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unsinnlos · 1 year
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„Ich dachte, während ich der Tür beim Geschlossenwerden zusah, dass Frederik gesagt hatte, er habe sich für diesen Weg entschieden, und ich dachte, dass ich mich noch nie für etwas entschieden hatte, dass mir alles immer eher widerfuhr, ich dachte, dass ich zu nichts wirklich Ja gesagt hatte, sondern immer nur nicht Nein.“
— Mariana Leky, Was man von hier aus sehen kann (2017)
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I did the reading so you don't have to: in my most recent in-translation list, I cover 12 stunning German-language books available in English translation for you to put on hold at your local library! 
These books—favorites included works by Mariana Leky, Jenny Erpenbeck, and Stephanie de Velasco—cover modern classics and new releases, and touch on dislocation and disillusionment, the refugee crisis, moments of human connection, and the continuing existence of the far-right. Check it out!
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kopfmarmelade · 10 months
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Angst gibt vor, sich mit allem auszukennen, alles studiert zu haben, aber ihre ganzen Abschlusszeugnisse sind gefälscht.
- Kummer aller Art, Mariana Leky
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vrij zeker dat ik niet de enige ben die als kind een grote boekenwurm was, maar toen kwam het vak nederlands op de middelbare en poef weg leesliefde. lezen voor de lijst zoog per direct de leesmotivatie uit mij.
ik kreeg eerlijk gezegd bijna een haat aan nederlandse literatuur - tbh kijk ik gewoon jou aan, max havelaar (blegh). lange tijd was ik er zelfs van overtuigd dat een nederlands boek ofwel een krakkemikkige vertaling was van een engelse parel (bij heel wat vertalingen is het duidelijk wat de originele zin van de auteur was en hoe deze compleet geslacht is door het nederlands), ofwel een boek waar teveel vunzige, ongemakkelijke seksscènes in voorkomen.  
inmiddels is er een staakt-het-vuren en hebben de nederlandse literatuur en ik onze ruzie bijgelegd. ik heb aardig wat nederlandse parels ontdekt en verzameld, boeken die ik met trots kan uitstallen op mijn planken. zo lees ik op het moment de geheime dagboeken van hendrik groen - nou lachen gieren brullen. ook heb ik dit jaar de roman van jente posthuma, waar ik liever niet aan denk, in één ruk uitgelezen. zo zo zo goed, echt een aanrader. en over welkom in het rijk der zieken van hanna bervoets (kween) is er ook genoeg te vertellen, dus er zal vast nog een klodder tekst over deze boeken verschijnen op mijn blog. 
ook even een shout out naar een paar andere helden: bianca toeps (maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit), francien regelink (druks), paulien cornelisse (taal is zeg maar echt mijn ding, de verwarde cavia), judith visser (zondagskind), elise cordaro (anders gaat ook), de helden van de speld, pieter koolwijk (gozert en luna) en mariana leky (vanuit hier zie je alles).
niet dat ze dit ooit gaan lezen - immers ben ik gewoon een random student die een edgy sociaal mediaplatform gebruikt als haar uitlaatklep - maar ik wil toch deze auteurs even bedanken voor hun bijdrage aan mijn leven. jullie boeken staan mooi in mijn boekenkast. en graag gedaan voor het spekken van jullie portemonnees. joe.
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"Menschen, die man nicht sieht, können sich besonders gut in einem Leben herumtreiben, das sich weit weg abspielt, und Unordnung stiften(...)"
- Was man von hier aus sehen kann
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You can’t always choose which adventure you’re made for.
Mariana Leky, What You Can See from Here
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humanmorph · 1 year
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movie im genuinely looking forward to is was man von hier aus sehen kann because ive read the book its adapting twice and its made me absolutely bawl both times
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gosiksmallspace · 1 month
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9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better
Thank you to @godotismissingx for the tag! <3
3 Ships You Like: Of course my number one love, Han Jaeho x Jo Hyunsoo from The Merciless. Then Sakata Gintoki x Hijikata Toshirou from Gintama and Zoro x Sanji from One Piece.
First Ship Ever: Probably SasuNaru. Or Stella x Brandon from Winx.
Last Song You Heard: I just started to listening to some random playlist on YouTube. It’s called '80s japanese city pop playlist' and first song on it was 'Flyday Chinatown' by Yasuha. Didn't know it before but it's catchy.
Favourite Childhood Book: 'Winnie-the-Pooh' by A.A. Milne is my all time favorite. Also 'Horrid Henry' by Francesca Simon and 'Little Nicholas' by René Goscinny.
