My #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for July is ready.

A couple of long books that I hope to read during my vacation at the end of July.

Several buddy reads since I might want to join too many

#BookReport

I finished Evenings and Weekends

I read The Country of Others and the Norwegian book Tung tids tale

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued with Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and on audio, The Flower Farm

I was at an author event with Slimani earlier this and she was talking about the trilogy she‘s writing based on her family‘s story

This is the first one focusing on her grandmother, a French woman, marring a Moroccan man. They move to his home country. In a country under French colonial rule tensions are high and being in a mixed marriage isn‘t easy.

The second book is already waiting on me at the library

A great read.

In the early 1500s, Tibb becomes an orphan and makes some new friends. In order to get the life they want Tibb comes up with a little trickerie that completely takes on a life of its own

A book about being accepted as who you are, homophobia, the power of the church and friendship

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Evenings and Weekends

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens and The Flower Farm on audio

Read The Country of Others and hopefully also Oh William!

#BookReport

I finished both The Wreath #DoorstopKristin #KLBR and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I read Bloddråpetall (Blood Drops Numbers)

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I‘ve started both Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens, and Evenings and Weekends

A whale gets stuck in the Thames.

#FirstLineFridays

Just a random page from the book Bloddråpetall (Blood Drop Number) to illustrate how the story is told.

You have two of the villagers, Vigdis and Bente, telling their story.
The sentences in italics is from the clay race
And in small numbers statistics on mainly mental health

Tagging another of this author‘s books. The pictured is her latest trans. To Blood Drop Numbers

A book about disease starting in 2017. We meet different people in a small Norwegian village as they tell us about what is going on in their life. As the years progress things change, people get sick and some die.

And in the background lurks the trauma from the big clay race a couple of generations before almost extinguishing the entire village.

A book of two parts where I loved each part individually. She writes beautifully, but I‘m not sure I understand their connectedness even reading all the comments from the #Camplitsy2025 discussions

I read her previous book and will read more of her in the future

Tagging the only book by this author in the database, I‘m currently reading her latest Bloddråpetall (Blod Prop Number)

When suddenly, out of nowhere, there‘s a reference to a trilogy that you‘re reading and just finished the first book, Kristin Lavransdatter - The Wreath.

“When where you happiest, Erlend Nikolausson? - I don‘t know when or where, but I know I was with Kristin.”

#WeeklyForecast

I want to continue my yearlong reads on the right

I want to continue Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and on audio, The Flower Farm

I want to finish The Wreath #DoorstopKristin #KLBR

I want to read Bloddråpetall

I hope to find time to start both LittleDorrit #WhatTheDickens and Evening and Weekends

I had fallen a couple of days behind in my listening of this book, and listened to yesterday‘s piece today

That felt a little serendipitous. I saw Moonrise Kingdom directed by Wes Anderson yesterday. Benjamin Britten is mentioned several times and when the music is shown at the end, several of his pieces had been used. Life works in mysterious ways sometimes

#BookReport

I finished Audition and Sara Strindberg‘s latest

I read The Clue in the Jewel Box #NancyDrewBR

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I‘ve started the first book in the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy, The Wreath #KLBR #DoorstopKristin

Just announced the Winner of the Women‘s Prize for Fiction 2025

I loved this when I read it, so I‘m so happy it won

Just announced as the Winner of the Women‘s Prize for Nonfiction 2025

I haven‘t read this
Actually, I‘m scared of reading this since I know I‘m going to cry like crazy

Powerful, self biographical poems about all the operations Campbell underwent as a child and her struggles to become a mother with the help of IVF

I follow Campbell on YouTube and remember her talking about getting access to her medical files. In this collection there‘s several letters between doctors, making me wonder if these are real since they treat her as a curiosity

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with my yearlong reads on the right

Continue Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I started both Audition and Sara Strindberg‘s latest yesterday, and want to finish them

I want to continue the 2nd book in the Applemore series, tagged, on audio

I want to read A Clue in the Jewel Box #NancyDrewBR

#BookReport

I read Fundamentally (already returned to library) and The Crossing Places

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued Lamentation #ShardlakeBR and started Audition #CampLitsy25

I continued my audio, Weyward, and hope to finish today

The 1st crime book in the series staring archaeologist Ruth Calloway

When the remains of a child is discovered in the salt marches, the police hopes that it‘s a 4 yr old that disappeared 10 yrs ago, but the remains turns out to be over 1000 yr.

