#WeeklyForecast

Continue listening to How to Say Babylon and reading The Battle of Spain

I want to finish Winter in Madrid

Then I‘ll start Dominoes and hopefully I‘ll get a start on Daddy‘s Gone A-Hunting

#StorySettings #Train

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I continued my listening of How to Say Babylon and the reading of The Battle for Spain

I read The Clue in the Library

I‘m currently reading Winter in Madrid

#StorySettings #Office

Another great TV series

#StorySettings #Graveyard
my favorite TV series - Buffy the Vampire Slayer

A children‘s book about the first year in the life of a deer.

The illustrations are amazing

#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue listening to How to Say Babylon

I want to continue reading The Battle for Spain #Spain #foodandlit, right now I‘m confused there‘s so many different fractions involved

I‘m going to read The Clue in the Library #NancyDrewBR today

I hope to get far into Winter in Madrid another #Spain #foodandlit read

Bodie is on her way to Granby to teach how to make podcasts and movie history to some of the school students. The only this is that Bodie herself was a student at the school a long time ago and then her roommate was murdered. So returning to Granby has Bodie thinking about then. Then one of her students in the podcast class decides to look into the murder as well.

Will this reveal anything new? Did they catch the right person all those yr ago?

1968 on the countryside in Zimbabwe, and Tambu grows up on her family‘s farm where women are responsible for the garden, the food and the kids. This year her brother dies, and suddenly a new opportunity opens up for her - attending the missionary school

A book about race, class, the different expectations between the sexes, hierarchy inside a family and friendship.

I loved this so much that I‘m already on the hold list for the next book

#StorySettings #Wedding

@Eggs @Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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I listened to a little bit more of How to Say Babylon

I finished Dobbelganger and started a new nonfiction book, The Battle for Spain #Spain #foodandlit

I finished The Quiet Tenant and read Nervous Conditions.
And with some intensive reading I hope to finish I Have Some Questions for You today

This book scared me and yes, I‘ll be the first to admit I scare easily.

I saw great reviews for this book, but didn‘t read any, put myself on the waitlist at the library. So I didn‘t know anything about it when it arrived and when I read the blurb it‘s not the type of book I normally read.

A man has kidnapped a woman and kept her in a shed for 5 yrs. Now he‘s moving, and plan to kill her, but she manages to persuade him to take her with him.

A house is being built and for the next centuries we follow the house and its inhabitants. I really liked the story about the sisters and about the painter, but after that the story just fizzled out for me, and I lost interest in it.

#StorySettings #River

Laing‘s walk down the River Ouse, looking at the roles the river has had through history. This is also the river that Virginia Wolf drowned herself in

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my Women‘s Prize for nonfiction reads; How to Say Babylon and Dobbelganger. I might even finish Doppelganger

I‘ve 3 books that‘s due back at the library on the 12th:
The Quiet Tenant which I‘m about halfway into and had to stop reading last night because it got to scary. Yes, I scare easily
Nervous Conditions that I‘ve wanted to read since I read her essay collection and my May #BookSpin
I Have Some Questions for You

#BookReport

I kept up with my to shortlisted Women‘s Prize for nonfiction books, How to Say Babylon and Dobbelganger

I finished Forgotten on a Sunday

I read North Woods

I‘ve just started The Quiet Tenant

I loved this book. A book that sneaks up on you and silently steals your heart

Justine‘s a 21-yr old working at a retirement home. Here she collects the residents stories and particularly that of Helene. At the home some residents are never visited, suddenly these relatives will be getting phone calls that their relative has died. Who is making these false calls?

As a kid, her parents died and she has grown up at her grandparents with her cousin

May‘s #BookSpinBingo card is ready

My #BookSpin is Dangarembga‘s debut novel Nervous Conditions

My #DoubleSpin is my current audio. I‘m not a fast audio listener so maybe this will help my finish the book this month?

This year is going by too fast. It‘s already May.

Here‘s my #Bookspin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list is ready and I‘m looking forward to the numbers tomorrow

This short story collection was as amazing as “everyone” said it was. Traveling from the jails in the Wild West to a meeting with Queen Victoria, from the isolated farms in Australia to a snowy Siberia.

