's, is called in and realizes that there is something wrong with the body, the dress and the bitten nails don't seem to fit... A fun read.

I so enjoy visiting here. I love the photos, your imaginative way of finding a theme for the images makes me smile.

Also, you read such interesting books.

I loved the image of high five with your daughter and cat!

>172 Whisper1: Thanks Linda for visiting my site :)
I am pleased abnout your comments about my pictures and that reminds me, I didn't post any pix since Easter. Let's see...

34) Angusalem by André Houot. 2nd part of the Siebengestirn fantasy comic. The caravan finds the city of Angusalem, a hospital which is actually an organ bank for the bad guys.

35) Der leichte Stein : ein Roman um Liebe und Bernstein by Hans Lucke. A fisher from Schwarzort (Black Place), today's Lithuania, brings his catch to town. A Jewish merchant travels with him. Then the fisher's boy get's a 'light stone' up from the sea with the anchor. The merchant recognizes it as amber and so the amber trade starts in the Curonian Spit. An easy readable story about trade, amber, family, and love, written by an unknown Prussian author.

Hi Paul, I wish you a wonderful weekend.

Same to you, Barbara

add-ons:
101) Brunos grosse Liebe by Petra Hammesfahr
- Das hätte ich mir nie träumen lassen, dass ich eines Tages das Bedürfnis habe, meine eigene Geschichte zu erzählen.
102) Geschichten aus dem Land der Sufis by Mojdeh Bayat
- Geschichten und Legenden sind ein fester Bestandteil des Sufismus, der mystischen Tradition des Islams.
103) Venus, Maria, Fatima : wie die Lust zum Teufel ging by Ekkehart Rotter
- Das Interesse der britischen Boulevard-Press ist vorrangig darauf ausgerichtet, wie Politiker und Mitglieder des Königshauses ihre sexuelle Potenz umsetzen.
104) Hannibal rising : Roman by Thomas Harris
- Die Tür zu Dr. Hannibal Lecters Gedächtnispalast befindet sich in dem Dunkel im Zentrum seines Geistes, und sie hat eine Klinke, die nur mit dem Tastsinn gefunden werden kann.
105) Desperados : Roman by Joseph O'Connor
- Als es am dritten Abend dunkel wurde, hatte Frank Little wieder Angst.
106) Wenn Engel fallen : Roman by Tracy Chevalier
- Als ich heute Morgen aufwachte, lag ein Fremder in meinem Bett.
107) Das letzte Allegretto : Krimi by Rebecca Gablé
- Sie würden ihn nicht kriegen.
108) Der sechste Sinn des Mr. Reeder : Kriminalroman by Edgar Wallace
- Der Tag, an dem Mr. Reeder ddem Büro des Staatsanwalts zugeteilt wurde, war tatsächlich schicksalhaft für Mr. Lambton Green, den Filialleiter der London Scottish Midland Bank.
109) Sputnik Sweetheart : Roman by Haruki Murakami
- Im Frühling ihres zweiundzwanzigsten Lebensjahres verliebte sich Sumire zum allerersten Mal.
110) Die Schule des Glücks : Roman by Angela Vallvey
- Es gibt Dinge, nicht wert, sie zu wissen, und andere, die man besser nicht vergisst.

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I hope your weekend is a good one Paul.

poems for the TIOLI poetry challenge #18:
4) Der Nachtschelm und das Siebenschwein oder Eine glückliche Ehe by Christian Morgenstern. Not to be taken too seriously a poem about a night rogue and a 'seven pig' who married and had thirteen children.
The last verse:
Von zehn bis dreizehn ist nicht klar; -
doch wie dem auch gewesen war,
es war eine glückliche Ehe!
(Numbers 10 to 13 is not quite known; -
but such as it may have been,
the marriage was a happy one!)

5) Quellen, sie münden herauf by Rainer Maria Rilke, http://picture-poems.com/rilke/features/sparkling-steps.html here with an English tranlsation

6) Si kunnt by Theoblad Baerwart. A Swiss German poem about the coming Herbschtmäss (Autumn Fair) in Basel. (she comes/it comes)
Wider kemme d'Orgelemännli,
D'Wafflebegge mit de Pfännli;
Dirgehonig, Nougat, Megge,
Wirschtli git's an alle-n-Egge.
(Again come the hurdy-gurdy men,
the waffle bakers with their pans;
Turkish delight, nougat, sweet chunks,
sausages they sell at all corners.)

The next verses give several highlights of the fair (not for kids only!).
end:
D'Mäss zieht y! O herbschtlig Wunder!
's isch fir jede-n-eppis drunder,
Und wenn 's Läbe noh so mys,
Vierzäh Dag lang Paradys!
(The fair is coming! O wondrous autumn!
everybody can find some good,
and should life be mean,
we enjoy 14 days of paradise!)

d'Mäss (the Fair) happens every year in autumn - and the whole city is different. Two weeks paradise for the kids (going on all these fairground items - what are they called in English?) and adults (eating all the various foods at different stalls and romantic outings on the giant Ferris Wheel).

7) Überlass es der Zeit by Theodor Fontane. A more serious poem about one's reaction to things that annoy one: Leave it to time to straighten out things.
end:
Ärger ist Zehrer und Lebensvergifter,
Zeit ist Balsam und Friedensstifter.
(anger takes away your energy and poisons your life,
time is balm and a peace maker.)

>179 Whisper1: Thanks Linda, for coming by, Wish you a good start into the new week.

add-ons:
111) Collected Poems by Roger McGough
- Learning to read during the war
wasn't easy, as books were few
and far between. But Mother
made sure I didn't go to sleep
without a bedtime story.
112) Verborgene Stimmen : chinesische Frauen erzählen ihr Schicksal by Xinran
- Am 3. November 1999 um neun Uhr abends befand ich mich auf dem Heinmweg von der Londoner Universität, wo ich an der School of Oriental and African Studies eine späte Vorlesung gehalten hatte..
113) Arcana 1 by So-Young Lee
- Ganz ruhig, braver Hund.
114) Superhero : Roman by Anthony McCarten
- Aufblende... DONALD DELPE. Vierzehn.
115) Wirf einen Schattenn nur : Roman by Han Suyin
- Ein Dorf in Kambodscha, eines der vielen Hunderte Dörfer in Kambodscha.
116) Tiefer Süden : Roman by Gwen Bristow
- Die späte Abendsonne warf seidigen Glanz auf die Wellen des Flusses.
117) Kinderwahn : Roman by Kathy Lette
- "Mutter Natur ist ein falsches, fieses, mieses Miststück", murrte Madeline, während sie ihre Jumbo-Binde zurechtschob, das Babytragetuch hochhievte und schmerzverzerrt ins Kaufhaus Harrods humpelte, um ein paar Diätpflaumen zur Linderung ihrer postpartalen Verstopfung zu erstehen.
118) The Loner by Lindsay McKenna
- Dakota Carson sensed danger.
119) Killing hour by Andrew Gross
- Sherry Ann Frazier knew she'd seen him somewhere before.
120) Getting over edgar by Joan Barfoot
- Gwen can't take her eyes off Edgar being dead.

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Hi Paul, I've been absent form LT for a while. I hope you are doing fine!

>183 connie53: Welcome back, Connie, hope you had a fruitful time on your leave. Have a good start into the new week.

Love these covers you're posting, the Joan Barfoot one would have me reaching for it on the shelf.

I really like Roger McGough's poetry, so witty and good to read aloud. He was commissioned to write a poem for the reopened Central station at Liverpool, about the city. Every time I pass it it makes me smile (no small achievement in a busy commuter station!). When I was a kid he presented a tv programme we watched in school English classes. I remember him sitting on a bus describing how he would write down the things people said as fuel for his poems (why this stuck with me I have no idea).

