Just announced the Winner of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction 2025

I loved this when I read it, so I‘m so happy it won

Just announced as the Winner of the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction 2025

I haven‘t read this
Actually, I‘m scared of reading this since I know I‘m going to cry like crazy

Powerful, self biographical poems about all the operations Campbell underwent as a child and her struggles to become a mother with the help of IVF

I follow Campbell on YouTube and remember her talking about getting access to her medical files. In this collection there‘s several letters between doctors, making me wonder if these are real since they treat her as a curiosity

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I started both Audition and Sara Strindberg‘s latest yesterday, and want to finish them

I want to continue the 2nd book in the Applemore series, tagged, on audio

I want to read A Clue in the Jewel Box #NancyDrewBR

#BookReport

I read Fundamentally (already returned to library) and The Crossing Places

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and started Audition #CampLitsy25

I continued my audio, Weyward, and hope to finish today

The 1st crime book in the series staring archaeologist Ruth Calloway

When the remains of a child is discovered in the salt marches, the police hopes that it‘s a 4 yr old that disappeared 10 yrs ago, but the remains turns out to be over 1000 yr.

Then police inspector Harry Nelson shows Ruth some letters he received back in the day, and an other young girl is missing. Are all these cases linked?

I would have wanted to know more about the

In recognition of her body of work, significant contribution to literature and strong advocacy for for women Bernadine Evaristo has won the Women‘s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award

I‘m not sure what this entails, but I love her novels. After her novel, “Girl, Women, Other”, won the Booker prize a few years back, I read all her other novels. I think Mr Loverman is my favorite

I hope she out with a new book soon

In desperate need to leave London after a breakup, Nadia decides to take on a job in Iraq with the UN to deradicalise women affiliated with ISIS. Things doesn‘t go as planned when she meets Sara who reminds her of herself when she was the same age, and things escalate from there.

If the description of the internal workings of the UN is even remotely close to the truth, they don‘t come off particularly good. I was shocked actually.

My #BookSpinBingo board for June is ready

My #BookSpin is a Norwegian nonfiction
My #DoubleSpin is the first quarter of Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens

Hoping for another great reading month

Summer is here, and summer is usually my best reading months. I finally have my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for June ready.

A lot of buddy reads and I might want to join too many. Guess I won‘t find out until the end of summer.

I loved Harding‘s nature illustrations showing us the changes in nature through the seasons.

Along with most of the illustrations is also snippets i to her life

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Lamentation again for #ShardlakeBR

I want to continue my audio, Weyward

I started Fundamentally earlier today. Once that‘s finished I want to start The Crossing Places unless Audition #camplitsy25 arrives from the library first

1. My 4th read
2. The Tilney siblings
3./ 4. I love when Austen is defending the reading of novels & making fun of people who don‘t read them, chap 5 & 7
5. Dance, at least I have a chance of surviving that
6. Snooping
7. SIL
8. That‘s hard since there‘s more people I wouldn‘t want to invite. Getting an invite: the Tilney siblings & Catherine. Not getting an invite: Mrs Allen - all the talk about muslins. Mrs Thorpe. Mr Thorpe - such a brute

Another winner from Austen

I particularly like the defense of reading the novel and all the literary references.

Some neighbors of the Morland‘s ask if Catherine would like to join them in Bath. Off course she does, and in the beginning it‘s boring since they don‘t know anyone. The. Catherine is introduced to Isabella and later to Henry and suddenly it‘s not so boring anymore

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Perrin‘s latest is another winner.

It‘s autumn 2010, and Agnes gets a call that her aunt has died. There‘s just one problem, she was told the same thing in 2007 and a person can‘t die twice right? So Agnes travels to her aunt‘s home and meets some old childhood friends and some of her aunt‘s friends

Did her aunt not live the boring life that everyone thought? Quite the story is unraveled

In the canal between France and the UK a boat with immigrants have sunk causing the death of 27 immigrants. On the French side the woman who took the calls are being questioned by the police and she is not prepared to take on any more blame than the rest of us since she “didn‘t force them to leave”

Is she a representation of all of us? And the fatigue of ever more immigrant stories? Is it worse since she was a woman and we expect more nurturing

#BookReport

This was a week for finishing books 😊

I finished Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Tata and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I read A Year Unfolding and The Adventure of the Three Gables #NoPlaceLikeHomes

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I made great progress on my audio, Weyward

I‘m almost done with A Little Trickerie

Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby - the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife - and we would get a roof in return.

