Book Title: "Abseits vom Paradies"
Author: Kathleen Rich
Page Count: 64
First Published: 19??
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

OMG THIS WAS THE BEST BOOK EVER. okay. How do I describe this. There is absolutely no sense of time - this could be set any time after the invention of the car - no sense of space, though ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Kleider machen Leute"
Author: Gottfried Keller
Page Count: 60
First Published: 1856
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

An einem unfreundlichen Novembertage wanderte ein armes Schneiderlein auf der Landstraße nach Goldach, einer kleinen reichen Stadt, die nur wenige Stunden ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Vile Bodies"
Author: Evelyn Waugh
Page Count: 224
First Published: 1930
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

It was clearly going to be a bad crossing.

So good. A lot of what-ho-ing and spiffing and such things. A biting satire of fashionable Mayfair in the twenties, to speak ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Smaragdgrün"
Author: Kerstin Gier
Page Count: ???
First Published: 2010
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

Let's see. Final part of the trilogy, and I really, really liked it. The ending was extremely satisfactory, the setting still rules, etc, etc, there's just one thing ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Pünktchen und Anton"
Author: Erich Kästner
Page Count: 206
First Published: 1931
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh -goatfood

Just like last time, I felt that the movies get something right that the book doesn't.

Book Title: " The Wolves of Willoughby Chase"
Author: Joan Aiken
Page ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Das doppelte Lottchen"
Author: Erich Kästner
Page Count:
First Published:
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah- blergh - goatfood

Ah, the annual re-read. It's been a few days, actually, I was too busy or tired to post. I watched the movie on the very same day, too. But that's not what I was ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Breakfast at Tiffany's"
Author: Truman Capote
Page Count: 100
First Published: 1958
Rating: superfunk- golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

How did this book become that movie? I can only shake my head. I love the movie, don't get me wrong, but I want one that's like the book! With ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Author: Edward Albee
Page Count: 205
First Published: 1962
Rating: superfunk- golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Okay, embarrassing confession. I always thought this was a drama about two middle-aged couples who spend their evenings playing ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Scatterheart"
Author: Lili Wilkinson
Page Count: 384
First Published: 2009
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

Oh my goodness this book was so good. It's about this girl, Hannah, in 1814. She grows up very sheltered with her rich father and her tutor ( Read more... )

Book Title: "Die Anstalt der besseren Mädchen"
Author: Julia Zange
Page Count: 158
First Published: 2008
Rating: superfunk - golden - sweet - blah - superblah - blergh - goatfood

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