Recent Book Activity

Hi!
I am from and currently again living in Vienna, Austria, but have lived in Darmstadt, Germany for 3 years (as you may have suspected looking at my friends list and releases).
I like books by: Jhumpa Lahiri, Amy Tan, Toni Morrison, Peter Høeg, José Saramago, Paulus Hochgatterer, Ian McEwan, Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt, Oliver Sacks, Richard Dawkins.
I don´t like books by: Dan Brown. And chicklit.
Apart from books I like: chocolate (especially dark & fair trade), fair trade everything, earrings, striped socks (size 40), bubble baths, plants & seeds for my balcony/garden, orange and purple/blue coloured fruit (apricots, oranges, mangos, plums, blueberries, blackberries,...), crows & ravens, icelandic horses.
I don´t like: meat (I am vegetarian), anything by Nestle (watch the film "We feed the world" and know what I am talking about), dogs.


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Favourite sentences in books I´ve read recently:
The main cause of shooting trauma is inappropriate use of a handgun. from the UEMS handbook for Otorhinolaryngology.
Aristotle, so far as I know, was the first man to proclaim explicitly that man is a rational animal. His reason for this view was one which does not now seem very impressive; it was, that some people can do sums. Bertrand Russell "An Outline of Intellectual Rubbish" in "The Portable Atheist by Christopher Hitchens
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...and I am broadening my horizons by trying to read a book of every Nobel Prize winner (Nobel Prize for Literature only, at the moment, ha!). So far I got (all the others very welcome):
1901 Sully Prudhomme ~~~ 1904 Frédéric Mistral ~~~ 1907 Rudyard Kipling ~~~ 1908 Rudolf Eucken ~~~ 1909 Selma Lagerlöf ~~~
1910 Paul Heyse ~~~ 1911 Maurice Maeterlinck ~~~ 1912 Gerhart Hauptmann ~~~ 1913 Rabindranath Tagore ~~~ (1914 nicht vergeben) ~~~ 1915 Romain Rolland ~~~ 1917 Karl Gjellerup ~~~ (1918 nicht vergeben) ~~~ 1919 Carl Spitteler ~~~
1920 Knut Hamsun ~~~ 1921 Anatole France ~~~ 1923 William Butler Yeats ~~~ 1925 George Bernard Shaw ~~~ 1926 Grazia Deledda ~~~ 1928 Sigrid Undset ~~~ 1929 Thomas Mann ~~~
1930 Sinclair Lewis ~~~ 1931 Erik Axel Karlfeldt ~~~ 1932 John Galsworthy ~~~ 1933 Iwan Bunin ~~~ 1934 Luigi Pirandello ~~~ (1935 nicht vergeben) ~~~ 1936 Eugene O´Neill ~~~ 1938 Pearl S. Buck ~~~ 1939 Frans Eemil Sillanpää ~~~
(1940-43 nicht vergeben) ~~~ 1945 Gabriela Mistral ~~~ 1946 Hermann Hesse ~~~ 1947 André Gide ~~~ 1948 T.S. Eliot ~~~ 1949 William Faulkner ~~~
1951 Pär Lagerkvist ~~~ 1952 François Mauriac ~~~ 1954 Ernest Hemingway ~~~ 1955 Halldór Laxness ~~~ 1956 Juan Ramón Jiménez~~~ 1957 Albert Camus ~~~ 1958 Boris Pasternak ~~~
1960 Saint-John Perse ~~~ 1961 Ivo Andrić ~~~ 1962 John Steinbeck ~~~ 1963 Giorgos Seferis ~~~ 1964 Jean Paul Sartre ~~~ 1965 Michail Scholochow ~~~ 1966 Nelly Sachs & S.J. Agnon ~~~ 1967 Miguel Angel Asturias ~~~ 1968 Yasunari Kawabata ~~~ 1969 Samuel Beckett
1970 Alexander Solschenizyn~~~ 1971 Pablo Neruda ~~~ 1972 Heinrich Böll ~~~ 1973 Patrick White ~~~ 1974 Eyvind Johnson & Harry Martinson ~~~ 1975 Eugenio Montale ~~~ 1976 Saul Bellow ~~~ 1978 Isaac Bashevis Singer ~~~ 1979 Odysseas Elytis ~~~
1980 Czesław Miłosz ~~~ 1981 Elias Canetti ~~~ 1982 Gabriel García Márquez ~~~ 1983 William Golding ~~~ 1984 Jaroslav Seifert ~~~ 1985 Claude Simon ~~~ 1986 Wole Soyinka ~~~ 1987 Joseph Brodsky ~~~ 1988 Nagib Machfus ~~~ 1989 Camilo José Cela ~~~
1990 Octavio Paz ~~~ 1991 Nadine Gordimer ~~~ 1992 Derek Walcott ~~~ 1993 Toni Morrison ~~~ 1994 Kenzaburō Ōe ~~~ 1995 Seamus Heaney ~~~ 1996 Wisława Szymborska ~~~ 1997 Dario Fo ~~~ 1998 José Saramago ~~~ 1999 Günter Grass ~~~
2000 Gao Xingjian ~~~ 2001 V.S. Naipaul ~~~ 2002 Imre Kertész ~~~ 2003 John M. Coetzee ~~~ 2004 Elfriede Jelinek ~~~ 2005 Harold Pinter ~~~ 2006 Orhan Pamuk ~~~ 2007 Doris Lessing ~~~ 2008 J.M.G. Le Clézio ~~~ 2009 Herta Müller
2010 Mario Vargas Llosa
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That´s where "my" bookcrossing books have travelled:
Egypt, South Africa, Tanzania
China, India, Japan, Nepal, Tajikistan, Thailand, Vietnam
Guadeloupe
Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Hungary, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Liechtenstein, Lithuania, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Slovenia, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom
Israel, United Arab Emirates
Canada, Mexico, United States
Australia, New Zealand
Argentina, Brazil



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