How cute isn‘t this?

One drawing of many titled “Emoticons”

Titled “A Memory of Light”

I love this.

And for those of us who is old enough to remember, a VHS cassette

These endpapers is amazing 🤩

#WeeklyForecast

Continue the buddy reads; Run Towards the Danger #SheSaid and Dissolution #ShardlakeBR

I want to continue The Golden Mole - I‘m taking my time with this one

I want to finish Marking Time

I want to read Creature

I‘m about to start Unlocking the Secrets of the Ango-Saxons and I also want to start Jonas Hassen Khemiri‘s book which would translate into The Sisters

At the Puy du Fou theme park in France, six particularly intelligent midnight-blue rooks - members of the crow family - have been trained to pick up litter. They drop cigarette ends in a box, which releases a small piece of food, while the people who dropped the butt look on. Image it: being publicly shamed by a rook.

#BookReport

I finished Matrescence and 8 Lives of a Century-Old Trickster

I continued with the buddy reads; Run Towards the Danger #SheSaid and Dissolution #ShardlakeBR

I‘m also reading The Golden Mole and Marking Time

And on my way to the hairdresser today, I‘ve started the tagged on audio. A nonfiction book about AI technology

I would do it just to find out what it was like. If you‘re interested in things, it doesn‘t matter too much if you turn out to be any good at them. It‘s doing it that‘s fun.

( talking about acting, but applicable to other hobbies too)

As I‘ve mentioned a few times I‘m not a mother and never wanted to be, but this book is eye opening. This is not just a book for women how want to be mothers or who are, this is for everyone, people like me, fathers and how else you define yourself

This book shows what a transformative experience pregnancy, giving birth and being a mother is, and how Western ideals about motherhood are isolating mothers in a time of their life when their most

A woman who works at a home for the elderly, one days decides that she want to talk to the elderly and get their stories. This leads her to a woman who says that she‘s had 3 nationalities in her life; she was born Japanese, lived as North Korean and is dying as a South Korean. Then she says that she will give her 8 words; slave, escape-artist, murderer, terrorist, spy, lover and mother. What the 8 is, you have to read the book to find out.

A question children like to ask: who would win in a fight, man or bear? It depends on the day. There are about forty attacks by bears reported globally per year, but fewer than twenty per cent of them are fatal. (Far, far fewer than the number of people killed yearly by falling televisions, faulty lawn mowers or toppling vending machines.)

When a crab comes across a new shell, it will climb into it and try it on for size. If the shell is of good quality but too big, it waits nearby for another crab to come and inspect it. If that crab also finds it too large, it joins the first crab, holding onto its claw until a queue develops - it can stretch to twenty crabs, arranged in order of size from smallest to largest, each holding onto the next: a hermit crab chorus line. When at last a

Coincidences. When your current read mentions a future buddy read here on Litsy

“We know that to prepare for their great flight, the young chicks in the nest strength their wings from a month old by doing feathery press-ups;”

“A swift flies about 200.000 kilometers a year; the Earth has a circumference at the equator of 40.075 kilometers;”

“it separated off from other birds about seventy million years ago, so they‘re old enough as a species to have had a nodding acquaintance with the Tyrannosaurs.

#SummerSouls #Rainbow

A year has passed and Tara is stuck in November 18 and the only one who knows it. She decides to celebrate “Christmas” at her parents. Then she starts to travel and expanding her circle until she decides to experience all the seasons on the one day and travel to where that is possible. Until she ends up in Düsseldorf, where something might change.

A book about bookshops, their owners and authors who loves books, what‘s not to love?

But I will say that the focus is mostly on Scotland and England for bookstores, and for at lot of the other countries the focus in on book towns.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue the buddy reads, Run Towards the Danger #SheSaid and Dissolution #ShardlakeBR

I want to finish Matrescence

I‘m about to start 8 Lives of a Century-Old-Trickster and The Golden Mole, and I want to finish 8 Lives

I hope to maybe get a start on Marking Time as well

It‘s after the war, and the city has been destroyed and people living there hardly has any food, but the people living in the countryside has. So parents send their kids by train out to the countryside for them to escape the city and get enough to eat.

Tobias is one of these kids, sent to an island to a fisher. The fisher is grumpy. But what is she hiding behind the door Tobias is not allowed to enter?

I love these endpapers

Can‘t you just feel his loneliness?

The only book by this author in the database, but this is one of his other books

About being seven when your mother dies. About being seven when suddenly a women arrives using your father‘s bedroom door. About being seven and have to always move according to your parents (read: father‘s) whims

Showing that things may not change that much trough the generations. Both set in the present day and when we follow the grandfather and his parents

The books that I bought after the literary event yesterday

📚 So many of the booktubers I follow rave about A Flat Place so I wanted to give this a try too

📚 Finally the Norwegian translation of Real Estate is out

📚 I‘m always interested in reading about how women of the past lived and Rural Hours focuses on the country lives of Virginia Wolf, Sylvia Townsend Warner and Rosamond Lehmann

#BookReport

I had an amazing reading week

Buddy reads:
📚 caught up on Run Towards The Danger #SheSaid
📚 picked up Dissolution again #ShardlakeBR
📚 read the Sherlock Holmes story “The Yellow Face” #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Read:
📚 Stjernenes knitring #Iceland #foodandlit
📚 Vindmakeren

Currently reading:
📚 The Bookshop Book, hope to finish before tomorrow‘s weekly forecast
📚 On Calculation of Volume. II, hope to finish later today
📚 Matrescence

The first time leaving the house since the operation “to do something” and of course it was for a literary event.

