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Reader, writer, animal lover.
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I had to say goodbye today to this feisty, sassy, quirky and intelligent little cat. R.I.P little Isis. Already miss you so so much.
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No Power, No Heat, No Water: Odesaâs Days of Hell Under Russian Fire
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The Books Times Readers Were Most Excited About This Year
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Could not resist diving into this excellent nature writing memoir by
#ChloeDalton
. Close encounters with leveret, obsessive research into hares, to help not harm them and a change in perspective on local fields and wildlife policy. A beautiful living tale.
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Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton
There is nothing quite like a thoughtful work of nature writing to end the year with, as we move from autumn into winter hibernation. I missed out on the Nonfiction November themed reads that many âŠ
https://clairemcalpine.com/2025/12/17/raising-hare-by-chloe-dalton/
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Blackwellâs Best Books of 2025
I sometimes order from Blackwellâs, a UK bookshop located in Oxford. and regularly get their newsletter. They just published their best of 2025 and I thought I could share it with you. Book oâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/12/15/blackwells-best-books-of-2025/
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Is Heartwood the âThriller of the Yearâ?
Every year thereâs a book that is called âthriller of the yearâ. Last year it was The God of the Woods, a book I read and liked but wouldnât have called a thriller. This yeaâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/12/13/is-heartwood-the-thriller-of-the-year/
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JacquiWine
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âHis mind could evoke nothing but images of separation, which cut him off from ordinary, normal people, the fortunate ones, the well-beloved. Most of all, he knew, he was cut off from Derek. Derek would not understand at all."
#BookSky
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The House Opposite by Barbara Noble
There is often something very compelling about fiction written and published during World War II, when the outcome of the conflict raging across Europe would have been uncertain. Set during the turâŠ
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/12/11/the-house-opposite-by-barbara-noble/
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R.I.P Lizzy â We Will Miss You
Iâm under a great deal of shock. GLM has ended and I just found out my former co-host,who was known under the blog name Lizzy Siddal, has died. Of course, Tony and I knew she was very ill becâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/12/02/r-i-p-lizzy-we-will-miss-you/
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Christa Wolf â Accident â A Dayâs News/ Störfall â Nachrichten eines Tages (1987)
German Literature Month is almost over and weâre closing this year with a GDR week. I chose a book by one of the most famous authors from the former German Democratic Republic. Christa Wolf iâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/29/christa-wolf-accident-a-days-news-storfall-nachrichten-eines-tages-1987/
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Thomas Mann â The Magic Mountain Part 4 â Time, Boredom, Madness, and Final Thoughts
Time â Boredom â Madness Thomas Mann said that The Magic Mountain was first and foremost a âZeitromanâ, a novel about time. Time in a double sense. First about historical time and then about âŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/23/thomas-mann-the-magic-mountain-part-4-time-boredom-madness-and-final-thoughts/
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Thomas Mann â The Magic Mountain â Part 3 Illness, Therapy, and Death
Illness â Therapy â Death Set in a lung sanatorium, The Magic Mountain is not only a novel about time (which I will discuss in part 4) but also a novel about illness. Not just any illness, but tubeâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/22/thomas-mann-the-magic-mountain-part-3-illness-therapy-and-death/
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Thomas Mann â The Magic Mountain â Part 2 The Story and The Characters
The story â The characters Hans Castorp, a young engineer, travels from Hamburg to the sanatorium Berghof located above Davos, in Switzerland. His cousin, Joachim Ziemssen has been staying atâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/21/thomas-mann-the-magic-mountain-part-2-the-story-and-the-characters/
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Thomas Mann â The Magic Mountain â Part I â Is The Magic Mountain a Difficult Book?
Is The Magic Mountain a difficult book? We often see these discussions on social media about difficult books. Ulysses is mentioned. Proustâs Ă la recherche du temps perdu. Some of Henry Jamesâ lateâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/19/thomas-mann-the-magic-mountain-part-i-is-the-magic-mountain-a-difficult-book/
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Beauty is a Sleeping Cat
Books, Movies, Art, Writing, and Cats
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/
about 1 month ago
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Tony Malone
about 1 month ago
With the start of Thomas Mann week tomorrow for this year's
#GermanLitMonth
, I was reminded of a four-part discussion I had with @LizzySiddal in 2017 about his novel 'Buddenbrooks' - we had a lot to say!
