I loved this. This is amazing. Smith‘s play with words and language - I love it.

About a woman who out of the blue is contacted by a woman she knew back at university. Before she knows it, she‘s contacted by the woman‘s kids as well.

In the background is the pandemic which is supposed be over.

A book about the meaning of words, about respecting how other people may take precautions you don‘t see the need to and about taking strangers in.

I liked this, but didn‘t love it as everyone else seems to do.

A short story collection focusing on women and mostly the quest to find love or being in a relationship with the wrong one.

#BookReport

I continued the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I finished Saturday Requiem and The Secret Lives of Church Ladies.

I read Imagine Wanting Only This and Companion Piece.

I‘m currently reading the book about butterflies, Havanna Taxi and Remote Sympathy.

#FirstLineFridays

@ShyBookOwl

#ThoughtfulThursday

Tagged
Physical
I don‘t really give star ratings, but somewhere between 4 ⭐️ and 5 ⭐️, depending on the ending
No

Thanks for tagging me @Ddzmini

@MoonWitch94

Today is Norway‘s National Holiday, the day we celebrate our constitution from 1814.

Happy Birthday to everyone that celebrates

(Picture is from VisitOslo on Instagram)

The 6th book about Frieda Klein.

In this book Dr. Klein gets involved in a 13 yr old murder case. The supposed murder is doing time at a psychiatric institution. When Dr. Klein starts looking there‘s several things that doesn‘t add up.

Part memoir, part nonfiction about abandoned cities.

In Kristin‘s family there‘s a rare heart disease. She looks into this disease and how it effects her family.

She also looks at abandoned cities. Her fascination starts after a visit to Gary.

Through all this she is looking at loss, love, grief and loneliness.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Finish Church Ladies

I want to read Saturday Requiem and Companion Piece

I want to get started on Havanna Taxi

Violette is a cemetery keeper living a quiet life. Her husband disappeared years ago. One day a stranger knocks on her door wondering why his mother want to spend her eternity with a stranger.

I can‘t explain it but there‘s something about this writing that pulled me in.

I hadn‘t read much into this before I knew that I wanted this book to last forever, but at the same time I wanted to read on to know what happened next.

#BookReport

I finished Lady Susan #PemberLittens and continued with the tagged KindredSporitsBuddyRead

I read Earth and Ashes, and I just finished Fresh Water for Flowers.

I have started both Church Ladies and my butterfly book

Next up is Imagine Wanting Only This.

A grandfather and a grandchild is sitting somewhere in the mountains waiting for a car to take them further into the mountains. They are going to visit the son/ dad.

I really short book at just under 80p.

#Afghanistan #foodandlit
@Butterfinger @Texreader @Catsandbooks

Sebastian has a heart failure and can‘t play soccer like the other kids at school. Every day after school, he goes to his grandma and in her kitchen soccer doesn‘t matter and he learns to make the most amazing food.

Samartin is born on #Cuba and I read this last month for #foodandlit.

I‘ve owned this book for 10 yrs and I‘m glad to have gotten it off my tbr.

@Butterfinger @Texreader @Catsandbooks

I loved this so much more this time than the first time I read, maybe I was more prepared for Lady Susan this time?

Lady Susan is really something and so manipulative.

I‘m so glad I reread this with the #PemberLittens
@sprainedbrain

Looking at how women is behind some important ideas for the modern society, but gets ignored because it doesn‘t fit with the ideas we have of masculine and feminine.

I had no idea that electric cars was invented at the same time as gasoline car. But because they were seen as feminine they didn‘t become the same success as the gasoline car.

#WeeklyForecast

Finish the buddy read of Lady Susan #PemberLittens and continue with the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I‘m currently reading one Litsy favorite, Fresh Water for Flowers, and plan on finish during the week.

I will start another Litsy favorite, The Secret Lives of Church Ladies. I also want to start my butterfly book.

Then I hope to get to either Imagine Wanting Only This or Earth and Ashes, or maybe I‘ll get to both.

#BookReport

I kept up with the buddy reads, the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Lady Susan PemberLittens

I finished Flamingo.

I DNF‘ed Zulejkha Opens Her Eyes.

I read Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me

I‘m almost done with Mother of Invention and will be finished before the weekly forecast tomorrow.