Virginie Despentes was visiting one of the bookstores downtown, so of course I had to go and hear her talk about her books, and get my book signed as well.

I also ended up buying 3 books

The winner of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction was just announced

I‘m so happy about Brotherless Night winning. I loved this book

The winner of the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction just announced

I found this interesting and I learned so much

Definitely pushing The Shock Doctrine up my tbr pile

What do you think of the winner?

Doing som catching up #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

@dabbe @Cuilin

This is Maja Lunde and Lisa Aisato‘s latest book in their seasonal quartet, and we‘ve reached summer.

The illustrations, like this one, is a huge reminder of how much I love Aisato‘s illustrations

I pick up this book from the library yesterday and is ready for the catch up #SheSaid

@Riveted_Reader_Melissa

According to the author this is the last book in The Strangeworlds Travel Agency series

This book picks up right where book two ended. Flick moon and Jonathan learn more about their family. They also find out who has been traveling between the different worlds and stealing their magic. Flick, Jonathan, Alva and their friends from previous books prepare for the battle against the magic stealing creatures

I‘ve loved this series

#BookReport

Not my best reading week, but I knew I would do a lot of sleeping after the operation

But I did finish The Switch

I‘m currently reading both The BookShop Book and The Secrets of the Stormforest. I hope to finish Stormforest today

The others are potentials I didn‘t get to and didn‘t manage to remove from the picture 😊

#Fruity #SummerSouls

#SummerSouls #Summer

Leena, 29, is working around the clock. After a collapse at work, she‘s given 2 months paid leave, the end of the world. After a telephone talk with her grandmother, Eileen, they decide to switch homes for 2 months. Leena will take on Eileen‘s responsibilities and Eileen will be given the opportunity to leave the London life she wanted to live over 50 yrs ago before she got married. As they are living new lives, this might change

June‘s #BookSpinBingo board is ready.

Most of these are books I own. Yah to reading your own tbr

Both my #BookSpin and #DoubleSpin are books I hope to get to next week if I get any reading done then

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ve started some books that‘ll take a longish time to finish; Dissolution #ShardlakeSeriesBR, a 2 month buddy read and The BookShop Book

I‘ll undergo surgery tomorrow and not sure how much reading I‘ll get done

Tom Lake returned from Libby and I want to continue that

I want to finish The Switch

The rest are possibilities; The Secrets of the Stormforest, Slemme Jenter (Bad Girls) and the Icelandic author Jon Kalman Stefansson

June! We‘re already in June. Time really do fly when you are reading good books.

Here‘s my list for #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo One more free space than usual since I couldn‘t decide on a last book

Here‘s to another great reading month. Looking forward to those numbers tomorrow and the board

Whenever I hear the word #Picnic I always think about this scene from Emma

#SummerSouls

This dialogue seems oddly familiar

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

To use a technical term: This book is bananapants, it‘s a crazy ride

Walk Kitu is a professor on nothing. Then he meets John Sill a billionaire, who wants to break into Fort Knox to steal a shoebox containing nothing. And then it‘s a wild ride from then on

Most of the mathematics went over my head, but other than that this is a joyful read with some puns from Everett

#BookReport

I had an amazing reading week

I finished my listen of How to Say Babylon, and my reading of both The Battle for Spain and Daddy‘s Gone A-Hunting

I read Xiania and Dr. No

Sadly I had one DNF, Yellowface which just wasn‘t for me

I‘ve just started The Switch

Sadly this was not for me. I didn‘t like the writing from the start and after 58p (chap 5) that hadn‘t changed. I‘ve read too many good books lately that has pulled me in from the start, to have the patience to see if this was going to change.

It‘s the early 20s, Klara is 19, unmarried and pregnant. She tries to remove it herself, but end up at the doctor‘s who write her a “prescription” for an address in Christiania (Oslo‘s former name). Traveling to the city will change Klara‘s life.

Since it‘s numbered as number one, I‘m expecting more books in this world and they can‘t come fast enough for me. I raced through this novel.

I didn‘t know much about the Spanish Civil War before I read. Know I‘ve learned who fought on each side:
The Republicans, fighting for the elected government, the socialists, the communists, the anarchist with support from Soviet
The Nationalists with leader Franco, the monarchists, the fascists, the church with support from Germany and Italy

As I was reading about the fighting one line from the Norwegian poet‘s Nordahl Grieg poem

This book is amazing and I‘m not sure I can fully explain why. There‘s something about the writing and its snarkyness, the bored stay-at-home mothers and the overworked fathers. And the title as amazing

This was such a treat. A collection of 12 stories where most of them had me guessing until the very end, one I guessed early and one I guessed right before the solution was revealed.

I‘m ready for the next volume.

#NoPlaceLikeHolmes

#StorySettings #Island

Layla and Andy meet at a party and fall instantly in love. Now they‘re engaged and planning their weeding. Layla is mixed-race but she can pass as white; Black, Jamaican mother and a white dad. Andy is white

One day, Layla‘s best friend, Sera, sends her a link to a documentary. Andy‘s ancestors had slaves in Jamaica and were compensated when slavery was abolished. Was her family slaves under his since that already has the same last name?

#StorySetting #Museum

#WeeklyForecast

I‘ve several books that I want to finish this week
I hope to have a good audio week and finish my listening of How to Say Babylon - I have 3 hrs left

I want to finish The Battle for Spain

I‘m going to go finish Daddy‘s Gone A-Hunting today

I want to read Xiania 1 which I is the 1st book in a new series

I will hopefully get a start on Yellowface, I‘ve had this book out several times and it‘s time to find out if it‘s for me