Tiny little beach library - full of sand. 🙈
#egypt #moonbeachwindsurfing

Tiny little bookshelf in one of Maadi most famous cafés. I like that. ???
#egypt #maadi

Ah, make the most of what we may yet spend,
Before we too into the Dust decend;
Dust into Dust, and under Dust, to lie;
Sans Wine, sans Song, sans Singer, and - sans End!
#omarkhayyam

And David‘s Lips are lock‘t; but in divine
High piping Pehlevi, with „Wine! Wine! Wine!
Red wine!“ - the Nightingale cried to the Rose
That yellow Check of hers to incarnadine.
#omarkhayyam

Same procedure as every Friday. But this time with literature deriving from the region I now live in. #omarkhayyam

This was a very interesting book of how in the 80ies the Mossad helped thousands of Ethiopian jews to escape to Israel - via a tourist resort in Sudan. Sounds exaggerated? Actually happened! #gadshimron #mossadexodus

Nice view, good wine and an interesting book - what else?
#mossadexodus #gadshimron

Wow, what a book. Although I already figured who the murderer of the Blackwood family was, I was quite surprised how the story ended. 😱
And I just realized, there‘s a movie too. 🤗
#wehavealwayslivedinthecastle #shirleyjackson

Same procedure as every Friday. A decent coffee (hard to find in Egypt), breakfast and a good read. I found this novel in my kindle library, can‘t remember why I bought it, but it‘s pretty good so far - still couldn‘t figure out who poisened the family, Caroline or Mary Katherine...
#wehavealwayslivedinthecastle #shirleyjackson

Finally finished this recommendation by @thecartographersnotebookofdoom . Took me some time because I don‘t have enough time to read like I used to, but this book was definitely worth it. It is a very detailed description of Cortez‘ conquest of Mexico. #buddylevy #conquistador

Anafora library. No other words needed. 🤗 ☀️
#anafora #anaforaegypt #egypt

How the copts keep their bibles in Anafora. Rustic and simple, but soo beautiful. #anafora #anaforaegypt #egypt

Reading at the pool, enjoying some wine - life as I like it. There‘s a nice place called Anafora just outside Cairo. There‘s no chaos and no pollution, only time for yourself.
#anafora #anaforaegypt #egypt

Same procedure as every Friday morning - right now the only reading time during the week. 🙈
#breakfastreading #breakfast #fridaymorning

Breakfast Reading - I‘m so stressed lately, I have to force myself to save some time for reading.

If you are ever on Malta, check out the National Library in Valetta. It has got two storeys and a lot of old folios. It‘s not allowed to take pictures inside, that‘s why I had to peek/to take one through the door. #malta

Reading about typical Maltese food... And trying it. 🤗 #malta

Reading at Rome Fiumincino Airport - waiting for my flight to Malta. 🤗

I finally made it through this book - wanted to skip a lot of times. The basic concept is a good one, showing how our society recycles the last decades - mainly music, but art and fashion as well. The chapters normally start with good statements and explanations but end with a total chaos of too many details. Too many bands, songs and albums - in the end the book is a never-ending list, which makes it almost unreadable for ordinary people like me.

Although I really like to hold a book in my hands and to flick through the pages, there are a lot of arguments speaking for ereaders I can‘t deny, like the comments or the translator. 😊

Summer reading ☀️☀️☀️

On our way back to Germany, luckily I don‘t have to drive, that‘s why I‘m able to read.
#retromania #simonreynolds #reynolds

WHAT A START! 🙌🙌🙌
#retromania #reynolds #simonreynolds

Well, another Vampire trilogy. Girl finds out she is a witch (in fact the most powerful on Earth), falls in love with a century old, good looking, blonde vampire, who wants to save her from his mortal enemy. She has a mind on her own and stumbles into one deadly situation after another, so that the vampire has to save her. Need some more information?

Okay, my current holiday becomes the one of checking out all the free libraries. 😊 This was one used to be an old telephone booth, but since we all own smartphones now normally there are not used anymore. It‘s a nice idea. This one is located in Innsbruck/Austria of course it has got a view as well. 🙌

Another free library, this time in Solothurn/Switzerland. It‘s next to the river. You can take a book and read it straight away. #switzerland

Trying to read with the sun up. I never bought an ebook reader because I already have a tablet, but sometimes the reader would be better. Still a nice view though.