Currently Reading: Going through 3 books at the same time: Mariana Leky's 'What You Can See From Here', Agatha Christie’s 'And Then There Were None' and Gu Byeongmo’s 'The Old Woman With The Knife'.
Currently watching: I just started ‘Jojo Bizarre Adventure’ (I’m on episode 4 of season 1) and I have to also finish ‘Welcome to Samdalri’, ‘Shop for Killers’ and ‘Captivating the King’.
Currently consuming: a biscuit with honey from Popeyes and Earl Grey tea.
Currently craving: time and will to finish my wips. Other than that I would eat an apple. A nice, tasty apple.
Tagging (no pressure): @daxianme @yardmargs @frayed-at-the-seams @sofarraway @katierosefun @inashoe @try-again-bissh @thorneofacre @requestomaestro
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ben-learns-smth · 11 months
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hypothetically, you're only able to keep 20 of your books. only one book per author/series. so what books are you keeping?
thank you @the---hermit and @selkiestudies for once again testing my inability to choose <3 not being allowed to pick more by one author helped to decide and so did having lots of my faves as epubs only
the long way to a small angry planet (becky chambers)
harrow the ninth (tamsyn muir)
the mask falling (samantha shannon)
was man von hier aus sehen kann (mariana leky)
lakelore (mclemore)
she who became the sun (shelley parker chan)
ich bin linus (linus giese)
disability visablility (alice wong)
the hunger games (suzanne collins)
heimat (nora krug)
das neinhorn (mark uwe kling)
devotions (mary oliver)
you better be lightning (andrea gibson)
ella minnow pea (mark dunn)
gender kram (louie läuger)
the secret life of addie larue (v.e. schwab)
the gloaming (kirsty logan)
reasons to stay alive (matt haig)
liebesgedichte (erich fried)
blutbuch (kim de l'horizon)
in case you haven't done this yet but would liķe to I'm tagging @oneanxiousstudybuddy @septemberstudies and @yourneighborhoodbibliophile
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its-tortle · 9 months
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tortle's 2023 reads
persuasion by jane austen - ●●●●○
ragtime by e.l. doctorov - ●●●○○
a study in pink & the sign of the four by arthur conan doyle - ●●●○○
convenience store woman by sayaka murata - ●●●○○
jane eyre by charlotte brontë - ●●●●○
just kids by patti smith - ●●●○○
hamnet by maggie o'farrel - ●●●●○
gruppenbild mit dame by heinrich böll - ●●●●○
(rr) six of crows duology by leigh bardugo - ●●●●●
(rr) i'll give you the sun by jandy nelson - ●●●●○
in the skin of a lion by michael ondaatje - ●●●○○
brief an den vater by franz kafka - ●●●●○
when we were orphans by kazuo ishiguro - ●●○○○
one flew over the cuskoo's nest by ken kesey - ●●●○○
piranesi by suzanne collins - ●●●●●
the hundred secret senses by amy tan - ●●●●○
liebesperlen by mariana leky - ●●●●○
franny & zooey by j.d. salinger - ●●●●○
the overstory by richard powers - ●●●●●
the virgin suicides by jeffrey eugenides - ●●●●○
our wives under the sea by julia armfield - ●●●○○
everything i know about love by dolly alderton - ●●●●●
cat's cradle by kurt vonnegut - ●●●○○
untamed by glennon doyle - ●●●●○
der grosse sommer by ewald arenz - ●●●○○
(rr) mosquitoland by david arnold - ●●●●○
the grass is singing by doris lessing - ●●○○○
people person by candice carty-williams - ●●●●○
the tennant of wildfell hall by anne brontë - ●●●●○
the island of missing trees by elif shayak - ●●●●●
briefe an einen jungen dichter by rainer maria rilke - ●●●●○
white teeth by zadie smith - ●●●●○
this is how you lose the time war by amal el-mohtar and max gladstone - ●●●●○
braiding sweetgrass by robin wall kimmerer - ●●●○○
wanderer, kommst du nach spa... by heinrich böll - ●●●●○
a hundred years of solitude by gabriel garcìa marquez - ●●●○○
matrix by lauren groff - ●●●○○
daisy jones and the six by taylor jenkins reid - ●●●●○
the age of innocence by edith wharton - ●●●●○
die frau auf der treppe by bernhard schlink - ●●●●○
midnight in the garden of good and evil by john berendt - ●●●●●
joan by katherine j. chen - ●●●●○
pigs in heaven by barbara kingsolver - ●●●●●
the seven husbands of evelyn hugo by taylor jenkins reid - ●●●●○
percy jackson and the olympians (5 book series) - ●●●○○
i'm glad my mom died by jennette mccurdy - ●●●●○
(rr) the unbearable lightness of being by milan kundera - ●●●●●
the circle by dave eggers - ●●○○○
die blechtrommel by günter grass - ●●●●○
the secret history by donna tartt - ●●●●○
the hunger games (trilogy) by suzanne collins - ●●●●○
the ballad of songbirds and snakes by suzanne collins - ●●●○○
young mungo by douglas stuart - ●●●●●
ninth house by leigh bardugo - ●●●○○
last night at the telegraph club by melinda lo - ●●●○○
my book ranking system, for insight:
●●●●● -- loved loved loved this. it might have made me cry. i will be recommending this to everyone ●●●●○ -- nice!! a good read. would possibly reread and will be keeping it all pretty on my shelf ●●●○○ -- t'was a book! maybe not quite my genre or not what i needed in that moment, but no ragrets. i still got something out of it ●●○○○ -- eh. didn't really need to read this. it was kind of unoriginal and/or not my thing. will give away my copy ●○○○○ -- could not finish. who published this and why.
