Reading Challenge February 2017
Here at For Reading Addicts we wanted to create another reading challenge for ourselves and our followers, something a little different, something that perhaps takes us all out of our reading comfort zone and so we have decided that the For Reading Addicts reading challenge for 2017 will feature authors from around the world.
For our February challenge the country we have chosen is Germany and here we have five books from German (and German speaking Austrian) authors which were chosen by our Cwts Book Club.
Each month we will select five books written by authors who hail from a specific country and will then share that list on our Social Media pages and groups. We will then set up a discussion event for those who are taking part to chat about the books they read and to share their experiences of reading books from authors they may not ever have come across otherwise. We will also create a poll question asking for suggestions of authors for the next month’s country.
The second country to feature in our reading challenge for 2017 is Germany; we have however extended our list to include German speaking Austrian authors. These are the five books we have chosen for our For Reading Addicts Reading Challenge 2017 February edition.
Cornelia Funke – Inkheart
Imagine if the stories you read aloud were magical – If the characters created in the minds of your favourite authors could be spoken into existence and walk among us. That is the power of the the Silvertongues but of course nothing is truly free and for every character brought into our world a real human being is sent to live in the story.
Michael Ende – The Neverending Story
Plunge into a fantasy world that is under threat of destruction due to The Nothing with our narrator/reader Bastion, a young boy neglected by his father after his mother’s death and who suddenly finds himself in the role of hero and saviour.
Thomas Mann – The Magic Mountain
The story of ‘a perfectly ordinary, if engaging young man’ by the name of Hans Castorp who when he goes to visit his cousin in an exclusive sanatorium in the Swiss Alps becomes intoxicated with the ideas he hears there. What should have been a three week trip turns into a seven year stay.
Goethe – Faust
Strictly speaking Faust is a play rather than a book although it is often read in book format. Although rarely staged in its entirety, it is the play with the largest audience numbers on German-language stages. Faust is Goethe’s magnum opus and considered by many to be the greatest work of German literature.
Heinrich Böll – The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum
A young woman’s links to a hunted man makes her the target of a journalist determined to create headlines by portraying her as an evil woman. As the attacks on her escalate and she becomes the victim of anonymous threats, Katharina sees only one way out of her nightmare..
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum US
The Lost Honor of Katharina Blum UK
Hopefully our reading challenge for 2017 will introduce you to authors you’ve never heard of and writing styles you’ve never encountered previously. We have kept the challenge as simple as possible and hopefully, each month you will be able find at least one book that you will enjoy reading.
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