>185 charl08: Hej Charlotte, I liked the cover of McGough's Collected poems and took it home...
Here the poem I just read for poem challenge (no 8):
Kyrie
There was a porter
who had ideas
high above his railway station
always causing righteous indignation

he wanted to be
giant amongst men
saviour come again to earth
but his teachings only met with mirth

one bright winters morn
packed in his job
beleived the world neede him
dedicated his life to fighting sin

the second day out
crossing the road
apparently in Stockport town
a diesel lorry swerved and knocked him down

back at the station
all the porters
wore mourning masks on their faces
and all agreed he should have stuck to cases
taken from: Collected Poems by Roger McGough

found a nice quote on pinterest:


Das Leben ist zu kurz für Knäckebrot. Ich will Schokolade.
(Life is too short for crispbread. I want chocolate.)

>187 paulstalder: Fully agreed.

Yes! That's the spirit. Give me some chocolate!

A won another Frog Award!! yippiee

The My Heart Goes Out to You Award goes to paulstalder for his challenge to read a book with the name of a chocolatier in the title or the author's name. If you don't know it yet, I'm a "softie" for all things chocolate so even the mention of a chocolatier makes me happy!

Thanks Madeline

>188 Ameise1:

>189 connie53:

Thanks so much, Paul. I love hazelnut chocolate. Congrats on your award.

Thanks Paul, that looks absolutely delicious. And an award! Yeah!!!

Richly (at least 70% cocoa) deserved... :-)

>192 Ameise1: >193 connie53: your welcome, have a break, have a chocolate

our sbc net (server absed computing) broke down ten minutes ago and it's still unknown to anyone what happened and when we can work again. 'My' stand alone computer is working (but not the library programs) - gives me a break and I can read poems for the TIOLI challenge :) Shame I am not allowed to eat chocolate at the bar :(

have a break, have a poem

'Ich habe meine Ernährung umgestellt - die Schokolade ist nun links vom PC.'
(I changed my diet - chocolate is now on the left side of my computer.)

>194 charl08: thanks, Charlotte,

>196 paulstalder: LOL

36) Kriegsbriefe eines neutralen Offiziers by Karl Müller. A Swiss officer reports from the German Western front. He travels as a neutral journalist and visits different battle fields and towns along the French-German front. He seems to be quite enthusiastic about war and the chances for the Germans to win the war (1915).



This is one of books we, the Swiss Economic Archives, make public in wikisource, so I was finishing the end reading. https://de.wikisource.org/wiki/Index:M%C3%BCllerKriegsbriefe.pdf

Great that the book is available in wikisource, but I'd much rather be reading the edition you've shown...

April statistics
1231 pages, 8 books (one of them in English)

nationalities: D 3, SU 1, GB 2, F 1, CH 1
dead 6, alive 2
male 7, female 1

and I read 44 poems (25 in English, 16 in German, and 3 in Swiss German) for challenge 18 of the TIOLI challenges for April; of these 17 were shared reads
'my' poems were written by: Theoblad Baerwart, Wilhelm Busch, Theodor Fontane, Paul Gerhardt, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Ödön von Horváth, David Jaffin, Friedrich Gottlieb Klopstock, Hugo Marti, Karl May, Roger McGough, Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Christian Morgenstern, Michael Ondaatje, Rainer Maria Rilke, Silja Walter

>200 charl08: hej Charlotte, I never had the original copy in my hands. I was checking the online transcription against the Faktur writing (old German type).

You could ask your library to make an International Library Loan from our library (would cost you about 2 IFLA vouchers). We could send the book to your library. :)

add-ons:
121) Der Mensch auf dem Mond : 20./21. Juli 1969 ; Apollo-11-Flug: Aufbruch zu einer neuen Epoche by G. Galai
- Ein uralter Menschheitstraum ist wahr geworden: Der Mensch hat den Mond erobert.
122) Liebesverrat : die Treulosen in der Literatur by Peter von Matt
- Wer sich an die Aufgabe macht, die Treulosen in der Literatur zu untersuchen, dem Liebesverrat in alten und neuen Geschichten nachzuspüren, tut gut daran, von Anfang an klarzustellen, dass er diesem Vorhaben nicht gewachsen ist.
123) Der leichte Stein : ein Roman um Liebe und Bernstein by Hans Lucke
- Ein Spätsommerabend im Jahre 1860: der Ostwind trieb kurze kleine Wellen auf den Schwarzorter Strand zu, auf den der Schiffer seinen Handkahn zog.
124) Bonjour tristesse : Roman by Françoise Sagan
- Ich zögere, diesem fremden Gefühl, dessen sanfter Schmerz mich bedrückt, seinen schönen und ernsten Namen zu geben: Traurigkeit.
125) Leone Leoni : Roman by George Sand
- Wir waren in Venedig.
126) Schimmernd wie die Kaurimuschel : ein Roman um die Erfinder des Meissener Porzellans by Mia Munier-Wroblewski
- Melchior Steinbrück, Präzeptor auf Kieslingswalde in der Lausitz, kam mit seinen Zöglingen, den jungen Grafen Tschirnhaus, von einem Spaziergang zurück.
127) Zonenkinder by Jana Hensel
- Am letzten Tag meiner Kindheit, ich war dreizehn Jahre und drei Monate alt, verließ ich gemeinsam mit meiner Mutter am frühen Abend das Haus.
128) 500 5-Minuten-Spiele : kurzweilige 5-Minuten-Spiele für Kinder im Alter von 3-8 Jahren by Maike Petersen
- Schöner Spuk, den man aus alten Bettlaken zaubern kann!
129) Das weisse Segel : wohin der Wind des Glücks dich trägt by Sergio Bambaren
- Vorsichtig zog ich die Kajütentür unserer Yacht zu.
130) Die ungeschminkte Wahrheit : ein Ina-Henkel-Kriminalroman by Astrid Paprotta
- An einem Frühlingsabend kurz vor acht kletterte Pit Rehbein ganz in schwarz gekleidet auf den Rand eines Brunnens vor der Oper und begann zu singen.

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add-ons:
131) Das finstere Tal : Roman by Thomas Willmann
- Die knorrige Hand fuhr hinein in das wurlende Knäuel neugeborenen Lebens.
132) Jenseits von Timbuktu : Roman by Stefanie Gercke
- Die Geschichte begann an Anita Carvalhos Geburtstag, einem ungewöhnlich heissen Julitag im Jahr 2008, auf einem Segelboot vor der südöstlichen Küste Mallorcas.
133) Weisses Licht : Kriminalroman by Marina Heib
- Man kann in das Haus hineinsehen, wenn man will.
134) Öland : Kriminalroman by Johan Theorin
- Die Mauer bestand aus grossen, runden Steinen, bedeckt von weissen Flechten, und war so hoch, wie der Junge gross war.
135) Die Freunde des Monsieur Paul : Kriminalroman by Suzanne Prou
- Wenn es Abend wird, überkommt Pierre eine Angst, die ihn in die Dämmerungen von ehedem zurückversetzt, in die späten Tagesstunden, in denen er zwischen dem Vater und der Mutter auf einem Feldweg dahinging.
136) Die Heilige Nacht auf dem Berg : Erzählung by Alexandros Papadiamantis
- "Jánnis Nyfiótis und Argýris, der Müllerssohn, sind oben bei der Burg eingeschneit, drüben, wo's nach Stivotó raufgeht, habt ihr's schon gehört?" rief Frangúlis Sakellários, der Pope, sobald er nach dem aus Bohnen und Oliven bestehenden Abendessen der Familie das Dankgebet gesprochen hatte.
137) Wilsberg und die Wiedertäufer : Kriminalroman by Jürgen Kehrer
- "Georg, Telefon für dich!"
138) Labyrinth des Zorns : Stachelmanns fünfter Fall by Christian von Ditfurth
- Hätte jemand den Ablauf der Ereignisse auf Tonband aufgenommen und das Band später mit extrem langsamer Geschwindigkeit abspielen lassen, dann hätte er das Summen gehört, als der Strom in den Zünder schoss, und den scharfen Knall, als dieser explodierte, worauf eine dumpfe Detonation folgte, als die Stahltonne mit ihrer Mischung aus Dünger, Diesel und anderen Chemikalien im Keller hochging, dann ein Bersten, Klirren und Krachen, als der Boden des Erdgeschosses hochgeschleudert und die Fassade neben der Tür, in Höhe des Wachzimmers, nach aussen gedrückt und dann zerrissen wurde.
139) Schwaben-Messe by Klaus Wanninger
- Als sie das Bellen des Hundes zum ersten Mal wahrnahm, lag die Umgebung des Hauses noch im Dunkeln.
140) Die Toten vom Karst : ein Proteo-Laurenti-Krimi by Veit Heinichen
- Proteo Laurenti raste vor Wut, Eifersucht und Verzweiflung.

