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AnneCecilie

AnneCecilie

Joined July 2016

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Secret Lives of Color by Kassia St Clair
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The video for “Formation” pays homage to post-Katarina New Orleans and ends with Bey using the weight of her body to sink a New Orleans police cruiser into the flood‘s waters. Putting middle fingers up to the state that incarcerates the most people per capita anywhere on the globe, and including an image of a Black boy dancing for his life while staring down a line of a police in riot gear, is a bold fuck-you to the forces that seek to snuff out

AnneCecilie Black lives. 4d
AnneCecilie As a white European, I‘m beginning to realize that there‘s a lot about Beyoncé that I don‘t pick up. I‘m glad that Cooper is making me aware of it #SheSaid (edited) 4d
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A group of 40 women is kept in a cage together underground, how they got there is unknown. After years, one day there‘s a sound, the door to cage is left open and they can leave.

I‘m not sure what this book was trying to say, but it does look at loneliness and belonging, and surviving.

BarbaraBB I am still thinking about it 5d
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB I have a feeling I will too. There‘s something scary about the landscape they escape to 5d
TrishB Definitely one of those books you don‘t stop thinking about. 4d
lil1inblue I'm just starting this! I'm so intrigued. 4d
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#BookReport

Finished:
📚 There‘s a Monster behind the Door
📚 What the Wild Sea can Be
📚 Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

Read:
📚 The Moss Covered Manson #NancyDrewBR
📚 Rommet i jorden (The Room in the Ground)
📚 Spuria
📚 The Peepshow
📚 I Who Have Never Known Men

Current reads:
📚 The yearlong reads on the right
🎧 By the Fire We Carry
📚 Eloquent Rage #SheSaid
📚 A Thousand Threads
📚 Betongblomst (Concrete Flower

AnneCecilie #WeeklyForecast: Continue my current reads and start Our Share of Night 5d
kspenmoll Quite a diversified list! ❤️ 5d
AnneCecilie @kspenmoll Sometimes I think that‘s a problem for me, that there‘s so many books that looks interesting and it would be easier if I just liked certain kinds of books 5d
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In March 1953 the police found 4 dead women at 10 Rillington Place hidden in the walls and floorboards. Reg Christie was soon a suspect and one of the victims was his wife. Just 4 years before, in 1949, another man had been convicted for murdering his own wife and child on the same address.

This isn‘t a story looking into the life of victims and ignoring the suspect. It looks at both, but more importantly it looks at the press and the

AnneCecilie voyeuristic tendencies in humans treating this as entertainment. A tabloid paid for Reg Christie‘s defense attorney. People would bring their chairs and food to sit down outside 10 Rillington Place to watch the police work and buy the tabloids. As one of the journalists covering this case, Harry Procter wrote in his memoir The Secret of Disillusion published 1958: “‘Sit down there, you, that man in the back row‘, he admonished. ‘I‘ll have no 5d
AnneCecilie hypocritical comment! How many murderers‘ stories have you read, sir, in the Sunday papers? If you‘ve never read one, then I‘ll listen to you. If you have read one, then shut up! We poor slavers are your servants, sir, not your masters. We give you what you want because you want it! Let me tell you, sir, before you throw your back-row sear at me, it was tougher for me to do than it is for you to read about it. But you, sir, you were the boss.‘” (edited) 5d
AnneCecilie When Christie was accused of murdering these women, it also opened up the question if the right man had been convicted in 1949, for what are the odds of to murderers living under the same roof? So it also looks at pride and the inability for people in high power to admit mistakes and how that impacts a lot of people 5d
kspenmoll Wonderful, in depth review, 5d
AnneCecilie @kspenmoll Thank you 😊 5d
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Untitled | Unknown
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Not in the database, but as you can see the book got great reviews when it was published earlier this year which was why I borrowed it from the library

At 87 Kristen is finally a widow and she can start searching for the boy she gave up for adoption at 16 and unmarried.

