Autumn | 
pickI loved this short book (and wonderful to on audio while walking around Oslo in the autumn) and I‘ll definitely be reading the rest of the series. I loved the sense of wonder in small things.
#scarathlon2022 #teamslaughter @Clwojick
Very excited to fit in one more readathon for #scarathlon2022! I‘m away in Oslo this weekend and very excited to read in some gorgeous Norwegian coffee shops 🥰 my goals are just to read a lot and have a good time.
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Hey guys! This is my first post ever on this platform. So who am I? My name is Didre and I'm mostly active on Instagram. I love books and like to challenge myself by reading diverse books and genres. If you have tips please let me know and leave your instagram so I can follow you there too! I'm currently reading Autumn by Karl Ove Knausgaard.
The princess snuggles up to Karl Ove Knausgaard's Autum. #cat #booksnuggle #sleepyreads
pickHow, how does Knausgaard link all these inanimate objects, machines and animals or insects to huge themes of humanity, ethics, et al.? I‘ve been going back over the text to discover the moments he transitions from banal description to something much greater and universal. It‘s remarkable how he derives so much meaning out of this stuff, and these leaps in subject matter happen with so much naturalness and fluidity, I‘m astounded by it.
I feel this way about so many things that I (feel I) cannot control.
pickThis is an excellent read. Although it‘s only a few weeks into the new year it will have to end up on my fave list for the year surely. I‘m giving it ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️🌛
I started this today to try and evoke something cooler in the air. Still 90+ in Florida. I‘ve read through September. Anyone else enjoy these daily observations? They seem calming! Like my dog napping while I read.
pick#backpackEurope travelogue @JenP @BookwormM *fictional*
Country 5: Travel delay is over, I made it to Norway! It's nice during the summer - gorgeous hiking scenery!!
Karl Ove Knausgaard is the master of the micromundane. These meditations written for the impending birth of his daughter are stunning. I've loved his My Struggle books but had never finished this one - I restarted it and devoured it a day. Looking forward to the sequel. 5/5
pickI quite enjoyed this collection of autumnal essays. This is my first Knausgaard, and I was impressed. Each essay is a rumination on a simple object. My favorites were “Chewing Gum,” “Adders,” and “Lice.” I‘ll definitely be picking up Winter.
pickFinally broke my reading slump with this one. I guess I needed some rambling nonfiction thoughts. At first it reminded me of Mary Oliver‘s Upstream, but I really loved that one and this one is just slightly above so-so. Still good enough to finish and make me interested in the next in this series.
pickWith my new love for essays, I enjoyed this first book in his completed three book series of “showing” his then unborn daughter “the world”. He is an amazing writer who gave me a new perspective on mundane things like “Chewing Gum”, one of my favorites given thats also my thing. I related entirely to his deep thinking which makes me feel less weird. I really need to write down my thoughts, too. ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The start of a new book, especially when it is seems to be luring me in for more, is so exciting to me! Although a short activity, its one of life‘s greatest pleasures.
Writing to your unborn daughter? How absolutely wonderful. How I wish I had thought to do it! Maybe I can still do a version to her now. His writing is exquisite; mine won‘t be, but I love the thought. Knausgaard tremendously impresses me. 🌺🌸🌷
pickI feel like Karl Ove sits down, says “what should I write about?” And picks the first thing he sees or thinks of. So, short essays range from jellyfish to the design of toilets to snakes to, yes, even vomit 🤮. But he does it all in such an elegant way that I think, “wow, I never thought of it that way before.” In his essay about beds, he discusses how in cities there‘s millions laying asleep all at once, which manages to seem creepy 😳. More👇
Just got back from the library, this was my haul. I like borrowing cookbooks first. I have a lot of food allergies and suspect I have even more now. Until I‘m able to see a specialist, looking into these. If you guys have any recommendations, let me know!
Knausgaard 🍂🍁 is #becauseoflitsy; haven‘t found him in used bookstores yet.
The cozy mystery looks fun ☕️🔪🔫.
And there‘s a new Anne Fadiman out 🍷📚 Looking forward to reading it, too.
#Coffee and #Coltrane and two new books that match. Cold and rainy day in #nashville. Can‘t wait to dive into these two books #autumn and #bravingthewilderness. I‘ve been very drawn to quiet books lately.
This book is filled with observations and snapshots of often mundane things. It won‘t appeal to everyone due to minimal plot but I really enjoyed it and particularly loved this passage that is written for the author‘s newborn daughter
pickBook 3 #readathon
This is not really the sort of book to read in one sitting. It‘s the sort of book you want to read over a month or so with one “chapter” a day. Each chapter is a musing about a topic and the whole book is autobiographical written as a series of observations for his daughter. There are chapters on buttons, bottles, vomit, rubber boots, silence and much more. Very poetic and descriptive. Not for those who like strong plot.
