Paul S in 2019: What comes next?

Hej, I am not ready for 2019. I finish off 2018 first and then come back here



A picture Suki made in December 2010



Suki and me in the Trümmelbachfälle https://www.truemmelbachfaelle.ch/

We'll stand by until you get back!

Happy New Year!

Happy reading in 2019, Paul!

Wishing you plenty of good reading in 2019, Paul!

I wish you from my heart a healthy 2019 filled with happiness, satisfaction, laughter and lots of good books.

Happy 2019 reading!

>2 drneutron: Thanks, Jim.

>3 The_Hibernator: Hej Rachel. That's an interesting picture. Did you make it? Who is standing in the middle waving the 'fire wand'?

>4 FAMeulstee: Let's see how good the reading goes, Anita. I am looking forward to it :)

>5 quondame: Happy new year to you, too, Susan.

>6 harrygbutler: I got some very good books from LT Santa, Harry, so it should be okay. That's quite an old postcard you found here!

>7 Ameise1: Thanks, Barbara, for the nice picture of Zürich :) and thanks for all the good wishes.

>8 thornton37814: Let's see, what 2019 has in store, Lori, bookwise and otherwise :)

I just finished my first book in 2019:
1) Selbst wenn man alles verlieren müsste by Suzy Dind. Christine is enganged to a promising young man but then he is killed in a car accident. Later Christine becomes a Christian and goes to a bible school. But then she is suffering from tuberculosis and has to go a sanatorium ... How does she cope with all these blows? Can she forgive? A moving Christian story from the French speaking part of Switzerland. The author suffers from polio since she is 15, so some aspects are autobiographical in this story.



first published in French in 1960

Congrats on finishing the first book of the year.

Hi Paul, and happy new year to you.

Happy 2019
A year full of books
A year full of friends
A year full of all your wishes realised

I look forward to keeping up with you, Paul, this year.

>13 karenmarie: Thanks, Karen, have a good 2019 yourself.

>14 PaulCranswick: Hej Paul, thanks for all the good wishes. I am always tempted to save books from the Public Book Boxes, about which my children always complain :)
I hope that you also find a good many (read) books in 2019 and a bit more quiet and peaceful life.

Greetings, Paul and happy new year with wishes for a delightful year of reading.
Congratulations on finishing your first of 2019!
I look forward to more of your most ingenious TIOLI Challenges !

A little belated Happy New Year.
A little belated Happy New Thread.
I wish you and yours a year full of books, love, friends and health.

>16 Carmenere: Thanks, Lynda, for visiting. So far, I have no new ideas for challenges but I hope that something will come up ...

>17 SirThomas: Hallo Thomas, danke für Deinen Besuch.
Wish you a filled 2019, too!

On my way home yesterday from work, I picked up 24 books from the book box at the tram stop ....

Happy New Year, Paul!

>20 alcottacre: Thanks, Stasia.

pictures Suki made in December 2010

Wishing you a good 2018.

Beautiful pictures Paul. Thank you for posting them. Which books were in the box?

>23 charl08: Thanks Charlotte. She made some very good pictures.

I will list the add-ons later, but I found The book thief by M. Zusak, Mein linker Fuss by C. Brown, Letzter Bus nach Coffeeville by J. Henderson, Erzengel by R. Voosen, Jacob beschliesst zu lieben by C. Florescu, Kleine Erinnerungen by J. Saramago, The girl who chased the Moon by S. Allen, Du findest mich am Ende der Welt by N. Barreau et al. So American, English, French, Swiss, German, Austrian, Portuguese literature, published between 1970 and 2018

I finished my second book, which I already started before Christmas

2) Die schönsten Weihnachtsgeschichten aus Skandinavien by Gitte Haenning. A collection of 18 stories from Sweden, Denmark and Norway.
- Tölpel-Hans by Hans Christian Anderen: A landlord has two very witty sons who prepare themselves in conversation in order to win the princess' heart. But the third, Foolish John, just travels to the castle as he is ....
- Ein Weihnachtsabend im Lotsenhäuschen by Johann Ludvig Runeberg: On Christmas some strangers come to the pilot's house in the Swedish archipelago. The old lady there tells her story how she lost her younger son when saving another boat. Then the stranger stands up and gives her an old necklace ...
- Eine Weihnachtspredigt im Angebot by Henrik Wranér: A poor boy wants his family to celebrate Christmas as all the other people do: with tree, and candles, and gifts for the parents and the children. But he has no money. So he writes down last year's sermon he heard in the neighboring city and offers this sermon to the parson to finance his family's Christmas ...
- Weihnachtsüberraschung by Kjell Eriksson. A barkeeper in Stockholm gets a late visitor at Christmas: Patricia Darling. She tells him that his boss Peter 'is taken apart' and she would like to leave a huge bag with him. She promised to return before the bar closes. Måns puts the bag in his locker - but she nor his boss do show up. The next day he finds blood underneath his locker. When the cook wants to look into his locker, he kills him accidently. Måns is afraid that his boss' head is the bag ... Patricia later returns and explains that the boss lost his head because of her and they had a sexy night together, and there is only a pig's head in the bag for a special Christmas dinner...
- Die Schneekönigin by Hans Christian Andersen. The fairy tale of the snow queen in the extended version in seven tales ...
- ...
Most stories have nothing to do with Christmas, well maybe the time of year. There are other stories like Eriksson's in the book. There are stories which question the behavior of people around Christmas (which often is not good: mean, drunken, violent, lonesome) but then blame Christmas for the bad happenings/outcomes. But Christmas without Christ just leaves a mess/mas. It's sad that bad memories of Christmas events are used to discredit the Christian background of Christmas.

I am disappointed by this collection, especially with the title, which promises 'the most beautiful Christmas stories from Scandinavia' ... most of these stories are quite well told but no Christmas stories.



The editor is the (in Germany well known) Danish singer Gitte.

First published 2007, translated from Swedish, Danish, and Norwegian

3) Das fremde Kleid : Roman by Suzy Dind. Genviève and Isabelle are twins, Isabelle hat a bike accident and is paralyzed since then, Geneviève is a nurse in training. Then their mother gets cancer and dies. During that time Geneviève's fiancé dumps her. She is devastated and she can't understand God: Why is her sister so ill? Why did her mother die? Why is she been left? They are all 'good' Christians, doing no evil. But she has to learn that she has to accept Christ's sacrifice personally ... a good Christian story from the French part of Switzerland. (by the same author as my first books this year >11 paulstalder:)



First published 1963 in French

>16 Carmenere: I look forward to more of your most ingenious TIOLI Challenges

Hey! Me, too! :D

Happy New Year, Paul!

You started reading some pretty depressing stories. :/

I just finished my first secret Santa Book (Once We Were Brothers) and liked it much more than I thought I would. Thanks, again, for gifting me the Secret Santa. I plan on sharing this book I just finished with my dental hygienist who loves to read historical novels, particularly those about WWII. I think she'll also like this book.

Suki's pictures are beautiful. I love that you keep sharing those wonderful pictures of you two together as well.

>1 paulstalder:

What a smile!!!

When was that photo taken?

Thank you.

>27 SqueakyChu: Hej Madeline, I hope that I can live up to that wish for ingenious challenges :)

I am pleased that you like your Santa books.

>28 m.belljackson: Thanks for coming over. The pix was taken in 2010. Then relatives from Korea and the USA came to Switzerland and we made a 'Tour de Suisse'.


This was taken just after we visited the water falls of the Trümmelbachfälle

pictures taken on the same trip. Suki was laughing about the fear her nieces showed
the Gelmerbahn is the steepest funiculaire (Standseilbahn) of the world, with an inclination of up to 106%.
https://www.grimselwelt.ch/en/transport-lift/gelmer

>30 paulstalder: Thanks for sharing more photos, Paul! That's quite a view down the mountainside. I think I'd like that trip.

>31 harrygbutler: Here we go https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7siV0O4xUgc
riding down in 8 times speed

>32 paulstalder: That was fun! Thanks for that link, Paul!

>30 paulstalder: That looks incredibly scary...like a roller coaster! I'm afraid of those, too! I even hate when I ride my own Metro train and it goes part of the way on elevated tracks. I like level ground. :D

>19 paulstalder: How lovely to acquire a box of books and methodically go through them.

>22 paulstalder: What incredible photos. I really am drawn to the second one!

>344 I agree with you Madeline. You would never see me on that!

>33 harrygbutler: You're welcome.

>34 SqueakyChu: Hej Madeline. The clip is not in real time, so the ride is far more slower - but it's an experience :)

>35 Whisper1: Linda, I sure took my time at the book box :)
Suki made some fantastic picture and I will share more of hers during this year.

add-ons:
1) The book thief by Markus Zusak
- First line: First the colors. Then the humans.
- first published: 2005
2) Hot House Flower : Roman by Margot Berwin
- Lange Zeit war ich davon überzeugt, dass sich mein Interesse an tropischen Pflanzen zufällig dadurch ergab, weil ich bei dem Mann auf dem Markt am Union Square eine solche Pflanz kaufte.
- 2009
3) Vision und Haltung : für eine Zukunft im Wohlstand by Werner Abt
- Früh entdeckten die Menschen, dass sie mit erfundenen Ornamenten und formalem Ausdruck den Tauschwert der Gegenstände und damit auch die Begehrlichkeit erhöhten.
- 2009
4) Jacke wie Hose : Roman by Rita Mae Brown
- Ich habe meiner Mutter (Mom) einen neuen Wagen gekauft.
- 1978
5) The roar of the butterflies by Reginald Hill
- Joe Sixsmith was adrift in space.
- 2008
6) The girl who chased the Moon : A Novel by Sarah Addison Allen
- It took a moment for Emily to realize the car had come to a stop.
- 2010
7) Du findest mich am Ende der Welt : Roman by Nicolas Barreau
- Mein erster Liebesbrief endete in einer Katastrophe.
- 2009
8) Jacob beschliesst zu lieben : Roman by Catalin Dorian Florescu
- In jedem Sturm steckt ein Teufel.
- 2011
9) Erzengel : ein Fall für Ingrid Nyström und Stina Forss by Roman Voosen
- Es war ein kalter, klarer Novembernachmittag.
- 2018
10) Die feine Nase der Lilli Steinbeck : Kriminalroman by Heinrich Steinfest
- Was für ein wunderbarer Abend!
- 2007

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>37 paulstalder: Of those books, I’ve only read The Book Thief. I think you’ll love that story, Paul. I did.

