#Wolfgang Herndorf

[browneyeddevil]

thanks @waywardangel-wilds for the tag!

1.The Faraway Tree by Enid Blyton: I must have been 6 or 7 when I first read this with my dad. The story is filled with such whimsy and silliness but also a sense of wholesomeness that I would have no problem revisiting it today. I wouldn't say it's the book that made me fall in love with reading, I honestly don't think there is one particular book, but it's definitely one that got me to that stage as, as far as I can remember, it's the first book I reread multiple times.

2. The Harry Potter Series by J.K Rowling: I know she's a controversial figure now but I'm a big believer in separating the art from the artist. The series itself was and is super important to me. I was around 7 or 8 when I started reading it with my dad and I found them so engaging that I started to take them to school to read them by myself; which was a first for me. Strangely, I remember them also being the first books I read that didn't have illustrations. I became a full-blown Potterhead and have reread the series multiple times since then. I would find myself imagining new characters for the world and new scenarios and lore; and although it didn't start me in the world of fanfic (obviously, I was like 9 lol) it is the first series that fully engaged my imagination.

3. A series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket: I was around 9 when I read them, and they were the first books to knock Harry Potter off its throne. They were the first books that had me taking note of different writing styles. Lemony Snicket wrote these books as if he were talking directly to the reader, giving word definitions and making jokes about his characters. He also made everything seem very real to the point where little me was genuinely unsure whether the series was fiction or non-fiction.

4. The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins: Is anybody surprised? I was 11 when I read the series for the first time. I remember having just started secondary school a month prior and being quite overwhelmed by everything, and I found a lot of comfort in the series. I would come to school early just to read some of the books before school. I read them in 10 days flat and it was the first series since Harry Potter to really overtake my imagination. Most of it went over my head as I was pretty young but I have since reread it multiple times and each time I find a new thing to obsess over. It's also the series that eventually led me down the path of reading and writing fanfiction and finding fandom in general.

5. Tschick by Wolfgang Herndorf: This one is a bit strange, but I shall explain. I was 12 or 13 when I started reading this book as "homework" for my German school. I read it with my mum which was the first time we read something together. Because my mum's first language is German she still prefers reading in German over reading in English; so reading was always something I did with my dad, if with anyone. Although the book itself didn't have a massive impact on me, it has a place in my heart for being the first German book I read that wasn't for kids; and for opening that door for me and my mum.

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Tagged by @thesweetnessofspring in the new tag game she started:

List 5 books that made you The Way You Are (got this idea from another old post). You don't have to explain why if it's cringe/too personal, but I'm curious about how old you were when you read it, if you're comfortable adding that!

Amelia Bedelia by Peggy Parish, is the first book that I ever read. It made me fall in love with reading. I am dyslexic and this was the first book that I read that I understood and taught me that books weren't hard or boring. I laughed so hard. I was maybe 7years old.

Charlotte's Web by E.B. White is the second book I read by myself it took me longer to read, I was about 8-9 years old when I discovered this book and read it...it taught me the value of good friends. I didn't have friends growing up. I was picked on as a kid.

Night by Eli Wiesel - While a lot of people love Anne Frank, I loved Night. I read this book while in 9th Grade. It changed my perspective on how to look at people.

The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boon. This book made me, Corrie was a young woman during WW2 who she and her family hid Jewish families in the Netherlands. She ended up in a concentration camp and lost many of her family members. I was in my late twenties when I read this book. It reconfirmed that all humans are created equal.

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, not telling you the age lol but please know that because of these books, I am here in the fandom.

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[nine-frames]

Tschick (Goodbye Berlin), 2016.

Dir. Fatih Akin | Writ. Wolfgang Herndorf (novel), Lars Hubrich, Fatih Akin & Hark Bohm | DOP Rainer Klausmann

[davidlavieri]

The Moon was one of those images; but even worse than the Moon was the Hanged Man. Michelle had an allergy to cat hair, and the symptoms triggered by a glimpse of the Hanged Man--a tortured, boyish body hanging upside down by one leg in front of an autumnal landscape featuring mountains and the planet Neptune--were analogous to the allergy. As a result, at first she had liked to remove the Hanged Man and hide it, but after Bekurtz had once publicly expressed surprise that the deck had only twenty-one cards, Michelle developed a technique for shuffling that allowed her to shove the Hanged Man at the bottom of the deck and make sure it stayed there.

