Paul S's reading list and other stuff - part 3

End of Foxtrail in Basel

Books read so far:
1) Am helllichten Tag : Thriller by Simone van der Vlugt
2) Spur ins Ghetto : Krimi aus Paris by Léo Malet
3) Helvetias Traum vom Glück : Kommissär Ferrari by Anne Gold
4) Jesus heilt gerne! : Ratschläge für Gebet um Heilung by Christoph and Utta Häselbarth
5) Eine Iris aus Sprache by Vlado Gotovac
6) Goldrausch in Weissbad : eine Abenteuergeschichte by Henri F. Triet
7) Jessica Blandy by Jean Dufaux
8) Pater Brown und das blaue Kreuz by Gilbert Keith Chesterton
9) Reue : Roman by Susan Choi
10) Riad an der Seine by Pierre Dragon
11) Ein Toter zuwenig : Kriminalroman by Dorothy L. Sayers
12) Bangkok-Belleville by Pierre Dragon
13) Der Eindringling : Erzählung by Melvin J. Sandström
14) J'aime pas les fumeurs par Charb
15) Geschichte der Familienbibel : Bericht zu handen der Tit. Aktionäre der Familienbibel erstattet ... den 31. Juli 1900 by Johann Schmidt
16) Immer an deiner Seite by Max Lucado
17) Alles inklusive : Roman by Doris Dörrie
18) La nouvelle France des beaufs by Cabu
19) Bis zum Frühlingsmond : Roman by Volker Wortmann
20) Dubach im Machtpoker : Mord im Bellevue by Norbert Hochreutener
21) Jerusalemverschwörung : ein Roman by Alton Gansky
22) Purzelbaum rückwärts by Urs Berner
23) Des Mauren letzter Seufzer : Roman by Salman Rushdie
24) Mariaschwarz : Kriminalroman by Heinrich Steinfest
25) Strange gardens by Michel Quint
26) Der Kurier : Kriminalroman by Jacques Berndorf
27) Die gelbe Zone by André Houot
28) Ritter des Ku-Klux-Klan : die Geschichte des Richard C. Harris by Damaris Kofmehl
29) Hänsel & Gretel by Jacob Grimm
30) Noch schöner küssen by Hans Borghorst
31) Aëlita : Roman ; ein Marsroman by Alexej Tolstoi
32) Das Schloss und die Insel : Die gespiegelte Pilgerreise by C. S. Lewis
33) The body in the library by Agatha Christie
34) Angusalem by André Houot
35) Der leichte Stein : ein Roman um Liebe und Bernstein by Hans Lucke
36) Kriegsbriefe eines neutralen Offiziers by Karl Müller
37) Darky Green : Roman by Adrian Plass
38) Adam und Evelyn : Roman by Ingo Schulze
39) Höhlen öffnen : ein Photoprojekt by Christoph Bühler
40) Virginia : respektlose Betrachtungen eines aufgeweckten Kleinstadtmädchens aus dem Amerika der Jahrhundertwende by Virginia Cary Hudson
41) Oft bewölkt, doch vorwiegend heiter... by Kurt Baer
42) Krebszellen mögen keine Himbeeren : Nahrungsmittel gegen Krebs ; das Immunsystem stärken und gezielt vorbeugen by Richard Béliveau
43) Cameron Townsend : die Gute Nachricht in jeder Sprache by Janet Benge
44) Der fahrende Ritter und andere Erzählungen by Tennessee Williams
45) Der grosse Plumps by Carola Giese
46) Vom Leben, vom Tod und vom Übrigen auch dies und das : Frankfurter Poetikvorlesungen by Urs Widmer
47) Und die Grossen lässt man laufen by Maj Sjöwall
48) Kuschelmuschel : vier erotische Überraschungen by Roald Dahl
49) Death in the clouds by Agatha Christie
50) Alibi by Agatha Christie
51) Pippi Langstrumpf by Astrid Lindgren
52) Matthias Berg : Roman by Yvette Z'Graggen

Happy New Thread, Paul. What a gorgeous family photo.

>3 Ameise1: Thanks Barbara, the oldest daughter is missing

Basel seen from the hydropower plant in Birsfelden

more statistics:
my pictures shared:
- pix of Basel: 19
- pix of chocolates: 38
- pix of beer bottles: 27
- pix of toilets: 27
- other pix: 26
- hairdressers: 2

books read by authors coming from:
A 1
B 1
CDN 1
CH 12
D 11
F 6
GB 6
HR 1
NL 1
NZ 1
S 2
SU 1
USA 5

read in
French 2
English 3 (1 translated from French)
German 47
- translated from:
French 7
English 12
Swedish 2
Russian 1
Dutch 1
Croatian 1

add-ons listed: 260

hairdresser of the day


Matahaari (Haar = Hair)

Ah Paul, I love your hairdresser photos.

hairdresser of the day


Avalon

Lovely photos, Paul, and happy new thread!

hairdresser of the day


Naomi - didn't know my daughter is into hairdressing....

Did she hide a scret from you? ;-)

I sent her the pic yesterday and asked about a hair-cutting-date - she turned me down *sigh*

hairdresser of the day


Attrac'tiff (shoe repair and hair cut at the same time...)

Does anybody know the place?

I recently got this book: Frauen, die lesen, sind gefährlich : lesende Frauen in Malerei und Fotografie by Stefan Bollmann (Women who read are dangerous : reading women in painting and photography)



a very interesting book with many good pictures.

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Anselm Feuerbach, Francesca da Rimini und Paolo bei der Lektüre von „Lancelot und Guinevere“ (1863) -- James Abbott McNeill Whistler, Reading by Lamplight (1858)

Walter Launt Palmer, Afternoon İn Hammock

Ramon Casas i Carbó, Jove Decadent (1899)

what on earth is/was she reading? it must have a devastating impact on her

Franz Eybl, Lesendes Mädchen (1850)


Eve Arnold, Marilyn reading James Joyce’s Ulysses (1955)

the most dangerous women:


Théodore Roussel, Jeune fille lisant (1886-7)


Albert Marquet, Nu féminin debout lisant (1910)

how should I concentrate on the book ???

Great drawings, thanks so much for sharing them.

Hi Paul, I wish you a fabulous weekend.

Thanks Barbara, I had an interesting seminar in the morning, then brought my wife to the train for a woman's week in the Toggenburg, and had a long walk to Lörrach and back.

It was a great day for a walk. Are you listening to audiobooks when walking? I do so.

I had two fascinating talks this week: One about Gender Mainstreaming and the other about Nation Building. On both accounts Christian ideas are attacked: Where do we come from? and is there a universal moral code?
Genesis 1,27 states that we are (a) created by God (b) in his image, (c) as man and woman. God gave us an ethic which is coming from the outside. But nowadays we lose God as Creator, lose our identity as man and as woman, and have to come up, each one of us, with an ethical code to live by. If we are developed animals why wonder when we behave like animals? If we enlarge the marriage to include anything thinkable - where are the rights of the children to a father and a mother?

Christianity is the only religion/culture to demands love of the husband for his wife - the same love as Christ has for his church. 'Love one another' is always combined with the command to love God - and then the other as myself. When entering marriage I made a covenant with my wife (as God the founder) - and taking that idea out of marriage leaves an empty shell.

On what basis do we condemn murder, rape, theft or anything else? There is no basis for good or bad (Ronald Dworkin and others even doubt that there is something like 'evil'), so on what basis do we judge the behavior of others? Nietzsche was right: since God died in the 19th century, man died in the 20th. The Third Reich, the Soviet Union and North Korea are all states without God - man ruled.

I have two new books in my wishlist:
Das Buch der Mitte by Vishal Mangalwadi
Die globale sexuelle Revolution : Zerstörung der Freiheit im Namen der Freiheit by Gabriele Kuby

>22 Ameise1: No, I usually read and rarely listen to audio books (I don't like ear phones). When walking I often have my camer with me and make pictures, so today, too. I discovered the small cemetery of Stetten and made pictures of some gravestones.

the German-Swiss border
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coming from Germany (the crosses on the ground indicate the border) -- coming from Switzerland

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small things on the way

children's graves

So beautiful photos. Thanks for sharing them.

a car garage door

53) Rust : the longest war by Jonathan Waldman. Rust? That's everywhere but I never read a whole book about it. Every metal corrodes but most people prefer to paint over the rust than to invest into better materials in the beginning. Maintenance of metal structures and parts costs billions (USA the direct costs of corrosion for the military $21 billion).
Waldman tells the story about the Statue of Liberty which was rusting away almost unnoticed until some protesters climbed on it and then were charged for damaging a national monument. But then they realized that when building the statue the builders in the USA did not do it the way the architect had told them ... when in 1980 the authorities started to investigate, many parts of the Statue were so thin that basically the lavishly applied paintings supported the structure ... Waldman tells also the story of NACE and the corrosion videos done with the Star Trek LeVar Burton, and the pigging of the Trans Alaska Pipeline, the poisoning inner coatings of cans, and the building of thermoplastic plastic bridges which don't rust anymore.
Interesting, some quite technical, and has some lengthy parts but very informative.

I started to add my bookmarks to LT. Does anybody have already experience with adding things like that to LT?
Gewebtes Lesezeichen Kreis : Muster weiss-grün
BookMooch Lesezeichen : Give books away. Get books you want

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Here the link to the whole collection (well, only the beginning):
http://www.librarything.com/catalog.php?collection=363107

I did ask Tim and others about rules for putting the bookmarks into LT and I hope to get some hints when they wake up (it's lunchtime over here) :)

>30 paulstalder: This sounds like it is a fascinating read: I had no idea the Statue of Liberty came so near to collapse!