More importantly is the way she sets up the stories and you think they are going in a certain way, for Davies to take them in a different direction, playing with our prejudices and so they never gets boring

1st finish for #AwesomeApril

The story continues.

I didn‘t remember where we left our friends in the last volume, so was a little lost in the beginning as to where we were. But I wasn‘t the only one.

I liked the change of colors in this one.

I didn‘t know much about this going in. I just new that the author of Seven Days in June had a new book out and I loved that book. But that prologue pulled me in. I loved Ricki and Ezra.

Ricki travels to Harlem to work for her dream to have her own flower shop. For the first time she makes friends, Tuesday and her chosen grandmother Ms Della.

This was another winner from this author.

And that cover - I love that too

Dolly is born as the 6th of 7 siblings into a poor farming family in 1881. She‘s also born into a man‘s world where a man‘s word is final, first your father and then your husband because marriage is the only option for a woman. But Dolly what something else, so how do you make that happen within society‘s limits? This is the story of how Dolly managed that

When I finished I liked this, but as some time has passed I realize that I love this one

#WeeklyForcast

I‘ve just started Dobbelganger and want to continue that. I also want to continue my listening of How to Say Babylon

I‘m currently also reading Forgotten on a Sunday and want to finish that. And then I hope to read, or at least almost finish, North Woods

A book of twos; one part is about the The Golden Age of Dutch art focusing mainly on Delft. And I‘ve been to Delft and I love art so I loved this part. Who knew Dutch Art where so available to its citizens and not something for just the royals and nobility? The other part is about her and her parents. Her father was an artist. I found this part interesting. I loved how she used her own experiences to explain the Dutch artists.

#BookReport

I finished The Redemption of Galen Pike and Restless Dolly Maunder

I read A Love Song for Ricki Wilde and Monstress vol 8

I continued listening to How to Say Babylon

I even managed to get a start on Forgotten on a Sunday

So I‘m vey happy about my reading this week

Tomorrow starts the 9 day readathon #AwsomeApril

I hope to read:
📚 Finish The Redemption of Galen Pile (almost finished)
📚 Finish Forgotten on a Sunday (just started)
📚 Continue with my listening of How to Say Babylon
📚 Start Dobbelganger
📚 Read North Woods
📚 Then I just have to see where the mood takes me, but I have several books due back at the library at the 12th

Thanks for hosting @Andrew65

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Shortlist was just announced

I‘ve read 5 out of 6, so I‘m happy about that

Two of my favorites made it: Brotherless Night and Soldier Sailor

I also enjoyed Restless Dolly Maunder, but I haven‘t read anything by her before

I‘ve seen mixed reviews of River East, River West, so I‘m not sure what I‘ll do about that

What do you make of the list?

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction shortlist will be announced tomorrow morning.
I‘ve read 8 of the longlisted books

I would love to see Brotherless Night, Ordinary Human Failings and Soldier Sailor on the shortlist

I‘m not a huge fan of Western Lane, which probably means that it‘ll be shortlisted

Looking forward to the announcement

About two sisters and their relation to each other and their parents. I had some issues with this book. There‘s a lot of sex, nothing graphic, but at times it felt like one of the sisters would have sex with one guy on one page and a different guy on the next. But what really bothered me was that the older sister would send her cast off in her sister‘s direction. And what kind of sisters have this kind of relationship? It‘s just weird.

The second book in the series and it‘s another winner.

As Jonathan‘s cousin, Avery, comes at a surprise visit, the agency gets an urgent summon from the Pirate Queen Nyfe. Flick, Jonathan and Avery travels to the Pirate Queen world only the learn that the world is falling apart. Is it possible for the Stangwolds Travel Agency to save the people in the world, and what about all the ships?

#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue with the listening of How to Say Babylon.