Almost 170p in and I‘m giving up. My expectations where high after reading a review which said it was for lovers of “The Eight Life” and I loved that after the first paragraph and knew I was reading a new favorite novel by the first page.

This book almost pulled me in at page 100, but then it lost me again. I just don‘t have it in me to force read 300p pages by Monday when it‘s due back at the library.

Maybe I‘ll get back to it someday.

Honestly, I thought this book was going to be fluffy, but boy was I surprised.

A book about family and what constitutes a family, about belonging, about the importance of spending time with each other.

Every review I‘ve read/ heard seems to be focusing on the lesbian relationship between the mothers in this book, but for me that‘s a small part of this.

For me the book is about Daniel and the importance the neighboring family Marsh will have

I was at an author event yesterday hosted by her Norwegian publisher. It was free.

They talked about this book, and her other novels.

Her third novel will be published in Norway January next year and sounded really good. About three friends over thee decades.

During the signing of the books she had had interpreter with her, and she talked with everyone. She was just the sweetest person.

My #BookSpinBingo card is ready. Can‘t wait to start reading.

My #BookSpin book is next up and #DoubleSpin is one of the Longlisted books for the Women‘s Prize that didn‘t make it to the shortlist.

I have my books ready for #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo for May.

I‘m not sure how readable this list.

#WeeklyForecast

The beginning of a new month, mark the beginning of new buddy reads. The tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and Lady Susan #PemberLittens

I want to do finish Flamingo.

I‘ve just started Mother of Invention and want to start the book by Jakhina. Both of these are due back at the library on the 9th.

From the bath, Daniel can hear his mum singing along to ‘Like a Virgin‘, which is a song by a woman called Madonna. He knows this song because it‘s on the radio all the time, and he also knows that a virgin is like snow that no one has walked on yet, this is what his mum told him when he asked, just think of snow, she said. So every time he hears this song he imagines boots stepping into snow, and this image makes him feel good and relaxed, so he

In the 70s Opal and Nev were THE Punk duo. A fierce African American woman and a white British male. This is their story to fame and potential reunion.

Looking at racism, sexism, white male entitlement and doing what you believe is right.

#BookReport

I finished Summer, read The Final Revival of Opal & Nev and have just started Flamingo.

Not much reading done this week, but on Tuesday I was at a Whitney Houston tribute and Thursday my work had its Spring Party. Sometimes you have to be a little social too.

The Women‘s Prize for Fiction has just announced their shortlist.

I‘ve read 3. I loved Great Circle and Sorrow and Bliss. I liked The Island of Missing Trees.

Not sure I‘ll read the others.

I still have some books from the Longlist to read

What do you think of the shortlist?

Just like the first time I read this, the brother disturbs me, gluing his sister hand to a glass timer and his views on the torture game he plays.

I loved that several people from previous books, returns in this book

The book look at how our treatment of illegal immigrants today is much the same as the way we have treated other groups of people earlier, interning Germans during WWII.

I‘m so glad I have reread this quartet.

#WeeklyForecast

I can‘t believe I have no buddy reads this week.

I‘ll finish Summer.

Then I want to focus on the Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist and read The Final Revival of Opal & Nev and hopefully get a good start on Flamingo.

Excited for the shortlist announcement later in the week.

#BookReport

Finished both of the buddy reads; tagged #KinderedSporitsBuddyRead and North and South #PemberLittens

I finished Moon Witch, Spider King and I read Mofongo.

I‘m currently reading Summer

I‘m so glad I read this with the #PemberLittens. Reading this a chapter a day, increased my enjoyed of this.

About the North and South of England which is between industry and farmers. About masters and workers. About the new world and the old.

Margaret grew on me and Edith annoyed me.

I loved your daily summaries and memes @MicrobeMom so thanks for tagging me.

@sprainedbrain

Built by the gods, which is what priests say when they mean by the death of tens of hundreds of thousands of slaves.

#WeeklyForecast

Finish both North and South #PemberLittens and the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Finish Moon Witch, Spider King. Read Mofongo #foodandlit #Cuba. Get started on my rereading of Summer.

I loved this book about the middle sister in Pride and Prejudice. The first third is from the novel and the rest is just Mary‘s own story.

