During a storm, several people find themselves led to the World‘s End inn. They come from many different wolds. They start to tell each other stories to pass the time.

I absolutely love the last sentence in Gaiman‘s afterword.

This brings back memories

Wouldn‘t that be something

One day Joe meets Treacle Walker, a trader of rags, and not long after that Joe meets Thin Amren, the big-man. And from this point Joe has some problems with reality and what is there and what isn‘t.

I found this novel playful and I loved the way it was written.
I enjoyed this much more than I thought I would

3rd book from the Booker shortlist

3rd book read for #20in4 @Andrew65

Delirium wants to find her brother Destruction who has been missing some hundred yrs. She asks several of her siblings before Dream agrees to go on the search with her. This is their journey to try and find their brother.

2nd book finished for #20in4 @Andrew65
#BookSpin September @TheAromaofBooks

Using the blurb on the back since I can‘t describe this book any better.

I loved, loved, loved this. And I will definitely read more of his books

This is the second book from the Booker shortlist that I‘ve read and I will be very happy if this win.

1st book for #20in4 @Andrew65

I have my #BookSpinBingo card ready

Both my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are books I bought when I visited Shakespeare and Company in August, and I can‘t wait to read them.

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ve started Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens and will start the tagged or at least the stories #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

Then I want to read the other books.

I‘ve seen some mixed reviews for Treacle Walker so curious to find out where I stand. The Cost of Living is the second book in Levy‘s “living biography” and I loved her first one. And I want to finish my reading of Sandman, at least the volumes I already own.

My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and#BookSpinBingo books are ready.

The painting is by Thomas Sanchez and is called El Testigo

They arrived in Bath. Catherine was all eager delight; - her eyes were here, there, every where, as they approached its fine and striking environs

(This describes me so well when I‘m traveling especially if it‘s to somewhere new to me.)

#PemberLittens

#BookReport

I‘m lazy and reusing last week‘s weekly forecast, even though I didn‘t get to everything.

I‘ve read Beautiful Star and Arsenic for Tea.

I‘m currently reading The Trees and Sandman volume 7.

That means that I didn‘t get to Sandman volume 8, 9 and 10. I guess that‘s what happens when the weather change and is suddenly way better than predicted.

So now I got to tease a little bit of what will be on my weekly forecast tomorrow 😊

“Even if I believed there was a god I wouldn‘t believe that. Less than 1 percent of lynchers were ever convicted of a crime. Only a fraction of those ever served a sentence. Teddy Roosevelt claimed the main cause of lynching was Black men raping White women. You know what? That didn‘t happen.”
“Why do you think White people are so afraid of that?”
“Who knows. Sexual inadequacy, maybe. An amplification of their own desire to rape, which they did.”

But not anything too scary like horror and such, just a little bit of cozy crime.

(Reusing a picture posted on Litsy years ago, not by me)

I called Joyce and told her we‘re stuck in Money. She said she wished that was true.

(I couldn‘t help think about Uncle Scrooge when I read that)

The 2nd book about Wells and Wong and another winner. These books are fast becoming my new favorite series

Daisy is bringing Hazel home over the vacation, and the celebration of her birthday. Guests incl friends from school, her uncle, a friend of her mother‘s and a friend of her brother‘s. During the celebration, one of the guests feels ill and later dies

I didn‘t see that end coming

The next installment is already waiting at me in the library

A family believe that they are extraterrestrials and that they all come from different plants. But they want peace on earth. At the same time there‘s another trio who believes that they are also extraterrestrials but they want to exterminate humans.

I never got along with this novel and feel that it kept me at a distance. I don‘t think I got what the author was trying to tell but that might be because I don‘t know enough about Japan and its

“Goddamnit, I hate murder more than just about anything,” said Sheriff Red Jetty. “It can just ruin a day.”
“Because it‘s such a waste of life?” the coroner, Reverend Cad Fondle, asked. […]
“No, it‘s because it‘s a mess.”
“It is a lot of blood,” Fondle said.
“I don‘t give a shit about the blood. It‘s the goddamn paperwork.”

