Caroline from  Beauty is a sleeping cat and Lizzy from Lizzy’s literary life are organizing a German literature month in November. It is very well thought out with readalongs, weekly themes and giveaways to boot.

I won’t join the readalongs, however. I read “Effi Briest” in school and am not so keen on Heinrich Böll, but week 3 is reserved for Austrian and Swiss literature, and then Alois Hotschnig comes into play. I have “Maybe this time” in German on my shelf, and it seems November is the ideal time to read it.

If you would like to try out some German literature and maybe need a little nudge, check out Caroline’s and Lizzy’s blogs.

Edit:

It might not be a bad idea to add a link to all the German books I have read recently. Maybe someone will find some inspiration what to read. There are not many… 

• In a "Book beginnings on Friday" post I talked about "Der Zauberberg" (The Magic Mountain") by Thomas Mann 
• In another "Book beginnings on Friday" post I talked about Wolfgang Borchert and his "Then there is only one choice". It is highly recommendable and is available on the net (link included in the post)
• My post about "Love Virtually" by Daniel Glattauer, an Austrian writer
• The sequel to "Love Virtually" is called "Every seventh wave"; it is only out in German so far. 
• Unfortunately "Visitation" by Jenny Erpenbeck was a DNF for me. I didn’t mind her detached writing style which some have called poetic, but I didn’t like the depressing subject.