Then police inspector Harry Nelson shows Ruth some letters he received back in the day, and an other young girl is missing. Are all these cases linked?

I would have wanted to know more about the

In recognition of her body of work, significant contribution to literature and strong advocacy for for women Bernadine Evaristo has won the Women‘s Prize Outstanding Contribution Award

I‘m not sure what this entails, but I love her novels. After her novel, “Girl, Women, Other”, won the Booker prize a few years back, I read all her other novels. I think Mr Loverman is my favorite

I hope she out with a new book soon

In desperate need to leave London after a breakup, Nadia decides to take on a job in Iraq with the UN to deradicalise women affiliated with ISIS. Things doesn‘t go as planned when she meets Sara who reminds her of herself when she was the same age, and things escalate from there.

If the description of the internal workings of the UN is even remotely close to the truth, they don‘t come off particularly good. I was shocked actually.

My #BookSpinBingo board for June is ready

My #BookSpin is a Norwegian nonfiction
My #DoubleSpin is the first quarter of Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens

Hoping for another great reading month

Summer is here, and summer is usually my best reading months. I finally have my #BookSpin, #DoubleSpin and #BookSpinBingo list for June ready.

A lot of buddy reads and I might want to join too many. Guess I won‘t find out until the end of summer.

I loved Harding‘s nature illustrations showing us the changes in nature through the seasons.

Along with most of the illustrations is also snippets i to her life

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Pick up Lamentation again for #ShardlakeBR

I want to continue my audio, Weyward

I started Fundamentally earlier today. Once that‘s finished I want to start The Crossing Places unless Audition #camplitsy25 arrives from the library first

1. My 4th read
2. The Tilney siblings
3./ 4. I love when Austen is defending the reading of novels & making fun of people who don‘t read them, chap 5 & 7
5. Dance, at least I have a chance of surviving that
6. Snooping
7. SIL
8. That‘s hard since there‘s more people I wouldn‘t want to invite. Getting an invite: the Tilney siblings & Catherine. Not getting an invite: Mrs Allen - all the talk about muslins. Mrs Thorpe. Mr Thorpe - such a brute

Another winner from Austen

I particularly like the defense of reading the novel and all the literary references.

Some neighbors of the Morland‘s ask if Catherine would like to join them in Bath. Off course she does, and in the beginning it‘s boring since they don‘t know anyone. The. Catherine is introduced to Isabella and later to Henry and suddenly it‘s not so boring anymore

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Perrin‘s latest is another winner.

It‘s autumn 2010, and Agnes gets a call that her aunt has died. There‘s just one problem, she was told the same thing in 2007 and a person can‘t die twice right? So Agnes travels to her aunt‘s home and meets some old childhood friends and some of her aunt‘s friends

Did her aunt not live the boring life that everyone thought? Quite the story is unraveled

In the canal between France and the UK a boat with immigrants have sunk causing the death of 27 immigrants. On the French side the woman who took the calls are being questioned by the police and she is not prepared to take on any more blame than the rest of us since she “didn‘t force them to leave”

Is she a representation of all of us? And the fatigue of ever more immigrant stories? Is it worse since she was a woman and we expect more nurturing

#BookReport

This was a week for finishing books 😊

I finished Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Tata and Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I read A Year Unfolding and The Adventure of the Three Gables #NoPlaceLikeHomes

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I made great progress on my audio, Weyward

I‘m almost done with A Little Trickerie

Ma had said she would give the cordwainer man a baby - the thing he could not get from his dull-as-ditchwater wife - and we would get a roof in return.

