I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea As if tugged by an invisible thread, I stroll the same old streets—under linden and chestnut trees, past potholes where water or fallen autumn leaves used to gather and kids used to splash and stom…

ICYMI My first review of 2026 is one of the last books I finished in 2025. Originally intended for #GermanLitMonth but life got in the way.

I’m often out of step with the times: An Instinctive Feeling of Innocence by Dana Grigorcea roughghosts.com/2026/01/05/i...

Never got around to doing this during #GermanLitMonth, but here's a family photo of my Christa Wolf collection - the link will take you to all my reviews, too :)
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Slander, lies and guilt: #GermanLitMonth Untitled image by Czech artist Jaromír Funke from the ‘Cyklu Cas Trva’ / ‘Time Persists’ series (1932). The Trial by Franz Kafka. Der Prozess (1925) translated and with an introduction by Idris Pa…

My belated review of 'The Trial by Franz Kafka / 'Der Prozess' (1925) for #GermanLitMonth #booksky
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November 2025 Wrap-Up – German Literature Month November, as always, was dominated by my German Literature Month reading, but while that’s been the case for over a decade now, this edition of GLM was a little different.  Having jumped in t…

My monthly wrap-up post for November is out, rounding up all my #GermanLitMonth reviews :)
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And Never Said a Word And Never Said a Word is an early novel by Heinrich Böll published in 1953. It was translated quickly into English in 1955 (as Acquainted with the Night), but the translation quoted here is by Leil…

My final review for #GermanLitMonth is an early Heinrich Boll novel, And Never Said a Word (translated by Leila Vennewitz):
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‘Leibhaftig’ (‘In the Flesh’) by Christa Wolf (Review) When it came to weighing up choices for German Literature Month’s GDR Week, there was one writer I couldn’t look past, particularly as she’s the undoubted queen of my GLM reading …

Rounding off this year's #GermanLitMonth reviews, all hail the undisputed Queen of GLM, Christa Wolf - see my review of 'Leibhaftig' ('In the Flesh') here :)
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…

The last review, on the Gereon Rath series has me especially intrigued. The idea of the books taking place in 1930s is increasingly speaking all too well to the current moment... #booksky

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Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm two! one two  – one two  –  three! .        two one two three  –   four .       two “a recounting,” the first number poem you encounter in Gerhard Rühm’s The Folded Clock, opens with a lengthy note…

Counting, accounting and recounting: The Folded Clock by Gerhard Rühm, translated by Alexander Booth @wordkunst.bsky.social @twistedspoon.bsky.social #GermanLitMonth
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Our Conquest Gert Hofmann’s novel Our Conquest remains some of the earliest of his work we have in English, originally published in 1984 and translated by Christopher Middleton in 1991. Its focus is one we see …

For #GermanLitMonth, a writer who deserves more attention, Gert Hofmann, and his novel, Our Conquest, exploring the end of the second world war through the eyes of a child:
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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…

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#GermanLitMonth: Some Easy Reads and a Modern Classic I’ve been rather lazy and self-indulgent and, instead of following the reading themes suggested by Tony and Caroline for #GermanLitMonth, I’ve led a completely unplanned life. I’v…

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‘Helden wie wir’ (‘Heroes Like Us’) by Thomas Brussig (Review) It’s hard to believe, but we’re already in the final week of German Literature Month, and after some surprisingly fun adventures with Thomas Mann, it’s time to move onto the final…

Another racy cover for #GermanLitMonth, but this time the book is more sordid than erotic - how a self-proclaimed pervert brought down the Berlin Wall in Thomas Brussig's 'Helden wie wir' ('Heroes Like Us') :) tonysreadinglist.wordpress.com/2025/11/24/h...

German Lit Month 2025-Mann vom Meer-Thomas Mann, Man of the Sea, by Volker Weidermann. Here I am again, reading around the great Thomas Mann, rather than tackling the work itself. But I couldn’t resist this book, recommended by danares.mag-blog, as I very much enjoyed Volker Weiderma…

Week 3 of #GermanLitMonth and I'm reading Volker Weidermann on Thomas Mann: peakreads.wordpress.com/2025/11/20/m...

