I haven‘t even heard of any of these books

Any recommendations?

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I finished Watch Us Dance and this month‘s chapters in Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I read an essay by Ali Smith about Munich‘s paintings

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right, with No Straight Road Takes You There and on audio The South

I‘ve started the last book in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Cross #KLBR #DoorstopperKristin

The 2nd fiction book based on Slimani‘s family

It‘s the late60s/ early 70s, all the hard work of Amine has paid of and the family now has money. Aicha returns after having studied medicine in France. As the Belhaj family is trying to navigate their lives, there‘s student rebellion in Europe, anti-Vietnam protests, the hippies are living in Morocco and there‘s unrest in Morocco.

A graphic nonfiction

Barcelona 1958. The reign of Franco and anything published needs to pass the censor. It‘s not easy being a cartoonist in that environment, at the same time the cartoonist have signed contracts giving the publisher the rights to their creations. In this climate some popular cartoonist tries to establish their own magazine

We follow Istvan from his 15 yrs, first in Hungary then later in London with a short stop in Germany. Istvan is a man that just go with the flow and doesn‘t make any decisions in his own life.

The novel also read more like a series of stories focusing on different part of his life, but missing big events like is marriage day and birth of a child.

#Booker2025

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue Tombland #ShardlakeBR

Continue No Straight Road Takes You There, maybe even finish

Continue The South on audio

Finish Look at Us Dance and hopefully read Tell Me Everything

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I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I continued The South on audio

I finished Ocean

I read A Rome above a Shop, The Clue of the Crumbling Wall #NancyDrewBR and Flesh

And I have started No Straight Road Takes You There

An amazing book about the different ocean types and their ecosystems. I learned so much from this.

But I have to admit that if I hadn‘t read What the Wild Sea Can Be from this year‘s Women‘s Prize Nonfiction Longlist, I probably never would have gotten to this.

A quiet book where nothing happens but at the same time everything happens. This book is full of scenes from the everyday life and in these scenes two men fall in love and build a life in a room above a shop that no one knows about. This is a time when this needs to be hidden

I had no idea.

I had my fist day back at work today after 3 weeks of vacation. And as I always says: “I‘m born for vacation”

The stack on the right includes my yearlong reads and buddy reads that I was finishing. For Tombland I kept up the pace

The stack on the left is was I read. When it comes to Kristin Lavransdatter, I read the 2nd book about a 1/3 of the book. I‘m still reading Ocean

I also finished The Flower Farm on audio and started The South

More, remarkably, studies have shown female krill shrinking in winter and regressing their external sexual physiology, thereby effectively returning to their juvenile life stage, when their energy needs were smaller. This downsizing enables them to use their own body protein as fuel to last them through the lean times. With the return of spring they regain their sexual characteristics and become fully mature just in time for the breeding season.

But as on many oceanic islands, today the biggest threats to Rain‘s turtles originate from far away. Higher tides caused by rising sea levels are now flooding many of their nests every year. And there is an additional and invisible danger.
While it is still in the egg, the sex of the developing turtle is determined by the temperature of the nest in which it lies. Nigh temperatures lead to the development of females, lower ones to males. In recent

The 3rd book in the trilogy about Tambudzai

While the 2 first books had quite an innocent look at the world, this one is more brutal. It starts with a sexual harassment scene of a female passenger on a bus.

Tambudzai is trying to navigate life in the city after the independence war in a world where white people still has the power.

The book also focuses on mentally breakdown, mental health and the cliches white people have of Africa

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I‘ve finished the 2nd book in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, Wife

I‘ve read Hilda and Twig Hide From the Rain, Feeding Ghosts and This Mournable Body

I‘ve also read the two Sherlock Holmes stories Shoscombe Old Place and The Retired Colourman

I‘ve continued my yearlong reads on the right

I‘ve picked up Tombland again #ShardlaleBR

I‘m also reading Ocean and on audio The South

A graphic memoir that covers Chinese history from the Communist takeover, Hong Kong history and how this impacts the life of thee generations of women, a grandmother, mother and daughter.

