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Dear reader,

I asked myself many times, if your you maybe a rating system wishes for the books reviewed. Because as you know, I tend to sometimes even Labern undecided - there is not necessarily clear at the end of the article, I think the book now.

Such a scoring system has indeed (as discussed at the moment with Borstel ) advantages and disadvantages. Therefore the question to you: What do you want? If the ax now points awarded? Asterisk? Pancakes? Something completely different?

can in the side bar on the right to rate you, and suggestions via comment, I am extremely pleased. If any part, remains a punishment everything as it is. At least.


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Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian.

Hmmmm. Intense brooding. Audible sigh. Hand-wringing. More or less it's me, as I write this article. Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian is in fact a very, very difficult case. It is the case that this book one of my typical station bookstore purchases is characterized by an unforeseen result . I liked the cover and I liked the title. A glance at the blurb - ah yes sounds bizarre, and funny and is praised by the newspaper review, but seems to be easy reading. Something one wants in the train.

50 pages later I was angry and confused. The exterior of the book may be categorized as misleading. Fine irony and subtlety I had promised was delivered "a skit presented at the colorful evening of a rural women's association," how Stefan Mesch on literaturkritik.de etched. It seems to me the plot is not bad: Nadia is a university lecturer Majevski late 40s Since the death of her mother lives Nadia's senile father Nikolai, a Ukrainian-born engineer, alone in his house. To the older sister Nadia for various Nickele Vera has no contact.

up, even to the idiosyncratic Nikolai crush in the 50 years younger Ukrainian Valentina steam pile driver and the blond busty girls at any cost wants to marry, to give her a British residence permit. In the face of the enemy close Nadia and Vera a fragile peace: the materialist must tick away, under any circumstances.

The family history of Majevskis is in flashbacks told - that appealed to me really well because sensitively and sympathetically told. Marina Lewycka is now trying but to pack her story as a slapstick and social criticism. In my view, goes wrong, the full pipe. I was expecting a comedy - it would have been fine if it turns out to be full-blooded drama, but this is an indecisive mixture that oscillates between black humor, tragedy and Generation novel. Several reviewers think this is the real achievement of the author, this half-baked Stilmélange bugs me.

Valentina, the Ukrainian material girl annoys me most of all. It is quite true, contradictory a figure and represent diverse, but in the case of Valentina confuses me try. The atmosphere between Nadia and Valentina changes seemingly randomly between contempt and compassion, strength and understanding. The gray is missing.

Disclaimer: It is possible that I did not understand the book. It is possible that I lack the fine sense of nuance and I appreciate the good intention of the author. It is also possible that I misinterpret the seriousness of the book as a dry good behavior. All right.

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Michael Marano: Dawn Song.

We are in Boston, 1990, to Christmas. War is in the air. The sensitive Bookseller Lawrence has fled to the city on the Charles River, to get over the separation from his partner away. Lawrence has no idea that meanwhile, on the roof of his house receives a succuba their abode - a creature of hell, shape-walker and nurturing of human souls. The succuba is the daughter of Belial, the mortal enemy of Leviathan. Soon, the battle rages between the forces of evil on the streets of Boston, and we humans are nothing more than best resources.

Dawn Song urges the reader with a large pool of characters and plot lines. It is important to read this book with great interest, because I had to experience myself to swim without mercy on the spot when it tries to verkonsumieren in convenient snacks. But worth the effort because Michael Marano is a virtuoso of narrative and atmospheric horror genre. The oppressive atmosphere to end Boston's streets, he translates into dark and fine images, poetic metaphors.

While Lawrence gradually loses itself and is sinking the city into brutality and despair, below the succuba forward planned and unstoppable - in fact pave corpses their way, yet so banal you can not say no, because in reality it is much, much worse. Often Dawn Song can confuse the reader back, the book says little and even less well founded, yet it is none of these tangled concoctions who draw their secret from their obscurity. I would say most likely this: you can read this novel in less , you just have to sensing . Whoever succeeds, the constant question of "why let go of a moment that rewarded Dawn song with a long lingering, intense reading experience.

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Gruezi, Hannes Binder! The Holiday Twin

With its incredibly impressive implementation of the Mörike poem "At midnight " He was one of my favorites in this year's German Youth Literature Prize in Division of picture books: the famous Swiss painter and illustrator Hannes Binder . The "Master of scraperboard technique" was famous for his detective novels to comics by Friedrich Glauser, but others received awards for the illustrations for youth legend "The Black brothers.

Here Hannes Binder on his favorite children's book:

"It has at various times corresponding favorite books. As a child, was with me, "Doctor Dolittle's Circus." And while I remained one of the distinctive art nouveau-quality illustrations to date. It can be seen in an alley, Dr. Dolittle and the cat food man with a lot of points to the long arm a bit high. The Legend coined a deep well, "Matthew waved his bread to the sky." These trifles a bizarre parallel world I think is great.

But I want to talk about my current favorite book.

I met him in Milan, the next major metropolis of the Abroad, where I inspire myself. The Italian title of the big red book by Chen Jiang Hong was "Io e Mao" - Me and Mao, much stronger than in the German translation "To Grandfather's hand"

I was. immediately impressed by the immediacy of drawing by hand, by the more adventurous of the craft. You could feel the different drawing tools. Brush, pen, the resistance to the paper. The lightness of the sketch is still preserved here.

Chen has a great security in choosing the right moment and the cut in the panels. We experience his childhood at the hands of the grandfather and get to know quite a lot of small-scale details of kitchen and household. It is these small handouts from the child's perspective, what makes this book so gripping and believable.

We experience the Cultural Revolution, the loss of individuality through children's eyes. Unlike many comics or graphic novels to political upheaval, it is the absence of any clichés, which accounts for the great quality. "

Eduard Moerike and Hannes Binder, "At midnight" - © Bajazzo Publisher
Chen Jiang Hong, "An grandfather's hand", © Moritz Verlag