Top 10: Favourite Books from my Childhood (Text)

Because deadra left this link in the comments yesterday and I thought that I could do so much better than that, here are my favourite children’s books, not including picture books and stopping shortly before young adults.

So that are the parameters:

1. more text than picture (sorry, Where the Wild Things Are)
2. target audience: 4-12 years old
3. I have to have read it (or had it read to me) during that age

Maybe next week I can do the picture book version of this list.And then the young adult version.

Note: These books are not necessarily recommendations. I mean, I love them deeply and they definitely shaped my childhood but it’s been ages since I read them and I can’t vouch for their quality. :)

Konfliktmanagement (Conflict Management) (Gerhard Schwarz)

Konfliktmanagement (translates to, surprisingly, Conflict Management) is a book by Gerhard Schwarz.

Gerhard Schwarz is an Austrian doctor of theology and philosophy wh0 later turned to conflict management and consulting. In this book, he describes what a conflict is, what it’s for, where it comes from and he devotes a very long section to the different types of conflicts. He writes little about dealing with conflicts.

The book is a nice introduction to conflict management but reading the different types of conflicts can get rather tedious. [But it's surely nice to fall back on and look things up.]

I don’t really have much more to say than that, so I’ll leave it here.

Michael Jackson was buried yesterday, can we – collectively – please talk about something else now?

I swear, if I have to read another 3-5 page coverage in the newspaper about his death, I’m going to scream.

Links

Books

Jezebel tries to find the worst romance hero of the 80s.

A short comparison between two translations of Zafón’s The Angel’s Game.

Manybooks.net: Free ebook downloads.

Promoting coffee by having gorgeous guys read good books to me? Hell yeah!

Comics

If Lord of the Rings was a D&D Campaign: The Graphic Novel. [And related: Lord of the Ringlings.]

Movies

Offensive Stereotypes in Transformers 2.

Politics

Chocolate-Boarding.

News that shape and shake the world.

Religion

Religions in a Nutshell.

TV

It’s Buffy’s Fault That Vampires Are Weak Now.

Completely Different Things

I’m absolutely fucking speechless:

*headdesk*

Amazing Paper Craft Castle.

There, I Fixed It. MacGyver in real life.

Books as planters.

Deadra collected some timewasters.

Shameful Things I Have Enjoyed – Meme Monday

[Got the idea from here.]

• Falling asleep in front of the TV.
  [Usually I need to read before I can fall asleep, but every once in a while, the TV will do...]
• Watching late night reruns of Columbo.
• Biting my nails.
• Kickboxer.
• Bastei-Hefte.
  [Bastei is a German publisher and they publish basically exclusively romance stories, but not really books, more like magazines with three or so stories in one and they are all very badly edited, the translation is worse and it's generic as you wouldn't believe. In short, this is bad romance. Really bad. Good romance is very good. Bad romance is just ridiculous. But every once in a while, I need the bad stuff.]
• Staining pillows and instead of washing them, just flipping them over.
• If I don’t need to go out, I love spending the day in my pjs, without washing or anything. Just hanging around.
• I scratch mosquito bites until they bleed.
• Anita Blake.
• Watching casting shows.
  [But only the first few episodes, before it focusses on the chosen ones.]

Video Vriday

No comment needed.

Radiohead – Street Spirit (Fade Out)

Top 10: Places I’d Like To Travel To

[Thanks to b. for the suggestion. B. is going to Hamburg tomorrow to work for a publisher for two months and to kill me with jealousy... But in case I don't die, I'll visit her in August. So, good things come from it anyway. ;)]

I’ve travelled a lot in my life and I’ve seen much and been to a lot of places but it’s never enough. Never. And now that the holidays are starting, it’s time to contemplate where I won’t be going this year again…

So, here’s my rundown of the places I still need to see.

[Note, I'm not including the USA or Canada because I'm pretty sure that I'm going to see them next year.]

The Best of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009

As promised, here my favourites of the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Contest 2009.

You can read the complete list here.

The Best of the Lyttle Lytton Contest 2009

Award Season is upon us! Let’s start with the Lyttle Lytton Contest and in the next post you’ll get my rundown of the Bulwer-Lytton winners.

Here’s the complete list.

Links

Books

Top 10 literary ménages à trois.

No One In Romance Novels Is Ever Fat.

What’s going on in SF/F outside the English speaking world?

We Make Stories: Tool for kids to make their own books.

Movies

David Fincher, Aaron Sorkin, Facebook Movie???

25 more honest taglines.

Next year’s Oscars to have ten best movie nominees. And Oscar for best song is optional. And that’s supposed to achieve what, exactly?

Oh, Darren Aronofsky, I didn’t think it was possible that I could love you more, but I do now.

Politics

Oops.

Oh, Irony, How I Love Thee.

Religion

Eleven Thing The Bible Bans, But You Do Anyway. [I'm pretty surprised that it's only 11...]

Completely Different Things

How Tetris Blocks Are Made.

The Pfeilstorch – interesting.

Copyright Infringement Detecting Robot and Spam Machine.

Can you see this happening in the US? I can’t: