June‘s #BookSpinBingo card is ready.

My #BookSpin is a book in the Flavia de Luce series and my #DoubleSpin is Deborah Levy‘s latest.

Here‘s to an other great reading month

Yasmin and Joe are getting married, but they have some family things to figure out too.

A book about family, friends, different cultures and racism

I had been so god this year and during the year‘s first four months only bought 6 books. Then May came and I bought 8 books.

The good thing is that I have already read 3; the 2 Manga and Black Butterflies.

I hope to get to several of these in June.

And A Glass of Blessings is for a buddy read in November #PemberLittens #HashtagBrigade. I bought it early since I was buying from an online bookstore I usually don‘t buy from.

So the #20in4 #Readathon is over for me this time

I had a fantastic readathon.

I kept up with the buddy read of Clarissa.

I finished the books I was almost finished with; The Story of Art without Men and Black Butterflies.

I‘ve read Love Marriage.

I‘ve started Dinner in Rome.

And I even managed to post a wrap-up 😊

This is a must read for anyone interested in art and feminism. This will be my new reference work for all things art and art exhibitions.

2nd book finished for #20in4
@Andrew65
The first third of this book was also my #BookSpin this month @TheAromaofBooks

Sarajevo 1992, a city on the brink of war even if it‘s citizens don‘t believe it, because Sarajevo is a city where everyone lives to getter.

A book about holding on to normalcy as long as possible and doing every day things even if the bombs are falling.

I thought the ending was to happy until I read the author‘s note and realized that people like that actually exist.

1st book finished for #20in4
@Andrew65

I can‘t believe it‘s almost June. Where has the year gone? Anyway, my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list is ready. A mix of everything; reading challenges, library books, my tbr and my newest buys.

#WeeklyForcast

I hope to continue listening to my audio, the tagged, after 1,5 yr break, the book is quite episodic so should be okey.

I want to finish Love Marriage

I just started Dinner in Rome: A History of the World in One Meal

I want to read Call the Name of the Light 1, my second manga.

I want to get a start on Fire Rush

#BookReport

I finished both Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix and The Story of Art without Men

I read both Spy x Family and Black Butterflies

I‘ve just started Love Marriage

Finished my first manga, and it won‘t be my last. Confession: In the beginning it was weird to read a book the wrong way, but I got used to it

This vol‘s about a spy that‘s told that he need to infiltrate a prestigious school. So he has to adopt a child, and it turns out she can read minds. When the school want to interview both parents, he needs to find a wife as well. She turns out to be an assassin.

A poetry collection about grief and loss.

Starting tomorrow #20in4 #Readathon hosted by @Andrew65

I want to:
📚 Keep up with my reading of Clarissa
📚 Finish The Story of Art with Men - I have some 30p left
📚 Finish Black Butterflies - I have some 50p left
📚 Start something new, I‘m thinking maybe Love Marriage

I‘m rereading HP as the illustrated editions are published and the illustrations are amazing and adds to the story.

After last book‘s ending, HP has spent the summer with the Dursley‘s and with hardly any contact with his friends and Sirius, he‘s feeling alone. HP has reached 15 yrs and is also a moody teen.

For me this book is about friendship and how your true friends are the ones that are there in the hard times.

#WeeklyForecast

For the next 3,5 months there‘ll be buss for metro on parts of my way to work. I‘m not sure how much this will effect my reading yet.

I hope to finish the tagged. I also want to finish HP and the Order of the Phoenix.

I hope to read Black Butterflies which is one of the shortlisted books from the Women‘s Prize I haven‘t read yet.

I also bought my first mangas ever this month and hope to read the first volume of SpyxFamily

#BookReport

I finished both Grand Hotel Europa and Stranger, Baby

I continued my reading of The Story of Art with Men

I started Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

A man rents a room in a hotel to write the story of his lost love, Clio. As he writes about how they met and the relationship evolved, he also writes about the missing Caravaggio painting (I‘m not sure about the truthfulness in that) and travelers.

Most of this book feels like a input in a conversation about traveling and travelers, and then mostly tourists, but he also touches on immigrants. What are the impact of tourism? And the will to

“the Guerrilla Girls brought public attention to the inequalities and systematic discriminations in the art world, and ultimately asked just how did museums get away with celebrating the history of patriarchy instead of the history of art?”