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37) Darky Green : Roman by Adrian Plass. Darky had a real bad childhood, is ugly and slightly handicapped. He inherits a lot of money and now hired some bad guys in order to punish those who laugh at him or don't obey his wishes. One day he sees Beth, a nice young girl. He sets his brutal machinery in motion, but Beth and her friends have other ideas. An unusual mystery where all characters have to come to terms with the reality of the world and their inner longings and love.
'The snkae' by D. H. Lawrence is quoted in full length and shortly discussed, and compared to the inner decision making of the characters... http://homepages.wmich.edu/~cooneys/poems/dhl.snake.html

Darkly Green sounds intriguing.

Happy Day to you Paul.

>206 Whisper1: It is - it has its length because each main character is described in detail. But it gives good insights into human thinking and feeling

As usual grinding me into the dirt when it comes to book add-ons! Both of us of course way down on two years ago - I guess our respective ladies have started to put their collective feet down!

Thanks for stopping by my thread several times while I was struggling with things in April.

Hej Paul 'grinding me into the dirt' is definitely not my intention. I call myself lucky for having so many good places to get free books. And some books I take, catalog them here and pass them on to some libraries which are collecting that subject (like the Naminbia-Library, the Economic Archives or the Swiss National Library etc.). That way I have books in my library I usually would not get but gives some insight into subjects I would never read.

Thanks for passing by. I hope that you get into stiller waters now.

add-ons:
141) Weinparadies Oberrhein... : ein kritischer und unabhängiger Führer zu den Weinen der drei Länder am Rheinknie by Hanns Uli Christen
- Die Landschaft am Rheinknie, das Dreyeckland, bietet alle Gaben der Natur, die für die Kultur der Rebe wichtig sind - und das in bester Qualität.
142) Tee : Gewohnheit und Konsequenz by Bernd Merzenich
- Nachdem um das Jahr 519 nach Christus der buddhistische Heilige Bodhidharma, dritter Sohn des indischen Königs Kaisawo und erster Missionar des Buddhismus in China, auf einem Schilfrohr den Fluss Jangtsekiang überquert hatte, verharrte er neun Jahre lang in Meditation vor einer Felswand, um wachend und fastend das Höchstmass menschlicher Vollkommenheit zu erlangen.
143) Ma déclaration au monde by Jérôme Favre
- Les soldats arrivent dans le camp et massacrent tous les Indiens.
144) Der Mond und das Mädchen : Roman by Martin Mosebach
- Wer eine Wohnung sucht, hat es mit einem der seltenen Augenblicke zu tun, in denen der Mensch wirklich einmal glauben darf, über die Zukunft seines Lebens zu entscheiden, denn im Wohnen, so vieldeutig dies Wort eben ist, liegt doch das ganze Leben beschlossen.
145) Was geschah mit Inga Andersson? : Roman by Björn Larsson
- Ich traf Inga Andersson zweimal, zuerst zum Jahresende 2000 und danach knapp zwei Monate später.
146) In feinen Kreisen : Roman by Anne Perry
- Der junge Mann stand blass und nervös an der Tür und drehte seinen Hut in den Händen.
147) Mit Gewehr und Kanu : in 80 Tagen zum Pazifik, 1793 by Alexander Mackenzie
- Als 1763 den Engländern Kanada abgetreten wurde, hatten die Clerks der Hudson Bay Company, die seit 1670 an der nördlichen und nordwestlichen Küste dieser Gegend ihre Niederlassungen hatten, nur die Ufer einiger Flüsse untersucht, die von Süden her in jenen Meerbusen münden; ebenso hatten sie dessen westliche und nördliche Buchten und Einfahrten erforschen lassen, jedoch ohne die seit langem gesuchte Durchfahrt zu finden und ohne irgendeinen Gewinn für die Geographie zu erzielen.
148) Niemand denkt an Grönland : Roman by John Griesemer
- "Sie wollen sich bestimmt kratzen", sagte die Schwester.
149) Die Lichter von Tokio by Federica de Cesco
- Sanae sass auf ihrer Matte und füllte die kleine schwarze Schale mit Reis.
150) Manneskraft per Postversand : Roman by Karin Brunk-Holmqvist
- Das Knarzen des Ausziehsofas in der Küche zeugte vom Beginn eines neuen Tages.

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Stopping by for a quick "Hello!" and to admire all of your acquisitions, Paul!

I love the cover of Der Mond und das Mädchen : Roman but the LT review isn't very positive :-(

> 211 Hej, Amber, there are some nice ones among them. 'Hallo' back

>212 charl08: Hej Charlotte, that's true, I like the cover, too, so I picked it up at the 'Public Bookshelf'. I haven't decided yet, if I am going to read it.

38) Adam und Evelyn : Roman by Ingo Schulze. Evelyn lives together with Adam, a dressmaker, in the former GDR. She wants to escape to the West and therefore travels to the Balaton. Adam follows her but would like to stay in the East. But then Hungary opens the borders and they can travel to the West. A story of 'home' and 'foreign', 'adaptation' and 'forlorn'. Interesting description of the relationships among the different characters. I somehow didn't get warm with this book.

Hi Paul, I wish you a lovely weekend.

Thanks so much, Barbara

>214 paulstalder: Sorry that didn't work for you - your summary of the premise makes it sound interesting, at least!

>217 charl08: Yes, it is interesting. But the characters didn't come alive for me. Not much action, but interesting comments about living in the GDR, the idea to flee the country, the aspect of waiting at the border for the best chance, the feelings of homesickness/foreignness in the West, find your won way etc.

39) Höhlen öffnen : ein Photoprojekt by Christoph Bühler. A little book with lots of pictures of Swiss caves and some short stories in which caves play a role: A nature freak writes a letter to his friend from his week long stay in a cave near Zürich, a description of finding a cave, two girls discover their private caves within a cave, a poem, some thoughts (13 ½) about cave inhabitants and the use of caves, a mystery in which an escapee flees into a cave ... Good black-and-white fotos, the texts are of different worths.
Black velvet cover, nice soft touch

40) Virginia : respektlose Betrachtungen eines aufgeweckten Kleinstadtmädchens aus dem Amerika der Jahrhundertwende by Virginia Cary Hudson. A funny little read about everyday life of a ten-year-old girl in Kentucky. Good fun.

Hi Paul, I wish you a wonderful weekend.

Thanks Barbara.