A book about being forced to give a child away in a society where abortion is illegal, and the most important thing is to avoid shame and talk in the small community.

AnneCecilie Spuria is what these mothers was named and after birth their babies was marked with a “S” on their card to indicate they their mothers were unmarried, as it said somewhere in the book; these babies were marked from the beginning 5d
Texreader Dang I can‘t find this on Amazon. Norway only? 5d
AnneCecilie @Texreader I think so. It‘s just out here and I haven‘t heard that he has been translated either 5d
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Rummet i jorden | John Ajvide Lindqvist
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The 2nd book in the crime series about Kim Ribbing and Julia Malmros

The court case at the end of the 1st book doesn‘t go as Kim want and he sets out on his own revenge journey

At the same time Julia decides to look into Sannsvenskene, a political party more on the far right than Sverigedemokratene, and their link to a criminal MC club a research for a new book.

This was just as good at the first one

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I loved this one.

Scales looks at how the modern human is affecting the wild life in the seas, and looking especially at emperor penguins, sharks and orcas. She also looks at kelps and reefs, and makes it obvious how connected everything is and how even small interferences by humans can cause great destruction to the sea

Vansa Love this writer and her podcast too 1w
AnneCecilie @Vansa I will read more of her books in future, but I didn‘t know she had a podcast 1w
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Theres a Monster Behind the Door | Galle Blem, Latitia Saint-Loubert, Karen Fleetwood
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I‘m not sure what I feel about this novel, but maybe a soft pick, guess only time will tell.

A story about a young girl growing up in a dysfunctional family and where her parents mantra is “That‘s the way it is and that‘s that!”

Another book of the #InternationalBooker Longlist

BarbaraBB I have missed this one somehow. Not sure if I should read it? 1w
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB It has won a prize and I have seen others loving it. So it might just be me? 1w
charl08 I've struggled to get into it, but hoping I get hooked soon... 1w
sarahbarnes I can‘t get this one from my library yet and didn‘t want to buy it…. 1w
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Martyr!: A novel | Kaveh Akbar
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A young man is trying to make some sense of his mother‘s senseless death many years ago. In order to make sense of it, he‘s thinking of writing a book about martyrs. When he learns of an art exhibition where a woman is making her last days into art, he thinks that will be a good point for his book.

This book was completely different from what I expected, but ended up loving it

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Perfection | Vincenzo Latronico
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Mehso-so

I don‘t think this book was for me, I didn‘t love it as much as everyone else.

Couple is living the dream life in Berlin having gotten in before the rent increases. Actually this couple annoyed me, not realizing how lucky they are and not working more than they need.

I also felt that this book only told what happened, and there were no dialogue. Which apparently I didn‘t enjoy here.

BarbaraBB I see what you mean about the lack of dialogue. I enjoyed it nevertheless 1w
Leniverse I'm not feeling drawn to this one at all 1w
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Nesting | Roisn O'Donnell
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A book about abuse, both emotional & sexual, that reads as a thriller

Ciara packs up her & her children‘s stuff & leave her abusive husband with nowhere to go. From then on, I just expected her husband to show up

The book looks at the hopeless housing situation in Dublin & how little society is prepared to help women leaving their abusers

I had to stop reading at times because it got too intense & to think that this is the life of so many women

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#WeeklyForecast

I‘m officially on Easter break and is not returning to work until Tuesday 22nd and my main goal is to read

I want to continue with the yearlong reads

I want to continue with the buddy reads: Eloquent Rage #SheSaid and Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

I want to finish There‘s a Monster behind the Door, What to Wild See Can Be and Betongblomst

I want to read the tagged, and start The Peepshow and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

AnneCecilie Then I like to see how many of the others I can get to 2w
AnneCecilie Edit: I forgot that I will continue listening to By The Fire We Carry 2w
Suet624 👏 👏 👏 2w
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#BookReport

Finished Nesting

Continued with the yearlong reads on the right

Continued the buddy reads; Eloquent Rage #SheSaid and Heartstone #ShardlakeBR

I continued reading Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and What the Wild Sea Can Be

