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    Spotlight 14/2024

    Der Winter naht mit Riesenschritten, und es wird höchste Zeit, sich einen Bücherstapel für die kalten Tage zuzulegen. Das Spotlight-Team stellt Lesens- und Hörenswertes vor. 

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    There is simply nothing more wonderful than settling down on a cosy sofa or in an inviting armchair on a winter evening and cracking open an exciting-looking new book. As the Christmas holidays come closer, the Spotlight team, with the help of our book reviewer Eve Lucas, has put together a list of good reads that we hope will take you through the holidays and beyond.

     

    Bridgerton Cookbook

    The Official Bridgerton Cookbook

    Dearest Gentle Reader, to quote Lady Whistledown, if you’d like to join the tonfeine Gesellschaftton, there’s no better place to start than The Official Bridgerton Cookbook. With well-travelled characters such as Kate Bridgerton and Lady Danbury providing Indian or Sierra Leonean re­cipes, the many delicious dishes don’t stop at sconeTeegebäckscones and Yorkshire pudding (UK)Beilage aus Eierkuchenteig zu FleischgerichtenYorkshire pudding. Careful, however. These are not meals you make in five minutes. And you’ll need a U.S.-metric conversion tableUmrechnungstabelleconversion table. But the results are glorious.

     

    a very private school

    A Very Private School

    If you thought that cruel British boarding schoolInternatboarding schools were a Victorian invention that was long gone, A Very Private School by Charles Spencer will put sb. rightjmdn. eines Besseren belehrenput you right. In this very moving memoir about his years at a public school (UK)(elitäre) Internatsschulepublic school, Spencer, the younger brother of Princess Diana, describes in dramatic detail the terrible treatment he was be subjected to sth.etw. ausgesetzt, unterworfen seinsubjected to and how, typically for the time, parents of his social class ignored the miseryNot, Elendmisery of children or excused their unhappiness saying it would toughen sb. upjmdn. abhärtentoughen them up. The story is shocking.

     

    Smoke Kings

    Smoke Kings

    Violence against Black Americans has a long and terrible history in the United States. In his first novel, Smoke Kings, Jahmal Mayfield tells the story of a young Black man, Nate Evers, who, after the killing of a young relative, decides that the usual expressions of sadness and frustration are not enough. He persuades three friends to help him search out people whose families once carried out hate crimes and then make them pay for the violence of their forebearsVorfahrenforebears. Unsurprisingly, Nate’s plan goes horribly wrong. A crime story for our time.

     

    Slow Productivity

    Slow productivity

    As professor of computer scienceInformatikcomputer science, Cal Newport is familiar with digital-age threats such as pseudo-productivity and burnout. In Slow Productivity, Newport sets out ground rules for knowledge workers (whose products are based on thinking). The rules are simple: do less; work at a natural paceTempopace; obsess over sth.auf etw. bedacht seinobsess over quality. Backed up by examples (Jane Austen, the Beatles, Benjamin Franklin and many more), he shows how stepping back from pressure can create quality and satisfaction.

     

    You’ll find more book recommendations in Spotlight 14/24.

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