My #BookSpinBingo card for March is ready

My #Bookspin is Intermezzo, Sally Rooney‘s latest
My #DoubleSpin is the March section of Year of Wonder, so far this year I‘m enjoying a musical piece a day

Here‘s to another great reading month

The 9th volume so I‘m not sure what to say about the story without spoiling it.

But who need family when they treat you like this?

I have thought about rereading all the volumes since it‘s a long time since I started on volume one

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue listening to the tagged

I might be a little over ambitious this month and joining in on four buddy reads: Heartstone #ShardlakeBR, Pride and Prejudice #PemberLittensb#JaneAustenThenAndNow, Entitled #SheSaid and Star of the Sea #BookedInTime

I‘m about to start The Coast Road and also want to get a start on Private Revolutions

A friend and colleague of Shardlake is found murdered and Shardlake promises the widow that he will find the killer. This leads to the discovery of more related murders as someone is killing according to one of the stories in the Book of Revelation.

At the same time Shardlake gets appointed the lawyer to Adam Kite. A young man who won‘t do anything besides praying who for his own protection has been sent to the asylum. This give Sansom to explore

#BookReport

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued listening to the tagged

I read I Hate Fairyland volume 6 and 7, Monstress volume 9, Why Fish Don‘t Exist and Martyr!

I decided to DNF The Book of Love since I didn‘t think about once during all my other reads

I‘ve started Entitled #SheSaid

If it hadn‘t been for the #wonf25 I never would have known about this, so I didn‘t know what this was about when I pick it up at the library. Thankfully, Louise Savidge on her YouTube channel had made me aware of some

About taxonomist David Starr Jordan that started with the stars and flowers near him. Turning to fish and discovery thousands. A man that tries to find order in all the chaos. And how this ordering and labeling takes a dark turn

I was at the House of Literature last night to hear Elif Shafak talk about her latest book

What a talk. She talked about so many aspects of the novel and the significance of different writing styles for the different POV. I now have a deeper understanding of the novel

And Sharif was so sweet. Taking her time for everyone wanting a signed copy and a selfie. I stood 50 min in a queue. I can‘t remember the last time I did that

I so enjoy the return to Fairyland.

You can almost feel the joy Skottie Young while writing these stories

While Gert loves a good fight, these covers make her more brutal than she is.

In general, I think of misogyny as being a bit like the shock collar worn by a dog to keep them behind one of those invisible fences that proliferate in suburbia. Misogyny is capable of causing pain, to be sure, and it often does so. But even when it isn‘t actively hurting anyone, it tends to discourage girls and women from venturing out of bounds. If we stray, or err, we know what we are in for.

(I can already tell this book will make me angry)

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

A lot of buddy reads and reading challenges

I‘m leaving a few extra free spaces for all the books on longlists at the moment and to be announced early March. I hope to receive books from the library and maybe buy a few

The International Book Longlist 2025 was just announced

I don‘t follow this prize the same the same way I do Women‘s Prize, but I get easily carried away

I‘ve read one book; On the Calculation of Volume 1, and I love this series & am eagerly waiting volume 6

Then I saw Solenoid which Eric Karl Anderson has been raving about on his YouTube channel & the library has it

My library also had two other books; The Book of Disappearance and Eurorrash

Another great entry today. I love how she‘s including composers writing from movies

When it comes to Morricone Burton-Bell writes:
“His scores invariably make a film, as the directors he works with know all too well. Sergio Leone, for example (the director with whose ‘spaghetti western‘ films Morricone‘s music is synonymous), only began shooting Once Upon a Time in the West after Morricone had written his magnificent score. The music came first.

When a werewolf isn‘t a werewolf anymore

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue listening to the tagged

I‘m currently reading The Book of Love, but I‘m not sure about this one and I‘m 180p in. Does it get any better? I find myself always wanting to pick up something else

So today, at least, I‘m going to focus on something else. I want to read I hate Fairyland 6 & 7 and Monstress 9

I also want to get a start on Why Fish Don‘t Exist

I loved One Tree Hill, I‘ve the series on DVD, & even to this day I watch ship videos of Nathan and Haley on YouTube. Thanks to all the listens who reviewed this book so I knew she had a book out

I‘m so glad I read this. Another reminder that we don‘t know what‘s behind the facade people put up. How easy it is for things to change since we‘re all looking for something. & love, to love friends & family even if they make the wrong choices

I‘ve been looking forward to this piece the entire year. I loved this 2 yrs ago when I first listened to this music in this book. I didn‘t quite blow me away the same way now, but still amazing.

