[Read] Astrid Lindgren's War Diaries

One to check off the readathon list! :-)

Astrid Lindgren: "Die Menschheit hat den Verstand verloren. Tagebücher 1939-1945" :


I'm not into rating stuff like autobiographies, memoirs, letters or diaries. At least, I'm mostly not comfortable doing it. Because it always feels like rating someone's life...

Anyway. This was a very interesting, but quite short read. I haven't found out so far, how stronly these diaries were edited before publishing. At some points it felt like huge chunks were missing, at others it felt like every single bit was included. But of course that is hard to tell with diaries again.
When I started this, I admit I was expecting much more personal diaries from Lindgren, in the beginning it felt a bit like she was really just re-telling the news of the time. On the other hand that quickly grew interesting, too. And I must say I enjoyed listening to this audio version a lot.
Eva Mattes unsurprisingly is a great narrator and probably perfect to be Lindgren's voice. (She has been Pippi Longstocking's German voice when that was on TV.)

I also had a close look at the hardcover edition of the book and must say that it is really exceptionally well done and beautiful. It contains a lot of facsimiles of pages from her journals as well as facsimiles of the endpapers of her note books to seperate the years in the hardcover edition.

Dewey's Read-A-Thon - TBR

Super late to join in, but I actually did start reading with the start time of the readathon - inadvertently, that is.

Check out: Dewey's 24-Hour Readathon

For the first hour I read "Imzadi". Then took a 2 hour breakfast break. :)

Here's the rest of my TBR:

I want to finish Astrid Lindgren's War Diaries (audio book) as well as "Remarkable Creatures" (audio) by Tracy Chevalier, and I also hope to finish "Imzadi". So I'll be using this readathon to just finish books I'm currently reading.

Other than that I want to read at least two short stories, continue with "City of Illusion" by Ursula K. LeGuin, if not also finish it. And start "The Traitor Baru Cormorant" by Seth Dickinson.

And that feels pretty ambitious for me.