About Allan Karlsson, a very special swedish man.
I've read it earlier and even seen the movie.

For my NSS partner.

I hope you like it a little. Otherwise, you get to enjoy the sweets.

Thank you very much hingrald! I shall enjoy both - the book and the sweets :)

This book has been sitting on my shelf for too long now, so I'm taking it to a meeting with Jotka. She may be interested in reading it.

Thank you for sharing this book! It was a nice meeting with NovINkA today in our town :)
January 2018
Very much like Forrest Gump, but i liked Forrest more. I prefer a little bit different sense of humour. But even if it is not a book which everyone should read, it is also not a waste of time.

Good luck!

Thank you Jotka for sharing this book with me.

On the way to readinghelps Australia as


Lieber Finder:
Dieses Buch wurde weder verloren noch vergessen. Es wurde absichtlich freigelassen, damit es gefunden werden kann. Das Buch ist bei Bookcrossing registriert, einem weltweiten Forum zum Lesen, Tauschen und Freilassen von Büchern.
Bitte besuche www.bookcrossing.com oder www.bookcrossers.de und mache einen Eintrag mit der angegebenen BCID Nummer (Bookcrossing Identifikations Nummer), damit die vorigen Leser erfahren, wohin seine Reise führt.
Das ist freiwillig, kostenlos und anonym. Nach dem Lesen einfach an Freunde weitergeben oder wieder freilassen!
Ich danke dir!
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Die Cottbuser Bookcrosser treffen sich jeden ersten Samstag im Monat. Schau doch einfach mal im Forum vorbei wo das nächste Treffen stattfindet. Wir freuen uns immer über neue Gesichter.

Und nun wünsche ich dir viel Spaß beim Lesen. :)

Liebes Buch ich wünsche dir eine gute Reise, und viele, viele JE´s!

Vielen Dank! Das Buch ist jetzt in Australien gelandet.

This book has already been borrowed from our living room bookshelf. I don't mind, because I'm still reading Mere Christianity, by C. S. Lewis, which is such a great book, it's a shame that I didn't read it years ago. Of course, I had heard of it, but I somehow thought it would be boring. On the contrary, it has given me a lot to think about. Lewis makes philosophy and theology quite understandable and interesting through the use of analogy, like this:

“There must be a real giving up of the self. You must throw it away "blindly" so to speak. Christ will indeed give you a real personality: but you must not go to Him for the sake of that. As long as your own personality is what you are bothering about you are not going to Him at all. The very first step is to try to forget about the self altogether. Your real, new self (which is Christ's and also yours, and yours just because it is His) will not come as long as you are looking for it. It will come when you are looking for Him. Does that sound strange? The same principle holds, you know, for more everyday matters. Even in social life, you will never make a good impression on other people until you stop thinking about what sort of impression you are making. Even in literature and art, no man who bothers about originality will ever be original: whereas if you simply try to tell the truth (without caring twopence how often it has been told before) you will, nine times out of ten, become original without ever having noticed it. The principle runs through all life from top to bottom. Give up your self, and you will find your real self. Lose your life and you will save it. Submit to death, death of your ambitions and favourite wishes every day and death of your whole body in the end: submit with every fibre of your being, and you will find eternal life. Keep back nothing. Nothing that you have not given away will ever be really yours. Nothing in you that has not died will ever be raised from the dead. Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.”

Hopefully, by the time I'm done with this battered little paperback, 'The Hundred-Year-Old Man' will be back in my possession.