Was just about to say this, it's funny when they do that in translations. We also have 10 instead of 5 Game of Thrones books out in German.
Don't disrespect Midsomer Murders like that
Address Unknown by Kathrine Taylor, it's about the rise of the Nazis through an exchange of letters. I wonder why I never see people talking about it, I thought it was so good.
Address Unknown, actually written in the 30s I believe, it's a fictional correspondence between an American Jew and a German who used to be friends and business partners. It's very short but worth it.
Anything by Cornelia Funke, if they have English audiobook versions! My mother read them to me and my brother and we had audio versions read by the author in German, I continued listening to them, especially the Inkheart trilogy, until way into my teens. The Percy Jackson series would also be worth checking out, it's fun for all ages in my opinion and contains a lot of traveling which might fit your mood!
Maybe pick up Harry Potter? I know people of all ages and genders still (re)reading the series. It's written for a younger audience so not overly complicated where you have to force yourself through page after page, but still very entertaining and filled with detail.
It might also be a good idea to see if any of the movies, tv series or video games you might enjoy have books tied to them. I for example almost exclusively read Star Wars books as a young adult and think there really are some gems to be found there!
I have a 35l one that I've taken on Ryanair flights a couple of times and they never complained. But I tried not to fill it completely and pulled the straps tight so it wouldn't look too big.
I thankfully have actually not met a lot of people like that, but I assume it is partly about the fact that the titles are the same. No matter what you studied the title is ultimately PhD. For the degrees before that different value is attached to BSc/BA or MSc/MA etc. One might think that being called Dr. then gives you the same acknowledgement for the work you have done as it does for everyone else with the same title.
This obviously partly speculation on my part, but this is thie vibe I'm getting from some of the other students.
As someone who is a researcher in history at a university that has a strong STEM branch and keeps getting told by people in Computer science and AI that 'everyone can do what I do' and 'history isn't relevant to our future', I do understand people who want to show that they put a lot of work into and are experts in a field. Is insisting on your titles sometimes off-putting? Sure, but I think it's often born out of frustration and the search for some sort of acknowledgement.
dA SiNd abER dIE GLeiCheN BucHStaBen drIN...ist doch logisch 😅
Yes! I thought it was great because it unveils things Scout might have missed as a white child and to me it is a much more poignant tale about deep rooted issues in communities that won't go away easily.
Good to know some people consider my name a tragedeigh...
Why would you watch a video if you can just read about it??
I have always found the claim of 5000 years somewhat arbitrary. Traditional accounts usually search for the foundation of 'Chinese' civilization in the Xia period, around 4200- 3900 years ago. The Xia themselves are semi-legendary, we do not have contemporary sources and no archaeological material that can be linked to them, although we have evidence of earlier civilizations in the region that might have been later known as the Xia. There are archaeological sites of previous civilization reaching back much further than 5000 years, but as we do not have written records of any kind, this would fall under pre- History. The first written records that are preserved are from the Shang, which existed from 3900-3100 years ago.
Address unknown, around 65 pages I believe. To read such a poignant story about the persecution of Jews in Germany, published in the 30s, blew my mind.
Und ich dachte bis grade eben hashbrowns wären Bratkartoffeln 🙃
Personally had to force myself through it, but I guess that's just different taste.
I don't know if it has been translated into English, but Jasmin Schreiber's Mariannengraben had me bawling for the first few chapters. Probably the most I've cried over a book since reading The Fault in Our Stars as a teen.
I've found social media, especially Facebook groups, very helpful in looking for a place if you are comfortable with co-housing.
There are some groups on Facebook where people look for flatmates
Maybe I got it wrong, maybe Feyre (omg my phone just autocorrected to Fryer, beautiful) is supposed to be the Beast, she is a poor (eww) human (EWWW) after all.
I also always found it hilarious that people keep calling it a 'Beauty and the Beast' thing but Tamlin is oh-so-gorgeous from the get go...
Als würden die Konzepte von Grundrechten, Identität und Kultur nicht alle auf Geschichte aufbauen 🙄
So so 4.0
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