as the National Buy A Book Day
i didn't know this until later that night
yet... on September 7 and after my visit to the bookstore
on Sunday Sept.5 i decided to go back and buy the 2nd book
that called my attention that day
I was thankful to have bought it on Sept. 7
therefore being part of the National movement of supporting
books and dying bookstores
the book is The Vanishing of Katharina Linden
this book sounds so appealing to me
i am like an old lady, and i've been like that since i was 12 years old
i loooove mysteries! and the quirkiest they are
the more i like them
i think my love with mysteries started with Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's
Sherlock Holmes, and also with the Edgar Allan Poe short horror stories
which i started reading around age 10
since then, my love for books has evolved, i like to read other
kind of fiction too, i love classic books, and now & then
i will grab a non-fiction book... yet...
Mysteries are my favorites!
this book sounds perfect for me, a mix of fairy tales,
a haunted German town, and school stories
also, it was many words in German, so i can practice my German
the book and writer are British but the location is in Germany
the small town of Bad Münstereifel
and love how the characters are named
Oma Kristel, Onkel Thomas, Tante Britta, etc.
ah! the kids like very much to say Scheiße!
here a video-review of the book
can't wait to read more!
6 comments:
Holà Berenice,
Glad to hear you like mystey stories. Have you ever read Wilkie Collins? He was more or less the inventor of this genre. Second part of the Victorian 19th century. Best one is "The Moonstone", a real thriller. Second might be "The Woman in White". You'll have no trouble to find those in a struggling SD bookstore.
Georg
hi Herr Georg, no i haven't heard of Wilkie Collins, thank you so much for your recommendation, i will surely add these 2 books to my list of books to read...
and so you know, i am loving the Vanishing, it's a great read, i hope you and Frau Elisabeth can read it too, a lot of fun in a small German town :)
Ooooh! This sounds so good! I think this will be my next book to read also! I haven't read a mystery for quite some time.
Love the cover design on your copy, too.
:D
ahhh super-dupper dear Dutch Monki, how great to see you here, and yeah yeah yeah, you'd LOOOVE this book! it has tons of weird little stories... i am almost done with it, maybe i should mail it to you? it's been a really fun read, i am sad 'cause i am almost done with it and not sure what to read next
hugs my dear Monki and hope you get plenty of stroopwafels & home-made tacos!
Tell me you've read Shadow of the Wind and The Book Thief? ;-)
hola Helen, yes on The Shadow of the Wind, i actually read that one in Spanish, La Sombra del Viento, fantastic book, i loved the name Julián Carax, and that book has one of the best places in literature: "El Cementerio de los Libros Olvidados", The Cemetery of the Forgotten Books, huh?
but on The Book Thief, no!! but that's a good thing, huh? now i have yet another book to look forward! :)
thank you!
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