‘Unordnung und frühes Leid’ (‘Disorder and Early Suffering’) by Thomas Mann (Review) Keen-eyed readers may have noticed that my first contribution to Thomas Mann Week for this year’s German Literature Month, a look at the delightful Herr und Hund (A Man and His Dog), actually…

More Mann for #GermanLitMonth today, with the rest of the stories from 'Unordnung und frühes Leid' ('Disorder and Early Suffering') - see what I made of them at the usual place :)
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Woman in the Pillory The work of Brigitte Reimann, an East German writer who published for twenty years between 1953 and her early death in 1973, was largely unknown in the English-speaking world until the translation …

My latest #GermanLitMonth review is the newly translated Woman in the Pillory (by Lucy Jones) from East German author Brigitte Reimann, about a love affair between a German woman and a Russian POW.
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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…

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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…

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#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper Peter Schneider: Der Mauerspringer (The Wall Jumper), 1982 I am once again doing double duty with this German novella (translated into English by Leigh Harfey) for the two reading challenges this m…

#GermanLitMonth and #NovNov25: The Wall Jumper - yet another book about my new hometown
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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann) Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…

"It’s warm and we’re hungry. We can’t leave, because we can’t pay the hotel bill. We can’t enter any other country, but we can’t stay here either. Perhaps we’ll be thrown into prison, and then we’ll be fed." #BookSky 💙📚 #GermanLitMonth

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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann) Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…

New on the blog this week, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).

A striking coming-of-age story of exile in 1930s Europe, told through an engaging narrative voice. #GermanLitMonth #BookSky 💙📚

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Child of All Nations by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann) Born in Berlin in 1905, the German writer Irmgard Keun rose to prominence in the early 1930s with her striking novels Gilgi, One of Us (1931) and The Artificial Silk Girl (1932), both of which I lo…

New on the blog today, I've written about CHILD OF ALL NATIONS by Irmgard Keun (tr. Michael Hofmann).

An eye-opening window into the uncertain existence of a family of German refugees, forced to leave their homeland for political reasons. #GermanLitMonth 💙📚

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German Lit Month 2025- Week 3- Thomas Mann. Der Zauberberg, die ganze Geschichte by Norman Ohler. It feels like Thomas Mann has been on my mind this whole past year—not surprisingly, as 2025 is the 150th anniversary since his birth, and readers have been looking again at the man and his work. F…

It's Thomas Mann week in #germanlitmonth and I've read Norman Ohler's book on 'The Magic Mountain'

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Buddenbrooks: A Literary Conversation Part One I have always wanted to offer Buddenbrooks as a readalong during German Literature Month (GLM) but a number of regular GLM participants have already read it on their own. After visiting the Buddenb…

With the start of Thomas Mann week tomorrow for this year's #GermanLitMonth, I was reminded of a four-part discussion I had with @LizzySiddal in 2017 about his novel 'Buddenbrooks' - we had a lot to say!
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The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. (1997) French title: Les aventures de Ruben Jablonski. Translated by Chantal Philippe. Edgar Hilsenrath (1926-2018) was a German-Jewish writer…

The Adventures of Ruben Jablonski by Edgar Hilsenrath. #GermanLitMonth bookaroundthecorner.com/2025/11/09/t...

A Child of Our Time by Ödön Von Horváth – Chilling #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25 A Child of Our Time by Ödön von Horváth. (1938) French title: Un fils de notre temps. Translated by Rémy Lambrechts. Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) was a Hungarian writer who wrote in German and died…

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#GermanLitMonth: Volker Kutscher’s Lunapark A hefty book of 556 pages, so most certainly not a novella, but the sixth in the Gereon Rath crime fiction series, a part of them having been adapted for TV in the internationally successful Babylo…

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#GermanLitMonth: Volker Kutscher’s Lunapark A hefty book of 556 pages, so most certainly not a novella, but the sixth in the Gereon Rath crime fiction series, a part of them having been adapted for TV in the internationally successful Babylo…

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Need some cheering up for #GermanLitMonth? Here's Thomas Bernhard to brighten up your day :)

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A Child of Our Time by Ödön Von Horváth – Chilling #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25 A Child of Our Time by Ödön von Horváth. (1938) French title: Un fils de notre temps. Translated by Rémy Lambrechts. Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) was a Hungarian writer who wrote in German and died…

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A Child of Our Time by Ödön Von Horváth – #GermanLitMonth #NovNov25 A Child of Our Time by Ödön von Horváth. (1938) French title: Un fils de notre temps. Translated by Rémy Lambrechts. Ödön von Horváth (1901-1938) was a Hungarian writer who wrote in German and died…

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