Ooooh, yes, I am 100% in on a February group read.
Congrats on finishing two books! I would love to hear which audiobook that was and if you would recommend it. I am German and would like to read/listen to more German books so it is not a problem if it is in German.
In fact, the last book I finished this week was "Schmelzpunkt" (literal translation: melting point but I don't think it has been translated yet) by German author Wolf Harlander. It was a thriller or near future sf about the climate crisis and dead animals showing up in the arctic. It was fun to have a Inuk protagonist for once but I don't know how accurate the portrayal of life there was, given that the author is German. I think the author's book "42 Grad" (42 degress Celsius) was much stronger so I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one but it's not bad or anything.
Now I have only 4 books left in my physical TBR pile of books I bought, 1 of which is for uni, 1 is for work, 1 is a crafting book and 1 is a signed memoir from a Holocaust survivor for which I am not in the right state of mind to read it. This means I am going to allow myself to finally buy the "Dune" gateway collection by Frank Herbert on Kindle, which I have been planning to do since November 2021. I have the first book in paperback but no more space to get the others as physical books. Can't wait to read more in that universe! :D :D :D I am still waiting for a belated Christmas gift card to come in till I buy the book. If that takes longer, I am going to start reading any book on my "free" physical TBR just to see if I can declutter anything after reading or DNF a book.
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Date: 2025-01-18 09:30 pm (UTC)Congrats on finishing two books! I would love to hear which audiobook that was and if you would recommend it. I am German and would like to read/listen to more German books so it is not a problem if it is in German.
In fact, the last book I finished this week was "Schmelzpunkt" (literal translation: melting point but I don't think it has been translated yet) by German author Wolf Harlander. It was a thriller or near future sf about the climate crisis and dead animals showing up in the arctic. It was fun to have a Inuk protagonist for once but I don't know how accurate the portrayal of life there was, given that the author is German. I think the author's book "42 Grad" (42 degress Celsius) was much stronger so I wouldn't necessarily recommend this one but it's not bad or anything.
Now I have only 4 books left in my physical TBR pile of books I bought, 1 of which is for uni, 1 is for work, 1 is a crafting book and 1 is a signed memoir from a Holocaust survivor for which I am not in the right state of mind to read it. This means I am going to allow myself to finally buy the "Dune" gateway collection by Frank Herbert on Kindle, which I have been planning to do since November 2021. I have the first book in paperback but no more space to get the others as physical books. Can't wait to read more in that universe! :D :D :D I am still waiting for a belated Christmas gift card to come in till I buy the book. If that takes longer, I am going to start reading any book on my "free" physical TBR just to see if I can declutter anything after reading or DNF a book.