January Reading

[mekare]

Whew the first month of the year has passed the midway mark already! What have you been reading? Or what are you planning on reading this month? Is anyone interested in a February group read?

I finished two books I started last year: Jin Yong‘s Legend of the Condor Heroes and an audiobook of a German columnist. So all in all a pretty good start!

Comments

[illariy]

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.

[mekare]

The audiobook was Das Kolumnistische Manifest by Axel Hacke. It‘s a collection of a lot of columns he wrote in the last 30 years. A handful seem dated, but most were really funny.

Oh yeah, book decluttering is an ongoing project here as well. It‘s really great that we have a free little library now, so I can put the books there and hope someone will take them and find enjoyment in them.