Wolfgang Herndorf, Sand

[mylanguageroad]

After three days of stressing about, test, presentations and my fellow classmates, I found the time again for doing the challenge. Sometimes I wonder how I can forget that school is so stressful... Anyway, I’m still alive (even tho I don’t exactly know how I managed it) and I will try to do my best for this challenge.

Day 11

Where do you like to study? Why?

Ibland studerar jag i arkiv, och annan taj mar hemma. Jag har alltid en studiepartner i arkiv, så det är ganska roligt att lära där. När jag skulle studera hemma, önskar jag vanligt att lyssna tillnågon musik.

Sometimes I study in the library and other times at home. I always have a study partner in the library so it’s quite fun to learn there. When I’m studying at home, I usually want to listen to some music.

Day 12

What’s one book that you had to read for class that you ended up liking, and why?

Boken kallades ”Tschick” av Wolfgang Herndorf. Vi läste den i vår tyska grupp, och det var en sådan rolig hjärtevärmande berättelse som du precis måste älska.

The book was called ‘Tschick’ by Wolfgang Herndorf. We read it in our German class and it was such a funny, heartwarming story that you just have to love.

Day 13

What are some go-to study snacks?

Jag äter normalt inte något, medan jag studerar.

I normally don’t eat anything while I’m studying. 

New Vocabulary

ibland - sometimes

arkiv - library

ganska -  quite, fairly

vanligt- usual

en sådan - such a

hjärtevärmande - heartwarming

berättelse - narrative

Corrections are always welcome!

[marcokd]

Lies, um zu leben.

Victor Hugo - Der letzte Tag eines Verurteilten Paulo Coelho - Der Alchemist Hermann Hesse - Siddharta  Henry David Thoreau - Walkden Mark O’Sullivan - Jimmy, Jimmy  Alain de Button - Der Lauf der Liebe Paulo Coelho - Veronika beschließt zu Sterben Tino Hanekamp - So was von da Eugen Jebeleanu - Das Lächeln Horoshimas Hermann Hesse - Narziß und Goldmund Jack London - König Alkohol Hanya Yanaginara -  A little Life Milan Kundera - Die unerträgliche leichtigkeit des Seins Erich Maria Remarque - Der Himmel kennt keine Günstlinge John Strelecky - Das Cafe am Rande der Welt Hermann Hesse - Der Steppenwolf Fred Uhlmann - Der wiedergefundene Freund Steve Tesich - Karoo Thomas Mann - Tonio Kröger Benedict Wells - Becks letzter Sommer J.D. Salinger - The Catcher in the Rye  Mitch Alborn - Tuesdays with Morrie Jack Kerouac - On the road Charles Bukowski - Post Office Max Frisch - Homo Faber Jesper WungSung - Opfer Joachim Meyerhoff - Wann wird es endlich wieder so, wie es nie war Hermann Hesse - Unter’m Rad Hermann Hesse - Demian Janne Teller - Nichts, was im Leben wichtig ist Marina Heilmeyer - Die Sprache der Blumen Ernest Hemingway - Der alte Mann und das Meer Suzanne Segel - Kollision mit der Unendlichkeit Erich Fron - Die Kunst des Liebens  Benedict Wells - Spinner Yael Hedaya - Liebe pur Max Frisch - Ein Spiel Kate Tempest - Worauf du dich verlassen kannst Hermann Hesse - Klein und Wagner Thommie Bayer - Das Herz ist eine miese Gegend Thommie Bayer - Der Himmel fängt über dem Boden an Bov Bjerg - Auerhaus Svenja Gräfen - Das Rauschen in unseren Köpfen Gregory Roberts - Shantaram Jack Kerouac - Gammler, Zen und hohe Berge Finn-Ole Heinrich - Gestern war auch ein schon ein Tag Irvin Yalom - Und Nietzsche weinte Gerry Hadden - Alles wird unsichtbar Eckhardt Tolle - The Power of Now  Henning Mankell - Der Chronist der Winde Pascal Mercier - Nachtzug nach Lissabon R.J. Palacio - Wonder Arno Geiger - Es geht uns gut Wolfgang Herendorf - Wann wird es endlich wieder so wie es nie war Simon Strauß - Sieben Nächte Benedict Wells - Am Ende der Einsamkeit Pitigrilli - Kokain Bodo Schäfer - Gesetze der Gewinner  Ben Bergeon - Road to excellence  Solomonica de Winter - Die Geschichte von Blue Wolfgang Herndorf - TSCHICK Radik Schami - Eine Nacht voll Sterne M.Morgan - Traumfänger Carlos Ruiz Zafon - Marina Jean Liedloff - Auf der Suche nach dem verlorenen Glück  Sonia Rossi - Fucking Berlin Margarita Kinstner - Mittelstadtrauschen Haruki Murakami - Kafka am Strand William P. Young - Die Hütte Viktor Frankl - Man’s Search for Meaning Wajdj Mouawod - Anima  Daniel Kahnemann - Schnelles Denken, Langsames Denken  David Grossmann - Aus der Zeit fallen Margaret Mazzantini - Das Meer am Morgen Valerie Fritsch - Die Welt ist meine Innerei Ödön von Horváth - Jugend ohne Gott Robert Seethaler - Der Trafikant Peter Bieri - Eine Art zu Leben Jostein Gaarder - Das Orangenmädchen  Fabio Volo - Einfach losfahren Alex Woods - Das unerhörte Leben Robert Seethaler - Ein ganzes Leben John Niven - Gott bewahre Roko Schamoni - Sternstunden der Bedeutungslosigkeit  Patrick Ness - Sieben Minuten nach Mitternacht Sergio Bambaren - Der Traum des Leuchtturmwärters Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - Der kleine Prinz Rupi Kaur - Milk and Honey

