indeed I feel this way^^
I hope we don't have to read too much in German lessons and also not too soon

since I don't have internet connection yet in my room here in Spain... and until Wednesday there will be none... and I don't know if I can use it on Wednesday...
well I'll be reading a lot during the next time... and I get kinda dizzy from reading this much.
But the book I'm reading is really interesting... I've finished the first part which plays in India, and I'm now continuing with Arabia.

Hopefully I get to buy some good German books here ^^..... I want to have something German, since there are only Spanish tv-channels

@ Ophellia.... well the book I'm reading is in German.... but the author's not German.... so I thought there's also an English edition.... and I searched for it, to get the English title.... but I didn't found an English version..... I think it's because the author speaks German.... and has lived in Germany for quite a while....
but I'll continue my search

XD.... you're so lucky that you can take classes in Japanese... I have to learn everything for myself
but sure it makes fun

right now im reading the golden compass by pullman (weird name btw)

i guess there should be a movie about this book soon ... maybe it already is out in usa. im absolutely in this book right now and bought all three volumes because the german edition was borrowed. now im reading the english edtition....


i need a little break from dahl...

@ Ophellia..... so... as I promised I continued to search for the book, and I found some sites... first of all:
wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilija_Trojanow .... where they put an English title to the book - it's The Collector of Worlds
and then this one: http://www.signandsight.com/features/690.html ..... it's a translated newspaper article - so that you have now some information about the content in English.
and here an interview with him... http://www.qantara.de/webcom/show_article.php/_c-310/_nr-324/i.html?PHPSESSID=5 ...why he chose to write in German, and about the book itself

but... nothing more... I don't think that there's an English version of the book yet .... but since it is very succesfull in Germany, I think it will be translated.... I also found somewhere the note "has not yet been translated"... so if you're really interested in the book after reading the links above, you may just have to wait a little bit more
ehm..... when you're now wondering how come she searched so much and put the information in here..... well that's because of my studies..........

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anyone ever read something by Paul Auster??... I just bought a book by him a few days ago.....

no i dont know him ...

right now im more into magazines like "Die Zeit". i couldnt read any more "bild" and "morgenpost" because about 3/4 of those two are stupid comments which simply arent true. and i have to pass the time at school somehow. we have a horrible long break between our first 4 leasons and the last four. you dont know how long 45 minutes can be T___T

elsewhere, im reading my latest package of manga ( i guess 25 manga)
im getting closer to the 1500 scale

Thank you very much jeryn for the book info. I'll keep my eyes on that one XD Hopefully it would get translated to english. And ahhah atleast your studies are interesting. Mine??? I have to spend hours in the lab just to study the chemical reactions. It gets tiring after a while and dangerous.

T_____T I have to read a Spanish drama right now... from the 18th century, and it's really hard to understand - although it's already written in modern Spanish..... uhhh I don't wanna know how it would be in old Spanish >_>

but... that means that I can't continue with my book. I started the Africa part on Monday. And I love how it's written from two changing perspectives.
See Ophellia... my studies also have their negative parts

ehm... yeah let me count the books I'm reading right now ... I guess 5 or 6 is a good number here. i really should stop myself from buying books and maybe i should finish at least one from those 5-6 books T___T.
I know how you feel jeryn T___T I went to a book shop on friday and bought the latest Sergej Lukianenko book which got released in germany. why did i go to the book shop??? for three manga and i went outside with a 30 euro less T___T (sergej had cost me 15 euro)
but i will have plenty of time to read a lot of books while getting back home.

Still..I'm very envious of you guys!!! I dont mind reading at all, but it's writing that nagg me. That's why I dont major in social sciences eventhough I love reading. My school work is killing me now. I spend almost half of my day everyday in the lab, and when I'm not in the lab, all I do is calculations.

Wow jeryn 18th century spanish drama?? Its Sounds to me like a spanish shakespearan play with lost of metaphors, although it's a couple of century later. The only spanish book I have read is "Don Quixote" when I took spanish back in highschool.

Have you guys read "Tales of Gengi" ?? I'm thinking of reading it.

@ Ophellia...... well the Spanish drama is nothing like Shakespeare..... the language is easier - if you understand Spanish very good. But I had to look up soooo many words...
It doesn't have all the metaphors and stuff...

