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AnneCecilie

AnneCecilie

Joined July 2016

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Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for April is ready. How is the first quarter of the year already over?

A list influenced by buddy reads, crime/ scary reads for Easter, spring reading and longlisted books.

For A Year Unfolding, I might “just” read the early spring and spring chapters

(The picture is by Lisa Aisato)

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 2d
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

Finish Intermezzo

I just started What the Wild Sea Can Be and what to read some more in that

Read Perfection

Start the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

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Star of the Sea | Joseph O'Connor
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Winter 1847, Star of the Sea is leaving Ireland for a 26 day trip to New York. Some is rich, some is poor, but they all hope for a better life in NYC, and a lot can happen on a trip. We get the backstories for everyone and the ending surprised me.

I still don‘t see the point of the pictures and excerpts throughout, and the way to tell the story felt a little odd at times, but other than that I quite enjoyed this

Texreader Great review. Same feeling about the odd way of writing 3d
Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 1d
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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The plan was to read two chapters a day, but then I came to the point where I know Lady Catherine de Bourgh will arrive and then there‘s my favourite scene, so I just had to read on

This Austen novel will always have a special place in my heart since it‘s the first one I read after watching the BBC series

I think this is the 1st time I‘ve been thinking that Charlotte didn‘t make so a bad choice after all. Because she could have married a Wickham

Bookwormjillk Anyone looks good compared to a Wickham! 4d
Crinoline_Laphroaig I love this book so much! 3d
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#BookReport

It‘s towards the end of the month, so I finished the monthlong buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I put the Tiller book on pause for now

I‘ve started Intermezzo

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Arbeidarhjerte: roman | Carl Frode Tiller
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This book came out last autumn to great acclaim and I was on waiting list at the library until now. But now is not the right time for me to read this. I find my thoughts wandering and that I want to read something else.

I might come back to in the future when the second book comes out. I enjoy it well enough when I read it, I‘m just not inclined to pick it up

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Women's Prize For Nonfiction | Women\'s Prize For Nonfiction
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The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction was just announced.

I‘m actually quite happy about this list

I loved Raising Hare, I enjoyed Private Revolutions

I have What the Wild Sea Can Be out from the library

And I‘m on the wait list for A Thousand Threads

What do you make of this list?

ChaoticMissAdventures I think it is a good list! They still are not going to make me read that book about the children and heart transplants (my heart cannot handle it this year) but I think this list is an interesting mix. I know Cherry's books has been a bit divisive on Litsy but I thought it was good. 7d
youneverarrived I‘m happy Neneh Cherry‘s memoir made it to the shortlist- the only 5 star read from what I‘ve read on the list so far 💕 What the Wild Sea Can Be I‘m glad is on there too, hopefully more people will read it. I won‘t read The Story of a Heart 💔 but Private Revolutions I‘m reading and loving. Agent Zo I‘ll be reading next. 7d
squirrelbrain I‘m really pleased with the list - they definitely picked some of the best out of a fabulous list. 6d
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Eurotrash: Roman | Christian Kracht
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This book annoyed my and that might just be a me thing. I never really understood when this book was taking place, if it was a dream or if it happened in an alternative universe. The son and the mum keep spending francs to pay for stuff. The mom went to finishing school in the early 60s and was 80 now, and as far as I know France hasn‘t spend francs in 25 yrs. This annoyed me so much so that the other stuff fell into the background. There‘s a lot

AnneCecilie of mention of Nazisism, denazification after WWII and their ancestors that were Nazis and their wealth. There‘s mention of castles and expensive art and I‘m not sure we ever learn if this was because of the Nazisim. #InternationalBooker (edited) 1w
AnneCecilie @Graywacke As you can see I had some issues with this novel 1w
BarbaraBB That‘s clever, about the francs. I didn‘t notice it when reading the book. 1w
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Ruthiella Does it maybe take place in Switzerland, not France? 🤔 1w
AnneCecilie @Ruthiella @BarbaraBB the setting is Switzerland, but the mention of all the franc has probably had me thinking about France. Do they use franc in Switzerland? 1w
Ruthiella @AnneCecilie They do use the Swiss Franc CHF in Switzerland, yes. But it definitely was not a book for you because it bothered you and I think in books we enjoy, it‘s easier to overlook stuff like that. (edited) 1w
Graywacke @AnneCecilie yeah, it definitely didn‘t work for you. 7d
BarbaraBB @Ruthiella @AnneCecilie That‘s It. They still use the Swiss franc instead of Euro so it wasn‘t a mistake! 7d
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#BookReport #WeeklyForecast