>38 SqueakyChu: I will read The book thief some time. I guess my daughter read it and recommended it also.
With Hot House Flower intrigued me the connection to Yucatan, Mexico. I like the title The roar of the butterflies, Catalin Florescu is a Romanian living in Switzerland, and Erzengel is a new to me mystery series playing in Smaland, Sweden.

add-ons
11) Letzter Bus nach Coffeeville : Roman by J. Paul Henderson
- Eugene Chaney, oder Doc, wie ihn die meisten nannten, sass auf der Veranda hinter seinem Haus, trank Kaffee und fragte sich, ob die Vögel heute irgendwie falsch zwitscherten.
- 2014
12) Kleine Erinnerungen by José Saramago
- Azinhaga nennen sie das Dorf, das praktisch seit Anbeginn der Nation an dieser Stelle steht (bereits im dreizehnten Jahrhundert besass es einen königlichen Freibrief), doch aus dieser wundersamen alten Zeit ist nichts geblieben ausser dem Fluss, der vermutlich seit Erschaffung der Welt am Dorf entlangführt und, so weit ich zurückdenken kann, niemals seinen Lauf geändert hat, obgleich er unzählige Male über die Ufer getreten ist.
- 2006
13) Das Verlangen nach Liebe : Roman by Hanns-Josef Ortheil
- Ich sah sie am frühen Nachmittag jenes Tages, an dem ich in Zürich angekommen war.
- 2007
14) Heinrichs Geheimnis by Jo Pestum
- Dass der solche Augen hatte!
- 1992
15) Mein linker Fuss : Lebensbericht eines zerebral gelähmten Menschen by Christy Brown
- Ich wurde am 5. Juni 1932 im Rotunda-Hospital geboren.
- 1954
16) Zmittst im Gjätt uss = Mitten im Nirgendwo by Guy Krneta
- I wett nid müesse Reiseleiter sy. = Ich wollte nicht Reiseleiter sein müssen.
- 2003
17) La Negra : Roman by Raul Zelik
- Das, woran man die Stadt immer erkennt, woran man sich erinnert, wenn man den Hautpilz und die Hitze schon lange vergessen hat, sind die Flammen, das Feuer über der Raffinerie, das unruhige Züngeln in orange, gelb und blau hoch über den Dächern.
- 2000
18) Die Heimkehr : Roman by Otto Zinniker
- Nach dem ersten leisen Frühlingsahnen nahm der Winter Ende Januar noch einmal die strenge Herrschaft an sich.
- 1944
19) Filmriss : Roman by William Kotzwinkle
- "Das waren Zeiten, und ich war dabei."
- 1987
20) Die Augen des Mandarin : Roman by Hugo Loetscher
- Kann man mit blauen Augen sehen?
- 1999
21) Die letzte Jüdin von Würzburg : historischer Roman by Roman Rausch
- Seine Hand zittert, als er die Feder übers Pergament führt.
- 2014
22) Die achte Karte : Roman by Kate Mosse
- Diese Geschichte beginnt in einer Knochenstadt.
- 2007
23) Der Palio der toten Reiter : Roman by Carlo Fruttero
- Schon länger als eine halbe Stunde sieht jetzt der Anwalt Maggioni aus diesem Fenster, und immer noch zieht unter ihm unendlich langsam der Zug vorbei, der den traditionellen "Palio" von Siena eröffnet.
- 1983

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These are the 23 books I took from here:

four shelves on each side - how can one resist?

The 24th book I took home was a duplicate I had already as a paper back Ein Ort für die Ewigkeit by Val McDermid

pictures Suki made in the Trümmelbachfälle

Oh, those are great!

>42 paulstalder: Wow!

>43 drneutron: >44 SqueakyChu: Suki had a good eye for photographing. The water drops on the camera in the upper picture were not so good for the camera but make a good impression on the picture

4) Der wunderbare Massenselbstmord : Roman by Arto Paasilinna. Two men try to commit suicide in the same hut in Finland, but like that they safe each others life. Then they start a newspaper ad with the question: 'Do you consider suicide?' and they get over 600 responses. They start a kind of self help group considering mass suicide with a luxury coach on the North Cape, 33 members are on the bus heading North ... An interesting story, well written, talking about suicide in a relaxed way, bringing in most arguments pro and contra. A typical Finnish tale (I am told by Finns).

I received my Secret Santa books of 2017 !! Thanks to Lorannen who did a great job in ordering the books anew which should have arrived for Christmas 2017. I am so happy about these books :)

These are the new arrivals:
24) The yellow birds by Kevin Powers
- The war tried to kill us in the spring.
- 2012
- I put that on my wishlist because PaulCranswick recommended it in 2013
25) Die Vegetarierin : Roman by Han Kang
- Bevor meine Frau zur Vegetarierein wurde, hielt ich sie in jeder Hinsicht für völlig unscheinbar.
- 2007
- I put that book on my wishlist when SqueakyChu and dallenbaugh listet it on a challenge in April 2016
26) The girl with seven names : escape from North Korea by Hyeonseo Lee
- I was awoken by my mother's cry.
- 2015
- On my wishlist because I am very much interested in Korean history/literature/culture
27) Nachdenken über Christa T. by Christa Wolf
- Nachdenken, ihr nach - denken.
- 1968
- I have no idea why this book was chosen for me - but I like surprises. Wolf was an author from the German Democratic Republic, I've heard about her but never read anything by her.

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Great reading ahead

>47 paulstalder: The Vegetarian was such a weird book! I really liked it. I like "weird", though! :D I'm curious to see what you think of it!

>48 SqueakyChu: weird is okay. I am just afraid that I got so many good books recently that I am at a loss what to chose first. Haven't I got a nice problem here?

5) Der Felsendom in Jerusalem und seine Geschichte by Richard Hartmann. A history (of art) of the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem, published 1909. Hartmann describes the Dome as he saw it at his time. The Rock was already holy to the Jews since the creation of the world, later it became more weight when the Temple of Salomon was built on this place. When Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans they built a temple for Jupiter there. In 333 AD a pilgrim from Bordeaux visited Jerusalem, he mentions statues of Jupiter but he writes nothing about a temple or a building over the Rock. When Mohammed met Jews in Medina he became aware of the importance of Jerusalem and prayed in that direction. Later it was reported that he met all the former Jewish prophets (including Jesus) near the Rock and left from the there to the highest heavens. ʿUmar ibn al-Chattāb conquered Jerusalem and the Rock around 638. Then around 687 (AH 66 or 69) Abd al-Malik started to build a dome/shrine above the Rock, which was finished AD 692 (AH 72). There is an inscription in the Dome with that date but with a wrong name: the original name was replaced with Al-Ma'mun. It was a octogonal construction with a double cupola with wood and lead, the cupola was covered with gold. For the decoration inside the Dome they enlisted Greek artists. There are many inscriptions in the cupola, some may be original, some are definitely of later date. Ibn al-Faqih wrote about his visit to Jerusalem in 903 (AH 290) and described the Dome as Hartmann met the Dome in the 19th century. It seems that all later restorations and renovations did not bring along any big changes. When the Turks attacked Greece and forbid the Christians to visit Jerusalem, the Crusades started and Jerusalem was taken in 1099. The Dome was made into a church, the Rock was covered with marble slabs and a cross was mounted on top of the Dome. So the Dome became the Templum Domini of the Knights Templar. Descriptions from Pilgrims of that period describe no other changes to the Dome. These changes were then reversed when Saladin recaptured Jerusalem in AH 583 (1187 AD). He replaced the cross with a crescent on the roof and instead of marble in installed a wooden screen around the Rock. During the reign of Suleiman the Magnificent the exterior of the Dome of the Rock was covered with tiles.
Hartmann closes with a chapter about the connection between the Dome of the Rock and the Gral.

Conrad Schick came to Jerusalem in 1846 as a missionary and then made excavations on the Temple Mount and built several models of the Dome and the whole Temple Mount.

A fascinating and very educating reading. Some aspects are probably outdated since there were some texts about the Dome discovered since then.

6) Marie Curie by Ma Isabel Sánchez Vegara. A short biography of this Nobel prize winner for a younger public. She grew up poor but was very brilliant. She went to Paris, studied there, married Peter and got the Nobel prize for physics. When Peter died she worked even more and got the Nobel prize for chemistry ...



That's the first book I read from the Santa 2018 books.

>49 paulstalder: I have the same problem every day! Good problem to have!

>50 paulstalder: Wow! That's a pretty extensive history of the Dome of the Rock! When I lived in Israel (1973), I was able to enter the Dome of the Rock to see the inside. It being such a contentious religious and political icon now, I would not be surprised if it were no longer open to visitors now.

>41 paulstalder: I know I would not be able to resist!

>50 paulstalder: That one looks interesting. I will have to see if it was translated into English. I visited Israel in the 1960s, but I was very young and am not sure if we got into see the Dome of the Rock or not. I know my parents have slides of it, but am not sure if they were from photos that they actually took.

>52 SqueakyChu: Really a nice problem, isn't it, Madeline?

>53 SqueakyChu: Two years ago I didn't visit the Temple Mount. There are only certain visiting hours, when 'non-believers' are aloud to enter the space, a few hours in the morning and then in the afternoon again, and the security check seems to be like a check in an airport. Too much hassle for me.
As long as we had one of Schick's model on St. Chrischona I could look at the model. Sadly I didn't make any pictures of it back then.

>54 alcottacre: Why resist anyway, the books are happy to get a new home :)

That was a good historical treatise, Stasia, but I am afraid, that was never translated. It was published within the series 'Zur Kunstgeschichte des Auslandes' (About the history of art in foreign countries) in Strasbourg - at a time when Strasbourg was German. Hartmann was studying Berlin and Tübingen. He did his doctorate in 1907. Then was teaching in different German universities (Leipzig, Königsberg, Göttingen, Berlin). In 1944 he became a part of the SS Islam, training mullahs for the army, in connection with the mufti of Jerusalem, Amin al-Husseini.

>50 paulstalder:

>50 paulstalder:

>30 paulstalder:

Not sure if this has already been mentioned:

The Fenelon Place Elevator in Dubuque, Iowa, has a 41 degree inclination angle
and bills itself as the shortest, steepest funicular in the world.

Other places have made the same claim, but this one was close enough to Madison, Wisconsin,
for an end-of the-year field trip.

We also toured Iowa's Effigy Mound Park
(comparing with Wisconsin, which has the world's largest gathering of Effigy Mounds)
and finished with a wonderful outdoor swim.

Good funiculaire memories on both sides of the Atlantic!

Next Friday we have the Night of the Museums again. https://museumsnacht.ch Some points I'd like to visit:

Papiermühle (papermill): Hungry for books?
Quotes taken from various documents printed on pasta. Cooked and served fresh from the press. Find out where the quotes come from. A project by Carlos Poete and Nadja Breger
- … let there be light!
Create your own flip book.

Cartoonmusem: Scene of crime
Find the leads and solve the case! Interactive detective game
- Üble Sache, Maloney!
Philip Maloney alias Michael Schacht liest aus den Krimis von Léo Malet und haucht dem Privatdetektiv Nestor Burma neues Leben ein. (Michael schacht reads from Malert's mystery novels)
- Scars and Scratches
Thomas Otts düstere Thriller sind legendär. Mit seinem Cutter kratzt er fiese Verbrechervisagen und hartgesottene Gesetzeshüter aus schwarzem Schabkarton. (Ott cuts out cardboard faces)

Beyeler: Draw like Picasso
Drawing workshop: Get inspired by Picasso’s boundless imagination and learn his best tricks.

Jewish Museum: Beat Box Tel Aviv
Einat Aronstein and Oded Geizhals perform contemporary Jewish (pop) music.

Art Museum Basel: 3-witches bar: drinks, music, pose with Füssli
Have your photo taken with Johann Heinrich Füssli characters and connect with the Kunstmuseum via hashtag.

Cemetery Hörnli: The most sure thing in life
Erzählungen über Leben und Tod
Peter Galler, Gründer der Sammlung Friedhof Hörnli, hat aus seiner 40-jährigen Tätigkeit als Bestatter allerhand Anekdoten und Weisheiten zu erzählen. Besucher/-innen lernen verschiedenste Objekte aus der Bestattungskultur kennen. (Peter Galler tells anecdotes about about his life and work at the cemetery)

>58 m.belljackson: Thanks for the information about the Fenelon Place Elevator. That's pretty short with 296 feet. The Marzili Bahn in Bern is 105 m (ca. 344 ft).


Yes, there are good memories connected with funiculaires (cable cars, cogwheel trains etc.)

7) Die Bärengeburtstagsfeier : oder: Wie man Freunde gewinnt by Wendy Smith. Susi is invited to Benni's birthday party. Buth she doesn't like Benni and doesn't want to go. She feels shy but then she meets Pablo ... A nice children's story about making friends.



first published in English 1990

8) Wieder lügt Odysseus : Geschichten aus dem neuen Griechenland edited by Annette Wassermann. A collection of weird stories from Greece by different authors from the ölast hundred years. Ghosts, corpses showing up in dreams, falling into different worlds or dimensions. Not horror, more fantasy, some with happy ends, some tragic, some open. The last story was a Greek variation of Alice in the Wonderland: Alice jumping into a game computer, meeting an Edamer cat with a big grin ... Gives some insights about Greek literature but the selection is rather unsatisfying. None of the stories really gripped me in order to check for other tales by that author.



as a German collection published 2002

>40 paulstalder: I love Jose Saramego

>63 The_Hibernator: Pleased to see you here, Rachel. Yes, Saramago has written some very good books, so I am very pleased for having found another one.