I continued listening to the tagged

I started There‘s a Monster Behind the Door

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I had no idea

#SheSaid

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Intersectionality, or the idea that we are all integrally formed and multiply impacted by the different ways that systems of white supremacy, capitalism, and patriarchy affects our lives, was a mostly foreign notion to these young scientists. Intersectional education happens primarily in the kinds of college classrooms that cause conservative politicians to lose their shit on the regular. Intersectionality is considered fluffy, liberal, radical,

AnneCecilie and certainly not scientific. Intersectionality I‘m not only not objective, it sneers at claims to objectivity, arguing that none of us is purely objective. We all come with a perspective and an agenda. We all have investments. We all have skin in the game. 2w
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It has been nearly thirty-eight years since a grown man, drunk on his own sense of entitlement, attempted to murder my mother. According to several years of reports by the Violence Police Center, in this, the second decade of the twenty-first century, eight Black women per week, more than one per day, are murdered, usually with guns, and usually by a Black male they know. More than one thousand women of all races are murdered each year, in similar

AnneCecilie incidents, usually by men of their own race. It has been said before, but it is worth saying again: Toxic masculinity kills 2w
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Still important today

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The matriarch remains the head of the family into her old age, at eighty, ninety, even a hundred years old and way past her menopause; orcas are one of only five animal species in which females are known to outlive their fertility. * Grandmother orcas are the wise elders, keepers of expert knowledge of where to hunt, and they call other members of the pod to them with a splash of their tail.

*The others are short-finned pilot whales, belugas,

AnneCecilie narwhals, and humans 2w
AnnCrystal 💝💝💝. 2w
CSeydel My favorite fact about orcas is that “in the presence of their post-menopausal mothers, young male orcas sustained fewer socially-inflicted injuries.” 2w
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Leniverse Just starting this now! 🤓 2w
AnneCecilie @Leniverse There‘s so many amazing facts in here. I want to quote everything 2w
AnneCecilie @CSeydel Is that from this book or from somewhere else? Amazing either way, shows the importance of females 2w
CSeydel No, it‘s from an article I read once. I haven‘t read this book but it sounds fascinating! 2w
MemoirsForMe 🐳❤️🐳 2w
Jess861 Orca Whales are such magnificent animals! I've been obsessed with them since I was very young. 2w
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Something to think about

lil1inblue 💔 💔 💔 2w
CSeydel 😬😢 2w
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The International Booker Prize Shortlist has been announced today

I loved On the Calculation of Volume so very happy to see that on the list.

I‘ve read Perfection, liked but didn‘t love as everyone else

Just bought A Leopard-Skin Hat so hope I like that

I‘ve seen some great reviews for Small Boat so might want to give that a chance too

What do you think of the shortlist?

ChaoticMissAdventures I am going to read Big Bird this week, I feel generally overwhelmed by the prize lists so waiting to hear what others say, I know Leopard Hat has some mixed reviews but it is the other one I am most interested in. Sad Reservoir Bitches did not make it, I thought it was wonderful (but lots of trigger warnings) 2w
AnneCecilie @ChaoticMissAdventures I‘m sad about that too, I loved Reservoir Bitches. Leopard Hat seems to be about grieving a sister so thought I should give it a try. I also have There‘s a Monster Behind the Door waiting for me even if it didn‘t make the shortlist 2w
BarbaraBB I enjoyed both books you did as well. And I read Leopard, which was just okayish for me. I am now reading Big Bird and really want to read Small Boat too. I preordered it, it has not yet been published here. 2w
AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB Now that you mention it, I think I‘ve only seen Americans reviewing Small Boat (edited) 2w
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When sharks and rays are finally ready to begin reproducing, things still happen at a slow pace. Female sharks are typically pregnant for a year of more; short fin makos give birth after a year and a half, basking sharks after two and a half. Female greeneye spurdogs, […], are pregnant for between thirty-one and thirty-four months, one of the longest recorded gestations of any animal.
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Except now, of course: Humans are changing the rules, and

