Thanks to HBO I guess there’s nearly nobody out there, who hasn’t heard the name George Raymond Richard Martin. Since eight year “Game of Thrones” is running on TV and made the author famous beyond the borders of the fantasy genre and the literature. But there was a time before…
Good things need their time. This is true even for a good book. To really get the book and its story you should take enough time. It doesn’t matter, if it take three months to read that book. Additional reading English books doesn’t work as fluently as books in my…
A little time ago (was it 2016 or 2017?) my daughter made me a birthday gift. Though this is nothing unusual it somehow leads to this review, because said gift had been a book, that marks the beginning of a series: Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch
Have you ever experienced this? You’re sitting in a bus. An elderly man wants to take the seat opposite to you. He doesn’t ask, if you would let him pass. He just forces his way through, while you’re trying to get your legs out of the way. You can’t do…
This year’s personal premiere: I’ve visited the Frankfurt Book Fair. Am I excited? Yes and no. Would I repeat it? Definetly. But let’s go step by step.
It took a long time to read the book, a far to long time. It’s been nearly a whole year. But this is my own fault, not the author’s. The book isn’t written to difficult, it’s not even the fact, that I chose to read the English original. I simply…