#7days7covers - day 5 #CoverCrush

For seven days I‘ll post a favorite cover with no explanation

If you haven‘t been tagged jet, and want to show us some beautiful covers, consider yourself tagged.

My birthday is in September. For a few years now I‘ve viewed all the books I buy in this month as birthday presents to myself. These are the books I‘ve bought so far this month.

#7days7covers day 4 #CoverCrush

For seven days I‘ll post a favorite cover with no explanation.

Do you want to join in @charl08 ?

#7days7covers - day 3 #CoverCrush

For seven days I‘ll post a favorite cover with no explanation.

Do you want to join in @Texreader ?

Just started this one

I‘ll read anything that‘s illustrated by Lisa Aisato. I just love her illustrations, her pencil and color palette.

That‘s why I picked up this picture book from the library. A story about Ask and his mother who have just moved into a new house and the previous owner has left a piano behind, and how the piano will influence them.

This book was exactly what I needed, fast paced and intriguing characters.

“Ayoola summons me with these words-Korede, I killed him.
I had hoped I would never hear those words again.”

With a beginning that like that, it‘s impossible not to get hooked on the story.

It‘s about family dynamics and sisters, and consequences from physical abuse.

My 6th book from the Booker Longlist and my 2nd for #ABookAWeek hosted by @TheReadingMermaid

#Brothers #SoulSeptember

#7days7covers - day 2 #CoverCrush

For seven days I‘ll post a favorite cover with no explanation.

Are you playing @Aimeesue ? Want to join in?

Thanks for the tag @batsy

#7days7covers #CoverCrush

For seven days I will post a favorite cover with no explanation.

Do you want to join @Siri_reads

My current read hasn‘t hooked my jet so I thought I should put it on hold for a few days, and try something else instead.

So I hope this will hook me. I‘ve seen a lot of love for this, and it has been Longlist for both the Women‘s Prize for Fiction and the Booker this year.

This is a nonfiction book for kids about wild animals in the city and why they live there. The animals under focus are mainly pictured on the cover.

This was an easy to read and informative book for children with great illustrations.

Sid and granddad go on an adventure.

Based on the illustrations and the text on the pages, this is definitely for the younger kids.

Inspired by Lauren on “Lauren and the books” on YouTube, I‘ve made my own autumn 🍂 #BucketList.
On the left is the fun stuff, like reading, puzzle and LEGO. On the right is the boring adult stuff.

The list is from the website A Beautiful Mess, and is sent to you if you sign up for their newsletter.

#SelfImprovementSept

#ManicMonday

📚Snart sover du (Soon you‘ll be sleeping) av Lisa Aisato

🎥 While You Were Sleeping

🎼 Bed of Roses

Next up is this month‘s book for #WomenReadingWomen2019 @GatheringBooks

Algeciras 2018, two old gangsters, Charlie and Maurice, are sitting on a bench at the boat terminal, waiting on the boat from Tangier. They‘re waiting on Maurice‘s daughter, Dilly, to show up. Dilly‘s been missing for 3 yrs, and they‘ve heard rumors that she‘ll show up on this terminal. As Charlie and Maurice are waiting, they start thinking about the past and how they made it to this moment.

My 5th book from the Booker Longlist.

Next up.

A book from the Booker Longlist that didn‘t make it to the shortlist.

A story about a girl that takes inspiration from several fairytales, among them Rapunzel and red riding hood

Even if this is a picture book, I understand the tag about this being fro YA/ adults. The themes and drawings are not for kids.

Inspired by the TV series “Downton Abbey”, this was such a cozy read. It even had me smiling at times.

Finally this book is over. I can‘t remember the last time I spent this long to read a 270p book. I started last Monday, went away for the weekend and didn‘t think about the characters or the book once. There‘s nothing wrong with the book, I‘m not just its right reader. If it hadn‘t made it to the Booker Longlist, I never would‘ve picked it up.

The Booker Shortlist has been announced.

Margaret Atwood, Lucy Ellmann, Bernardine Evaristo, Chigozie Obioma, Salman Rushdie and Elif Shafak are on the shortlist.

My favorite “Lanny” didn‘t make it ☹️

I have Ellmann and Evaristo, and are looking forward to reading those.

What do your think of the shortlist? Did your favorite(s) make it?

I spent the weekend in Delft with colleagues on a trip paid for by my employer. And while we did some things together there was more than enough time to do some shopping.

I feel completely for Miffy, the grey teddy bear in front, and when I found out that she was created by a Dutch I decided that she was a souvenir.

And I found the Harry Potter calendar in the LEGO store and just had to have it.

For a #BookAWeek I want to:

I‘ve bought 5 books from the Booker Longlist and I hope to read 4.

and/or

There‘re several buddy reads this month and I want to participate in the following 4:
“Pachinko” #WomenReadWomen2019 hosted by @GatheringBooks
“Sleepless Nights” #NYRBBookClub hosted by @vivastory and @youneverarrived
“Overstory” hosted by @litsybookclub
“The Mysterious Affair at Styles” #AgathaChristieClubR2

#ReadingGoals

#ManicMonday

📚 Harry Potter (the hair makes me think of Luna Lovegood)

🎥 Frozen

🎼 Let It Go

Thanks for the tag @tournevis

#wondrouswednesday

1. I‘ve too many books that have stood unread on my shelves for 5 and 10 yrs. I immediately thought of the tagged one.

2. From cover to cover, none. But I have read bits and pieces of my romance novels several times.

3. On my physical tbr between 100-200 books, I don‘t keep count

4. “Becoming” by Michelle Obama. I don‘t give exact ratings, but would recommend this

5. Anyone who want to

Ready to start my fourth book from this year‘s Booker Longlist

In this novel we follow a family of 4 as they road trip from NYC to Arizona. The father is interested in Apaches and wants to visit historical sights to do a project on the echos and ghosts of Apaches. At the same time the mother is interested in the immigration from the south and the lost children.

