Autor: Alyrène
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Short Message 01
Dear Readers, I’m very sorry, but I don’t know if I’ll be able to continue with the advent calendar in the way I did so far. For my region will start a total lockdown on Monday, which means a lot of change for me again. I don’t feel that well mentally in the moment anyway…
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7th December 2020 – 17 days til Christmas
Dear Readers,today I want to recommend you The Nutcracker performed by the Russian national ballet as well as a Walt Disney film production by Lasse Hallström and Joe Johnston. First to the famous ballet, the score was written by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky in 1892 and the original two-act ballet choreographed by Marius Petipa and Lev…
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5th December – 19 days til Christmas
Liebe Leser, das heutige Kalendertürchen schreibe ich auf Deutsch, weil ich das Rezept von Stollen nur auf Deutsch kenne und zur Zeit nicht besonders viel Zeit habe, es zu übersetzen. (But for my other readers: I’ll try to post a translation sometimes in the next few weeks.) Weihnachtsstollen (Rosinenstollen) Zutaten: (2 Stollen) 1 kg Mehl…
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4th December 2020 – 20 days til Christmas
Dear Readers, today I want to present you an absolutely beautiful fairytale: Dornröschen (you may know it as the sleeping beauty). It was collected by the German brothers Grimm in the 19th century. This version is from my German book of fairytales and was translated by Deimos. Thankful regards. Sleeping Beauty Ages ago there were…
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3rd December 2020 – 21 days til Christmas
Dear Readers, today’s post will be about another film: Every Day. Since I wrote about the book of the same name two days ago, I thought it would be a nice idea to present you the film produced on its basis. As you may have noticed, my life is pretty stressful right now (thanks a…
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1st December 2020 – 23 days til Christmas
Dear Readers, I love the time around Christmas, especially if it’s really cold and snows a lot but this year I guess everything will be different. It was a tough year, many poeple lost loved ones and the celebration of love is going to be celebrated in distance and lonlier than usual. We needed to…
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Blog Entry No. 14 – Anansi Boys
With a capturing writing style, Neil Gaiman whisks the reader away in a world full of stories, imagination and magic. But this world is more than just fantastic, it is also thrilling and at some points a bit spooky.
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Blog Entry No. 13 – Burning Books?
Dear readers, as I posted a book review last Sunday, I won’t do one today. Instead, I wanna talk about the burning of books. In history lessons, we currently talk about the 1930s in Germany, no pleasant topic. While talking about the 10th of May in 1933, the day that one of the biggest burnings…
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Blog Entry No. 12 – Den Mund voll ungesagter Dinge
Der von der deutschen Autorin Anne Freytag geschriebene und 2017 veröffentlichte Roman beschreibt in sehr vielen Facetten seiner Handlung genau das Gefühl, welches der Titel bereits ausdrückt: Es liegen einem so viele Gedanken auf der Zunge, bereit ausgesprochen und gehört zu werden, doch letztlich bleiben sie Gedanken, bis man vielleicht doch irgendwann den Mut findet,…
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Blog Entry No. 11 – Genex of Halcyon
After all „Genex of Halcyon“ is a copacetic Sci-Fi – utopia (or dystopia depending on the point of view) – philosophy novel-poetry mixture. I will definitely read at least a second time.
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