[Neueinzüge #4]

Gestern habe ich mal wieder Post bekommen, diesmal zwei englische Bücher. Ich freue mich schon wahnsinnig darauf sie zu lesen v.a. Roald Dahls Geistergeschichten ;). Aber ich werde die nächsten Tage erstmal Rezension online stellen, die ich schon geschrieben habe aber noch nicht auf dem Blog sind :)

Originaltitel: Roald Dahl's Book of Ghost Stories

Autor: Roald Dahl

Format: Taschenbuch

Verlag: Farrar

Preis: 10,40 €

In the late 1950s, Roald Dahl started collecting ghost stories. He was looking for the best of the best, the cream of the crop, with the intention of making a television series based on these stories. The series died after the pilot episode, but it left Dahl with an appreciation for the difficulties in finding truly good ghost stories:

The best ghost stories don't have ghosts in them. At least you don't see the ghost. Instead you see only the result of his actions. Occasionally you can feel it brushing past you, or you are made aware of its presence by subtle means. [...] If a story does permit a ghost to be seen, then he doesn't look like one. He looks like an ordinary person.           

Originaltitel: I have lived a thousand years

Autor: Livia Bitton - Jackson

Format: Taschenbuch

Verlag: Simon Pulse

Preis: 5,99 $

"This is a heart rendering account of one family's terrible terrible time in the Holocaust and how they survived. The story, an autobiography, begins with Elli L. Friedmann, telling her story. They were a Jewish family.

Eli daydreams of her life as a celebrated poet, has a life rich with family, school and thoughts about boys. But all that changes quickly in March of 1944, when the Nazis invade Hungary. First Eli can longer attend school, have possessions, or even talk to her neighbors. Then she and her family are forced to leave their homes behind and move into a crowded ghetto, where privacy becomes a luxury of the past and food becomes scarcity.