It was somehow a tough week. My mother (85) was on a holiday trip to Italy and came home with a cold, two weeks ago. But she didn't go to the doctor. So, Sunday morning around 6 she called the hospital because her bronchia were all blocked and she had difficulties breathing - that was Mother's Day. She then called my sister but sister did not tell me. So I was trying to contact my mother the whole day.... Okay, I went to see my mother last Wednesday. In hospital they diagnosed a heart failure, too. But in the evening my mother had enough and suddenly wanted to go home. After eight pm she phoned me to order me to fetch her (but we don't have a car anymore) or tell my sister to get her out of hospital. A doctor in the hospital persuaded her then to stay and gave her a single room .... Well, she told me now that I shouldn't come this weekend and she will return home next Monday. ... poor hospital staff ....

Oh dear, I'm so sorry to hear about your mother's health issues. I agree that she must be a difficult patient. Will she be able to live on her own whencoming back home? Or will it be yours and your sister's turn to support her?

Oh, Paul, I'm so sorry about your mother. I know how worried you must be, as I've been through something similar recently with my mom, who lives 7 hours away. Thinking of you both.

Just to add my sympathy for your mother's health difficulties.

>223 Ameise1: Thanks Barbara, she was quite difficult last Wednesday and Thursday, now she accepted - at least partially - her being in hospital and the treatment. She can still support herself quite good. My sister lives in the next village (20 minutes by car) and often visits my mother. But she has a handicapped son (can't walk, uses a wheelchair) who is grown up and can go to work with his own (special) car. But still she is very busy. And she started teaching line dance and preparing the dances and keep up her own level (she was Swiss champion in line dancing a few years ago) keeps her very busy. So we are pleased that mother stays in the hospital at the moment and is not dependent on our help.

>224 scaifea: Thanks Amber. The heart failure was all news to all of us. Burt seems not to be a big issuer anymore (according to the doctors). Her bronchia are more of a serious issue. Today mother tells me that she probably can go home Tuesday - and it didn't sound too stressed or sad. We live close (well, in Switzerland everything is close by...), 75 minutes by public transport.

>225 charl08: Thanks Charlotte. She is still coughing severely. She can't sleep flat on her back or side anymore, she has to have a big pillow to prop her up a bit.

41) Oft bewölkt, doch vorwiegend heiter... by Kurt Baer. Kurt is a cook and I know from our church. His wife just died in January. They were starting to write this booklet together - a collection of anecdotes from their own life or from friends, a collection of disasters which turned out good. Like flying with your father for his very first time and then the whole airport is snowed in, so his fear of flying just grew - but then during the flight the crew served the old man a glass of champagne and congratulated him for his first flight. Or when the couple went to Malta for holidays and wanted to get a good meal in an Italian restaurant: the starters and the wine they were recommended was very well. then the main course was served: lamb, and the waiter suggested some sauce to go along with the lamb, and with the good experience so far, they agreed. But then they hardly were able to eat the meat: It was peppermint sauce - a Swiss cook having to eat peppermint sauce on a lamb ... that was a bit too much British colonialism for them.... :) Some good stories.

42) Krebszellen mögen keine Himbeeren : Nahrungsmittel gegen Krebs ; das Immunsystem stärken und gezielt vorbeugen by Richard Béliveau. Very interesting and some helpful information and insights into the relationships and connections of food and cancer. First they explain cancer and the way medication act on (cancer) cells. then they show what kind of stuff we eat when we eat different things. And some stuff we eat with vegetables and fruits act in the same way on our cells like medication is doing that. Then they quote from studies which were made in connection with food and cancer. It is interesting to see that Japanese (and Koreans) suffer less of breast and prostate cancer as long as they eat their own food. But when living in Europe or the USA they have the same amount of cancer deaths as Americans... So changing one's diet has an influence on your cancer cells.
A good, non-supporting-cancer diet could include broccoli, garlic, sardines, mackerels, tomatoes, and soy, made with olive oil, black pepper and turmeric, drink green tea and a glass of red wine, and have fruits (berries, oranges...) and dark chocolate for dessert. Sounds good for me.

My mother is safe back home. My sister brought her home and she is happy to be home again. She has to take some medication and should go out more (but that's the crux: she doesn't like to go out for walks - she likes to go to far away places by car... she always says that she knows all the places around her residential area...) and watch less TV.

Paul, I'm glad that your mother is safely back home. Indeed, it's a crux that a lot of people don't go on a regular walk. Is there where she lives a group of elderly people who could go for a stroll together? That would make the task much easier.

Hej Barbara, there are some people around, but, as my mother puts it: It's not easy with these people .... I have heard of three of her neighbours (also widowed) visiting her in hospital but that's not enough for joint ventures.

Oh dear. I hope and wish that I won't get complicated when I'm old. But who knows what will be.

Well, that we don't know for sure. But chances are that being slightly complicated in younger years that will come out stronger when one is older (says my wife with years of experience in an old people's nursery)....

43) Cameron Townsend : die Gute Nachricht in jeder Sprache by Janet Benge. A fascinating biography about the founder of the Summer Institute of Linguistics and Wycliffe Bible Translators. As a young man Uncle Cam tried to sell Spanish Bibles in Guatemala. But on the country side he met Cakchiquel, an ethnic Maya people, who told him that they cannot read Spanish and that their language is not written down and they feel that God is not interested in them since He doesn't speak their language. So Cam started to learn the language, gave it an alphabet, wrote the first grammar and reading manuals, and years later translated the Bible into Cakchiquel. From there he started the summer courses in linguistics. He worked in Guatemala, Mexico, Peru, and the Caucasus. Till 1999 WBT/SIL and associated people published Bibles or New Testaments in 721 different new languages.

44) Der fahrende Ritter und andere Erzählungen by Tennessee Williams. For my TIOLI coffee challenge I read the short story: Mamas altes Haus. Mother of Jimmy Krenning is about to die and the colored maid is taking care of her household. Jimmy seems to live without much thinking about everything and Brinda is helping him and his mother along the way (together with her own mother who is also seriously ill). Okay, not one of Williams' best stories.

Hi Paul, I wish you a relaxed weekend.

Thanks Barbara, I wish you a blessed Pentecost, too.

add-ons:
151) Den Leuten aufs Maul : Ein- und Ausfälle vom Besserwisser by Eike Christian Hirsch
- Irgendwelche seelischen Probleme?
152) Nur wer die Wahrheit kennt : Roman by Elizabeth McGregor
- Das Haus hat zahllose Zimmer, jedes einzelne leer.
153) Die geheimen Machenschaften des Jack Maggs : Roman by Peter Carey
- Es war ein Samstagabend, als der Mann mit der roten Weste in London eintraf, genauer gesagt, der fünfzehnte April des Jahres 1837.
154) Zwölf : Roman by Nick McDonell
- White Mike ist dünn und blass wie Rauch.
155) Immer an deiner Seite by Max Lucado
- Drei Ritter sassen am Tisch zusammen und hörten gespannt zu, als der Prinz sprach: "Mein Vater, der König, wird die Hand meiner Schwester dem Ersten von euch geben, der sich ihrer würdig erweisen wird."
156) Bis zum Frühlingsmond : Roman by Volker Wortmann
- Im Schlaf hörte Tobias eine Stimme.
157) Die Narbe : Kriminalroman by Frank Schmitter
- "Man darf nichts persönlich nehmen", sagte der Mann.
158) Das Portrait : Roman by Zoë Jenny
- Fast den ganzen Juni über hatte es geregnet.
159) Die Zeugin : Roman by Sandra Brown
- Der Säugling nuckelte an der Brust seiner Mutter.
160) Todesfluch : Roman by Iceberg Slim
- Grossmäulige Rowdywinde stürmten die Himmel über Chicago und sprengten einen Mob russiger Wolken.

