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Ich würde den "Book Thief" auch gerne lesen...

Und was die älteren Bücher betriftt, schließe ich mich meinen Vorrednern an: Ich selbst habe kaum welche (oder nur völlig zerlesene Lieblingsbücher mit Schokoladenflecken...), aber ich entdecke gern ältere Bücher neu für mich. Solange sie noch reisefähig sind, ist alles in Ordnung.

ja, wenn der book theif wieder ins spiel käme, das wäre schön

thief naürlich

grrrr

Vielen Dank für die mail!
Leider konnte ich nicht früher reagieren.

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Grüße, Irmana

Somit hat Ghostwalk gewonnen und ich mach mich mal ans besorgen. Der Start kann noch etwas dauern, aber ich werde mich bemühen :-)

Book Thief is inzwischen angekommen, aber ich möchte erst selber lesen. Soll ich trotzdem vorher eine Auswahl zusammenstellen? Ich kann auch gern zwei Bücher wandern lassen, falls ich etwas habe, was den anderen interessiert.

Mach es einfach, wie du möchtest, du kannst ja ein paar Bücher vorauswählen und dann nochmal drüber schlafen ;-)

Und auch ich werde das Buch erst lesen und danach auf die Reise schicken, verschicke nur noch ungern ungelesene Bücher. Aber soviel Zeit dürften wir ja haben.

Du kannst demnach Book Thief gerne in die Auswahl mit aufnehmen - und dir dann die notwendige Lesezeit nehmen. Oder du liest es, und stellst dann erst vor - wie es dir lieber ist :-)

Gut, ich denke, dass ich erst nächste Woche ein paar Bücher vorstelle. Diese Woxhe ist sowieso viel los.

Einfach mal als Tipp für aktuelle englische Bücher (für nächstes Jahr).

Auf der Frankfurter Buchmesse gibt es am letzten Tag 50 Prozent Rabatt auf englische Taschenbücher.

Ahja, das Buch ist bisher noch nicht angekommen... Ich warte....

Einfach mal so zwischnedurch als Drohung: Ich habe ja schon gesagt, dass ich, sobald es 3-4 Leute gelesen haben einen Diskutier-Thread aufmache.
Da beide Bücher inzwischen auch auf deutsch erhältlich sind, werde ich den entsprechenden Thread bei den "normalen" Dikussionen aufmachen.
Vieleicht hat die ja auch jemand auf deutsch gelesen und möchte mit diskutieren.

Puuh, das Buch ist endlich aus England angekommen. Irgendwie hat das Buch ne extra Runde gedreht ;-)

Ich werde dann bald damit anfangen, nach meinem aktuellen Buch ;-)

Ich habe eben einen Diskutier-Thread zu Neverwhere angelegt. Die Thread Nummer ist 243871

Ich würde mich über Rückmeldungen zu dem Buch freuen.

hey, bin über etwas suchen und liarbirds auswahl hierher gekommen, ich hab jetzt nicht alles gelesen, aber irgendwas von 12 teilnehmern, sind die schon voll (und habe ich diese frage schon mal gestellt?;-))

einige "kennen" mich ja aus anderen forumsteilen, würde aber gerne wieder mehr auf englisch lesen, mein regal hat zudem auch das eine oder andere schätzchen zu bieten.

ich würde also gerne noch einsteigen:-D

Argh -- aus "nächste Woche" sind zwei Monate geworde -- sorry, Leute! Ich versuche, im Laufe des Tages eine Auswahl Bücher zusammenzustellen.

Hier nun endlich die Bücher, die ich vorschlagen würde:

1. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief (literary)

Death himself narrates the World War II era story of Liesel Meminger from the time she is taken, at age nine, to live in Molching, Germany, with a foster family in a working class neighborhood of tough kids, acid tongued mothers, and loving fathers who earn their living by the work of their hands. The child arrives having just stolen her first book, although she has not yet learned how to read, and her foster father uses it, The Gravediggers Handbook, to lull her to sleep when shes roused by regular nightmares about her younger brothers death. Across the ensuing years of the late 1930s and into the 1940s, Liesel collects more stolen books as well as a peculiar set of friends: the boy Rudy, the Jewish refugee Max, the mayors reclusive wife (who has a whole library from which she allows Liesel to steal), and especially her foster parents. Zusak not only creates a mesmerizing and original story but also writes with poetic syntax, causing readers to deliberate over phrases and lines, even as the action impels them forward.

2. Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia (alternate history)

Suppose the Spanish Armada had beaten the Virgin Queen's little navy and reimposed on England the fanatic Roman Catholicism of Bloody Mary Tudor and her ruthless husband, Philip II of Spain? That is the premise of Turtledove's alternate history. For almost a decade, the English have chafed under Philip's daughter Isabella and her Austrian consort, as well as the Inquisition, enforced by arrogant dons, their hired-gun Irish gallowglasses (rumored to be cannibals) and English Catholic sympathizers. Good Queen Bess languishes in the Tower of London while her supporters plot rebellion-to be sparked by no less than a patriotic new play by Will Shakespeare, Turtledove's lovingly drawn hero, who's drawn willy nilly into the conspiracy by Elizabeth's former minister, Lord Burghley. The author revels in complex turns of language and spouts brilliant adaptations of the real Shakespeare's immortal lines.

3. Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long (thriller)

"My life is a dull one," says Tim Cornish, narrator of much of this compelling thriller, which delivers such a dark picture of romantic love that murder seems its natural mate. Tim's workaday life in Suffolk as secretary for a cultural organization is mere counterpoint to the hours he spends writing about the affair he had with paleontologist Ivo Steadman. He hopes to rid himself of Ivo's ghost, just as, less than two years earlier when they were on an Alaskan cruise, he rid himself of Ivo by knocking him unconscious and leaving him for dead on an uninhabited island. The two had fought when Tim declared that he had fallen in love with the mysterious Isabel Winwood, whom he had recently met in Juneau. Tim, who had returned to England without contacting Isabel, believed his crime had gone undetected until he began receiving anonymous letters about castaways. Vine (Anna's Book; The House of Stairs), the suspense-writing persona of Ruth Rendell, sets out what seems to be a full, straightforward picture. As the narrative progresses, however, she skillfully reaches back to add a point here or adjust a detail there to create a whole new, equally convincing, image.

4. Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (literary)

Composed in tight, spare prose echoing Web communications, Winterson's seventh novel takes its cues from the Internet, where reality is implied but never inherent. Like the protagonist of her previous novel, Written on the Body, narrator Ali is not defined by sex. An Internet writer, she/he creates stories for people, offering "Freedom, just for one night," allowing her e-mail clients to be whoever they want to be. In return, they are required to understand that, like customers at Verde, the famous old costume shop in London where Ali lives, they may enter as themselves and leave as someone else.

5. Bryan Sykes, Adam's Curse (non-fiction)

Bryan Sykes follows up The Seven Daughters of Eve with the equally challenging and well written Adam's Curse. This time, instead of following humanity's heritage back to the first women, Sykes looks forward to a possible future without men. The seeds of the book's topics were sown when Sykes met a preeminent pharmaceutical company chairman who shared his surname. Using the Y chromosome, which is passed nearly unchanged from father to son, the author found that he shared a distant ancestor with the other Sykes. Along the way, he discovered that the Y chromosome was worth examining more closely. The first third of Adam's Curse is devoted to a clear and comprehensive lesson about genetics, the second narrates several fascinating stories of tracing ancestry via the Y chromosome, and the last chapters explore the history of male humanity and its future.

6. Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (historical)

After accidentally observing a spot on Joseph Trevelyan's "privy member," Major Lord John Grey finds himself in a devilishly difficult position because Trevelyan is about to marry Grey's cousin, who has no idea her fiance is infected with the pox. As he searches for a discreet way to confirm his suspicions, Grey is dragged into a different kind of investigation. British Army requisition papers have vanished in Calais, and Grey must find out if there is some connection between their disappearance and the recent murder of a possible spy Sergeant Timothy O'Connell. Grey, who has a secret of his own to protect, begins an investigation into O'Connell's death, which, interestingly enough, leads to Trevelyan and a mysterious woman in green velvet whose identity may provide answers to all of Grey's questions. New York Times best-seller Gabaldon promotes Grey, a popular secondary character in her Outlander series, to a starring role in this thoroughly entertaining and wonderfully witty historical mystery set in the richly detailed, occasionally bawdy world of Georgian England.

Ich könnte das eine oder das andere sicherlich austauschen, falls erwünscht.

Bitte abstimmen:

1. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

2. Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia (alternate history)

3. Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long (thriller)

4. Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (literary)

5. Bryan Sykes, Adam's Curse (non-fiction)

6. Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (historical)

Bitte abstimmen:

1. Markus Zusak, The Book Thief

2. Harry Turtledove, Ruled Britannia (alternate history)

3. Barbara Vine, No Night is Too Long (thriller)

4. Jeanette Winterson, The PowerBook (literary) **

5. Bryan Sykes, Adam's Curse (non-fiction) *

6. Diana Gabaldon, Lord John and the Private Matter (historical)

abgestimmt haben:
Flaemmle

Nette Buchauswahl, einige kenne ich schon, mal sehen, was am Ende das Rennen macht :-)