I just read the first story in The Redemption of Galen Pike and it didn‘t go the way I thought, so I‘m looking forward to more stories in this collection

I‘m about halfway into Restless Dolly Maunder and expect to finish it today

Then I want to read A Long Song for Ricki Wilde

And hopefully I also get to start Monstress vol 8

#BookReport

I continued with both Thunderclap and the audio of How to Say Babylon

I finished Enter Ghost
I read The Strangeworlds Travel Agency The Edge of the Ocean and Sweet Desserts

I‘ve started Restless Dolly Maunder

This was the masterpiece that drew Marcel Proust out of his cork-lined room in Paris for the last time. He had seen it once before, in a visit to The Hague in 1902. It was to him ‘the most beautiful painting in the world‘. Almost twenty years later, suffering from lung disease, he made a shorter but more arduous pilgrimage from his apartment in boulevard Malesherbes, near the Madeleine, across four streets to the Jeu de Paume,

#5JoysFriday @DebinHawaii

As soon as she could walk, she knew she wanted to be outside, moving

#FirstLineFridays

Sonia returns to Haifa, Israel, to visit her sister Haneen. While there she gets pulled into a Palestinian theatre production of Hamlet. As the actors learn their lines and get there feel of the play, we get Sonia and Haneen‘s backstory. We also learn about everyday in this region, how it is to pass through checkpoints and being in the hands of the soldier doing the control, sudden demonstrations and reactions.

On a shopping trip with George & Bess, Nancy visit a perfume place where they‘ve trouble buying a perfume. On the train home Nancy is approached by a man who recognizes the perfume & wants to know if she has a message from the boss. Also on the train they get in contact with Millie. The friends decide to come home with Millie and help get more visitors to the farm she‘s from. While there Nancy learns that part of the land is rented out to a cult

I love this dedication:
“To Molly
and
to all the girls who fell in love with
the pirate king Elizabeth Swann”

This is not a chronological account of the different emperors from Octavian 44 BCE until Alexander Severus death 235 CE. This is a look at what it meant to be an emperor, what where your responsibilities, what recognized a good emperor, how was the household run and all your employees. It also looks at the women close to the emperor like mother and wife. It closes of with a look at how some of the emperors where turned into goods after their death

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with both Thunerclap and the audio How to Say Babylon. Both from The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist

I want to finish Enter Ghost, read The Strangeworlds Travel Agency The Edge of the Ocean and hopefully get a start on Sweet Desserts

A woman is taking care of her baby. In her eyes, her husband is never home, but always in the office. So she is left with “just” taking care of the baby and house 24/7. A grim portrait of the early days of motherhood.

‘I get just two days off, you know?‘ my husband was complaining. ‘I get just two days off a week and I have to waste one of them in IKEA?‘
‘Two whole days? I haven‘t had a day off since he was born. Unless we count the time I was hospitalised with pneumonia. And then you got your mother in.‘

‘Our marriage. Where is it going?‘
‘What do you mean? I just got a promotion.‘
‘How could you not get a promotion?‘
‘You mean congratulations?‘
‘No, I mean, how could you not get a promotion when you‘re always in the office? You‘ve a wife who does all the cooking, cleaning and child-rearing. She pairs your socks, she books your dental appointments . She sorts out all this shit,‘ I said, tapping the tax and insurance discs displayed on the

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I had a great reading week probably due to no plans after work and I had yesterday day off work

So I finished Brotherless Night and The Emperor of Rome. Both amazing reads

I read The Wren, the Wren; Soldier Sailor and The Stories at the Red Gate Farm

I continued listening to How to Say Babylon

I‘m currently reading Enter Ghost and Thunderclap

I‘m not sure how I feel about this book, soft pick, so-so.

About a mother and daughter, and their relationship to each other and the people around them.

I think this need to sit with me before I know how I feel about. I‘m not sure the author is trying to tell, that we‘re more similar to our parents than we think? What we‘re a product out past?

I excepted them to interrogate me at the airport and they did

#FirstLineFridays

This book - I how no words. This was amazing

It‘s the 80s and the Sri Lankan civil war. The Tamil Tigers is fighting for more freedom and independence. The men goes off to fight, but we follow a young girl, Sashi, who remains with her mother and younger brother, trying to live her life. This is war from a woman‘s point of view; how to get food, the insecurities as the military/ Tigers patrol the streets and bombs and the threats of rape.

The city used to be a mining city before it was closed down, and we follow 3 generations in the same family, and how they are living. We‘re also meeting the academics that come in to learn something and make a difference.

Their mother, Terry, read books all day, even when she was well. She lay in bed in the morning, she came down and propped the book against the teapot, she moved to a deckchair in the garden with her feet akimbo, and one arm flung high. If you spoke to her while she was reading she would look at you from a lovely distance.