Book List (since summer 2009)

Done Recently, was Good

Year 2011



- Abenteuer 1927 - Sommerfrische. 20 men and women went to a country house in 1927´s style. 6 weeks 24 hours a day they were master and servant and really lived like in 1927 (except for the camera-teams recording it all). Book was 1 euro, well written and with heaps of pics.

- Speak German - got it´s own post (s)

- Curiosa - illustrative and exhilarating facts from four centuries (from this region)

- Ein Mann für alte Fälle - Braunschweig-Krimi von Dirk Rühmann, who offers many more books as .pdf here - and for free, yay!!! Great book, though I´m actually not into thrillers. Just fun to know the places (it takes place in my town)- and great plots, too!

- Alles Löwe - oder was? (Kids write about our town, Braunschweig). Cute at times :-)

- Futter fürs Volk by Angeres, Hutter and Ribbe (Chow For The Folk) - so yikes, got an own post...

- Nachts als die Weihnachtsbäume kamen - Eckhard Schimpf (At Night When The Christmas Trees came). We had seemilgly nothing else but Hitler in history at school adn I´m pretty fed up with that subject (see here - it´s a "joke" but felt it´s the truth!). But Eckard Schimpf is a very, very good local author and so I read how a kid lived through war and post-war times (with said Christmas Trees being lights at night for the bombers to find the right targets).

- Dinge, die es nicht geben dürfte - Reinhard Habeck. A book on things that should not exist, like the Dendera light - fantasic book! Weird!

- Möderische Landschaft: Braunschweig Krimis (Butcherly landscapes: Braunschweig Thrillers) - some were good! I love knowing the real scenery :-)


- Je älter desto besser: Überraschende Erkenntnisse aus der Hirnforschung - Ernst Pöppel und Beatrice Wagner - a book on brain research/getting old(er). Many interesting aspects.

- Das Pinguin-Prizip (Our Iceberg Is Melting: Changing and Succeeding Under Any Conditions (Kotter, Our Iceberg is Melting)) - John Kotter, Holger Rathgeber
Good book, well done. Nothing much new but an entertaining read.

- Ich bin, was ich denke - Gerhard Leibold, a book on positive thinking.
Aww, well. Nearly 200 pages I summed up to 2 pages in word. Not sooo much info!

- Ohne jede Spur - Vermisst in Braunschweig (Without a trace - missing in Braunschweig) - the only crime thriller books I like - was good!

- Is Bill Cosby Right?: Or Has the Black Middle Class Lost Its Mind - Michael Eric Dyson. Never knew Cosby used such hard, blindfold words! The Super-Dad sure lost a lot of his magic through this book...

- Unglaublich aber wahr - Martin Plimmer
Unbelievable but true - fascinating ... after a very boring start! Sometimes it´s worth to stick to a book!

- Klinterklater. Typisch braunschweigisch - Eckhard Schimpf - (typically Braunschweig-language) - funny. Grew up with many of the words, though!

- Enjoy your life - Martha Beck - hmm. not so sure about this one. Some good ideas, though.

- Mein Braunschweig. Wie war das damals? - Eckhard Schimpf - very well written, interesting (own post)!

Last Man on the Moon - Eugene Cerna - a fantastic book!!!! Very well written, too! Worth the time!

- Spinat macht stark..... stimmt das denn? (Popular Fallacy ) - Paula Hardegen - funny & interesting.

Das Elch-Fest - an hommage for IKEA. Boooooring.


Die Relativitätstheorie. Einstein mal einfach - Heinrich Hemme
"Einstein the easy way" wasn´t that easy! Sad ending, too:
Certainly he hated Germany, being Jewish.
When he died on April 18th in 1955 at i:00 am he murmured something in German.
The Nurse certainly didn´t understand German, so Einstein´s last words are lost.

Weird his last words were in this language. And sad, too. So he could never get rid of his roots...

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Year 2010

Klartext. - Wolfgang Clement - For Germany going ahead.
TRUE book! Will someone listen to that man?! Please???

- Die Tagesschau erklärt die Welt - Sylke Tempel (The News-Channel "Tagesschau" explains the world). Interesting.


- Die Glücksformel: oder Wie die guten Gefühle entstehen (The formula of Happiness: Or how good feelings arise) - Stefan Klein - great book, very interesting!


- The Half-open door: Sixteen modern Australian women look at professional life and achievement - interesting.



Döner mit Braunkohl und Bier: Das Braunschweig-Buch - about my Town :-) true, funny, mean!



Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years - great, fantastic book! Amazing!

Sorry, wir haben die Landebahn verfehlt: Kurioses aus dem Cockpit (Sorry, we missed the airstrip) - Stephan Orth, Antje Blinda: funny.

Freddie Mercury - Peter Feestone (own post)

Grinding It Out - Tha Making of McDonald´s - Ray Kroc - book so great, got a post, too :-)

Born On A Blue Day - book so great, got a post :-)

Wasted - Marya Hornbacher - frightening. Revealing. Maybe my Mum sees the words also like really different... It is possible, obviously. Though... this is a book on eating disorder, my Mum has different issues.