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flowerflourflora · 2 months
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Books I've read in 2023 (in the order I've read them)
Toni Morrison - Beloved
Fred Wander - Der siebente Brunnen
Ursula K. Le Guin - A Wizard of Earthsea, The Tombs of Atuan, The Farthest Shore, Tehanu
Alice Oseman - Loveless
Fonda Lee - Jade City
Mariana Leky - Was man von hier aus sehen kann
Valery Tscheplanowa - Das Pferd im Brunnen
May Ayim - Grenzenlos und unverschämt
Further readings I've started but haven't finished (and don't know if I will):
Hermann Gutmann - Hafengeschichten
Claudia Schoppmann - Zeit der Maskierung
Hildegard Hudemann & Martin Jank - Die Elbe
Jonathan Lethem - The Fortress of Solitude
[Right now, my scattered thoughts can only be captured in German, but I'll try and add an English translation below.]
Das Jahr 2023 begann mit dem Wunsch mehr als nur theoretische Uni-Texte zu lesen. Die Anahl an Büchern, die letztendlich geschafft habe zu lesen, ist nicht sonderlich einschlägig, aber in jedem Fall ein zufriedenstellender Anfang.  
Und bin ich überrascht festzustellen, dass mir das Entdecken von den passenden Büchern für die aktuelle Situation im Leben mindestens genauso viel Freude bereitet, wie das Lesen selbst. Ich bin froh, das 2023 mit diesen Büchern mehrfach erlebt haben zu können.
Obwohl ich sie unfassbar einfühlsam und mitreißend geschrieben fand, ziehe ich es vor die hier erwähnten englischen Bücher nicht zu diskutieren und mich stattdessen auf zwei Veröffentlichungen zu konzentrieren, die im englischsprachigen Bereich vermutlich weniger bekannt sind.
Valery Tscheplanowa - "Das Pferd im Brunnen" (2023)
"Beurteile ein Buch nicht nach seinem Einband" - Aber bitte lass dich durch das Cover zum Verkaufsstand locken, nimm das Buch in die Hand und lass dich von den ersten Worten, die dir entgegenkommen, in den Bann ziehen.
Naja, so wars es jedenfalls bei mir und der Rest des Buches enttäuscht keinesfalls. Für mich ist es immer eine Freude, eine oder einen Autor:in zu lesen, die weiß, wie mit der deutschen Sprache umzugehen ist. Tscheplanowa beweist in ihrem Debütroman eindeutig ihr Sprachgefühl und ist in ihren Worten schonungslos einfühlsam (oder ist es andersherum?).
Sie erzählt die Geschichten ihrer Großmutter und Mutter, wie die eine mehrere Zeitenwenden in Russland durchlebte und die andere ihr Leben in Deutschland sah. Sich selbst nimmt Tscheplanowa immer wieder gekonnt aus der Erzählung. Sie überlässt anderen den Vortritt, aber ohne sie würden die Geschichten nicht ihre notwendige Rahmung finden.
Fred Wander - "Der siebente Brunnen" (1971)
Mehr oder weniger zufällig, tragen beide Werke das Wort 'Brunnen' in ihrem Titel. Zudem werden beide als autobiographische Fiktion beschrieben und beide Autor:innen entschieden ihre eigen Person in ihren Geschichten wenig vorkommen zu lassen.
