Reading List 2014
Title Author Length Rating
The Outlander Series 6: A Breath of Snow and Ashes Diana Gabaldon 1458 5.0 [short summary/excerpt] Time is a lot of the things people say that God is.
There's the always preexisting, and having no end.
There's the notion of being all powerful - because nothing can stand against time, can it?
Not mountains, not armies.
And time is, of course, all-healing. Give anything enough time, and everything is taken care of:
all pain encompassed, all hardship erased, all loss subsumed.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Remember, man, that thou art dust; and unto dust thou shall return.
And if Time is anything akin to God, I suppose that Memory must be the Devil. Gut gegen Nordwind (engl. title: Love Virtually) ¹ Daniel Glattauer 223 4.0 [short summary/excerpt] It begins by chance: Leo receives emails in error from an unknown woman called Emmi. Being polite, he replies, and Emmi writes back. A few brief exchanges are all it takes to spark a mutual interest, and soon Emmi and Leo are sharing their innermost secrets and desires. The erotic tension simmers, and it seems only a matter of time before they will meet in person. But they keep putting off the moment - the prospect both excites and unsettles them. And after all, Emmi is happily married. Will their feelings for each other survive the test of a real-life encounter?
And if so, what then? Alle sieben Wellen (engl. title: Every Seventh Wave) ¹ Daniel Glattauer 222 3.5 [short summary/excerpt] How will this go on, Leo? The same as before? But where will it go? Nowhere, just on. You live your life, I live mine. And the rest we'll live together. → Alle Menschen werden Brüder (engl. title: ???) ¹ J.M. Simmel 600 ? [short summary/excerpt] Ich weiß, daß sich Abgründe auftun werden, wenn Sie zu erzählen beginnen. Aber Sie müssen erzählen, denn ich muß die Wahrheit kennen, die ganze Wahrheit. Das sagt Staatsanwalt Paradin zu Richard Mark, dem ehemals gefeierten Romanautor, der jetzt in Untersuchungshaft sitzt. Und Richard Mark erzählt: Von Lillian Lombard, seiner großen Liebe; von seinem Bruder Werner, der ihn ermorden lassen will und den er selbst ans Messer liefert; von allen Menschen, die unlösbar mit seinem tragischen Schicksal verbunden sind. Es ist nicht nur das Leben des Richard Mark, das Johannes Mario Simmel lebendig werden läßt. Es ist die jüngste Vergangenheit und die Gegenwart unseres Volkes, unseres Landes, mit der der Autor uns schonungslos konfrontiert.
→ currently reading, ¹ first-time read 5: Excellent 4: Very Good 3: Good 2: Lacking 1: Poor
Recs
You can always leave me recommendations! I'm mostly into fantasy and historical novels, whereas vampires, sci-fi, crime or horror are not for me, really. (with few exceptions)
As for my own recs: Anything I've rated 3.5 or above is at least worth a read in my opinion, anything rated 5 is obviously a must-read and you should definitely hunt for it now. :)
As a sidenote: I don't analyze the books I read in any way, be it in terms of storytelling, writing-style or characterization; my ratings simply go to show how much I enjoyed reading a particular book, or even what the chances of re-reading it are, and nothing more than that.
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