Tonight is the longest night of the year. What a perfect timing that the light bulb arrived today, so that I can have enough light! A book that inspired me afresh every time I read it is The Little Donkey/ Ein Esel geht nach Bethlehem by Gerda Marie Scheidl, Bernadette Watts. Its central thinking is …
If Harvey wakes up on Christmas morning and doesn’t see his Christmas present, he might be wondering why. I guess the good boy Harvey will of course understand that Father Christmas can be forgetful, the reindeers could be exhausted and not feeling well. And many reasonable reasons why the present is not in the stocking. …
Title: You Call That Brave? (EN) Mutig, Mutig (DE)Author: Lorenz Pauli and Kathrin Schärer(A book borrowed from a friend.) A mouse, a frog, a snail, and a sparrow decide to find out who is the bravest among them. To prove his bravery, the mouse wanted to swim a long distance without coming out from the …
Today, I start reading “Water Music” by T.C. Boyle. A fiction between 1795 and 1805, about the adventure of the Scottish explorer Mungo Park. The review written by Salman Rushdie about this book is very interesting: “It is a book in the worst possible taste, serves no useful purpose … Its title will make Handel …
Time goes by shivering.What seems over, begins. Fröstelnd geht die Zeit spazieren.Was vorüber schien, beginnt. “October” from the cycle “The Thirteen Months”“Der Oktober” aus dem Zyklus “Die dreizehn Monate“Erich Kästner (1899 – 1974) I am moved by this beautiful poem – October by Erick Kästner. Time goes on, never stop, I too shall keep going. …
“Was it Frederick’s voice?Was it magic?”Frederickby Leo Lionni How to prepare for the coming cold winter is one of the main concerns now. This is not an ungrounded worry in European countries when we read the news. Companies, churches, private home are calculating about the room temperature for winter to ensure that Germany does not …
Even if this little melancholy book is not my cup of tea, still I think it is so well written that I finished reading it. I like how the author create the Parisian streets, the rain scene and most of all is how the author interprets Autumn. For me, autumn has never been a sad …
The two books of year 1955 are poetry collection of Baroque period and Romantic period. Just as Church Hymns and Art Songs are dear to me, so too these two books. I appreciate there is a section for women poet inside both of them. I found them in a public bookcase and adopted them. I …
Have you ever dreamed about candy meadow, marzipan castle, dolls kingdom, rose lake and a seashell carriage pulled by two golden-scaled dolphins? As for Marie, this was not a dream at all. No one believed her that she had given up to talk about this “dream”. At this moment, the “truth” (dream) knocked at her …
Two weeks after reading “Krabat” by Otfried Preußler, I was and still am completely immersed in the magical world of the story. So I went on to read two other books by the same author, they are “The Little Witch” and “The Wise Men of Schilda” . These books are inspiring in many ways, instead …