#FirstLineFridays

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Continue Weyward on audio

I want to finish Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Tata and maybe even Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I want to start A Year Unfolding and A Little Trickerie

I raced through this, angry about all the injustices in this world. I feel that it‘s wrong to say that I loved it because of the subject matter

Each character is one case that Eistrich has handled. Looking at how man who kills their wives gets of because she was nagging, but women who kills their husbands after years, sometimes decades, of abuse gets the strongest verdicts, and how that is beginning to change. She‘s also looking at other cases

A weak pick

Our Narrator is talking about his friendship with Fanny. & friendships are never easy, especially when you don‘t know which of you friend‘s personalities you‘re going to meet

I watched Jen Campbell‘s YouTube video where she read some of the longlisted International Booker books & one of several ideas she talked about was that the Narrator & Fanny where the same person, & the Narrator where Fanny looking at herself from a distance

#BookReport

I read Hvit Makt (White Power) and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued this month‘s buddy reads; Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I continued Please Di Not Touch This Exhibit

I‘ve started Tata

Book not in the database

Freedom for everyone apparently means different things for different people. For most of us it means freedom for everyone, but for some, mostly white, mostly American, it means freedom to oppress other people. And this book looks at how this ideology has shaped the USA since the Civil War and how that ideology always has led to a backlash when African Americans have gained more rights.
Looking more closely at the work

Today it‘s 80 years since Pippi Longstocking was first published.

Here‘s to the world‘s strongest girl 🎉🎉🎉

I grew up watching the Swedish TV series from the 60s and read the first book just a few years ago

The picture is from Lisa Aisato‘s instagram page

#BookReport

Finished:
📚 A Leopard-Skin Hat
📚 Sister in Law

Read:
📚 The Quest of the Missing Map #NancyDrewBR
📚 Small Boat
📚 The Blanched Soldier #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Current:
📚 Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
📚 My yearlong reads
📚 Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow
📚 Lamentation #ShardlakeBR
🎧 Weyward

#WeeklyForecast
Continue my current reads, read Hvit Makt (White Power), TAo The Mazarin Stone & start Tata

Today‘s Norway‘s National Day. We celebrate our constitution from 1814.

We celebrate with the children‘s parade, so this is seen as the kids day where they can eat all the ice cream and hot dogs that they like

So to any Norwegian in here: Happy Birthday
And I hope everyone has a great day

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who had not pleasure in a good novel, most be intolerably stupid

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with the buddy reads; Lamentation #ShardlakeBR, Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Blanched Soldier #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Continue Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, Sister in Law and on audio Weyward

I‘m about to start The Quest of the Missing Map #NancyDrewBR

I also want to read Small Boat and get a start on Tata

#BookReport

Continued with my yearlong reads

Continued the buddy reads: Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I finished By the Fire We Carry, Autocracy Inc. and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

I continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I‘ve started Sister in Law, A Leopard-Skin Hat and on audio Weyward

“Oxford! There is no drinking at Oxford now, I assure you. Nobody drinks there. You would hardly meet with a man who goes beyond his four pints at the outmost. Now, for instance, it was reckoned a remarkable thing at the last party in my rooms, that upon an average we cleared about five pints a head.”

I‘m so happy to find out how little they don‘t drink at Oxford

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

This is the 3rd book about Nine and her friends in the moving house.

This time they are headed to Beyond to look for a friend. But one of the rules In Beyond is that you have to shop in every store, leading to quite some store visits and their eccentric owners. Nine also learns more about her mother

Is this Austen‘s way of letting us know that we have met the villain already?

Doesn‘t like reading

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Applebaum shows how modern day autocracy differs from previous ones in that the autocratic nations today are working together, helping each other and learning from each other. It used to be that autocratic nations were isolated that is no longer the case as they are buying from each other. They have also created strategies for taking down anyone citizen criticising them or the country. This book scared me

This took me quite awhile to read, maybe because I didn‘t want to know how it ended?

A young, widowed father is doing what he can to save his boy from living the life he has lived. When we first meet them, they are running away. I‘m not going to spoil if the father succeeds or not.

