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The Book Review: “Just Kids” by Patti Smith

“There were days, rainy gray days, when the streets of Brooklyn were worthy of a photograph, every window the lens of a Leica, the view grainy and immoble. We gathered our colored pencils and sheets of paper and drew like wild, feral children into the…

The Book Review: “Dry” by Augusten Burroughs.

“So that’s what I’m here to become. And suddenly, this word fills me with a brand of sadness I haven’t felt since childhood. The kind of sadness you feel at the end of summer. When the fireflies are gone, the ponds have dried up and…

Book Review: “The Colossus of New York” by Colson Whitehead.

“No matter how long you have been here, you are a New Yorker the first time you say, That used to be Munsey’s, or That used used to be the Tic Toc Lounge. You start building your private New York the first time you lay…

The Book Review: “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki” by Haruki Murakami

The Book Review: “Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki” by Haruki Murakami

“Some things in life are too complicated to explain in any language” – Haruki Murakami.  Murakami – I have read three books by him so far (this, this and that) and I must say I am impressed with “Colorless Tsukuro Tazaki” because it is simply…

The Book Review: “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott

The Book Review: “Bird by Bird” by Anne Lamott

“Writing a novel is like driving a car at night. You can see only as far as your headlights, but you can make the whole trip that way.” –  E.L. Doctorow I love to write. English is not my first language but reading a lot…

The Book Review: “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak.

The Book Review: “Where the Wild Things are” by Maurice Sendak.

“Then from far away across the world he smelled good things to eat, so he gave up being king of the wild things.”  – Maurice Sendak, Where the Wild Things Are [“Wo die Wilden Kerle wohnen” – the German translation of the book]  I heard about…

On Why reading to your child is important

On Why reading to your child is important

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” – Albert Einstein I wrote an article on reading where I described my son’s favorite book and my passion for reading…

The Book Review: “Never can Say Goodbye”  – Sari Botton and others

The Book Review: “Never can Say Goodbye” – Sari Botton and others

“The city seen from the Queensboro Bridge is always the city seen for the first time, in its first wild promise of all the mystery and beauty in the world.” –  F. Scott Fitzgerald Okay, I have to admit it. I love New York. I…

The Book Review: Charles Bukowski’s “The Bell Tolls for No One”

The Book Review: Charles Bukowski’s “The Bell Tolls for No One”

“The free soul is rare, but you know it when you see it – basically because you feel good, very good, when you are near or with them.” – Charles Bukowski As a Bukowski-fan I have to write a review about the latest book that has…

On STRAND Bookstore.

On STRAND Bookstore.

I have seen many bookstores all over the world but none of them comes close to The Strand Bookstore. I usually make it my goal wherever I am in this beautiful world to find the bookstores in town and just browse along. When I just moved…



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