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This might be an unpopular opinion but I wished there was less court stuff and more relationship content. I got a little bored.

This was even darker than I anticipated. It‘s been on my shelf for ages.

It‘s about a 15 year old boy who falls in love with an older (30s?) woman. They have an affair that lasts about a year, then she disappears.

The next time he sees her he is in law school, and attends a trial for SS officers (this takes place in Germany) and she is one of the women on trial.

It‘s strangely both emotional and detached, I think because he doesn‘t have ⬇️

Michael visits Hanna after she helped him get home when he was ill, and so begins an affair. While the age difference is an issue, I don‘t think any part of the relationship is super healthy. Then one day Hanna leaves. Years later Michael meets her in court, she is on trial for crimes during the holocaust.

It was a thought provoking read.

#FoodAndLit #Germany

I wasn‘t quite sure what to expect based on what I had read about this book, and it definitely took some time to get into. However, over time it developed into a story that pulled me in and made me think. I ended up really enjoying it.

#1001books #audiobook #Translated #FoodAndLit2022 #ReadTheWorld #ReadingTheWorld #Germany

#AlphabetGame @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

My choice for #letterR is sad, moving, and thought provoking.

Quick, interesting look at what started out as a pedophilic affair which then delved into German guilt regarding the Holocaust.
⭐️: 3.5/5

Zwar nicht das, was ich sonst lese, aber trotzdem extrem interessant. Man bekommt einen Einblick in Gedanken und die psyche eines Menschen, dessen Leben sich durch früh erlebte - gesellschaftlich gesehen etwas fragwürdige - Ereignisse zwar nach außen hin nicht vom Rest der Welt unterscheidet, sich jedoch nach innen nach viel selbstreflektion dem Leser als relativ weit von der breiten Normalität entfernt erweist.

My January #doublespin! I've had this book on my shelf forever, and even though I've seen the movie, I was surprised how much I liked this book. I'll admit that I find the relationship between Michael and Hanna "icky"...yet I couldn't put this book down.

What a great book! It has been a while since I have picked up a book and not put it down until I was finished.

I went to the library to pick up ONE hold. I left with enough books that the librarians offered me a cute bag. How many books did I borrow?

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I can never decide what I want to read in the hammock so I always pack a bag. 😬

I read these 5 books during my quarantine this past week. An interesting assortment, but I loved them all! The reader was oddly engaging and the movie was good too. The others were all romances and they were great. FBAA is a new obsession of mine now!! 😄

School‘s almost over - time to read again. I am so looking forward to the summer. Teo years of Corona in school - now I am able to survive everything! 💪💪💪

I saw the movie years ago, without knowing that it was a book. From what I remember of the movie, it is a very good adaptation of the novel. This novel is complicated. It brings the perspective of the children of those who served in Hitler‘s regime. It looks at morality vs duty, and the guilt we carry for the decisions we make. It is much more than its surface, but the ending felt rushed. I wanted more. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

This is my #bookspin for June!

My #sundaymorning plans. #Broodx is way to loud to enjoy my favorite reading spot outside, plus I‘d end up a landing spot and my coffee would be in constant peril. 😉 They are really active - flying everywhere. I think we might be at the peak for these 17 year cicadas. ❤️📚☕️

Picture from yesterday✨ I AM SO CONFLICTED WITH THIS ONE! One one hand, I found myself unable to put it down. On the other hand, I just don‘t know how to feel about it! If anyone has read it, opinions are always more than welcomed😅

Being back to Switzerland means being back to reading my favourite newspaper. #diezeit

#JumpIntoJanuary Day 31: Here is my #JanuaryStats - not too shabby! 💕🧚🏻‍♀️📚📚📚🤓

We haven‘t been to the library in almost a year, but this is a fairly accurate description of me back in the day.

I re-read this novel in a day. I read it years ago and have seen the film. To me, it is a complicated novel. It is interesting when you re-visit a novel how your perceptions of it change .

