Es ist ein paar Jahre her, dass ich Wolfgang Hohlbein las. 15 Jahre bestimmt. Als ich vor zweieinhalb Wochen ein paar Minuten in der Buchhandlung verbrachte, grinste mich im Krimiregal (?) “Armageddon” an. Ein Krimi von Hohlbein? Hatte ich noch nie in den Händen. Ist einen Versuch wert, dachte ich.
Was macht eigentlich ein gutes Buch aus? Ist es der Schreibstil? Ist es die Spannung? Sind es die Bilder, die der Autor schafft? Es gibt mit Sicherheit vielen Dinge, die ein Buch gut machen. Zu all den Kleinigkeiten kommt noch hinzu, dass man das Buch lesen kann, und selbst zwei…
Who knows me knows, that half of my heart is beating Scottish. There is another 10% beating Irish but that doesn’t matter now. As I was looking around some online shopping giant that Scottish half of my heart suddenly started to beat faster when I found an e-book called “Monarch…
Fat Charlie Nancy is an average guy. Well, nearly average. There are two things you should know about him: His father was a god and his brother inherited all the godly. And then the brother steps into Charlie’s life…
There are many ways to choose a book. You can rely on recommendations from friends. You can follow a review. The best way is to visit a book store and rummage the books, read a few pages or let the cover art get you. Or maybe it’s some movie –…
George R. R. Martin teached me one thing: Nobody is save from death. I wasn’t sure if “A Song of Ice and Fire” stands single in this. Tad Williams proved the truth. Noone is immune against death. Neither mortal man, nor elves. But in contrast to Mr. Martin there’s hope…
Es ist eine Pentalogie. Vier Worte, die nach einem stilistisch schlechten Anfang anmuten, ich muss sie aber vorausschicken, denn ich könnte in Unkenntnis der folgenden vier Bände der Autorin an der einen oder anderen Stelle Unrecht tun. Was ich heute schreibe, ist eine Momentaufnahme. Alles mag sich ändern, lese ich…
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…
Since years the cinemas are flooded by sequels, prequels, spin offs and reboots. This might work in some cases and does absolutly not in others. This falls sequel (and prequel as well) is called “Fantastic Beasts 2 – The Crimes of Grindelwald”. Since the first “Fantastic Beasts”-film ended with a…
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