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Just giving this a try because Goodread sucks.

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Daniel Kehlmann: Lichtspiel (Hardcover, deu language, 2023, Rowohlt)

Einer der Größten des Kinos, vielleicht der größte Regisseur seiner Epoche: Zur Machtergreifung dreht G. …

Hat mir wieder sehr gut gefallen

Ein ähnliches Rezept wie bei der "Vermessung der Welt", was mir auch sehr gefallen hat. Aber dieses Mal geht es um Film und Filmkunst und den Nationalsozialismus. Ich kann das Buch sehr empfehlen.

Marjan Kamali: Lion Women of Tehran (2024, Gallery Books)

A great read

My boss highly recommended this book after reading it at their book club. And I agree: I read through the book in record time. It is a captivating story of the friendship between two Iranian women, starting while they are in school. Their personal lives are interwoven with political events in Iran -- the rise of the Shah, reforms in the 1970s, communist opposition, the Islamic Revolution. It was hard to put the book down.

Bill Perkins: Die with Zero (Paperback, 2021, Mariner Books)

A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich

Imagine …

I don't usually read advice books

Advice books often annoy me, and one about finances seemed to have even higher potential to annoy me. But I had seen this book referenced in multiple places and so I was curious enough.

Overall, it's a fine read. There are points where I plainly disagree with the author, occasionally unstated assumptions enter the text, and there is the usual helping of dubious science here and there. But overall it was not too bad and I was able to read the book, take away the insights that work for me, and just ignore the rest.

Bill Perkins: Die with Zero (Paperback, 2021, Mariner Books)

A common-sense guide to living rich . . . instead of dying rich

Imagine …

I've read a bunch about this book and so it'll be interesting to actually read it. I think the overall theme appeals to me, but it's also a genre of book that has a high potential to be annoying. We shall see.

Sven Regener: Glitterschnitter (German language, 2021)

A typical Sven Regener book (in a good way)

I have a fondness for Sven Regener and his characters. Maybe it's because I used to live on Wiener Straße in Kreuzberg myself, albeit a generation after Frankie Lehmann's days. Anyways, Glitterschnitter once again captures the spirit of 1980s Kreuzberg in a funny and empathetic way. Squats, squatters, action art, experimental music, Swabian exiles, ...