#FirstLineFridays

#WeeklyForecast

Continue with the yearlong reads on the right

Continue Weyward on audio

I want to finish Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow, Tata and maybe even Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I want to start A Year Unfolding and A Little Trickerie

I raced through this, angry about all the injustices in this world. I feel that it‘s wrong to say that I loved it because of the subject matter

Each character is one case that Eistrich has handled. Looking at how man who kills their wives gets of because she was nagging, but women who kills their husbands after years, sometimes decades, of abuse gets the strongest verdicts, and how that is beginning to change. She‘s also looking at other cases

A weak pick

Our Narrator is talking about his friendship with Fanny. & friendships are never easy, especially when you don‘t know which of you friend‘s personalities you‘re going to meet

I watched Jen Campbell‘s YouTube video where she read some of the longlisted International Booker books & one of several ideas she talked about was that the Narrator & Fanny where the same person, & the Narrator where Fanny looking at herself from a distance

#BookReport

I read Hvit Makt (White Power) and The Adventure of the Mazarin Stone #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

I continued my yearlong reads on the right

I continued this month‘s buddy reads; Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I continued Please Di Not Touch This Exhibit

I‘ve started Tata

Book not in the database

Freedom for everyone apparently means different things for different people. For most of us it means freedom for everyone, but for some, mostly white, mostly American, it means freedom to oppress other people. And this book looks at how this ideology has shaped the USA since the Civil War and how that ideology always has led to a backlash when African Americans have gained more rights.
Looking more closely at the work

Today it‘s 80 years since Pippi Longstocking was first published.

Here‘s to the world‘s strongest girl 🎉🎉🎉

I grew up watching the Swedish TV series from the 60s and read the first book just a few years ago

The picture is from Lisa Aisato‘s instagram page

#BookReport

Finished:
📚 A Leopard-Skin Hat
📚 Sister in Law

Read:
📚 The Quest of the Missing Map #NancyDrewBR
📚 Small Boat
📚 The Blanched Soldier #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Current:
📚 Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit
📚 My yearlong reads
📚 Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow
📚 Lamentation #ShardlakeBR
🎧 Weyward

#WeeklyForecast
Continue my current reads, read Hvit Makt (White Power), TAo The Mazarin Stone & start Tata

Today‘s Norway‘s National Day. We celebrate our constitution from 1814.

We celebrate with the children‘s parade, so this is seen as the kids day where they can eat all the ice cream and hot dogs that they like

So to any Norwegian in here: Happy Birthday
And I hope everyone has a great day

The person, be it gentleman or lady, who had not pleasure in a good novel, most be intolerably stupid

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

#WeeklyForecast

Continue my yearlong reads on the right

Continue with the buddy reads; Lamentation #ShardlakeBR, Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and The Blanched Soldier #NoPlaceLikeHolmes

Continue Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit, Sister in Law and on audio Weyward

I‘m about to start The Quest of the Missing Map #NancyDrewBR

I also want to read Small Boat and get a start on Tata

#BookReport

Continued with my yearlong reads

Continued the buddy reads: Northanger Abbey #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Lamentation #ShardlakeBR

I finished By the Fire We Carry, Autocracy Inc. and The Bookshop at the Back of Beyond

I continued Please Do Not Touch This Exhibit

I‘ve started Sister in Law, A Leopard-Skin Hat and on audio Weyward

“Oxford! There is no drinking at Oxford now, I assure you. Nobody drinks there. You would hardly meet with a man who goes beyond his four pints at the outmost. Now, for instance, it was reckoned a remarkable thing at the last party in my rooms, that upon an average we cleared about five pints a head.”

I‘m so happy to find out how little they don‘t drink at Oxford

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

This is the 3rd book about Nine and her friends in the moving house.

This time they are headed to Beyond to look for a friend. But one of the rules In Beyond is that you have to shop in every store, leading to quite some store visits and their eccentric owners. Nine also learns more about her mother

Is this Austen‘s way of letting us know that we have met the villain already?

Doesn‘t like reading

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow

Applebaum shows how modern day autocracy differs from previous ones in that the autocratic nations today are working together, helping each other and learning from each other. It used to be that autocratic nations were isolated that is no longer the case as they are buying from each other. They have also created strategies for taking down anyone citizen criticising them or the country. This book scared me

This took me quite awhile to read, maybe because I didn‘t want to know how it ended?

A young, widowed father is doing what he can to save his boy from living the life he has lived. When we first meet them, they are running away. I‘m not going to spoil if the father succeeds or not.

But there‘s several instances of child abuse

The first half was my #BookSpin for April

they were still resolute in meeting in defiance of wet and dirt, and shut themselves up, to read novels together. Yes, novels; - for I will not adapt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very performances, to the number of which they are themselves adding

#PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow