You are looking for the best Christmas gifts for bookworms? Make your loved ones happy with a really good book, which is not only exciting, but also conveys an attitude to life!.
Good books are gateways to other worlds, they take us to exotic shores, to distant planets and to times long past or future. That’s how I see it and that’s how most of my friends see it. We love reading and talking about it, and especially now in winter there’s nothing better than lying on the couch, wrapped in a blanket, reading an enthralling book.
What could be more natural than to make a person you like and who also likes to read, a joy at Christmas with a great book! We present you our top 10 Christmas gifts for bookworms.
Of course, there are quite a few bestseller and recommended lists on the web. So what makes our list of Christmas gifts for bookworms 2017 different from these lists? We present here the 10 books that really touched us this year. They are books that celebrate life against all odds and that show the importance of friendship and love.
What’s it about?
Sven Regener’s Lehmann trilogy and the films made from it have long been cult. In Wiener Straße Regener now returns to his popular character for a fifth time, although this time he is not so much at the center. Wiener Straße is set in 1980, when Frank Lehmann is just new in Berlin, and follows less of a linear plot but presents a highly enjoyable jumble of Kreuzberg creatives, squatters, punks and action artists. It is full of witty dialogues, is one celebration of old West Berlin and the people who lived in it!
For whom is the book ideal?
Of course, all fans of Mr. Lehmann, but also for Regener newcomers and anyone who would like to take a trip back in time to the West Berlin of the 80s and learn more about the attitude to life at that time.
What’s it about?
In the second part of her so-called Century Trilogy, Carmen Korn depicts the German post-war period and the economic miracle through the eyes of four very different friends Henny, Käthe, Ida and Lina, who were already the protagonists in Daughters of a New Erat.
Sensitive and stirring, the book describes the difficulties, hopes and fears of this time and tells not least of how important friendship is in hard times.
For whom is the book ideal?
Although the book is the 2nd part of a trilogy, you do not need to have read the first volume before. Times of departure is suitable for all readers who love stories about women’s fates and about indestructible friendship.
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