Der Junge muss an die frische Luft: Meine Kindheit und ich by Hape Kerkeling
The book is written in humorous style but there is also quite a lot of touching and sad moments. And yet it all seems to work together quite nicely. The book can be recommended also to someone who would like to check his knowledge of idioms or expand his arsenal with new ones. There's plenty for everyone
Audiobook listened:
By this one I don’t want to give the title or the author. The reason: It was about a quick “career” of a drug dealer and his even faster fall. I certainly don’t want to promote such lifestyle so I will leave it that way.
Anyway with those two items we come to this:
German 1st January-31st October 2018
: 2500 pages Completed 11th September 2018
: 250 hours audio Completed 6th September 2018
I finally reached my “goals” so now I can get rid of those progress bars from my signature. I will leave them here to remind me not to do this again… Maybe it’s lame to quote yourself but I will do it anyway Me from 10th March:
hedgehog.chess wrote:I also came to the conclusion that I’m too obsessed with numbers. Number of pages, number of hours listened/watched, number of cards reviewed etc. You can see two examples of that in my signature. I will leave those two because I really hate to leave things unfinished. But it really doesn’t and won’t matter if I will reach those artificial goals by 31st October or not. I don’t even know where did I got that 250 hours of audio from?! And what should happen after those 250 hours and 2500 pages?
It also sums also how I feel now. One example: reading. I started reading in late April. And with the speed of 10 pages/hours I was certain I will not reach the goal anyway so I just read at my own pace and kept track of the number of pages only after I finished a book. And it was ok. But in the last month, when I was getting closer to the 2500 mark I became anxious. From then I checked how far from the goal I am after every reading session, and it kind of ruined the whole experience.
There was certainly no epiphany à la Bart Simpson after the goals were reached. If anything I’m more lost than ever.
This leads to the conclusion that I should proceed with the philosophy of achieving without goals and see how it goes.
Oh, and here ends the “Biography/Autobiography” month (which in fact lasted almost 2) and starts the “Sci-fi” one.