AnneCecilie sharks are born into an ocean where being big and living a long, slow life is no longer an advantage. 3w
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#BookReport

Continue yearlong reads on the right

Continue Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and Eloquent Rage #SheSaid

Continue What the Wild Sea Can Be and Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

Continue listening to the tagged

Finish Nesting and then I‘ll see what I‘m in the mood for next

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Each female produces a single egg, […] She quickly transfers it to her partner, and he balances it on his feet to keep it off the ice […] During storms, the males huddle together to preserve body heat, and their feathers are so good at keeping them warm that now and then they break apart and steam, as if they‘d just stepped out of a sauna. While the fasting males wait out the winter with nothing to eat on the empty ice, they run down their fat

AnneCecilie reserves, and their feathers pack more densely around their shrinking bodies, making their insulation even more effective. 3w
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Wintertime temperatures in Antarctica plunge to - sixty degrees Celsius. The lowest temperature ever recorded on the earth‘s surface -89,2 degrees Celsius, was made in the heart of winter in July 1983 at a research base toughly halfway between Antarctica‘s coast and the South Pole.
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Most living organisms simply could not exist in Antartica‘s winter, especially out of the sea and on the exposed ice. But this is where one species comes each

AnneCecilie year to spend a key part of its life cycle, a feat made possible by its supreme survival skills. An emperor penguin in peak condition is encased in a life-sustaining suit of feathers 3w
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“It just seems like Black women are trying to force white women to accept and include them. I‘m still not over how those suffragists treated Ida B. Wells at that march in 1913.” She was right. A group of white suffragists had tried to force Wells to march in back during a 1913 suffrage march. Wells patently refused, though, and found a way to march with her state delegation

#SheSaid

ChaoticMissAdventures White suffragettes in general were so racist! When I see Black women putting their "I voted" stickers on Susan B Anthony's grave I always want to ask if they are thanking her or mocking her.... We don't talk enough about how these leaders were determined to hold other categories back and I feel like we see the same today. 3w
Butterfinger I agree @ChaoticMissAdventures Anthony did not want Frederick Douglas or any of the other emancipated men to get suffrage before she and I can't forgive her for that. I can't remember the book I read about why the three leaders of women suffrage (what is wrong with my brain? I can't remember the two others.) But, they disagreed over this issue, and it drove a wedge in their friendship. 3w
AnnCrystal The racism of the past is sad and scary. Even with American Indigenous, my ancestors struggled.

From one article I read,

“Native Americans couldn‘t be U.S. citizens when the country ratified its Constitution in 1788, and wouldn‘t win the right to be for 136 years. When Black Americans won citizenship with the 14th Amendment in 1868, the government specifically interpreted the law so it didn‘t apply to Native people.“

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AnnCrystal and from the same article, “Native Americans were only able to win the right to vote by fighting for it state by state.“

It's scary realizing what my ancestors lived and survived through...

My ancestors weren't citizens of their own country until 1924 and it wasn't until 1978 when we were legally allowed to practice our own traditional faiths.
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Riveted_Reader_Melissa Very scary in an age where we are “re-deciding” who is a citizen with rights 🙄 3w
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Beyoncé gets that lesson about feminism better than most. And she has been one of the biggest victims of this failure to love women among Black feminists. Until the release of her magnum opus, Lemonade, an album so self- consciously about the interior lives, struggles, and emotions of Black women that even most of Bey‘s haters had to bow down

Beyoncé is my feminist muse

AnneCecilie And as I‘m typing this, I‘m listening to Beyoncé‘s Flawless, that‘s gets analysis later on, and one of my favourite songs #SheSaid (edited) 3w
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Intermezzo | Sally Rooney
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I love Sally Rooney and from the first sentences it felt like I was coming home and knew I was safe in the story telling.

The brothers; Peter (32) and Ivan (22) have just buried their father and grieving the loss of a parent. Peter a lawyer taking on work related cases and Ivan is a promising chess player.

