#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Katti Anker Møller

Finish the 10 th Department Q book. This was bigger than I expected, so I‘m not not sure what I‘ll pick up next, I have several options. I have several books due back to the library on the 11th, so if there‘s time, I might get to one of them.

A short novel that covers several generations in a family and up until the halfway point, we followed along the family lines. Then started the time jumps and I also had trouble placing the different people in the family.

If it hadn‘t been for the Booker prize and that my library had the book, I never would‘ve read it. So I don‘t think I was the right reader for this one.

#BookReport

I‘ve started Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Katti Anker Møller

I read On the Calculation of Volume. 4 and Held

I‘ve just started the 10th book in the Department Q crime series

The last few days have been busy, but I finally have my #BookSpinBingo board ready

My #BookSpin is the 4th book in The Cazalet Chronicles and the first 3 have been amazing

My #DoubleSpin is one of the Sherlock Holmes stories I will be reading with #NoPlaceLikeHolmes this month

Here‘s to another great reading month

When it comes to statistics, this book doesn‘t bring anything new to the table. But CN Lester is telling their stories, and everyone story is different.

I think what I‘ll remember from this is the importance of her brother and revisiting one of her schools to give a speech. I‘ll also remember the doctor who wanted to ban horse riding because of the potential dangers, but at the same time society is against people changing their sex.

This is the 4th book in the series and Tara has been stuck in 18th November for years. She isn‘t the only one. Several people who is experiencing the same is living in a house in Bremen. They begin to discuss what has happened, what to call it, what is the real time - the ones doing the same thing every day or this group. And if they can find answers to these questions and understand what has happened will it be possible to start time again?

I love the blurb to this book: “Max didn‘t believe in an afterlife. Until he died.”

Max and Hannah are a couple, living together. Then Max stays in their apartment after his death reporting on everything that happens after that.

Hannah tells the story of the past along with several others from her past

This book left me thoughtful and melancholy. Thinking about the echoes

And I wonder how Wyld does it? She keeps getting better with every book

Originally Two Stories consisted of “Three Jews” by Leonard and “The Mark on the Wall” by Virginia.

Who knew that it was possible to get so many thoughts from looking at a mark on the wall? In the introduction to the story it said that this is when we first see the author Virginia is to become and I can see that.

This edition contains a story by Mark Haddon titled “St Brides Bay” which seems to mirror Virginia‘s writing style.

In this book Shardlake is looking into two cases. The first is a young girl who is accused of killing her nephew. In order to get Shardlake to help him, Cromwell gets a 2 week extension on this case, so Shardlake will investigate dark fire, how to make it and who has it. Shardlake also gets a new assistant, Barak. I also liked that we meet Guy again

I loved this reread and Sansom‘s descriptions of this era.

#ShardlakeBR

My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BokSpinBingo list is ready. A mix of buddy reads and seasonal reads.

Looking forward to the numbers on Wednesday

The picture is an art installation that‘s just come up in a public park close to where I live. It‘s “Nordic Pixel Forest” by Pipilotti Rist. The plan is to visit on Wednesday

This is also my tbr for both #31by31 and #Spookoween

Today is my birthday. What better way to spend it than visiting a bookstore?

In Norway stores are generally closed on Sundays, but there‘s some exceptions & one is a newly opened bookstore downtown, Prismatic Pages. They sell books in English, new & old

The stack on the left are the books I bought there

I view all the books I buy in September as birthday presents to myself, so the stack on the right & the comics are bought earlier this month

#WeeklyForecast

The beginning of a new month,& the beginning of some longer reads. I‘ll start Sovereign #ShardlakeBR. I‘m also about to start Katti Anker Møller

I‘m about to start the 4th book in the On the Calculation of Volume series

I also hope to get to T and T and T before it‘s due back on Thursday

SavidgeReads and LouiseSavidgeMuses, are reading the Booker shortlist and the 1st book they‘ll discuss is Held so I hope to get to that too

#BookReport

I have finished Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR, and I‘m almost finished with Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I finished You Are Here and read The Pumpkin Spice Cafe, I even managed to squeeze in another short read Two Stories #VirginiaBloomsberries

After reading the Nancy Drew books with #NancyDrewBR, I have a feeling that would not be the title. Not spoilery enough 🤣

Marnie is 38, divorced and an editor that works from home. Michael is 42, his wife has moved out, works as a geography teacher and loves going in long solitary walks.
These two have a mutual friend, Cleo, who organizes for a group of people to go from one coast to the other, and so Marnie and Michael meet.

This is classic, feel good Nicholls.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the buddy reads; Trans Like Me #SheSaid and Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve just started You Are Here

Next up is The Pumpkin Spice Cafe

This is so true.
Norwegians really do say that

On my way to a musical early tonight, I passed a bookstore window (and yes, I went inside too).

One of their windows was covered in Valerie Perrin‘s latest novel in French

At least now there‘s hope for a new book in translation, and hopefully sometime soon

#BookReport

I finished The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and continued with Trans Like Me #SheSaid and DarkFire #ShardlakeBR

I finished Cold Enough for Snow

I read Hotel du Lac and Queen B

I‘m currently reading The Echoes

Edith Hope has been sent to Hotel du Lac in Switzerland after an indiscretion to be out of view to her English friends. She sees it as an opportunity to do some work, she‘s an author.

At Hotel du Lac there‘s several other rich, English women. In a way this atmosphere reminded me of a Poirot crime without the crime.