I finished The Mystery of the Bass-Bound Trunk

I read Anything is Possible, the Sherlock Holmes story The Bruce-Parlington Plans and Eurotrash

I‘m still doing my yearlong reads on the right

I read this month‘s reading of Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and will continue with the others; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

Continue By the Fire We

AnneCecilie Cary. I‘m about to start the book by Tiller. The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist is announced on Wednesday so my read after the Tiller book might be inspired by that or by the fiction shortlist that is announced on April 2. 1w
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Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
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Linked stories about the people in the rural area of Amgash. Most of the people grew up poor, and we see how this impacts them in adulthood. There‘s several stories covering child abuse.

This is a book in the Lucy Barton series and she‘s mentioned a couple of times and shows up in one

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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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What a book. 13 linked stories where a main character in one story, can show up as a minor character in another story.

The stories in this collection is told in a one-side conversational way, and I loved that

About abortion, violence against women and femicide, the cartels, and grief

#InternationalBooker

TheBookgeekFrau I'm sold--stacked! 😊 2w
sarahbarnes Just picked this one up - excited to see you liked it! 2w
BarbaraBB Me too, I have a copy of this one as well! 2w
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#WeeklyForecast

I don‘t have any plans for the upcoming week, so I hope to get some reading done

Continue my yearlong reads

Continue the buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Start of the Sea #BookedInTime and Entitled #SheSaid

I want to finish The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk

I want to read Anything is Possible and hopefully Eurotrash so I get a start on the book by Tiller

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Another case that support that pro-lifers isn‘t about pro-life

#SheSaid

Sace And of course it was Alabama. Sometimes I hate it here. 2w
sarahbarnes 🤬🤬🤬 2w
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Kate Manne in chapter 6 on why the pro-life movement isn‘t about pro-life

#SheSaid

TheBookHippie There is nothing about life in their stance. Nothing. 2w
AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie No, but it‘s to nice get the confirmation. But most importantly, I love that she gives me arguments I can use if I ever where to meet one. They aren‘t that big in Norway. 2w
quietlycuriouskate @AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie Yep, definite odour of mendacity and hypocrisy there! 😠 2w
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Sace And Governor Meemaw didn‘t care about the hypocrisy. 2w
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 2w
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda

Every two hours and twenty-five minutes a woman in Mexico is strangled, raped, dismembered, burned alive, mutilated, beaten to a pulp, and left with bruises and broken bones. A woman‘s body, another woman. Some woman, a nameless woman. A lifeless body was found.

AnnCrystal 😢🙏💝. 2w
BarbaraBB Incredible. And we‘ve known this for years and years 2w
ShelleyBooksie Heartbreaking 2w
sarahbarnes I just got this from the library. 💔 2w
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#BookReport

I finished Private Revolutions and on audio The Christmas Bookshop

I kept up reading my yearlong reads on the right

I kept up with the buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Star of the Sea #BookedInTime and Entitled #SheSaid

I‘ve also started Reservoir Bitches and Mystery of the Bass-Bunk Trunk #NancyDrewBR

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After losing her job in her hometown, her sister gets her a job in Edinburg working in a bookstore. Carmen isn‘t too excited about this, but agrees and stays with her sister and her sister‘s family

This took me forever to finish, but that‘s not the book‘s fault. I‘m not a big audio book listener and only listen on short walks and to the library and there aren‘t many short walks during the winter months

I liked this and wants know what happens

AnneCecilie next with these characters. (edited) 3w
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I‘m so happy #wonf25 put this book in their Longlist. I never would have read it if it wasn‘t for the list.