The grandmother works as a journalist in China and becomes an unmarried mother. The father is Swiss. Having a mixed race child is dangerous in Mia‘s China. She writes a memoir about her experiences which Hulls uses.

A memoir about how policies impacts people

Hilda and her dog, Twig, is going on an adventure when it starts to rain and they seek shelter.

I loved the illustrations and color palette

I‘ve wanted to read this novel ever since I saw the series a few years ago when it came out (I looked it up & the series was out 2008, so more than a few years)

Arthur Clennam has just returned to the UK after decades abroad. On his first night back, he visits his mother. With his mother, he find a young woman sewing. This is Little Dorrit who lives in the debt prison with her father and siblings.

A book that looks at bureaucracy and how hard

This is insane to think about

This is just amazing and unbelievable

The 4th book in the Dream Harbor series and this was another winner.

Archer has just been told that he has a daughter and has temporarily moved to Dream Harbor to take care of her since the mother has died. He decides to hire a nanny

I love all the villagers and this time they all put their energy into changes to the diner menu.

Another book read in January. I bought this back in 2014, as I had watched the series with the same name and loved it. So this book was a bit of a disappointment. I can‘t believe how they managed to get an amazing series out of these books. This is all tell and no dialogue and will tell about different aspects of the village life in separate chapters.

I‘m glad I got it off my tbr and that I read it with the #HashtagBrigade

I read this in January so it was about time I posted a review.

A look at what will happen in a society where only the facts matter.

I was hoping Sissy Jupe would have played a bigger part in the story since she was the only one standing up against this.

#WhatTheDickens

My #BookSpinBingo card is ready, a little later than usual

My #BookSpin is a graphic memoir
My #DoubleSpin is also graphic but not if it‘s a novel or a memoir

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I finished The Whalebone Theatre, Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and on audio The Flower Farm

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I‘ve started the second book in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, Wife #KLBR #DoorstopperKristin

I finally had my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for August ready

A lot of buddy reads and library books. I‘ve maxed the number of books I can borrow and need to start reading some

1. Reread, it‘s my 4th read. I‘m not sure what‘s happening but for all the Austen novels on this reread I seem to notice all the bad characters traits

2. Favorite: Fanny. Least favorite: The Crawford siblings

3. I like the scenes where Fanny is standing up against peer pressure, like the theater and the proposal

4. Don‘t have any

5. I‘m not sure there‘s anything wrong with her, other than laziness

6. Neither

7. Mrs. Norris and the Crawford

Today‘s entry - the first mass paperback books are published

The Booker Longlist 2025 has just been announced.

I‘ve read Audition and have Flesh out from the library

Now I‘m going to investigate the other titles

Any you would recommend?

The book is not on the database

A family portrait where the author looks at four generations in her family including herself.

Her grandmother was a Palestinian that sought refuge in Lebanon. Her mother grew up in a refugee camp. Her father was a Lebanese that fought for independence. But she‘s also looking at her aunt and uncle, and how this generational trauma has impacted her mother, her and her children

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I finished Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Under brosteinen, stranden!

I read TAo The Veiled Lodger #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and to listen to The Flower Farm

I‘ve started The Whalebone Theatre

When one considers that Mr. Sherlock Holmes was in active practice for twenty-three years, and that during seventeen of these I was allowed to cooperate with him and to keep notes of his doings, it will be clear that I have a mass of material at my command

#FirstLineFridays

A giant in Norwegian literature has just passed away, Ingvar Ambjørnsen, at 69 years

He wrote for everyone, the rich, the poor, the young and the old.

Growing up, I read his “Pelle og Proffen” series.

Later on he wrote the books about Elling, where the second book in the series was turned into a movie. The movie was on the shortlist for Oscar for Best Foreign Movie.

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I finished The Strawberry Patch Pancake House and this month‘s reading in Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I read The Secret in the Attic #NancyDrewBR

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

I continued listening to The Flower Farm

And I‘ve started the first book from my staycation tbr, Under brosteinen, stranden!