- German Dream: Träumen für Deutschland - Wolfgang Blau, Alysa Selene - what do other Nations dream for/about Germany? I gave it to my SIL. Seldom I don´t finish a book. But this suggests, Germany is rich, rich and rich. We´re not, not the people like you and me!


- Long Walk to Freedom 2 - Nelson Mandela. Very, very interesting, definitively worth the read!

- Die Wunderwelt der Vierten Dimension (Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension) - Rudy Rucker. Pfffff... tough book, but very, very interesting, A-Square´s adventures are really another perspective! For a beginning, that is!!!

- Wer bin ich - und wenn ja wie viele?: Eine philosophische Reise (Who am I and if so, how many? A philosophical journey) - Richard David Precht. Very interesting, very well written, and with a pic of the author - sexy guy!!! :-)

- A Child Called ' It': One child's courage to survive - Dave Pelzer. Very disturbing. A true story, an autobiography. Two more books he wrote, maybe I read them, too. He survived and helps others now.


- Cosbyology: Essays and Observations from the Doctor of Comedy - Bill Cosby. Fun! Not his best book, if you ask me (I loved "Fatherhood" and "Time Flies"), but fun, too! Worth it!



- The Xenophobe's Guide to the Germans - Stefan Zeidenitz, Ben Barko. I read it so I can judge if the other books from this plot are true. Some parts in this one were!

- Kreatives Denken (Out of the box) - Rob Eastaway und Stephanie Ehrenschwendner. Nothing new...

- Tim Allen Laid Bare - Michael Arkush. Boy. Amazing story, from way down to making the best of it and getting to the top - in detail.
The books of Tim Allen Don´t stand too close to a naked man and I´m not really here are great, too!! Very good, fun and true! Wise!

- My Inventions: The Autobiography of Nikola Tesla - Nikola Tesla. Interesting.

- Love and Marriage - Bill Cosby. Was not such a good book. Fun was, though: I was standing in the elevator in Cuba with it and a guy asked me, "hey, Bill Cosby! Have you read "Fatherhood"?" - which I did, THAT was a very good book!

- Kein Tiger weit und breit - Petra Reski. Gossip. Fun, kinda.

- Was Frauen und Männer so im Kopf haben. Eine Reise durch das menschliche Gehirn ( A journey through our brain.) - Jeanne Rubner. Very interesting, so many explanations ;-)

- Stephen Hawkings Universum - David Filkin, interesting, hope I get it! ;-) - was good!

- Koalamond - Sabine Korsukewitz. Dude, the German author must´ve travelled Australia, she knows so many things! Except... she thinks you drink Fosters there ;-)



- My Left Foot - Christy Brown. Life can be cruel.


- Wenn ein Löwe sprechen könnte. If a Lion Could Talk: Animal Intelligence and the Evolution of Consciousness. - Stephen Budiansky. Very, very interesting, and rather scentific, too, but manageable.


- The Blind Years - Catherine Cookson. Was ok.

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Year 2009

- The Ghost - Danielle Steel. Though I don´t like fiction much this was a great book, touching story.


- An allem nagt der Zahn der Zeit: Vom Reiz der Vergänglichkeit (Way of All Flesh: A Celebration of Decay) - Midas Dekkers - Can say: Great book! Have a look at the English Version!


- Mord in Burg Dankwarderode (Murder in Castle Dankwarderode) - Thomas Ostwald (a crime-thriller in my town in 1300-something) - rather boring.


- Schmitz' Katze (Schmitz´s Cat) - Ralf Schmitz. Good book. I don´t want a cat anymore though, bu-huuu!


- Geisha of Gion - Mineko Iwasaki - interesting, but not well written in my opinion.


- Das Geschenk der Delphine - Kirsten Kuhnert - (amazing how Dolphins can cure children!)

- Das Licht ist mein Feind (Light is my enemy) - Antoinette Krawinkel - (sad, sad story (autobiography), but very well written)


- Die Seele meines Vaters (Give Me My Father's Body: The Life of Minik, the New York Eskimo) - Kenn Harper (not well written, weird (true) story about a lost guy)

- Ich bleibe wie ich bin. (I stay the way I am?) - Anne Zamberlan - Strange.

- Die Neckermanns - Thomas Veszelits - (interesting. Not well written)

- My Point...And I Do Have One - Ellen Degeneres - (I expected better!)

- Wilde Schwäne (Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China) - Jung Chang - (distressing but very well written)

- Mythos Harley - Brock Yates (interesting)

- Barack Obama - Ein amerikanischer Traum (An American Dream) - Barack Obama (Surprisingly honest, well written)

- Fatherhood - Bill Cosby (great Book!)

- Slave - Mende Nazer (Brave woman)

- Rise and Fall of a Yummy Mummy - Polly Williams (Strange book)

- Der verkaufte Patient (The sold patient/sick person?) - Renate Hartwig (sadly very true)

- Die 11 Geheimnisse des IKEA-Erfolgs (The 11 secrets of IKEA´s success) - Rüdiger Jungbluth (interesting!)