Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :)
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December 17, 2025 at 11:26 AM
Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :)
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
In the spirit of efficiency, I am once more combining two of my favourite reading challenges, namely German Literature Month, as hosted by Caroline and Tony this year, and Novella November hosted b…
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November 5, 2025 at 7:00 AM
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Two Charming, Gentle Reads
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 25, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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Busy recently, so I haven't been online much, but in November I'm hoping to be more active to help with this year's #GermanLitMonth - here's the badge, with a building you may recognise :)
September 19, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Busy recently, so I haven't been online much, but in November I'm hoping to be more active to help with this year's #GermanLitMonth - here's the badge, with a building you may recognise :)
Please mark your calendars and join us for this year’s German Literature Month.
#GermanLitMonth.
#GermanLitMonth.
Busy recently, so I haven't been online much, but in November I'm hoping to be more active to help with this year's #GermanLitMonth - here's the badge, with a building you may recognise :)
September 19, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Please mark your calendars and join us for this year’s German Literature Month.
#GermanLitMonth.
#GermanLitMonth.
Next up for #germanlitmonth another book by Peter stamm
November 19, 2024 at 7:15 AM
Next up for #germanlitmonth another book by Peter stamm
New review today: A strange little tale for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer
Paulus Hochgatterer: The Day My Grandfather Was a Hero, transl. Jamie Bulloch, MacLehose Press, 2020. You might be familiar with Austrian author (and psychiatrist) Paulus Hochgatterer from his crim…
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November 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
New review today: A strange little tale for #GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: Paulus Hochgatterer findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/g...
My last review for #GermanLitMonth today, and it's of a remarkable and groundbreaking work by Else Jerusalem - Red House Alley, reprinted by @neglectedbooks.com #boilerhousepress #recoveredbooks - my thoughts here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/w...
“We rob these girls of their humanity and make them into slaves… #GermanLitMonth @neglectedbooks @bhousepress
My final read of the month is my fourth one for German Literature Month; I would have liked to have squeeze in more for that event, and *did* have a plan to spend time with a particular chunkster. …
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November 27, 2024 at 9:05 AM
My last review for #GermanLitMonth today, and it's of a remarkable and groundbreaking work by Else Jerusalem - Red House Alley, reprinted by @neglectedbooks.com #boilerhousepress #recoveredbooks - my thoughts here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/w...
Currently on my 2nd read doing double duty for #GermanLitMonth and #NovellaNovember
Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
November 2, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Currently on my 2nd read doing double duty for #GermanLitMonth and #NovellaNovember
Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
Arno Camenisch's Goldene Jahre (Golden Years) has the gentle humour and quirky voice that I loved in @ronanhession.bsky.social's Leonard and Hungry Paul
Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...
Welcome to German Literature Month XV November 2025
Welcome to German Literature Month XV Hopefully many of you have a nice selection of books or a reading list for #germanlitmonth. Remember – anything that was originally written in German ca…
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November 1, 2025 at 3:01 PM
Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for #GermanLitMonth. beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/w...
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper - yet another book about my new hometown
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:13 PM
#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper - yet another book about my new hometown
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Combining #NovNov with #GermanLitMonth, I discovered the GDR author Brigitte Reimann, newly translated by Lucy Jones: anzlitlovers.com/2023/11/20/s...
November 20, 2023 at 12:17 AM
Combining #NovNov with #GermanLitMonth, I discovered the GDR author Brigitte Reimann, newly translated by Lucy Jones: anzlitlovers.com/2023/11/20/s...
Today on my blog, I have a little post for #germanlitmonth specifically #Kafka week! I read one of his best-known short stories which is very dark and thought-provoking - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/g...
“Guilt is never to be doubted.” #kafka #germanlitmonth
I have been following along with the German Lit Month posts, and there have been some very interesting ones so far. This week is designated for reading some Franz Kafka, and I had a bit of a think …
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November 18, 2024 at 8:38 AM
Today on my blog, I have a little post for #germanlitmonth specifically #Kafka week! I read one of his best-known short stories which is very dark and thought-provoking - more here! kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/18/g...