>32 charl08: I learned quite a lot about rust and the ways to deal with it.

54) Endless night by Agatha Christie. Michael and Ellie meet at a beautiful but cursed place name 'Gypsy's Acre', fall in love, marry, buy this place, build a beautiful house there, and want to live there happily ever after - but then Ellie dies falling from a horse - a chilling mystery and till the end: Who's done it?

55) Wilhelm Tell : Schauspiel by Friedrich Schiller. Europe at a turmoil after 1300, the Habsburg want to extend their territory and so put their hands heavily on these parts. Then the bailiff of Habsburg, Gessler, has the infamous idea to put his hat on a pole and makes everbody to bow to that hat. The Wilhelm Tell, a hunter, passes by and ignores the hat. Gessler makes him shoot an apple off his son's head with his armbrust (crossbow). Interesting play about the beginnings of Switzerland.

Hi Paul, I wish you a lovely weekend.

Thanks Barbara. I have some holidays and spent some interesting days in Albania and Greece. We took enough Euros to Greece in order not to have to queue before a bank ...

Nice to hear that you had a great holiday. I hope you post some photos. We're in Biarritz and leaving for the Pyrenee tomorrow.

Hej Barbara, wish you a great holiday, too. You just missed the Tour de France there. I'd like to visit the Pyrenees one day....
I will post some photos as soon as I am through with them on picasa (adding geotags and names of the things photographed...)

56) Inspektor Jury spielt Katz und Maus : Roman by Martha Grimes. Some pets are found dead and then a woman dies in a telephone booth. Inspector Jury investigates. Okay, with some strange characters.

add-ons:
261) Grieche sucht Griechin : eine Prosakomödie by Friedrich Dürrenmatt
- Es regnete stundenlang, nächtelang, tagelang, wochenlang.
262) Love by Susanna Tamaro
- Liebes Tagebuch, es ist wieder einmal Montag.
263) Maigret hat Angst : Kriminalroman by Georges Simenon
- Zwischen zwei kleinen Bahnhöfen, deren Namen er nicht hätte sagen können und von denen er im Dunkeln fast nichts sah - nur eine dicke Kugellampe, an der der Regen herunterstrich, und ein paar schattenhafte menschliche Gestalten, die Karren schoben -, fragte sich Maigret plötzlich, was er hier eigentlich wolle.
264) Hochzeit kommt vor dem Fall : Kriminalroman by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Meine liebe Honoria, Peter ist also tatsächlich verheiratet!
265) Ein Mann im Haus : Roman by Ulla Hahn
- Sie spielte mit dem Gedanken an einen weissen Hals nicht erst seit gestern, liebte es, Todesarten, Motive, Opfer und Täter durchzuprobieren, hin und her zu kombinieren, liess Eifersuchtsdramen in Stürzen von Klippen und wackligen Brücken gipfeln, Streitigkeiten in Zyankali verzucken, hinter jeder Mülltonne lauerte irgendein Triebtäter einer Rotznase auf.
266) Welche Pferde sind das, die da werfen ihren Schatten aufs Meer? : Roman by António Lobo Antunes
- Das ganze Leben lang, vor der Krankheit und während der Krankheit erzählte uns meine Mutter wieder und wieder - Hört mal zu
267) Unter Freunden by Amos Oz
- Bei uns im Kibbuz Jikhat gab es einen Junggesellen von ungefähr fünfundfünfzig Jahren, Zvi Provisor.
268) Das Aquarium : Roman by Thommie Bayer
- Ich war nach dem Unfall ein anderer Mensch.
269) 7000 £ und eine Penny : Kriminalroman by John Boland
- Der Plan zum Raub der Brentlow-Lohngelder musste geändert werden.
270) Der Hauch des Drachen : Roman ; ein unheimlich phantastisches Abenteuer by Peter Straub
- Für Stony Friedgood waren ihre nicht sehr häufigen Ehebrüche reine Abenteuer - einen Mann aufzureissen, der glaubte, er risse sie auf, setzte ihrem Leben genau die dramatischen Akzente, die sie vermisste, seit sie zwanzig und Studentin in Scripps-Claremont war.

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>40 paulstalder: It's been years since I read a Martha Grimes novel, and I probably would not remember which ones I have read and which ones I have not.

>42 thornton37814: This was my first Grimes mystery, I liked parts of it. I have a few more Grimes', so I hope I'll like them more.

57) Fünf falsche Fährten : Roman by Dorothy L. Sayers. An artist is found dead in a creek, apparently fallen off the cliff when looking at his painting. Then Peter Wimsey comes along and misses the white color tube... Good tale but quite tiresome to read through all these time tables and each person involved elaborating several pages on their 'timetable' for the murder.
The German translation tried to indicate the Scottish dialect of some of the characters.

There is no Sunday school during summer holidays. So, we were asked to take care of the kids during service on Sunday. Suki was doing the main programme and I told this story about the mouse (written in English but I told the story in Swiss German).

58) The mouse's story : Jesus and the storm by Nick Butterworth. A ship's mouse is on board when a storm brakes and the boat is in danger. But then a sleeping man was awakedned and he calmed the storm. The mouse hopes now that this Jesus travels with them again....

>45 paulstalder: That sounds like a cute story!

>46 thornton37814: Yes, it is. And it's a good story to tell the kids that Jesus is always with them - the storms come anyway, there is no easy life but with Jesus 'on board' there is someone one can trust.

>47 paulstalder: I need a "LIKE" button!

1>What a lovely family!

>48 thornton37814: you better read it :)

>49 Whisper1: thanks, Linda. The oldest daughter is missing on the picture. We had a good fox hunt thru Basel.

59) Die erste Ölung : fantastische Geschichten by Fabian Vogt. A collection of 10 fantasy stories and a foreword which includes a story, too. All with religious/Christian themes.
- Die erste Ölung (the foreword): A scientist discovers an old scroll containing the Gospel according to Nicodemus. Withing that text Jesus Christ teaches about the 'First Anointing' which opens the eyes of the believers for the spiritual world. But then the scroll is stolen... Okay
- Das Erbe des Sensographen: A young woman finds a small iron ball in the old suitcase of her grandfather. When she touches it she is filled with the feelings of holding a new born baby. As soon as she drops the ball the feelings are gone. She then finds a diary of her grandfather and learns that he invented a 'Sensograph' which records the feelings of the moment. But then she touches a ball which contain the feelings of his death - apparently strangled by someone... Very good
- Die Pforte: A journalist is sent to a German village where all inhabitants have disappeared without leaving any traces. He finds a child who tells him they are all in heaven and that the kids sometimes come back to play 'Coming Home'. A mentally handicapped young man then comes to welcome him and accompany him during his stay in the abandoned village. Very good
- Influenza Sakra: A molecular biologist disappears and his laboratory is demolished. The police investigates and gets a visit from a diplomat from the Vatican. He claims that this biologist has developed a virus which changes the DNA of an atheist into a believing Catholic. But the direction could be changed so the biologist is blackmailing the church. Is this really a Vatican diplomat? or... Okay
- Der Garten: An Old testament theologian discovers the place of the paradise in Turkey and finds some old apple seeds which are said to stem from the Tree of Knowledge... Well, okay
- Geheimnis des Glaubens: A pastor gets a visit by a computer scientist who claims to have constructed an android who/which read the Bible and now wants to get baptized. Has a computer a soul which can be saved? ... Okay
- VErinnerung: A young man suffers from his bad experiences with women in the past. A new company now offers a treatment of his memories. He tells the therapist what should be changed in his memory and what kind of experiences he would like to remember and they change his memory accodingly ... Good
- Das Gleichnis vom verlorenen Bruder: A strange retelling of the Parable of the Prodigal Son - about a Prodigal Brother .... that's the worst story of the book
- Im Turm: A doctor lives in the Burj Dubai, a 600 m high building - its own universe. Then he finds out that there are several basements which are not accessible to the normal population. He steals a chipcard from one of his patients and discovers a totally different society: they plan to create a new, racially clean humanity with the inhabitants of the Tower.... Okay, good
- Die Story meines Lebens: A man receives a letter from a Greek monastery. In it he finds the diary of his uncle who tells the story about his finding God's Dwelling Place. As a journalist he wanted to get an interview with God and so applies for novitiate - and he stays ... Okay
- Aus heiterem Himmel: An interreligious official in the 22nd Century is called to the Moon in order to meet a delegation if the Elates who want to bring their gospel to the Earth. The two representatives (of Christians and Elates) agree on a fight à la Elijah: they build two altars on the moon and ask the true god to consume the altar with fire ... Okay, good

>50 paulstalder: It's not readily available anywhere near me, and it's not something I want to purchase. Maybe I'll have a chance to read it sometime when I'm on vacation and visiting a library that owns it.

Hi Paul, just stopping to see what you were reading!

>52 thornton37814: I could send you the book. Are you on bookmooch? If so, put it there to your wishlist and let me know that.

>53 connie53: hej Connie, I am not reading much at the moment
I just started a Dutch novel: Der Umweg by Gerbrand Bakker. Do you know it?

statistics for June
1605 pages, 9 books (3 in English)

nationalities: S 2, GB 2, USA 1, CH 1, D 1 (3 by Agatha Christie)
dead 4, alive 3
male 3, female 4

statistics for July

858 pages, 4 books (2 in English)

nationalities: USA 1, GB 2, D 1
dead 1, alive 3
male 2, female 2

greetings from the 2nd largest tattoo of the world

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Top Secret Drums Switzerland

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New Zealand Army Band


Imps Motorcycle Display Great Britain

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the legend of the war horse of World War I

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in Her Majesty's service from England


Fanfara 8° Reggimento Bersaglieri Italia (always running .... )

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Republic of Korea Air Force Band

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Swiss Army Central Band (making sparks from a grindstone in perfect rhythm)


Band of the Royal Regiment of Scotland

some impressions from the Basel Tattoo Parade 2015

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Swiss Army cyclists (I did this in my army service)

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Tschäggättä from the Lötschental (wooden masks they wear during their kind of carnival)


all carrying cow bells

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horse waggon from the Feldschlösschen beer brewery

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Paul, You really are an incredible photographer!