And if you need a reason to listen this is what Burton-Hill writes:
“This sonata, by the way, is the piece used by the scientists who investigated the phenomenon known, for shorthand, as the ‘Mozart effect‘. They found that listening to this music for

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I continued with the yearlong reads on the right

I finished the buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I finished Raising Hare

I read In the Fold

I continued listening to the tagged

I‘m currently reading Dinner for Vampires and The Book of Love

I loved today‘s entry

English is not my native tongue, so I had to look up all this fishes to see if they had Norwegian names.

Nature really is amazing

I‘ve loved or really liked almost all of the other books I‘ve read by Cusk, but this didn‘t quite make it for me. Sadly. I felt kept at a distance, & that might have been intentional

At university Micheal is invited home to one of his friends, Adam, for the weekend. Adam‘s family seems so perfect. Years later, married & with a kid Micheal visits Adam‘s family again, to help with the lambing. Adam‘s family may not be as perfect as he once thought

Another Austen book out this March

This also sounds interesting

I love that Lenz started her memoir with this Buffy quote, but then I love Buffy as well

I‘d been eyeing this before it made it to the #wpnf25 Longlist, I‘m so happy it was on it

This was so cozy and heartwarming, and I hoped it would never end

At the beginning of the pandemic, Dalton finds a young leveret in her garden. She can‘t see the mom so she decides to take care of it

A book that shows how little we know about nature and wild animals. A book that shows that it‘s possible for people to change & do better for other creatures

This starts with a tapping Nancy. She‘s learning it because a friend of Hannah has asked for help with some tapping sounds in her home. Nancy and her friends also learns that someone is stealing the woman‘s cats

We finally learn who Nancy has all talents from (in case we ever wondered) since her dad takes care of a bomb. He thought learning that would come in handy

It‘s entertaining and a younger me would have been scared while reading this

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

I think I‘ll finish both buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance

Continue listening to the tagged

I want it to last for ever, but I‘ll probably finish Raising Hare

Read In the Fold

Get a start on Dinner for Vampires and The Book of Love

12 year old Lora feels like all her friends are growing up and are ready to embrace the next stage while she wants to do all the things they used to do. So she throws a magical tea party with her stuffed animals and a ghost appears.

A book about growing up and accepting that life changes

#BookReport

I kept up with my yearlong reads on the right

I read Fars rygg and The Clue of the Tapping Heels #NancyDrewBR

I continued with the buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I continued listening to the tagged

And I‘ve started my first read from the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist, Raising Hare

A man is trying to figure out his father‘s life from papers, letters and old photographs. From his childhood in Egypt, boarding with strangers to attend school outside Oslo and boarding school in Geneva, and as he gets older WWII draws closer.

I just saw an interview with the author on Swedish television and he talked about how he had looked at the inheritance of loneliness and don‘t belonging.

The Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction Longlist has just been announced.

My library had some of these, but I need to go back I check some more since I didn‘t manage to type fast enough as you announced the list.

But it seems an interesting list

What do you think of the list? Anything you‘re particularly interested in reading? Or would recommend?

#Chocolate #Feelinthelove

February hasn‘t got the best start.

About about growing up poor in Denmark, or that is what most people focus on. You get glimpses of that too, but more importantly it‘s about a dysfunctional family. After loosing a 4th child during child birth, the mom looses herself in a depression and online gambling that lasts for years. Our protagonist tries to make the best of the situation being in his teens, but gets in trouble at school and are caught

#WeeklyForecast

Continue the yearlong reads on the right

Continue the buddy reads; Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

Continue the tagged on audio

I‘m about to start the Dahl book which won a Norwegian book award

I also want to start on The Clue of the Tapping Shoes #NancyDrewBR

I read the first part of this novel and decided to bail. Started another book, and started to think about this and what happened to Adina. So I gave it another chance and read another 60 p, before the final DNF.

I can‘t really explain it, but something wasn‘t working for me.

#tob25

#BookReport

Kept up with my yearlong reads on the right

Finished The Valley of Fear #NoPlaceLikeHomes, continued both Revelation #ShardlakeBR and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I finished Headshot

Beautyland was the book I almost DNFed last week, read a little more in, before finally DNFing it. I made it to around page 150

I continued tagged on audio

I‘m currently reading the book by Korsgaard and not understanding what all the fuss is about.