This was my third read from the Booker Longlist and even though I enjoyed the book, I‘m not sure I‘ll root for it to make it the shortlist.

Continuing my read for #24B4Monday and #SummersEndReadathon

I‘m about half way into this book and ready to start part 2.

Borrowing picture from @Megabooks

I‘m doing both readathons and starting a little late.

My tbr for the weekend is the tagged book. For the week I hope to start The Wall.

I have plans this weekend and next and working during the week, so not sure about how many hours I‘ll read. But the important thing is to have fun.

#24B4Monday #SummersEndReadathon

Ready to start my third book from the Booker Longlist

Ali Smith, Max Porter and Tommy Orange, all have blurbs on this book, and that increase my expectations

Today I visited The House of Literature to hear Roxane Gay talk about her books. The theme was bad feminist. Given the themes, I‘m a little amazed by how much I laughed. Gay has a great sense of humor. The event was sold out so I sat in a different room with live transfer.

This is from the book signing afterwards, of course I had to buy one her books (tagged) and have it signed.

Yesterday I was at The House of Literature when Claudia Rankine gave a lecture on Black Experimental Women Writers.

Silly me thought she would talk about poets which might have something to do with the Norwegian title for the event, but she talked about art. And I‘m all here for that.

She focused particularly on Manet‘s Olympia and the Black woman in the picture that are not mentioned when this picture is analyzed by scholars.

This is such a great idea, but I‘m terrible at sticking to a tbr.
These are the 20 books I hope to read before the end of the year.

#20booksby2020 @megnews

Today I was at The House of Literature and heard Claudia Rankine in conversation with Athena Farrokhzad. The theme was the white gaze.

She signed my book afterwards too.

Rankine writes pose poetry. I don‘t often read poetry so I don‘t think I got everything thing, but I think I got her main points about racism and prejudices, and as a sports idiot I liked her sports references even if I don‘t watch tennis.

The poems are though provoking and eye-opening. They focus on the everyday racism like receiving a credit card from an African American and returning it to their white friend.

Next up.
#NYRBBookClub

Just finished this. And I‘m so glad I read it. In this memoir Michelle focuses on her childhood growing up on the South Side in Chicago. I really enjoyed learning so much about her family, their family gatherings and their love for music. It was fun reading about how she met Barack, and how she see him and their relationship. I could have wanted more from The White House years, but maybe she couldn‘t or she‘s saving it for another book?

Maybe it‘s time to do something about our prejudices?

With the upcoming events with Rankine on Monday and Tuesday, I thought it was about time I started reading the poetry collection she will talk about.

I‘ve just finished the first part and I have a feeling that Rankine has a lot to say.

😂😂😂

Michelle writing about the first President Election Day, and I just love Obama‘s comment.

I‘m going to Delft in The Netherlands in the not so distant future, so off course I have to ask my Litsy family for bookstore recommendations. Preferably in the city center and with a great selection of books in English.

Any other recommendations are also welcome.

I had my 1st day back at work after a 3 week vacation. It was hard getting up and when I had to figure out alternative ways of getting to work because of maintenance, it treated myself to a visit to the bookstore.

I‘m going to 2 events with Rankine next week so I figured I should at least read some of her poetry before the talks.

After reading @Emilymdxn raving review of “Ducks, Newburyport”, I decided to give this one a try

After 6 months on the library‘s waiting list, I‘ve it. So I should probably read it before it‘s due back.

This is the English version so I don‘t dare to think about the waiting list for the Norwegian translation.

In the minutes after Tequila Leila‘s death, we get glimpses of memories from her life.

A book about friendship and family, about religion and culture.

This is the second book I read from the Booker Longlist, and I need to read more books to know if I want to see it on the shortlist.

I will definitely check of out more of Shafak‘s novels.

Ready to start my second book from the Booker Longlist.

I‘ve never read her before, but I‘ve seen her other books around, so I‘m glad I finally get around to reading her.

What do a Jewish family and Norway‘s worst Nazi group from WW2 have in common? Jonsvannsveien 46, a house in Trondheim (pictured above from the book‘s cover).

The book start when the author together with his family and in-laws are standing on a street corner in Trondheim as Hirsch Kommissar, an ancestor, is getting his stumbling block. The author‘s ten yr old son asks him why Hirsch got killed, and he tell him the truth, because he was a Jew. ⬇️

I‘ve been on the waiting list at the library for six months for this one.

This got a lot of attention when it was published last fall, and I can‘t wait to start reading it now.

A son is writing a letter to his ma. In this letter he covers the family history and how his grandma emigrated from Vietnam with a kid; his childhood and teens. While looking at this, he also focuses on the opioid epidemic in the US and how it is to lose people you love.

There‘s something about this cover that makes me think about fall, all those orange leaves 🍁