Friday, December 16, 2011

some of the books I read in 2007/2008 (a list - non-comprehensive)

- Anita Shreve: The Last Time They Met

- Helge Timmerberg: Tiger fressen keine Yogis (Stories von unterwegs) [ich hatte von dem Buch/Autor schon vorher gehört/gelesen, aber erst nach einem Auftritt von ihm bei TV Total lieh ich mir dieses Buch in der UB/Universitätsbibliothek aus]

- Reto U. Schneider: Das Buch der verrückten Experimente

- Alexander von Schönburg: Die Kunst des stilvollen Verarmens [hat mir außerordentlich gut gefallen]

- Tucker Max: I Hope They Serve Beer in Hell (swapped, sold)

- Tiziano Terzani: Fliegen ohne Flügel (nachdem ich dieses Buch [Reiseberichte] gelesen hatte, stand für mich fest, dass ich mal für längere Zeit nach Indien will]

- Norbert Mappes-Niediek: BALKAN-MAFIA. Staaten in der Hand des Verbrechens - eine Gefahr für Europa

- Luis Alberto Urrea: The Devil's Highway - A True Story (bookwapper = bs from now on)

Assia Djebar: Das verlorene Wort (bought, then swapped)

- James Hamilton-Paterson: Cooking with Fernet Branca (bs)

- Tim Moore: Do Not Pass Go (bs)

- Stephen Fry: Moab Is My Washpot (bs)

- Nick Hornby: A Long Way Down

- John Irving: Until I Find You

- Norman Mailer: Tough Guys Don't Dance

- Anne Tyler: A Patchwork Planet

- Anne Tyler: The Accidental Tourist

- T. Coraghessan Boyle: Talk, Talk

- T. C. Boyle: The Tortilla Curtain

- Michael Ebmeyer: Gebrauchsanweisung für Katalonien

- Yu-Chien Kuan & Petra Häring-Kuan: Der China-Knigge: Eine Gebrauchsanweisung für das Reich der Mitte

- Terry Eagleton: The Truth about the Irish

- Willy Messmer: Französischer Srachhumor

- Till Bastian: 55 Gründe, mit den USA nicht solidarisch zu sein - und schon gar nicht bedingungslos

- Joe Bennett: A Land of Two Halves: An Accidental Tour of New Zealand (bookswapper)

- Peter Mayle: Encore Provence (bs)

- Stephen Clarke: Talk to the Snail - Ten Commandments for Understanding the French (bookswapper)

-Stephen Clarke: Merde Actually (bs)

- Stephen Clarke: A Year in the Merde

- Bill Bryson: The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid - Travels Through My Childhood (booswapper)

- A Place in the World Called Paris (collection of short stories; bookswapper)

- Louis Sachar: Holes (bookswapper)

- Tim Brookes: A Hell of a Place to Lose a Cow: An American Hitchhiking Odyssey (bs)

- Michael Morre: Downsize This! (bs)

- Clive Francis: There's Nothing like a Dane- The Lighter Side of Hamlet (bs)

- John Updike: Terrorist (buchticket, weitergetauscht = habe ich also nicht mehr)

- Sarah MacDonald: HOLY COW - An Indian Adventure (I donated this book to the local high school in 2010)

- Charles Bock: Beautiful Children (donated to a HS in 2010)

- Derek Lambert: Spanish Lessons (donated it to the local HS in 2010)

- Tim Cahill: Hold the Enlightenment (donated to HS)

- Howard Tomb: The Wicked Traveler

- John Scalzi: Book of the Dumb

- Darwin Awards 2 [Wendy Nortcutt??] (I donated this book to a local HS)

- Imogen Edwards-Jones: Beach Babylon

- Rakin: The Brightonomicon (donated)

- Marina Lewycka: A Short History of Tractors in Ukrainian (sold or swapped)

- A.M. Homes: This Book Will Save Your Life (swapped or sold)

- Piers Morgan: Don't You Know Who I Am?

- Steve Lowe & Alan McArthur: Is It Just Me or Is Everything Shit?

QUEER:
- David Sedaris: Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (bookswapper, don't have it anymore)
- Norah Vincent: Self-Made Man (drag, trans*)

two of the movies I watched on DVD in 2007:
- SIAM SUNSET
- SCHOOL for SEDUCTION

books I got/bought etc. in 2007/2008 but didn't read:
- The World According to Clarkson (swapped or sold???)
- John Fisher: Tommy Cooper (I think I still have it)
- Michael Simkins: What's My Motivation

No comments:

Post a Comment