This book was not for me, and I‘m not sure what it was. The boxing? The writing? Where there too many boxers so we spend too little time with the boxers? I‘m don‘t know, but it was something

#tob25

A Pym published posthumously. Pym wrote two editions of this novel, & her literary executor & friend, Hazel Holt, tried her best to make it into a novel, & boy did she succeed. All of Pym‘s wit and sarcasm is here

Caro‘s married to Alan & they‘ve a kid. Alan works at a newer university. Alan‘s focused on his career & Caro‘s looking for something to spend all her time on

Alan‘s probably the most unlikable “nice” guy character I‘ve ever read

My #BookSpinBingo card for February is ready

No 14 to 20 is set aside for library books

#BookSpin is this month‘s #NancyDrewBR and #DoubleSpin is a book I just bought, Bethany Joy Lenz‘s memoir

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ll continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue The Valley of Fear #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and Rest is Resistance #SheSaid. It‘s also time to pick up Revelation again #ShardlakeBR

Continue listening to the tagged book

I think I‘ll DNF my current read and start on Headshot #tob25

And then I hope I have time for something else towards the end of the week

My #BookSpin, #DobleSpin & #BookSpinBingo list is ready

I‘ve a lot of library books out & many due in the next two weeks. I won‘t get to everyone & since I don‘t know what I‘m in the mood for & what I‘ll be able to extend, I‘m just using several spaces for library books

That doesn‘t mean they won‘t appear in the fee spaces as well

Both the Women‘s Price for Nonfiction Longlist & The International Booker Longlist are announced this month

Every once in a while you read the blurb of a book and think this could be a new favorite. Then you read the first paragraph and gets it confirmed. This was that book for me. I knew I was in safe hands and could just get lost in the story.

Arthur by the Thames from the 1840s, Narin by the Tigris in 2014 and Zaleekhah by the Thames in 2018. I preferred Arthur and Zaleekhah‘s stories and I post under a spoiler why

And that ending

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I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I finished Hard Time #WhatTheDickens and Lark Rise to Candleford #Hashtagbrigade.

I continued The Valley of Fear #NoPlaceLikeHolmes and started Rest is Resistance #SheSaid

I continued listening to the tagged

I read An Academic Question

The author event this week was cancelled, so I started Beautyland instead, but so far I‘m not sure what I feel about it

I‘m sure I‘m not the only one who thinks this is an interesting question

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Finish Hard Times #WhatTheDickens and I want to finish Lark Rise to Candleford as well #Hashtagbrigade, and I‘ve started The Valley of Fear #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Continue listening to the tagged

I‘m about to start An Academic Question

I want to read the first book in the Binti Trilogy before the author event next week

The is is the 5th book in the series, and I‘ m not sure what to write so I don‘t spoil anything for others. But if you‘ve made it this far, you‘re going to love this as well.

This is supposed to be 7 books and I can‘t wait to see where Balle ends up.

My 4th time reading this & since I‘m not much of a rereader that says it all

This is the first time that the dialogue between Mr & Mrs John Dashwood at the beginning about what to do for his stepmother & stepsisters & how they didn‘t expect the mother to live another 15 yrs, only for it to later be revealed that she‘s not even 40 really got to me. I guess your perspective change with age

Finally I noticed Austen‘s snarkyness and I loved it

#BookReport

I kept up with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads; Hard Times #WhatTheDickens, Lark Rise to Candleford #Hashtagbrigade and just this morning finished Sense and Sensibility #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

I also finished There are Rivers in the Sky

I read Fangirl volume 1 and The Tower at the End of Time

I continued listening to the tagged

I‘ve started On the Calculation of Volume. V

The 2nd book in the series that started with “The House at the Edge of Magic”

Nine is ready to leave with her friends. Their plan is to travel between the worlds. Flabberghast want to attend the Wizarding Hopscotch Championship where the prize is to ask the Answering Stone anything you want. But things takes a turn when the house start to hiccups and jump between worlds. And the championship may not be as easy as it seems to be.

The 1st book in the manga series based on Rowell‘s book. This showed up when I was doing a search on my library site and I liked the cover

I‘m not the intended audience for this, and at times I was quite annoyed, but I think teen me would have loved it

Cath‘s a twin, but her twin want to make her own friends as they start college. Cath is trying to navigate this

I‘m not sure I‘ll continue the series, but the cliffhanger ending has me interested

#WeeklyForecast

Continue yearlong reads on the right

Continue the monthlong buddy reads; Hard Times #WhatTheDickens, Sense and Sensibility #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lark Rise to Candleford #Hashtagbrigade

I want to continue the tagged on audio

I want to finish There are Rivers in the Sky

I want to read book 1 in Fangirl manga series

Hopefully read The Tower at the End of Time and get a start On the Calculation of Volume. V

It occurs to him, in that moment, that poverty has its own scent, an odour that emanates from his pores, easily detected. It is an awful, debilitating thought.

(This quote has my thinking of “Parasite” right away)

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I continued with my yearlong reads standing on the right

I continued with the monthlong buddy reads; Hard Times #WhatTheDickens, Sense and Sensibility #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lark Rise to Candleford #Hashtagbrigade

I finished The Haunted Bride #NancyDrewBR

I DNFed The Secret River

I‘m making good progress on There Are Rivers in the Sky