I loved reading about Mary finding out who she is and learn more about her.

And an author how make Mr Collins seem like a nice guy is definitely doing something right.

#PemberLittens
@sprainedbrain

I loved your daily summaries and memes @StayCurious

#BookReport

Finished The Other Bennett Sister #PemberLittens and continued North and South #PemberLittens. Continued the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Finished Troubled Blood and I‘m currently reading Moon Witch, Spider King

One night I was in the dream jungle.

#FirstLineFridays
@ShyBookOwl

Strike and Robin are contacted by a woman that want them to look into her mother‘s death/ disappearance 40 yrs prior. So the private detectives take on their first cold case.

Privately Strike‘s aunt has gotten cancer and Robin is still dealing with her divorce.

1st book for #AwesomeApril
@Andrew65

Sorry book, I‘m just not feeling you at the moment. I feel that the translation I‘m reading is keeping me at a distance so I doesn‘t care what happens with the two characters. I also spotted some spelling mistakes at the beginning that didn‘t help.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the buddy reads; the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and with the #PemberLittens both The Other Bennett Sister and North and South.

Finish Troubled Blood and hopefully get a good start on Moon Witch, Spider King.

I have the next week off work, Easter vacation, and hope to get in a lot of reading.

#BookReport

I continued with the buddy reads; the tagged #KinderedSpiritsBuddyRead and both The Other Bennett Sister and North and South #PemberLittens

I finished Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

I read Elena Knows, Love in the Big City and Kvar dag skal vi vere så modige.

I DNF‘ed Heaven, at least for now.

And I‘ve just started Troubled Blood (not pictured).

It‘s that time inn the month again. Andrew‘s 9 day readathon #AwesomeApril #Readathon

I‘m off work next week, Easter vacation, and I hope to get in a lot of reading

I want to keep up with my buddy reads
I‘ve just started Troubled Blood and want to finish that
I also want to read Moon Witch, Spider King

So two chunksters there, and then I‘ll see if I get started on anything else

So glad to have to back to host another readathon @Andrew65

A quiet book about a young boy and his mum. The mum isn‘t feeling well and spends a lot of time in bed and has her son skipping school to look after her. A book about how children will protect their parents.

Young is trying to find love in Soul. He has some longer relationships and some really short ones. Trying to find the right man is not easy in a society that doesn‘t acknowledge that gays exists and that includes his own mother.

I must admit that I‘m sad about this not making it to the Man Booker International shortlist.

I so enjoyed the writing style in this.

#BookSpin April
@TheAromaofBooks

A must read for any book lover

#BookSpin March
@TheAromaofBooks

Elena‘s daughter and caregiver has been found dead in the belfry. The police has ruled it a suicide, but Elena doesn‘t believe them. She decides to visit an old friend, someone she hasn‘t seen in 20 yrs, Isabel.

We follow Elena on her trip across town to visit Isabel, and how Elena has to plan her trip according to her medication. She has Parkinson. It made an impression to read how Elena can‘t move and se beyond a certain point.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue the buddy reads. The tagged with #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and both North and South and The Other Bennett Sister with #PemberLittens

Continue Bibliophile: Diverse Spines

And also want to read as many as these as possible: Elena Knows, Love in the Big City, Kvar dag skal vi verre så modige and Heaven.

I have my #BookSpinBingo for April ready. I just love looking at a new bingo card and see all the reading possibilities in the month ahead.

#BookSpin is a book from the International Booker Longlist that I hope to read next week.

#DoubleSpin is a buddy read with the #PemberLittens that I soon March.

So this is how my #BookSpinBingo was March went. If I counted correctly, 4 Bingos. I‘m happy about that.

I read my #BookSpin and I‘m a good way into my #DoubleSpin

Single mother Tess, one day finds a drawing that her young daughter has made. Unlike her kids bright colored drawings, this one is in black of a woman falling. Tess just know that something isn‘t right, but no one believes. So she looks into it herself.

This book scares me and if it was a movie I wouldn‘t dare watch it.

#BookReport

Finished Rage Becomes Her #SheSaid. Continued The Other Bennett Sister and North and South, both with #PemberLittens. Started the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Read Cards on the Table and Sorrow and Bliss

Currently reading Bibliophile: Diverse Spines and The Unheard.