It‘s interesting to learn about a society and culture that‘s completely different from your own. And I‘m just talking about China being communist. Like the school system, children walk hours to get to school, where your family is registered decides where you go to school and the competition.

Cathythoughts Great review. Stacked 👍🏻❤️ 3w
AnneCecilie @Cathythoughts Thank you 😊 3w
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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What a first story. But if the rest of the stories in this collection is like this one, I‘m in for a treat

I‘m not going to say too much about what it‘s about, but I loved all the references to watching Legally Blonde, Miss Congeniality and Almost Famous

ChaoticMissAdventures I am next in line at the library and excited to get to it! 3w
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#BookReport

I continued with the yearlong reads on the right

I started all the buddy reads & so far I‘m keeping up; Entitled #SheSaid, Star of the Sea #BookedinTime, Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & Heartstone ShardlakeBR

I continued listening to the tagged

I read The Coast Road & has started Private Revolutions

There‘s the world championship in the Nordic genres at the moment & it‘s having an effective on reading

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Early on in this novel one of the female protagonists says in relation to marriage and divorce: “And if it‘s too easy to get out of, who‘d bother trying? […] In my day the worst thing you could imagine was being unmarried - you just went with the first fellow who asked you.”

This is a character study of what happens when marriage is the only option. How does this influence the women, the men and their children?

An amazing read

Leniverse This book is proof that it's possible for a man to write authentic and complex female characters. I genuinely had to stop halfway through the book and double check that the author was in fact a man. 4w
Suet624 Stacked! 4w
TrishB Loved this one ❤️ 4w
Jess861 I loved the writing in this book! 4w
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Women's Prize For Fiction | Women\'s Prize For Fiction
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The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Longlist was just announced

I‘ve read 2: The Ministry of Time & The Safe Keep

I‘m on the waitlist at the library for 2: All Fours & Tell Me Everything. But the list is long & they won‘t arrive until after the shortlist, if not after the winner announcement

Then there‘s all these other books to explore, some showed up in prediction videos, but other than that they‘re new to me. Anything you want to recommend?

Gissy I haven‘t read anything but I own 3 books😃and just purchased three which it will happen, they will arrive late but I‘m intrigued to read them. 1mo
Amor4Libros I‘m reading Dream Count now and loving it. Fundamentally, The Persians and Good Girl are also very good. So glad to see The Safekeep on this list! I also enjoyed All Fours 😊 1mo
BarbaraBB I‘ve read The Safekeep, All Fours and Tell me Everything and loved them all. So I have high hopes for the others! 1mo
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sarahbarnes I‘ve been interested in Birding so glad to see it on the list. And The Artist looks intriguing. I‘d second @BarbaraBB in that I‘ve also read those three and loved them. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures It is so hard when we have to order things and know because of that we cannot read them all before the shortlist! Like most people the safekeep so far is the one I have read and liked I read all fours and enjoyed it but I know it has mixed reviews, ministry I just thought was okay. I am excited for a few on here that I wouldn't have picked up without the list! 1mo
Deblovestoread Loved The Safe Keep, All Fours was ok. Have Ministry on my shelf will start there and I‘m really interested in Nesting and the Adichie. Off to see what my library might have. 1mo
Leftcoastzen I have Ministry on my shelf , but so many mixed reviews. 1mo
BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes we‘re twins again. I am also very interested in Birding and The Artist. And in 1mo
squirrelbrain I‘m excited for a few that weren‘t even on anyone‘s radar….who am I kidding?! I‘m reading them all! 🤪 1mo
AnneCecilie @Gissy Which 3 have you read and would you recommend any? 1mo
AnneCecilie @Amor4Libros I‘m probably gonna wait t a little to read Dream Count, I didn‘t love her Americanah as much as everyone else. Might give it a go if the library gets it That sounds good about the other 3 books, they sound so intriguing 1mo
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB @sarahbarnes I have just read the first Lucy Barton book and has the second out now. Is it necessary to have read them all to understand this? Seems like we are interested in some of the same books. 1mo
AnneCecilie @ChaoticMissAdventures I hope my library gets in more of these. Generally after the announcements of some of these longlists, the library gets in some books. 1mo
AnneCecilie @Deblovestoread I‘m interested in Nesting too. I will or rush to read the Adichie since I didn‘t love her latest as much as everyone else 1mo
AnneCecilie @Leftcoastzen Isn‘t that a good place to start the reading? I liked it 1mo
AnneCecilie @squirrelbrain I understand where you‘re come from, but I won‘t be able to do that. But I hope the library gets in more books and then I need to some investigation into these books and find out which interests me the most. I know I have a lot of reaction videos on YouTube to watch. 1mo
BarbaraBB @AnneCecilie I don‘t think it‘s absolutely necessary but the characters grow on you in the various books so I think I would recommend to read them all. What do you think @sarahbarnes ? 1mo
sarahbarnes @BarbaraBB twins indeed! And I‘d agree with what you said about the Strout books. I do think I loved Tell Me Everything even more because I know the characters so well @AnneCecilie but I think it would be a lovely read either way. 1mo
Gissy @AnneCecilie I own All fours, The Safekeeping and The Ministry of Time, unread. I will try to read these first since I own them. I ordered: The Artist; Nesting; Birding; Somewhere Else, Amma, The Dream Hotel and Crooked Seeds. I‘m reading all comments here to see if I buy The Fundamentally, Good Girl, The Persians and A Little Trickerie. I don‘t know about Dream Count. I don‘t have a library where I can use to read these books. ⬇️ 4w
Gissy I prefer to read first the previous four books before Tell Me Everything. 4w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #BookSpinBingo card for March is ready