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Thanks for posting these covers Paul - really interesting to see them.

>239 charl08: I love covers - and I am very pleased about about LT's feature of uploading covers. I try to upload the cover of my books, some work but fun.

add-ons:
161) Wie treibender Sand : das berauschende Leben der Isabelle Eberhardt by Annette Kobak
- Am 2. Dezember 1872 traf eine kleine, dunkeläugige Russin mit ihren vier kleinen Kindern und deren Hauslehrer auf dem neu erbauten Bahnhof von Genf ein.
162) Schönheit und Trauer : Roman by Yasunari Kawabata
- Im Aussichtswagen des Expresszuges "Hato" der Tokaido-Linie standen an der einen Fensterseite fünf Drehsessel in einer Reihe.
163) Fräulein Niemand : Roman by Tomek Tryzna
- Ich gehe hinter Mama her und ziehe mit der Hacke Erde in die Löcher mit den halbierten Kartoffeln.
164) In die Wildnis : allein nach Alaska There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.by Jon Krakauer
- Vier Meilen hinter Fairbanks sah Jim Gallien den Tramper.
165) Der Gottes-Spion : Thriller by Juan Gómez-Jurado
- Pater Selznick erwachte mitten in der Nacht mit einem Fischmesser an der Kehle.
166) Holes by Louis Sachar
- There is no lake at Camp Green Lake.
167) Ostpreussische Lebensläufe by Ulla Lachauer
- Das schönste in seiner Kindheit waren wohl die Ferien bei Tante Alix.
168) Der Stammkunde : Roman by Marianne Macdonald
- Timothy Curwen kam vor etwa zwei Jahren zum ersten Mal in meinen Laden.
169) Mord ohne Mörder : eine Leiche zum Dessert ; Roman by Henry Keating
- "Nein!" Die Stimme hallte wütend durch die hohe, ehrwürdige Bibliothek des alten Hauses.
170) Babyboom : Geschichten by Henry Slesar
- Die Ehe macht allen Single-Freundschaften bald ein Ende, und deshalb waren Jerry und Bobbi Spellman froh, als sie entdeckten, dass ihre neuen Nachbarn ein nettes Paar namens Forster waren.
171) Des Mauren letzter Seufzer : Roman by Salman Rushdie
- Ich kann sie nicht mehr zählen, die Tage, die vergangen sind, seit ich vor den Schrecken von Vasco Mirandas wahnwitziger Festung in dem andalusischen Bergnest Benengeli geflohen bin; seit ich im Schutz der Dunkelheit dem Tod davongelaufen bin und eine an die Tür genagelte Botschaft hinterlassen habe.

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45) Der grosse Plumps by Carola Giese. The animals living at an oasis in the desert were celebrating their 'pond feast' when suddenly a penguin plops into their pond. What to do now? A children's book with funny illustrations.

an add-on of a convenience cabin:

shooting range Bettingen BS

add-ons:
172) Erste Liebe, letzte Riten : Erzählungen von Ian McEwan
- Ich sehe es wieder vor mir, unser vollgestopftes, viel zu helles Badezimmer, und Connie, die, ein Handtuch um ihre Schultern gelegt, weinend auf dem rand der Badewanne sass, während ich warmes Wasser ins Waschbecken laufen liess und ...
173) Drop City : Roman by Tom Coraghessan Boyle
- Der Morgen war ein Fisch im Kescher, glitzernd und zappelnd am pechschwarzen Rand ihres Bewusstseins, aber sie hatte noch nie einen Fisch mit einem Kescher gefangen, ebensowenig wie mit der Angel, so dass sie nicht recht sagen konnte, ob oder wie oder warum.
174) Doppler : Roman by Erlend Loe
- Mein Vater ist tot.
175) Kein Grund zur Trauer : Roman by Deborah Crombie
- Der Raum schien zu schrumpfen, während er auf und ab ging.
176) Cordula, die Brillenhexe by Judith Steinbacher
- Bis vor kurzem war Cordula eine fröhliche kleine Hexe.
177) Das Licht der Irren : Thriller by Daniel Picouly
- Hochbetrieb!
178) Whispers of the dead : the new David Hunter thriller by Simon Beckett
- Skin.
179) Rain fall by Barry Eisler
- Harry cut through the morning rush-hour crowd like a shark fin through water.
180) Nation by Terry Pratchett
- The snow came down so thickly, it formed fragile snowballs in the air that tumbled and melted as soon as they landed on the horses lined up along the dock.

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add-ons:
181) Die Spur nach Pelidor : Abenteuer aus fernen Welten by Cherith Baldry
- "Es stimmt, mein Junge, ich bin wirklich nicht dein Vater."
182) Der Held von Notting Hill : Phantastischer Roman by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
- Die menschliche Rasse, der wohl so mancher meiner Leser angehört, hat von ihrem Anbeginn an Kinderspiele gespielt, und dies wird sie wahrscheinlich bis zu ihrem Ende tun, zum Ärgernis für die wenigen, die immer Erwachsene sein werden.
183) Sub Terra : Roman by James Rollins
- So weit das Auge reichte, bedeckte blau schimmerndes Eis den Kontinent.
184) Feuertod : Kriminalroman by Astrid Paprotta
- Als sie die Innenstadt verliess, fuhr sie an ihrem eigenen Foto vorbei.
185) Warum Christ sein Sinn macht by Tom Wright
- Es gibt zwei Arten von Reisenden.
186) Das Gesamtwerk : Am Rande der Nacht - Septembergewitter - Von Tür zur Tür - Aus dem Nachlass by Friedo Lampe
- Hans wurde das Warten zu langweilig.
187) Das Gold des Amazonas by Werner J. Egli
188) Gaelic : a complete course for Beginners by Roderick Mackinnon
- Below is a list of the Gaelic consonants, singly and in the combination which have a pronunciation of their own.
189) Die Poeten der Nacht : Roman by Barry McCrea
- Schliesslich gab ich mein neues Leben und die Menschen auf, die mir geholfen hatten, es aufzubauen, und kehrte zurück in die Welt der rätselhaften Spiele und geheimen Systeme, aus der sie mich zuvor befreit hatten.
190) Napoleon by Léon Bopp
- Wenn... wenn... wenn...

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add-ons:
191) Die Klippen von Acapulco by Federica De Cesco
- Schon am ersten Ferientag begann ich mich zu langweilen.
192) A cascading waterfall of nectar by Thinley Norbu
- Well, then, Philosophy is characterized by making categories, But synthesizing into the essence is upadesha.
193) Nachtprinzessin : Roman by Sabine Thiesler
- Die Nacht war sternenklar.
194) Stadtgespräch : Roman by Siegfried Lenz
- Und wenn Daniel sich gestellt hätte?
195) Liebe geht stempeln by Walter Greenwood
- Man nennt diesen Teil "Hanky Park".
196) Wir schlafen nicht : Roman by Kathrin Röggla
- das sei doch nicht interessant. konfliktbeauftragter in sachen israel/palästina, das wäre es.
197) Das Haus der Erde : Romantrilogie. Die gute Erde. Söhne. Das geteilte Haus by Pearl S Buck
- Es war Wang Lungs Hochzeitstag.
198) In den Wäldern am kalten Fluss by William Judson
- Ich will euch von Timothy und mir erzählen, von den Bergen und besonders vom Winter des Jahres 1921.
199) Das Mädchenschiff : Roman by Michal Zamir
- Ich konnte mich nur mit Mühe beherrschen, rannte den Gang hinunter und stürmte in das Büro der Truppenbeauftragten.
200) Die vierzig Geheimnisse der Liebe : Roman by Elif Shafak
- Bewirkst du etwas, wenn du einen Stein in ein fliessendes Gewässer wirfst?