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Buddenbrooks: A Literary Conversation Part One
I have always wanted to offer Buddenbrooks as a readalong during German Literature Month (GLM) but a number of regular GLM participants have already read it on their own. After visiting the BuddenbâŠ
https://lizzysiddal.wordpress.com/2017/11/02/buddenbrooks-a-literary-conversation-part-one/
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about 1 month ago
More than a shaggy-dog story? I kick off
#GermanLitMonth's
Thomas Mann Week with a look at 'Herr und Hund' ('A Mann and His Dog'), in which the writer shows a softer side of his character (for the most part...):
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âHerr und Hundâ (âA Man and His Dogâ) by Thomas Mann (Review)
Welcome to Week 3 of this yearâs German Literature Month, devoted to a very special man. You see, while weâre a few months late, 2025 marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of a certâŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/17/herr-und-hund-a-man-and-his-dog-by-thomas-mann-review/
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Emma
about 1 month ago
Check this out. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck - A graphic novel by Rébecca Dautremer that no superlative can describe.
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck â A graphic novel by RĂ©becca Dautremer that no superlative can describe.
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck (1937) Graphic novel by RĂ©becca Dautremer (2022) based on the translation by Maurice-Edgar Coindreau. Oddly, Iâd never read Of Mice and Men, even if Iâm fond of StâŠ
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/15/of-mice-and-men-by-john-steinbeck-a-graphic-novel-by-rebecca-dautremer-that-no-superlative-can-describe/
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath.
#GermanLitMonth
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth
The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. (1997) French title: Les aventures de Ruben Jablonski. Translated by Chantal Philippe. Edgar Hilsenrath (1926-2018) was a German-Jewish writerâŠ
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/09/the-adventures-of-ruben-jablonski-by-edgar-hilsenrath-germanlitmonth/
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A Child of Our Time by Ădön Von HorvĂĄth - Chilling
#GermanLitMonth
#NovNov25
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A Child of Our Time by Ădön Von HorvĂĄth â Chilling #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25
A Child of Our Time by Ădön von HorvĂĄth. (1938) French title: Un fils de notre temps. Translated by RĂ©my Lambrechts. Ădön von HorvĂĄth (1901-1938) was a Hungarian writer who wrote in German and diedâŠ
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/11/a-child-of-our-time-by-odon-von-horvath-germanlitmonth-novnov25/
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Lucy Fricke â Das Fest/The Party (2025)
Itâs genre week and my choice fell on a book set in Berlin â Lucy Frickeâs Das Fest/The Party. Fricke is a very successful German author and has written a few bestsellers, one of âŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/11/lucy-fricke-das-fest-the-party-2025/
about 2 months ago
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about 2 months ago
My first review for
#GermanLitMonth
is the latest novel from one of my favourite contemporary German writers - Daniel Kehlmann - The Director (translated by Ross Benjamin) about the film director Georg Wilhelm Pabst:
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The Director
Daniel Kehlmann made his name with Measuring the World (translated into English by Carol Brown Janeway), a novel set in the first half of the nineteenth century telling of the attempt by German matâŠ
https://1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/the-director/
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My second review for
#GermanLitMonth
is from another of my favourite German-language writers, Peter Stamm - In a Deep Blue Hour translated by Michael Hofmann:
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In a Deep Blue Hour
In a Deep Blue Hour, published originally in 2023 and now translated into English by Michael Hofmann, is the latest novel from Swiss writer Peter Stamm. It begins with the narrator, Andreaâs, attemâŠ
https://1streading.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/in-a-deep-blue-hour/
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Emma
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath.
#GermanLitMonth
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth
The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. (1997) French title: Les aventures de Ruben Jablonski. Translated by Chantal Philippe. Edgar Hilsenrath (1926-2018) was a German-Jewish writerâŠ
https://bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/09/the-adventures-of-ruben-jablonski-by-edgar-hilsenrath-germanlitmonth/
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Monsieur Didi is wishing everyone a lovely Sunday (evening).
about 2 months ago
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JacquiWine
about 2 months ago
"Occasionally a whole town would be implicated. Quiet, non-political, peace-loving people waited behind closed doors for the shooting and the hurrying footsteps to cease; the streets were unsafe; the very nights were restless."
#BookSky
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Crooked Cross by Sally Carson
For a novel first published in 1934, Sally Carsonâs Crooked Cross feels remarkably timely, charting, as it does, the rise of Nazism in the early 1930s, the falling apart of a countryâs fundamental âŠ
https://jacquiwine.wordpress.com/2025/11/09/crooked-cross-by-sally-carson/
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Autumn impressions.
about 2 months ago
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Autumn Poems by Gottfried Benn and Friedrich Hölderlin
This week is genre week and I knew from the beginning that I wanted to write about poems. Iâve read two collections that came out recently in English. One was written by Lutz Seiler, the otheâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/05/autumn-poems-by-gottfried-benn-and-friedrich-holderlin/
about 2 months ago
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Autumn Poems by Gottfried Benn and Friedrich Hölderlin
This week is genre week and I knew from the beginning that I wanted to write about poems. Iâve read two collections that came out recently in English. One was written by Lutz Seiler, the otheâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/05/autumn-poems-by-gottfried-benn-and-friedrich-holderlin/
about 2 months ago
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Tony Malone
about 2 months ago
First up for
#GermanLitMonth
, I start Genre Week off with a bit of poetry from Goethe - 'Erotic Poems', translated by David Luke. And when I say 'erotic'...
