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Today I finished my first book of the year: "Spiel der Zeit" by Ulla Hahn
It fits in the following Bingo Squares:
Card 1 - Mix and Match: "Book with female protagonist"
Card 2 - Random: "Book given to you as a gift"
Card 3 - Serious: "Book by an author you've never read"
Roughly translated the title is "Game of the time". The book is the third in a series telling the story of a girl growing up in a small town in the middle of Germany. This book coveres her first year at university in Cologne during the political exciting years of 1967 and 1968 where she witnesses the start of the students protests and a change in politics while she's trying to manage her studies and her first love.
I got the book as a Christmas present from my parents. I haven't read the other parts of the story so I didn't understand some things of her past that are mentioned only shortly in this book.
The girl is a literary student (like the author herself) so the book is filled with mentions, quotes and explanations which is very interesting but also a bit exhausting to read. Her view on the political events is more from an outsider who just stumbled upon them, took part in some activities and protests but still remained in her mostly conservative world without being opposed to changes.
I roughly knew about what happened in Germany during the students protests but I looked up a lot of details on Wikipedia while reading this book.
I gave it three stars on goodreads, I liked it but didn't really emphathise with the protagonist. Maybe that's because I hadn't read the first two books, but I don't really feel the need to catch up on those.
Today I finished my first book of the year: "Spiel der Zeit" by Ulla Hahn
It fits in the following Bingo Squares:
Card 1 - Mix and Match: "Book with female protagonist"
Card 2 - Random: "Book given to you as a gift"
Card 3 - Serious: "Book by an author you've never read"
Roughly translated the title is "Game of the time". The book is the third in a series telling the story of a girl growing up in a small town in the middle of Germany. This book coveres her first year at university in Cologne during the political exciting years of 1967 and 1968 where she witnesses the start of the students protests and a change in politics while she's trying to manage her studies and her first love.
I got the book as a Christmas present from my parents. I haven't read the other parts of the story so I didn't understand some things of her past that are mentioned only shortly in this book.
The girl is a literary student (like the author herself) so the book is filled with mentions, quotes and explanations which is very interesting but also a bit exhausting to read. Her view on the political events is more from an outsider who just stumbled upon them, took part in some activities and protests but still remained in her mostly conservative world without being opposed to changes.
I roughly knew about what happened in Germany during the students protests but I looked up a lot of details on Wikipedia while reading this book.
I gave it three stars on goodreads, I liked it but didn't really emphathise with the protagonist. Maybe that's because I hadn't read the first two books, but I don't really feel the need to catch up on those.
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