This week the literary world lost two of my favorite authors: Harper Lee and Umberto Eco.
Thank you for the hours of joy and the thought inspiring books you gifted the world.

Well, well looks like some of the tv adaptations of sci-fi books are finally ready to pop this season (edit: Dec 2015 to be exact).

Arthur C. Clarke's earth-bound Childhood's End vs. space-based The Expanse (Based on James S. A. Corey series).

The first few episodes of Humans were great as well. Glad it got renewed ( Read more... )

Last weekend we got talking about books and there have been quite a few new reads, as well as some repeats, over recent months. So here goes nothing ^_^

Crime Fiction

As mentioned before not usually my forte. Yet my job called for quite a number of reads in that area and look and behold I even liked a couple. Sara Gran’s Claire DeWitt and the ( Read more... )

Work has been busy but I have continued to make the best of my commute by consuming copious amounts of books - some because I wanted to read them, some because I had to read them for work.

Crime Fiction

As most of you know I am not a big crime novel connoisseur, however since they are among our bestselling genres I have to get more familiar with ( Read more... )

I do not know how many of you are aware of BookRiot. They have loads of fun stuff for book nerds like myself, but considering how many of you like Jane Austen I simply felt the need to share this video they thankfully crossposted on YouTube.  Have fun :-)

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Morgen, am 23.04, ist wieder "Welttag des Buches". Zur Feier des Tages haben sich dieses Jahr diverse deutsche Blogger zusammengetan und verlosen Bücher. Wer weiss, vielleicht ist ja auch für euch was dabei.

The presentations are done - the suitcase is packed - hotels are a go

A theatre ticket has been procured - brunch and dinner dates with friends have been arranged - shall be queuing for returns of another play - thinking about ditching the Lichtenstein exhibit (due to its proximity to St Pauls and the craziness that will be the preparations for MT’ ( Read more... )

Well, I finally had a little time to explore the Christmas market near City Hall yesterday. Unfortunately it was too crowded to take many pictures. The design was done by Circus Roncalli this year and it is a bit like stepping into “Big Fish”.


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Usually I prefer reading books, rather than listening to them. However, at the moment, after long days in front of my computer, I decided it would be a good idea to rest my eyes a little.

So after listening my way through "Sherlock Holmes Railway Mysteries", "Konrad aus der Konservendose", "Momo" and "Artemis Fowl", I am currently travelling with a ( Read more... )

Well, it happend again. This time the power outage lasted a wopping 9h and I can throw out most of the remaining milk-based products, and some of my veggies, cause they did not survive the finiky weather.  I ended up having Tiramisu for breakfast, quark for lunch and I am now finishing the Japanese curry & Korean ricecakes.

On a brighter side I ( Read more... )