9) AG Pinkerton und der Augenzeuge : Eine Kriminalgeschichte für junge Leute by Heiner Gross. Röbi's father has an accident with his moped in is unconscious in the hospital. An eye witness tells the police that Mr Frey fell by himself. But then, why then did the left pedal fly away when he landes on his right side? Why was there some black car paaint on this pedal? ... Too many unsolved question, so the three boys, Röbi, Jonny and Werner, set up the AG Pinkerton, the fiercest detective office of Switzerland ... a lovely detective story for boys :)



first published in German in 1966

I loved to read Heiner Gross when I was younger and still like them to read.
This is the first case of the AG Pinkerton

>65 paulstalder: This cover alone wakes a lot of memories. I read these as a child, then my little brother got the books, and with my nephew they arrived in the next generation. As it should be with good books. I remember that they weren't very well known in Germany and that we got the whole series from my aunt living in Zürich.

>55 paulstalder: Ah, too bad it was not translated. I know my college freshman German - 40 years ago! - is not up to translating it.

>66 DeusXMachina: I especially liked 3:0 für die Bärte and Tumult auf der Kyburg. I told the stories to my kids, and they liked them, too.

>67 alcottacre: No, it was never translated. I guess there are other authors who published similar works in English, so it was not necessary to translate that one.

I did a few things during the night of the museums, but not everything I would have liked.

First I went to the Jewish museum to listen to some Jewish tales (the lion who invited all animals for a 'meal' - and the fox singing and so warning the others about the lion's intentions; about the Rabbi who was captured by pirates but could save his life by telling them a riddle they couldn't solve ....).

Then I had a guided tour in English through the Carthusian monastery church.

In the Tinguely Musuem I took part in a crash course in sign language - it's great to see her talk with her hands and her facial expression. To define the use of facial expression as 'writing' and not 'speaking' is a bit strange when one sees them talking; the use of the hands is important but quite as important is the use of the eyebrows and the mouth/lips. In Switzerland we have five dialects: Basel, Zürich, St. Gallen, Luzern and Bern. The words for bread are all made with the use of one hand at the cheek/mouth - but the position and the movement of the hand vary according to dialect. Amazing.

I missed the mystery by Leo Malet due to too many people queuing in front of the Cartoonmuseum. and went straight to the Paper Mill where I saw a shadow theater performed by a former colleague from the library.

When leaving the shuttle bus which runs among the different locations, I hurt my leg and my kneecap badly, so couldn't be so fast anymore...

They had an interesting guided tour in the Kunsthalle (hall of art): a student named Basil (who helped to organize this event) gave me a blindfold, took me by the hand and let me to some wooden statues which I had to feel with my hands. One object was the head of an ox, another a rabbit, a torso from the back, and a stomach with intestines .... that was really fun.


Daniel Dewar (geb. 1976) and Grégory Gicquel (geb. 1975); Mammalian Fantasies



Then I went home and visited the Picasso exhibition in the Beyeler Museum around midnight.

>68 paulstalder: What a fascinating tour of museums!

I can't see your pictures, but I guess you're adding them right now so I'll see them later!

add-ons
28) Freikirchliche Religionspädagogik : Ein Entwurf by Armin Wunderli
- Der vorliegende Entwurf wurde für die spezielle Situation in Österreich geschrieben; die rechtlichen Grundlagen beziehen sich jeweils auf dieses Land.
- 2018 (a gift from the author, a good friend of mine)
29) Muslimen zum Segen werden : Kommunikation des Evangeliums im islamischen Kontext by Benjamin Josi
- Unsere Bemühungen, die Kinder Ismaels zu segnen, fliessen aus dem Segen Gottes für alle Menschen und Völker und seiner speziellen Verheissung für die Kinder Ismaels (1 Mose 17, 20, siehe oben) heraus.
- 2016
30) Katzen by Isolde Ohlbaum
- Aus ihrem blond und braunen Fell steigt ein so süsser Duft, dass eines Abends ich ganz davon durchhaucht war, weil ich einmal, ein einziges Mal nur, sie gestreichelt hatte.
- 2003
31) Per Adresse Mörder X : The doorbell rang ; Kriminalroman by Rex Stout
- Da es ja doch den Ausschlag gab, fange ich am besten mit seiner Beschreibung an.
- 1965
32) Ehrensachen : Roman by Louis Begley
- Dies ist meine erste Erinnerung an Henry: Ich stehe an der Tür zu einem der drei Schlafzimmer in der Erdgeschosswohnung des Harvard-College-Studentenheims, meiner neuen Unterkunft.
- 2007
33) Houwelandt : Roman by John von Düffel
- Die Insel vor ihm hatte die Farbe des Sandsteins, den man hier brach.
- 2004
34) Rosehill : Roman by Susanna Kearsley
- Es gab keinen ersichtlichen Grund, weshalb der Bus plötzlich hielt.
- 1997
35) Die gute Gattin : Roman by Abby Drake
- Alles fing mit einem Facelifting an.
- 2007
36) Zärtlich ist die Nacht : Roman by F. Scott Fitzgerald
- An dem freundlichen Gestade der französischen Riviera steht etwa auf halbem Wege zwischen Marseille und der italienischen Grenze ein grosses stolzes rosenfarbenes Hotel.
- 1934
37) Traumnovelle by Arthur Schnitzler
- 'Vierundzwanzig braune Sklaven ruderten die prächtige Galeere, die den Prinzen Amgiad zu dem Palast des Kalifen bringen sollte. Der Prinz aber, in seinem Purpurmantel gehüllt, lag allein auf dem Verdeck unter dem dunkelblauen, sternbesäten Nachthimmel, und sein Blick -'
Bis hierher hatte die Kleine laut gelesen;
- 1926
38) Das Buch von Blanche und Marie : Roman by Per Olov Enquist
- 'Amor Omnia Vincit' - die Liebe überwindet alles - hatte sie auf den Deckel der braunen Mappe geschrieben, in der die drei Notizbücher liegen; darüber stand, kräftiger und in Druckbuchstaben, der Titel FRAGEBUCH.
- 2004
39) Heisse Hüpfer : ein Roman aus der bizarren Scheibenwelt by Terry Pratchett
- Eine Schildkröte zieht vor den Sternen vorbei, vier Elefanten auf ihrem Rücken.
- 1998
40) Das Haus Vermorel : Ein Familienroman by Jeanne Montupet
- Flammend hob sich die Sonne über den Horizont.
- 1953

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>70 SqueakyChu: It was great. But there were so many people in town! The shuttle buses were always full. It was my first visits to the Carthusian monastery (well, it's not a monastery anymore, it became the orphanage of Basel after Reformation, by the way, the last prior's name was Zscheckenbürlin, who brought a lot of money into the monastery) and the Kunsthalle. I have visited all the other museums already.

I had to upload the pictures to LT and then put in here, so you should be able to see them.

add-ons
41) Stille Lügen : ein Fall für Flint und Cavalli ; Krimonalroman by Petra Ivanov
- Als die Sonne hinter den Gipfeln des Südkaukasus unterging, breiteten sich die Schatten wie Totenflecken über der Schlucht aus.
- 2008
42) Sommer auf Saltön : Roman by Viveca Lärn
- Zehn Möwen hockten am Kai und sahen auf das Meer hinaus.
- 1999
43) Der Automobilclub von Kairo : Roman by Alaa al-Aswānī
- Meine Frau sah ein, dass ich allein sein musste.
- 2013
44) Meine faszinierende Papierwelt : Dekorationen & Geschenke selbst gestalten
- Machen Sie lieben Menschen mit selbst kreierten Karten und tollen Geschenkverpackungen eine besondere Freude und zeigen Sie ihnen so, wie sehr sie Ihnen am Herzen liegen.
- 2012
45) Ein Fremder liegt in meinem Grab : Roman by Margaret Millar
- Meine geliebte Daisy, nun sind es schon so viele Jahre her, seit ich dich zuletzt gesehen habe ...
- 1960
46) Cockawun and Cockatoo by Christobel Mattingley
- Once upon a time, where Canberra's first Parliament House now stands, there grew a tree.
- 1999
47) Der Himmel des Teufels : Kriminalroman by Thomas Adcock
- Ich, ein Cop und noch dazu irischer Katholik, an diesem unheiligen Ort.
- 1995
48) Ertränkt alle Hunde : Ein Neil-Hockaday-Krimi by Thomas Adcock
- Ich hasse es!
- 2004
49) The Borrowers by Mary Norton
- It was Mrs. May who first told me about them.
- 1952
50) Interpreter of maladies : stories by Jhumpa Lahiri
- The notice informed them that it was a temporary matter: for five days their electricity would be cut off for one hour, beginning at eight P.M.
- 1999

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>72 paulstalder: I see the pictures now. I am so impressed with the fun “hands-on” activities offered by each museum. They all sound so interesting!

>50 paulstalder: Interpreter of Maladies is a fabulous book! Move it up higher on your To Read list. :)

>74 SqueakyChu: There were other 'hands-on' stuff in other museums, like making a hat with a rabbit which you may let come out :) or letting a makeup artist put a real looking wound on your face ...

Thanks for the recommendation, Madeline. I put the book on another pile :)

add-ons
51) Du sollst Bestie sein! : Roman by Uzodinma Iweala
- Das fängt so an.
- 2005
52) Pink Hotel : Roman by Anna Stothard
- Die Luft in ihrem Schlafzimmer roch abgestanden nach Zigaretten und Parfüm.
- 2011
53) Zwei Fremde im Zug : Roman by Patricia Highsmith
- Der Zug jagte dahin in einem zornigen, unregelmässigen Rhythmus.
- 1950
54) Der scharlachrote Gesang : Roman by Mariama Bâ
- Usine Niari Talli schüttelte unter den Strahlen der aufgehenden Sonne seine nächtliche Starre ab.
- 1981
55) Der verräterische Smaragd by Jean Bothwell
- In diesem Jahr hatte es in Radschasthan reichliche, ja sogar heftige Regengüsse gegeben; das war eine Wohltat für das dürre Land, in dem es meistens nur spärlich regnete.
- 1961
56) Der verkaufte Regenbogen by Andrew Bond
- "Leti, du hast einen Brief erhalten", rief Mutter.
- 2006
57) Der Musentempel : Ein Krimi aus dem alten Alexandria - SPQR by John Maddox Roberts
- Ich habe nie zu den Menschen gehört, die glauben, es ist besser, tot zu sein, als Rom zu verlassen.
- 1992
58) Beors Bileams Weihnacht : Erzählung by Silja Walter
- Beors Bileam wohnte am Strom.
- 1961
59) Fensterbilder zur Frühlingszeit : Scandinavian Art by Armin Täubner
- Fensterbilder sind äusserst beliebt, ganz gleich, ob als Dekoration des Kinderzimmers oder in anderen Wohnbereichen.
- 1991
60) Ewig Dein : Roman by Daniel Glattauer
- Als er in ihr Leben trat, verspürte Judith einen stechenden Schmerz, der gleich wieder nachliess.
- 2012

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10) Candido oder ein Traum in Sizilien by Leonardo Sciascia. Candido was born in a cave on Sicily when his town was bombed in World War II. His parents split up and he grew up with his grandfather. He was simple and kind and wanted to please everybody. So when he heard at home that so-and-so confesyed to have commited that crime which the police cannot solve, he told everything in school ... A story of growing up as a simple mind after WWII amidstz Mafia and the Communist Party ikn Sicily. No big actions but simple descriptions of everryday life.



first published 1977 in Italian

>77 paulstalder: Adding that one to the BlackHole. Thanks for the mention, Paul!

The nights at the museum sound fascinating!

>78 alcottacre: Anita @FAMeulstee read it for my 'Silent Night, Holy Night' challenge last year, that got me intrigued and I got from a library in Bern.

Yes, Stasia, that was a great night.