Lovely pictures and so colourful!

>54 paulstalder: No, Paul. I seldom read books by Dutch writers. I don't know why exactly. They don't appeal to me I think.

Fantastic pictures. Thank you so much for sharing them here!

>68 Whisper1: Thank you very much, Linda, I tried to do my best - we had seats in the middle of the side and I have not a zoom lense on my camera

>69 connie53: you're welcome, Connie. There are some interesting Dutch authors. I have sometimes similar feelings towards Swiss authors - then I read a book by such an author and I am pretty much positively impressed.

>70 lkernagh: Hej Lori, it was a fantastic event and I am pleased to be able to share a little bit of that.

add-ons:
271) Der Spion und der Bankier : Roman by Liaty Pisani
- Ogden fragte sich, warum er Montreux ausgesucht hatte, um sich zu verstecken.
272) Die Insel des vorigen Tages : Roman by Umberto Eco
- Und doch erfüllt mich meine Demütigung mit Stolz, und da zu solchem Privilegio verdammt, erfreue ich mich nun gleichsam einer verabscheuten Rettung: Ich glaube, ich bin seit Menschengedenken das einzige Wesen unsrer Gattung, das schiffbrüchig ward geworfen auf ein verlassenes Schiff.
273) Schrei im Morgengrauen : Thriller by Linda Castillo
- Kelly Malone wusste, dass sie nicht in Panik verfallen durfte.
274) Einmal Himmel und zurück : der wahre Bericht einer Ärztin über ihren Tod, den Himmel, die Engel und das Leben, das folgte by Mary C. Neal
- Die schmale zweispurige Strasse in den entlegenen Bergen Mexikos war durch den Regen der vergangenen Nacht völlig durchnässt.
275) Neun Leben sind nicht genug : Krimi by Carole Nelson Douglas
- Ich habe einen Riecher für Neuigkeiten und Respekt von gar nichts.
276) Wirf dein Morgen nicht weg! : lebe Gottes Traum für dein Leben by Robert H. Schuller
- Dies ist das erste Buch, das ich im vierten Quartal meines Lebens geschrieben habe.
277) Schlepper-Tango : Krimi by Elisabeth Pincus
- Ich hatte gerade meine Ellbogen auf den pockennarbigen Tresen gestützt und drückte damit eine Delle in eine faustgrosse Tüte gemischte Nüsse, als ich sie hereinkommen sah.
278) The barefoot man by Davis Grubb
- It was through the north window that they would see the killers when they came, but Cal had long since moved his chair away from that cracked and dusty square of winter sundown and now sat by the hearth staring through the queer light at his mother.
279) Der Tod der Gazelle : Roman by Cheryl Benard
- Es ist ein heisser, nein, ein drückender, ein staubiger, träger Sommerabend im August.
280) Töchter der Erde : Legende und Wirklichkeit der Indianerinnen by Carolyn Niethammer
- Wenn der Durchschnittsamerikaner oder -europäer den Begriff Indianer, die Bezeichnung für die ursprünglichen Einwohner Nordamerikas hört, denkt er gemeinhin an eine wohlgestalte, kühne Erscheinung im Federkopfschmuck, die auf einem prächtigen Ross einhergeritten kommt; oder an einen spärlich bekleideten roten Mann mit Gesichtsbemalung, der schreiend um ein Feuer tanzt; oder, wenn er genauer Bescheid weiss, vielleicht an das verwitterte, dunkle Gesicht eines betagten Medizinmannes, dessen tiefliegende Augen Wissen um die Rätsel und Geheimnisse des Universums ahnen lassen.

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60) Der Umweg : Roman by Gerbrand Bakker. Emily, a lecturer for English literature researching Emily Dickinson, escapes from her Dutch home and strands in rural Wales, near Mt. Snowdon. She rents a small cottage, thinks something about Dickinson's work, and explores the house and its surroundings. Later we find out that she has some terminal illness. Her husband tries to find her and also travels to Wales.

A book rich on descriptions of daily chores and the landscape and animals around the cottage. A badger appearing during day light, geese which get less and less in numbers, a stone circle, a young man who wants to publish a book about a hiking route leading through her lands.... Slow motion in a world which gets smaller every day ...

61) Das Schweigen der Tukane by Anne Gold. A popular politician is found dead in his office in Basel - but his business and party partners moved him there from a prostitute's apartment in order to protect his and the party's reputation. There is something very fishy about these business partners, but what? Kommissär Ferrari and his colleague start investigating. Well written.

Great Tatoo photos, Paul. Wavings from Paris.

Hej Barbara, thanks for looking over to Basel from Paris ... waving back

Hi Paul, it's been a while since I last visited your thread. I hope you and your family are well.
Btw, I waved when driving through under Basel, but didn't see anyone waving back. Maybe you were reading?

>77 Trifolia: hej Monica, rats, I must have missed you *sigh* next time, please make a stop over here, and we'll have a drink on the 3rd highest building of Basel.

You apparently explored Appenzell and Graubünden, lovely places, I am pleased you enjoyed it.

62) Mitgefangen, Mitgehangen : Kriminalroman by Fabian Lenk. A hotel manager is found hanging from a roof beam by a mentally handicapped young man. Is he the killer? The journalist Frank Bachmann starts to investigated for his journal. then a judge is also found dead - hanging from a tree. What dark secrets are there in this small Bavarian village?? The plot is good, but some things are far-fetched and some characters are a hazy.

I finished another old book proofreading for wikisource.
63) Aerztliche Glossen zum Fabrikgesetz-Entwurf : mit Anhang by Carl Zehnder. A medical doctor examines and commentates the new law for factory workers which a commission prepared for the Swiss government. How long should a working day be, 10 or 11 hours? Should women be allowed to work in factories? How old should the children be when working in a factory, 13 or 14? How should the emission of dust and 'air condition' be? Should there be compulsory health insurance fro factory workers? Intersting document of the time (1876).

>80 paulstalder: - Wow, that proofread looks interesting for anyone who's interested in social history. These sources are excellent.
>78 paulstalder: - Will do, if my travelling-companions allow me :-). We just passed through Basel on our way to and from our destination and since the traffic's mainly underground, we saw very little of Basel.

>81 Trifolia: yes, this brochure is a good source, it not only contains the draft of the law, but also the comments by the employers' association but also by a trade union. That's why the Swiss Economic Archive makes the effort of making it available online.
Maybe your companions are interested in free (German or English) books? or a boat trip on the river Rhine? or the Karl Barth Archive? or the pocket museum? http://www.hoosesaggmuseum.ch/

One of our turtles is laying eggs. Pity they don't survive, for one they are both females and their eggs are not fertilized and the climate here is not warm enough.

How wonderful that you're able to watch this.

>84 Ameise1: yes, it is quite interesting. When disturbed they stop laying eggs and then they are uneasy and look for another place to dig a whole - hard work. It takes them almost an hour to lay all their eggs. So we watched from the balcony and didn't go into the garden.

64) Die Spur nach Pelidor by Cherith Baldry. An adventure in a far away future on a far away planet: Owain learns that his father is not his real father and sets out to find out who he is. He was brought to the carpenter by somebody from the royal court. On the way he is rescued by a young lady and her escort from the highwaymen who robbed him. Then they travel to the capital to find out about themselves and the heir of the kingdom (not Owain, that would have been too simple). An easy readable book for teenagers

65) Grosse Hilfe für Oma Duck by Walt Disney. A children's book, about Tick, Trick and Track visiting their grandma and never helping on the farm during their stay .... (it has a picture of a bird on the cover... so I can use it for my bird challenge :) )

66) Die Zukünftigen : Roman by David Dabydeen. Coming of age in the Caribbean and in South London. Teh first person narrator tells of his growing up in Guayana, his Indian background finding a disadvantage (compared with the whites) but also an advantage (compared with the blacks). He then has the possibility to go to his father in London. But then he was handed over to the social welfare. But he wants to achieve something in life, learns hard and gets a place at Oxford.Problems and ideas, obstracles and lucky moments of a group of different youth, all trying to find into adulthood - and into the world.
The author himself comes from Guayana, and so there are some autiobiographical aspects in it. the German translation can not give the full differences of the different English of the original.