But there‘s several instances of child abuse

The first half was my #BookSpin for April

they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Yes, novels; - for I will not adapt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#BookReport

Read The Illustrious Client

Finished Our Share of Night

Continued with my yearlong reads on the right

Continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit and Autocracy Inc

I‘ve started Northanger Abbey #PembetLittens #JaneAustenThenandNow, Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my current reads and hopefully finish some.
Start Sister in Law

A little later than usual, but here‘s my #BookSpinBingo card for May

#BookSpin is a book from the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist, Sister in Law
#DoubleSpin is a book from the International Booker Shortlist, A Leopard-Skin Hat

Another winner in the Shardlake series.

This time Shardlake gets a case from the queen to look into a case. A young man has committed suicide after saying that something monstrous has happened to his previous pupil. The family lives in the south not far from Ellen‘s hometown, so he decides to look into her story as well.

An intricate mystery, fooling me to the end. I did not see that end coming.

#ShardlakeBR

Just in time for tomorrow‘s draw, here‘s my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for May

A lot of buddy reads and longlisted books.

(The picture is found online and seemed appropriate since it‘s Norway‘s National Day in May, and as kid there‘s one things that for sure, there will be ice cream)

Ready for my 4th reading of this book

The opening sentence:
“No one who had ever seen Catherine Morland in her infancy, would have supposed her born to be an heroine.”

And later in the chapter:
“But from fifteen to seventeen she was in training for a heroine; she read all such works as heroines must read to supply their memories with those quotations which are so serviceable and so soothing in the vicissitudes of their eventful lives.”

What I like about memoirs is that introduce me to lives completely different from my own. And boy does Neenah Cherry do that, and that even if all the name dropping is excluded.

Her mom was an artist and her dad was a jazz musician so the family traveled a lot when Cherry grew up, mostly between Sweden and NYC. She took a break from school at 14, got married at 17 and had her first child at 18. She just never was a kid the way I was.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Hopefully finish Our Share of Night and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

Read The Illustrious Client #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Start Lamentations #ShardlakeBR and Autocracy Inc.

I loved how Cooper mixed the personal, statistics/ facts and using famous people to highlight her points. She uses Beyoncé, Bill and Hillary Clinton and Michelle Obama. The analysis of one of Beyoncé‘s songs was eye opening and the analysis of Michelle Obama‘s hair on Trump‘s inauguration just the same.

She also looks at how it is to be the only Black in the room, being raised by a single mother and the importance of sisterhood

#SheSaid

Unsurprisingly, this poetry collection is not in the database.

The poet Hamza Hirsi founded his own publishing company to publish his debut collection so he would be able to give it to friends and family, and from there it escalated.

I heard him at the library and there‘s something about the first poem he performed that resonated with me.

In every city there‘s some places that‘s seen as better than others. He grew up in one of the “bad” ones

#BookReport

I finished the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued By the Fire We Carry, A Thousand Threads and Our Share of Night

I‘ve started the poetry collection Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

The video for “Formation” pays homage to post-Katarina New Orleans and ends with Bey using the weight of her body to sink a New Orleans police cruiser into the flood‘s waters. Putting middle fingers up to the state that incarcerates the most people per capita anywhere on the globe, and including an image of a Black boy dancing for his life while staring down a line of a police in riot gear, is a bold fuck-you to the forces that seek to snuff out

A group of 40 women is kept in a cage together underground, how they got there is unknown. After years, one day there‘s a sound, the door to cage is left open and they can leave.

I‘m not sure what this book was trying to say, but it does look at loneliness and belonging, and surviving.

#BookReport

Finished:
📚 There‘s a Monster behind the Door
📚 What the Wild Sea can Be
📚 Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

Read:
📚 The Moss Covered Manson #NancyDrewBR
📚 Rommet i jorden (The Room in the Ground)
📚 Spuria
📚 The Peepshow
📚 I Who Have Never Known Men

Current reads:
📚 The yearlong reads on the right
🎧 By the Fire We Carry
📚 Eloquent Rage #SheSaid
📚 A Thousand Threads
📚 Betongblomst (Concrete Flower

In March 1953 the police found 4 dead women at 10 Rillington Place hidden in the walls and floorboards. Reg Christie was soon a suspect and one of the victims was his wife. Just 4 years before, in 1949, another man had been convicted for murdering his own wife and child on the same address.

This isn‘t a story looking into the life of victims and ignoring the suspect. It looks at both, but more importantly it looks at the press and the