On Saturday we had Cheese Festival in Basel. There were over 40 cheese producers from all over Switzerland selling their cheese, We did try quite many different cheeses, hard, mild, goat, sheep, spicy, fondue, raclette - cheese. I bought four different cheeses: a mild 'normal' one, a garlic cheese, a rather spicy sheep cheese and L'Amour fondue (the fondue is for my church group meeting in February).

11) Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore by Robin Sloan. Clay is looking for a job and finds it in a strange little bookstore which is open 24 hours. There are almost no new books, but reachable only by climbing are some old bound volumes which contain only letters - coded books. Behind the bookstore is apparently on old semi-secret society which goes back to the 16th century ... what kind of code do these books contain and what puzzle is this society trying to solve? .... I really enjoyed that book. It was one of the Secret Santa books I got last year.



first published 2014 in English

add-ons
61) Maschinenträume : Roman by Jayne Anne Phillips
- It's strange what you don't forget.
- 1984
62) Guilty, doppelte Rache : ein neuer Fall für Bentz und Montoya by Lisa Jackson
- Plitsch. Plitsch. Plitsch.
- 2015
63) Null : der Mathematik-Krimi ; mit einer Krimi-Analyse der Zeit-Wissen-Redaktion by Adam Fawer
- Sprechen wir nun über Wahrscheinlichkeit.
- 2005
64) Chronik eines angekündigten Todes : Roman by Gabriel García Márquez
- An dem Tag, an dem sie Santiago Nasar töten wollten, stand er um fünf Uhr dreissig morgens auf, um den Dampfer zu erwarten, mit dem der Bischof kam.
- 1981
65) Ich bin doch keine Superfrau : Kriminalroman by Julie Smith
- Der Lärm wuchs, und ich hämmerte in die Tasten, um ihn zu übertönen.
- 1982
66) Die Mauern von Jericho : Thriller by Jon Land
- "Was wissen Sie über die Morde, Inspektor?"
1997
67) Zuwanderung nach Basel : Beiträge zur Migrationsgeschichte im späten 19. und 20. Jahrhundert
- Der unerwartete Tod von Josef Zwicker im Mai dieses Jahres hinterlässt nicht nur in der Familie und im Freundeskreis eine grosse Lücke.
- 2017
68) Die verlorene Rache : Roman by Rodrigo Rey Rosa
- Hasenohr hatte ihn wegfahren sehen und dabei still in sich hineingelacht.
- 1996
69) Passionsfrucht : Roman by Karel Glastra van Loon
- Wir fahren schweigend ins Krankenhaus.
- 1999
70) Ein fremder Tod : Kriminalroman by Peter Schrenk
- "Kampai!"
- 1988

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add-ons
71) Liebe in Amsterdam : Krimi by Nicolas Freeling
- Er ging in der Zelle auf und ab.
- 1962
72) So etwas passiert doch nicht! : Stories by Janwillem Van de Wetering
- "Ein toter Professor", sagte die Telefonistin des Amsterdamer Polizeihauptquartiers in den Telefonhörer.
- 1989
73) Deine Nacht, mein Tag by Mian Mian
- Little Xi-An war sein Name.
- 2000
74) Der belebte Schatten : Roman by Alberto Ongaro
- Man brauchte nicht erst auf das Datum zu blicken, um sicher zu sein, dass Karol Labronski diese Aufnahme in der zweiten Hälfte der fünfziger Jahre gemacht haben musste, das heisst in einer Zeit, in der noch der ganze Zauber der Nachkriegsjahre in der Luft lag und wo über dem Leben eines jeden eine Art unbestimmten Wohlwollens zu walten schien, in einer Epoche, in der die Zeit, gleichsam in der Schwebe, stillstand und die Zukunft noch stumm und in weiter Ferne war.
-1988
75) Vergebliche Entwarnung : Frauenkrimi by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
- Noch zwei Wochen bis Weihnachten.
- 1993
76) Tod in Verona by Timothy Holme
- Manche Leute denken bei Verona sofort an Romeo und Julia.
- 1980
77) Der Wunsch, in einem Hühnerhof zu leben by Franz Hohler
- Das erste längere Stück Weges, das ich zurücklegte, führte von einem Spital in Biel nach Seewen im Schwarzbubenland.
- 1977
78) Heimflug : zwischen Rache und Vergebung by Heath Bottomly
- Nichts auf dieser Welt ist so schwarz wie ein Start vor dem Morgengrauen auf einem Luftwaffenstützpunkt im Dschungel bei unablässig strömendem Monsunregen: dumpfer, schwarzer Himmel, glänzende schwarze Erde, schimmerndes schwarzes Cockpit.
- 1984
79) Lösegeld für einen Hund : Roman by Patricia Highsmith
- Greta hielt ihrem Mann den Brief entgegen, als er in die Tür trat.
- 1972
80) 120, Rue de la Gare : Krimi aus Paris ; Nestor Burma ermittelt by Léo Malet
- Leute anzukündigen und hereinzulassen, das war eine Aufgabe, die Baptiste Cormier, der ausser seinem charakteristischen Vornamen das unverkennbare Gehabe eines Butlers besass, auf den Leib geschrieben.
- 1942

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add-ons
81) Tod in Florenz : Roman by Magdalen Nabb
- "Tja, dann hoffe ich, dass ich Ihre Zeit nicht allzusehr in Anspruch genommen habe ..."
- 1987
82) Grossfuss : Kriminalroman by Edgar Wallace
- Es war ein Zufall, dass Super gerade an diesem schönen Frühlingsmorgen einen Besuch in Barley Stack machte, denn er wusste noch nichts davon, dass man versucht hatte, in Mr. Stephan Elsons Haus ein zubrechen.
- 1927
83) Liebeswahn : Roman by Ian McEwan
- Es lässt sich leicht sagen, wann alles begann.
- 1997
84) Der talentierte Mr. Ripley : Roman by Patricia Highsmith
- Tom blickte sich um.
- 1955
85) Mord im Regen : frühe Stories by Raymond Chandler
- Wir sassen in einem Zimmer im Berglund.
- 1964
86) Unter Tage by Reginald Hill
- "Wunderbare Lage, in die Sie mich mal wieder gebracht haben", sagte Superintendent Andrew Dalziel.
- 1988
87) Kannibalen und Missionare : Roman by Mary MacCarthy
- "Segne uns, o Herr, und diese Deine Gaben, die wir durch Deine Huld empfangen werden, durch Christus unseren Herrn. Amen."
88) Matto regiert : Kriminalroman by Friedrich Glauser
- Da wurde man am Morgen um fünf Uhr, zu nachtschlafender Zeit also, durch das Schrillen des Telephons geweckt.
- 1936
89) Die Frau des Professors : Roman by Barbara Pym
- "Welchen Schmuck trägst du heute abend, Mutter?"
- 1986
90) Heute lacht das Gesicht by Jonas Baumann
- Von Kind auf böse.
- 2012

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Paul, do you get most of your books from the book boxes? Do you return them after you finish reading them?

>84 SqueakyChu: I got all the last 30 books from this Buchstopp (book stop), Madeline, http://www.librarything.com/venue/110805/Buchstopp+Kornfeld, on the 20th January. Well, I took 32 books home but two I did already have in a different edition. When read I return them, or pass them on to friends or other libraries, some I throw away.

>85 paulstalder: Which books do you throw away? I only throw away damaged books.

>86 SqueakyChu: yes, basically damaged books or books which are too smelly (coming from a smoker's home for example), and those which have colorfully highlighted markings; and such as the Christmas stories which I don't like and therefore would not recommend

12) Der Psalm von den zwei Wegen : Die Seligpreisung in Psalm 1 - Eine Auslegung by Eduard Haller. A short interpretation of Psalm 1, the Psalm about the two ways somebody

13) My Wörtersack : Gedicht ir Bäärner Umgangsschpraach ; spouken Wöörd by Hans Jürg Zingg. A collection of peoms in Bernese German. I like that even so it takes me longer to read. I borrowed that book already last year, but didn't finish it till now.



first published 2014 in Bernese (Swiss) German

From My wörtersack by Hans Jürg Zingg

wörter
sy widerschpänschtigi vycher
wörter drässieren isch
gschick u glückssach i eim

my wörtersack
het platz für
ne ganzi menaschrie
das quytscht u chrääjt u rööret
das summset rumplet gramüselet
joulet u maunzet dadrinn
da schticht
doch jede dr gwunder

pas aber uuf
bim uftue
di vycher sy läbig
u schnäu wi tüufu
si hei e kes schämdi
si göö unger d hut
penetriere dys hiirni
verletze dy intymsfääre
da nützt aus ghiirnwösche nüüt
u yschpere chassch se nümm

lue ne zue u laa se la mache
di gglöön
u we d öppen einisch ab ne chönntsch lache
wäärs schöön

words
they are rebellious beasts
to train words is
skill and luck all the same

my bag of words
has got space
for a whole menagerie
in there squeaks and pipes and roars
in there buzzes clatters swarms
yowls and mewls in there
it stings
everybody's curiosity

but watch out
when opening it
these beasts are alive
and fast as devils
they know of no shame
they get under your skin
penetrate your brain
violate your intimacy
brain washing doesn't help
and locking them up is too late

watch them and let them do
these clowns
and when now and then you'd be able tpo laugh about them
that woould be great

my wörtersack

tutti-frutti

meiers gö uf ds weecee
mäders gö uf ds kloo
mosers gö uf ds hüsli
morgetaalers oo

michus gö ufs aabee
müuers uf ds klosett
maartis gö zu huebers
find i bsunders nätt

müngers gö uf d schyssi
was nid aune gfaut
margots gö uf d schmeuzi
mattenänglisch haut

mööris hei en abtritt
muralts hei e hafe
mänzis hei e donnerbauke
hoffentlech e braave

mingers hei e dringendi sitzig
mansers tüe verschwinde
muurers schtööne mues mau schnäu
scho sy si dahinde

meerzes schlyche an es öörtli
molls di tschetten uf d tualette
mieschers hocken uf d tschibutti
das isch ds weecee-tutti-frutti

schliesslech ii - ganz ohni hoon -
maches uf em troon

all fruits
Meiers use the WC
Mäders go to the closet
Mosers go to the loo
Morgenthalers do that too

Michels go to the aabee
Müllers go to the klosett
Martis go to Hubers
which I find coquette

Müngers go to the shit house
which doesn't please everyone
Margots go on the schmeuzi
that's just Meadow-Englisch

Möris have a privy
Muralts have a chamber pot
Mänzis have a latrine
I hope it's well behaved

Mingers have an urgent meeting
Mansers just vanish
Maurers groan 'need to go quickly'
and they are already gone

Merz' sneak to a little place
Molls jet to the toilet
Mieschers sit on the tschibutti
that's my WC tutti frutti

and me after all - without any scorn -
do it on my throne

----------------------------------------------------

so many names for the same thing
Meadow-English = Mattenänglisch = the dialect of the lower city of Bern https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mattenenglisch
Matte is a meadow by the river Aare

>91 paulstalder: Haha! This reminds me of a situation in which I was in on my way to Israel in 1980. My husband and I had landed at Orly airport (France) with our baby boy. I had my husband watch our son while I looked for the bathroom. I couldn't find it so I went to ask where it was. I couldn't ask for it because I didn't know the word for it in French. No one would listen to my other words! I tried in Spanish, English, and Hebrew, using all the colloquial terms I knew, but nothing helped! It turned out that the word was "toilette". Who knew?!

>92 SqueakyChu: That's the advantage of living in Switzerland with three different languages often heard (German, French, and Italian) and spoken

>93 paulstalder: I knew FOUR languages (including German). None of them helped!

>94 SqueakyChu: I know, that's Paris. Everytime I go there I make the same experience: when they don't hear there own magic language there is not much of a reaction even though they understand you pretty well. That's even more annoying in Strasbourg or Mulhouse where they know German anyway, but poor you asking a 'true' Frenchman in a shop ...

statistics for January

1975 pages, 13 books

10 books were written in German, in 2 English, and 1 in Swiss German

nationalities: CH 3, D 2, I 1, SF 1, GB 1, USA 1, E 1, GR 1

dead 4, alive 6
male 7, female 3

1 collection of stories by different writers from Scandinavia
1 collection of stories by authors from Greece

two books by the same author (CH, female)

oldest 1909, newest 2017 (book, my copy)
oldest 1909, newest 2016 (work, first published)

I added 104 books to my collections (the same number as in December last year)

>91 paulstalder: Love this one Paul - funny to read so many different slang words for the same thing!

