Friday, November 30, 2007

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defects copies

One of the reasons why I like to go shopping at large supermarkets, from the apple to the trendy clothes pretty much everything in range: The Büchergrabbelkiste!

Somewhere it is always and is filled to the brim with defects copies.

contained 90% of the books were bought specifically for this purpose, but the patient burrowers always finds some gold in it.

I fight so by all copies of Barbara Cartland, several biographies (Naddel, superstar Alexander and similar people), self-help books in the vein of "What kind of music, the ficus likes to hear" and "Lose weight with raw liver, and other unspeakable concoctions, but how gratifying it is the feeling when I discover something really for me.

most cases, they are thrillers, but as is also my book, "Pigeons, dancing the Mambo" from so a box.

is especially funny stuff, if anyone out there also will be rumwühlt. Either you in solidarity and laughs about the junk together or break it develops a bitter battle. Fearful that the only other fine book and discovered snatches.

I love it!

Thursday, November 22, 2007

Reynold Syndrome Fingers

status report

One would think that I am at my great love of books, they also treat with care and with kid gloves.

shame on me.

My favorite books look read. Some of them are in a wretched condition, have kinks are patched with adhesive on the back or torn and some of them have with bath water Acquaintance closed. In some still are remains from the sand of a beach holiday and some of them are angedreckelt or even have nasty patch, because I once again read while eating (or vice versa) and have had a fit of gross motor skills.

One can compare it with Lieblingsteddies: worn and kaputtgeschmust, one eye missing, through the seams of the swell filling, an arm was reattached, but just because you love them especially.

Anyone who looks at my books will immediately recognize that I have chosen my book to friends and always read. Yes, I belong to the evil people who have opened the books lying around. Donkey ears, but I do not (at least not intentionally).

different matter of course looks at real or borrowed books. Since I am very careful.

But my pocket books? Evil evil Iago.

Wednesday, November 21, 2007

Zane Gray And Megaladon

bookshelves



Here you see one of my bookshelves. Billy standing in the hallway and fits snugly into the door to my bedroom. I need this door that is not because my bedroom is also accessible from the living room. I think it's nice to come to my house and see the first books. Such a corridor is so often less exciting, but evaluates it on the shelf. It

is the shelf which contains mostly horror and thrillers. However, now, other genres in there.
Ca. once a year I try to sort my books. Separated by horror / mystery / thriller and more. Another is still divided in hardcover picture books and paperbacks.
and then alphabetically.

The order holds but only a few weeks.

Apart from this shelf I have two more, and of course my gravity-defying stacks of books that sit on the closet.

I am of the opinion that bookshelves are an indispensable part of a dwelling. They radiate from something very pleasant.

My dream is a long time a larger apartment with a library room. Shelves to the ceiling, preferably with a sliding ladder. Then I could sort my entire boxes of books in my basement and my parents.

And it is still a great bistro, a pretty lamp and a small table.

Hach ...

If I enter a strange house, I always look first for the books. Which are there, they pull me magically.

It instantly creates familiarity and a topic of conversation when in someone you hardly know, find the same books that you have yourself.

It was very funny when I first started in the old apartment from my heart was and could see that we have several books together. Since he was able to score well, o).

Sunday, November 18, 2007

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The big box of books

asking an enthusiastic reader, which book he would take to a desert island, is meaningless. Only ONE book? Forget it! I for one could not decide. People of faith engage
probably to the Torah, Bible or the Koran, but I do not know what book I would take.

A different case would be with a box of books ...

It's not a whole container, but it fits inside a lot already.

And I also think the word stupid, this is a stick and I make a start.

