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Ryka Aoki: Das Licht ungewöhnlicher Sterne (Paperback, Deutsch language, 2024, Heyne Taschenbuch)

Einst war Shizuka Satomi ein Star, heute ist sie die gefragteste Geigenlehrerin der Welt. Wer …

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Ta-Nehisi Coates: The Message (2024, Random House Publishing Group)

Ta-Nehisi Coates originally set off to write a book about writing, in the tradition of …

But I think many of us who are teachers and professors have forgotten that the syllabus serves the student, and all around us are teachers, administrators, and columnists who seem to believe that material should be hard for the sake of it and that education itself is best when rendered not in wonder but in force.

The Message by  (Page 73)

David J. Skal: Hollywood Gothic (2004, Faber and Faber)

Comprehensive, perhaps a little too much?

Bit of a kitchen sink feeling to this, as it covers in (sometimes excruciating) detail the history of Dracula, first the novel and then the various stage and film adaptations. Some interesting highlights, such as a description of where the title of 'Nosferatu' came from, but too much of the book felt like it was bogged down in the back and forth of negotiations over stage and film rights.