I spotted this book in my little local library recently and borrowed it. The Himmler Brothers has a subtitle “A German Family History” and I think this is probably what attracted me to the book which has been translated by Michael Mitchell. (In the copy I borrowed this fact is obliterated by a library label…) [...]
Filed under: Books on October 21st, 2009 | Comments Off
The Post Office Girl was first written in the 1930s by Stefan Zweig, an Austrian Jewish writer as Rausch der Verwandlung (which means something like “the intoxication of change”). The novel was not published in the German-speaking world until 1982, long after the author’s suicide in Brazil in 1942. The manuscript was found amongst his [...]
Filed under: Books on October 13th, 2009 | 4 Comments »
…that calls my lodgers on to new things. It is almost incredibly already two years since the Lödgerin handed back her front door keys to the rose-covered cottage.
On Sunday evening, Tutti Frutti did the same thing and set off for the next chapter in his life. He, however, has not gone to live in Germany [...]
Filed under: Friends on October 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
I think part of the reason I haven’t blogged recently is because I omitted to blog about something in the summer. I have come to the sad realisation that I am nerdier than I thought as it seems that I like to blog in chronological order. I could *make* myself blog about that particular incident [...]
Filed under: Life on October 7th, 2009 | 2 Comments »
Gentle reader. I have something to say. In fact, I feel I have quite a lot to say. There is much to catch up on. The thing that is puzzling me, however, is that I simply can’t imagine where I used to find the time to blog.
If anyone sees my little bits of spare time [...]
Filed under: Life on October 6th, 2009 | Comments Off