My #Bookspin is Intermezzo, Sally Rooney‘s latest
My #DoubleSpin is the March section of Year of Wonder, so far this year I‘m enjoying a musical piece a day

Here‘s to another great reading month

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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The 9th volume so I‘m not sure what to say about the story without spoiling it.

But who need family when they treat you like this?

I have thought about rereading all the volumes since it‘s a long time since I started on volume one

Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks The cover is amazing 💜 1mo
cjk One of my favorites! 😍 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue listening to the tagged

I might be a little over ambitious this month and joining in on four buddy reads: Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittensb#JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I‘m about to start The Coast Road and also want to get a start on Private Revolutions

Jess861 Read The Coast Road a few months ago and it was an enjoyable read. Kept forgetting it was set in the 90s while reading! 1mo
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A friend and colleague of Shardlake is found murdered and Shardlake promises the widow that he will find the killer. This leads to the discovery of more related murders as someone is killing according to one of the stories in the Book of Revelation.

At the same time Shardlake gets appointed the lawyer to Adam Kite. A young man who won‘t do anything besides praying who for his own protection has been sent to the asylum. This give Sansom to explore

AnneCecilie the treatment of mental health during the Tudor and shows the conditions in which they lived in. I loved each new Shardlake crime more than the last since we get to know the characters more. I‘m so happy that #ShardlakeBR has me rereading this amazing crime series. @dabbe 1mo
dabbe Excellent review! So glad we're reading these together! 🤩🤗🤩 1mo
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#BookReport

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I read I Hate Fairyland volume 6 and 7, Monstress volume 9, Why Fish Don‘t Exist and Martyr!

I decided to DNF The Book of Love since I didn‘t think about once during all my other reads

I‘ve started Entitled #SheSaid

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If it hadn‘t been for the #wonf25 I never would have known about this, so I didn‘t know what this was about when I pick it up at the library. Thankfully, Louise Savidge on her YouTube channel had made me aware of some

About taxonomist David Starr Jordan that started with the stars and flowers near him. Turning to fish and discovery thousands. A man that tries to find order in all the chaos. And how this ordering and labeling takes a dark turn

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I was at the House of Literature last night to hear Elif Shafak talk about her latest book

What a talk. She talked about so many aspects of the novel and the significance of different writing styles for the different POV. I now have a deeper understanding of the novel

And Sharif was so sweet. Taking her time for everyone wanting a signed copy and a selfie. I stood 50 min in a queue. I can‘t remember the last time I did that

AnnCrystal 🆒📚💝. 1mo
squirrelbrain Amazing! ❤️ 1mo
TheEllieMo I‘ve seen Elif a few times. She is one of the most eloquent, thoughtful, nuanced people I‘ve ever seen 1mo
kspenmoll Wonderful! 1mo
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I so enjoy the return to Fairyland.

