#BookReport

I completely forgot when I was my making my weekly forecast, that December started this week.

So I continued reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I started the tagged book and Du Grøne, Glitrende.
I‘ve also started the following advent calendar books: Adventsstjernen, Seldas julekalender and I desember

My #BookSpinBingo card for December is ready.

The empty spaces for books 16, 13 and 20 represent library books that I can‘t extend and I‘m not sure I‘ll get to them in time. So these might be switched and I want to write in the correct book.

I‘ve already started my #BookSpin book - a tribute to the Christmas tree. I‘m also looking forward to my #DoubleSpin - another Christmas book.

I had such high expectations for this novel after seeing some raving reviews. And I love the cover. And it started out really good too. I loved the first few pages, but then the story started jumping around and I stopped caring. I‘m not sure if it‘s because I don‘t know enough about Iranian history, that it was the wrong time for me to read this or the writing or all three.

But at least for now it‘s a DNF.

A young man is found dead in the boat he lives in. We follow three women, Laura, Carla and Miriam. Laura was seen near his home at the time of his death and has a history with violence. Carla is his aunt. Miriam is his neighbor, living in an other boat and is the one who finds him.

We get these women‘s stories and we are not a part of the police investigation. And I‘m not sure I liked that way of telling the story. Also I didn‘t care to find

#WeeklyForecast

Continue reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

Continue the tagged on audio.

I‘ve just started Du Grøne, Glitrande a tribute to the Christmas tree and it‘s history in Norway, and will continue reading that

I‘m want to read a good chunk of Samlede Verker, a novel by a Swedish author that has won prizes. I‘ve waited on this from the library for 6 months- one yr and It‘s due back in a couple of weeks.

#BookReport

Buddy reads:
? Finished Further Chronicles of Avonlea #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
? Continued The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

Read/ Finished:
? The Wanderbeekers to the Rescue
? Manifesto
? Åtte små, to store og en lastebil

Currently reading:
? A Slow Fire Burning
? Mormor og de åtte ungene i skogen

Dnf‘ed:
? Most likely Disoriental will be dnf‘ed. I‘ll make the final decision tomorrow

I‘m super early this month (for me) and have my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo books for December ready.

Some of these books are due back at the library soon, so I hope I get them extended. If not, I‘ll need to change some books.

(The background is a picture I found online and it says that it‘s title is “Christmas Tree 1” and is a oil painting by Christine Gaut)

I loved reading about Bernardine‘s life and her journey to where she is today. I especially loved the stories behind her books and influences.

I‘ve wanted to read her backlist since I read “Girl, Woman, Other” and I‘ve read “Mr. Loverman” earlier this year. After this book, I‘m more keen on that than ever.

Maybe next year will be the year I read the rest of her books?

The third book about the Vanderbeekers and just as delightful as the others.

This time the kids manage to destroy their moms approval to have a bakery at home. As they try to fix this, someone keeps leaving pets at their door causing more problems.

This was a good reminder to always remember to check what language a book is before borrowing it from the library. When I opened the book, I found out that this was in Danish and not Norwegian.

This is about a boy that spends a Christmas with his dad. This didn‘t make much of an impression on me and I‘m already starting to forget it.

#WeeklyForecast

I hope to finish The Further Chronicles of Avonlea #LindredSpiritsBuddyRead and continue reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I want to continue listening to the tagged book.
I‘ve just started Manifesto and want to continue that.
I hope to read The Vanderbeekers to the Rescue and Disoriental. I also want to start A Sloe Fire Burning.

This might be too ambitious.

A woman is writing about an unknown author. As she writes her reality and the past blur into each other and the past starts writing it‘s own story.

As more storylines were introduced to the story, I found it harder to know who was telling each one and she lost me a little. I also found the blurriness between realities/ timelines confusing.

#foodandlit #Mexico

Feeling lonely in London, Mirka decides to leave the city and ends up in rural England. She accepts a job working for a married couple. Once she gets there, she finds out the work is a little bit different than she thought. The husband needs help with his taxidermy business. Mirka soon also finds herself more involved in the marriage than she expected.

This is my #DoubleSpin for November @TheAromaofBooks

#BookReport

Continued reading the tagged book #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and The Warmth Of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I finished The Thursday Murder Club and The Address Book. I read The Employees, Faces in the Crowd and English Animals. I‘m currently reading The Western Wind and listening to « små, 2 stor og en lastebil».