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Omgoodness, so many books! It must be cramped at your place.

>247 LovingLit: That's right Megan, my wife and children complain about my book-collecting-mania - but when they are looking for a book they are quite happy I have it already somewhere...

I split the different Karl Müllers - a lot of work and I couldn't find data for all of them. And LT is not a big help since it ignores ä, ö and ü and puts Müller and Möller together but separates Müller and Mueller ... ah well, keeps me busy

46) Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Übrigen auch dies und das : Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen by Urs Widmer. A Swiss author goes to Frankfurt am Main and speaks about (German) poetry and writing. Five interesting lectures. First he talks about 'norm': A poet lives and writes outside the 'norm', normality, of humans, then in his second lectures he talks about the suffering (Leiden) of the poets - suffering not because they write but because of the times they can't write, the times of silence when the paper stays empty. In his 3rd speech he mentions those poets who think they write in the name of the people (mit der Stimme des Volkes singen = to sing with the people's voice). then he goes on to talk about the Grössenwahn (megalomania) of each writer - otherwise he can't be a good poet. The theme is often death, no writer ever won this game against death (Gegen den Tod hat noch kein Dichter sein Spiel gewonnen), so most poets let their heroes die at the end of their piece - and we, the readers, are happy because they die on our behalf and we can live on. In the last lecture Widmer takes Ödipus by Sophokles, re-tells the story and compares the main character with poets and also their readers.

Widmer gives a picture of basically driven men and women who are driven to write, suffer when they are silent and have no hope since death is the ultimate end (of their live and their writing), no resurrection. Okay, my very short version here. Widmer says some quite interesting about writing and reading.



- Literatur ist kein Kreuzworträtsel.
- Der Tod ist, keine Geschichten mehr hören und erzählen zu wollen.
- Gottfried Keller scheiterte. Und er litt so sehr unter seinem Scheitern, dass man ihm tröstend zurufen möchte, dass das Scheitern das Los aller Dichter seit dem Anbeginn aller Zeiten ist.
- Sowieso kommt nichts aus dir heraus, was nicht irgendwann in dich hineingekommen ist.
- Du lernst begreifen, dass du zwar dem Leben Fragen stellen kannst, dass das Leben dir aber Antworten gibt, die anders sind, als du erhofftest.
- Ja, wir nehmen es einem Werk der Literatur geradezu übel, wenn es seine Helden am Leben lässt, denn die Geschichte eines jeden Menschen endet erst mit seinem Tod, und zudem sind die Helden in den Büchern unsere Stellvertreter, sie sterben an unserer statt, so dass wir, die Leserinnen und Leser, noch einmal davonkommen dürfen, im Gegensatz zu Effi Briest oder Kafkas Hungerkünstler. Das Lesen von Tragödien ist auch darum so erleichternd, weil wir überleben.
- Im wirklichen Leben siegt der Tod. Aber in der Literatur siegt das Leben.

>246 paulstalder: Interesting to see the German cover for Shafak book, completely different to mine (wistful woman looking off into the distance).

>250 paulstalder: Sounds interesting, however brief. I'm intrigued by these books on writing in languages that I don't speak - reminded me that I saw that Umberto Eco's book on writing a dissertation (but I think on writing more broadly really) was recently published in English.

>251 charl08: Charlotte, it's part of the fun to see different covers - sometimes it gives a clear indication of the artist's knowledge or ignorance about the book's content

Widmer's book was translated into Englisch: On Life, Death, and This and That of the Rest, so may read it in English

Thanks Paul, onto my wishlist it goes!

statistics for May

1768 pages, 10 books (all in German)

nationalities: D 2, CDN 1, GB 1, USA 2 , CH 3, NZ 1
dead 3, alive 7
male 7, female 3

47) Und die Grossen lässt man laufen by Maj Sjöwall. A man just walks into a hotel restaurant and shoots a business who is giving a little speech into the head and jumps out of the open window. Martin Beck has to come down from Stockholm to Malmö in order to solve the crime.
A good story but a bit too much philosophizing about Swedish society.

48) Kuschelmuschel : vier erotische Überraschungen by Roald Dahl. Four sexy, rather macabre stories: 1) Uncle Oswald just escapes in time when having sex with a princess on top of a pyramid in Egypt. He escapes to the Sinai desert into a remote house with a dark secret... 2) Two men discuss the possibility of sleeping with each others wife without her realizing it... and they find a way to do it. 3) A woman loses her husband and then she has never sex again, till a man at a convention wants to seduce her. 4) Uncle Oswald engages a man who promises to produce the ultimate perfume which will turn every man into a sex maniac whenever he smells that perfume on a woman.
Some interesting twists and turns of the stories, humourous with macabre endings.

Hi Paul, I wish you a fabulous weekend.

Thanks, Barabra, wish you the same.

PS: I am working at the library ... and it's my birthday ....

Hope that's as nice a birthday for you as it sounds to me! Many happy returns.

Wishing you

>259 charl08: Thank you Charlotte, I heard rumours about my kids plannung something for this evening - let's what they have in store for me :) but first I have to work for another three hours.

>260 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara - I love birthday cakes so they will surely be one when I get home - but we don't put the candles on it anymore (no space for them).

49) Death in the clouds by Agatha Christie. On the flight from Paris, an elderly is murdered with a dart with snake poison - and Hercule Poirot is fast asleep - well, his 'estomach' doesn't like flying. Complicated search for the murderer since no-one has seen anything. Fun read

Oh, happy birthday, Paul! I hope it was the best one yet!

Hej Amber, my best one so far was my 50th. But this year's birthday was great, too: Our kids prepared a grill place at the forest nearby and when I came home I had to climb up the hill and bring along some eating tools. And there they made coq-au-vin (Kokowäh in High German) on the open fire. That was delicious. the others all drank beer but they had a white and red wine especially bought for me. And after the meal they had a riddle for me to solve (questions like who was Abraham's father? who wrote Heidi? a ice adventurer - Shackleton - the 3rd biggest city of Sweden, calculate: take the sum of our former car number plate minus the number of Biblical books, minus the postal code of our 2nd daughters home, ...) in order to win a prize: a foxtrail tour in Basel on Sunday.

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1,5 l of red wine going into the Coq-au-vin

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all kids are helping to prepare and serve it

Yesterday, wife, son, 2nd daughter and her friend went on the foxtrail 'Yellow' in Basel. various clues led us through the city. It was fun and the hints were made with different items. It took us 3 and a half hours (well with an ice-tea-andicecream-break).
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It all started in the railway station of Basel where we had to look for a picture of a funny shaped lake. - another hint was giving by this bird: by pulling the string the bird comes out of its house and looks into the direction we have to walk.... another hint was given by this little plate in the pavement underneath a lamp post....

Looks like a lovely weekend. I spent a weekend in Basel for a conference and the graduate students who were hosting it made it seem like a wonderful place to be.

>266 charl08: Do come again, Charlotte, Basel is worth a second and third view.

I love foxtrail tours. I've done it in Zürich. Lovely photos of your birthday party. What a fantastic idea. Thanks so much for sharing the photos.

Hi Paul, I wish you a relaxed weekend.

