pickThe 2nd book in the Gereon Rath series.
Berlin, late February/ early March 1930. The police is called after an actress has died in what appears to be a tragic accident. Then another actress goes missing.
I loved how this book gave insight into the transition from silent movies to talkies, and how as with everything else not everyone likes the new technology and possibilities.
Another winner in the series
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I finished The Silent Death and read Pity
I continued The Emperor of Rome and I‘ve just started Brotherless Night
pickI hovvered between a so-so and a pick for most of this book. It‘s a collection of 6 short, overlapping memoirs covering 3 years of Isherwood‘s life in Berlin. It starts strong with the first Berlin Diary and our introduction to Sally Bowles, finishes stronger with Isherwood‘s account of his friendship with the Jewish Landauer family, and the rise to power of the Nazi party. The middle two chapters felt weak, and I nearly bailed. I‘m glad I didn‘t
pickSo beautiful! Very true observations. At times very funny. But sad and honest as well. Recommend!
https://youtu.be/f1fw4hzeHOU?si=7sogLIFoQRxtQoRq
Jo Heinrich‘s website: https://www.joheinrichtranslation.co.uk
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Mystery guest
Weekly Highlights
Marzahn, mon amour by Katja Oskamp
Jo Heinrich (Translator)
My Ántonia by Willa Cather
A Decent World by Ellen Hawley
Writing Home: Selected Essays by David Carpenter
The Greatest Gresham by Gillian Avery
Cattle by Winnifred Eaton Reeve
Siphonophore by Jaimie Batchan
Another post of the Lost Place area Teufelsberg in Berlin which I visited last week.
Can you tell I'm fascinated by Lost Places? 😉
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Graffiti in the Lost Place area in Berlin, the Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain). It used to be a US listening station in West Berlin during the Cold War.
Visited last week.
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Entrance sign to a huge Lost Place area in Berlin, the Teufelsberg (German for Devil's Mountain). It used to be a US listening station in West Berlin during the Cold War.
Visited last week.
https://youtu.be/QlSsLvEyLOY?si=EBFLeRjy6DAn8Crn
Intro
A debut and a book launch: Gibbons or One Bloody Thing After Another by James Morrison
Boobs and bookmarks - with a special guest
Important reminder
Weekly Highlights
The Book of Daniel by E.L. Doctorow
Pearl by Siân Hughes
The Jaguar by Sarah Holland-Batt
pickThe unnamed narrator shares so much of his biography with the author that it's impossible not to read this as memoir, although it's published as fiction. Either way, it's a frank confessional about the internal life of the son of British immigrants, who leaves his UK family & relocates to Berlin, where he does find the change of life he was looking for, but not the connection with others or himself.
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