book tips
No vacation in sight? 3 books you can read to dream away from everyday life
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You haven’t planned a summer vacation? Then the following book tips will still get you in the holiday mood. We recommend three books that you can read if you want to dream yourself into distant worlds.
Summer time is travel and reading time. When else do you have enough free time to sink deep into books? But summertime is also the time of longing. The longing for distant countries, while you stay at home and at most have a holiday on your balcony. Whatever the reason you are not in the go on vacation. Whether you’re short on money or you’re only going away in the fall – you can bring your vacation home. The nice thing about books is that they take us into foreign worlds and we can escape everyday life with them, sometimes for hours.
3 books to dream away in summer
Whether on the balcony, in the nearest park or in a café – these three summer books invite you to dream away from everyday life.
- An infinitely short summer by Kristina Pfister
- The big summer by Ewald Arenz
- Nine strangers by Liane Moriarty
1. An infinitely short summer
Do you know that? Sometimes you just need a read that’s too romantic to be true, and that’s why it draws you in. That’s how it is with “An Infinitely Short Summer” by Kristina Pfister. A story like a movie. Ideal for dreaming into the world of Lale and Christophe, who fate brings together on a run-down campsite by an all the more beautiful lake. While Christophe searches for his roots, Lale runs in the opposite direction – from himself. And yet the two feel an insane bond.
2. The big summer
Don’t we all know that summer when we suddenly grew up? Falling in love for the first time and making friends for life? In “The Big Summer” Ewald Arenz travels with us back to the 1980s. Into the summer that shaped the life of the first-person narrator Friedrich “Frieder”. Within a few weeks Frieder experiences happiness, knowledge, love and disappointment. The book offers everything that a good coming-of-age story needs to have, lets you reminisce and shows that summer at home can also be magical.
3. Nine strangers
If you prefer excitement, you could “Nine strangers” by Liane Moriarty will be good summer reading for you. At first glance, the book seems quite complicated, because here it is written from the point of view of a total of nine characters. And yet you don’t get confused. About the content: For ten days nine strangers meet in a wellness resort, who are all in crisis and quickly bring their deepest secrets to the surface. The stories are touching and will keep you busy for a while after you have read them. Ideal for diving into distant worlds!
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