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"Staub zu Staub" von Felix Weber. Auf dieses Buch war ich besonders gespannt, nachdem ich den vielversprechenden Klappentext gelesen hatte. Doch leider wich der Kriminalroman, der in der Zeit um den 2. Weltkrieg herum spielt, von den Angaben der Inhaltsangabe (wie ich finde) ein wenig ab. Es geht sehr viel um die inneren Erlebnisse der Hauptfigur Siem Coburg, einem eigenbrödlerischen Kauz, weshalb sich die Erzählungen meiner Meinung nach stellenweise ein wenig in die Länge zogen. Auch der eigentliche Plot, die Figuren an sich, sowie die Schauplätze wirkten unerwartet und auf mich nicht immer eingängig, logisch oder anschaulich. Zudem fehlte mir die Spannung im Verlauf zu sehr, als dass ich das Buch als fesselnd oder packend betiteln könnte. Eher schien die Erzählung ein wenig fade und die Akteure teilweise zu stoisch. Für mich war das Buch trotz oder gerade wegen großer Erwartungen (insbesondere wegen der zeitlichen Einordnung und der ansprechenden Inhaltsangabe) eine Enttäuschung. Ich hatte mir inhaltlich etwas anderes versprochen und würde deshalb auch nur 3 Sterne vergeben.
The book about Thailand is pretty nice.
Worst Riding School is more YA.
Laffe is wonderfully illustrated. Mattie is great. Felix is a bit weird.
This is a biography of one of the most remarkable political leaders in the United States to emerge in the past decade.
Elizabeth Warren, born into a working class family in Oklahoma, is the embodiment of what has come to be known as the American Dream. By dint of sheer hard work and scholarship, she earned a university degree and a law degree, all while raising a family. She went on to teach law at Rutgers University, the University of Houston, the University of Texas at Austin, the University of Pennsylvania, and in 1995 was offered a position to teach law at Harvard, where she went on to become a tenured professor.
I first became aware of Elizabeth Warren in 2011 when her work in the establishment of what became the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau was highlighted by President Obama's naming of Richard Cordray to head that bureau. I was impressed with her knowledge of consumer and economic issues and when she decided to challenge in 2012 the Senator Scott Brown (R-MA) for the Senate seat previously held by Ted Kennedy and John Fitzgerald Kennedy, my interest in her began to grow.
Antonia Felix has done a wonderful job through this biography in making real the manner of person Elizabeth Warren is. Unlike a significant number of politicians on Capitol Hill today who came into elective office (many of them from privileged backgrounds) to derive some benefits for themselves by currying favor with the corporate lobbies that have an inordinate and excessive influence in the shaping of legislation relating to policies and practices in the marketplace, Elizabeth Warren won election in 2012 to the Senate as an outsider willing to work on the inside for the public interest. She has proven to be the real deal. She's got grit, spunk, compassion, and saavy to get things done. And now that she has declared herself a candidate from the Democratic Party for President of the United States in 2020, I am hopeful that Elizabeth Warren will prevail against her detractors and critics, while inspiring millions across the nation to support her campaign and make it successful.
