Armin

2025 was a rather slow year for reading 🫠 When you read both for leisure & work, sometimes both worlds collide and you stop reading at all. Slide one are my this year’s favourites. All of them spoke to me in their own way. My biggest suprise was Abschied meiner Eltern by Peter Weiss, it really touched me. And Dinosaurierkind by dear Maryam Aras, as I was very critical about it first. My biggest disappointment might have been The Emperor of Gladness, I just couldn’t wrap my head around its writing style I think even though I love Ocean Vuongs first novel. For your next summer holiday I recommend Enter Ghost or Good Girl, both are light reads. For crushing your heart I recommend Menschenwerk or Nightcrawling. While strolling through Addis Ababa I really appreciated Addis Ababa Noir, its a short story collection and the series exists for many cities. For rainy days try What you are looking for is in the library, a very cute story for book lovers. The last slide I added to give you an impression of things I have to read for work (keep in mind I work in an audio play department of a public service broadcaster, so we rarely read long texts like these). But I do appreciate to read books I would usually never touch (like king of oil ?? lol). Maybe next year I should add all the children books I read for my other employer! 🤭 Hoping this year I can enjoy reading a bit more again 💕 Background is a photo I took on beautiful Addis Ababa University Campus back in April. #bookstagram

NYC trip in meals 🤭 1 Raya in Jackson Heights one of my favs 2 Tashkent Supermarket Haul go if you love supermarkets!! so much variety!! 🛒 3 Xi’an Lamb Noodles in Chinatown 9,5/10 4 Oneg Bakery Chocolate Babka in Williamsburg 🤤 5 Vegan Soul Food in Harlem 6 Some random Chinese place in new china town 7 Kopitiam Malay Food in South Manhattan 8 Some random taco place in Bushwick 9 Chang Lai Curry Fish Balls & Noodles (with my third Taro Milk tea of this trip haha) 10 Bagel with Cream Cheese & Zaatar 11 Syko Syrian-Korean fusion we loooved the hummus with kimchi & tofu 😋 12 me eating a random sugary donut & hot apple juice 🤭

Inspo for this post is to look like the most cliché version of a NYC tourist 😇 #americannightmare

🐥strolling through the city with @jamaristina 💜

Summer also meant fixing my parents old shisha & staying home 💜

Summer was windy 💜 My first summer in ffm meant lots of matcha at dima, taking the direct train to marseille (i know everyone was in marseille this year but please have mercy with me, it was my third time!!), recording beautiful outfits of new and old friends & much more 💨

New review for @disorient_do on @kavehakbar.kavehakbar novel Martyr! Available in English and German. Link in Bio 🐥🥰 Second slide other novels & poetry collections I reviewed last year. Some are discussed in contemporary German literature, most are touching topics of mourning, loss or (im-)mobility. Open for suggestions to review your latest favourite novel 💕

Flowers of Addis 🥺 my dearest Bethel took me to the streets of the city she grew up in. I am a little overwhelmed by what to post. Wherever we are, its so special to meet a friend’s family and the streets and shops they walked as a child. 💕

[work post] hey! manchmal (co-)lektoriere ich, wie zuletzt Nicht die Ersten, herausgegeben von dearest @tarekshuk . Oder seit paar Monaten Hörspiel-Manuskripte beim WDR. manchmal rezensiere ich auch, beim #Vorzeichen Projekt kuratiert von @maha_elhissy durfte ich 2024 fünf bücher rezensieren, als letztes ein ganz eigensinniges von @fabian__saul [foto drei]. letztens durfte ich buchprojekte an denen ich mitgearbeitet habe, mit studierenden diskutieren. [foto zwei] außerdem moderiere ich regelmäßig Lesungen und Panels. leider habe ich von den meisten Veranstaltungen aber keine guten fotos (schickt gern, wenn ihr was habt). deshalb cute selfie [foto eins] aufgrund von zwei längerfristigen freien jobs werde ich 2025 selbstständig sein. aufregend & scary! falls ihr unterstützung im lektorat oder bei moderationen braucht, bin ich offen für anfragen ✨

Hey! Forgot to share my favourite books of the second halt of 2024 with you (scroll down my feed for the first half 🤓). 2024 was kinda hard on reading, as I handed in my MA thesis in August and had enough university things to read. Also, I started a new Job that asks me to read novels, too (which are not listed here and sometimes kinda boring…). Whats your reading goal for 2025? My absolute favourites the last months: * Giovannis Room by James Baldwin * Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad * Blessings by Chukwuebuka Ibeh * Pet by Akwaeke Emezi * Die Trauer der Tangente von @fabian__saul * Übergangsritus von @abud.alqalaq * Ich kann dich noch sehen (an diesen Tagen) von @sgl_author (alle drei durfte ich für #Vorzeichen auch rezensieren, das buch von sgl war auch auf meinem letzten post aber doppelt hält besser 💕) Books I couldn’t wrap my head around (but really wanted to): * Freshwater by Akwaeke Emezi * Beloved by Toni Morrison … and many many more which I already forgot 🤣 Oh and biggest shoutout to my all time favourite bookstagram for the best recommendatios @ubahnleserin !! 💖

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#tb to this summers trip back to tajikistan where I pretended to be a food blogger for a few weeks 🤭