Oooo-kay... so I'm back. Back to reading, back to blogging hopefully.
It's still Friday, I'm on vacation, I just (like 10 minutes ago) finished a book, so I thought a #FidayReads was in order.
So what am I reading?
I just finished "Der Gang vor die Hunde" aka "Fabian" or "Going to the Dogs: The Story of a moralist" by Erich Kästner, which is still as brillian as I remembered it and the new edition (the originally intended version) is even better. And I'll write a review about this one.
Two days ago I started "Ancillary Justice" as my designated beach book and that worked out well so far. Im a good hundred pages in and liking it so far. I have a kind of a hard time actually folling the who's who against whom of it, but that might still be coming and it doesn't take away from the reading experience of it.
For a non-fiction I'm reading "Selbst Denken" (German, obviously), a book about how astonishing it is that people do not like to use their brains and actually draw their own conclusions about stuff, but rather just follow whatever is told by media, social media, politics, what have you. I'm only in the first third of it and it reads very swiftly and I find myself constantly nodding along (bad sign with such a book? ;) ), but nothing really new so far. It feels like I'm not really the actually intended addressee (yes, I checked, there's just so many d's, s's and e's in that word), as I'm not leading a live of pure meaningless and mindless consumersim with three SUVs and a new set of clothes every month.
So I do not agree with all the conclusions and interpretations of facts by the author, but it still does contain interesting facts and food for thought.
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