2025-09-26 -- September books
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Let's see what we got this month.

First  one was "Ostfriesennebel" by Klaus-Peter Wolf. A German book, set
in Germany. Pretty weird to read about cities that  I've  been  in.  The
story  itself  was  quite  okay,  I  think, I just prefer something that
doesn't hit so "close to home" (quite literally). It's a lot like music:
I usually don't like music with German lyrics, either, it's just too fa-
miliar. It doesn't really inspire fantasy as much.

Then I dug up "Choke" by Chuck Palahniuk. I bought this  20  years  ago,
because  I  liked  "Fight  Club" back then. I had never finished it. So,
while I was waiting for other books to arrive, I finally read this  one.
I  can't  say  if I liked it or not, to be honest. It's quite repetitive
sometimes, which is probably intentional. The story itself is ...  well,
there's  not that much of a plot. The whole thing is supposed to work on
another level, I think, but it's not working too well for me.  And  I'll
be  honest,  it  was quite a bit depressing to read about a guy who con-
stantly beats up himself and tells himself that he's a loser. Hmm.

Very well, eventually "Francesca" (and "Beatrice", but  I  haven't  fin-
ished  that  one  yet)  by Lina Bengtsdotter arrived. I got these second
hand, not new items. I was expecting just another story  with  the  same
main  character, but that's not really the case, luckily. It's an actual
continuation of the first book, which is great. I thus expect the  third
book,  "Beatrice", to be an actual conclusion. At least I hope so.  Any-
way, "Francesca" was quite like "Annabelle" (the first book of  the  se-
ries),  same  style and everything. Pretty nice. It's funny how the pace
picks up a lot towards the end -- if the whole  book  was  written  like
this, it would only need something like 50 pages.

Here's  a  photo  of  all the books from August and September (excluding
"Beatrice") -- because it's still crazy to me that I'm suddenly  reading
this much, out of nowhere:

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