Edith gets to know the other women, and suddenly there‘s a man there, a Mr Neville

The view on unmarried women reminded me a

I do not believe in ghosts, which, since my death, has become something of a problem.

#FirstLineFridays

A prequel to the two previous books in the Her Majesty‘s Royal Coven series

1536 and Anne Boleyn had just been beheaded accused of witchcraft. As we go on the hunt for who betrayed The Queen, we are also told of the history of the last 10 yrs

This didn‘t quite live up to my expectations. I loved the previous books in this series and have completely lost myself in the stories. This prequel was too short for me to lose myself in it.

I‘m not sure what to make of this novel that‘s less than a hundred pages

A mother and daughter is vacationing in Japan together which is neutral ground to them. Traveling between cities, visiting museums, temples and restaurants. Then the daughter is looking back on her past, her sister‘s past and uncle‘s past

For me there‘s a lot going on in such a short novel, but nothing is really explored

And I‘m not sure what the book was trying to say

The Booker just announced its shortlist

I‘m shocked My Friends didn‘t make it, because I loved it

I‘m happy both James and Stone Yard Devotional made it

What do you think of the list?

Every once in a while, I read a first paragraph of a book and know I‘m going to love it. This is one of those books

About four sisters Avery, Bonnie, Nicky and Lucky. Only Nicky died a year ago. Instead of dealing with the grief, they run away from it. Now their mother have sent them an email that they are going to be selling the family home, so if they want anything of Nicky‘s they need to do so by the end of the month.

Something to think about

#SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the buddy reads; Trans Like Me #SheSaid, Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and finish The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I‘ve just started Cold Enough for Snow
Then I want to get to Hotel du Lac and Queen B
Hopefully I‘ll get a start on The Echoes

#BookReport

I kept up with the buddy reads Trans Like Me #SheSaid, Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and have fallen a little behind on The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I finished Blue Sisters

I read The Clue of the Broken Locket

🤣🤣🤣

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Yesterday‘s prompt #Bus #SchoolSpirit

This was just what I needed. And I‘m so glad I read it now since it‘s set over the summer. Daphne has just been left by her fiancé. She has moved into an apartment where the guy has just been left by his girlfriend

Daphne is counting down until she can leave this town where she knows no one. And what‘s she‘s counting down to is a read-a-thon that‘s she‘s organizing at the library where she works

And of course things happen in the 108 days

A book mostly about unrequited love, but also about how choices effect your life, faith, being different, astronomy and friendship.

Thomas is an older journalist and writer who gets interested in astronomy and a female astronomer that supposedly hunting a house. Grace is several decades his junior falling in love for the first time.

Another #Booker book read

#BoardingSchool #SchoolSpirit

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my buddy reads; The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes, Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I‘ve just started Blue Sisters and so far loving it

I also want to get to The Clue in the Broken Locket #NancyDrewBR

I just love this description of the oldest sister

Just started this, and I know I‘m going to love it when I love the first paragraph.

#SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

#BookReport

I continued with The Hound of the Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR, and I started a new one, not pictured, Trans Like Me #SheSaid

I finished Enlightenment.

Surprisingly for me at least since everybody seems to love it, I DNFed The God of the Woods

I started Funny Story. I wanted to read it while it was still summer since it seemed like a summery book

Some people are natural storytellers.

#FirstLineFridays

#Library #SchoolSpirit

Too obvious?

I had no idea about the historic use of “they”

#SheSaid
@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

After visiting her parents grave, a woman makes the impulsive decision to stay at a monastery, and this turns into more than a few days. Escaping her life and failing marriage, she seeks the solitude and repetitiveness among the nuns. In the middle of this the monastery experience a mouse invasion, a person from her past comes back and a sister returns in a coffin.

This book will stay with me.

I‘m late in starting my #Booker reading

#UnpopularOpinion ‼️ I just can‘t. The writing is just not doing anything for me. I‘ve made it to page 58. I don‘t care about the characters. I‘m not sure if it‘s because I‘m reading the book right before it‘s due back at the library and I really want to read something else or if it‘s just the writing

While pregnant with her second child, Cusk decides to write how it was to be pregnant and become a mother. Cusk gives the unfiltered truth according to her, and not everyone took lightly to that.

What I took away from is was that it doesn‘t matter how many books you read about this, your pregnancy and child will not the fit what‘s written. And how hard that can be to figure things out and how lonely it can being alone with a child.

11 stories about Sherlock Holmes.

I loved that we got his first case since he‘s always THE Sherlock Holmes in the movies and series. We also get another early case. We also meet his brother, Mycroft and Professor Moriarty

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

September‘s #BookSpinBingo card is ready

Both the spin numbers are buddy reads, #BookSpjn is with #SheSaid and #DoubleSpin is with #ShardlakeBR

Here‘s to another great reading month

September! Autumn! Where has the year gone?

A little late, but here‘s my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and BookSpinBingo list

Mostly buddy reads and books I own. I‘m trying to get my library books under control, but you would never guess that from this list.

#Teacher #SchoolSpirit

#WeeklyForecast

I will continue with buddy reads; The Dark Fire #ShardlakeBR and The Hound of Baskervilles #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I‘ve just started Enlightenment and I‘ll see how that goes since I don‘t have the best track record with Sarah Perry

Afterwards I want to get to The Good of the Woods

Both library books are due back on Friday so we‘ll see how it goes

I suppose it would be good for her to meet other babies. As far as I knew, my daughter believed that she was the only one of her kind. I worried that the truth might come as something of a shock.

(Writing about attending toddler group)