Add-ons:
281) A perfect proposal by Katie Fforde
- So, remind me, who's this "Evil Uncle Eric" then?
282) Mary Poppins by P. L. Travers
- Wenn du den Kirschbaumweg suchst, so brauchst du nur den Schutzmann an der Strassenkreuzung zu fragen.
283) Der Mann, der sich in den Mond verliebte : Roman by Tom Spanbauer
- Wenn du der Teufel bist, hast du diese Geschichte nicht von mir gehört, bin ich nicht Draussen-im-Schuppen gewesen - den Namen hat sie mir gegeben, ohne dass sie es wusste.
284) Die Jahreszeiten by Peter Bichsel
- Jemand sagte: "In diesem Haus könnte ich nicht wohnen, es ist so tomatenfarbig angestrichen."
285) Maskierte Venus : das Leben der Anaïs Nin by Elisabeth Barille
- Cádiz-New York, in dreizehn Tagen: Die Montserrat läuft in die Hudson-Bay ein.
286) Tod im Dutzend : Kriminalstories by Hansjörg Martin
- Obschon es schlecht zum Berufsethos meiner Branche passt, kann ich mich doch manchmal einer gewissen Bewunderung nicht erwehren, wenn Verbrechen so raffiniert geplant und ausgeführt werden, dass die gesamte, gut geölte Kriminalpolizeimaschinerie leer läuft oder gar ins Stocken gerät.
287) Neuerscheinung : Roman by Michael Gantenberg
- Mein Leben bestand aus reiner Routine: keinerlei Aufregungen, keinerlei Herausforderungen, keinerlei Überraschungen.
288) Herrin auf Mellyn : Roman by Victoria Holt
- "Einer Dame stehen zwei Wege offen, wenn sie sich in prekären Umständen befindet", hatte mir Tante Adelaide eröffnet.
289) Black Beauty by Anna Sewell
- The first place that I can well remember, was a large pleasant meadow with a pond of clear water in it.
290) Das ewig Menschliche : Erzählungen by William Somerset Maugham
- Ich werde, wie es scheint, immer nur während der toten Monate nach Rom verschlagen.

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add-ons:
291) Inspektor Jury schläft ausser Haus : Roman by Martha Grimes
- Draussen vor der "Hammerschmiede" knurrte ein Hund.
292) Lord Peters schwerster Fall : Roman by Dorothy L. Sayers
- Lord Peter Wimsey lag im Hotel Meurice im Bett und dehnte wohlig seine Glieder.
293) Percy auf Abwegen : Roman by Hans Thomas
- Archibald Blunt, Butler im Londoner Hause des Ölmagnaten John Percival Brown, lief steif und kerzengerade den langen Gang hinunter.
294) Das grobmaschige Netz : Roman by Håkan Nesser
- Er erwachte und konnte sich nicht an seinen Namen erinnern.
295) Der grosse Schlaf by Raymond Chandler
- Es war gegen elf Uhr morgens, Mitte Oktober, ein Tag ohne Sonne und mit klarem Blick auf die Vorberge, was klatschkalten Regen verhiess.
296) Die mit dem Wind reitet : Roman by Lucia St. Clair Robson
- Achtzehnhundertsechsunddreissig war ein ereignisloses Jahr.
297) Lagum : Roman by Svetlana Velmar-Jankovic
- Finsternis nahte wie geheimnisvoller kosmischer Staub.
298) Mit Teufelsg'walt by Christine Lehmann
- Ein Kind kreischte, eine Frau schrie in höchsten Tönen, die Zimmerdecke über meinem Bett knarrte unter Leuten.
299) Die Skalpjäger : Roman by Mayne Reid
- Rollt die Karte der Erde auf und blickt auf das nördliche Festland Amerikas.
300) Nacht über Algier : Roman by Yasmina Khadra
- Man könnte meinen, die Erde hätte aufgehört sich zu drehen.

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What I mainly did during the last weeks in LT was cataloguing my bookmarks.


This card was used for presenting my collection in the Hoosesaggmuseum (trouser pocket museum) in Basel: http://www.hoosesaggmuseum.ch/
So, not actually a bookmark but pretty close, so I kept it.

bookmarks of the day:
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bookshop --- a magnet (pharmacy) --- Chinese book --- leather from Peru --- 31 Biblical virtues

Oh, I love the Inspector Jury's series. Happy Weekend, Paul.

So, you are back from your holidays - with many good memories, I guess.

Have a good start into the new week.

bookmarks of the day:
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Literature day --- plastic mosquito --- historic exhibition --- a changing picture --- bookshop

I like the bookshop bookmark. Lovely cover pictures as always, too.

Yes, we are back and already the first school week behind me. Wishing you good week ahead, too.

96> there are some very lovely ones made by bookshops, there will be more here

97> I hope you had a good start in school. Since our kids are out of school I keep forgetting when school holidays start or end.
A neighbor is a teacher, too (she also studied at the same teacher's seminary in Wettingen as I did), and she got retired now. I asked another neighbor (also a teacher) about the new curriculum (Lehrplan 21) and she just said, 'Well, we still teach (wir geben immer noch Schule)'. Did Zürich use the Lehrplan 21 already? Here they now started with that.

No, we haven't started yet with LP21. I'm involved with studying it since the last two years. So I know it rather good. Your nrighbour is right. We'll teach as we have done the last couple of years.

>99 Ameise1: We will see. I guess I'll ask the neighbor again in a few weeks....

bookmarks of the day:
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different skripts: Chinese --- Korean --- Arabic --- Greek --- Braille

if anyone can decipher the Chinese and Arabic texts, please let me know, thank you.

Wow, I love the CHinese one - even if I can't read it. :) Also, the Arabic one look like some circuit boards I put together way back in college. Really neat!

>102 drneutron: Hej Jim, I am pleased about your coming over here. The Chinese one is silk, the Arabic is stitched on some fabric - which makes your comparison with a circuit board quite plausible

bookmarks of the day:
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Japanese ---- Hieroglyphs

bookmarks of the day:
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paintings by: Friedensreich Hundertwasser -- Henri Matisse -- Paul Gauguin -- Raphael

Somewhere (in one of the boxes that got moved from the old one to the new one) I have a collection of bookmarks that I've found in donated books over the years. There are some interesting ones.

>106 thornton37814: That's exactly how I got started: We received so many book donations at Chrischona. I had to look at the books and decide to keep them or not. At first I got rid of all the bookmarks (and other stuff which was in the books) but then I started collecting the interesting ones. When they downsized my job I asked about that collection and they wanted to throw it away, so I could take it with me.

bookmarks of the day:
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leather: Brighton England -- a female figure (the date reads 1926) -- Vienna -- Switzerland -- Alton England -- Peru

67) Bruno, Chef de police : Roman by Martin Walker. Bruno is quite happy as policeman in a small town in the French Périgord. He has to look into illegal employment, to save cats from trees, and warn the market traders of the EU inspectors - and has to oversee the marches for the national holidays. But then an Algerian immigrant, an old man who faught with the French in Vietnam and Algeria, is brutally murdered. What is behind the murder? Who was this Hamid whose son is teaching their kids in school? A good mystery with an earnest background of the dealings of the Résistance and the (German) occupants and their collaborators during WWII and its effects on today. As Bruno puts it: 'Die Vergangenheit ist nie wirklich vergangen und vielleicht sogar heute noch tödlich.' (the past is never really past and probably deadly even today).

68) Die Frau in der hinteren Reihe : Roman by Françoise Dorner. A frustrated woman in Paris tells her story from being in an monastery school, to marrying 'the next best' (as her friend puts it), her life and work as wife and co-worker of her husband in a kiosk. Interesting reflections on living with lies and false expectations.
Not exactly my genre, but I got it from a colleague from the library. She speaks Norwegian and so I got her two Norwegian novels and she gave me this French novel.

bookmarks of the day:
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magnets: a publisher -- a media reproduction company -- a political party -- a movie (based on a children's book) -- a souvenir

bookmarks of the day:
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bookmarks which were made by our youth pastor (ca. 50 of each) and he then distributed them during a lecture about Bible reading

69) Sonne und Mond 1 by Gaya Kwan. A Korean manga. A poor, simple fisher, Baik Il Hong, lives in peace on an island. But one day headhunters appear on the island who want to catch him. He looks and speaks like a simpleton but his movements and his strength is a big challenge for the hunters. Fun to read a manga for change.

I love all your bookmarks. I would be lost without them and therefore I buy always new ones wherever I am.
>109 paulstalder: I love this serei. I've read four so far and will continue to do so.

Happy Sunday, Paul.

>114 Ameise1: Thank you Barbara. I think, I only bought two bookmarks, all the others I found in old books.

That was my 2nd Bruno mystery. I started with Grand Cru, and I have two more of the series.

book add-ons:
301) Im Stein : Roman by Clemens Meyer
- Wenn es Abend wird, stehe ich am Fenster.
302) Die Wahrheit über den Fall Harry Quebert : Roman by Joël Dicker
- "Polizeizentrale! Sie möchten einen Notfall melden?"
303) Tales of the Black Widowers by Isaac Asimov
- Hanley Bartram was the guest, that night, of the Black Widowers, who monthly met in their quiet haunt and vowed death to any female who intruded—for that one night per month, at any rate.
304) My feudal lord by Tehmina Durrani
- The 6:30 a.m. flight from Lahore to Islamabad was the one I had been taking every Sunday for over a year.
305) Feuerwerk by Dorothy Sayers
- "Na, alter Junge", sagte Mr. Lamplough, "was kann ich für dich tun?"
306) Die Nomaden der Meere by Bernhard von Muecklich
- Die Sonne, die an diesem herrlichen Frühsommermorgen am nahezu wolkenlosen, lichtblauen Himmel stand, hatte ihren mittäglichen Zenit fast erreicht und sandte ihre Strahlen auf das immer noch verwundete Land herab.
307) Kommt Schnee : Basel Krimi by Roger Aeschbacher
- Baumer wohnte hinter dem Bahnhof Basel im Gundeldingerquartier.
308) Die Magdalenen-Morde : Roman by M. J. Rose
- Zuerst sah sie die Füsse der Frau.
309) Ein Hundertdollar-Missverständnis : Roman by Robert Gover
- Bevor ich unverzüglich zur Sache komme, klipp und klar heraus, hier und jetzt und ohne weitere Umstände, möchte ich darauf hinweisen, dass die Ereignisse, die mir an jenem verhängnisvollen Wochenende widerfuhren, zum grossen Teil im Druck ganz unmöglich wiederzugeben sind, weil sie mit einer (farbigen!) Dame von übler Reputation in Zusammenhang stehen.
310) Geschwätz auf dem Nil : Roman by Nagib Mahfuz
- April ist der Monat des Staubs und der Lüge.