Reading at the river in Switzerland. A nice book, a cool coffee and water to jump in. What wöse do you need?

They also wore black - different colours of black. That was his first introduction to the tertiary colours - the colours on the far side of blackness. The colours that you get if you split blackness with an eightsided prism. #terrypratchett #speakhisname #gnuterrypratchett #pratchett #pyramids #discworld

So, I‘m back in Europa for the holidays. And what do I find in Grenchen/Switzerland? The most beautiful public bookshelf I‘ve ever seen. 😍😍😍
#publicbookshelf #publicbookcase #swisslit #swissliterature #switzerland #schweiz

After starting it three times I finally finished it. Summer holidays - what a blessing! The book talks about natural energies and how they influence our daily life - positively or negatively- and how to cope with that. It‘s very interesting but needs further scientific research.

Reading by the Ocean - again. 🙌🙌🙌

This is an interesting book an Egyptian colleague of mine recommended. It talks a lot about the energies within us and the earth, so the sun sending his beams comes in naturally.

Finished this one. I habe to say the overall idea is a good one but it takes half the book to come to the point. It was too long-winded for me. #stephenking #petsematary #friedhofdrkuscheltiere

Reading by the ocean - a „light“ Stephen King. I read “the Shining“ years ago and really liked it, started with „It“ and put it away for forever after the first 30 pages. Restart reading King with „Pet Sematary“. #stephenking #petsematary #friedhofderkuscheltiere

Sorry, I have to post more stuff of the Thorbergssetur - the Thórbergur Thórdarson museum. If really got me. If you ever go to Iceland, you have to visit. #iceland #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #thorbergurthordarson #thordarson

Not only did I visit one museum of famous Icelandic writers, but two! This is the actual home of Halldor Laxness, which was transformed into a museum. Some of the rooms haven‘t been touched since he died. #halldorlaxness #laxness #iceland #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature

Only a small and tiny book which contains huge loads of laughter. I can only recommend Dagsson‘s comics.
#hugleikurdagsson #dagsson #hheveryworstofdagsson #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #iceland

Not only but books pf Thorbergur Thórdarson but the one of Hugleikur Dagsson as well. I already bought some on our last Iceland trip. I really like his kind of humour.
#iceland #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #hugleikurdagsson #dagsson

As I already mentioned, there aren‘t many translation of Thórdarson‘s work. So I have to buy whatever I can get. The passage of the wedding was already mentioned in #thestonesspeak, it shows a really good insight of the life in Iceland at the end of the 18th century. And reading it while travelling Iceland makes it even more interesting. #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #thorbergurthordarson #thordarson #iceland

Travelling in Iceland I got some translations of one of my favourite author Thórbergur Thórdarson. Unfortunately there‘s only a small amount of translations in German or English (no Italian one at all), so I boughr this booklet of translated chapters. This is a chapter pf „Letters to Lara“ with which he became famous. Thórdarson dreamt strange dreams when he was younger - like „When I was pregnant“. #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature #thordarson

I‘ve already this one! 🤗
#steinarnirtalar #thestonesspeak #thorbergurthordarson #thordarson #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature

I have already read this one and that one... and the next one too... I 💚 Iceland. Best museum ever.
#thordarson #thorbergurthordarson #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature

Maria on tour in literary Iceland - first stop: Thórbergur Thodarson Museum in Hali. I‘ve been there two years ago but only had a look around the exterior, which is very noce by the way. The museum is shaped as a bookshelf with all the author‘s works. Wait for more pictures... ???
#thordarson #thorbergurthordarson #icelandiclit #icelandicliterature

Reading by the ocean - something I can‘t get enough of. #readingbytheocean

Reading with a view- back at Moon Beach enjoying the weekend and having some time to read at least. And your weekend so far?
#egypt #moonbeach #herrderdiebe #funke #corneliafunke

This is me reading - has been a long time for me being able to read at the weekend. #readingbytheocean

Richters Monolog in La Dolce Vita 💔
#federicofellini #fellini #ladolcevita

Had to read this in school - didn‘t like it back then. Saw a really play version on stage, reread it, loved it ever since. Still not an easy read and since this is Greek tragedy, there‘s no need to spoiler, you already know the end.

How‘s your weekend so far?
#diezeit #zeitung #newspaper #readingbytheocean