I loved this

A book about loneliness, as the title suggests, but also of its consequences

The young girl who finds herself in a toxic relationship with a much older male artist that thinks everything is allowed in the name of art

The man that finds his best friend pushing him out of his life to find a wife

Two families that faces their own challenges, an aunt that left her husband, a mother that leaves her husband

About family

My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list is ready

December! Where have the year gone???

The list is a mix of Christmas books, children‘s books and anything else seen as cozy

#BookReport

I finished The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
I read The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts
Continue the tagged on audio

Hopefully read Helm

I also want to start the advent calendar book, The Snow Sister, and God Jul (Merry Christmas) about Norwegian Christmas traditions

Another winner in this series

Joyce‘s daughter is getting married and the gang is invited. While there, Elisabeth is approached by the best man that says that someone is trying to kill him and that there was a bomb under his car that day. So the hunt begins

At the same time Ron and his family faces some family difficulties

#BookReport

I‘ve finished Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow earlier today
I just finished the last page of The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

#WeeklyForecast

Continue The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens
Continue my yearlong reads on the right
Continue A Thousand Feasts

Next up is The Impossible Fortune and Lucy by the Sea

& no Paris trip is complete without a visit to Shakespeare and Company

These are the books I came out with:
- Sally on the Rocks reminded my of a Barbara Pym novel
- The Paris Trilogy was recommended to any lover of Annie Ernaux
- Virgina Wolf had prepared The Life of Violet for publication, so then I want to read this early work
- Paris in Winter is the #SundayBuddyRead for December next year
- & Braithwaite‘s highly anticipated 2nd novel

When I was in Paris almost 4 weeks ago, I did surprisingly, but some books

This is one of them, and the only in French, in the tagged chain store. The Branch I visited have an amazing picture book section for kids, so I ended up with this

I used to be able to read kids books in French, but not anymore, but I still want to improve myself and hope to read this sometime

I still haven‘t read the book I bought there 2 yrs ago

A book about second chances & love that survives

8 yrs ago Anne Elliot was advised by friends and family to turn the proposal of Captain Wentworth since he didn‘t have enough money. Now things have changed, the Elliot‘s is letting out their home to live in Bath for awhile. There Anne meets her lost love again

& off course as in any Austen, there‘s complications and someone isn‘t as nice as they seem to be

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Tagging my favourite Ali Smith, since this essay isn‘t in the database

This essay is 43 p with pictures on every other p and big letters

Ali Smith looks at the forest and especially pine trees in Edvard Munch‘s art

At an event I was at earlier this year, Ali Smith was gushing about how much she loved Edvard Munich‘s art. That event took place in the University Auditorium that is full of his art, and Smith couldn‘t believe her luck.

My #DoubleSpin for November was to listen to the October musical pieces in this book which I have no done

As I‘ve written a couple of times, I‘ve fallen behind on my listening in this book

I finally made it to this date, and this musical piece is amazing 🤩

This is definitely not the reaction you want when you‘re treating someone

This is a perfect description of Anne Elliot

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

On this day 1919

I love that bookstore

What every reader wants to do in public transportation

One view on Dickens

It really says something about your life when Dickens is better

The Sherif department get a call about a shooting at the school. When they get there one of the students has a gun and gets shot by the police. After a search of the school, they find one of the teachers shoot. On the teacher‘s phone the police finds pictures of children being tortured and killed, and the search is on to find victims and the third person in the pictures

When the conclusion comes it makes perfect sense and is the most scary of all

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny

I‘ve just started the tagged chunkster which would translate into The Seafarer about the lost empire of Portugal

#BookReport

I finished All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I‘ve started both The Loneliness of Sonia and Sunny, and The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

A perfect description of an introverted reader

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Just announced the winner of this year‘s Booker Prize

I‘m quite happy about this since I enjoyed it while I read it

I had no idea that Dumbo in NYC was an abbreviation of this

I just love the name Dumbo since I love the Disney movie with the same name

“Oh, I can miss someone after a day. Let‘s meet somewhere -“
“Where?”
“Anywhere - let me think. Portofino!” He was delighted by his proposal. “Where the film stars go. Everyone must go to Italy - (…)”

(This dialogue reminds me of Taylor Swift‘s song Elizabeth Taylor. Picture of Portofino found online)

Another winner from Elizabeth Stroud

In this Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess and Lucy Burton all live in the same city, Crosby, Maine

Olive and Lucy meets in Olive home in a retirement community where they tell each other stories of people in their past.

Once a week Lucy and Bob meet to talk a walk so Bob can smoke his one cigarette a day.

