#reading plans

could you please tell me about your book plans for the autumn? 😊🍁 maybe you will be rereading your favourites or you have added some new books you are looking forward to read? 😁

Dear Daria, thank you for this ask! 📚

I just finished the book 'Loving John', written by May Pang about her relationship to John Lennon, which was quite interesting and sobering at the same time. Now I started reading 'Die Puppe' (original: 'Lalka'/'The doll') by Bolesław Prus, a polish classic which received an updated German translation recently.

It's quite long, so I will me occupied for a while with it 😅

Apart from this, I haven't actively decided yet. My mood shifts a lot currently - I listen to medieval music and think "Oh god, I need to read a historical book!", then I see the Game of Thrones DVDs on the shelf and think "I could reread the books!", then again I listen to some 60's music and think "I really should start the Janis Joplin biography, or maybe ask my mom for some Beatles books?", so yeah. Plans all over the place.

But I anticipate to dive into these in the near future (beware, the list flipflops between sophisticated literature and romantic entertainment, and I love both):

I bought Anton Hiersche's (Paul's father) book 'Wie ein Traum verloren wurde: Erinnerungen eines Slawisten' which I do look forward too.

'King of Sloth', the fourth book in the 'King of Sins' series by Ana Huang. Maybe, if I'm intrigued enough, I'll continue with 'King of Envy'.

just keep reading the 'Black Dagger Brotherhood' vampire series - 'Lover Enshrined' would be next, and I'll probably manage to read the one after that, 'Lover Avenged' this year as well, since once I'm in reading mode in this series, I can barely stop. It's so addicting.

'Der Eiserne Gustav' by Hans Fallada, an older and very important German classic.

Here are some classics I'd like to get to in the next few years:

Fiction:

William S. Burroughs: Queer

John Steinbeck: Cannery Row

Kaffka Margit: Hangyaboly (Hungarian)

E.M. Forster: Maurice

Umberto Eco: The Foucault Pendulum

Virginia Woolf: To the Lighthouse

Toni Morrison: Sula

Kate Chopin: The Awakening

Louisa May Alcott: The Awakening

Jack Kerouac: Piers of the Homeless Night

Non-fiction:

Maya Angelou: I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings

Marx & Engels: The Communist Manifesto

Nietzsche: Why I Am so Clever

Michael Malay: Late Night

Dimitris Xygalatas: Ritual

Hannah Arendt: On Violence

Paulo Freire: Pedagogy of the Opressed

Bibó István: A Kelet-Európai kisállamok nyomorúsága (Hungarian)

Henri Bergson: Laughter

Kant: Perpetual Peace

Poetry and Plays:

Allen Ginsberg: Howl, Kaddish and Other Poems

Bernard Shaw: Plays Unpleasent

Claire Boothe Luce: The Women

Caryl Churchill: Top Girls

Beckett: Waiting for Godot

Kushner: Angels in America

Milton: Paradise

Rimbaud: A Season in Hell

Jean Toomer: Cane