Books

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Sorry for spamming everyone's Friends page like that, I guess backdating this will be best so you aren't knocked out by the pics. I forgot about the challenge thing. Again. Let's see which books I can remember...

21.

Fünfzig Gedichte des Expressionismus, selected by Dietrich Bode.
Great poems in there, I instantly fell in love with a few poets, too. It's nice reading German poetry again.
They were a much-treasured present from Crocky!

20.

The Night Watch, by Sarah Waters.
Booker nominee set in 1940ies London centred around a group of very lovable Londoners, carefully drawn with sympathy and sensitivity by the author, great locations with very vivid descriptions that depict the horror of the war but also the realities of every-day life and lesbian couples more realistic than I have ever seen.

19.

The Gay Teen, ed. Gerald Unks.
An interesting text book on facts and figures of Gay teens and their problems with heterosexualism at US Highschools. Interesting read, but also pretty devastating at times.

18.

Blood, Bread and Poetry by Adrienne Rich.
I fangirl her. Her essays are striking, alarming, and easy to read. It is scary that what she said back in the 1980ies still did not really sink in in the minds (eg. the fact that homosexuality is not a lifestyle, who would have thought).

17.

Herland, by Charlotte Perkins Gilman.
Great book, although some of the properties she outlines for her females-only utopia are a bit unrealistic to my eyes. Still, it was fun to read and interesting.

16.
 

Love that dog, by Sharon Creech.
Great self-proclaimed novel about a boy and his introduction to free verse poetry, very sweet. It consists entirely of the poems of a boy called Jack who is writing the poems instructed by his teacher Miss Stretchberry. Although he is more than unwilling at first, he comes to enjoy writing poems more and more and is able to come to express a traumatic event through his poems.

Oh, I forgot:

15.
 

Feet of Clay by Terry Pratchett.
One of my favourite Discworld novels ever. I adore the Watch series, and Vetinari even more.