Another Book List and a visit to the Deggendorf Library

NMYC Yacht Club, Deggendorf

Day 52 of 90..

Guten Tag,

   It has been especially good today as we finally GOT SOME RAIN !!!!  The river levels are forecasted to rise so hopefully we’ll be on our way tomorrow to Passau which is our final stop in Germany.  Our next country will be Austria, also a Schengen country so we won’t linger as long as we might have. But less Vienna pastries might be a good thing.    Romania, Bulgaria, and Serbia aren’t Schengen so we can spend more time in those countries if we choose.

We’d bought dongles and sim cards for internet access along the way.  It was for 30 days of usage which will be up tomorrow.  Here we’ve had free wifi so haven’t needed them.  Not sure what we’ll find in Passau or Austria.  So my email might become quite sporadic.  Check www.mydoramac.com periodically to see if I’ve been able to send at least to our webmaster.  But I’ll do my best to keep in touch. 

    Most of the charity shop books I bought in England have been read, shared, and passed along.  So in preparation for the rest of our trip I’ve been going crazy searching for titles to download onto my Kindle.  Given the war Amazon is having with publishers, I’m probably missing quite a few options.  Please send some suggestions if you’ve read anything great lately.  Most book stores, new or used, in Germany carry no, or very few English titles.  But then Roanoke bookshops don’t carry any German language books either, or so I ever noticed.   So I’m really glad I do have my Kindle.    I need to check my library ebook choices too!

These are the titles I just downloaded.

Poor Man’s Feast: A Love Story by Elissa Altman

http://www.poormansfeast.com/ is her blog about her foodie interest and her relationship with partner Susan Turner.  It was a fun book to read with some interesting recipes.  I don’t like to cook but like to read foodie books by women.

New Life No Instructions: A Memoir by Gail Caldwell

I loved her previous book,   Let’s Take the Long Way Home; but this new book could have been a long magazine article and conveyed everything she really needed to say.  I’ve pretty much read it in two sittings with just a bit still to read.

Bread Salt & Plum Brandy by Lisa Fisher Cazacu who was a Peace Corp Volunteer in Romania

http://breadsaltandplumbrandy..com/

Because we’ll go to Romania

These books, all fiction, just appealed

Guidebook to Murder (A Tourist Trap Mystery) by Lynn Cahoon  because it was $.99 and the bit I read seemed well written.

Life After Life: A Novel by Kate Atkinson

The Bookman’s Tale: A Novel by Charlie Lovett

The Golem and the Jinni   by Helene Wecker

An Available Man: A Novel  by Hilma Wolitzer

One Day in Budapest: A Thriller by J F Penn

Because we’ll go to Budapest

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I’m always at home in a library no matter where we’ve traveled.  The languages aren’t as much of a barrier as you might think, (Malaysia actually had many titles in English as well as Singapore;) many countries use the Dewey Decimal System.  However, when I went searching for art books in the Stadtbibliothek, I found out that wasn’t the case in Germany. At least not in Deggendorf.  This library used a letter system, but it’s not the LC system from home.  Many German libraries use the Regensburg Classification System but when I looked it up online, that didn’t seem to match the Deggendorf Library. Luckily I know the German word for art so could find that the art books were located upstairs in the R stacks.  I just wandered around until I found them.  Of course they were all in German, but I’ve looked at enough watercolor instruction books to know what is being written.  And I found an interesting book about August Macke whom I read about when we visited Tunisia.  I spent a really nice hour in this lovely library and would have stayed longer except I “had a lunch date” with Randal.