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bookmarks of the day:
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crosses

70) Der Zriny : Erzählung by Clemens Podewils. Balthasar Rauch returns home to Southern Germany after the war, together with other refugees he wants to start a new life. Among the refugees are many Hungarians, one of calls himself 'Zriny', making himself a descendant of this noble family, but his behavior is not so noble... A short story about people trying to life a new life after war.

statistics for August

2164 pages, 10 books

nationalities: CH 2, USA 1, GB 2, D 2, NL 1, F 1, Guyana 1, KOR 1
dead 3, alive 8
male 7, female 2, pseudonym 2

bookmarks of the day:
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public libraries of Basel

As always, I so appreciate your lovely photos!
I've added Reading Woman to be tbr pile.
What a lovely family! Thanks for sharing your thread topper.

>120 paulstalder: Interesting! I really like the "ready to read" ones.

>121 Whisper1: Thanks Linda, I like to share them and I am happy when others are appreciating them.
The touchstone isn't working properly, I guess you put Women Who Read are Dangerous to your pile :)
The oldest daughter was missing.

>120 paulstalder: The readytoread.ch is actually a competition for youngsters of two city libraries at http://readytoread.ch/

bookmarks of the day:
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how to treat books in an archive by the State Archive of the Ticino (Italian speaking part of Switzerland)

Last Sunday we had a baptism service in the River Rhine, six young people were baptized.

the youth pastor to the left and another pastor in the back

Enjoying a glass of red wine at sunset

>125 paulstalder: Our church has one in Cherokee Reservoir each summer. Fewer people opted for the lake this year because they'd been having some reports of electric shocks in the water due to a problem at one of the marinas. Most people just do the baptistry at church.

Beautiful sunset. Your reading in >118 paulstalder: seems really timely given the European refugee crisis just now.

>127 thornton37814: Lori, had baptisms in the river Rhine with our 'old' church from Basel at the same spot (we changed church but not denomination, because the Basel church sold the building and moving out to Muttenz, so we changed to the church where we live). The church in Riehen has no baptistry in the building. I was baptised in the river Reuss.

>128 charl08: Thanks Charlotte. The refugee crisis is worse now. Then there were basically uprooted people from neighbouring countries on the run and there were no organized refugee smugglers around. And the refugees were happy to work for their food and did not have any money when they came. Greeks told me of the attitude of some of the refugees who come to their shores that these heard back home that they should go to houses with crosses and they will receive everything for free. This attitude to get everything for free from Europe ... but pay the Turkish and North Africans for their trip to Europe. We heard in church today about Christians in the Northern Iraq who are persecuted by their fellow citizens but have no money to pay for their trip through Turkey to Europe ... In the Caritas shop I work we see more and more refugees who came from Eritrea, they paid large sums for coming here. But what I am also concerned about are those who have no money to escape from their country and therefore receive no help. What I also wonder is what the Red Crescent Societies are doing. The Red Cross is not allowed to work everywhere but the Red Crescent doesn't have enough resources ... I think there are so many things going on here that it's impossible to find answers to all the open questions. *sigh* The help we can offer is so small. What holds the future for those refugees making it here?

bookmark of the day:

a metal clip

71) Without you, there is no us : my time with the sons of North Korea's elite by Suki Kim. Suki is an American-South Korean (she has the same name as my wife) journalist who goes to North Korea in order to teach English to North Korean elite students. She is not allowed to speak Korean with the students and she cannot correct the lies of the regime - when students tell her that everywhere in the world there are Juche-study-centers sponsored by each government, she cannot tell them the truth about the isolated situation of North Korea. She can move around freely - not even leave the PUST (Pyongyang University of Science and Technology) campus when jogging. When there are outings with other teachers there are always minders accompanying them - and she even has to pay their travel fees and meals. Students do not understand the concept of individual decisions, or taxes, or paying for electricity or hospitals as the poor Americans have to, since their Great Leader provides all that for them. Each English lesson had to been approved in advance by their 'counterparts', down to the single wording of exercises. She describes the live in a total closed society where one starts to censor oneself for fear of exclusion from the close knitted relationships.
A fascinating but very depressing read. How can one stand that system for half a year as Suki did? Gives a good personal insight into that foreign world without any freedom.

72) Das geheimnisvolle Hotel : ein Kriminalroman by Wilkie Collins. Lord Montbarry marries, but not his fiancé, and concludes a life insurance. Then he dies unexpectedly in old palazzo in Venice. His former fiancé finds that strange. An English servant of the couple also disappears shortly before the Lord dies. The widow of this servant starts to ask around .... a lot of suspense till you know what happened. An old mystery, first published 1878.

bookmarks of the day:
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plants: painted flowers -- dried and pressed grass -- painted on paper -- painted on silk

73) Langnauer Täufer vor 200 Jahren : eine Erzählung aus der bernischen Kirchengeschichte by Ernst Müller. A sad chapter of Swiss history: the persecution of the Anabaptists. The story was published in 1893, so the 200 years previous was 1693 when the story took place. The pastor checked old documentations and then wrote this story about Ulli and Anni Steiner. Their son died and then Anni went to a Täufer teacher who told her the Gospel of Christ's sufferings and so Anni was comforted and 'converted'. Ulli didn't understand that and went to the authorities to complain, but the result was an other decree that the Täufer had to revoke their faith or had to o into exile (to Prussia or the Netherlands). So Anni had to leave. Ulli stayed behind but then started to help the remaining Täufer. There was another attempt to force the Täufer out but that was refuted by the Dutch government who did the not allow the Bernese authorities to use Dutch ports for exiling Swiss Anabaptists to the USA. (by the way, Müller found documents about this attempt not in the Bernese protocols of the time - the authorities did not record the incident...)... Thousands were deported on galleys, beheaded, burnt, or forced into exile

A tragic story with a happyend for the Steiners based on old documents.

>112 paulstalder: What lovely book marks. And, I like the fact that the youth pastor is encouraging young people to read.

>135 Whisper1: With some people he made a kind of seminar for how to read the Bible but also reading and taking notes (quotes) other books. Some young people had 'only' an online Bible and he encouraged them t get the 'real thing'.

bookmarks of the day:
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TBRs -- Basels schönste Seiten (Basel's most beautiful sites/pages)

bookmarks of the day:
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woven --- knitted

74) Der Liebe Kraft : Schweizerisches Volksschauspiel in drei Aufzügen by Ernst Müller. A play with songs in Bernese German. A poor family, a day laborer, has to leave their little house because they couldn't pay their debt to the rich farmer anymore. They should leave the village (as it often happened back then before 1900 in Switzerland). But the daughter of the rich farmer is in love with a farm hand and she founds out about the foul play of her father ....

The set reminded me a bit of Bollywood movies: poor guy loves a rich girl, beautiful mountains as scenery, every-so-often the characters sing a song with dancing, and a happy ending. The author also wrote the music for the play. He was a pastor in the Reformed church. I had to guess some of the dialect words because they are not in use anymore, otherwise an enjoyable read

75) Lord Edgware dies by Agatha Christie. Lady Edgware wants to get rid of her husband in order to marry another one - and that she tells everyone. So when gets killed she is the prime suspect - but she has an alibi being at a party with a dozen other people ... Typical Poirot with his monologue at the end telling averybody how clever he was in entangling the mystery and the false trails other laid out for him.

Mrs Kim from North Korea is here in Basel at the moment. She is a refugee who fled the North Korean 'Paradise'. Her father was imprisoned because her grandfather was a Christian (she didn't know then what that is). And then they had to leave the capital Pyongyang and were moved into a small village. Later when the country's economy collapsed and the 'Great Leader' wasn't anymore able to feed the people. She told of people eating human flesh. Then they tried to flee to China. But they were captured. Her husband died in prison, she was let go, only skin and bones, too weak to walk, she to crawl. In the new village she received placenta to eat from a friendly neighbour . Later she fled with her youngest son to China and lived there underground because the Chinese deport every Korean back to North Korea. Her daughter escaped on a different route and was captured by traffickers and sold to a rich Chinese. She then became a Christian in China. She experienced the love and mercy of other Christians. Someone she even doesn't know paid for her escape through Laos to Thailand (only there she was able to go to a South Korean embassy and ask for asylum). Since about 4 years she now lives in South Korea. Her daughter was allowed to visit her in South Korea and then went back to her husband and child in China (now with a South Korean passport).
A heart breaking story, but filled with the God's grace.

North Korea is a truly godless nation - and therefore the most human. Mankind on its own.

>140 paulstalder:, HI Paul, What a fascinating book cover.

>142 Whisper1: Agatha Christie describes exactly where the knife has to enter the head in order to be lethal...

We went up to Mt Pilate yesterday and had the privilege to use 4 different systems of transport with 5 different carriages:
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Aerial gondola --- aerial cableway

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steepest cogwheel railway of the world --- boat ---- (I forgot to take a picture of the bus bringing us back)

Oh I love Pilatus. It's great being up there.

My wife fell in love with it when we first went up there ages ago. The North Korean lady was also very much taken in by that mountain. We took the 'Golden Tour' around. It was a bit cloudy and windy but otherwise a fine day.

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Mt. Pilatus in the clouds --- great panorama (Jungfrau et al.)


an Alphorn blowing 'Amazing Grace' during lunch

Happy weekend, Paul.

Thanks Barbara, have a good Thanksgiving- and Prayer-Day tomorrow.

76) Wie Christus den Weg zur Seligkeit zeigt by Ernst Gilgen. An evangelistic booklet about Christ's saving deed and our responsibility to answer.

I try to find our what Ernst Gilgen actually did. I knwo he was pastor in Basel but also the founder/leader of the Adullam, the biggest geriatric hospital in Basel. But the homepage of Adullam gives Jakob Vetter as founder in 1919 (but he died in 1918), inforel gives Ernst Gilgen as founder in 1922, another sources speaks of 1928 of the 'start' of Adullam. So I get hold of every book I can find written by EG.

77) Bambi by Felix Salten. A dramatic adventure of this dear deer. An interesting description of animal life. Worth reading, not just for children.
I read a Swiss edition from around 1946/47.

I always though that 'Bambi' is just a German word for a rehkitz. Nom Lexxi mentioned the novel Bambi published 1914 wherein Bambi is used as a girl's name (the rehkitz is male), Duden.de mentions the Disney movie but not Salten's novel. Strange. I checked Grimms Wörterbuch online but couldn't find Bambi in there. I now wrote to the German departement here and asked gthem. I hope they give me a useful answer ...

the female Bambi


Illustration by Mary Greene Blumenschein

78) Jan und die Juwelendiebe by Knud Meister. A Danish detective story. Jan and his friend are on holidays near the sea. Another guest in the hotel has tried to smuggle a genuine Rembrandt into Denmark. His secretary doesn't talk at all. Strange people. An easy, predictable story, but a fun read (I read most Jan books as a child).

>154 paulstalder: Oh, how I loved the Jan serie as a kid. Couldn't stop reading them.

>144 paulstalder: All I can say is "WOW!!"

Kudos on your thread. I'm still investigating new-to-me threads, so this is the first time I've stopped at yours. I like your book marks. I have a small collection, which includes a lot of makeshift book marks--cash register receipts, bus/train tickets.

>155 Ameise1: Yes, I loved them, too. Re-reading them now is also a pleasure - predictable stories but enjoyably written.

>156 weird_O: Welcome to my thread, Bill. I am pleased when others enjoy my contributions.
Thanks for the Kudos (I first had to look up the word, I didn't know it).
Me, too, I have a lot of make shift book marks. But those I scan and put in here are those I received as 'left-overs' in old books, look like book marks, and were actually used as such. http://www.librarything.com/catalog/paulstalder
Now colleagues bring me those which they receive by bookshops, publishers etc. when they buy new books. I don't buy any bookmarks.

bookmarks of the day:
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self made

79) Jan und die Kindsräuber : Erzählung für Buben und Mädchen by Knud Meister. Another detective story from my childhood. Edward Morton (Jack's younger brother) is kidnapped and the kidnappers demand that his father flies with his private plane over Denmark in order to throw the ransom at a special spot ... Since Jack is a classmate of Jan and Erling, Jan mobilizes the whole class and other boys and they go hunting the kidnappers...

add-ons:
311) Die Kathedrale des Meeres by Ildefonso Falcones
- In einem unbeobachteten Moment blickte Bernat in den strahlend blauen Himmel hinauf.
312) Mordfall für Alfred Hitchcock : Kriminalroman by George Baxt
- Die Furien kamen immer näher.
313) Der Weg nach Zion by Bodie Thoene
- Helle, gekräuselte Rauchwolken stiegen von der Öllampe zur Decke des aus Steinquadern errichteten Raumes empor und blieben in dessen Ecken hängen.
314) Die Käsegeschichte : zum fuffzigschte Jubiläum vom Alex Wirth sym Kääslaade by Alex Wirth
- Als Kind hat uns Milchmann Robert Wirth den Tag gemacht: wir lauerten auf Elisa, sein Pferd, das nur zwei Vorderzähne hatte und immer lachte.
315) The cinnamon peeler : selected poems by Michael Ondaatje
- Midnight storm. Trees walking off across the fields in fury naked in the spark of lightning.
316) Unser Mann in Afrika : Roman by William Boyd
- "Sehr freundlich", sagte Dalmire und nahm dankbar den Gin entgegen, den Morgan Leafy ihm reichte.
317) Später Frost : der erste Fall für Ingrid Nyström und Stina Forss by Roman Voosen
- Langsam bewegte sich der Konvoi entlang der sandgelben Häuser.
318) Der Kalligraph des Bischofs : historischer Roman by Titus Müller
- Lieber Theodormir, was weisst du über das Königreich Italien?
319) Inspektor Jury geht übers Moor : Roman by Martha Grimes
- Er hatte sie heute schon einmal gesehen, im Museum hinter dem Pfarrhaus.
320) Mord an der Fifth Avenue : Roman by Victoria Thompson
- Sie betrachtete den Schmerz als Ungeheuer, das sich in ihr eingenistet hatte.

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Happy Sunday, Paul.

Same to you, Barbara. Are you getting up early tomorrow morning in order to sea the lunar eclipse?

bookmarks of the day:
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insurance company --- spices --- chocolate --- tissues

>162 paulstalder: Not quite sure yet, Paul. I've a busy day ahead and would need enough sleep.

Love all those bookmarks!

Have a good week, Paul.

>164 Ameise1: I woke uo around 6 in the morning and saw the moon appearing again.

>165 connie53: Thanks, Connie, wish a good week, too.

80) Bambi by Marjorie Benton Cooke. Bambi marries a poor, unpractical would-be-playwriter out of the urge to help him. She then start to write herself but does not tell him. A lovely tale, originally published 1914.
I read because of the name Bambi - is that a English, German, or Italian name, originally? Or did the American and the Austrian authors each make up that name for their heroes (a young woman and a male rehkitz)?

bookmarks of the day: - quotes -


"Happiness is a perfume you cannot pour on others without getting a few drops on yourself"


Irgendwie erschien ihm die Idee vom ewigen Leben bedenkenswert
(Somehow the idea of eternal life seemed to him worthy of consideration)


Wer klar denkt, handelt klüger! --- Wir sitzen alle in der Falle!
(Who thinks clearly, is smarter! --- We're all in the trap!)

add-ons:
321) Die Tote von Beverly Hills : Satire auf einen Bestseller by Curt Goetz
- Dort oben in den Hügeln um Hollywood, wo ein gewundener, halb überwucherter Fusspfad, mehr von Schlangen als von Menschen begangen, zwischen Briarcrest Lane und Mulholland Drive eine wenig bekannte Verbindung herstellt, ging ich mit Winnetou, meinem englischen Setter, und starrte in die untergehende Sonne Kaliforniens, die soeben sich anschickte, in Anbetracht der Bullenhitze ins Meer zu tauchen.
322) Teufelsfarbe : ein historischer Roman by Ivonne Hübner
- Das Mädchen zuckte verängstigt zusammen und zog ihre schmale Hand mit dem Grasbüschel darin zurück, wenn der braune Klepper gar zu gierig danach schnappte.
323) Der Stern von Paris : Roman by Judith Krantz
- Optimistische Idiotin, die ich bin!
324) Staub : ein Kay-Scarpetta-Roman by Patricia Cornwell
- Die gelben Bulldozer und legen eine alten Gebäudekomplex, der mehr Tote gesehen hat als die meisten Schlachtfelder der Moderne, in Schutt und Asche.
325) Um Füsse bat ich und er gab mir Flügel : Biografie der indischen Ärztin Mary Verghese by Dorothy C. Wilson
- Es war ein Oktobertag im Jahre 1958.
326) Der Weg ins Licht : ein junger Muslim auf der Suche nach der Wahrheit by Steven Masood
- Ich kam an eine Strassenkreuzung, ein verirrter, weinender Junge.
327) Machet zu Jüngern : wie man anderen hilft, in der Jüngerschaft zu wachsen by Walter A. Henrichsen
- Als Jesus Christus vor ungefähr zweitausend Jahren freiwillig sein Leben am Kreuz dahingab, starb er nicht für eine Sache.
328) Kreuz und Quer in der Szene : krasse Lebensberichte ; lebensnotwendige Artikel über Gott und die Welt by Kornelius Novak
- Im Bauch einer schwangeren Frau waren einmal Zwillinge.
329) Zeit für Entdecker : unseren Platz in Gottes Reich neu entdecken by Hartmuth Hanisch
- Die Nachmittagsonne taucht den Arkaden umsäumten Innenhof der Casa Colon auf Gran Canaria in ein warmes Licht.
330) Propheten, Dichter, Atheisten und andere Narren : wie mich Russland beten lehrte ; (Un-)orthodoxe Reisenotizen by Daniel Schulte
- Ich bin also unterwegs.

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81) Rotkäppchen by Jacob Grimm. Little Red Riding Hood is delivering a cake to her grandma but the wolf is hungry for both ... The Grimm version of the originally French fairy tale.

>166 paulstalder: You won't believe it but I woke up at 4.50am and was able to see the orange/red/brown moon perfectly. Everybody in our household was awake than and we had a big discussion about the colour :-)

>171 Ameise1: Congratulation. I woke up too late, so I missed the Bloodmoon. A fascinating phanomenon.

82) Der Report der Magd : Roman by Margaret Atwood. Offred lives in a bleak world in a near future where women are not allowed to live freely. She is a handmaid - given to her master because she should bear him an heir. Like 1984 or Brave New World but the character Offred was not so much taking me in as the heroes in the other such dystopias. An interesting story but a bit a flat character.
I read it because I was given the hint that the book ends with a question mark - and I first thought that that was only an appendix not belonging to the story. I know better now. But it was worthwhile reading the whole book.

statistics for September

2063 pages, 12 books
I read 4 in English (2x I read books by the same author)

nationalities: CH 2, USA 1, GB 2, D 1, KOR 1, A 1, DK 1, CDN 1
dead 8, alive 2
male 6, female 4

83) Jan ganz gross! : Eine Detektivgeschichte by Knud Meister. Three stories about Jan and Erling helping the police to solve different crimes...