>83 paulstalder: Was the book on the end about Scouts? The guy on the cover looks as though he is wearing a scout uniform, intriguing.

>97 charl08: they are not all slang words, most of them are pretty 'normal' in their dialect. They come from French (toilette), Latin (latrina), English (WC), high German (Abort), there are also euphemism like 'bathroom' in English or a sentence like 'sorry, I need äh - could I quickly äh ...' or 'I should wash my hands first' etc.

Jonas Baumann http://www.jsbaumann.ch/ is a Swiss painter. That picture on the cover is a selfie in a scout uniform. There are mainly paintings and drawings in that book and some texts (also playing with the language like Hans Jürg Zingg does, but not as good).

Happy weekend, Paul. You did some great reading.

>99 Ameise1: Danke, Barbara, same to you

14) Die Vegetarierin : Roman by Han Kang. Yeong-hye has dreams about blood and dead animals and guesses that these dreams would disappear when she stops eating animal products and becomes a vegetarian. Her husband is not pleased. But her dreams did not stop harassing her ... a disturbing book. It's a Korean story with no happy-end as usual. There is no messiah in that story. The writing and translation are good

>101 paulstalder: I really enjoyed reading that book...as strange as it was. I won it as an Early Reviewer here on LT.

>102 SqueakyChu: I was good reading. I saw that you had a shared that reading with dallenbaugh in February 2016

15) Zerstörtes Glück by Roger Graf. Jasmin's friend committed suicide but she is not convinced and asks private eye Maloney to investigate. Her mother is somehow involved and a strange man is stalking her .... a humouristic mystery tale broadcasted in 2009 on Swiss radio. Fun to listen to Michael Schacht's voice as Maloney.

>101 paulstalder: Can also recommend her Human Acts if you haven't read it already (if so, apologies). Although not light reading, of course.

>105 charl08: Thanks for the hint, Charlotte, I put that book into my wishlist.

Her name Han Kang, if read in one word 'Hangang' sounds like the River Han which flows through Seoul https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_River_(Korea)

16) Es Dänkmool wet i käis : aus dem lyrischen Schaffen by Helene Bossert. Another book with poetry in Swiss German, this time it is Baselbieter dialect (Kanton Basel-Land, Basel Country). A collection of her verses between 1942 and 1993, verses about the life on a farm, first love, longing, descriptions of flowers and forests...

The epigraph:
I froog mi männgisch,
was wetsch au no schryybe,
s isch alles gsäit,
dräisch Wasser in Ryy.
De bisch e Naar.
Und wenn scho,
so biin is,
s git doo
none baar.
(Sometimes I ask myself,
what should I write anyway,
all is said already,
bringing water to the Rhine.
A fool you are,
so what,
so I am one,
there are here
some more.)

Es Dänkmool wet i käis

Blüemli am Wääg:
S git Blüemli am Wääg,
unschynbar chlyy;
men achdet se chuum -
und goot dra verbyy.

Und so git s au Möntsche,
wo me verchennt;
me lauft dra verbyy -
so chalt und so frönd.

Doch neemsch echly Zyt
und blyybsch echly stoo;
würdsch stuune und loose -
und alles verstoo!

Flowers along the path:
There are flowers along the path,
unimpressive and small;
one doesn't notice them -
and just go past.

There are people. too,
one underestimates;
one goes past -
so cold and foreign.

But if you take your time
and come to a halt;
you'ld be amazed and listen -
and understand everything!

Es Dänkmool wet i käis

S Muul

Männgisch
isch s guet,
me hockt ufs Muul.
Gseesch aber öpper,
me duet im Unrächt,
und cha si nit weere,
no bruuch s!

The mouth

Sometimes
it is good
to keep one's mouth shut.
But when seeing somebody
suffering injustice
and unable to defend himself,
then open it!

>109 paulstalder: Thanks for sharing the poems. I like the last one the best! :)

>110 SqueakyChu: Her poems play with words, not so much with rhymes. She had written some poems about justice/injustice. In 1953 she travelled into the Sowjet Union and therefore was banned from the Radio in Basel because of communist 'sympathies'. Her husband, a locksmith, was a communist sympathizer.

17) Ach, diese Lücke, diese entsetzliche Lücke : live by Joachim Meyerhoff. The author tells anecdotes from his life as a drama student living with his grandparents. Well written, telling of his experiences in the school for actors, and his life in the house of his grandparents, with flashbacks to his family life as a kid.

Today is Suki's birthday. We joined for a Korean meal in her memory and then went to the cemetery - where it rained heavily.


2000 Grand Canyon

2007


2011 enjoying a Radler (Panaché) in Southern Tyrol

Beautiful pictures, Paul. What a lovely way to remember Suki.

>115 SqueakyChu: we had a good time together, even though we got totally wet on the cemetery ...

Did Suki like to cook traditional Korean food? What kind of dishes did she like to make? What do you usually order at a Kotean restaurant? I like beef bulgogi. Of course, I’m a fan of kimchee, too.

>117 SqueakyChu: Suki loved to cook, especially Korean. When she first came to Europe she couldn't get all the stuff she needed, and, she told me, she wasn't too good in cooking but improved very much. When we met, I was able to show her some Swiss dishes like röschti (roasted smashed potatoes), some meat seasonings, cheese dishes, salad sauces, apple cake, stuff like that, but she soon did outdo me :) she adapted almost every recipe to her style

I like bulgogi and kimchi. Do you know bibimbab? vegetables and meat in a hot stone bowl. I also like glass noodles, mandu, sea food; on Cheju Island you can get meat from black pigs; and red beans as ice cream as desert ....

I do know bibimbab! Yum!! I like to order that in Korean restaurants! I love the hot stone bowls. So exotic! I had a favorite Korean restaurant here in Rockville, Maryland, called Moa. However, it changed owners and now it's terrible. I have to find another Korean restaurant to be my favorite now. My family, especially my grown kids, love Korean food. My oldest son is a big fan of Korean barbeque.

This is a chain which is very good.
http://www.honeypigbbq.com/#honeypigkoreanbbq
One of these restaurants recently opened near me. My family liked it, but by friends did not. Oh, well.

>119 SqueakyChu: Looks okay from afar :) Do they serve the main dish with all the other side dishes as in Korea? or do they just serve what is ordered? When I visisted a Korean restaurant in Nashville TN, I had to ask for kimchi and some smaller side dishes - they didn't believe me that I know what kimchi is and that I like it ...

Japchae is great - if well prepared. We occasionally had that as a main meal, with everything thrown in ... mmmhhh ... When Suki made japchae or kimchi, I had to taste it. I could tell what tastes stronger but I wasn't good in noticing what is missing ...

>120 paulstalder: Yes. They have all the side dishes in little dishes on the table at Honey Pig. Then they barbecue the meat on a central covered pit. I don't eat pork so my daughter was moving all the pork pieces of meat away from me on that central pit! :)

I'll have to try Japchae (although I don't know what it is). The next time we go there, I'll know what to order! :D I love hot and spicy.

>121 SqueakyChu: Japchae are fried glass noodles with vegetables and meat. The Honey Pig lists it as a side dish. We often made a whole bowl of japchae and had kimchi, dried tiny fishes and other vegetables as side dishes.


Then there is this Korean dish when one takes a big salad leaf in his hand and fills it with rice and everything else and then puts it în one's mouth and is quiet for the next few minutes .... :)


self made kimbab (what the Japanese copied and call sushi)


a table grill, the waitress cutting the meat with scissors

>122 paulstalder: Your pictures are making me hungry! :D

Koreans made sushi before the Japanese?!

>123 SqueakyChu: Kimbab is an old Korean dish, the Japanese copied it and changed inasmuch as they put raw fish in the middle instead of the different vegetables the Koreans did. 'Kim' is the seaweed wrapper, 'bab' is rice. Korean photographers ask you to say 'Kimchi' - to annoy them one may say 'kimbaaaaaab' :)

18) Die Sternstunde by Clarice Lispector. An unnamed narrator tells the story of a poor young girl from the Amazonas living in Rio de Janeiro. Not only physically poor, but also emotional and spiritual ... she just lives, anonymously. The narrator is always reflecting on the way he tells the story and excuses himself for writing such an insignificant story. Interesting style but I didn't get warm with that novel.

>124 paulstalder: That is so interesting! Who knew?! Sushi is very popular here in the US, but I never heard mention of kimbab.

I know that Kim is a common surname in Korea. Our Korean-American friend with the surname of Kim now lives in Japan, Haha!

Here photographers tell us to say "cheese" for picture-taking, but I always say "g'vina" (The Hebrew word for cheese. Just because. :D

>126 SqueakyChu: What we understand as sushi in the West is basically norimaki, a special make of sushi. Sushi is sour rice (vinegared) with some seafood and vegetable ingredients. The seaweed is transliterated as gim (so gimbap) in English, but has the same spelling as the surname in Korean. Many Korean words are spelled in the same way but have very different meanings. They then often use the Chinese word as well in parentheses in books, like 김(金) Kim (Kim in Chinese, meaning gold). But the seaweed kim is a proper Korean word with no connection to the Chinese.

I got a Korean name when in Korea. Kim Hyun (since my wife carried my name in Europe, I took on her name in Korea). I had to get a Korean wooden seal with my name on it in order to get my salary from the university. Signature alone was not sufficient. So my mother-in-law and Suki made up a name for me :)

When someone tells me to say 'cheese', I say 'I prefer Schokolaaaade' (chocolate) :)

I got to choose my own Hebrew name! I was never given a Hebrew name at birth. I needed one for my bat mitzvah ceremony (which was not really a bat mitzvah at all since only boys were bar mitzvah in my Orthodox synagogue). My aunt Emma in Israel suggested either Malkah (Hebrew for queen) or Miriam. I liked Miriam so that became my Hebrew name. Subsequently, two of the very dearest people I've ever met in my life were both named Miriam.

Many Korean words are spelled in the same way but have very different meanings
My older son finds that's true in Japanese as well. He often has to read the word in context to know its meaning.

So the name Kim is pronounced like "gym" in Korean?!

How long did you live in Korea? In what city? What took you there? Is that where you met Suki?

>128 SqueakyChu: So, Miriam, you chose your name according to the 'sound-of-it'? In Korea they looked at what they saw in me. My MIL hat the impression of Moses (don't ask me) and the way he declared himself 'meek' in Numbers 12,3. So Hyun means 'meek', and she chose that name for me. Suki was not so convinced :)

The word 'bae' has several meanings in Korean: pear, boat, stomach. So I was making fun sentences like: On the bae, I put a bae into my bae.

Not gym with a j-sound, but kim/gim with a soft k-sound. I think the transliteration to 'kim' would far be better.

I met Suki in a hospital in Switzerland. She became a Christian through me. After marriage we went to Korea, Kwangju/Gwangju, and I found a job at the Chonbuk National University in Jeonju as teacher for 'German conversation'. But that didn't last long because I didn't have a university degree at that time. I was a teacher and a librarian, but for both profession I didn't go to university in Switzerland (we have a lot non-universitarian professional degrees and papers). So I had to leave the university after a month. But there was a Belgian Catholic priest who was allowed to teach the same subject (he took over my class) because he had a university degree in Catholic theology. But my pedagogical training (as a teacher) was far better than his :) Anyway, so we came back to Switzerland ...

>129 paulstalder: You don't seem meek to me, but maybe I don't know the real you! LOL!

On the bae, I put a bae into my bae.

LOL!!

Wow! What an interesting story of your experience in Korea.