Im Fall von Fred Wander kann diese Zurückstellung als Überlebenstaktik gesehen werden. Bloß nicht auffallen, nicht herausstechen in der Menge. In dieser Position übernimmt er eine beobachtende Rolle auf das Verbrechen der Nazis in den Konzentrationslager. Und trotz des menschenverachtenden Regimes, dem er und seine Mithäftlinge untersteht, trotzt dieses Buch vor aufklärender Menschlichkeit. Er, der sich vor den despotisch Herrschenden zurücknimmt, zeigt wie durch diese Zurückstellung Widerstand entspringt.
Fast tagtäglich sehe ich den Gedenkturm, der nach '45 beim KZ vor meiner Stadt errichtet wurde. Tagtäglich soll man daran erinnert werden, wie vielen Menschen daran gehindert wurden ihr Leben weiterzuleben. "Der siebente Brunnen" gibt einzelnen von ihnen ihre (oftmals jiddischen) Stimme wieder, erzählt ihre Geschichten und lässt deutlich werden, was Zahlen oft nicht können: Menschlichkeit zeigen. So groß dieses Wort auch sein mag, je eindrücklicher wird es in den Worten von Fred Wander. Mögen die Zeiten, in denen Menschen sich unsichtbar machen müssen, um zu überlegen, stets verhindert werden.
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notanotherinfjblog · 11 months
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MBTI fiction writers
Unfortunately, though for obvious reasons, I’m constrained by my own reading habits, so if you have any suggestions for underrepresented types here, please let me know and thanks for the ones that I’ve already received!
INTJ
Margaret Atwood
Joyce Carol Oates
Tom Rachman
ENTJ
Markus Zusak
Hank Green
Gillian Flynn 
Bernardine Evaristo 
Lois Lowry
Ruth Ozeki
INTP
Kai Meyer (interview is in German)
Neil Gaiman
J. R. R. Tolkien
ENTP
David Mitchell
Philip Pullman
John Green
Terry Pratchett
Douglas Adams
Jonathan Safran Foer
Lauren Oliver
Brandon Sanderson
Patrick Rothfuss 
Michael Ende (interview is in German)
Mariana Leky (interview is in German)
Frank Herbert
Aldous Huxley
Matt Haig
Ta-Nehisi Coates
INFJ
Rohinton Mistry
Audrey Magee
Jenny Erpenbeck (interview is in German)
ENFJ
Eleanor Catton
Alissa York
INFP
Wolfgang Koeppen (interview is in German)
Helen Oyeyemi
ENFP
Gavriel Savit
Maggie Stiefvater
Jan Philipp Zymny (interview is in German)
Stephen Chbosky
Daniel Handler
Rick Riordan
Christopher Paolini
George R. R. Martin
V. E. Schwab
Jenny-Mai Nuyen (interview is in German)
ISTJ
Astrid Lindgren
Ken Follet
Elizabeth Nunez
ESTJ
Kerstin Gier (interview is in German)
Cornelia Funke 
John Boyne
Maja Lunde
Sebastian Fitzek (interview is in German)
ISFJ
Anna Burns 
Lucinda Riley 
Jack Livings
ESFJ
Tomi Adeyemi
Victoria Aveyard
Suzanne Collins 
Raquel J. Palacio
Jojo Moyes 
Ursula K. Le Guin
Rosamunde Pilcher 
Rebecca Gablé (interview is in German)
Kirsten Boie (interview is in German)
ISTP
Jhumpa Lahiri
John Irving
Erich Kästner (interview is in German)
James Dashner 
Fredrik Backman 
ESTP
Leigh Bardugo
Sabaa Tahir
Paulo Coelho
Stephen King
Jonas Jonasson
Jussi Adler-Olsen
Erich Maria Remarque (interview is in German)
ISFP
Fatima Farheen Mirza 
Tash Aw
Andreas Izquierdo (interview is in German)
Antoine Laurain 
ESFP
Adam Silvera
Nicholas Sparks 
Cecelia Ahern
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spiderziege · 7 months
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30 for the reading ask!
30) give three book recs!