Notice we are both a bit down in terms of book additions this year, Paul. You still are outdoing me though as RL and a more careful purse-string combines to have me a little more careful this year.

Wishing you a great weekend.

>176 PaulCranswick: Hej Paul. The books are coming in but I am more busy cataloguing my bookmarks, and room for books is getting sparse.

But I have won a book voucher for CHF 30 at the University Night in Basel. They asked questions about languages in the Language Centre of the University of Basel. They told I was the only one of the 114 participants who had all answers right (12 different questions). That gives me the opportunity to actually buy a book :)

Wish you a good weekend, too.

84) Russische Freunde : Kriminalroman by Matti Rönkä. Viktor Kärppä is a former Soviet special agent, now a dubious businessman. But then Russians come to him and ask to transfer all his businesses to someone else. His house is burnt down and he goes on a journey to find out who is behind all that and to take care of it. The plot and the characters are flat. The reading can be fun because he often quotes sentences from different literary of folklore texts, Finnish, Karelian, Russian, Estonian, German, ...

85) Kein Ticket für den Tod : Krimi aus Paris by Léo Malet. Nestor Burma, the private eye, has nothing to do and therefore goes on a roller coaster. Somebody tries to throw him overboard but he is stronger and thus wins. The other hits the ground is immediately dead. But who is this guy? And who is young woman who faints when she saw the men fighting in the carriage? A humoresque tale of a mystery in the 12th arrondissement of Paris, Reuilly. Fun read.

bookmark of the day:


Lassen Sie unsere Autoren nicht verhungern ... ... lesen Sie Bücher aus dem Kyrene.Literaturverlag!
(Do not starve our writers ... ... read books from the Kyrene.Literaturverlag!)

86) Sonne und Mond 2 by Gaya Kwan. Baik Il Hong, the son of famous outlawed hero, doesn't want to fight the wars of the others. But there is money on his head, so others try to get his head. He then saves Nang Lang from being killed and starts a relationship with her. An action manhwa from Korea.

Happy weekend, Paul.

Thank you, Barbara, same to you, too.

Stopping and waving, Paul!

87) Der Mann mit dem roten Zylinder by Wolfgang Ecke. A man with a red top hat returns stolen or lost goods back to their owners - around midnight. A private eye, Erik Olanson, is given the job of finding this man. But Erik's sons, 12-year-old twins, hear about the reward and try to find the man with the red top hat before their father... Ecke has written several detective and adventure stories for young readers.

>184 connie53: thanks for waving by

>185 paulstalder: Ah, I love Wolfgang Ecke's books. Thanks so much for another childhood memory.

>187 Ameise1: I didn't read this one as a child. I like his way of telling a story.

add-ons:
331) Prinzipien erhörter Gebete & Erweckung by Kornelius Novak
- Als Sohn eines Pastors musste ich meinen Vater oft in die Gebetsstunden begleiten, damit zu Hause wenigstens in der Zeit etwas Ruhe und Frieden war.
332) Rapunzel by Jacob Grimm
- Es war einmal ein Mann und eine Frau, die wünschten sich schon lange vergeblich ein Kind, endlich machte sich die Frau Hoffnung, der liebe Gott werde ihren Wunsch erfüllen.
333) Die Bremer Stadtmusikanten by Jacob Grimm
- Es hatte ein Mann einen Esel, der schon lange Jahre die Säcke unverdrossen zur Mühle getragen hatte, dessen Kräfte aber nun zu Ende gingen, so dass er zur Arbeit immer untauglicher wurde.
334) Anleitung zum Glücklichsein : 100 Zen-Geschichten für das neue Jahrtausend by Kenneth S. Leong
- Einen Zen-Lehrer, begeisterter Anhänger von Mythen und Sagen, bat ein Schüler, das Wesen des Zen an einem griechischen Mythos zu erläutern.
335) Sozialismus - warum nicht? by Gerald A. Cohen
- Die Frage "Sozialismus - warum nicht?" ist nicht rhetorisch gemeint.
336) Prosa und Gedichte by Silja Walter
- Als der Soldat Malchus zum Schäfer auf der Wiese sagte: "Aber wenn ich Rhode vielleicht durchaus heiraten will", widersprach dieser: "Nein, Rhode kannst du nicht heiraten."
337) Die Charismatische Bewegung 1 : Geschichte - Personen - Organisationen by Michael Kotsch
- Der Begriff Charisma findet sich im Neuen Testament 17 mal.
338) Die Römer : Kultur und Geschichte by Reinhard Pohanka
- War es die Gier nach Reichtum, war es eine Ideologie oder waren es religiöse Gründe, welche die Römer dazu brachten, ein antikes Weltreich zu errichten?
339) The abolition of man or Reflections on education with special referenc to the teaching of English in the upper forms of schools by C. S. Lewis
- I doubt whether we are sufficiently attentive to the importance of elementary text-books.
340) Der lebendige Gott als Trinität : Jürgen Moltmann zum 80. Geburtstag by Michael Welker
- Die Verbindung und Verankerung der Trinitätslehre im Gedanken der Offenbarung Gottes setzt voraus, dass Offenbarung als Selbstoffenbarung Gottes verstanden wird.

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add-ons:
341) Der Bestseller-Mord : Roman by Michael Collins
- An einem matten Freitagnachmittag sass E. Robert Pendleton in der Englischen Fakultät des Bannockburn College und lauschte dem lebhaften Treiben draussen unter seinem Fenster.
342) Die Frau im Tal : Roman by Ketil Bjørnstad
- "Versuch dich noch mal zu erinnern."
343) Die Heimfahrt : Roman by Lehnhoff Joachim
- Der Posten Innenstreife blieb stehen, gab dem Kollegen einen Schubs, so dass der Karabiner lotrecht über der Achsel hing, und bewegte fröstelnd die Schultern unterm klammnassen Manteltuch.
344) Alexander - der Herrscher der Welt : Roman by Valerio M. Manfredi
- Im Spätfrühling nahm der König die Wüstendurchquerung wieder auf.
345) Das Grabmal des Pharao : Roman by Wilbur Smith
- Mächtig zog sich der Fluss durch die Wüste, gleissend wie Metall aus einem Schmelzofen.
346) Untreu : Roman by Christa von Bernuth
- Die Farben des Todes schimmern hellblau, giftgrün, beigebraun, mattschwarz.
347) Die Pension Grillparzer : eine Bärengeschichte by John Irving
- Mein Vater arbeitete für das Österreichische Fremdenverkehrsamt.
348) Agatha Christie's Miss Marple : the life and times of Miss Jane Marple by Anne Hart
- The pretty village of St Mary Mead will be forever known as the home of Miss Jane Marple, that wonderful sleuth whose creator so cleverly, and for so many years, led us down the garden path.
349) Before we met by Lucie Whitehouse
- The rain was beating down, and out there, where the carriageway was exposed, the wind buffeted Hannah's old VW as if it were trying to push it off the road.
350) Das geheime Wissen des Alchimisten : Roman by Rainer M. Schröder
- Seit die räudige Katze mit der toten Krähe in den Fängen ihren Weg gekreuzt hatte, liess das beklemmende Gefühl heraufziehenden Unheils Johanna nicht mehr los.

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add-ons:
351) Crazy : Roman by Benjamin Lebert
- Hier soll ich also bleiben.
352) Der gestillte Blick : Sehstücke by Klaus Merz
- Ein Baum. sagte die Mutter.
353) Familienpoker : Kriminalroman by Sunil Mann
- "Wach auf!", flüsterte ich und richtete mich geräuschlos auf.
354) Pferde am Fluss : Roman by Barbara Esstman
- Mein Bruder Simon starb mit weit aufgerissenen Augen, die blau in den Himmel starrten.
355) Chronik der Lustbarkeiten : die Gedichte, Lieder und Chansons, 1918-1933 ; Band I by Walter Mehring
- Raum mit den zwei Tischen
Halbdunkel
Grüner Vorhang
Eine Lampe und der Mond
356) Chronik der Lustbarkeiten : die Gedichte, Lieder und Chansons, 1918-1933 ; Band II by Walter Mehring
- Wer ist furchtlos - sonder Fehle?
357) Staatenlos im Nirgendwo : die Gedichte, Lieder und Chansons 1933-1974 by Walter Mehring
- Manchmal berliner ick aus'm Traume -
Und soo' ne Träne kullert mir auf't Schemisett.
358) Der Mann mit dem goldenen Colt : Roman by Ian Fleming
- Vieles im Geheimdienst wird auch vor den ranghöchsten Beamten geheimgehalten.
359) Das schwarze Blut : Roman by Jean-Christophe Grangé
- Der Bambus.
360) Cameron Townsend : die Gute Nachricht in jeder Sprache by Janet Benge
- Ein Hahnenschrei weckte den 14-jährigen Cameron Townsend aus dem Schlaf.

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Paul, why have I not visited your thread a long time ago! I love your family picture at the top of your thread! Wonderful looking family!I have just two sons, one is 30 years old and the other is 25. The 25 year old got married this summer. All of a sudden my husband and I are an empty nesters - with just our lovely little dog to keep us company. Great reading and so many wonderful pictures. I recognize some of your reads, Detour by Gerbrand Bakker, which I read together with lit_chick aka Nancy and Carsten , here on LT. It was a lot of fun puzzling out the meaning of the story. The Handmaids Tale is rather grim tale from a Canadian writer, the only book of hers that I have bothered to read. I read The Twin by Gerbrand Bakker and I preferred it to The Detour. Agatha Christie always makes for a nice cozy mystery read. Happy weekend to you!

