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Rachel Kushner recommended Ingrid Caven in Books (curated)

Ingrid Caven

Jean-Jacques Schuhl | 2004 | Biography, Fiction & Poetry, Film & TV

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"I can’t help but include this book on any list I’d ever make of books I love. It is bewitching, playful, poetic, and really beautiful. Ingrid Caven looks like Marlene Dietrich and sings like Lotte Lenya. She was Fassbinder’s muse on film and Schuhl’s in life, and the book creates a fictive plane of reality in between all four, plus postwar German history, plus the 1970s."

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The Break with the Past: Avant-Garde Architecture in Germany, 1910 - 1925

Deborah Ascher Barnstone

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Between 1918 and 1933 the German interwar avant-garde was a primary force driving European cultural...

Nicole Hadley (380 KP) rated Classic German Baking: The Very Best Recipes for Traditional Favorites, from Pfeffernüsse to Streuselkuchen in Books

Jun 18, 2018

Classic German Baking by Luisa Weiss is filled with 100 recipes of authentic German baking for breads and sweets! We learn what it means to bake like the Germans do and learn what techniques are different from us in America. With recipes like Apple Strudel to chocolate cakes that are to die for and even some healthy recipes as well. This book is the definition of German Baking that everyone will enjoy reading and making these recipes in their own homes!

This well-organized book is perfect of bakers from novices to pros. It the history of the each recipe before detailing in easy to follow step-by-step instructions how to bake. There's an extensive glossary of ingredients. My one recommendation is to have more pictures for a visual aspect.

I received this book from Ten Speed Press via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

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East of the Oder: A German Childhood Under the Nazis and Soviets

Luise Urban and Eva Wood

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Luise Urban was born in 1933 into a world about to be turned upside down. Her family lived east of...

Rats Alley: Trench Names of the Western Front, 1914-1918

Peter Chasseaud

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This book makes it possible to comprehend, via the trench naming, the daily life in the trenches,...

Leah Conner (9 KP) rated The Splendid and the Vile: A Saga of Churchill, Family, and Defiance During the Blitz in Books

Dec 8, 2020

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One of the greatest failures of our education system is its inability to make history interesting enough that people want to learn it so that we can stop repeating it. Then, we have Erik Larson. His brilliant writing technique turns dull historical facts into a story that forces you to continue turning the pages. Truly spectacular perspective of Churchill and those closest to him during a truly dark time in history. Also, a great glimpse of the German leaders as well. I'm truly looking forward to the next book of his I've ordered... and others after that. I think this should be a guide on how to bring history to a level that people can connect with.