Stanley has recently lost his father. Jessie works in a bar. One day these to meet. Before they know it they are traveling across Europe together in Jessie‘s old car.

I love Evaristo‘s writing and how she mixes prose and poetry. I loved Sanley‘s connection to the past and how that made it possible for us to learn more about the places they visit.

7th book for #SuperSeptember
#2005 #192025

In a small time in Ireland in the days just before Christmas in the mid 80s, Bill Furlong is delivering coal to his customers. Due to its length, I‘m not sure how much more I can tell without spoiling it. The length is also a reason for way I don‘t think book will stay with me.

I think this is the first book I read from this year‘s Booker shortlist

6th book for #SuperSeptember
@Andrew65

I don‘t think I ever got around to posting a review for the first Pat book, so I‘ll review both now.

When we first meet Pat she‘s 6 yrs old and when the story ends she in her late 20s. She doesn‘t like change, love her family and friends and Christmas.

So there‘s not much happening in these books, but I loved them and Pat, Jingle and Judy.

#KindredSpiritsBuddyRead
#1933 and #1935 #192025

#WeeklyForecast

I have nothing on the go at the moment so these are the books I want to read next week.

I have 3 days of work next week and if the weather forecast is right, it will be a lot of rain. So I actually hope to read more.

#BookReport

Finished Mistress Pat #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I finished Out of Africa #foodandlit #Kenya.

I read Sandman volume 4, 5 and 6

I‘m currently reading Bless the Daughter and Soul Tourists, and I hope to finish Soul Tourists before the weekly forecast tomorrow.

9 stories, most set in the past, some the distant past. Many featuring people who have lived. All focusing on either dreams or myth or both.

4th book #SuperSeptember

As a kid Barbie created a land in her dreams, and now that dreamland is entering into the real world.

I was pleasantly surprised by the representation in this one, with a trans person and same sex relationship.

It also touches on unwanted pregnancy.

3rd book finished #SuperSeptember

10.000 yrs ago, the Sandman sent a woman to hell for all eternity. Now, he think that he might have acted wrong and decides to free her from hell. And that is not as easy as he thought it would be.

2nd book #SuperSeptember

Sometimes when you fall, you fly

I don‘t think I got around to post my review of this last month when I read it with #CampLitsy

This is Selin‘s second year at Berkeley. Like in the first book, this one focuses on the everyday life. Selin is going to classes, hanging out with friends and generally trying to figure out life. I preferred the Berkeley part to the ending when she gets a summer job. But I can‘t wait to read about Selin‘s third year.

The Château de Versailles is one of the largest palaces the world has ever known, and it swallows its mass of visitors whole, whiteout so much as a genteel burp.

Bone white, white lead, blond, blanc d‘argent, blanc de fard, blanc fixe, antimony white, titanium white, strontium white, Paris white, zinc oxide, zinc sulphide.
Before I moved into this place and redecorated I never knew there were so many official shades of white.

Blixen writes about her time in Ngong where she in the time around WWI had a coffee farm. She writes about the Africans and the foreigners. I found her thoughts on the differences between Europeans and Africans quite nuanced. I preferred the parts where she spent more time with an episode since some parts were written in really short vignettes.

I bought this book back in 2002 so glad to finally have read it.

#foodandlit #Kenya
#1937 #192025

Leon needs more more and since he works night as a nurse, he decides to rent out his flat to someone who needs it during the night and the weekends.

Tiffy‘s relationship with her boyfriend has ended, and it‘s about time she moves out of his flare.

So they becomes flatmates, and we all knows where this ends. What I didn‘t except was some of the serious themes the book looks at like gaslighting, manipulation and mental abuse.

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Mistress Pat #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead

I want to finish Out of Africa #foodandlit #Kenya

I want to try and read volumes 4, 5 and 6 in the Sandman series.