So a book about grief, but also felt about double standards and different experiences towards men and women. Peter is dating a 23 yr old

AnneCecilie which apparently is just fine, but when Ivan starts dating a 36 yr old woman, Peter has a problem with that 3w
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#BookReport

I finished Intermezzo and read Perfection

I continued the yearlong reads on the right

I pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve started What the Wild Sea Can Be, Betongblomst (Concrete Flower) and Nesting

sarahbarnes I‘m looking forward to Perfection! 3w
Lcsmcat This morning‘s Copeland is an old favorite of ours. 3w
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The title is pretty self explanatory in what its about.

I feel that I finally had some arguments if I ever where to get into a discussion with a pro-lifer. And that actually feels great.

For me gaslighting was a term that suddenly turned about and was everywhere. Now I feel that I finally understand what it is and how it‘s used

I‘m so glad #SheSaid made me aware of this book so I read it

Riveted_Reader_Melissa I‘m glad you liked it, or at least got some interesting things from it. Her other book Down Girl was very good too. (edited) 3w
Riveted_Reader_Melissa For gaslighting, I think I need to track down the original play now and read it. 3w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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The #BookSpinBingo card for April is ready

#BookSpin is a horror/ thriller book that seemed appropriate for Easter

#DoubleSpin is the next book in the Nancy Drew series

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! Looks fabulous!! 3w
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Women's Prize For Fiction | Women\'s Prize For Fiction
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The Women‘s Prize for Fiction Shortlist was just announced, and to be honest I‘m a little disappointed without any real reason to be

I‘ve read two books from the Longlist and my favorite, The Safekeep, made it to the shortlist

I‘ve just started Nesting, but have seen so many great things for it, that I was really rooting for it.

I‘m still on the wait list for two of the books that made it to the shortlist, Tell Me Everything and The Fours

charl08 It's an interesting shortlist, I've still got three to read. 3w
Bookwormjillk I‘ve only read Safekeep and All Fours. I‘ll have to look into the others. 3w
BarbaraBB I incidentally read 5 of these and enjoyed 4! 3w
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AnneCecilie @BarbaraBB Which one did you not enjoy? So I know what not to spend my money on 3w
sarahbarnes I just got Nesting from the library so agree with you it would‘ve been nice to see it on the shortlist. 3w
squirrelbrain I think Nesting should have been on the shortlist. I haven‘t quite finished The Persians yet and I‘m enjoying it more than I thought I would. 3w
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BookSpinBingo | Untitled
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My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for April is ready. How is the first quarter of the year already over?

A list influenced by buddy reads, crime/ scary reads for Easter, spring reading and longlisted books.

For A Year Unfolding, I might “just” read the early spring and spring chapters

(The picture is by Lisa Aisato)

TheAromaofBooks Woohoo!! 4w
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#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Heartstone again #ShardlakeBR

Finish Intermezzo

I just started What the Wild Sea Can Be and what to read some more in that

Read Perfection

Start the poetry collection Betongblomst (Concrete Flower)

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Star of the Sea | Joseph O'Connor
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Winter 1847, Star of the Sea is leaving Ireland for a 26 day trip to New York. Some is rich, some is poor, but they all hope for a better life in NYC, and a lot can happen on a trip. We get the backstories for everyone and the ending surprised me.

I still don‘t see the point of the pictures and excerpts throughout, and the way to tell the story felt a little odd at times, but other than that I quite enjoyed this

Texreader Great review. Same feeling about the odd way of writing 4w
Catsandbooks 👍🏼🇮🇪 3w
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Pride and Prejudice | Jane Austen
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The plan was to read two chapters a day, but then I came to the point where I know Lady Catherine de Bourgh will arrive and then there‘s my favourite scene, so I just had to read on

This Austen novel will always have a special place in my heart since it‘s the first one I read after watching the BBC series

I think this is the 1st time I‘ve been thinking that Charlotte didn‘t make so a bad choice after all. Because she could have married a Wickham

Bookwormjillk Anyone looks good compared to a Wickham! 4w
Crinoline_Laphroaig I love this book so much! 4w
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#BookReport

It‘s towards the end of the month, so I finished the monthlong buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I put the Tiller book on pause for now

I‘ve started Intermezzo

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Arbeidarhjerte: roman | Carl Frode Tiller
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This book came out last autumn to great acclaim and I was on waiting list at the library until now. But now is not the right time for me to read this. I find my thoughts wandering and that I want to read something else.

