Tag Archives: German

Things That Are Making Me Happy This Week

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01. Friday evening at Slow Poke cocktail bar (and then dinner afterwards at Pincho Disco). The view from Slow Poke toward Kew is one that you don’t get often. And, the Slow Poke Sling cocktail was exceptional. Also, is it crazy to have made travel plans for 2028?! Because my friend and I have… Continue reading →

The Happiest Things from Things That Are Making Me Happy

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It’s hard to pick out the happiest of happy things but this is my list of 2025 highlights (excluding books – more on those later – and holidays, and I had some amazing ones this year, notably Hobart, Cambodia, New Zealand, and my sinkholes tour). Continue reading →

November 2025 happened… new to the TBR stack

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All year I show restraint and then November happens – Nonfiction November, Novellas in November, and German Literature Month – it usually means my TBR stack grows, although this year I have been a little more restrained. Continue reading →

German Literature Month XV

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Guten Abend!

Yes, the calendar has just flipped into October but I’m fairly sure that other readers are doing what I’m doing… that is, making November reading plans. We have to be strategic given that it’s German Literature Month, Novella November and Nonfiction November! Continue reading →

Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands by Judith Schalansky

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What a delight! Judith Schalansky’s Pocket Atlas of Remote Islands is a curious little book. A bit bigger than ‘pocket size’ (or maybe my pockets are too small….), a striking use of colour (bright orange paired with aqua blue fore-edges), and crammed with fascinating facts about islands that are essentially dots on a world map. Continue reading →