Louise Löwenspets

The stories in this collection are set within the Planetfall universe but separated by time (and space). You get to see that world through the eyes of several different people with very different outlooks and values.

I had read these stories before when they were sent out in Emma Newman's newsletters, but getting to read them closer together really made me feel that they are set in the same universe. It also made me want to reread the Planetfall novels.

I knew some things about Karl Bartos before reading this book (mainly that he had been a part of Kraftwerk), that has now changed.
This is a biography both of the life of Karl Bartos and the music of Karl Bartos, where the musical biography is the framework of his life's story and takes center stage.
He kept a “musical journal” from early on, where he wrote down what music he was working on at the time, which is the basis of this memoir.
A good chunk of the book looks at his sixteen years with Kraftwerk, but we also get to see his musical life before (at the Robert Schumann conservatory) and after (finding his way back to his own musical expression).

This is an open and honest description of the (musical) life of Karl Bartos from the viewpoint of Karl Bartos.

A few good stories, one great and a lot of not good ones including at least one that I find hard to believe was actually written in the 21st century.

En intressant bok, men frågan jag ställer mig är om det funnits en språklig redaktör för den här boken. Stavfel, saknade negationer, felaktiga århundraden (vid i alla fall två ställen anges årtal på 1900-talet som ska vara på 1800-talet), grammatiska fel, svårigheter att använda hans/hennes samt sina korrekt och ett flertal luddiga meningar som jag behövde läsa om flera gånger för att få klart för mig vad författaren menade.
En följdfråga jag ställde mig var att om nu den språkliga delen var så dåligt kontrollerad hur står det då till med faktadelen? Har det funnits någon faktaredaktör?
Boken innehåller inte heller någon litteraturlista vilket gör att jag som läsare inte på ett enkelt sätt kan fördjupa mig i något av de ämnen/upptäckter som presenteras i boken.

Okay, so my german was not quite good enough to read this without a dictionary or Google translate to hand and I had never heard of the author before finding this book in my library (don't know how well known she is outside of Germany), but it was a really, as the title says, encouraging story. A story of how one person overcame her insecurities (and eating disorder) and learned to see and love herself for her.
The author has apparently been very open about her eating disorder on Instagram and has a huge following and has been to countless schools throughout Germany talking about eating disorders, body shaming etc. all in an effort to break taboos around these things and help young people so maybe they won't have to live a life similar to hers.