It is a bit surprising that so many people still buy "real" reading material despite increasing digitization. On the other hand, it is also a good sign that so many readers still appreciate a good book. For this reason, you can now find the stern orderers for the print editions, which are published every Thursday, online. Here are the fiction and nonfiction bestsellers of July 2022.
Fantasy and "New Adult" author Lena Kiefer occasionally posts quotes from her books on Instagram, which then encourage her fans to create all sorts of variants of emojis, mostly those with little hearts. Liked: "In that moment, I knew I'd walk through fire for this girl because if I was lucky, we'd burst into flames together." Whereupon "Best book of the year" resounds from the comments, of course with a heart, in red. That stirs up in us, please no shitstorm now, contradiction. And the impulse to smuggle good old Fredrik Vahle into the playlist for the "New Adults" to at least get them off their Liebesprinz trip every now and then and send them on their own with Anne Kaffeekanne: "There she flew, oh pardon, on the broomstick away ...". Here is the book.
The author of this book was Vicar General of the Catholic Church. It's remarkable when a functionary like that says: I can't do it anymore. And left his church. His book is a relentless reckoning with the misconduct and rigidity of this religious community. If the Catholics now also get rid of the top officials, the alarm bells should be ringing in the Vatican. They do too. But in Rome someone then steps out of the dark corridors and simply turns off these bells. And already the Vatican is again filled with that timeless silence that oppresses everything and everyone who wants to change something here. Here is the book.
The term "monkey heat" has been used quite often lately and will certainly come across the lips of those of us who will be traveling to Italy, Greece, Spain or Portugal in the coming weeks. Which is why we would now like to deal with this word in more detail. The expression "monkey heat", we read in a textbook on climate, stands for very high temperatures and was probably coined at the end of the 19th century in the Berlin Zoo: In the monkey house it was probably very hot, which is why the term "heat as in the monkey barn" and the shortened word also spread elsewhere. With which we clearly learned more from this brief research than from reading the book of the same name. Here is the book.
On the homepage of this dictionary there is praise, but also criticism. "The Duden is the bound kneeling in front of popular stupidity and gendering," writes an angry user. We want to clarify briefly: The Duden neither falls on its knees nor does it dictatorially determine what must or may be said. The Duden merely notes and reacts. Hard-working people evaluate newspapers, magazines, novels, factual texts and also colloquial language. And if they find new words and phrases that appear with a certain frequency, they'll just be included in the next issue. No reason to worry. You don't have to use them. Here is the book.
Imagine four unequal brothers: one is a Schalke fan, the other suffers with BVB, the rest once bickered over Lewandowski or a tuned moped - that's enough drama for no school essay. Four unequal sisters against it! Jealousy, envy, nasty tips, nasty smiles and scheming silence offer endless novel material. Monika Peetz has already proven with her series of books about the "Tuesday women" how well the female togetherness and opposition is entertaining. Their new "summer sisters" Amelie and Doro, Yella and Helen get along tolerably as long as they spend vacation days together between the North Sea dunes - until their mother Henriette gets involved and the gates to conflict hell open. A must for all sisters who have sisters. Your brothers can look forward to the start of the Bundesliga. Here is the book.
In times when it is more about individual shortcomings than about those of the system, society, capitalism, and when things get uncomfortable outside of the self (war, inflation), coaches are booming. We know someone who says that coaches are people manipulators who get the most out of themselves with minimal effort, who have little talent other than an instinct to make money. This author counters this with a, well, rather poor CV: Founded a coaching institute, trained as a non-medical practitioner, became a self-help entrepreneur. How he is doing? Probably very good. Here is the book.
It is a well-known fact that as people get older, they tend to start chatting. About this and that, from here to there and half way back. In real life, you can slip into Grandpa's anecdotes and block out Grandma's fairy tales with custom-fit in-ear plugs. With this world-famous Chilean, however, both are difficult. Her husband Roger probably doesn't dare to give a peep, neither does the literary agent Gloria, nor the editors anyway - in the end we readers have to take the blame if too many words are used in an epistolary novel about the life of 100-year-old Violeta became. The same applies to irrelevant book critics, by the way. So just a quick birthday greeting to Isabel Allende, who will be 80 on August 2nd! Here is the book.
How did a young woman in her early 30s, named after fragrant jasmine, come to call herself wildebeest? After the African antelope species, which we know as friends of animal documentaries: When they are at the waterhole, the lions are not far. Maybe because wildebeests are herd animals like online players? And because they also make sacrifices for their thirst for thrill? In any case, Gnu was the first German gamer to break the million subscription mark. Her book tells of the fact that life was sometimes hard on Jasmin and she on herself. Here is the book.
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