>130 SqueakyChu: You don't seem meek to me That's what my wife said as well :). She sometimes complained that her mother loved me more than her :)

What meaning do you give your name Miriam? 'Ocean's myrrh' sounds nice. Or do you favor another etymological background?

19) A commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians by C. K. Barrett. I found that to be a very thoroughly and well written commentary. He takes the whole letter as Pauline and gives good background information about all the issues which are mentioned by Paul (community order, sexual ethics, women, charismata, resurrection, last supper etc.). He gives enough Greek background to satisfy my curiosity but not so overwhelmingly that it would ask too much about it.



It was the main source for preparing the Bible studies in our church (four of us are doing that, so it's my turn once a month). We finished 1 Corinthians now and will start with 2 Corinthians next week (when I will be on holidays).

20) Gregs Tagebuch : von Idioten umzingelt! ; ein Comic-Roman by Jeff Kinney. Greg gets a diary from his mother, even though he thinks that diaries are just something for girls, he starts to wirte down his 'memoires' (in case I will become president ...). He is not happy with his family and his role he is in school and tells of his failures (and a few successes) in middle school. Witty

>131 paulstalder: I never gave Miriam a meaning. Miriam was the sister of Moses. I love biblical names. I thought Malka (meaning queen) was an ugly name. Twice I encountered teachers named Malka. I liked neither of them. They both were terrible teachers.

The meaning of the name Miriam is sea of bitterness from the Hebrew words “mar” (bitterness) and “yam” (sea). For me and those I knew named Miriam, they were all just sweetness!

>133 paulstalder: That series is very popular here in the US.

Hello Paul, I wish you a nice weekend and a wonderful holiday.

>134 SqueakyChu: Since I have been to Korea, I am more interested in the meanings of names because there they put some weight into a name. Sook-Hee (Suki) means pretty woman, my daughter's name Choo-Hee means 'a woman of God', the son's name Choo-Hyun means 'meek in the Lord'. When doing Bible studies I often check out the meaning of the names. Especially in cases where they change their name like Abram to Abraham, or Naomi to Mara ('bitter' again), or Saul to Paul. Here, most people don't know or even care about the meaning of their names. The ring of it and the connections to other people of the same name are more important.

>135 SirThomas: Hej Thomas, thanks. That will be fun. I bought a second-hand macro lens for my camera so I will photograph small things next week. Since I my knee is still hurting, I will not go on big tours. The sun is no getting quite warm, so it will a little pre-spring next week.

21) Kurze Geschichte des Traktors auf Ukrainisch : Roman by Marina Lewycka. Nadeschka's and Vera's mother died and two years later, their father starts having an affair with an Ukrainian woman. The sisters are against this relationship but cannot hinder their father marrying this woman who is marrying him only because he gives her money and she can get a residence permit for staying in the UK. The two sisters are quite different and fight alot, but through all that they get closer and especially Nadeschka, the younger, learns her and her parents history during World War II and their immigration from the Ukraine in 1945. In between the father tells the story of the development of the tractor. Quite a fun read

Wishing you a lovely weekend, Paul

>137 paulstalder: I enjoyed that book very much. Here's my review from back when I read it.
https://www.librarything.com/work/74276/reviews/141650129
I gave my copy of that book to a friend of mine who didn't like it at all. Oh, well. :)

>137 paulstalder: What a nice christening photo and the meet-up photo is fantastic too. It looks like the restaurant was very busy.
Sending sunny greetings from Davos.

>138 PaulCranswick: Thanks, Paul.

>139 SqueakyChu: I had some parts in the book which were stale for me. Sometimes I wanted to slap the old man ....

>140 Ameise1: Hej, Barbara, I guess you think about the pictures in >122 paulstalder:.

>142 SqueakyChu: Yeah. Parts of that book made my friend upset, too. She refused to read any more books by that same author afterward! :)

Sorry, Paul somehow I made a mess. I thought I've posted that I've read >137 paulstalder: some years ago and I enjoyed it very much.

>142 SqueakyChu: I do understand that feeling, though I'd read another book by the same author but not in the next few month.

>143 Ameise1: Okay Barbara. Are you still in Davos? I am in Hemberg SG at the moment, enjoying sun and snow.

I am in Hemberg (Eastern Switzerland) at the moment in photographers week - partly with the same people as last year.


The village Hemberg from the southwest


the Catholic church in the last rays of sunshine


sunset, looking east to the Säntis, 2501 m, with the full moon just visible

Here my best pictures from Monday:


a drop of water falling off


hazel


cat looking at itself in the window

Yes, we're staying in Davos until Saturday. Nice photos of Hemberg.

Here my best pictures from Tuesday:


today, we went up to the Chäserrugg (2262 m). The restaurant and the mountain station were newly built in 2015 by the architects Herzog & de Meuron (Stadion in Peking, Elbphiulhamonie in Hamburg, St. Jakob-Park Basel, extension of the Tate Gallery London, 56 Leonard St New York NY)


a girl feeding jackdaws (Dohlen)


ski lift


a lamp inside the restaurant


hairy

Great photos, Paul. So far, my favorite two are the one with the drop of water and the one with the cat. Looking forward to seeing more.

Hej Madeline, it was fun to make all these pictures. Today we had the subject of 'portraits'. We were all models and photographers So I will not publish these pix here.

Here my best pictures from Wednesday:


sun rise behind the Säntis


rost


wooden angel

>151 paulstalder: Wow! That mountain photo!!

>152 SqueakyChu:


sun rise behind the Säntis

These photos would look great on note cards!

Beautiful views Paul. (They are beautiful photos too, of course). Do you still have the stamp with your Korean name? How interesting that you needed it to be registered for a job.

>154 SqueakyChu: Thanks, Madeline.

>155 charl08: Hej Charlotte. I am plesaed that you like the photos. No, sadly, I can't find my Korean stamp anymore. I would be a great (although small) memory. The Koreans didn't have enough space for European names on their forms :) (my guess).

I once was speeding on the motorway to Seoul when a police car stopped me. They were astonished to see a European driving the car with my wife sitting next to me in the front and my mother-in-law in the back. I guess that they didn't speak any English and so just admonished my mother-in-law to tell me to drive more careful, and let us go on :) The policemen addressed her 'halmoni' (grandmother), so choosing the oldest person in the car to talk to.

some more jackdaws

Here my best pictures from Thursday:

we went to the Botanical Garden in St. Gallen (admission is free)


Kannenpflanze (Nepenthes bellii)




a cactus tree

Wow - incredible collection of new photographs - Thank You!

What is the name of the middle plant? - the spiral one -
we've never seen anything like it.

It is total fun shooting pictures of plants. Your pictures of those are great!

Gorgeous photos, Paul. You're a real artist.

>159 m.belljackson: Thanks for coming and enjoying the pictures.
I guess it is a kind of coleus. But I forgot to take pictures of the name plates :)

>160 SqueakyChu: At first I was frustrated because my camera had some problems focusing on thin, slender objects. But in the end there were some quite good photos taken.

>161 Ameise1: Danke, Barbara, für das Kompliment.

Amorphophallus titanum


fern


??

Good morning Paul, I hope your vacation is as beautiful as your pictures.
Thank you for sharing them.

a petal of Aristolochia grandiflora


lady slipper orchid


a thermal image of some blossoms

>164 SirThomas: Hej Thomas, it was a good holiday, five days only, but rich with photographic experiences and Christian fellowship with the other participants.

we also had a session on portraits. We had a professional portrait photographer doing that.

You took great pictures, Paul, I love the jackdaws and the flowers!
And of course lovely portrait of you :-)

Hi Paul!

Your photographs are amazing. Thank you so much for sharing them all. And, as Anita says, the lovely portrait of you!

>168 FAMeulstee: Thank you, Anita. My hairstyle gave some talk. All the other men of my age were bald. When a teenager my sister always wanted swap hair (she envied me for my curls).

>169 karenmarie: Thank you, Karen. It's no nice to share beautiful things.

22) Screwtape schreibt wieder : Neue Dienstanweisungen an einen Unterteufel by Walter Martin. Screwtape, a tempter trainer, writes to Wormwood, his nephew and underling devil, and gives him hints about how to tempt Christians ... A good 'insight' into Christian living and how to disturb it. A sequel to C., S. Lewis' The Screwtape Letters. A good read

I was on the cemetery today. The deers have eaten away some of the flowers/buds and trampled on Suki's grave, not nice.


bitten buds


trampled on flower pot

I did photograph some angels


behind roses


throwing a kiss


an angelic ass

dreaming


dreaming (or sad because of the broken wing?)


the gravestone in the front has got a hole, behind that is a cross and next comes a hand holding a little child

>163 paulstalder: >165 paulstalder: Great colors! I love the thermal image.
>167 paulstalder: What a terrific portrait of you!
>173 paulstalder: An angelic ass?! LOL!
Thanks for sharing your interesting pictures.

I'm not sure if I like the thermal image more (I had no idea flowers were different temperatures, although of course now your point it out...) or the beautifully sad angels. So sorry the deer got into the flowers on Suki's grave.

>172 paulstalder:

For future deer prevention, there are non-toxic sprays to protect plants.
An online Search could yield bulbs and flowers in your area which deer do not like tasting.

I've also hung old CDs and tied long strips of strong, but fluttery, material to blow in the wind.
Deer will often avoid things that are moving or spinning.
Sturdy spinner decorations lining the border might also work.

Not sure if the grave location will allow planting of flowers, bulbs, small shrubs, etc.,
which either deter the deer or are ones they prefer to eat and so could keep them away.

A strong crate turned upside down over the flower pots could help until deer move on.

>175 SqueakyChu: It was a colorful place, Madeline. And then there were many many green shades.
I like the naked angel. But I really don't understand why people imagine angels to lay naked in cemeteries - to get a seamless tan?

>176 charl08: Hej Charlotte, that was always the point when we were showing our four best pictures every evening during the photo course. And then flowers and angels are so different - no way I would be able chose among these different subjects (or objects?)

>177 m.belljackson: Well, the deer live in the cemetery, so they don't move on. Yes, we have to be more careful when choosing flowers for the grave. The flowers I put on it last year, were apparently deer resistent. Now the spring flowers my daughter brought along were to the deer's liking

Thanks for sharing your great photos, Paul! I very much liked them. A pity about the deer, and I hope you're able to find flowers to discourage them.

>120 paulstalder: We we’re back at a different Korean restaurant today. I had the bibimbab because I couldn’t remember Japchae and couldn’t find your post at the time. It was sooooooo good! My husband had a fabulous soup with udon noodles, beef and scallions.

https://bonchon.com

This is a chain restaurant, but the food was terrific and thoroughly enjoyed by everyone. Three of us ordered the bibimbab! :D. My older son, quite the expert on Asian cuisine, recommended this restaurant to us. I heartily thanked him for this recommendation.

>178 paulstalder: a seamless tan

Haha!

>179 harrygbutler: You're welcome, Harry. The deer belong to the cemetery, so we will have to chose better deer resistant plants :)

>180 SqueakyChu: I am pleased you like Korean food :) The food on the homepage looks good but they have no restaurant in Europe, so I can't try it out :)

23) Erastus, die Hafenratte by Heinz Böhm. The Christians in Smyrna suffered during the occupation through the Romans. Polycarp was murdered (around AD 155). Now, Erastus, the 'harbour rat', is earning some money when betraying Christians to the Romans. The boy Timaios becomes a Christian and is in hiding now, together with his friend Rufus, whose grandfather was just betrayed by Erastus and is now tortured for his faith .... a YA story about the persecution of Christians in Smyrna (today's Izmir). Easy read

Checking in on you, Paul! I love all of the pictures that you are posting!