Our monthly meeting of #ThePoconoBookClub happened this afternoon, and it was wonderful 😁! It‘s the only one of my book clubs that currently meets in-person. For today, we all read a different book—whichever one we won at the Holiday Book Grab Bag during December‘s meeting. Mine was the tagged book, which I enjoyed. Accompaniment for me was: cheesesteak, sweet potato waffle fries, and Left Hand Galactic Cowboy Nitro stout beer 🍺. 😋

#BookNDinner! Forgot to post from this evening! Supporting a local business 🙂! Accompaniment this cold and dreary evening was: shrimp, lobster tail, salmon, mashed potato, cheddar biscuits, unsweetened iced tea, and a salad that was already a delicious memory. MMmmmm 😋! Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻

#BookNDinner! Accompaniment this cold and wet evening is: rotisserie chicken, cheddar mac ‘n‘ cheese, steamed green beans, and a sparkling energy drink (it doesn‘t really give me energy, lol, it‘s tasty way to get some ginseng and other good stuff in me 😁). MMMmmm 😋! This has been another presentation of: #MrBookKitchen. Happy reads & happy eats! 😎👌🏻👌🏻

Not too shabby.

#InspiredNewYear Day 2: (posting a day in advance so that I give myself a day off tomorrow) - methinks this is an #Admirable Jolabokaflod stack, right?

#DecemberSong Day 31: What #HomeForTheHolidays look like to me. Taken years ago in Singapore with my youngling-reader.

Thanks for the tag! @rockpools

I had to cheat for V and use my mother‘s college yearbook!

You also get to see the scratches Kili made on the headboard.

Who wants to join the fun? (Spell November in book titles.)

#sweetnovember

After all that literary tourism back to reading newspaper by the rive Aare. 🤗🤗🤗

#FlyHighJuly Day 31: My #JulyStats - read a fair bit of picturebook biographies for our research project, and it shows!

More than a newspaper and its articles or some poems are not possible right now. I hope I will be able to read more soon again. 🤔

Reading my favourite newspaper by the river today. 🤗

Reading by the lake - on a ship with a nice view. 🤗

Holidays on the balcony - there‘s sun at least. 🌞

Today the weather is not that nice, only newspaper then. 😏

This was a short, absorbing book full of nuances and layers, and it is going to take awhile for my mind to unpack what I just read.

Is this what sadness is all about? Is it what comes over us when beautiful memories shatter in hindsight because the remembered happiness fed not just on actual circumstances but on a promise that was not kept?

Sometimes the memory of happiness cannot stay true because it ended unhappily. Because happiness is only real if it lasts forever? Because things always end painfully if they contained pain, conscious or unconscious, all along? But what is unconscious, unrecognized pain?

The moment you realize one of your former school mates writes for your favourite newspaper. 😱😱😱
My only excuse: I ended school in 2003 and had to loose track of some of them.

Missing this so much - having coffee at my favourite café. Doing this on my balcony with my coffee is not the same. ?

Since I do live abroad, I always have to stay at friends‘ places. I‘ve been staying at a lot of places so far. And the nice thing is, even with friends who don‘t read a lot or live in rather challeging circumstances, I would still find a tiny book shelf with some books, even in the remotest places. 😊 #friendship

"Gli strati della nostra vita sono così sedimentati l'uno sull'altro, che nel dopo incontriamo sempre il prima, non come qualcosa di eliminato, di liquidato, ma come un che di presente e vivo. "

Splendido!!

Not sure how to review the book. The story of a 15-yr-old boy‘s sexual awakening, his infatuation with the woman twice his age, & in later years, tormenting himself with memories of their complex relationship weighted by moral dilemma. Set in post-war #Germany , it also tells how the young generation deal with guilt & shame of their country‘s past. Perhaps the story is not about the horrors of Holocaust, or ⬇️

#ReadingEurope2020

And this is how most of my mornings look like now - before I walk the ten steps over to my office and start to teach the kids online. 🤗

This is what my Friday morning used to look like 🙈

Does this have a taboo relationship yes. But if you could see passed that and for what this really is about I loved it. Fast interesting read. When 15 years old Michael begins a relationship with an older women he falls fast in love. Then one day she disappears from his life only to find out she is on trail for being involved in hideous crimes during WWII.

All of us - right now... 😈

Me finishing my Litsy reading list. 🙈