“Revisiting the statistics in 2012, they found that little had improved: ‘Less than 4% of the artists in the Modern Art sections are women, but 76% of the nudes are female.‘”

#WeeklyForecast

It‘s amazing how fast time flies when you‘re in vacation mood and not doing anything 😊

So this week I want to continue my reading of The Story of Art without Men

I want to finish both Grand Hotel Europa and Stranger, Baby

I want to get a good start on Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix

#BookReport

I finished Birnam Wood

I continued my reading of The Story of Art without Men and there‘s so many artists I hope to see in exhibitions in the future.

I‘ve started both Stranger, Baby and Grand Hotel Europa.

Birnam Wood is a community of idealists believing in ecological farming and producing your own vegetables and it‘s anti-capitalist. One of its founders is Mira and a longtime member is Shelly. One day another of the cofounders return, Tony. At the same time Mira gets in contact with a billionaire, Lemoine, who can make the BW so much bigger. All have their own agendas.

An eco-thriller which for me was about who reaches their goal in the end.

‘I don‘t think there has ever been a man who treated a woman as an equal and that‘s all I would have asked for - I know I am worth as much as they‘ - Berthe Morisot, 1890

(The only female participant in the first 1874 Impressionist exhibition and she showed her work in 7 out of 8 exhibition last between 1874 and 1886. Missing one due to illness following giving birth to her daughter. This info is from the tagged book)

What does modern art mean, anyway? A break from the past, the eradication of hierarchies, lines shattered on a canvas, scenes of everyday subjects in modern society? Yes, you could say to all those things, but what makes modern art ‘modern‘, as art historian Diane Radycki argues, is the participation of women artists.

With its glittering surfaces and elegant figures The Opera of the Sea bears striking similarities with Klimt‘s famous The Kiss, 1907, made five years later. Klimt would have seen these works (Waerndorfer was a prominent collector of his) - and yet … has Macdonald Mackintosh‘s name ever been mentioned in reference to Klimt?

(p.99)

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my reading of The History of Art without Men

I‘ve just started Birnam Wood and want to read that.
I want to start Grand Hotel Europa

Hopefully, I will start on the poetry collection Stranger, Baby

A book of two parts. The first part is about a single mother and her daughter. They live in a caravan and the mother is working for the caravan place. In the second part we learn more about the mother‘s past.

This was Ali Smith‘s debut novel, and with this I have read all her novels. Now I have her short story collections left to read.

#BookReport

I‘m reading my way through The History of Art, and am 100p in and already at the 20th century. Not sure how I feel about that, but not surprising that not much female art from before that is preserved.

I read Like.

My #BookSpinBingo card for May is ready. A little later than usual since I‘m just back from the movies.

I have already started my #BookSpin which is the first third of The History of Art without Man

Looking forward to my #BookSpin too which is a Dutch author.

My #BookSpinBingo list for May is ready.

I can‘t believe we‘re already in May, especially on this day when there has been snowing.

Looking forward to the numbers tomorrow.

#WeeklyForecast

Not that many books in my forecast this week, but they are books I‘ve started today

The History of Art without Men is a Christmas present that I want to take my time with.

Like is the last of Ali Smith‘s novels I have left to read, which is probably why it has been going back and forth to the library a few times. I wasn‘t sure what I wanted to read so a favorite author seemed safe.

Not sure what I‘ll read afterwards.

I would love to know the story behind this dedication

The 5th Flavia de Luce crime book and I‘m so glad I‘ve started reading this series again.

This time Flavia is present when a body is found in a crypt in the church. And of course Flavia needs to investigate.

I love Flavia as a character, but I‘m not sure I would love having her as little sister.

#BookReport

I finished Spring Cannot Be Cancelled and Glory

I read both The Franchise Affair and Speaking from among the Bones.

Now I‘m off to meet a friend for brunch

Hockey decided to spend a year in Normandy and which happened to be the year of the pandemic. This is a book about the iPad paintings he did this year, but also about his influences both philosophers and other painters. A book about actually seeing what we see. But what strikes me the most after having read this is how many painters are influenced by their surroundings and are painting those.

If an exhibition opens near me I will def see it.

In a sleepy English village, Milford, it‘s late Friday afternoon and lawyer Robert Blair is thinking about finishing the day early. Then the phones ring and one of the villagers wants his legal counsel. Before he knows it, he is tangled up in quite the case.

This was a gripping read that had me turning the pages, and a reminder to not make assumptions based on looks.