You can almost feel the joy Skottie Young while writing these stories

While Gert loves a good fight, these covers make her more brutal than she is.

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In general, I think of misogyny as being a bit like the shock collar worn by a dog to keep them behind one of those invisible fences that proliferate in suburbia. Misogyny is capable of causing pain, to be sure, and it often does so. But even when it isn‘t actively hurting anyone, it tends to discourage girls and women from venturing out of bounds. If we stray, or err, we know what we are in for.

(I can already tell this book will make me angry)

DogMomIrene Great comparison! Living on PEI, lots of people use “invisible fences” so any time I‘m talking to people here, I call them electric fences because I‘m not going to help make someone feel better about abusing their dog. Sounds like this book is doing similar, but I get how emotionally taxing that can be. Hang in there! 1mo
AnneCecilie @DogMomIrene I also found Manne‘s comparison very fitting and explains why it‘s so hard for white men to understand how it works 1mo
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My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for March is ready

A lot of buddy reads and reading challenges

I‘m leaving a few extra free spaces for all the books on longlists at the moment and to be announced early March. I hope to receive books from the library and maybe buy a few

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 1mo
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The International Book Longlist 2025 was just announced

I don‘t follow this prize the same the same way I do Women‘s Prize, but I get easily carried away

I‘ve read one book; On the Calculation of Volume 1, and I love this series & am eagerly waiting volume 6

Then I saw Solenoid which Eric Karl Anderson has been raving about on his YouTube channel & the library has it

My library also had two other books; The Book of Disappearance and Eurorrash

AnneCecilie So I‘ll give them a chance as well. Then I‘ll just see what the library gets in and what gets raved about. What do you think of the list? 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures I love this prize, I rarely have any of the books on my radar. Women's Prize first then I hope to start reading some of these after! 1mo
BarbaraBB I only read this one a long time ago 1mo
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BarbaraBB But I will reread it and many others as well I‘m afraid. Such a promising stack of books. 1mo
AnneCecilie @ChaoticMissAdventures I also think I‘ll prioritize the Women‘s Prizes, but at the same time I want to read all the books 1mo
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB Would to recommend it? 1mo
BarbaraBB I can‘t remember… it was published in 1982 and I read it shortly after. It‘s set in Surinam and about a divorced woman fighting prejudices I think. 1mo
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Another great entry today. I love how she‘s including composers writing from movies

When it comes to Morricone Burton-Bell writes:
“His scores invariably make a film, as the directors he works with know all too well. Sergio Leone, for example (the director with whose ‘spaghetti western‘ films Morricone‘s music is synonymous), only began shooting Once Upon a Time in the West after Morricone had written his magnificent score. The music came first.

AnneCecilie That never happens.” 1mo
kspenmoll This movie. 🩷🩷🩷🩷🩷 1mo
AnneCecilie @kspenmoll I haven‘t seen the movie. What‘s it about? 1mo
kspenmoll https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cinema_Paradiso. Do not read the entire plot summary if you want to see the movie. It will be a spoiler. But it a favorite in our household. 1mo
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When a werewolf isn‘t a werewolf anymore

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#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue listening to the tagged

I‘m currently reading The Book of Love, but I‘m not sure about this one and I‘m 180p in. Does it get any better? I find myself always wanting to pick up something else

So today, at least, I‘m going to focus on something else. I want to read I hate Fairyland 6 & 7 and Monstress 9