I might come back to in the future when the second book comes out. I enjoy it well enough when I read it, I‘m just not inclined to pick it up

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Women's Prize For Nonfiction | Women\'s Prize For Nonfiction
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The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction was just announced.

I‘m actually quite happy about this list

I loved Raising Hare, I enjoyed Private Revolutions

I have What the Wild Sea Can Be out from the library

And I‘m on the wait list for A Thousand Threads

What do you make of this list?

ChaoticMissAdventures I think it is a good list! They still are not going to make me read that book about the children and heart transplants (my heart cannot handle it this year) but I think this list is an interesting mix. I know Cherry's books has been a bit divisive on Litsy but I thought it was good. 1mo
youneverarrived I‘m happy Neneh Cherry‘s memoir made it to the shortlist- the only 5 star read from what I‘ve read on the list so far 💕 What the Wild Sea Can Be I‘m glad is on there too, hopefully more people will read it. I won‘t read The Story of a Heart 💔 but Private Revolutions I‘m reading and loving. Agent Zo I‘ll be reading next. 1mo
squirrelbrain I‘m really pleased with the list - they definitely picked some of the best out of a fabulous list. 1mo
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Eurotrash: Roman | Christian Kracht
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This book annoyed my and that might just be a me thing. I never really understood when this book was taking place, if it was a dream or if it happened in an alternative universe. The son and the mum keep spending francs to pay for stuff. The mom went to finishing school in the early 60s and was 80 now, and as far as I know France hasn‘t spend francs in 25 yrs. This annoyed me so much so that the other stuff fell into the background. There‘s a lot

AnneCecilie of mention of Nazisism, denazification after WWII and their ancestors that were Nazis and their wealth. There‘s mention of castles and expensive art and I‘m not sure we ever learn if this was because of the Nazisim. #InternationalBooker (edited) 1mo
AnneCecilie @Graywacke As you can see I had some issues with this novel 1mo
BarbaraBB That‘s clever, about the francs. I didn‘t notice it when reading the book. 1mo
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Ruthiella Does it maybe take place in Switzerland, not France? 🤔 1mo
AnneCecilie @Ruthiella @BarbaraBB the setting is Switzerland, but the mention of all the franc has probably had me thinking about France. Do they use franc in Switzerland? 1mo
Ruthiella @AnneCecilie They do use the Swiss Franc CHF in Switzerland, yes. But it definitely was not a book for you because it bothered you and I think in books we enjoy, it‘s easier to overlook stuff like that. (edited) 1mo
Graywacke @AnneCecilie yeah, it definitely didn‘t work for you. 1mo
BarbaraBB @Ruthiella @AnneCecilie That‘s It. They still use the Swiss franc instead of Euro so it wasn‘t a mistake! 1mo
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#BookReport #WeeklyForecast

I finished The Mystery of the Bass-Bound Trunk

I read Anything is Possible, the Sherlock Holmes story The Bruce-Parlington Plans and Eurotrash

I‘m still doing my yearlong reads on the right

I read this month‘s reading of Heartstone #ShardlakeBR and will continue with the others; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

Continue By the Fire We

AnneCecilie Cary. I‘m about to start the book by Tiller. The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Shortlist is announced on Wednesday so my read after the Tiller book might be inspired by that or by the fiction shortlist that is announced on April 2. 1mo
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Anything is Possible | Elizabeth Strout
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Linked stories about the people in the rural area of Amgash. Most of the people grew up poor, and we see how this impacts them in adulthood. There‘s several stories covering child abuse.