>183 alcottacre: Hej Stasia. Lovely to see you here enjoying my pictures.

thing on children's graves:


an owl of stone


pinwheel


cat


old teddy


Nutella

>185 paulstalder: Mmmmmmmm! Nutella!! :D

>186 SqueakyChu: :)

statistics for February

1653 pages, 8 books, 2 CD-ROM

6 books were written in German, 1 in English, and 1 in Swiss German

nationalities: CH 2, D 2, I , KOR 1, GB 2, USA 2, BRA 1, GR

dead 4, alive 6
male 6, female 4

oldest 1983, newest 2017 (book, my copy)
oldest 1968, newest 2015 (work, first published)

I added 51 books to my collections

add-ons
91) Bretonische Verhältnisse : ein Fall für Kommissar Dupin by Jean-Luc Bannalec
- Das war ein fabelhafter Sommertag, dieser 7. Juli.
- first published: 2012
92) Scriptum : Thriller by Raymond Khoury
- Das Heilige Land ist verloren.
- 2005
93) Afterdark : Roman by Haruki Murakami
- Vor uns liegt eine Grossstadt.
- 2004
94) In deinen Toren Jerusalem : jüdische Legenden by Else Schubert-Christaller
- Als Mose die Herden Jitros hütete am Rand der Wüste, da geschah es eines Tages, dass ein junges Böckchen ihm entlief und in kecken Sprüngen gegen die Wüste fuhr.
- 1929
95) Biblische Inspiration by I. Howard Marshall
- Im Verlauf eines jeden christlichen Gottesdienstes ist die sog. "Schriftlesung" üblich.
- 1982
96) Ein Tag länger als ein Leben by Tschingis Aitmatow
- Die Beutesuche in den ausgetrockneten Mulden und verkahlten Schluchten forderte grosse Geduld.
- 1980
97) Das Los : Erzählung by Eduard Wirz
- An diesem Samstagabend sassen die Bauern von Sommerlingen, das weitab von den grossen Strassen in einem Nebental zwischen Wiesenhängen und Wäldern liegt, im Wirtshaus um den schweren Eichentisch, der ob dem Alter schon fast schwarz geworden war.
- 1960
98) Der ägyptische Heinrich : Roman by Markus Werner
- Ich hatte viel von ihr gehört, viel über sie gelesen, und ihr Erscheinungsbild war mir so gut vertraut wie ihre Herkunft und ihre Körpermasse, und alles, was ich wusste und mir während der Fahrt zu ihr noch einmal nicht ohne Erregung vergegenwärtigte, deutete Grosses an.
- 1999
99) Cadillac 1924 zu verkaufen und andere Erzählungen by William Saroyan
- Eines Morgens kam ich ins Geschäft, und da zog sich die Buchhalterin gerade den Mantel an und setzte sich den Hut auf und hatte verweinte Augen.
-
100) Der Kabbalist vom East Broadway : Geschichten by Isaac Bashevis Singer
- Wie es in New York so oft geschieht, hatte sich die Gegend verändert.
- 1974

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Interesting books, Paul.
I'm reading the Bannalec book at the moment. It is getting better and better the further I get.
I wish you a wonderful weekend.

add-ons
101) Ein unsichtbares Land : Familienroman by Stephan Wackwitz
- Im neunzehnten und noch bis weit ins zwanzigste Jahrhundert hinein hat es in der Gegend um die alte galizische Residenzstadt Auschwitz viel gespukt.
- 2003
102) Postlagernd Jenseits : Kriminalroman by William Marshall
- Das Meer war voller Quallen.
- 1986
103) Barbarswila : Roman by Gerold Späth
- Ich ging in einer Sommernacht nach Barbarswil zurück, ich hatte fast vergessen, was für ein farbiger Filz dieses Barbarswil ist.
- 1988
104) Ein Mann namens Peter by Catherine Marshall
- Es war keineswegs Peters Wunschtraum, Pfarrer zu werden.
- 1951
105) Kinderspiele : Kriminalroman by Janet LaPierre
- Kein Martinshorn, nur ein leises Rattern und ein heller Lichtschimmer im Nebel. Dann bog ein Porsche in rasendem Tempo vom Highway ab und blieb mit quietschenden Bremsen vor der Absperrung am Klippenrand stehen.
- 1989
106) Niemandsland : Kriminalroman by Marcia Muller
- Der Tufa Lake liegt im wüstenähnlichen nordostkalifornischen Hochland, nur wenige Meilen von der Grenze zu Nevada entfernt.
- 1991
107) Nachts in Vals by Tim Krohn
- Jlien Meinhard hatte schon immer schnell gefroren, doch seit sie wusste, dass sie schwanger war, hörte die Kälte gar nicht mehr auf.
- 2015
108) Der Wanderer gegen Abend : Erzählung by Marie Bretscher
- Vom Haus führte eine Strasse dem Dorfe zu, das gegen Abend lag; gegen Morgen führte sie stundenlang durch Oed- und Sumpfland, bis sie wieder zu menschlichen Wohnungen kam.
- 1934
109) Ein Sommer in Borgo : Roman by Heidi Kohler
- Mit geschlossenen Lidern lag sie da und lauschte auf das dumpfe Summen der Stadt in der Ferne.
- 1974
110) Der sterbende Detektiv : Roman by Leif G. W. Persson
- Am Karlbergsvägen 66 in Stockholm liegt Günters, Schwedens beste Wurstbude.
- 2010

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>190 SirThomas: Hej Thomas, I got Bannalec last month from somewhere and I am looking forward to read it this month I hope.
I will work in the library tomorrow - always the first Saturday of each month is 'my' library day :)
Enjoy a peaceful weekend yourself.

>189 paulstalder: I've read The Templar Salvation and I liked it. I'm a huge Bannalec fan. Enjoy it.

>193 Ameise1: I don't like the cover of Scriptum but the Klappentext sounds interesting, so I will give it try. I am looking forward to reading Bannalec, but first are a dozen other books on my table *sigh*

24) Farantheiner by Patrick Savolainen. Kat is riding on his horse with a wounded man. Kat has saved Farantheiner and is now bringing him, severely wounded, home on his horse. Farantheiner is bleeding a lot and tells Kat about his life when he, Kat, is riding him home. Farantheiner has no illusions about his chances to survive. Even knowing that Farantheiner will not survive his injuries, Kat hurries to bring Farantheiner home to the next doctor. Kat also thingks about the missing horses and the accused. 'In the face of ' the facts the other must be the accused, even though he has no face yet, he has only face him from the back, but in the face of his movements he must be the accused he has to face.....

Kat brings Farantheiner to a doctor, but the doctor can't do anything anymore. Farantheiner dies. Kat wants to marry his daughter. And they try to get the horse thieves. The story in short. But the style is somewhat tedious. A lot of repetitions of the same event in many different sentences, varied in wordings and grammar. And some play with words, especically with very common expressions like 'angesichts' (in the face of). I liked the variations but reading as a whole was tiresome.



first published 2018 in German

25) Verwaltung der Dokumente und des Archivguts eines Vereins : Vereine, Clubs und Verbände by Véronique Rebord. Each club or society produces and gets 'documents' throughout its existence. This brochure helps to sort things out (what to keep what to throw away), to keep thing in the right way (how, where, how long to store) and, if the time comes, to prepare everything to hand over to a state archive or such.

Somebody aksed me about organising their church archive. This brochure is very compact and helpful.



first published 2016 in French and German

26) Maga und die verzauberten Ohren by Marina Ribeaud. Maga is a girl witch but can't hear nor talk. Her brother and she one day hit the window glass of an evil witch. This witch spoke a spell and Maga's brother became a stone figur. But the spell had no effect on Maga since she couldn't hear it. Then she learns sign language and so wants to save her brother .... a fun read, well illustrated book. Sign language is a faszinating language.



Interesting concept: a spell does not work when not heard. But a spell spoken in sign language does work very good

first published 2007 in German

the evil witch putting a spell on the kids


Maga learning sign language spells


some sign language words

some faces from statues on graves












interesting: often the head is (slightly) inclined to the right

27) Eskapaden : der achte Fall für Bruno, Chef de police ; Roman by Martin Walker. Gilbert, a Russian artist dies during the bir5thday party of the Patriarch. Bruno witnesses Gilbert trying to talk to a relative of the Patriarch and then being escorted away. Then gilbert dies in the sleep, because of alcohol abuse. But Bruno has his doubts .... A good read



first published 2015 in English

Wishing you a wonderful weekend, dear fellow.

Thank you, Paul :)

28) Die Geschichte vom Jäger, der alle Tiere auf der ganzen Welt töten wollte : 10 Geschichten by Mario Grasso. 10 short stories about ethical issues: A white sheep despises her black brother till she goes on a journey and meets black sheep only, so she returns home and treats her brother differently. Or, the title story: A hunter wants to kill all animals. But the animals stick together and hide till the hunter changes his mind ... Nice little stories.



first published 1975 in German

the sheep


the animals for forming a statue and so did hide effectively from the hunter

>200 paulstalder: I love that colour - it's the water and the green, I think.

>196 paulstalder: Compact sounds good. I came across this group through a conference I attended, that give advice to voluntary clubs and groups on their archives - it's such a minefield when you've got no funding to get somebody in to do it for you. Not sure it's going to be terribly useful as it's in English, but for interest value...
http://www.voluntarysectorarchives.org.uk/resources/for-charities

>200 paulstalder: The first Bruno is already on my wish list! Hopefully I will get to it sometime this year.

>204 paulstalder:

Looks like a memorable book! Have you seen an English translation?

>205 charl08: The cover sends more peaceful signals than the novel :) I like the red door in the back, it promises some surprises :)

Thanks for the archive link, Charlotte, it looks interesting. I will have a closer look at it in the office and probably pass it on to our archive folks. I learned now that someone took all the papers out of the folders and put them in a huge box .... now, the trainee has some work to do ... and he thought I'd come along and help sorting out somebody else's tobuwabohu. My advise was far too qualified for such a task :)

>206 thornton37814: I guess, you will enjoy the Brunos, Lori.

>207 m.belljackson: I doubt that his books were translated. He lived here in Basel and then moved to the Wallis (near the Aletsch glacier) where he died last year. He basically illustrated many books https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mario_Grasso, for example Gullivers Reisen, Pinocchio, 1001 nights, biblical stories and others. He exhibited at the Art Fair in London and Los Angeles in 1989. He wrote a few children's books. Maybe his illustrations might show up in English books.

>209 paulstalder:

Vielen Dank.

Today's (March 13th) online Atlas Obscura features Der Trauerautomat in Zurich.
Have you seen it?

>210 m.belljackson: Now, I didn't know it. I just had to check an old newspaper. I think, basically it's a good idea. The prices are just too high. Our daughters brought some soapbubbles along to the grave last time, and tissues are always useful. Maybe you should ask Barbara (@Ameise1) about it, she lives in Zürich.

