Litchi Hikari club is my guilty pleasure
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Welp, i am currently reading Charles Lightollers Autobiography âTitanic and other Shipsâ
You can find the book actually freely available on Gutenberg Australia
https://gutenberg.net.au/ebooks03/0301011h.html
Its only availabe on Gutenberg Australia and not Gutenberg itself, because of differences of the copyright law, i think.
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Bram Stokerâs Dracula + Kafkaâs Metamorphosis in the original German - so Die Verwandlung. Trying to keep my German knowledge up somehow until my uni course and have wanted to read Kafka for a long time regardless. Really wanting to read Innocent soon as well
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âLove & Pain: The epic times and crooked lines of life inside and outside Silverchairâ by Ben Gillies and Chris Joannou
Lately Lemmyâs autobiography, but I got deeply disappointed.
Right now a few things at once. Something about vampires, some post-apocalyptic stuff and another fantasy - apocalyptic. Not bad actually.
Idk where else to ask this, so I just finished Berserk and am interested in Black Jack by the god of Tezuka, but I canât find the first volume anywhere to read. Anyone read these ancient manga?
Busy reading Madhouse at the end of Earth currently
Itâs about the Belgian Antarctica Expedition between 1897 and 1899. The first Expedition that overwintered in Antarctica, because the ship got trapped in the Ice.
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Reading Amundsen his South Pole book currently. Actually itâs two books, or originally it was published in two volumes.
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How to you like Die Verwandlung?
Iâve started with Otessa Moshfeghâs Eileen after unexpectetly loving My Year of Rest and Relaxation.
Currently, reading:
The Case for Socialism by Alan Maass and Film Art: An Introduction
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reading âscenes from my life: a memoirâ by michael k. williams, of the wire and boardwalk empire fame. very good read, but sad. heâs very missed 
edit:
re-reading slowly w/other ppl 
Ohhhh a classic from Robert Louis Stevenson???
How were the books your read recently?
One of my most favorite books by a German writer, Marie GraĂhoff, the title is âKernstaubâ.
Slowly making my way through âThe Temple of Dawnâ by Yukio Mishima. Itâs a pretty dense book with not too much actually âhappeningâ so far but itâs very atmospheric and loaded with interesting subjects.
In the meantime I started âHell Houndâ by Ken Greenhall, a cult classic horror novel about a psychotic dog and how he sees the world. Itâs a very easy and entertaining read so far, perfect for spooky season.
Besides these, Iâve been reading a poem or two a day from a collected (Hungarian) edition of poetry of Georg Heym, an early 20th century expressionist German poet who died tragically young. Most of his works are very macabre and depressive, but also presented with surprising beauty. Very goth, if you will.
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Just finished up the first volume of Vampire Hunter D, moving onto the second this week.
The first one is all right, it hasnât aged very well.
You kinda have to accept, going into it, that itâs 80s pulp.
The translation is also a little bit rough and ages the text more than the Japanese edition. I suppose the translator is American because they use a lot of cheesy âregionalizedâ dialogue for certain characters that comes off as kind of forced and took me out of the setting entirely.
Also, the author really wants you to understand that D is the single most beautiful man to walk the face of this Earth and he goes on and on about it. Every new character has to make a comment about it lmao
Overall, I enjoyed it, but itâs kinda hard to reccomend to anyone. The OVA is better, not sure about the manga.
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rec from rena she said its the best book ever
Absolutely
Ignore my vomiting, the book pregnant probably 
Or so
Ok, you know what, I will read it and give a (probably short) review in this thread.
I might regret it 
But itâs not that long (not even 300 pages), I can read it for free and my expectations are looooow.
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Just finished Der rote Kampfflieger, âThe red battle flyerâ.
Most people probably know him as the red Baron thou, and no I am not talking about the Snoopy version.
Der rote Kampfflieger is an autobiography of Manfred von Richthofen, the probably most famous fighter pilot of WW1.
And let me tell you, that book is no literary masterpiece, but it brings over what it was supposed to do back in 1917.
And it clearly shows the youth of the author and I ended up liking that more than I thought I would.
From him saying âwe annoyed the french a little by throwing granateâs into their trenchesâ to comparing bombing the Russians with throwing eggs.
To him spending a whole chapter on his dog Moritz.
What surely is missing is the parts later published versions have, the fact that his head wound and seeing all the others around him one by one getting shot from the sky, had changed him and his view in war.
But hey, I read 184 pages of fraktur.
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