#BookReport

I read The Land in Winter

#WeeklyForecast
Continue my yearlong reads. I‘ve made to December in Year of Wonder
Continue my Christmas books; The Snow Sister and Merry Christmas
Continue the tagged on audio

Next up is The Clue in the Leaning Chimney #NancyDrewBR, and after that start the 4th Pages & Co book, The Book Smugglers

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue my Christmas reads; The Snow Sister and Merry Christmas

I‘ve just started The Land in Winter and I‘m not sure I have time for anything else

I have wondered about starting What Matters in Jane Austen? now that I‘ve finished A Thousand Feasts

A wonderful book focusing on the small moments of joy in our life, like drinking a cup of something or eating something. A book to read in small doses

This doesn‘t happen often, that I start a new book the same date as the book starts

The 2nd book in the Impossible Creatures series and from the acknowledgments this will be a 5-books series, so I have more to look forward to

It‘s a year later an Christopher is back in our world. One night Jacques begs him to return, or as Jacques would say, his summoned back to the Archipelago. Someone is killing the dragons, and who‘s strong enough to do this in these numbers?

‘Dessert!‘ he said. ‘At least half of a meal should consist of dessert, in my opinion; perhaps two-thirds.‘

(And I couldn‘t agree more. Love dessert and chocolate)

#BookReport

I‘ve read Helm, and The Moomins and the Great Flood

I‘ve continued my yearlong reads on the right
I continued A Thousand Feasts
I continued the tagged on audio

I‘ve started my Christmas reads; The Snow Sister and Merry Christmas

I‘ve also started Impossible Creatures: The Poisoned King

The first Moomin book that came out for the first time 80yrs ago. I think it‘s interesting that the original title doesn‘t mention Moomins, but calls them tiny trolls. Apparently the publisher wanted people to know what they was

In this first story Moomin and his mom are on a journey to find a place to live before the winter and looking for dad. In their way they meet several different creatures and has quite the adventure in a 50p book

I‘m not sure this was a book for me.

It‘s said to be about Helm, a wind in the Northern England. I was surprised by how little we heard from it. In this book of 340p, maybe 20-30p

And also we followed a lot of different people in different time periods, and I had a hard time knowing where I was unless their names popped up. The writing was the same no matter what. Maybe because of Helm, but I don‘t know

I think this house looks so cozy

From The Snow Sister, illustration by Lisa Aisato

The 4th book about Lucy Barton

This one is about the pandemic. It‘s starts just before everything closed down, and Lucy ex-husband, William, understands where this is going. So he gets himself and Lucy out of NYC and tell their daughters to do the same. They move to Maine, and a new life here with walks, meet now people and face hostilities for being New Yorkers.

This was a very true portrait of the pandemic years

My #BookSpinBingo card for December is ready

My #BookSpin is the 4th book in a series
My #DoubleSpin is a reread of A Christmas Carol

Here‘s to another great reading month

I can‘t help but wonder how the literary world would have been, if she hadn‘t changed her mind

I loved this book

I loved that the “good” people were so good that you loved them and the “bad” people were so bad that you hated them. I love a good villain to hate, and this delivered on that, looking at you Mr Quilp

And I didn‘t see that ending coming

#WhatTheDickens

Some of the authors that Nigel Slater are rereading

I see a favorite author of mine, and some I want to read

I had no idea that Project Gutenberg was founded so early

I loved this

A book about loneliness, as the title suggests, but also of its consequences

The young girl who finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older male artist that thinks everything is allowed in the name of art

The man that finds his best friend pushing him out of his life to find a wife

Two families that faces their own challenges, an aunt that left her husband, a mother that leaves her husband

About family

My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list is ready

December! Where have the year gone???

The list is a mix of Christmas books, children‘s books and anything else seen as cozy

#BookReport

I finished The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
I read The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Continue the tagged on audio

Hopefully read Helm

I also want to start the advent calendar book, The Snow Sister, and God Jul (Merry Christmas) about Norwegian Christmas traditions

Another winner in this series

Joyce‘s daughter is getting married and the gang is invited. While there, Elisabeth is approached by the best man that says that someone is trying to kill him and that there was a bomb under his car that day. So the hunt begins

At the same time Ron and his family faces some family difficulties

#BookReport

I‘ve finished Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow earlier today
I just finished the last page of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

#WeeklyForecast

Continue The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts

Next up is The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

& no Paris trip is complete without a visit to Shakespeare and Company

These are the books I came out with:
- Sally on the Rocks reminded my of a Barbara Pym novel
- The Paris Trilogy was recommended to any lover of Annie Ernaux
- Virgina Wolf had prepared The Life of Violet for publication, so then I want to read this early work
- Paris in Winter is the #SundayBuddyRead for December next year
- & Braithwaite‘s highly anticipated 2nd novel

