#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

It has become almost a tradition for me to read this around this time of year. This is my third time reading it

Deja and Josiah are best friends at the pumpkin patch where they work together, but don‘t see each other though out the year.

This is their last day working at the patch. Next year they‘ll be at college, and Deja decides that it‘s time Josiah talked to the girl he has had a crush on for years, but things don‘t go as planned

My November #BookSpinBingo card is ready

I didn‘t get to any of my spins last month, so glad they weren‘t picked this month

#BookSpin is Lucy by the Sea
#DoubleSpin is October‘s music pieces in A Year of Wonder which says something about how much I‘ve fallen behind here. I hope this will help me catch up

Here‘s to another great reading month

My #BookSpin. #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for November is ready

How can it already be November?

There‘s some more nonfiction on the list than usual because of nonfiction November

And they background photo found on line is because we are seriously entering hot chocolate season

What a way to describe your mother

#BookReport

I finished Hags #SheSaid, and Mary and the Rabbit Dream

I read the Maria Stepanova one and Pumpkinheads (not pictured since I picked it up from the library yesterday and then several of these were already returned)

I continued my yearlong reads and have started listening to Year of Wonder again

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I‘m reading Mother Mary Comes to Me

For any Austen fan

I was at an event with Roy a few weeks ago, and this was one of the scenes they talked about. Had us all laughing

A fictionalization of the story of Mary Toft, the woman that gave birth to rabbits. Here we hear the story from Mary‘s viewpoint and 3 of the doctors that attended to her.

I loved the way this story was told. I will definitely read more from this author in the future

It is Mary and Elizabeth, two women, very poor, very tired, working out in the fields.

#FirstLineFridays

Tagging the only book by this author that I‘ve read. This book isn‘t in the database but the title would translate into something like “The Disappearing Act”

Our protagonist is on her way to an festival to talk. She‘s taking the train and after getting off to take the next one she‘s told that it‘s cancelled. After this things don‘t go as planned

An interesting look on middle-aged women and how they are treated. The author focuses on women born between 1965 and 1980, but we will all become middle-aged sometime. The focus is not the 3s: fertility, femininity and fuckability, and how women are viewed according to these parameters and middle-aged women don‘t come out favorably

I‘m glad #SheSaid put this on my radar

This graphic biography follows Jane Austen from 1796 until her importance today. Barchas is a Jane Austen scholar so while not everything told in book is known as facts, it is likely that Austen did it.

The illustrations are by Isabel Greenberg in her recognizable pen.

My Norwegian edition contains only The Old Child so I don‘t know what stories are included in the English edition

This is Erpenbeck‘s debut story from 1999 and it‘s considerably shorter than the other books I‘ve read by her

A girl is found on the street and no one knows who she is, so she‘s placed at an orphanage. She‘s an outsider there, and she‘s trying to figure out how things work

The ending was a little weird, so if anyone has read this,

#SheSaid

At 15 Sera does a spell that‘s too much for her and she looses her magic. Fast forward 15 yrs, we meet her again running a inn with her great-aunt, and things may be about to change

A book about family, found family, friends and what‘s important in life.

#BookReport

I continued my yearlong reads. Year of Wonder isn‘t here this week, since I haven‘t listened to anything

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I continued Hags #SheSaid

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I finished A Witch‘s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

I read The Old Child and The Novel Life of Jane Austen: A Graphic Biography

I‘ve started Mary and the Rabbit Dream

I had no idea that women could inherit property, at least in Salem. Did this apply to the rest of the US as well?

#SheSaid

It was hardly ideal weather for the resurrection of one‘s great-aunt, but Sera Swan‘s magical power, while impressive, hadn‘t the slightest influence over the obnoxiously blue skies.

#FirstLineFridays

The last book in the crime series with Shardlake.

It‘s 1549 and Shardlake is sent to Norwich by Lady Elizabeth to help a distant relative of hers that‘s accused of murdering his wife. So off Shardlake and Nick are to find out what happened.

To be honest, what I remembered from my first reading was the middle part where Shardlake, Nick and Barak are at a camp. I didn‘t remember how they got there and what happened after.

#BookReport

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right, but has some serious catching up to do on The Year of Wonder

I continued The Thousand Feasts

I‘m still catching up on Hags

I finished Ordinary Saints

I read The Pengrooms and Pathemata

I‘ve started A Witch‘s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

Our protagonist, which I suspect is Maggie, suffers with pain in her mouth. She‘s visiting every specialist she can to get better

Not sure what else to write about this under 70p book without saying too much

#MajicMonday

As a Norwegian my first thoughts were the seasonal changes

But I was at the movies tonight. I was waiting on my friend, & this couple passed me having just bought a beer & popcorn. The toilet on the floor of the movie was occupied, so they went downstairs leaving their purchases. The girl wasn‘t sure about this, but the guy said: No one is going to steal this. I love that I live in a place where people believe the best of strangers

I didn‘t find this in the database

A book about two penguins that love to make wedding cakes.

A really cute story with even cuter illustrations that even manage to include some same sex marriage themes

Imagine having the village priest tell you that your parents and the church have started the process to have your brother turned into a saint.

That is what Jay experiences and it has her thinking about her brother all over again. It also has her thinking about her parents and their conflicts.