The dean was right, today was weighing day, that undignified annual ceremony in which I was put in a boat along with another man to see that I weighed less than him, for a priest‘s substance is, it‘s claimed, midway between man and angel.

(The novel is set in England 1491. Does anyone know if this is true? I doesn‘t quite fit with what I‘ve learned about the church from that era.)

“Come help me,” Win said. “I can‘t blow this light out.”
George found him standing by the bulb. Win had been blowing on the bulb until he was almost out of breath.
“Win you can‘t blow it out, you got to turn it off,” George told him, reaching for the light switch and shaking his head.

#OtherSuns

(Sometimes it‘s easy to forget how new electricity actually is)

Tomorrow was Shrove Tuesday, carnival, carne levare: farewell to the flesh.

(A picture found online of the carnival in Venice)

This book taught me so much about the importance of a street address. It‘s said somewhere in the book that getting a street address is the easiest way to get out of poverty.

I also loved how she used examples for all over the world including India, Berlin, Japan, Iran and South Africa. And how different cultures view streets differently and how street names can be political.

I have absolutely no idea of what I just read. A story told in vignettes over 130p and the slim novel was one of the reasons I finished.

Humans and human lookalikes work together on a ship and are being interviewed by someone about what is happening on the ship.

What a delightful read.

Four pensioners are looking into cold cases when a murder happens in their neighbourhood and they change focus. They also try to help the police in their investigating.

Elizabeth, Joyce, Ron and Ibrahim will stay with me and showers that there‘s more to people than their old age. And the police officers Donna and Chris.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue buddy reading Further Chronicles of Avonlea #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

Finish The Thursday Murder Club and The Address Book. Read The Employees and English Animals.
Get a good start on Faces in the Crowd and The Western Wind
Continue the tagged on audio

#BookReport

Finished Chronicles of Avonlea and have just started Further Chronicles #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead. I continued reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I‘ve read Tuesday‘s Gone and Second Place.

I had one of my rare DNFs and dnf‘ed We Met in December.

I‘m currently reading The Address Book and The Thursday Murder Club, and listening to the tagged book.

I really enjoyed these stories in the universe of the Anne books and especially the references to Anne in some of them.

I also particularly enjoyed the stories “The Courting of Missy Strong” and “The Miracle at Carmody”, probably because they are so similar to some stories in the Anne books.

And the story “Old Lady Lloyd” about an older woman doing what she can for an old beau‘s daughter was so sweat.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I loved Cusk‘s Outline trilogy and I love books about art. However, I had seen some very mixed reviews of this one, but I needn‘t have worried. I so enjoyed this and raced through it.

M invites the artist L to stay with her and her husband. M feel in love with L‘s art several years ago when she saw them at a gallery. When L finally comes to visit, it doesn‘t turn into the visit M expected and hoped for.

In another study, Boroditsky and her collaborator, Alice Gaby, gave various subjects a set of pictures that, once placed in the right order, told a story - a man aging, for example, or a banana being eaten - and asked them to put the shuffled cards in order. English speakers arranged the pictures left to right, the same way the subjects read and write in their own language. Hebrew speakers would, on the other hand, organize the pictures in

This book was not for me, so after 80p I‘m letting this one go.

#Two4Tuesday

1. Not that I haven‘t already visited, I think. No trip downtown is complete without a visit to the tagged store. And I also plan on visiting Shakespeare and Company again the next time I visit Paris and Daunt Books in Marylebone the next time I‘m in London

2. No, but I have books on my reader and if I see them in the store I‘ll look at them more closely.

Thanks for the tag @TheAromaofBooks and I tag anyone who wants to play

The second book in the Frieda Klein series. This time she gets involved in a case where a dead man is found in the home of a mentally unstable woman. The police is ready to put the case away as solved, but Freida is not so sure and does some investigation on her own like finding out who the man is.

I had a feeling we had not seen the last of Dean after finishing the first book and I was right.

Now on to borrow the third book.

Lusaka, Zambia 1978: 9 year old Pumpkin is living with her mother. Her rich father is living with his wife and sons. When he one day finds out that Pumpkin‘s mother drinks too much, he takes Pumpkin home with him. This will change Pumpkin and her mother.

I find it hard to rate this book and figure out what I feel about, since I didn‘t connect with the writing and wasn‘t pulled into the story. So I guess that‘s why it‘s a so-so.

#foodandlit

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Chronicles of Avonlea #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and continue The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I want to finish the tagged book and continue reading The Address Book. I also want to read We Met in December and start Second Place

About a family of five where everyone except the dad is autistic. A story about how if feels like to be different and get along in the world. But also a story about loving nature and animals, and doing your part to preserve it.