The order of the way, is arbitrary.
  • Watership Down Richard Adams v. (I have just read it again and it got me again just how tied up at the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, etc time)
  • Gone with the Wind Margaret v. Mitchell (I want to and what's heart! great melodrama)
  • Rheingold v. Stephan Grundy (the Völsungs and the Nibelungen in novel form with a completely wacky Siegfried)
  • The Stand , Rose Madder and Insomnia v. Stephen King (no dull horror, but wonderful characters with whom we became friends and that you always again like to return.)
  • The Talisman v. Stephen & Peter Straub child (a parallel world, "freak" in the Wandering Jack can, in which he finds new friends and old enemies and he can save by his mother saved a great story)
  • twilight , Black Moon and branded by Dean R. Koontz (Koontz is usually quite striking in its characters.. there's always a basic good hero, usually also a Marine training has similar, a very beautiful woman who is aware of the unaware and is also grundgut and like to play with really great, smart dogs. Rarely also lacks a disabled or malformed man who is full of goodness and wisdom only pretending. The evil, however, are so angry that you most like myself want to resort to the Kalashnikov. But despite these stereotypes, he succeeds again and again to capture me and the characters to like.)
  • Faust, the first tragedy Part v. J.-W. Priest (I like it stop!)
  • Tom Sawyer, Huckleberry Finn and v. Mark Twain (from the Mississippi River)
  • Dracula Bram Stoker v. (one of the most romantic books, I know)
  • Alice in Wonderland and Alice Through the Looking Glass v. Lewis Caroll (. Not only for children The man was eventually mathematics teacher and has for all his imagination and some small math and language puzzles in the books hidden - I also love the Cheshire Cat)
  • The Count of Monte Cristo and The Three Musketeers Alexandre Dumas v. (Great Adventure. Unequalled!)
  • Tit for tat v. Rita Mae Brown (in my opinion her best book. It is set during the 20s and 30s in the southern states . lower and upper class, prostitutes and priests, comedy and drama and a lot of heart) My
  • Shakespeare collection, including the Sonnets (Wat mutt, dat mutt)
  • A complete encyclopedia (I like to read in works of rum)
  • Buddenbrooks v. Thomas Mann (fascinating portrait of manners, captivating story lines, wonderful formulations)
  • A big book of fairy tales
  • A thick book of legends
  • poems v. Ringelnatz
If there is enough space:
That is enough for now. With few exceptions, not exactly high literature, but it's all about the books that I will not soon get bored and I can read again and again.

And now I ask for your boxes of books. In any case, I would like the chests of those who have taken this blog to their blogroll: crime Thomas, Louffi , reading pleasure and frustration Goo gle-.

But of course must also my heart (although we have since spoken in detail about it the other day and I therefore, on the idea with the stick came) and Bea their favorites . Unpack

I'm curious: o).

Wednesday, November 14, 2007

I Have Pee Stuck In My Uretha

The reputation of the book

a book calling for me. For several weeks. Suddenly it came to my mind, "Oh, that You have not read in a long time." And then I forgot it again.
But not for long.
falls Again and again, to me. I know it almost by heart, read it so many times and more and more images appear before my eyes.

I've seen, where it is. There it waits for me. Until I resist the call no more.

yet I read another one that would not interrupt me. And actually, even after waiting for the next new book on me. I do not know what I choose going next. The new unknown or old friend.

I like to delay that date. To feel like the call is getting louder, as it almost pulls me.

I will read differently than the first time The first time many many years ago, I read it avidly. What's next, what happens now? More more more.
If I now once again expand, it offers no surprises. I will know what happened on the following pages how the story ends.

But he does nothing of its charm. I will still laugh, cry, cheer, be there.
I look forward to my old friends. On the sly Hazel, the sensitive Fiver, the courageous Bigwig, and all the others that I will join her on her long journey and their dangerous adventures.

Soon ... soon I'm back in Watership Down .

Monday, November 12, 2007

Level 5 Of The Game Cube Feild

I am in love!

it one or the other should already have noticed that I read a lot and a lot of different things.

But while many books talk to me very pleasantly, all, few in the category "with Tom on the Mississipppi.

Now it has grabbed me, but contrary to expectations.

" Inkheart" by Cornelia Funke.

Once again a Kinder-/Jugendbuch.

I had her Inkheart trilogy initially refused because I was from "The Thief Lord " extremely disappointed. What was this book that I put my heart and everywhere I read effusive praise.
But I found it boring! Then when I came

for many people for the ink world, I turned to a draft. The spark is just not my thing.