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111) Der Tod im Pub : Kriminalroman by Ngaio Marsh
- Als Luke Watchman über die Otterbrook Bridge fuhr, schien ihm die Sonne direkt in die Augen.
- 1940
112) Blinder Passagier : ein Kay-Scarpetta-Roman by Patricia Daniels Cornwell
- Meine liebe Kay, ich sitze auf der Veranda und schaue hinaus auf den Lake Michigan, und ein heftiger Wind erinnert mich daran, dass ich mir die Haare schneiden lassen muss.
- 1999
113) Das Sühneopfer : thriller by Jake Page
- Eine einsame Kerze tropfte in einem aufdringlich roten Glas, und ihr Licht spiegelte sich in Mo Bowdres dunkler Brille.
- 1993
114) Der Trumpf des Toten : Detektivroman by Georgette Heyer
- Jimmy der Bastard putzte Schuhe.
- 1942
115) Ladies first by Gabi Rothhammer
- Es war eines jener Verbrechen, die selbst in einer von Kriminellen verseuchten Stadt wie Los Angeles die Emotionen noch aufwühlten.
- 1994
116) Die Marx-Schwestern : ein Beziehungs-Krimi by B. S. Maitland
- "Irgend etwas stimmt da nicht."
- 1994
117) Wie ich meine Grossmutter erlebte : Jubiläumsausgabe 100 Jahre Reformierter Frauenverein Riehen by Monika Largiadèr-Linder
- Bekanntlich besitzt jeder Mensch zwei Grossmütter, mütterlicher- und väterlicherseits je eine.
- 1977
118) Flughafenfische : Roman by Angelika Overath
- Es war einer jenen langen, unbedeutenden Nachmittage, und es sollte doch der letzte seiner Art sein.
- 2009
119) Der Köder : Thriller by P. J. Tracy
- Es war kurz nach Sonnenaufgang und regnete noch immer, als Lily die Leiche ihres Mannes fand.
- 2004
120) Kashgar oder Mit dem Fahrrad durch die Wüste : Roman by Suzanne Joinson
- Mit Bedauern muss ich festhalten, dass mir in der derzeitigen Lage nicht einmal Mrs Wards Fahrradhandbuch MIT HINWEISEN ZUR KUNST DES RADFAHRENS - RATSCHLÄGE FÜR ANFÄNGERINNEN - KLEIDUNG - FAHRRADPFLEGE - MECHANIK - TRAINING - ÜBUNGEN USW. USF. von Nutzen ist, denn wir sind in eine missliche Klemme geraten.
- 2012

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121) The other hand by Chris Cleave
- Most days I wish I was a British pound coin instead of an African girl.
- 2008
122) The white tiger by Aravind Adiga
- Mr. Premier, Sir. Neither you nor I speak English, but there are some things that can be said only in English.
- 2008
123) Mörderische Hitze : Kriminalroman by Beate Baum
- "Verdammt!" Andy wälzte sich auf die Seite, blinzelte mich an und vergrub dann den Kopf wieder im Kissen.
- 2006
124) 70 Jahre meines Lebens by Hans Ruch
- Das Dorf Trachselwald BE liegt im Tal der Grünen (Flüsschen) und ich sehe immer noch als Jugenderinnerung die weitherum sichtbare stattliche Burg, umgeben von Hügeln, Wäldern und Wiesen.
- 2007
125) Sonnenwende : Roman by Katharina Hess
- Mein Vater geht über den Hof neben der Schreinerei.
- 1992
126) Live! : ein Fall für Kostas Charitos ; Roman by Petros Markarēs
- Die Katze sitzt mir gegenüber auf der Parkbank.
- 2003
127) Wo Milch und Honig fliessen : Heimkehr eines messianischen Juden by Drori Shlomo
- Am Morgen des 9. Oktober 1920 ertönte der erste Schrei eines neugeborenen Babys - Günter Siegfried Krebs war zur Welt gekommen.
- 1996
128) Wunderbar sind Gottes Führungen und Wege by Susanne Koop
- In Gnadenfeld in der Ukraine erblickte die kleine Anna Unruh - meine spätere Mutter - das Licht des Lebens.
- 1999
129) Pfadfinder Lieder : Band II
- Euses Lagerfür brönnt us, nähmet no nes Schittli drus.
- 1957
130) Sonnenstaub : Roman by Linda Hogan
- Noch heute höre ich manchmal die Stimme meiner Urgrossmutter Agnes.
- 1995

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>213 paulstalder: I really liked The White Tiger. read that book soon! :)

Hi Paul!

As always, your photos are artistic masterpieces. The ones of the things on the children's graves are so sad and poignant.....

>213 paulstalder: Struck again, by how different covers can be across borders - here is the UK version of The Other Hand.

>215 karenmarie: Hej Karen, pleased to see you here enjoying my pictures. Making pictures in a cemetery is always a bit sad.

>216 charl08: Hey Charlotte, yes, comparing covers is always interesting. A pity I can't see your picture, it gives me an error message when klicking on it.

29) Doppelte Schuld : Kriminalroman by Anne Chaplet. Katalina, the vet in the town, discover a dead man in the bushes. The man was in her office the day before and inquired about a guide dog. She should give him notice when such a dog shows up. He is working for a detective agency in Berlin. Then she meets and old lady with such dog ... A mystery about the past of post-war Germany and Yugoslavia catches up with the main characters. A gripping story but with too complicated a tale about espionage in the GDR and money embezzlement.



first published 2007 in German

30) Daniel Lahaii : Objekte by Daniel Lahaii. This is an exhibition of some objects of this Basler artist. What intrigued me at first was the cover picture of a sheep, an opferlamm (a sacrifical lamb) and that book has to starting sides. The artist made everyday objects from simple things: he painted heating pads or put children's undershirts on the wall. He also put music boxes into children's clothes. He painted with fish. In an interview he said, that 'tearing away the protective cover is also a kind of liberation'. Okay



first published 1993 in German

fish on paper


music boxes in children's clothes

31) Das Bild als Haus des Seins : Gedanken zum malerischen Oeuvre von Karin Schaub by Annelise Zwez. Katrin Schaub is also a local artist. She became famous through her colourful cabbage pictures in the 1970s. She thinks that when male artists are painting erotic pictures, they have the 'Du' (you) in mind, if women painters are doing the same, they think of 'Ich' (I). Later when she suffered from a stroke her making art changed, instead of using a brush to bring the color with strokes and lines on the paper, she started to throw the colors on the canvas (see the cover of the book).


(Meteor, 1991, acryl)

first published 1991 in German

The gratulation (one of her first pictures) 1963


Grosskohl (big cabbage) 1981

>219 paulstalder: >220 paulstalder: Weird!

>223 SqueakyChu: That's why I think it fits challenge #10. Read a book that completes this sentence: (Title of Book) is/are complete madness!

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131) Anlass zur Unruhe by Eric Ambler
- Der Mann im Schatten des Eingangs schlug seinen Mantelkragen hoch und vertrat sich sachte seine gefühllosen Füsse auf den feuchten Pflastersteinen.
- 1938
132) Frauenkarrieren zwischen Tradition und Innovation : Führungsfrauen der Geschichte by Monique R. Siegel
- Die Frauen der Antike. Wie bitte?
- 1989
133) Das Apfelblütenfest : Roman by Carsten Sebastian Henn
- Er war der grösste und mächtigste Baum im Apfelhain.
- 2016
134) Das Tor : Liebesgeschichten aus fünf Jahrhunderten by Helene von Lerber
- An einem launischen Aprilmorgen, der dunkle Wetterwolken über das Neckartal jagt, verlasse ich an der Station Lauffen den Zug, der mich von Stuttgart nordwärts geführt hat, und wandre, das Herz heiss von Entdeckerlust, dem alten Städtlein zu.
- 1956
135) Sünde, Güte, Blitz : Roman by Georg Klein
- Die Menschen sind tollkühne Tiere.
- 2007
136) The Hills : Roman by Matias Faldbakken
- Das Restaurant The Hills stammt aus einer Zeit, in der ein Schwein ein Schwein und eine Sau eine Sau war, pflegt der Maître D' zu sagen, mit anderen Worten: aus der Mitte des neunzehnten Jahrhunderts.
- 2017
137) Die Bräute des Satans : Historischer Roman by Uwe Klausner
- "Na los - worauf warten wir noch?"
- 2010
138) Am Morgen lächeln die Engel by Helen Lescheid
- Ich kam am 25. Juni 1912 in Osterwick, Chortitza, in der südlichen Ukraine zur Welt - als ältestes Kind von Gerhard und Anganetha Dyck.
- 1999
139) Vertraulichkeiten eines Strandverkäufers : Geschichten aus dem Tessin by Aurelio Buletti
- Da gab es einen, der hiess Luigi, der war bis auf einige Besuche auf dem Markt gleich über der Grenze und vielleicht einige Schulreisen nie im Ausland gewesen, mit Ausnahme des einen Mals, als er für ein paar Tage nach Grenoble fuhr.
- 1984
140) Die Speed Queen : Roman by Stewart O'Nan
- Ich hoffe, es stört Sie nicht, aber ich hab diesen ersten Teil aufgeschrieben, drum lese ich das jetzt einfach vor, damit wir's hinter uns haben.
- 1998

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141) 3mal Weltausstellung der Photographie : 1509 Photos aus 124 Ländern von 541 Photographen ; 1. Was ist der Mensch? 2. Die Frau 3. Unterwegs zum Paradies by Karl Pawek
- Der Mensch wird immer aktueller für den Menschen.
- 1975
142) Geh mir aus der Sonne! : Anekdoten über Philosophen und andere Denker by Peter Köhler
- Thales wurde von seiner Mutter gedrängt zu heiraten.
- 2003
143) Schall und Wahn : Roman by William Faulkner
- Die waren am Schlagen, das hab ich gesehen, durch den Zaun zwischen den Stellen mit den Rankblumen.
- 1929
144) Indianersommer by Urs Widmer
- Ich kannte einen Maler, der malte und malte, und malte, bis er die Menschen nicht mehr gern hatte und aufhörte zu malen.
- 1985
145) Liebesnacht : Erzählung by Urs Widmer
- Joseph Conrad hat gesagt, jeder Schriftsteller sei so alt wie die Jahre, die seit seinem ersten Buch verstrichen sind.
- 1982
146) Züst oder Die Aufschneider : ein Traumspiel ; hochdeutsche und schweizerdeutsche Fassung by Urs Widmer
- Mein Ende ist das Ende der Welt.
- 1980
147) Kurt Fahrner : das gesamte Werk by Diana Fahrner
- Kurt Fahrners aktive Beschäftigung mit dem Zeitgeschehen und seine nie nachlassende kritische Haltung der Gesellschaft gegenüber führten während seines ganzen Lebens zu Konflikten mit seiner Umgebung.
- 1998
148) Ein Teufel zu viel : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- "He, du siehsch aber us wie Schiessdräck!"
- 2007
149) Schwarzwälder Schinken : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- Anna zupfte verlegen ein paar Grashalme von der Wolldecke.
- 2008
150) Badische Blutsbrüder : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- "Dudüdudüdudüdelidüli."
- 2009

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151) Sauschwobe! : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- Rainer Maria Schlaicher kurbelte hektisch am Lenkrad.
- 2010
152) Zum Kuckuck : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- Norbert Amrein liebte seine Arbeit.
- 2011
153) Salamitaktik : der badische Krimi by Ralf H. Dorweiler
- "Hey, Mann. Sei gefälligst vorsichtig mit dem Koffer! Was da drin ist, kannst du nicht bezahlen."
- 2013
154) Katja Henkelpott by Helmut Sakowski
- Wer mich lieb hat, nennt mich Katja Henkelpott, aber ich heisse mit Nachnamen Habenicht und wohne in Rostock.
- 1992
155) Nora Webster : Roman by Colm Tóibín
- Sie müssen sie doch langsam überhaben.
- 2014
156) Blueme Fritz by Hansruedi Lerch
- Sali Fritz... ertönt's aus zehn, zwanzig Kehlen, wenn er die Gaststube betritt.
- 1972
157) Fleisch : mit alles und viel scharf by Barbara Achermann
- Kind, iss Fleisch, dann wächst der Busen.
- 2004
158) Der Fels des Schreckens by Heiner Gross
- Auf der Wache der Kriminalpolizei Bommersheim schellte zweimal kurz hintereinander das Telefon.
- 1979
159) Das Rosie-Projekt : Roman by Graeme Simsion
- Ich denke, ich habe eine Lösung für das Ehefrauproblem gefunden.
- 2013
160) Kühn hat zu tun : Roman by Jan Weiler
- Am letzten Märztag 1945 wurde Rupert Baptist Weber schlagartig bewusst, dass der Krieg nicht mehr zu gewinnen war.
- 2015

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>227 paulstalder: I have not read Norah Webster yet, but I have greatly enjoyed reading three other novels by Colm Tóibin. Looking forward to your review of this book you added.

>228 SqueakyChu: Thanks for the recommendation. But it will take a long while till I come to that book ....

32) Sturm im alten Turm : fünf junge Detektive lernen die Angst kennen by Adolf Winiger. Silvia, a teenage girl, runs away and is thought to be caught by a villain with a gray Ford Taunus. 5 teenage boys from the same school start a detective group and start to look around. They find the owner of the gray Taunus who is apparently a very unpleasant person. But then Silvia shows up again and the boys forget their investigations, till they are nearly run over by the gray Taunus ... An adventure book, a good read



first published 1984 in German