Thanks, Barbara

50) Alibi by Agatha Christie. Hercule Poirot retires to a small English village. But then Roger Ackroyd gets murdered and he is asked to investigate. His neighbour, Dr. Sheppard, helps along the investigation till the surprising end. A good read.

add-ons:
201) Ein reiner Schrei by Siobhan Dowd
- Der Raum erinnerte an ein sinkendes Schiff.
202) Die Sage vom Goldenen Vlies by Auguste Lechner
- In uralter Zeit. von der nur noch durch die Sage eine ungewisse Kunde auf uns gekommen ist, herrschte König Kretheus über ein Reich, das weit entfernt war vom grossen Meer im Süden und acuh von den Küsten, die gegen Sonnenaufgang und gegen Sonnenuntergang lagen.
203) Mit verdeckten Karten : Roman by Aleksandra Marinina
- Irina Koroljowa, die eine dicke Mappe mit Papieren an ihre Brust drückte, öffnete ruckartig die Tür zu ihrem Büro in der Protokollabteilung und erstarrte auf der Schwelle.
204) Swiss watching : inside Europe's landlocked island by Diccon Bewes
- Close your eyes and tell me the first thing you associate with Switzerland.
205) Das Leben im Mittelalter : der Alltag von Rittern, Mönchen, Bauern und Kaufleuten by Johannes Saltzwedel
- Feldarbeit, die Mühe um das tägliche Auskommen, war für die meisten Menschen des Mittelalters der wichtigste Inhalt ihres Lebens.
206) Barins Dreieck : Roman by Håkan Nesser
- Ich hatte zwei Gründe, nach A. zu reisen, vielleicht sogar drei, und weil es mein Ziel ist, über alles so genau wie möglich Rechenschaft abzulegen, wähle ich sie als Ausgangspunkt.
207) Gaspard Dollfus 1812-1889 by Carl Oswald
- Die Insel im Rhein, die später unter dem Namen "Stein zu Rheinfelden" Eingang in die Geschichte gefunden hat, spielte vermutlich schon zur Zeit der Kelten die Rolle eines Zufluchtsortes für die Uferbewohner.
208) Frauen, die lesen, sind gefährlich : lesende Frauen in Malerei und Fotografie by Stefan Bollmann
- Lesen bereitet Vergnügen und kann uns in andere Welten versetzen - das wird niemand bestreiten, der über der Lektüre eines Buches einmal Raum und Zeit vergessen hat.
209) Alpsegen, Alptraum : für eine Tourismus-Entwicklung im Einklang mit Mensch und Natur by Jost Krippendorf
- Die Geschichte, die wir hier erzählen wollen, beginnt vor kaum mehr als 100 Jahren und reicht bis in die Gegenwart.
210) Klima, Wetter, Mensch by Nico Stehr
- Das natürliche Klima schafft eine der wichtigsten Rahmenbedingungen für unsere Existenz.

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51) Pippi Langstrumpf by Astrid Lindgren. A nice little read about this extravagant orphan.

add-ons:
211) Warum der Vogel singt : Weisheitsgeschichten by Anthony De Mello
- Jedermann liest gerne Geschichten, und dieses Buch ist voll davon: buddhistische, christliche, Zen-, chassidische, russische, chinesische, Hindu- und Sufigeschichten, alte und moderne.
212) Weltkunst auf dem Land : Geschichte und Gegenwart des Künstlerhauses Boswil by Willy Hans Rösch
- Die Idee - der Ort: Die Idee, ein Haus für unbemittelte Künstlerinnen und Künstler zu errichten, verband sind im Jahr 1953 mit dem Ort: dem alten Pfarrhof in Boswil, einer baufälligen Häusergruppe, die 1913 profaniert worden war und als Atelier des Glasmalers Nüscheler genutzt wurde.
213) Ein Schlachtplan für Miss Winter : Rosie Winters zweiter Fall by Kathryn Miller Haines
- Manche Männer bringen einem Blumen mit; Al brachte Fleisch.
214) Wir Ertrunkenen : Roman by Carsten Jensen
- Laurids Madsen war im Himmel gewesen, doch dank seiner Stiefel war er auch wieder heruntergekommen.
215) Snoopy und die Peanuts by Charles M. Schulz
- Essenszeit!
216) Das Schweigen des Mönchs : Kriminalroman by William Brodrick
- In seiner Weisheit hatte der Prior Anselm zum Imker von Larkwood gemacht.
217) Ein Kopf macht noch keine Leiche : ein Thailand-Krimi by Colin Cotterill
- "Opa?"
218) Der verbotene Turm : Roman by Marion Zimmer Bradley
- Damon Ridenow ritt durch ein gereinigtes Land.
219) Der kleine Freund : Roman by Donna Tartt
- Für den Rest ihres Lebens würde Charlotte Cleve sich die Schuld am Tod ihres Sohnes geben, weil sie entschieden hatte, das Muttertagsessen um sechs stattfinden zu lassen und nicht mittags nach der Kirche, wie es bei den Cleves sonst üblich war.
220) Das Wetter vor 15 Jahren : Roman by Wolf Haas
- Herr Haas, ich habe lange hin und her überlegt, wo ich anfangen soll.

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add-ons:
221) Allein gegen die Seelenfänger : Meine Kindheit in der Psychosekte by Lea Saskia Laasner
- Ich erwachte mit einem beklemmenden Gefühl und schwerem Kopf.
222) Als der Mond sein Gesicht verbarg : Roman by Afsaneh Eghbal
- Mein erster Tag in Tahoua.
223) Der Sommer vor der Dunkelheit : Roman by Doris Lessing
- Eine Frau stand auf der Stufe vor dem Hintereingang ihres Hauses, mit verschränkten Armen, und wartete.
224) Die Entpuppung : ein Entwicklungsroman by Aïcha Lemsine
- Eine grüne Fläche.
225) Die Wartejahre : Roman by Fumiko Enchi
- Es war an einem Nachmittag im Frühsommer.
226) Die Vogelfängerin : Roman by Gayl Jones
- Ibiza.
227) Ganze Tage im Café : Roman by Sólveig Jónsdóttir
- Vielleicht sollte sie sich endlich einmal aufraffen und eine Reise machen.
228) März : Roman by Kipphardt Heinar
- In diesem späten Sommer fühlte ich mich wie tot, und das ist angenehm, abzusterben eine Wollust.
229) Alles im Griff : eine Business Soap by Martin Suter
- Am ersten Arbeitstag in einer neuen Firma fühlt sich Tobler immer wie ein Hund in einem fremden Revier.
230) Sieben Tage : Thriller by Deon Meyer
- Er durfte sich nicht zum Narren machen.

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I would have thought Ein Kopf macht noch keine Leiche : ein Thailand-Krimi by Colin Cotterill would pose quite a challenge for translators (quite a lot of puns and play on words).

add-ons:
231) Black Bazar : Roman by Alain Mabanckou
- Vier Monate sind vergangen. seit meine Freundin mit unserer Tochter und dem Bastard geflohen ist, ein Typ, der in einer Band trommelt, die niemand in Frankreich kennt, nicht einmal in Monaco oder auf Korsika.
232) Strange gardens by Michel Quint
- Some people who were there say that during the last days of the trial of Maurice Papon, in Bordeaux, the police prevented a man dressed like Coco the clown, but badly made up and in a very tattered costume, from entering the courtroom.
233) Eldorado oder der Traum vom Gottesfluss : Roman by Philippe LeGuillou
- Draussen ist es dunkel, als ich das Kosmographiekabinett verlasse.
234) Ein Engländer in Paris : mein Jahr mit den Franzosen by Stephen Clarke
- Das Jahr beginnt nicht mit dem Januar.
235) Die Gauklerin von Buchhorn : Historischer Roman by Birgit Erwin
- Der Falke zog über den Baumwipfeln enge Kreise.
236) In feinen Kreisen. Im Schatten der Gerechtigkeit : zwei Romane by Anne Perry
- Der junge Mann stand blass und nervös an der Tür und drehte seinen Hut in den Händen.
237) Über Bord : Roman by Ingrid Noll
- Der Herbstwind fegte die ersten bunten Blätter auf die Strasse.
238) Auf Treu und Glauben : Commissario Brunettis neunzehnter Fall ; Roman by Donna Leon
- Brunetti hielt es nur noch mit letzter Willenskraft am Schreibtisch aus, als Ispettore Vianello bei ihm eintrat.
239) Die Monogramm-Morde : ein neuer Fall für Hercule Poirot by Sophie Hannah
- "Ich mag sie nicht, mehr sag ich ja gar nich", flüsterte die Kellnerin mit dem fliegenden Haar.
240) Zweierlei Glück : die systemische Psychotherapie Bert Hellingers by Bert Hellinger
- Beziehungen dienen unserem Überleben und unserer Entfaltung, und sie nehmen uns zugleich für Ziele in die Pflicht, die jenseits unseres Wünschens und Wollens sind.