Have a lovely weekend, Paul.

>192 vancouverdeb: Hej Deborah, welcome. Yes, when the kids move out, they leave some empty spots :) The younger daughter every-so-often shows up again. The son still lives with us. He is working as a male nurse in the same hospital Suki used to work - 10 minutes walk. Why move out?
I have The twin somewhere here but Der Umweg made me a bit cautious reading it, but your comment is encouraging.
Have a good start into the new week.

>193 PaulCranswick: Thanks for the good wishes. We had a young Korean visiting friends of ours and helped along with translations. She wants to go hang gliding tomorrow, in Grindelwald. She is a nurse and has given up her job in order to travel to Europe. They have no holidays in Korea.

88) Monsignore Quijote : Roman by Graham Greene. Padre Quijote becomes a Monsignore by some whim of the pope. The maire of Toboso, La Mancha, Spain, a communist, loses the elections. These two go out on a road trip through Spain, a descendant of don Quijote and his friend, Sancho. A story about the divide of catholicism and communism, about faith and doubt, also a story about Truth and Fiction. A good read

89) Wiener Adel by Felix Salten. A historic study by the Author of Bambi. He describes the place, culture, virtues and vices, the highlights and the decay of the aristocracy in Vienna. He describes the different dynasties of old families and their palaces. He tells about the events of the ballroom, of the arrival of courtiers in the palace, of the parade of the carriages in the Prater. And he quotes from diaries of a lady-in-waiting and an officer. Written around 1905.



Von allen Gefühlen die es gibt, ist das Gefühl geehrt zu sein, unstreitig das angenehmste.
(Of all the emotions out there, the feeling of being honoured is unquestionably the most pleasant.)

Ich versichere Dich, die Republikaner auf der Stelle zu erkennen sind an dem falschen, boshaften Ausdruck ihrer Gesichter.
(I assure you, the Republicans can be recognized immediately by the wrong, mischievous expression on their faces.)

90) Sonne und Mond 3 by Kwan Gaya. The third part of the Korean manwha. Baik Il Hong is mourning about the death of his love. The other gangs of Marimi start to fight each other. In the end they are all exausted and weakened. This part was less interesting than the others, mainly because there are too much philosophical outpouring like, the presence must not be in between the past and the future ...

91) Der Schweiger : Roman by Thomas Bucheli. Richard Kaufmann is a banker, earning a lot of money. BUt one day he collapses and he is sent to the bath of Vals for a curative stay. He stays there for 8 months and stops talking, he becomes silent and finds his peace with himself and the world. When coming back he leaves the bank and uses his money for living - but then he realizes that he is all alone.

Written by a Swiss author who is now a diplomat in China. Written with short sentences. Single words. Word. Full stops. Quiet. But thriving. Simple. In a way. Not boring.

bookmarks of the day:
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(libraries of art, design and architecture --- the backs fit together)

>199 paulstalder: Interesting!

>200 thornton37814: Yes, sometimes libraries have some good ideas for bookmarks...

bookmark of the day:

Vous sortez ce soir? : oui... je lis
(You go out tonight? - yes ... I read)

One of the reasons that I like ordering books from Book Depository is that they always include a cute paper bookmark. Lovely touch, I think.

Have a great Sunday, Paul

there are some very nice bookmarks some of the book shops give away for free.

We are voting for a new parliament in Switzerland today. Even google.ch has made a Swiss voting doodle... A slight move to the right is expected, but there are not enough results yet to give a proper 'prophecy'.

92) Gottes Stimme hören im Hier und Jetzt by Johannes Hartl. A very good input about prayer - to be in the present adn not thinking about the past (It was so nice, then, or That did hurt so much) or the future (I have get some more..., or It will be awful again...). But listening to God in that moment. The author quotes from The Cloud of Unknowing.

93) Studio 6 : Roman by Liza Marklund. Annika starts a practical assignment as a news reporter at a newspaper in Stockholm. She gets a hint about a dead girl lying naked in a cemetery, being strangled. The girl was working in a striptease club called 'Studio 6'. A receipt signed by a Swedish minister from this club shows up and he has to resign from his post - but at the time he was on a secret mission to Eastern Europe... A political mystery, thrilling.

94) Engelsstimme : Island-Krimi by Arnaldur Indriðason. An old porter of the hotel is found murdered, half dressed as Santa Claus, just before he should appear and play his role. Inspector Erlendur then stays in the hotel till Christmas because the case is fairly tricky. All the action takes place in this hotel, Erlendur doesn't leave the hotel during the whole investigation. The murdered man was once a child star, singing with an angel's voice (the German title: Engelsstimme). Erlendur's daughter shows up and wants to know why her father never cared for her and her brother .... and other such problems come alongside the actual murder case. A bit overloaded.

95) Geisterspuk in Peng-lai : neue Kriminalfälle des Richters Di, alten chinesischen Originalquellen entnommen by Robert van Gulik. Judge Di goes to his first post in Peng-lai, a harbour at the Eastern shore of China. There his predecessor was found dead in his study behind closed doors. The judge who was first sent to investigate, returned just a few days after he arrived, and all the papers of the dead judge have disppeared. How was the just killed? Why? By whom?
Based on a historical figure who lived before 700 AD, the different cases were also taken from Chinese literature. A very enjoyable read.

Happy weekend, Paul.

Thank you, Barbara, same to you.

96) Martin : Geschichten aus einer glücklichen Welt by Manfred Hausmann. Some hilarious stories about the author's son Martin before going to school. Martin comes into the house, crying. Mother asks why, and he says 'I was struck by something.' 'Shh, stop crying now.' 'But it hurts so much.....!' 'Where does it hurt?' 'I don't remember! Huhuhuhuuu!'
Mother is dividing dessert so that everyone gets the same sized pieces. 'So, who's got not enough, now?' And Martin says: 'Everybody.'

Just stopping by to wish you a great weekend, Paul

Hej, Paul, hope you had a good weekend and wish you a good start into the new week.

97) Jan, pass auf! : eine Detektivgeschichte für Buben und Mädchen by Knud Meister. Another book from my youth. A villain whom Jan and his friends helped to bring behind bars was released from prison. As a revenge he sinks the boat of Carl, Jan's friend.

Every time I visit your thread I wish my languages were better: then I could read some of the intriguing covers you show. Love the 'are you going out tonight' bookmark. You have a great collection.

>215 charl08: Thanks Charlotte for the compliment. Well, some of the titles are translated into English, but I agree, I recently read some books which were published in German only.

98) Das Fräulein von Scuderi : Erzählung aus dem Zeitalter Ludwig des Vierzehnten by Ernst T. A. Hoffmann. A classic German novel first published in 1819. Miss Scuderi, a talented elderly lady at the royal court of Louis XIV, is disturbed by a visitor around midnight who just brought some jewelry. But then the jeweler got stabbed and his apprentice gets suspected ... A good old German piece of literature.

99) Charismatische Erfahrungen by Joachim Friedl. Friedl was did an internship in home for ex-drug-addicts in Lüdenscheid. There he was confronted with a strong Charismatic church. He was confronted with the 'resting in the spirit', talking in tongues, falling backwards, prophesying and other things. After several years within the charismatic movement he started more and more to read the Bible and to see some of these phenomenons in that light and then left that movement. An honest report.

Hi Paul, just passing by your thread. You got me smiling with your description of the "Martin" book.

>219 connie53: It was a lovely book, with some good insights from a child's view.

100) Drei Erzählungen by Raphael Patkanian. Three Armenian stories translated into German.
Mein Nachbar: A man visits his neighbour and they start talking about whose death the bell had announced. It was a young girl, the most beautiful of the village, but there was a dark secret about her she herself didn't know about.
Der verödete Hof: A man passes a piece of land where apparently a house was torn down. A passing woman tells him the sad story of the family who lived there: An honest merchant with his family who was tricked into buying bad goods.
Ich war verlobt: An Armenian student in St. Petersburg one day sees a young lady following a funeral procession. He was touched by the suffering of this young woman who buried her mother. Now she was an orphan. Her family came from Switzerland to Russia but her father soon died there. The students fells in love, but doesn't understand her plea to kidnap her...

The first two stories are stories told in the story by a storyteller in a dialogue with somebody else. Interesting style. All three are sad stories with no happy ending, I think, representing partly the sad history of the Armenian people: Start anew after some catastrophe, finding hope, and then heading a new crisis.

101) Der Wucherer : Roman by Georges Simenon. Not a Maigret-mystery. The story is told in the first person. Edouard Malempin is a successful doctor with two kids. One day his son fells seriously ill. The father sits at his bed and thinks about his life. They lived on a farm far away from the city. His mother was ruling, his father was working. Then he has to live home and live with an aunt who lives in town, her husband went missing and was never found.
An interesting study of characters

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Full moon shining on the village church of Riehen --- the free fall tower at the fair in Basel

Both pictures are gorgeous in their own way, Paul.

This is the same spot where the fun tower stands now.

It looks much wider in the first picture, Paul.

>226 connie53: yes, it does. You can see the green thing to the left? That's a tramway.

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Yes, that gives it some perspective.

statistics for October

3563 pages, 19 books
all books were written in German (2x I read 2 books each by the same author)

nationalities: CH 1, S 1, GB 1, A 1, F 1, DK 1, D 5, SF 1, KOR 1, IS 1, NL 1, B 1, Armenia 1
dead 10, alive 7
male 16, female 1

1 nl auteur! I needed to know who, so I scrolled up and down. I could not find it, Paul. So tell me, please.

>230 connie53: Surprise: Robert van Gulik born in Zutphen, then lived in the Dutch East Indies