1. Travel in the Mouth of the Wolf by Paul Fattaruso
okay i feel like ive recommended this one multiple times before but please. read it. its my favorite book ever and its not very long. i named my chicken after a character in this book. i dont think i could ever accurately summarize the plot but basically its about a group of researchers who find the frozen body of a dinosaur in antarctica and when they dig her up she learns to talk and tells them about the past. its also about the argentinian president's brother and the first woman in space and a girl who can tell the future and a baseball player who can feel time moving. i love this book
2. What you can see from here by Mariana Leky
i really like coming of age stories and this is probably my favorite one. its a german book and im not sure if the english version is as good as the original, cause what i love most about this book is the writing style. the story is fairly 'normal' but at the same time very strange and with subtle fantastical elements. the film adaption came out a while ago and tbh i think its nowhere near as good as the book, but it was the only time ive heard people loudly sob in the movie theater, so thats definitely something (i mightve cried a bit too)
3. House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
okay that one's probably a lot more well know on tumblr anyway but i still wanna recommend it. most immersive book ive ever read. i read it in english first and then bought the german version too just to find the subtle differences between them. feels more like playing a game than reading a book
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potatoleeksoup · 1 year
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3, 4, and 13!
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(3) what were your top five books of the year?
in no particular order i loved:
mrs caliban by rachel ingalls. this is SO good. ingalls went straight on my list of forgotten 20th century women that i want to become. actually it's an extremely short list but she's on it right behind my forever queen gina berriault look her up
what you can see from here by mariana leky. honestly this has faded from my memory a little bit since i read it in the spring but i remember being totally obsessed with the prose and narrative movement of this. id love to relearn all my german and read this in the original and also all leky's other books (i believe she has other novels but idk if any have been translated?)
a home at the end of the world by michael cunningham. is it boring to recommend michael cunningham maybe. did this book make me insane and do i frequently think about specific lines and phrases from particularly the first third of it YES. michael call me i just want to talk
the tree and the vine by dola de jong. being in secret unrequited love with your roommate is so scary and horrible ! this book is like a very very sharp gemstone !
all fires the fire by julio cortázar. cortázar is one of my favorites ever and this collection is just like completely complex and perfect like a box of bitter chocolates. right after german i will be learning spanish in order to experience these stories for the first time in a new way again
honorable mentions to:
reprieve by james han mattson. it's possible that this isn't good but i had SO much fun reading it. one of the only books i have read over the past few years that i found really and truly exciting. escape room novel!!!!
the glassy, burning floor of hell by brian evenson. good book! but MOST importantly my favorite title of the year.
anddddddd interview with the vampire. sorry. i loved this.
(4) did you discover any new authors that you love this year?
definitely rachel ingalls! i had heard of her but never read her and i am so pleased to have finally dipped my toesies into her work. maybe rivka galchen too... everyone knows your mother is a witch was good and i am excited to see if i like her other work even better. and dola de jong! i had never even heard of her! if any of her other work is ever available in english translation i will be sprinting to the library
(13) what were your least favorite books of the year?
ahh yes my favorite. hating. let's see...
the charm offensive by alison cochrun. unfortunately had to revoke the bisexuality card of the dear friend who recommended this to me. stupid and really bad in ways that matter (fetishistic strange representation of gay men) as well as ways that are just annoying (horrible prose and overtherapized emotional narratives)
a visit from the goon squad by jennifer egan. sad that i broke my 11 year streak of never reading this but it was required for a class. the PULITZER PRIZE? for LITERATURE? are you SURE?
the snow queen by michael cunningham. goddamn the higher they climb the harder they fall!!!!!!! this was one of the worst structured and most sloppily and fluffily written novels i have ever read. and from the king of structure and perfect sharp prose himself. sad... well there's other fiction writers
how to find your way in the dark by derek b miller. a genuinely antisemitic book recommendation from the aforementioned formerly bisexual dear friend. horribly written and with a bad case of my protagonist is the specialest little boy in the world. special shoutout to this book for inspiring the novel i am currently working on by being so bad that i looked at it and thought even i could do a better job at this
the temps by andrew deyoung. no more clever little books by clever little guys. it is appropriate that the cover of this is green like toxic slutch because it gave me horrible indigestion. thinks it is so smart about the world and is so fundamentally mistaken about every single one of the issues it tries to tackle
and i COULD GO ON!!!!! there are bad books being published every day on this bitch of an earth!
this was so fun i love yelling
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"Wir konnten alles Mögliche mit der Liebe. Wir konnten sie mehr oder weniger gut verstecken, wir konnten sie hinter uns herziehen, wir konnten sie hochheben, durch alle Länder der Welt tragen oder in Blumengebinden verstauen, wir konnten sie in die Erde legen und in den Himmel schicken. All das machte die Liebe mit, langmütig und biegsam, wie sie war, aber verwandeln konnten wir sie nicht."
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