About to start number 3 #readathon
I‘ve not been be super productive today since I‘ve had lots of distractions.
pickI love all of Knausgaard's My Struggle series of books, so I was excited for his newest seasonal quartet. My God it is beautiful. He writes little micro memoirs to his unborn daughter about everyday objects such as churches, frames, apples, etc, and he sees such beauty in everything. The writing is some of the best I have ever read. Please was Knausgaard. He is good for the soul.
pickKarl Ove Knausgaard awaits the birth of a surprise late baby girl.He has three other children, already in school. He decides to describe in detail the world as it is ,right now.And if you think about it, to describe the everyday, from scratch ,to someone who has no frame of reference yet,is not only a great writing exercise,but a way to see the world with fresh eyes , as you do with a child as it discovers those things.Beds,eyes,frogs = wonder.
#TBRtemptation post 3! From a master of contemporary literature comes this first installment in a new seasons-based autobiographical quartet. He begins with a letter to his unborn daughter and daily presents acute observations of his wife, children, and the things in their daily lives, both big and little, in rural Sweden. #blameLitsy #blameMrBook 😎
My husband asked me to pick up Autumn from the library and I sort of did - so now I'm reading this Ali novel while he waits for his Karl Ove hold 😂 #toomanyautumns
I was supposed to go to the Brooklyn Book Festival today and meet @swishandflick but my trains were all canceled or massively delayed into the city 😭 So instead I treated myself to some books at my bookstore that I was hoping to find at the festival today (and did some #LitsySecretSanta shopping too, not pictured). Jemisin and Knausgaard were speaking at the festival 😔 I guess reading their work will be the next best thing.
pickMeditations on the mundane and some nice artwork in this book. Knausgaard looks closely at the things we take for granted everyday and turns them into something grand. This collection of short essays are divided by month (September, October and November) and each section starts with a letter addressed to his unborn daughter. A lovely idea and a lovely little book.
I went into a bookstore this morning to see if they had the new issue of a magazine I like. They did not. I came out with these instead. I have a problem. (But it's a wonderful problem.)
pickThis is the first Knausgaard I have read and it was a beautiful little volume of 3 page essay meditations on everyday things- examples are: plastic bags, frogs, fingers, loneliness and chewing gum. As a visual artist I read these in wonderment at his deep ability to SEE not just look. I will continue reading Knausgaard- got V.1 of My Struggle at ABE Books and look forward to more SEEING.
Images from Knausgaard's book of essays contemplating Autumn. Very meditative work- my first read from this author.
Getting ready to do a little reading before bed by starting this one. Just flipping through the pages, I'm already in love with the art. Hopefully the writing is just as good. This will be the first book I've read by this author.
I am so fortunate to work one block from the #2017LibraryOfTheYear in #Nashville- truly a great library is necessary to a great city. My #libraryholdlist runneth over!
pickGorgeous and simple in its contemplations.
A here's-what-to-expect-in-this-world guide for his unborn child (4th) and a random facts about topics ranging from war to jellyfish to lightning to labia. On all Knausgård allows another nosedive into some of his deepest thoughts.
No plot here. Will frustrate many readers because it's mostly philosophical with a little history and zero movement but I am and will remain one of his biggest fans.
When [the child] leans its head against the adult's in a gesture of total trust, the feelings that burst forth in the adult are irresistibly good. Why? I don't think it's the child's helplessness we are defenseless against but rather its innocence. For one knows how much pain the world will inflict, how complicated and difficult life will become...
I often do as he did, close the door behind me to be alone, for a few hours to be exempt from all the complicated bonds, all the conflicts, great and small, all the demands and expectations, wills and desires that build up between people, and which after only a short time become so densely intertwined that the room from reflection and for action are both restricted.
Sentimental is another word for emotional.
But what are emotions?
What do we feel when we feel?
We call sentimental that which exaggerates feeling, which wastes it.
So does that make level-headedness the highest value?
There is no reason to be cautious or anxious about anything, life is so robust it seems to come cascading, and at times it is frightening, because we too are alive, but we live in what amounts to a controlled environment, which makes us fear whatever is blind, wild, chaotic... but most often also beautiful.
Guys.... Karl Ove Knausgård is probably my favorite writer. I know he gets criticism for being too wordy or getting so bogged down with detail the story gets sidelined so it is hard to convince friends that my reco is worthwhile.... but I've never been so moved by descriptions of such mundane activities.
I'm incredibly stoked to start this today ?
#recommendsday
so-soThis is a tiny book of tiny reflections on the most mundane things. At times they are great, but at other times one wonders-why write about that? Each reflection is only about a page long with original art to break up the book. At 230+ pages, it is a surprisingly heavy (physically) book. Guessing if you are a fan, you will love it, but casual curiosity may leave head scratching. It really is about things like apples, teeth, frogs, churches, etc
Went out for the new Karl Ove Knausgaard!! It's been a year since I read him and I'm ecstatic to have picked up the new series 😍 #bookhaul
Obviously I couldn't leave without picking around the rest of @bookculture and I spent enough to earn my next $10 off and used it immediately. Been eyeing War & Turpentine for a few weeks but took a chance on The Guineveres... and the You Play the Girl essays looked like something I'd get a kick out of.
That Karl Ove can Knausgaard me any time he wants! 😍#edbookfest