As of 15:50 I‘m officially on my summer vacation or staycation

Unlike last year when my tbr was quite insane, I‘m a little bit more focused this year

I hope to read these 5 chunksters. The longest is 970 pages & the shortest is 400 p (which probably doesn‘t qualify as a chunkster)

These 5 doesn‘t exclude any other books since I‘ve joined some buddy reads, I‘ve a lot out from the library that I want to read & I‘ve also bought some shorter books

I read this over the weekend of the summer solstice which was the perfect time for reading this since that when it‘s set

The main focus is a family and their friends. A mother is trying to tell her son something. A friend is trying to tell a pregnant friend about her boyfriend.

A very good summer read

‘Mr. Clennam,‘ returned Mrs. Ticket, ‘I was a little heavy in my eyes, being that I was waiting longer than customary for my cup of tea which was then preparing by Mary Jane. I was not sleeping, nor what a person would term correctly, dozing. I was more what a person would strictly call watching with my eyes closed.‘

#WhatTheDickens

This is Stridsberg‘s newest novel and it‘s not in the database so tagging her breakthrough novel. This is my first Stridsberg, but I‘ve wanted to read her for years

This is a family saga, both told backwards and forwards.
It‘s the 1900s and Laura has just given birth and telling two men that they‘re the father. This part is told as on a dream

In the present, our protagonist is telling us about her life, parents and grandparents, and these

In effect, the swain was standing up in his gondola, card-case in hand, affecting to put the question to a servant. This conjunction of circumstances led to his immediately afterwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for his suit, since the gondoliers of the young ladies, having been put to some inconvenience by the chase, so neatly brought

Today, I‘ve been on Litsy for 9 years

Time really do fly by when you‘re having fun and what is more fun than discussing books with other book lovers

Thanks for all the buddy reads and the expansion to my ever growing tbr

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I‘ve read The Wedding People and Et jentebarn (A Baby Girl)

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads: Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens, Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I‘ve started The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

(A Baby Girl) Not in the database. This came out to great acclaim earlier this year, so naturally I put myself on the wait list at the library

It‘s winter 1814, & the Danish king has surrendered Norway to Sweden, & the Norwegians won‘t have it. The army is calling in any able bodied young man. Aslak is called in & goes against his parents wishes. As Aslak trains to be a soldier, his parents are forced to think about what they did 18 yrs ago

“Everyone” seemed to be reading this on Litsy a few months ago and loving it. I‘m so glad it was put on my radar.

A year after her divorce, Phoebe travels to an expensive hotel across the country to end her life. Once she arrives there, she discovers that everyone else is a part of a wedding and soon she is more involved in this wedding that she expected.

A disabled woman in a wheelchair living with the help of a ventilator, is working as an erotica writer. She lives in a home so her entire life is contained within its walls.

I didn‘t love this as so many others, maybe some of the shock factors where less shocking since I‘ve heard so much about them? Or maybe the book was just too short for me?

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I read Beach Read and Sjøkuer og andre utryddelser

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens. Last week was also the beginning of a new month, so I started two new buddy reads; Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve also started Hunchback

The dignified old gentleman turned out to be Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking, who has been maintained by the the Circumlocution Office for many years as a representative of the Britannic Majesty abroad. This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success that the very name of Englishman yet stuck cold to the stomachs of foreigners who had the distinguished honor of remembering him, at a

I have no idea how to translate this title, but it‘s a mostly nonfiction book looking at extinction of animals in the north.

Looking into Bering‘s expedition in 1741 and Stellar‘s discoveries, the Alaskan governor and his family in 1859 and lastly Johan Grønvoll in the 1950s

A book that shows that one person matter and one person is all it takes to change the future for one species, both on the bad and the good side. And it shows how hard it

Emily Henry writes the perfect summer books.

It‘s a year after January‘s father died, and she found out he wasn‘t who she thought he was. She moves to her dad‘s country cottage to finish her next novel. Her neighbor is another author who she also went to college with.

I loved the main characters and all the side characters.

The ending has me in tears

My #BookSpinBingo card for July

My #BookSpin is a #NancyDrewBR
My #DoubleSpin is part of a #WhatTheDickens

My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for July is ready.

A couple of long books that I hope to read during my vacation at the end of July.

Several buddy reads since I might want to join too many