When I was in Paris almost 4 weeks ago, I did surprisingly, but some books

This is one of them, and the only in French, in the tagged chain store. The Branch I visited have an amazing picture book section for kids, so I ended up with this

I used to be able to read kids books in French, but not anymore, but I still want to improve myself and hope to read this sometime

I still haven‘t read the book I bought there 2 yrs ago

A book about second chances & love that survives

8 yrs ago Anne Elliot was advised by friends and family to turn the proposal of Captain Wentworth since he didn‘t have enough money. Now things have changed, the Elliot‘s is letting out their home to live in Bath for awhile. There Anne meets her lost love again

& off course as in any Austen, there‘s complications and someone isn‘t as nice as they seem to be

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Tagging my favourite Ali Smith, since this essay isn‘t in the database

This essay is 43 p with pictures on every other p and big letters

Ali Smith looks at the forest and especially pine trees in Edvard Munch‘s art

At an event I was at earlier this year, Ali Smith was gushing about how much she loved Edvard Munich‘s art. That event took place in the University Auditorium that is full of his art, and Smith couldn‘t believe her luck.

My #DoubleSpin for November was to listen to the October musical pieces in this book which I have no done

As I‘ve written a couple of times, I‘ve fallen behind on my listening in this book

I finally made it to this date, and this musical piece is amazing 🤩

This is definitely not the reaction you want when you‘re treating someone

This is a perfect description of Anne Elliot

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

On this day 1919

I love that bookstore

What every reader wants to do in public transportation

One view on Dickens

It really says something about your life when Dickens is better

The Sherif department get a call about a shooting at the school. When they get there one of the students has a gun and gets shot by the police. After a search of the school, they find one of the teachers shoot. On the teacher‘s phone the police finds pictures of children being tortured and killed, and the search is on to find victims and the third person in the pictures

When the conclusion comes it makes perfect sense and is the most scary of all

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

I‘ve just started the tagged chunkster which would translate into The Seafarer about the lost empire of Portugal

#BookReport

I finished All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I‘ve started both The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

A perfect description of an introverted reader

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Just announced the winner of this year‘s Booker Prize

I‘m quite happy about this since I enjoyed it while I read it

I had no idea that Dumbo in NYC was an abbreviation of this

I just love the name Dumbo since I love the Disney movie with the same name

“Oh, I can miss someone after a day. Let‘s meet somewhere -“
“Where?”
“Anywhere - let me think. Portofino!” He was delighted by his proposal. “Where the film stars go. Everyone must go to Italy - (…)”

(This dialogue reminds me of Taylor Swift‘s song Elizabeth Taylor. Picture of Portofino found online)

Another winner from Elizabeth Stroud

In this Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess and Lucy Burton all live in the same city, Crosby, Maine

Olive and Lucy meets in Olive home in a retirement community where they tell each other stories of people in their past.

Once a week Lucy and Bob meet to talk a walk so Bob can smoke his one cigarette a day.

And in between this, we hear about their spouses, ex-spouses, children, grandchildren and friends

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue the buddy reads; Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue All the Sinners Bleed on audio

The Booker winner is announced tomorrow evening, and I want to get a start on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny

I also want to start The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

#BookReport

I finished Mother Mary Comes to Me

I continued my yearlong reads on the right & has started catching up on Year of Wonder

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I completely forgot that last Saturday was the beginning of a new month & new buddy reads, but I‘ve now started Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I‘m also reading Tell Me Everything

A day late, but this was too good not to post

I guess we‘re gonna live for ever then fellow Littens

What an amazing memoir. I loved this

Roy has a complicated relationship with especially her mother, but also her father. A lot of the memoir focuses on this through the ages.

But she also spent time on her school years, film making career and relationships, and as a book lover how much winning the Booker Prize back in 1997 changed her life for ever.

I know it‘s early but I hope to this on next year‘s Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction.

This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Crosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.

#FirstLineFridays

Jane Austen is not afraid of telling it as it is.

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#NonfictionNovember #NFN #TodayILearned

I had no idea that the above was done, not just in India, but at all

I must admit that as someone who has showed up to an event with Roy and had my book signed by her, I love that she enjoys meeting her readers

September‘s musical pieces were my #BookSpin for September, and I‘m finally finished

The curious thing happened. My listening had been going well, so I thought I would buy her second book. With the result that I stopped listening, and now has some catching up to do

But I love these musical pieces and how they introduce me to so many different composers

I‘ve fallen behind on my listening, but have started to catch up

This is worth remembering and that‘s an impressive walk