First sentence: “For me my mother was a scent.” Just sounds like something I want to read right now.
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First sentence: “For me my mother was a scent.” Just sounds like something I want to read right now.
pickThis book has become one of my top favorite books. I constantly think about it and want to reread it. I wish I could go back and read it for the first time again. Since then I devour everything this author puts out.
pickI loved this rather unusual mystery of a young man who had led a sheltered life setting off to find out what had really happened to his parents, who died in France when he was a toddler.
There was a lot going on in this tale and it is the type of book you need to really concentrate on; just the distraction you need right now!
Oh, and squirrels live in trees so..... meet my Sylvanians! 🐿😁
Thanks for gifting me this book @Cathythoughts 😘
I am posting one book per day from my extensive to-be-read collection. No description and providing no reason for wanting to read it, I just do. Some will be old, some will be new. Don‘t judge me - I have a lot of books. Join the fun if you want.
This is day 33
#BooksToRead #TBRPile
pickEvery so often a book comes along that is a little different and this is one of those books. It‘s a family mystery, a search for identity and a love story. It‘s about war and the fallout of war, greed and grief and families. Loved it.
#AyUpAugust #DownInTheWoods I picked this up last year .... I havnt read yet 🤷🏻♀️
Next up!
pickSuch a beautifully told and well translated novel! The descriptions of the farm in Norway that Edvard the main character comes from, along with those of both the Shetland Islands and the Somme are so evocative. It‘s a mystery and a coming of age - Edvard wants to find out what happened to his parents when they died, and he leaves the insular security of his grandfathers farm to do that. Well worth a read!!
Heading to Copenhagen for the Halloween weekend with my daughters. Very excited 😊. Has anyone read this one , set in Norway ?? Thought I‘d bring it .... if I get Litsy approval ...
Really enjoying this, channelling my Norwegian heritage. ARC courtesy #netgalley
pickA young man‘s journey to solve the mystery of his parents death when he was 4 yrs old and of self discovery along the way. Beautifully written, this book had me engaged from the first page to the last.
Husband surprised me with another Christmas present tonight that was on back order.
pickThe short summary is: After his grandfather's death, a young man looks to solve the mystery of his parents' deaths in a quest that takes him from a small farm in Norway to the storm-wracked Shetland islands to the battlefields of the Somme. It's that and so much more. Beautifully written and translated. Very possibly the best book I have read this entire year.
bailedBailed after the first three chapters. It started out so good and seemed like it was going to be a lush, literary novel; unfortunately, it soon shrank down to a mere mystery story, with all that genre‘s annoying conventions. No thank you.
Another one I bought the other day not knowing a thing about it and I haven‘t been able to stop thinking about it since! A brand new translation of a 2014 novel out of Norway.
Listening to this little gem for a digital book circle - I'm privileged to be able to listen at work, but can't help but wishing I was out for a long walk instead... 📚💙
pickLars Mytting is in Scandinavië een veel geprezen auteur, en dat is niet voor niets. Mooie zinnen en een intrigerend verhaal. Een jongetje, een familiegeschiedenis, een geheim en een ontrafeling die de grote Europese tragedies van de 20e eeuw aandoend.