You've read Don Quijote?? Then you've read more than I have ...... I still need to read it for my studies, but the book is soooooooooo thick

and I don't know "Tales of Gengi", but just from the name it sounds interesting


....... I have to leave for university in half an hour...... I'd rather stay in bed..... too much "tinto de verano" yesterday XDDD"

About "Don quixote", the whole class read together every 15mins of the class for the whole year in my spanish class. We moved soo slowly, and sometimes we couldn't understand the story. But our teacher helped us out and explained everything. That's how I happened to read the whole book. hehehhe

I dont know much about "Tale of gengi" either, but my japanese teacher told us that it's one of the first written japanese literature, and it's written by a woman called Lady Murasaki. The original version, is in Hiragana entirely. It's about the love stories of this playboy "gengi" and how he gets involvedwith different women. I'm thinking of reading it to practice my hiragana. So, even if I dont understand what it means, I would be able to pronounce it right?

btw..have you guys heard of this korean manhwa called "Princess"?? It's freaking amazing. I'm very obssessed with it now. The art work is gorgeous, and the storyline is awesome!!! It's over 28 volumes and still on going. These are gorgeous some pictures!! check it out http://www.goddesspreia.net/galeria.htm

.... right now I'm experiencing one of these phases again where I can't find the motivation to read.......
strangely ..last week I was really swallowing a book so eagerly, I read 300 pages in two days, inbetween my university courses. And since then I haven't read anything..... not even the 80 small pages of another Spanish drama - which is a really fast reading..... but, I think I put all my motivation in that book last week. T______________T

Think I have to get over it with another Hemingway ^^

@ Ophellia: the manhwa looks quite good - not my favorite style of manga artwork, but it reminds me of that anime (think it was anime and not cartoon series) Lady Oscar - it looks so familiar
and the story sounds interesting.
Are you reading it in English?

i guess i cannot be cured ^^*

i just finished three books of christopher marzi who is a german author. i never thought that german authors can write such great stuff. christopher marzi has the ability to write something which is pure happiness and sadness at the same time. he uses a lot of stuff in his books. mostly legends of angels, fallen ones, vampires, gods and so on but he puts these things in another light. i dunno but his kind of writing is refreshing. because also the fantasy section suffered a lot of wannabe authors. TT___TT
dont get me wrong lord of the rings wasnt bad (but dont like it so much, not one of my favorite movies and books) but i dont like it when 100 authors are trying to write the history of the elves ^^* and the worst of all: when they are trying to copy tolkin's style TT___TT

and for the first phrase i bought a lot of books/manga today. tocchan couldnt avoid it... not that he even tried it ^^

hey Ophellia, no problem ^.~
the site you gave me looks really good... so much to read.... I just had a chance to take a glimpse today.
and I know if I make an account I won't get to read my books for uni.... right now I have to read two Spanish books of 250 pages each (one till Monday, the other one till Wednesday ). I hope that they are at least a little bit interesting.

@ steffi.... I'm envious!!! I want to buy some books or mangas too..... >.<
I miss the feeling of having a new book in my hands....... it's like an addiction

yeah new books are so great... i also love the smell XD

right now im working on making my book mounatin a bit smaller...
but i think this will not work out well until i visit a book store again T___T
im buying more books than i can read but, well, someday i will read each and every book i bought XD *im full of hope*

i also have to rescue my manga from my boyfriend because he wants to move with some of my manga T___T lacking of place T___T

um.... seems we ended up talking to each other steffi.... but anyway XD

book mountains tend to grow.... and you can't stop them.......

I finished reading another Spanish drama today, and it was ok, but the end was just toooooo unbelievable.
Don't know if you guys know the concept of deus ex machina... but the story was resolved on the last 2 pages by the apparition of a spirit... I mean come on!!!! there would have been so much potential for a real drama, but no.......

and now I'm going to read a book by an African author: "The joys of motherhood"......
...no ...... it's not about what the title says XDD

I still have to read two novels and two dramas for next week, for an exam, and I don't think I'll manage it, and therefore I'm going to search for some summaries
hope I find them...

lazy student....

book mountain gets bigger and bigger at least through xmas XD

I'm reading a lot of books at the same time ... AGAIN! I dunno about the english name of the books since most of the books im currently reading are from german authors like markus heitz (Kinder des Judas -->novel about vampires) and wolfgang hohlbein (Hexer novels).

i would have never expected that i would start reading hohlbein again since im not such a fan of his writing style. he is really successful in putting a story which is actually 200 pages long on 500 pages... but i simply loved his Hexer series years ago. ( i lent and read them 5 years ago)

im working on reading a bit more instead of sitting in front of my pc and working on subbed files.