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>273 paulstalder: I loved Pippi Longstocking when I was a child!

>276 charl08: I don't have the English version so I can't compare it

>278 thornton37814: Yeah, I read it as a child, too, and liked it then and now I liked it again

Hi Paul, I picked Spiel mit dem Tod from my local library. I wish you a fabulous weekend.

Hej Barbara, enjoy your game ... :)

52) Matthias Berg : Roman by Yvette Z'Graggen. A sad story. Mary, born in Geneva, travels to Berlin in order to meet her grandfather Matthias Berg whom she never met. Her mother was full of hatred towards her father and now after her death the daughter wants to meet him. Her grandfather fought in Russia during WWII and then was in Siberia, and her mother never said a good word about her father. Marie feels differently and wants to find out more about this man. Well written

We found a Leopard Slug (Tigerschnegel) in our garden. We don't know where it came from. It eats other slugs and not much fresh green - so we leave it where it is

flowers from our garden:
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add-ons:
241) Mord ist kein Kinderspiel : Roman by Alan Bradley
- Ich lag tot auf dem Friedhof.
242) Alles über Sally : Roman by Arno Geiger
- Hinter einem Bitte-nicht-stören-Schild steht Sally am Fenster, Alfred liegt auf dem Bett, er blickt vom Tagebuch auf, in das er seine morgendlichen Notate schreibt.
243) 175 Jahre Chrischona, 1840-2015 : Jesus bewegt Chrischona bewegt uns by Michael Gross
- Die ersten Jahre dieses Jahrtausends waren auf St. Chrischona Krisenjahre.
244) The moment you were gone by Nicci Gerrard
- Someone, somewhere, was calling her name, but Gaby could not move.
245) Hotel Sphinx : Roman by Arthur Phillips
- 31. Dez. Sonnenuntergang. Vor dem Grab Atum-hadus.
246) Das Hotel New Hampshire : Roman by John Irving
- In jenem Sommer, als mein Vater den Bären kaufte, war noch keiner von uns auf der Welt - wir waren noch nicht mal gezeugt: weder Frank, der älteste, noch Franny, die lauteste, noch ich, der nächste, noch die jüngsten von uns, Lilly und Egg.
247) Der grosse Gatsby by Francis Scott Fitzgerald
- In meinen jüngeren Jahren, als ich noch zarter besaitet war, gab mein Vater mir einmal einen Rat, der mir seitdem wieder und wieder durch den Kopf gegangen ist.
248) Die unsichtbaren Narben : Roman by Joyce Carol Oates
- Sie hatte auf ein Zeichen gewartet, das ihr den Weg in den Tod freigeben würde, und nun war das Zeichen erschienen.
249) Wein statt Wasser : Essen und Trinken bei Jheronimus Bosch by Gerd Unverfehrt
- Seit Carl Justi 1889 mit seinem Aufsatz über die Werke des Jheronimus Bosch in Spanien die Bosch-Forschung begründete, sind weit mehr als tausend Publikationen zu Leben und Werk dieses Künstlers erschienen.
250) Semirot Michal : Tischgebet, Schabbatgesänge und alle Kidduschim by Josef Scheuer
- Man soll am Schabbat drei Mahlzeiten essen (Schabbat 118a); eine am Freitag Abend, die zwei anderen am Tage.

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>283 paulstalder: Paul, we have lots of them in our forests. They are amazingly.

I let us sit on the same throne since April..... sorry for letting all wait till we get up and can now relieved ...
lockeria

... sit long enough at the hair dresser ...

Beautiful.

>286 Ameise1: It's the first time I have seen one in our garden - and it is over 12 cm long

>288 Ameise1: I like the shopŝ name: Lockeria (Curleria)

hairdresser of the day:
Chop Hair

I hope they only chop my hair and not my head, too

add-ons:
251) Tod auf Schloss Bremont : ein Provence-Krimi by Mary L. Longworth
- In der Deckenlampe des Dachbodens war die Glühbirne durchgebrannt.
252) Das Orakel von Oonagh by Flavia Bujor
- Die ganze Nacht lang hatte er sich den Kopf zerbrochen.
253) Rücken an Rücken : Roman by Julia Franck
- Das Boot lag im Schilf versteckt; sie hatten es wenige Tage zuvor an der Mole gefunden, es schaukelte auf dem Wasser, der Wind trieb es in die moorige Bucht, zusammen mit Blättern, Zweigen und grösseren Ästen, die der Sturm abgebrochen und angeschwemmt hatte.
254) Skewbald : the New Forest pony by Allen W. Seaby
- One hot June afternoon, a group of ponies with their foals and yearlings stood on the edge of a tableland or "plain" in the New Forest.
255) Als Muhammad Ali Swissair-Präsident werden wollte : Swissair-Vertreter auf Aussenposten erzählen by Hans Kissenpfennig
- Am 30. Januar 2011 trafen sich Barry Rosen und neun seiner Kollegen in West Point im Staate New York zum 30. Jahrestag eines Ereignisses, das die Welt erschẗtert hatte.
256) Making beer, making friends : SAB
- For more than a century, the South African Breweries Limited has been brewing quality beers enjoyed by millions of South Africans.
257) Weihnachtsrosen : Geschichten im Advent by Mimmi Zotterman
- Die Heil'gen Drei Könige aus dem Morgenland
Sie frugen in jedem Städtchen:
"Wo geht der Weg nach Bethlehem,
Ihr lieben Buben und Mädchen?"
258) Grüner Tee und Coca-Cola : die Geschichte der Chinesin Yu-i, von ihr selbst erzählt by Pang-Mei Natasha Chang
- Ich bin die Schwester deines Grossvaters, Chang Yu-i, und bevor ich dir meine Geschichte erzähle, möchte ich, dass du dir eines merkst: In China ist eine Frau nichts wert.
259) Die Peinliche Gerichtsordnung Kaiser Karls V. von 1532 (Carolina) by Gustav Radbruch
- Wir Karl der fünfft von gotts gnadenn Römischer Keyser zu allen zeitten merer des Reichs, inn Germanien zu Hispanien, beyder Sicilien, Hierusalem, Hungern, Dalmatien, Croatien etc. könig, Ertzhertzog zu Osterreich, Hertzog zu Burgundi etc. Graff zu Habspurg, Flandern, Tyrol etc. Thun kundt allermeniglich vnd sonderlich allen vnd jeden Buchtruckern, wo vnd an welchen orten die imm heyligen Römischen Reich gesessen seind, zu wissen, dass wir vnserm vnnd des Reichs lieben getrewen ....
260) Recht und Moral : Texte zur Rechtsphilosophie by Norbert Hoerster
- Welche generellen Voraussetzungen müssen erfüllt sein, damit wir von einer Rechtsnorm beziehungsweise einer Rechtsordnung sprechen können?

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