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Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf

Sand by Wolfgang Herrndorf #ComingSoon #Translation #HistoricFiction #WeNeedDiverseReads @nyrbclassics

Wolfgang Herndorf’s work comes to the blog today with an upcoming release – a mix of historic fiction and thriller/suspense, set in the era of the 1972 Munich Olympics and thereafter, and told in multiple perspectives over many timelines is the challenging book of the summer. Please read on for my review of

Sand

Told in multiple voices in short chapters, each presenting a piece of the story and…

[brookfieldteens]

This week's staff pick is Why We Took the Car by Wolfgang Herrndorf.

Mike Klingenberg isn’t exactly what you’d call one of the cool kids at his school. For one, he doesn’t have many friends. (Okay, zero friends.) And everyone laughs when he has to read his essays out loud in class. (Not in a good way.) And he’s never, ever invited to parties– especially not the party of the year, thrown by the gorgeous Tatiana.

Andrej Tschichatshow, a.k.a. Tschick (not even the teachers can pronounce his name), is new in school, and a whole different kind of unpopular. He always looks like he’s just been in a fight, he sleeps through nearly every class, and his clothes are a tragedy.

But one day Tschick shows up at Mike’s house out of the blue. Turns out he wasn’t invited to Tatiana’s party either, and he’s ready to do something about it. Forget the popular kids: Together, Mike and Tschick are heading out on a road trip across Germany. No parents, no map, no destination. Will they get hopelessly lost in the middle of nowhere? Probably. Will they make bad decisions, meet some crazy people, and get into trouble? Definitely. But will anyone every call them boring again?

Not a chance.

*Summary taken from inside flap.

[polarfuechsin]

R.I.P Wolfgang Herrndorf

Wir verdanken ihm unter anderem eines der tollsten Jugendbücher der letzten Jahre und damit auch die Vorlage für eine der schönsten Produktionen der letzten Spielzeit. Nun ist er nach langer Krankheit gestorben. Nicht überraschend, aber trotzdem traurig.