#goldenagectimeclub @Mitch
#1948 #192025 @Librarybelle

The shortlist has just been announced and I‘m not sure how I feel about it

No The Bandit Queens, in one way not surprising since my favorite hardly ever makes it to the shortlist

I‘m happy that Trespasses is there.

Probably no surprise that MP and DC is there, but I‘m not a fan of those

I have Fire Rush on hold at the library and looking forward to reading that

What do you make of the shortlist?

The shortlist is announced tomorrow. So I thought I should post my hopes on this snowy day.

I‘ve read 6 of the books, DNFed 1 and have previously DNFed 1 book by one of these authors and aren‘t jumping on the possibility to try another

I loved The Bandit Queens and would love to see it on the shortlist
I would also be very happy to see Trespasses and Children of Paradise there

What favorite to you hope to see on the Women‘s Prize Shortlist?

#WeeklyForecast

Finish both Spring Cannot Be Cancelled and Glory

I want to read The Franchise Affair

Hopefully get a good start on Speaking From Among The Bones

#BookReport

Finished both Agnes Grey #PemberLittens and Trespasses

Currently reading Spring Cannot Be Cancelled and Glory

Finished this chapter a day reading a little early.

I liked this story about Agnes deciding to work as a governess and get a feeling of what that was like. Rosalie was quite the character

#PemberLittens
@BarkingMadRead

This was a compulsive read where I just had to keep on reading to find out what happened next.

Set during the troubles in Northern Ireland. Cushla helps her brother out in the bar and also works as a teacher. She starts an affair with a married man. At the same time she tries to help one of her pupils.

5th read from the #WomensLongList

This book started out looking at how climate change is changing the world, like the flooding of New Orleans and the destruction of The Great Barrier Reef.

Then the book started to look at how we humans are trying to change this. And this part scared me because we don‘t have the best track record trying to change something we are the reason for. So changing the DNA of cane toads in Australia to stop their spreading or dimming the sun, makes me

Paradise is one of this city‘s oldest cinemas, and its employees are really something. They have created rules for themselves at the cinema; watching movies after hours, taking whatever drugs they find and keeping jewelry. Into this comes new employee Holly who finds it hard to be accepted.

A book about fitting in, making new friends and how fast life can change.

4th book read from the #WomensPrizeLonglist

#WeeklyForecast

I‘m finally caught up on Agnes Grey and want to continue reading that #PemberLittens

I want to continue reading Spring Cannot Be Cancelled

I want to finish Trespasses and start Glory. I think these books are the last ones I‘ll read of the Women‘s Prize Longlist before the shortlist is announced on the 26th.

I finally picked up this on. I think I have been delaying reading it since I didn‘t want have my suspicions proven right. And right I was. I enjoyed being back in this universe and continuing Hazel‘s story.

A book about how there is always hope.

I usual Tan‘s illustrations are amazing.

#BookReport

I continued Agnes Grey #PemberLittens and is still not all caught up. I finished Under A White Sky #SheSaid and have started Spring Cannot Be Cancelled.

I read The Bandit Queens, The Read Tree and Saga volume 10. I‘m currently about halfway into Children of Paradise.

This book is amazing and I loved it 😍

Geeta‘s husband disappeared years ago and people in the village thinks she killed him. Then one day a woman approaches her and want Geeta to help her get rid of her husband too. Things kind of escalates from there.

This book has a humorous tone, but don‘t let that fool you. The book focuses on the caste system, religion, patriarchy and how little power women have, the importance of friendship and

The last book in the Wells and Wong mystery series is a collection of shorter crime stories. In most of these stories in addition to Daisy and Hazel, we also meet again Uncle Felix and Miss Livedon and fellow detectives Alexander and George.

I just hope my library get the rest of the books in this series

I raced through this 1000p + chunkster, the 6th book in the Stike and Ellacott mystery series.

This time the duo is investigating the murder of a young woman who was the co-creator of cult cartoon on YouTube. Her co-creator was also hurt at the same time.

Looking into fandoms, Neo Nazis and incels.

I never guessed at who the killer was.

I just hope I don‘t have to wait too long for the next book in this series.

I love this cover.

And when the first line in the blurb is:
“Geeto is believed to have killed her vanished husband - a rumour she hasn‘t bothered trying to correct, because a reputation like that can keep a single woman safe in rural India.”

This must be good, right?