#BookReport

I continued reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns and started Chronicles of Avonlea #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I finished 304 Days and Diary of a Young Naturalist. I read Patchwork and to two picture books for kids.

A professor is looking for a very rare and magnificent bird. Two kids decide to help her in her search, along the way they meet a lot of different birds.

The birds in this book where gorgeously drawn along with the trees.

And the colorful cover got my attention at the library.

My #BookSpin for November @TheAromaofBooks

I saw this cover at the library, and without reading the blurb, I borrowed it. There was just something about the cover.

Two hedgehog siblings wake and while their mother is sleeping, they decide to cross the road to get some food. That turns out to be more dangerous than planned.

Some of these illustrations are absolutely stunning.

She suggests Castle Ward, a National Trust estate made famous by Game of Thrones - I‘ve never seen the TV series, I‘m a little too young, but I can imagine it all. Castle. Courtyard. Turrets. And when we arrive, Lorcan groans at the sight of all the tour buses and the people walking around in costume. They all want their little bit of screen magic! A selfie for Twitter or Instagram. I hope they know that magic exists everywhere.

This year‘s Booker Prize winner

Not my favorite among the shortlisted books, but I still enjoyed this very much and gave me something to think about.

What do you think about this year‘s winner?

And here is my #BookSpinBingo card for November.

So this is how my #BookSpinBingo went in October. I‘m very happy about my reading.

I didn‘t read the blurb for this before I started reading, and I probably should. This book was not what I thought it would be.

Every essay start with Kendall talking about the subject on her own life before she broadens the argument. She covers subject such as gun violence, poverty, stereotypes and abortion. Some of these arguments felt very American to me and maybe that‘s why I preferred her essays on stereotypes because they are more easily

In the introduction Ginzburg writes that she has written about her family and friends but that we should read this as fiction and not nonfiction since these are her memories. She was born in 1916 and we find out what it was like growing up in Mussolini‘s Italy as a Jew and the war and the years after.

This is a relatively short book, but there‘s a lot of characters in here, her parents, siblings, friends and as she grows up, in-laws and

This is not the tagged, so I‘m tagging the last book I read by him. This is his newest book, published this fall.

An Afghanistan veteran is finding life afterwards hard, and makes a promise to his mother that he will not commit suicide until after Christmas, 304 days into the future. The conversation between son and mother, was so powerful. Then we get his life in camp in Afghanistan.

At the same time we meet Arman, and get the view on how

A goldeneye duck. They‘re so beautiful. Perhaps it‘s here alone for the winter because there‘s no female around. We rarely think of all that effort being made below the water, those webbed propellers whirring so the bird can glide with such ease and grace on the river. It‘s just like being autistic. On the surface, no one realises the work needed, the energy used, so you can blend in and be like everyone else.

I can‘t believe how fast this year has flown by and that it‘s November tomorrow already. Anyway, I have my list ready for #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo

This is the first book in the Detective Inspector Gereon Rath mystery series. I‘ve wanted to read this series ever since I watched the first two seasons of the TV series.

Berlin 1929: A man is found dead in a car in the canal. Rath and his companion in Vice is seeking out illegal photo shoots and bars. Then several Russians turn up dead too.

Along with the murder mysteries, there‘s a lot about the Roaring 20s, tension between different groups

#WeeklyForecast

Continue reading The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns and start Chronicles of Avonlea #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I want to finish both 304 Days and Diary of a Naturalist, read Patchwork and hopefully read two picture books for kids

#BookReport

I finished Hood Feminism #SheSaid and continued The Warmth of Other Suns #OtherSuns

I finished Babylon Berlin and Read Family Lexicon. I‘m in the middle of both 304 days and Diary of a Young Naturalist.

The story of Bill Russell. NBA is not a thing in Norway, but this still gives you something to think about.

#OtherSuns

Emily and I didn‘t get a good start but as I‘ve read her story I‘ve fallen in love with Emily and her aunts, uncle and friends. After finishing school Emily returns to New Moon to start her writing career, while her friends continue out into the world.

The ending had me in tears (but to be honest that doesn‘t take too much)

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

One of the ways the South fought back the leaving of African Americans to the North.

#OtherSuns

As a newspaper in Columbia, South Carolina, put this question to the ruling caste: “If you thought you might be lynched by mistake,” the paper asked, “would you remain in South Carolina?”

#OtherSuns