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The Gravity of Love
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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When Jimmie Darling is admitted to Beckomberga psychiatric hospital outside Stockholm, his daughter Jackie starts spending more and more time there. And when her mother leaves for a holiday by the Black Sea, the hospital becomes her whole world. The doctor in charge is Edvard Winterson, who is not adverse to taking his patients out for night on the town: "A night outside the hospital walls will make you human again," he insists to his charges. At the hospital Jackie also meets Inger Vogel, an "angelic nurse in clogs" who seems to inhabit a twilight zone between order and devastation, and Sabina, a patient who beguiles both Jimmie and Dr Winterson, with her beads, her archery and her obsession with freedom and death. In Sara Stridsberg's breathtakingly beautiful novel, the psychiatric hospital, set in a lovely park close to a lake, takes on near-mythic dimensions, both as an avenging angel and as a redeemer of lost souls.
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Martta
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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Every once in awhile one comes across with a book that just surprises the reader. This is one of those books for me. The format is totally unique and beautiful. The style reminds me a bit of prose poetry mixed with nordic noir. It has been ages since I've read anything this refreshing. This will definitely not work for everyone but I recommend this for those who want to experience something new.

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Martta
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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So I managed to reach a bit over half way in my #20in4 #readathon. I'm actually surprised that I read about 11 hours. That's much more than I expected! 😍

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Martta
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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I feel like this book consists of small verbal photographs. They move backwards and forwards on the same timeline and involve the same people but they don't explain a lot about the context of the situation they are describing of. I have never read anything like this. I'm enjoying it a lot. 🤓

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Martta
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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Started a new book. The beginning doesn't make any sense but I'm already hooked! I think it's a very suitable beginning for the story since the book is about life in mental hospital.

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Martta
The Gravity of Love | Sara Stridsberg
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Some translated quality literature. These are called "yellow library" and every year they publish more translations. This has been going on for decades and decades. ??

Here is a picture 2/4

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Simona
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I have to go to work tomorrow, so I think that this is my too ambitious #WeeklyForecast Three books in progress: H.Mantel - Mirror and the Light, S.Stridsberg - Beckonberga J.A. Vargas - Dear America. Two books ‘just in case‘: F.Vallejo - Parallel Street (my translation) and E.Wharton - The House of Mirth.

Cinfhen Stay well ❤️❤️❤️have a good week 4y
Simona @Cinfhen Thank you 🙏It was strange being at work after 2 weeks of isolation ... but what can you do 🤷‍♀️ Stay home and read 😘 4y
BookishMe Hope it's been a smooth return to work 🤗🤗 4y
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Simona
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Sliding into a new #24b4monday day with the new book. I messed up my stopwatch (like usually), so today I‘m time pressure free 😘

BookishMe Pleasing picture as always 💞💞 pressure-free sound good! 👍🏽👍🏽 4y
Andrew65 This looks good. 4y
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Petroglyph
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Such faux-delicate nonsense!

"Det är bara Lone som tar med sig speglar när hon reser. Kanske är hon rädd att glömma vem hon är."

"Only Lone brings along mirrors on her travels. Perhaps she is afraid she'll forget who she is."

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tricours
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This is my 2nd Stridsberg book & I still don't see what the fuss is all about. Her writing is always the same and it just annoys me. Everything has the same voice, everything is short, disjointed. I just find her books uninteresting. This one could have been OK if all the dialogue wasn't so stilted & unnatural. I tried imagining the dialogue in my head & I just cringed. And why all the American names all the time?! Isn't this Stockholm? Pan/So-So

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tricours
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Yeah I'm hating it. Can you be over already? (2nd book I've read and hated by this author that all of Scandinavia seems to LOVE. I don't get it.)

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tricours
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Next up! I've read one book by Stridsberg before that I actually hated, so we'll see what happens with this one. It starts out good though! (And our backyard patio is getting better and better)

8little_paws I love seeing littens' yards! Cause I don't have one, I can live vicariously. 7y
EvieBee Do you live in Holland, by chance? 7y
gibblr Those look comfy! Love it 😍 7y
tricours @EvieBee84 nopes, Norway! How come? 7y
EvieBee @tricours Aww! Close! 😜I lived in Holland for a little bit and your yard and the house tiles reminded me of where I was living then. (edited) 7y
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Anneli
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Annorlunda, poetisk, vacker och sorglig.

Jejalena Jag blev nyfiken på denna bok, men jag vet inte om jag orkar med sorg... 7y
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Anneli
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Läser.