My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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Slander, lies and guilt: #GermanLitMonth
Untitled image by Czech artist Jaromír Funke from the ‘Cyklu Cas Trva’ / ‘Time Persists’ series (1932). The Trial by Franz Kafka. Der Prozess (1925) translated and with an introduction by Idris Pa…
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December 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
On the Ramblings today - a remarkable new book from @twistedspoon.bsky.social which also works for #GLM2025 and #NovNov25! More here: kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2025/11/11/h...
“He was done with everything now” #twistedspoonpress
Twisted Spoon Press are a Prague-based publisher who produce a fascinating range of books, and I’ve written about a good number of titles here on the Ramblings. Their titles are often quirky,…
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November 11, 2025 at 9:55 AM
For #GermanLitMonth - a fascinating piece of modernist literature from @twistedspoon.bsky.social - more on the blog!
Ready for a #GermanLitMonth tale or twelve? Then sit back and listen to the dulcet tones of Thomas Bernhard and his 'Erzählungen' ('Stories') :)
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‘Erzählungen’ (‘Stories’) by Thomas Bernhard (Review)
It wouldn’t be #GermanLitMonth without a bit of Thomas Bernhard, and I’ve had a book in mind for the event for quite some time now. However, where most of my previous Bernhard reads ha…
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November 21, 2024 at 9:26 AM
Ready for a #GermanLitMonth tale or twelve? Then sit back and listen to the dulcet tones of Thomas Bernhard and his 'Erzählungen' ('Stories') :)
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On the Ramblings today, my second post about Kafka for #GermanLitMonth, and this time it's some essay by #WalterBenjamin which were closer to the time of Kafka's life. Fascinating, if a little chewy... 🤣 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/a...
“… a vast machinery of officialdom…” #GermanLitMonth #kafka #walterbenjamin
To round off German Lit Month’s Kafka week, I though I would swerve off in a different direction from the actual writings of the man himself by writing about another author translated from th…
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November 22, 2024 at 9:26 AM
On the Ramblings today, my second post about Kafka for #GermanLitMonth, and this time it's some essay by #WalterBenjamin which were closer to the time of Kafka's life. Fascinating, if a little chewy... 🤣 kaggsysbookishramblings.wordpress.com/2024/11/22/a...
Finally a review for #GermanLitMonth: a snapshot of Berlin in 1930 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Gabriele Tergit and Weimar Berlin
Gabriele Tergit: Käsebier erobert den Kurfürstendamm (Käsebier Conquers the Kurfürstendamm), 1931. Available in English from NYRB in US and Pushkin Press in UK, translated by Sophie Duvernoy as 'K...
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November 13, 2023 at 8:16 AM
Finally a review for #GermanLitMonth: a snapshot of Berlin in 1930 findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2023/11/13/g...
New on my blog today: my first review for #GermanLitMonth
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#GermanLitMonth: Ingrid Noll
Ingrid Noll: Der Hahn ist tot (The Cock Is Dead), 1991 Yes, I’ll stick to the double-entendre of my translation of the title, because this is very much about the relationship between men and …
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November 5, 2024 at 1:07 PM
New on my blog today: my first review for #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm
two! one two – one two – three! . two one two three – four . two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…
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November 26, 2025 at 10:51 AM
Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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The last review, on the Gereon Rath series has me especially intrigued. The idea of the books taking place in 1930s is increasingly speaking all too well to the current moment... #booksky
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic
I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…
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November 26, 2025 at 2:38 PM
The last review, on the Gereon Rath series has me especially intrigued. The idea of the books taking place in 1930s is increasingly speaking all too well to the current moment... #booksky
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic findingtimetowrite.wordpress.com/2025/11/25/g...
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper
Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…
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November 19, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/09/t...
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth
The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. (1997) French title: Les aventures de Ruben Jablonski. Translated by Chantal Philippe. Edgar Hilsenrath (1926-2018) was a German-Jewish writer…
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November 9, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Closing out #GermanLitMonth after a late start I should finish two of these three books by month's end. I had no idea what to expect with Frisch's Man in the Holcoene, but it is so funny.
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November 29, 2024 at 3:17 AM
Closing out #GermanLitMonth after a late start I should finish two of these three books by month's end. I had no idea what to expect with Frisch's Man in the Holcoene, but it is so funny.
@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social
@dalkeyarchive.bsky.social @andotherstories.bsky.social