Summer time, reading time
Jul. 10th, 2009 10:58 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It's summer and the semester is almost over. That calls for hours and hours of lying in the garden with a good book. Well, as soon as the weather gets better again. If it doesn't then it calls for hours of lying on the sofa with a cup of tea and a good book. Either way, there's one problem: I've pretty much run out of reading material which is to say of books that I can't wait to read.
A trip to the bookshop yesterday taught me that a) the English section of German bookshops is way too small and b) there are too many books that could be good but that could just as well suck.
So I'm asking you: Are there any books you can recommend? Any must-reads? Books you read recently and enjoyed immensely? Books that you can read over and over again?
I'm open for almost everything that's either fiction or non-fiction with a lot of British humour (like An Utterly Impartial History of Britain). Preferably by British of Irish authors.
A trip to the bookshop yesterday taught me that a) the English section of German bookshops is way too small and b) there are too many books that could be good but that could just as well suck.
So I'm asking you: Are there any books you can recommend? Any must-reads? Books you read recently and enjoyed immensely? Books that you can read over and over again?
I'm open for almost everything that's either fiction or non-fiction with a lot of British humour (like An Utterly Impartial History of Britain). Preferably by British of Irish authors.
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Date: 2009-07-10 09:59 am (UTC)Es ist eher bodenständige Fantasy, zwar mit Magie, aber ohne wirklich abgefahren zu sein, die Charaktere sind allesamt einfach nur göttlich.
Edward Rutherfurd hat einen ziemlich tollen Zweiteiler über Dublin geschrieben, ein Mix aus vielen historischen Fakten und der fiktive Geschichte einer Dubliner Familie durch die Jahrtausende erzählt. Man sollte sich nicht zu sehr an die Charaktere binden, weil der Autor gnadenlos durch die Jahrhunderte springt, aber es ist imo großartig und spannend erzählt.
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Date: 2009-07-10 11:06 am (UTC)Ich mag Fantasy, wenn es nicht zu sehr mit magischen Kreaturen bevölkert ist und in die Sparte schein die First Law-Trlogie ja genau zu fallen.
Und ein Zweiteiler über Dublin würde sich gerade perfekt an meinen "Irish Studies"-Kurs anschließen.
Vielen Dank. :)