Looking at Catholicism and its relationship with queerness, and complex family relationships

I loved this essay collection which focuses on climate change, sexual harassment and metoo

The first essay about a violin that‘s 200 yrs old and how future violins will change due to the climate change and how warmer climate have trees grow in different areas. This tea set the tone for the rest of the collection

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads and catch up on Year of Wonder. The release of T. Swift‘s latest didn‘t help with that

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue All the Sinners Bleed on Audio

Hags finally arrived from the library and I‘m catching up #SheSaid

I want to finish Ordinary Saints

I want to read Pathemata, and Kringle & Finn

I want to start A Witch‘s Guide to Magical Innkeeping

An interesting take on having work done on your face/ body to look younger

#SheSaid

From yesterday‘s reading.

Apparently bookstores have been under threat before, and they‘re still here

This was the second author event and the main library branch downtown

Dolores Reyes talking about her book Earth Eater. She also talked about the situation in Argentine and how the right wing government has targeted this book as inappropriate for young adults.

So off course I had to buy it afterwards

I was at two author events this week

The first was The House of Literature where David Szalay was talking about his latest novel, Flesh

It was interesting to hear him talking about the meaning of flesh and how Istvan experiences everything in a philosophical way; the sex, the death.

#BookReport

I‘ve read Audre & Dash Are Just Friends, The Lighthouse at the World‘s End and The Clue in the Old Album

I continued my yearlong long and my reading of A Thousand Feasts

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

The 4th and last book in the series about Nine and her friends that started with “The House at the Edge of Magic”

I‘m not going to say too much about what happens, but here‘s some words from the blurb at the back:
A stolen locket
A dangerous deal
A toilet on the run

I‘m so glad this series showed up in my search results at the library when I was searching for something completely different.

A sequel of sorts to “Seven Days in June”. 4yrs have passed Eva and Shane has moved in together and had a baby. Eva was a single mom and Audre, now 16, feels left behind as also her dad is expecting a baby with his new wife, so she can‘t visit this summer.

As Audre stays in Brooklyn for the summer, her BFF comes up with a challenge for her that will get her out of her comfort zone. And who‘s the best person to help her than the new guy that gets

This guy was just announced as the winner of the Nobel Prize of Literature: Krasznahorkai

I haven‘t even heard about him, but he‘s translated into Norwegian and my library has several of his books. So I put myself on the hold list for 4 and then I‘ll see what shows up first

Does anyone have any recommendations?

A night Louisa and her father goes out for a walk along the beach. When Louisa is found, her dad is gone.

In this puzzle of a book we get the backstory and what happened afterwards.

The language is a little dense, but other than that I loved this one. I especially loved learning about Korean and Japanese history.

I had a hard time believing some of the things that happened in North Korea, but nothing would surprise me

My #BookSpinBingo card is finally ready

My #BookSpin is the 4th in the Dream Harbor series
My #DoubleSpin is a memoir that I hope to have read/ gotten started before an event later this month

Here‘s to another great reading month

#BookReport

I continued my yearlong reads. I‘ve fallen a little behind on Year of Wonder and need to catch up

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I finished Flashlight

The modest space of Walt‘s living room - a square footage allotment that in Anne‘s version was exhausted by just sofa, coffee table, and TV - was given over to bookcases so numerous they didn‘t stand against the walls but in rows perpendicular to them, and so close together that Walt - appearing out of his labyrinth to greet her - could only squeeze himself sideways.

I loved this from today‘s reading

Now, I don‘t live in Finland, but I‘m sure there‘s many places that could use a sign like this, especially above the polar circle

October‘s #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo is ready

More nonfiction than usual

I already have several plans in October that will reduce my reading, so I‘ll see how it goes

It‘s my birthday tomorrow and I celebrated yesterday

First I went to the hairdresser to remove some grey hairs

Then I met up with a friend and we went to two cafes, and we even sat outside to enjoy the sun in its 15 degrees

Then we visited the House of Literature and heard Annabelle Hirsh talk about her book. Off course I ended up buying her book and Arundhati Roy‘s memoir Mother Mary Comes To Me. I hope to at least get the memoir before her

This was a weird reading experience in several ways

We follow Kristin from she‘s born until she dies.
After the first book I didn‘t understand what all the fuss was about. And then by the 2nd part in book 3, you had me crying. So apparently something happened in between.

As a Norwegian we‘re basically taught that Kristin makes the wrong choice. And maybe in the 1920s Norway she did, but I‘m not so sure she did. Her dad didn‘t want to marry her

It‘s 9 yrs since Teresa lost her mom, and now after having lost her dad, she returns to the Greek village. The thing is, we‘re told this on the blurb, but after having read the book the Greeks she meets doesn‘t know

When she returns she tries to reconnect with the people she met the last time, but as she finds out nothing stays the same and people change

I enjoyed meeting Niko, Xanthe and especially Petros

My 4th reading of this novel.

And I think what really struck me this time is how much Emma cares for her father and takes care of him. She‘s 21 yrs and almost everything does is to make his life better, that‘s quite remarkable.

I also enjoyed reading about Mrs Weston and Mr. Knightley.

And also Frank Churchill isn‘t the nice guy he pretends to be and I can‘t believe his fiancé forgives him.

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

I bought this book back in 2017 together with his debut “Decline and Fall”. I read the debut not long after and waited until now to read this. I should have taken the hint.

This was not for me. The prologue left me confused. Then I enjoyed the Oxford years, and after that I was lost again. I didn‘t quite get this book so I‘m happy I read it with the #HashtagBridage and got it off my tbr

#BookReport

I finished the buddy reads; Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenTheAndNow and Brideshead Revisited

I finished this month‘s reading of A Thousand Feasts

I read One Boat

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue All the Sinners Bleed on Audio

Hopefully finish Flashlight