This is a book in the Lucy Barton series and she‘s mentioned a couple of times and shows up in one

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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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What a book. 13 linked stories where a main character in one story, can show up as a minor character in another story.

The stories in this collection is told in a one-side conversational way, and I loved that

About abortion, violence against women and femicide, the cartels, and grief

#InternationalBooker

TheBookgeekFrau I'm sold--stacked! 😊 1mo
sarahbarnes Just picked this one up - excited to see you liked it! 1mo
BarbaraBB Me too, I have a copy of this one as well! 1mo
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#WeeklyForecast

I don‘t have any plans for the upcoming week, so I hope to get some reading done

Continue my yearlong reads

Continue the buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Start of the Sea #BookedInTime and Entitled #SheSaid

I want to finish The Mystery of the Brass-Bound Trunk

I want to read Anything is Possible and hopefully Eurotrash so I get a start on the book by Tiller

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Another case that support that pro-lifers isn‘t about pro-life

#SheSaid

Sace And of course it was Alabama. Sometimes I hate it here. 1mo
Chrissyreadit 100% 1mo
sarahbarnes 🤬🤬🤬 1mo
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Kate Manne in chapter 6 on why the pro-life movement isn‘t about pro-life

#SheSaid

TheBookHippie There is nothing about life in their stance. Nothing. 1mo
AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie No, but it‘s to nice get the confirmation. But most importantly, I love that she gives me arguments I can use if I ever where to meet one. They aren‘t that big in Norway. 1mo
quietlycuriouskate @AnneCecilie @TheBookHippie Yep, definite odour of mendacity and hypocrisy there! 😠 1mo
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Sace And Governor Meemaw didn‘t care about the hypocrisy. 1mo
TheBookHippie @quietlycuriouskate 😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫😵‍💫 1mo
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda

Every two hours and twenty-five minutes a woman in Mexico is strangled, raped, dismembered, burned alive, mutilated, beaten to a pulp, and left with bruises and broken bones. A woman‘s body, another woman. Some woman, a nameless woman. A lifeless body was found.

AnnCrystal 😢🙏💝. 1mo
BarbaraBB Incredible. And we‘ve known this for years and years 1mo
ShelleyBooksie Heartbreaking 1mo
sarahbarnes I just got this from the library. 💔 1mo
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#BookReport

I finished Private Revolutions and on audio The Christmas Bookshop

I kept up reading my yearlong reads on the right

I kept up with the buddy reads; Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Star of the Sea #BookedInTime and Entitled #SheSaid

I‘ve also started Reservoir Bitches and Mystery of the Bass-Bunk Trunk #NancyDrewBR

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After losing her job in her hometown, her sister gets her a job in Edinburg working in a bookstore. Carmen isn‘t too excited about this, but agrees and stays with her sister and her sister‘s family

This took me forever to finish, but that‘s not the book‘s fault. I‘m not a big audio book listener and only listen on short walks and to the library and there aren‘t many short walks during the winter months

I liked this and wants know what happens

AnneCecilie next with these characters. (edited) 1mo
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I‘m so happy #wonf25 put this book in their Longlist. I never would have read it if it wasn‘t for the list.

It‘s interesting to learn about a society and culture that‘s completely different from your own. And I‘m just talking about China being communist. Like the school system, children walk hours to get to school, where your family is registered decides where you go to school and the competition.

Cathythoughts Great review. Stacked 👍🏻❤️ 1mo
AnneCecilie @Cathythoughts Thank you 😊 1mo
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Reservoir Bitches: Stories | Dahlia de la Cerda
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What a first story. But if the rest of the stories in this collection is like this one, I‘m in for a treat

I‘m not going to say too much about what it‘s about, but I loved all the references to watching Legally Blonde, Miss Congeniality and Almost Famous

ChaoticMissAdventures I am next in line at the library and excited to get to it! 1mo
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