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I finished book 1 ( Northern Lights/ The Golden Compass ) and I did really enjoy it. Intriguing world-building, rich imagination, highly interesting philosophy and many many secrets to be revealed. The characters are nicely drawn and there is no recoiling romance that might put you off the story.

then I went on to read the 2nd book ( The Subtle Knife ) and I finished it too and was even more impressed and intrigued and astonished by the talent that this author possesses to place such a complex philosophical theory in a children's book. amazing and quite refreshing. and they say Harry Potter would be a threat to the church. HA, what will they make of the Golden Compass that openly condemns the Magisterium (read: Church) to be all cause and origin of EVIL or approving of evil and holding back knowledge about the nature of the world or doing cruel experiments on children. (and you might have heard that they even burned such natural creatures as witches...)? as I said: intriguing.

now I will start the 3rd book ( The Amber Spyglass ) and I am very curious how it all will unfurl. [EDIT: oh no! oh woe! *sigh sob sob sigh* I knew this would happen. but why oh why so soon?!?! -

he killed of the cute one of the two gay angels! how could he?! curel, cruel Philip!]

and maybe I will finally have to read Milton's Lost Paradise .

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package

yet again the postman awoke me at 7:35 a.m. if I did get an amazon-package everyday he could be my very personal human alarm-clock. but alas I don't have to get up that early, which is why I tend to greet mr. postman wearing nothing but my quickly whipped on dressing gown and a bleary-eyed expression... poor lad, but he doesn't seem to mind that. how can he be so cheerful that early in the morning anyway?

on to the book. (I orderd more than one but for some strange reason they split up the package so that I got one today and will get the next one (four books) tomorrow, so my guess is I'll be woken again at 7:35, I could also get up at 7:00 a.m. and surprise him with being fully awake and maybe even some smell of freshly brewed coffee... but the way I know myself and my love for sleeping I probably won't do that...)

It's German (my first language btw., but I'm not German)



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remembering a year of read books here

the year is closing in and I've been lazy even with noting which book I read when and how many I actually read. at least I think I've noted the dates in the books (1st page: date started, last page: date finished, it's as easy as that). so I can search all those tomes of lore and wisdom now for those dates and make my list complete. am curious if I actually read 50 books this year. have to make sure that I WILL keep an eye on my reading during 2008. makes the remembering so much easier and I need a little more awareness for books I read for university. should even force myself to write summaries, even if short and make sense to me only...

maybe I'll post the list here, together with the lists from 2000 up to now.

on another note: ordered the following (amazon.de) and looking very much forward to read them:

• Wörterbuch der Burgen, Schlösser und Festungen - Horst W. Böhme
  
• Burgenkunde - Otto Piper
  
• Die Welt des Mittelalters. Barbaren, Ketzer und Artisten - Arno Borst
  
• Lebensformen im Mittelalter - Arno Borst

YAY for the Middle Ages!