I want to continue Bless the Daughter

I want to start Soul Tourists

I liked this one, but didn‘t love it as a lot of other seems to do.

Vivek Oji died the day the market burned down (not a spoiler, this is the first sentence). Then we get is life up to his death. We also follow his mum, cousin and friends after his death, in their grief and his mum‘s quest for answers.

#BookReport

Continued with the buddy reads, tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and The Flatshare #LittensLoveRomance

I finished Sandman volume 1 and read volumes 2 and 3.

I finished After Sappho and read The Death of Vivek Oji

I‘m currently reading Out of Africa #foodandlit #Kenya and Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in her Head.

#FirstLineFridays

This is quite a first sentence

Four stories. All of them features one of the Endless. In all of them dreaming and power is important.

Rose Walker finds out she has a grandmother she never knew about, and then she starts to look for her king lost brother. On the why she meets many peculiar people and off course the Sandman is lurking in the shadows.

So true

“She belongs to no one, except perhaps to herself”

This is so true

I didn‘t know much about this series before reading the first volume, only that it‘s a cult classic.

In the past a group of people are trying to get control over Death, but they get something else. And this has consequences, people not sleeping and people only sleeping. For many years, they keep this creature captive. When he finally becomes free, he goes on a hunt to find his lost possessions.

A work of fiction about women not confirming to society‘s expectations of them. Set between the 1880s and the 1920s, and mostly in Italy and France but later also in England.

Some of the women in this I had never heard of like Lina Poletti, Anne Kuliscioff, Eleonora Duse and Natalie Barney. While others was more familiar like Sarah Bernhardt, Virgina Wolf and Colette.

In a side note I had no idea there were so many words for a lesbian

The clue to getting a happy ending in a story.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the tagged #KindredSpiritsBuddyReas and The Flatshare #LittensLoveRomance

I want to finish After Sappho

I‘ve just started The Sandman graphic series and want to finish vol 1 and hopefully read vol 2 and 3

I want to read The Death of Vivek Oji

I‘m going to an author event with Warsaw Shire later this month and I want to be prepared. So I‘ve bought her poetry collection Bless the Daughters and want to start that

But which books should we read? asked one girl very seriously, twisting the ends of her plaits. Virginia Woolf replied, If a novel bores you, leave it. Try something else. Poetry is too like fiction to be a change. But biography is a very different thing. Go to the bookcase & take out a life of anybody.

#BookReport

I continued with the buddy reads; Mistress Pat #KindredSpiritsBuddyRead and The Flatshare #LittensLoveRomance

I finished Murder most Unladylike, read The Colony and has made good progress on After Sappho.

First of all, Eleonora Duse said, Italy was indisputably a monopoly of men. Of course women wanted to be human beings instead of little dolls who danced for the pleasure of their husbands, dutifully bore children, and annihilated themselves. Who would not want what half the population had just by being born? Furthermore, Eleonora Duse went on, if ever a woman wants to work, to write, to think for herself, to take action, to love another woman, she

All through the century of Eleonora Duse‘s birth, Ibsen noted, every actress in Scandinavia fainted on the same side of the stage every time. If there was a dramatic moment, the handkerchief went to the left hand, the actress to stage left, and then there was a fainting.

This is a quiet book that crawled under my skin without me realising it before well into the novel.

Two strangers arrive at the island; the Englishman (painter) and the Frenchman (linguist). The strangers do their things and the islanders do their best to make it as comfortable as possible for the strangers.

A book about colonialism, conquer and conquered, how it‘s easier to save someone/thing far away, who defines who you are

This year Booker Shortlist has just been announced.

Off course, the books I wanted to read this week from the longlist (The Colony and After Sappho) didn‘t make it.

I haven‘t read any of these, but I own Glory and I‘m waiting on Small Things Like These from the library. So I guess I‘ll start with those from the shortlist. Then I‘ve heard great things about The Trees

What did you make of the shortlist?