December reads
Barbarians at the GateBryan Burrough and John Helyar PachinkoMin Jin Lee Empire of PainThe Secret History of the Sackler DynastyPatrick Radden Keefe GastrophysicsProfessor Charles Spence
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the secret rose garden
On a cloudy day mid-June I was invited into my friend’s rose garden. She has a beautiful collection of historical roses growing in wild bushes and blooming only once a year. Their special charm lies in their wildness. They are not pruned into shapes or put into arrangements. The first thing you notice is the lovely scent wafting through the garden – especially on a warm summer day after the rain. Their names are full […]
spring 2020 book list
Before the coffee gets coldToshikazu Kawaguchi Essbare WildpflanzenSteffen Guido FleischhauerJürgen GuthmannRoland Spiegelberger The Inner Game of MusicBarry Green Veg in One BedHuw Richards Monsieur VuongDas Kochbuch Climate – A New StoryCharles Eisenstein Sacred EconomicsCharles Eisenstein The More Beautiful World Our Hearts Know Is PossibleCharles Eisenstein On Earth We’re Briefly GorgeousOcean Vuong Black Box ThinkingMatthew Syed
Merry Christmas
winter 2018 booklist
Hunger Roxane Gay Finanz-Tsunami Ernst Wolff Lincoln in the Bardo George Saunders Charisma James Salter Die Geschichte des verlorenen Kindes Elena Ferrante Falke: Biographie eines Räubers Helen McDonald Das Genie Klaus Cäsar Zehrer The Silk Roads: A New History of the World Peter Frankopan Die Kieferninseln Marion Poschmann Nannion Andreas Androutsellis-Theotokis The Bees Laline Paull
summer 2017 booklist
Meine geniale Freundin Elena Ferrante Die Geschichte eines neuen Namens Elena Ferrante The Secret Life of Colour Kassia St Clair the Airbnb story Leigh Gallagher Die Angst, das Risiko und die Liebe Omer Meir Wellber JFK Staatsstreich in Amerika Mathias Bröckers Alexander von Humboldt und die Entdeckung der Natur Andrea Wulf Kew Gardens Das Kochbuch Royal Botanic Gardens Kew The Nix Nathan Hill Nights at the Circus Angela Carter
pearl river
pictures from my recent trip to Hongkong
winter booklist
Nach einer wahren Geschichte Delphine de Vigan Ein Winter in Wien Petra Hartlieb Die Schäferin von Yorkshire Amanda Owen Martin Eden Jack London Die Wahrheit vor Gericht Klaus Volk Mein letzter Seufzer Luis Buñuel Deliciously Ella with Friends Ella Mills Die Schuld der Anderen Gila Lustiger Bogmail Patrick McGinley Die Känguru-Chroniken Marc-Uwe Kling
DIY yoga mat refreshers
Talking about the bliss of practising yoga in the summer heat there’s often an annoying detail that disturbs the concentration: a bad smelling mat. Unfortunately microbes and bacteria find their perfect habitat in a moist and rolled-up yoga mat. And if it’s not for the lurking bacteria, after a time of intense use any yoga mat loses its clean and fresh smell. So today I decided to spray my mats and to share my mat refreshing mixtures with you. Refresher for a […]