Frau Hoppes erster Schultag
★

Unbelievably boring and bad.
Frau Hoppes erster Schultag
★

Unbelievably boring and bad.
Alles war See
★★★★

It's been a while since I read a children's book that I liked this much. The style of the illustrations is deeply pleasant and the telling amusingly aloof. The story itself is common but elevated enough.
Wild Symphony
★

In the German translation this is horrendous, cheesy and fully unsuitable for children. The illustrations are nice but that’s it.
Understanding the Highly Sensitive Child: Seeing an Overwhelming World through Their Eyes
★★

Nicely done introduction to the subject but no more than that.
Die Seefahrt nach Rio
★

Awful sexist racist stuff and not even fun for all that.
Les Voyages extraordinaires de Facteur Souris
★★

Milking the postmouse’s success doesn’t bear the desired fruit. You might even say that on one of his underwater excursions our mouse jumps the shark.
Stella, Star of the Sea
★★★★

Mesmerizing, poetic and lovely art style.
Between Tick and Tock
★★★★

Lovely book but written a bit too poetically for me to live translate from German to Dutch.
Julián Is a Mermaid
★★★★

Not much meat to the story but a truly stunning art style.
Kan ik er ook nog bij ?: een prentenboek van Loek Koopmans
★★★

Standaard verzamelsprookje gered door de mooie illustraties.
Wer hat den Lebkuchen stibitzt?
★★★

Nothing huge, just a charming story and art style.
The Three-Body Problem
★★★

Oddly uncompelling for something heralded as the best of modern science fiction.
Pride and Prejudice
★★★

A very decent romance novel which didn't appeal much to me most probably because I'm not a teenage girl.
The buildup is long winded and the book is lacking for any real plot or suspense until at least halfway through.
The second half is interesting and cute with some nice writing and some intimate moments. Still I'm not a fan of Austen's treatment and her judgement in which parts of the story to write out and which to gloss over.
Provos: Ira And Sinn Fein
★★★

A thorough overview of the years of the Provos which is only occasionally gripping. A lot of the time it's a fairly dry recounting of events and leadership struggles within the IRA. It also does not provide that much insight into Sinn Fein past or present.
Most interesting is reading about the high profile assassinations and the massive London bombings. It's hard to imagine that this level of warfare was common on the islands if you were born in the eighties like myself.
Programming Rust: Fast, Safe Systems Development
★★★★

A huge book that covers all the ground but unfortunately is extremely thorough in certain areas that are not very interesting (the language reference stuff) and glosses over the parts such as systems programming which people new to Rust and the area may have the most trouble with.
The question then is: What would be a good introduction into systems programming and is it up to a book like this to provide it? I think that if you claim that Rust is the prime language for that style of programming, you should provide more of an introduction to it and point people to further reading if they want to get deeper into it.
Nine Lies About Work: A Freethinking Leader’s Guide to the Real World
★★★★

I did not expect that a quick and breezy read such as this one would be one of the better management books I read in the past years.
Nine Lies About Work manages to pack original research and case studies that are both novel and unexpected into a story about work, meaning and life. Many books like this regurgitate the same tired cases (Buurtzorg anyone?) and the same Malcolm Gladwell/Freakonomics-sourced long-debunked science and turn that into a quick publication.
I would recommend this book fully for both managers and employees at companies. One word of caution though: the more 'lies' about work this book helps you identify at your current workplace, the more likely it becomes that you will start looking for a new job.
Pluk van de Petteflet
★★★★★

This might be one of the best children's books around. It's criminal that it isn't more widely known.
Radical Markets: Uprooting Capitalism and Democracy for a Just Society
★★★★

"So you like markets? Let's push markets as far as they can go." —"Not like this!"
Most people who say they like markets use it as an excuse to cover up their desire to maintain entrenched power relations, monopolies and inequality.
I like many of the proposals in this book but more than that I think the way of thinking about society, coordination and exchange is very valuable. I've seen a talk by Weyl where he supersedes many of the ideas in the book based on new evidence and research.
Is there a path towards realizing something like the COST? Probably not working in the tired democracies that we are stuck with at the moment, but most of the institutions that we have are shearing to the point of breaking anyway. Once they break for real, it's nice to have alternative ways of organizing ready to go.
Kosmo & Klax Jahreszeitengeschichten
★
No redeeming qualities and an insult to parents and children alike.
Fiete - Das verrückte Rennen
★★★

Quick and dirty. Nothing special.