February 2023
These are the current stern bestsellers of the month
Once a month we will provide you with the star-Bestseller of the print editions
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The new one comes out every week star with current bestsellers: Once a month, we present the books reviewed in the print edition to you online as well.
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. This is why you will find the star– Orderers of the print editions, which are published every Thursday, are now also online. Here are the Fiction and non-fiction bestsellers from February 2023.
“Three Women and a Wrong Life” by Dora Heldt
Why, the male book reader will ask himself in view of this title: three women? fake life? Nonsense! That definitely sounds more like fun and lust without end! think. Hamburg native Dora Heldt, born Bärbel Schmidt in 1961 on Sylt and the daughter of a German army soldier, does not deal with the delights of polyamorous sex experiments in the third volume of her “Haus am See” series. The story of three girlfriends since childhood is about shattered dreams, nursing homes, single mothers, entanglements in the Nazi regime and the fact that only with the power of memory can the path to the future be successful. Uff. hard stuff. Now at the latest, dear male book reader, it’s probably the end of the fun for you, isn’t it? Here is the book.
“Five Days Only. The Fake Fasting Cookbook” by Barbara Becker, Franca Mangiameli
A cookbook for fasting? That sounds as plausible as chocolate without cocoa. But the concept of “fitness icon” (publisher advertising) and Becker-Ex Barbara is based more on nutritional tips that simulate hunger in the body than on total renunciation. Everyone can do it, the 56-year-old whispers to her readers. We like the end of her five-day plan best, which she calls “re-feeding.” we know well. For us that means: “Who goes to the canteen?” Here is the book.
“My Life In Yours” by Jojo Moyes
Like all of us, she too has had a few tough years, says the Brit, now she wanted to treat herself and us to something funny. She immediately remembered this story of two women whose lives are turned upside down when sports bags and shoes are mixed up. Everything stays the same with the respective husbands: One is an ass, the other just sits on the sofa. As the years go by, she becomes “more aware of the importance of female friendships,” says Moyes, 53. “Walk a hundred steps in someone else’s shoes if you want to understand them,” says an Indian proverb. The author of these lines says: “I looked around in the morning conference. All the well-worn sneakers at the editorial desk nipped any thought of experiments in the bud.” Here is the book.
“The 1 Minute Strategy” by Carsten Lekutat
Six titles in this top ten still raise “this year but really” resolutions on the tableau. But now someone is getting in who is already announcing that the others will soon be leaving: “The 1-minute strategy”. It’s about mini, precautionary tricks in everyday life, which not only keep you healthy, but also combat the guilty conscience of having failed again in February in the larger projects on the lists 2, 3, 5, 7 and 10. Definitely our favorite newcomer. Here is the book.
“Whitestone Hospital – Drowning Souls” by Ava Reed
Less than a year has passed since reader Laura commented on reading Book 1 of the Whitestone Hospital series on goodreads.com: “The cliffhanger at the end sucked. I need Book 2!” Now it’s here, and it’s finally clear what happened after the elevator explosion. Again it’s about love-hungry nurses and pretty station doctors, again Halligalli is in the emergency room and around the operating tables. And again you think: Dear God, never let me fall off my bike and be taken to a horny hospital! Reader “catching_words” apparently does not share this concern, on lovelybooks.de she writes: “We’ll have to get used to the nasty cliffhangers. I’m really looking forward to Volume 3!” Here is the book.
“Islam” by Hamed Abdel Samad
The political scientist Hamed Abdel-Samad is considered one of the harshest critics of Islam in Germany, having once been a Muslim Brotherhood himself. What he writes has, so to speak, twice the substance and, he recently said, is celebrated in his adopted country of Lebanon as an “enlightenment work”. We are therefore almost completely sure that the many buyers of his books in this country are just nice people who are particularly interested in questions of faith. Not true? Here is the book.
“Love on Bad Days” by Ewald Arenz
On page 186 of that book it says, “I like how simple the beautiful is. And how beautiful the simple.” Sounds a lot like Manufactum, the department store for good things, and raises questions: Was literature more important in the past? more existential? Would William Faulkner have written a love story with a happy ending? No, he would sooner have separated from his wife and pipe, Ernest Hemingway would sooner have become a teetotaler. Arenz told the star: “Explosive feelings, both good and bad, have become rare in novels. I thought about it for a long time and decided: I want love to have a chance.” We leave further debates on the hope-giving task of contemporary literature to the young people in their basic course modules in German studies. Here is the book.
“Fair in the head” by Angelina Boerger
AD(H)D has long been considered a fashionable diagnosis. Most people now know better, which is why more adults like Angelina Boerger now dare to stand by this syndrome and thus ensure more acceptance. And by the way, we hope, also for the awareness of how differently people tick anyway. Fortunately! Because, watch out, now we’re bringing out the poet Maxim Gorki: “Sometimes it’s fun to amaze someone by not looking like them and thinking differently from them.” Here is the book.
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