But eventually won then but my curiosity (among other things had also read lust frustrating here and here been very sympathetic) and having also heart his interest had announced it and the "world"-Laden after grip was broken my resistance and I opened the first page.

Within Before long, I was "in".

The very basic idea of the opportunity to get into it, even in stories or characters to read out, is absolutely magical. In addition, there are exciting adventures with lovable (and wonderfully evil) characters captivate you. The print world is full of imagination and life.
course, invented the spark is not the wheel, and yet include their fairies a little different than others, which is already known.

What delights me most about this book or the books is the incredible love of reading, to books, to stories that speak from any of the words.

I felt caught so often directly addressed and acknowledged. "Book-lovers' favorite books is called the spark. What a nice word for it.

Or when talking briefly about how it is when you open a book that you have read a few years ago. Not only do you meet old friends, no, you go on a little journey and remember once where you read this book is the first time. In what situation and how it was himself. A book as a piece of their own history.
YES, EXACTLY!

Currently I'm enjoying the second part " Inkspell" and the third part " Inkdeath," is ready.

New book lovers for me.

Wednesday, November 7, 2007

Miniture Evergreen For Planter

Now it's slanted

There are authors whose penchant for absurdity's not boundless.

include the classics of course Terry Pratchett with its nutty Discworld, Matt Ruff and his wonderful book "Fool on the Hill" ("GAS" is nice, but not as much good) and of course the undisputed king genre: Douglas Adams ! Btw, nothing against "The Hitchhiker," I love both the books and the old BBC series (I have on DVD), the film is, however sucks. But for me his best book "The last of their kind" in which he sets off to visit animals that are threatened with extinction. Man is constantly laughing and crying between torn.

But especially I enjoy more of my "discoveries" of not so well-known authors (and not so far known to me). Gems that I come across suddenly in bookstores or in the Büchergrabbelkiste I find in the supermarket and buy really only because I like the title so well.

three of this variety, I would urge you today to my heart.

"The Good Fairies of New York" by Martin Millar

blurb:
Dinnie was the worst violinist in New York. Nevertheless, he was practicing brave, as two pretty little fairies fluttered through his fourth-floor window and puked on his carpet. "Sorry," said one.
For most people, fairies are invisible ...

But not for Dinnie and Kerry from the 4th Street. And so begins this Punk Rock Summer Night's Dream: uproar among the black elves, the sisters and the Italo-Chinese elves are acidic. Blame for everything, two punky Scottish fairies.

The book is hilarious, tragic, absurd, loving, very fast, punk, full of wit and unexpected twists, just wonderful.


"doves, dancing the Mambo" by CD Payne

blurb:
Robin and his friends work in a research laboratory. Please think at least - because actually they are not scientists, but the pigeons will be tested on that here, how birds responded to different environmental influences. Nevertheless, life is pretty okay, until one day liberate militant animal rights activists Robin and Co. and in the streets of San Francisco suspend - no cigarettes, no sherry and without a plan, what will happen now ...

The biggest problem is that Robin and his friends firmly believe to be human beings and the evil rumor that they were pigeons, far reject. People can not fly of course and so need sophisticated strategies hatched in order to survive in the wild. Above all, have to scrap the supply of nicotine and alcohol are secured.

I've laughed so much!


"The Club of Polish sausage people" by Leszek Herman

blurb:
On the eve of EU accession of Poland, Germany is flooded with Polish sausage. The German sausage cooks lobby, and there are signs of a fatal effect of Krakow and kabanossi: the Germans are lazy and satisfied! Although quickly imposed an import ban, but resourceful Polish engineers try to circumvent the embargo by the construction of sausage man. They should be able to work in to cross the border alone, only to end up in Germany in the shelves and freezers.
But already the first attempt at a border crossing fails, and the three prototypes are now all on his own. chased by dogs and intelligence agencies to find the Great, the thickness and the thin man with sausage helpful Germans and Poles refuge - and one of them even true love.

In this book, absolutely absurd way taken the mutual prejudice between Germans and Poles targeted. Hilarious!