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)

#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)

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

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

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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

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

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?

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

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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

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

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

#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

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

#SheSaid

Kate Manne in chapter 6 on why the pro-life movement isn‘t about pro-life

#SheSaid

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.

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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

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

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.

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

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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

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

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?

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

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

#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

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

#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

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

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

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.

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)

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

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

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.

When a werewolf isn‘t a werewolf anymore

#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

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

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

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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

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

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

Another Austen book out this March

This also sounds interesting

I love that Lenz started her memoir with this Buffy quote, but then I love Buffy as well

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

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

#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

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

#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

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.

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?