I added you back! I actually don’t know how to use Goodreads as they probably intended it to be used, but it’s linked to my Kindle.
So sometimes at the end of a book, it’ll prompt me to give a rating, and I will. (For some reason, I didn’t see my most recent favorite books when I went on there to connect with you.) All these social media sites change so fast and I don’t keep up very well.
Woo-Hoo!! I just use it to keep track of what I’ve read otherwise I’d probably read the same book three times just thinking the “story sounds familiar” and not realizing I’d already read it… I’m hopeless. LOL
Oh that’s a sign you’re an avid reader! I’m in awe of y’all! 
Don’t be too impressed. I listen to audiobooks and am just really forgetful! 
I couldn’t figure out how to make Goodreads work with audiobooks so I gave up years ago… lol
I don’t record them as audiobooks - just the title. lol
Paul Watzlawick - “Anleitung zum Unglücklichsein” (a guide to being unhappy)
Timur Vermes - “Er ist wieder da” (He [Hitler] is back)
Is “Er ist wieder da” a sequal to “Heil Honey I’m Home!”
Just finished this one.
Re-reading The Rook and Stiletto so I can read the new one in the series (which is sort of a prequel, separate story).
This was made into a TV series. I watched the trailer and it looks like they ruined it, as they often do, so I’ll skip it. But the first two books are pure fun.
Summary of The Rook:
"Myfanwy Thomas awakens in a London park surrounded by dead bodies. With her memory gone, she must trust the instructions left by her former self in order to survive. She quickly learns that she is a Rook, a high-level operative in a secret agency that protects the world from supernatural threats. But there is a mole inside the organization, and this person wants her dead.
Battling to save herself, Myfanwy will encounter a person with four bodies, a woman who can enter her dreams, children transformed into deadly fighters, and terrifyingly vast conspiracy.
Suspenseful and hilarious, The Rook is an outrageously imaginative thriller for readers who like their espionage with a dollop of purple slime."
What did you think?
It was good. I am not big on a lot characters and jumping timelines but I enjoyed it. Thanks! Around the half way point I started drifting off, then it picked up again. I won’t write any spoilers but the ending was crazy.
Not currently reading but Anthony Horowitz’s mystery books - the Susan Ryeland series and the Hawthorne & Horowitz series are some of the best mysteries that I’ve read if anyone’s into that genre.
Currently making my way through Pol Pot: Anatomy of a Nightmare by Philip Short, and Robert Fagles’ translation of The Aeneid. Both are for school. Pol Pot is pretty interesting - I’m learning a lot about a part of history that doesn’t get covered very often. The Aeneid is “just” a Roman rip-off of The Odyssey and I can’t tell which is better.
I find myself enjoying newer (and let’s be honest, often easier and more enjoyable) books more, like Horowitz’ stuff, but am trying to read more of the “classics,” that everyone’s heard of but rarely reads.
Right??? I gave this one 4 stars. The end was a wild ride. Lol!
The latest and greatest…
You Must Remember This by Kat Rosenfield
The Accident by Gillian Jackson
Romantic Comedy by Curtis Sittenfeld
Mastering the Art of French Murder by Colleen Cambridge
Mary Jane by Jessica Anya Blau
Current listen:
The Only Survivors by Megan Miranda
Well, I placed the only two books they have on your list OnHold but each say… several months wait 
The last time I did that they never came up. Never even showed where I put them on hold.
I just got a notification today for the CJ Box I had on hold and it was not the audiobook. I never select book books…lol
I am “re-reading” Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follet an astonishing 41 hours long
Wow, I haven’t posted here in a while. But that’s mostly because I was reading German books that almost no one here would know. Starting to read some English books again though, such as a large collection of Carl Sandburg’s poems. And I am starting to read the Russian translation of The Little Prince, which I’ve actually never read before even in English.
This year I’m aiming to read a specific number of pages rather than number of books, definitely leaning toward reading longer works. I like it so far but think I’m a little behind. 
I’m curious
The plague - by Albert Camus.
Great read if you pay attention to detail.
There are a lot. I’d have to go back and look, but I can now say without a doubt that Nino Haratischwili is one of my favorite authors of all-time. Her books stand out the most to me among all the books I’ve read in German.
