Bücher!

Good morning readers :) Today is Sunday, July 18th, which means I've already had a day and 1/2 all to myself to try and re-charge. (Not too mention the fact that in these past 32 hours or so, I have been trying to wrap my head around the idea that I will be in the City of Lights, PARIS!, in 3 days! Incredible..) But really, I don't have a whole lot to talk about, but wanted to come by with the book recommendations. I have always loved to read, and now that I find myself out of school, I have had much more time to read a number of books. My current pace since I have been here in Germany has been about one book a month. The last book I read in a couple of weeks and I would definitely recommend it to anyone who likes a good mystery/thriller, but also finds themselves to be somewhat of a WWII history buff. The book is called The Arms Maker of Berlin (Vintage Crime/Black Lizard) by Dan Fesperman, and I found it to be a great novel--especially since I started reading it on my way to Berlin and had become familiar with many of the locations spoken of throughout the pages. All in all, a good read.

After finishing that, I immediately had my eye out for the worldwide best seller, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Vintage) by the late Stieg Larsson of Sweden. I had seen this book and it's sequels in book stores a few times before, but never gave it much thought, until I was on the hunt for my next read. I headed to the large bookstore in Bonn, Bouvier, to try and get my hands on a copy. After walking down the stairs to the section of English language books (I believe this book would be to complex and difficult for my to try and read in German), I quickly found the 2nd and 3rd books of the series. However, the first one was no where to be found. About a day or so before I officially finishing The Arms Maker of Berlin, I was talking to Bertus about how I was on the hunt to get the first book of this wildly popular "Millennium Trilogy", but had yet to be able to get my hands on it. Well, Bertus being Bertus, surprised me a couple days later with my very own English copy that he had ordered on Amazon for me. How sweet is he? ;) So, I've had the book for about a week now, and am well on my way to be finishing it in the next few days or so. Very good book with extremely intriguing plot. Just from what I have read so far, I highly recommend it. Especially to my fellow book lover, Granny: I feel as if both of the books mentioned in this post are both something that I think you specifically would enjoy :)

So with all this being said, I'm going to get back to my book. Maybe walk to the nearby Rheinaue park to read. Happy reading everyone! xoxo MegLett

**Note: And no, the title of this post is (sadly) not a tribute to my mom's bf Bob, although he is one helluva American, but in fact the German word for "books" ^^