I also want to get a start on Why Fish Don‘t Exist

Butterfinger Read the reviews. I didn't like it either, but the reviews said to keep reading. I did. It didn't pick up for me till page 400. It will not be one of my favorites, although I am glad I got to the resolution. 1mo
AnneCecilie @Butterfinger That‘s a lot of pages more to read, I‘m not sure I have that in me. Thanks for letting me know 1mo
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I loved One Tree Hill, I‘ve the series on DVD, & even to this day I watch ship videos of Nathan and Haley on YouTube. Thanks to all the listens who reviewed this book so I knew she had a book out

I‘m so glad I read this. Another reminder that we don‘t know what‘s behind the facade people put up. How easy it is for things to change since we‘re all looking for something. & love, to love friends & family even if they make the wrong choices

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I‘ve been looking forward to this piece the entire year. I loved this 2 yrs ago when I first listened to this music in this book. I didn‘t quite blow me away the same way now, but still amazing.

And if you need a reason to listen this is what Burton-Hill writes:
“This sonata, by the way, is the piece used by the scientists who investigated the phenomenon known, for shorthand, as the ‘Mozart effect‘. They found that listening to this music for

AnneCecilie just ten minutes each day could sufficiently rewire our brains to make us smarter. It could also help treat those suffering from epilepsy and other neurological conditions.” 1mo
tpixie Interesting! And beautiful 🤩 Thanks https://youtu.be/tT9gT5bqi6Y?si=qeDJckoeSAD4szBY 1mo
sarahbarnes Very cool! I just went to an event where they talked about how Maurice Sendak listened to Mozart often, including when he was drawing. 1mo
AnneCecilie @sarahbarnes I had to google Maurice Sendak, but that‘s interesting. Maybe it increases creativity too? 1mo
sarahbarnes I bet you‘re right that it does. I loved his books when I was a kid. 1mo
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#BookReport

I continued with the yearlong reads on the right

I finished the buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I finished Raising Hare

I read In the Fold

I continued listening to the tagged

I‘m currently reading Dinner for Vampires and The Book of Love

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I loved today‘s entry

English is not my native tongue, so I had to look up all this fishes to see if they had Norwegian names.

Nature really is amazing

lauraisntwilder To be fair, when you look at a blobfish, the name makes sense! 1mo
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In the Fold | Rachel Cusk
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I‘ve loved or really liked almost all of the other books I‘ve read by Cusk, but this didn‘t quite make it for me. Sadly. I felt kept at a distance, & that might have been intentional

At university Micheal is invited home to one of his friends, Adam, for the weekend. Adam‘s family seems so perfect. Years later, married & with a kid Micheal visits Adam‘s family again, to help with the lambing. Adam‘s family may not be as perfect as he once thought

sarahbarnes Ah good to know - I had my eye on this one. I like the cover though. 1mo
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Jane Austen in 41 Objects | Kathryn Sutherland
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Another Austen book out this March

This also sounds interesting

TheBookHippie Oooo…. 1mo
AnnCrystal 🤩🌼💝. 1mo
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I love that Lenz started her memoir with this Buffy quote, but then I love Buffy as well

LoverOfLearning So cool! Love that 1mo
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Raising Hare: A Memoir | Chloe Dalton
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I‘d been eyeing this before it made it to the #wpnf25 Longlist, I‘m so happy it was on it

This was so cozy and heartwarming, and I hoped it would never end

At the beginning of the pandemic, Dalton finds a young leveret in her garden. She can‘t see the mom so she decides to take care of it

A book that shows how little we know about nature and wild animals. A book that shows that it‘s possible for people to change & do better for other creatures

quietlycuriouskate I recently received it as a birthday gift. ❤️ 1mo
squirrelbrain Great review! I‘ve had it reserved on BorrowBox audio for some time, but it‘s not due until 31st March. I may try to find a copy elsewhere instead. 1mo
ChaoticMissAdventures Glad to hear! I am so nervous it is going to leave me in tears! 1mo
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rachaich This looks so beautiful. 1mo
Chelsea.Poole Sounds lovely indeed. Thanks for your review. Looking forward to this one! 1mo
Hooked_on_books Nice! It‘s not out here yet, but I was able to get it on NetGalley, so I‘m excited to dive in. 🐇 1mo
Anna40 This is on my to read list since I listened to an interview with the author but I‘m waiting for a paperback-too expensive at the moment! ☹️ 1mo
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This starts with a tapping Nancy. She‘s learning it because a friend of Hannah has asked for help with some tapping sounds in her home. Nancy and her friends also learns that someone is stealing the woman‘s cats

