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Bill Bryson: The Body: A Guide for Occupants (2019, Doubleday)

Review of 'The Body: A Guide for Occupants' on 'Goodreads'

Fascinating journey through the human body and through the history of medical science and treatments. As always, Bryson's book benefits from sometimes famous but most times unknown anecdotal stories about people, their illness or their research.

Kurt Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-five ; The sirens of Titan ; Player-piano ; cat's cradle ; Breakfast of champions ; Mother night (Hardcover, 1980, Octopus/Heinemann)

Review of "Slaughterhouse-five ; The sirens of Titan ; Player-piano ; cat's cradle ; Breakfast of champions ; Mother night" on 'Goodreads'

Welcome to the strange world of Billy Pilgrim, who is unstuck in time, i.e. he is traveling through different periods of his life without knowing where he might end up next. This gives him an unconventional perception and understanding of life. Nevertheless, the ultimative anti-war book, not only because of the bombing of Dresden.

Robert Jordan: Das Rad der Zeit - Das Original (Piper Verlag GmbH)

The Wheel of Time turns and Ages come and go, leaving memories that become legend. …

Review of 'Das Rad der Zeit - Das Original' on 'Goodreads'

Epischer Genreklassiker und Auftakt einer gewaltigen Serie, der im Grundgerüst dem Herr-der-Ringe-Schema folgt und die bunt zusammengewürfelten ProtagonistInnen quer durchs Land schickt um einer gemeinsamen Aufgabe zu folgen, die in der uralten Schlacht Gut-gegen-Böse mündet.

Travis Baldree: Legends and Lattes (2022, Pan Macmillan)

Worn out after decades of packing steel and raising hell, Viv the orc barbarian cashes …

Review of 'Legends and Lattes' on 'Goodreads'

Cozy and heartwarming like an excellent Cappuccino together with a freshly baked chocolate croissant. The story of an orc trading her sword with the opening of a coffee shop at a place where nobody has ever heard of coffee...

hat Hexengeschichten von n/a besprochen

n/a: Hexengeschichten (1986, Frankfurt am Main : Insel-Verlag)

Review of 'Hexengeschichten' on 'Goodreads'

Hexengeschichten von Ludwig Bechstein, basierend auf historischen Archivdokumenten, auf die Bechstein im Zuge seiner Tätigkeit als Leiter der Herzoglichen öffentlichen Bibliothek in Meiningen stieß, im Zeitgeist der deutschen Romantik in Szene gesetzt.

hat Das Geisterhaus von Isabel Allende besprochen (suhrkamp taschenbuch 1676)

Isabel Allende: Das Geisterhaus (German language, 1993, Suhrkamp)

Primera novela de Isabel Allende. La casa de los espíritus narra la saga de una …

Review of 'Das Geisterhaus' on 'Goodreads'

Großes südamerikanisches Epos mit unzähligen Geschichten in der Geschichte, das einerseits Klassikerstatus verdient hat, aber wahrscheinlich nicht jedermanns Geschmack trifft.

Matt Haig: The Midnight Library (Hardcover, 2020, Penguin Publishing Group)

Somewhere out beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an …

Review of 'The Midnight Library' on 'Goodreads'

The basic idea of the story is taken from Charles Dickens' Christmas Carol. Instead of experiencing the different ghosts in her dreams, the protagonist, after a suicide attempt, is in a kind of limbo (the Midnight Library), where she can try out different alternatives of her life, to find out that she still wants to live...