Book Title: "Holundermond"
Author: Jutta Wilke
Page Count: 316
First Published: 2011
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

This book is so good that I want to go out, find a 10-year-old girl and give it to her to read, but I think that would be weird. Maybe I'll leave it on the front steps of the school in my ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Blow Your House Down"
Author: Pat Barker
Page Count: 170
First Published: 1984
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

It seems that Pat Barker can't write a book I will not love. In her second novel, she dives into the seedy underbelly (an expression I've wanted to use for a while) of a british city, where ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Mary Ann in Autumn"
Author: Armistead Maupin
Page Count: 364
First Published: 2010
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

In this newest installment of the "Tales of the City" series Maupin reaches back to a dangling thread left in one of the very early novels.He also re-introduces Mary Ann, about to ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Lady Audley's Secret"
Author: Mary Elizabeth Braddon
Page Count: 362
First Published: 1862
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

One of the best-selling novels of the Victorian age, a scrumptious combination of detective novel, sensation novel, shilling shocker and romance. I loved it, of course, but I ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Dollys schönster Sieg"
Author: Enid Blyton
Page Count: 123
First Published: 1986
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

I got this as a surprise in the mail and read it right away. It's one of the infamous german additions to the "Mallory Towers" series, in which Darrell Rivers, here Dolly, stays at MT to ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Howl's Moving Castle"
Author: Diana Wynne Jones
Page Count: 329
First Published: 1986
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

In the land of Ingary, where such things as seven-league boots and cloaks of invisibility really exist, it is quite a misfortune to be born the eldest of three.

Yes, this is a very ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Der Richter und sein Henker"
Author: Friedrich Dürrenmatt
Page Count: 109
First Published: 1952
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

This is one of those books that I had to read in school and hated. HATED. We all hated it, which just made everyone hate it even more, and ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Die Wand"
Author: Marlen Haushofer
Page Count: 285
First Published: 1968
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Heute, am fünften November, beginne ich mit meinem Bericht.

A woman finds herself caught behind an invisible wall, and everyone she can see on the other side is ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Die Kosmetik des Bösen"
Author: Amélie Nothomb
Page Count: 107
First Published: 2001
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

Kosmetik: Er strich sich mit der flachen Hand die Haare glatt -- wenn er seinem Opfer kunstgerecht begegnen wollte, mußte er gut aussehen.

Interestingly ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Tsugumi"
Author: Banana Yoshimoto
Page Count: 183
First Published: 1989
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

While it lacked the novelty of Yoshimoto's sparse, warm writing for me, I think that I liked the story better than all the others I read so far. Tsugumi is a young ( Read more... )