My adventures in a Hugendubel store // German editions // Books

I love Hugendubel stores. No idea why. Maybe because I love book stores in general. I lovingly call Hugendubel  stores "bubble gum stores" (because of my inability to pronounce the name correctly XD). Every time I visit my friend in Munich, I go to one of those stores and browse for some time (hours). I have the most fun finding the books that I know and seeing the titles in German and the covers and how they compare to North American editions. IMG_0221

I love this cover! I like the original English cover too but this one is rather similar and it has "Fox craft" as a title, which a title of the series. The title is translated as "the fox magic". The English title is "The Taken".

I really want this book! Because of the foxes naturally XD

Here are two more middle grade books. I know nothing about these but I couldn't pass titles that mention musketeers, could I? ;)

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A huge section with Cassandra Clair books. I haven't read those yet but I was excited to see different covers AND they kept English titles, which I found really curious.

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More foxes!!

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Andrew Smith's novel "100 sideways miles" has almost the same cover as North American edition (only the horse is black) and the title is similar.

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Okay, e. lockhart's "We Are Liars" turned into "Until We Lie", which is very close. And "Eleanor & Park" is exactly the same title and cover.

But look at "Everything Everything" by Nicola Yoon! That's quite a change! It says "You Near Me" and below "And between us the whole world". A two word title turned into a two SENTENCES title. Very confused.

I felt a bit like a dork running around, taking pictures of books and blabbing about everything to my friend (she is a saint).

I did buy two books! Here we go.

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I wanted to get something to read in German, as my knowledge has detiriorated quite a bit over the years. A friend on twitter suggested I buy this kids book "Emil und die Detektive" by Erich Kastner. And then I saw a quite decently sized paperback for only 4.99 euros! (Which is about 7CAD.) Percy Jackson book one "The Lightning Thief". I have never read any of Rick Riordan's books and perhaps it is time to start.

My TBR list is insanely long, so I honestly don't know when I will get to reading those books, but I am being hopeful :)