We finally learn who Nancy has all talents from (in case we ever wondered) since her dad takes care of a bomb. He thought learning that would come in handy

It‘s entertaining and a younger me would have been scared while reading this

LoverOfLearning Love Nancy Drew! ❤️ 1mo
Librarybelle I love that—she gets it from Dad! 1mo
TheAromaofBooks I literally laughed out loud when Carson disarmed the bomb. There is nothing those Drews can't do! 😂 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

I think I‘ll finish both buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance

Continue listening to the tagged

I want it to last for ever, but I‘ll probably finish Raising Hare

Read In the Fold

Get a start on Dinner for Vampires and The Book of Love

sarahbarnes I‘m reading Saving Agnes by Cusk right now. I love her writing. 1mo
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12 year old Lora feels like all her friends are growing up and are ready to embrace the next stage while she wants to do all the things they used to do. So she throws a magical tea party with her stuffed animals and a ghost appears.

A book about growing up and accepting that life changes

LoverOfLearning Adore this cover! 1mo
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#BookReport

I kept up with my yearlong reads on the right

I read Fars rygg and The Clue of the Tapping Heels #NancyDrewBR

I continued with the buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I continued listening to the tagged

And I‘ve started my first read from the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist, Raising Hare

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Fars rygg | Niels Fredrik Dahl
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A man is trying to figure out his father‘s life from papers, letters and old photographs. From his childhood in Egypt, boarding with strangers to attend school outside Oslo and boarding school in Geneva, and as he gets older WWII draws closer.

I just saw an interview with the author on Swedish television and he talked about how he had looked at the inheritance of loneliness and don‘t belonging.

AnneCecilie This didn‘t win a Norwegian book prize, but Nordic Council‘s Literature Prize of 2024 2mo
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The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist has just been announced.

My library had some of these, but I need to go back I check some more since I didn‘t manage to type fast enough as you announced the list.

But it seems an interesting list

What do you think of the list? Anything you‘re particularly interested in reading? Or would recommend?

Bookwormjillk Just when I think I‘ve read all the books a whole new list comes out. These look great! 2mo
AnneCecilie @Bookwormjillk I know, the never ending circle of book prizes, but that‘s what so amazing too. So many books I haven‘t heard, that sound so great 2mo
youneverarrived I haven‘t read any of them but all besides 3 are available at the library or on Spotify so I‘ve reserved the majority. The memoirs I‘ll listen to as I generally prefer them on audio. (edited) 2mo
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TheKidUpstairs I just placed a flurry of holds! Not sure if I'll get them all, but happy to see how many were available through libraries here. Especially two that I'd liked for before and couldn't get my hands on: Raising Hare and What the Wild Seas Can Be. 2mo
TheKidUpstairs I just started listening to Neneh Cherry's Memoir, because it was immediately available on Libby. I knew next to nothing about her, but I am totally enraptured by her story! 2mo
squirrelbrain Yesterday I wasn‘t going to read this list. Today, I have borrowed or reserved nearly all of them! Like Katie @youneverarrived I‘ve managed to get most of them on various library systems - physical and digital. 2mo
squirrelbrain That‘s one I‘ve been wanting to read for a while @TheKidUpstairs - I‘ve reserved it at the library but I think audio may be the way to go. Does she read it herself? 2mo
TheKidUpstairs @squirrelbrain she does read it herself. I highly recommend the audio! 2mo
squirrelbrain I‘ve just downloaded it @TheKidUpstairs - I usually prefer memoirs on audio anyway. 2mo
youneverarrived I was pleasantly surprised at how many were available at the library @squirrelbrain. I‘ve just started A Thousand Threads on audio too @TheKidUpstairs (edited) 2mo
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