And in between this, we hear about their spouses, ex-spouses, children, grandchildren and friends

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue the buddy reads; Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

Continue A Thousand Feasts

Continue All the Sinners Bleed on audio

The Booker winner is announced tomorrow evening, and I want to get a start on The Loneliness of Sonia and Sonny

I also want to start The Ghost of Blackwood Hall #NancyDrewBR

#BookReport

I finished Mother Mary Comes to Me

I continued my yearlong reads on the right & has started catching up on Year of Wonder

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I completely forgot that last Saturday was the beginning of a new month & new buddy reads, but I‘ve now started Persuasion #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow & The Old Curiosity Shop #WhatTheDickens

I‘m also reading Tell Me Everything

A day late, but this was too good not to post

I guess we‘re gonna live for ever then fellow Littens

What an amazing memoir. I loved this

Roy has a complicated relationship with especially her mother, but also her father. A lot of the memoir focuses on this through the ages.

But she also spent time on her school years, film making career and relationships, and as a book lover how much winning the Booker Prize back in 1997 changed her life for ever.

I know it‘s early but I hope to this on next year‘s Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction.

This is the story of Bob Burgess, a tall, heavyset man who lives in the town of Crosby, Maine, and he is sixty-five years old at the time that we are speaking of him.

#FirstLineFridays

Jane Austen is not afraid of telling it as it is.

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#NonfictionNovember #NFN #TodayILearned

I had no idea that the above was done, not just in India, but at all

I must admit that as someone who has showed up to an event with Roy and had my book signed by her, I love that she enjoys meeting her readers

September‘s musical pieces were my #BookSpin for September, and I‘m finally finished

The curious thing happened. My listening had been going well, so I thought I would buy her second book. With the result that I stopped listening, and now has some catching up to do

But I love these musical pieces and how they introduce me to so many different composers

I‘ve fallen behind on my listening, but have started to catch up

This is worth remembering and that‘s an impressive walk

It has become almost a tradition for me to read this around this time of year. This is my third time reading it

Deja and Josiah are best friends at the pumpkin patch where they work together, but don‘t see each other though out the year.

This is their last day working at the patch. Next year they‘ll be at college, and Deja decides that it‘s time Josiah talked to the girl he has had a crush on for years, but things don‘t go as planned

My November #BookSpinBingo card is ready

I didn‘t get to any of my spins last month, so glad they weren‘t picked this month

#BookSpin is Lucy by the Sea
#DoubleSpin is October‘s music pieces in A Year of Wonder which says something about how much I‘ve fallen behind here. I hope this will help me catch up

Here‘s to another great reading month

My #BookSpin. #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for November is ready

How can it already be November?

There‘s some more nonfiction on the list than usual because of nonfiction November

And they background photo found on line is because we are seriously entering hot chocolate season

What a way to describe your mother

#BookReport

I finished Hags #SheSaid, and Mary and the Rabbit Dream

I read the Maria Stepanova one and Pumpkinheads (not pictured since I picked it up from the library yesterday and then several of these were already returned)

I continued my yearlong reads and have started listening to Year of Wonder again

I continued A Thousand Feasts

I continued All the Sinners Bleed on audio

I‘m reading Mother Mary Comes to Me

For any Austen fan

I was at an event with Roy a few weeks ago, and this was one of the scenes they talked about. Had us all laughing

A fictionalization of the story of Mary Toft, the woman that gave birth to rabbits. Here we hear the story from Mary‘s viewpoint and 3 of the doctors that attended to her.

I loved the way this story was told. I will definitely read more from this author in the future

It is Mary and Elizabeth, two women, very poor, very tired, working out in the fields.

#FirstLineFridays

Tagging the only book by this author that I‘ve read. This book isn‘t in the database but the title would translate into something like “The Disappearing Act”

Our protagonist is on her way to an festival to talk. She‘s taking the train and after getting off to take the next one she‘s told that it‘s cancelled. After this things don‘t go as planned

An interesting look on middle-aged women and how they are treated. The author focuses on women born between 1965 and 1980, but we will all become middle-aged sometime. The focus is not the 3s: fertility, femininity and fuckability, and how women are viewed according to these parameters and middle-aged women don‘t come out favorably

I‘m glad #SheSaid put this on my radar

This graphic biography follows Jane Austen from 1796 until her importance today. Barchas is a Jane Austen scholar so while not everything told in book is known as facts, it is likely that Austen did it.

The illustrations are by Isabel Greenberg in her recognizable pen.

My Norwegian edition contains only The Old Child so I don‘t know what stories are included in the English edition

This is Erpenbeck‘s debut story from 1999 and it‘s considerably shorter than the other books I‘ve read by her

A girl is found on the street and no one knows who she is, so she‘s placed at an orphanage. She‘s an outsider there, and she‘s trying to figure out how things work

The ending was a little weird, so if anyone has read this,

#SheSaid

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