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âErotic Poemsâ by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (Review)
Itâs November, and (0f course) that means itâs time for one of my favourite blogging events of the year, German Literature Month! I always set the whole month aside to get back to someâŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/03/erotic-poems-by-johann-wolfgang-von-goethe-review/
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Dust off your German, Swiss and Austrian books and join us for
#GermanLitMonth
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Welcome to German Literature Month XV November 2025
Welcome to German Literature Month XV Hopefully many of you have a nice selection of books or a reading list for #germanlitmonth. Remember â anything that was originally written in German caâŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/11/01/welcome-to-german-literature-month-xv-november-2025/
about 2 months ago
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Announcing German Literature Month XV November 2025
November isnât far away, and you all know what that means â German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (!) time, weâll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, âŠ
https://beautyisasleepingcat.com/2025/10/01/announcing-german-literature-month-xv-november-2025/
about 2 months ago
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Autumn mood.
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Herbiâ„ore
2 months ago
You donât honour dire wolves by cloning hybrids. You honour them by protecting the wolves, forests, and ecosystems we still have.
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Game of Clones: The Fantasy of De-Extinction
Herbiâ„ore published a post on Ko-fi
https://ko-fi.com/post/Game-of-Clones-The-Fantasy-of-De-Extinction-K3K31D8WD5
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Paula Bardell-Hedley
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#Books
#BookReview
#BookshopDay
#GermanLitMonth
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@beautyandthecat.bsky.social
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Winding Up the Week #442
This week I look at books read and reviewed, discover some of the best writing about literature on the blogosphere, announce German Literature Month 2025, keep up with a variety of literary anniverâŠ
https://bookjotter.com/2025/10/11/winding-up-the-week-442/
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Met this little guy on my walk today.
3 months ago
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Tony Malone
3 months ago
Are you ready for November? An introduction to German Literature Month XV (#GermanLitMonth), hosted by
@beautyandthecat.bsky.social
and... well, someone else ;)
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Announcing German Literature Month XV â November 2025
November isnât far away, and you all know what that means â German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (!) time, weâll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, âŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/announcing-german-literature-month-xv-november-2025/
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Tony Malone
3 months ago
Are you ready for November? An introduction to German Literature Month XV (#GermanLitMonth), hosted by
@beautyandthecat.bsky.social
and... well, someone else ;)
tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/a...
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Announcing German Literature Month XV â November 2025
November isnât far away, and you all know what that means â German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (!) time, weâll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, âŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/announcing-german-literature-month-xv-november-2025/
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Announcing German Literature Month XV â November 2025
November isnât far away, and you all know what that means â German Literature Month is just around the corner! For the 15th (!) time, weâll be reading German, Austrian, or Swiss books, âŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/10/01/announcing-german-literature-month-xv-november-2025/
3 months ago
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Please mark your calendars and join us for this yearâs German Literature Month.
#GermanLitMonth
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Please mark your calendars and join us for this yearâs German Literature Month.
#GermanLitMonth
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add a skeleton here at some point
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Tony Malone
3 months ago
Busy recently, so I haven't been online much, but in November I'm hoping to be more active to help with this year's
#GermanLitMonth
- here's the badge, with a building you may recognise :)
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Monsieur Didi says hello.
4 months ago
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Good evening from Miss Lune.
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Tony Malone
4 months ago
My monthly wrap-up post for August, with everything from this year's
#WITMonth
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August 2025 Wrap-Up â Women in Translation Month
As always round these parts, August was devoted to Women in Translation Month, and even if I didnât quite manage to get to as many books as I would have liked, there was still a fair selectioâŠ
https://tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/08/30/august-2025-wrap-up-women-in-translation-month/
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Today is
#BlackCatAppreciationDay
. Here are my three beauties, two of which sadly are no longer with me. Beloved Max (12.6.08 - 13.4.23), sassy girl Little Isis (2008 - 28.5.25), and my two-year-old gentle giant Monsieur Didi.
4 months ago
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For International Cat a little street cat I photographed on a market in Marrakesh.
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Good evening from Miss Lune.
5 months ago
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Did anyone else find this underwhelming?
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Monsieur Didi wishes everyone a wonderful Saturday.
6 months ago
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Hello from Miss Lune.
6 months ago
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