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

Louisa and her father are making their way down the breakwater, each careful step on the heaved granite blocks one step farther from shore.

#FirstLineFridays

The 3rd in the Lucy Barton series

Lucy is traveling with her ex-husband to find his potential new found family. On the way she thinks about their marriage, her life with her 2nd husband who has just died.

A book about life and relationships

The Booker Shortlist 2025 was just announced

No Seascraper, but I‘m getting used to favorites not making it to the shortlist

I‘ve read and enjoyed both Audition and Flesh

I‘ve bought Flashlight and am looking forward to getting to that.

I‘m on the waitlist at the library for the Desai, but they don‘t have it yet, so I might buy that too

I also think The Land in Winter sounds interesting

What do you think of the shortlist?

#BookReport

I finished Tombland, I‘ve even read the historical note in the back #ShardlakeBR

I read I‘m So Glad We Had This Time Together

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Brideshead Revisited #HashtagBrigade

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I‘ve started a new audio, All the Sinners Bleed

I‘m also reading Oh William!

Vellekoop is looking back on his life, coming out as gay, being accepted as such in a religious community, learning to date. And maybe more importantly realize that the most dangerous parent may not be that one that yells the highest, but the one you doesn‘t want to disappoint

It also about discovering art, Disney and reading. And I loved that the title is a character in the graphic memoir where he discovers reading

Tagging a previous book by Ambjørnsen since his latest isn‘t in the database

The last work ever published by this author, handed in to his publisher shortly before he passed. And as one reviewer said you can tell in these seven short stories that this is an author who knew he didn‘t have much time left.

They mostly center around older, lonely men looking back at their life. There‘s also talk about being watched and ghosts.

#BookReport

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Tombland #ShardlakeBR, Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & started Brideshead Revisited #HashtagBrigade

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I finished The Healing Season of Pottery

I started Krakk, but I didn‘t get that much reading in & it was due back at the library yesterday, so I put it on hold.I‘m on the wait list again

I read Ambjørnsen‘s latest short story collection

A cozy and heartwarming book about new beginnings, new hobbies and new friends.

I‘m so happy I saw a review for this book in the paper

I listened to this on audio and I don‘t think that was the right format for me.

My attention span when I‘m listening to something is really short and there was nothing in the narration of this story that kept my attention so I constantly found myself thinking of other things

Thomas Frett scrapes for shrimp as a living, barely making enough to feed him and his ma. Sea scraping is a hard life, out with low tide and he feels way older than his 20 yrs.

Then a stranger knocks on their door, a Hollywood producer with big dreams and he wants Thomas help in navigating the beach and sea. Could their luck have changed?

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with #Tombland #ShardlakeBR and Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and start Brideshead Revisited #HashtagBrigade

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Finish The Healing Season Pottery and hopefully read the Norwegian book Krakk

#BookReport

I slow reading week for me this week. I had plans several days after work. On Monday I was at the House of Literature to hear Omar El Akkad, on Wednesday to hear Annie Ernaux and yesterday at the theatre

But I did finish Seascraper and The South

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued with the buddy reads; Tombland #ShardlakeBR and Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

I continued A Thousand Feasts

A little later than usual, but here‘s my #BookSpinBingo card for September

My #BookSpin book is my monthly listen of classical music
My #DoubleSpin is my current read
The numbers were really on my side this month

Alba, a professor in linguistics, suddenly finds herself in a metoo situation, at the same time that she decides to something about her climate footprint.

She buys a house outside Reykjavik, and decides to plant trees. In this small town, everyone I knows everyone else and suddenly she finds herself more involved in the community

My #BoomSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for September is ready

A mix of everything

#BookReport

I finished both No Straight Road Takes You There and The Cross #KLBR #DoorstopperKristin

I read Eden

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with The South on audio

I‘ve started Seascrapper and want to finish that

Tomorrow is the beginning of a new month and therefore the beginning of some buddy reads; Emma #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and I‘ll pick up Tombland #ShardlakeBR again

Who knew?

I haven‘t even heard of any of these books

Any recommendations?