Just signed up, and I‘m excited to try this out! 🙌🙌

#NewYearWhoDis

A day late, but I have been with friends all weekend. ?

#BookReport
Finished Frankissstein (#MoreMehThanYeah)
Finished Gå Glip (Miss Out, okay but too philosophical)
Finished American Kingpin on Audio (Very interesting!)

#WeeklyForecast
I‘m not planning much this week, but I‘m currently listening to Paddle Your Own Canoe by Nick Offerman to get me through weekend cleaning ?

Well, this is a surprise! I got a package slip yesterday, telling me I had a package waiting at the post office from Germany. So I thought my #JolabokaflodSwap sender must be a German Litten. But when I picked up this festive parcel, I saw it was from the very sweet @BarbaraBB and I‘m very excited to see what she picked out for me 😄

Okay, this case is 🍌👖!

What Ulbricht did and how he did it is unbelievable, but how different law enforcement agencies were too busy taking credit instead of working together blew my mind! This case could have been solved much faster if people actually spoke to each other! And didn‘t turn rogue, of course.
Also, the author‘s foreshadowing annoyed me. Yes, I know things are going to end badly, but stop spoiling it!

Thanks for the rec @Cinfhen

Okay, I‘m doing it! I need to post this and get it over with before I change my mind again (for the 12th time). These are my #Top10oftheDecade #FictionEdition. I went with books published between 2010 and 2019, because most of my reading have been done in this decade anyway, so there were too many books to choose from otherwise 😅

And now I kinda want to reread them all. Maybe a plan for 2020? 🤔

I sent my #JolabokaflodSwap package to a European Litten today, along with a little something-something for a few other Littens. So @BarbaraBB @Cinfhen and @erzascarletbookgasm be on the look out 👀

@MaleficentBookDragon are we supposed to keep our match secret, or can I tag the person in this post? 😊

My #Top10oftheDecade #NonFiction edition. I have read all of these within the last three years, and while I might not have given all of these 5 stars when I read them, these are the ones I remember having the biggest impact on me.

Now it is on to the dreaded fiction list. I‘m not really sure I can make a top ten, but you can bet your sweet behind, that I‘m going to try! 😅

#WeeklyForecast - I finally got started on Frankissstein, so that‘s my print pick for the week. I don‘t think I‘ll have time to read another print book this week, but I have some audio picks lined up:
🎧 American Kingpin by Nick Bilton
🎧 Good Habits, Bad Habits by Wendy Wood

Have a great Sunday Littens! ❤️

I‘m so conflicted about this, I don‘t really know how to review it. On one hand, it was compulsory readable. I just couldn‘t stop. On the other hand, Joe‘s obsessiveness, jealousy, and sexism scared me so much, because that‘s real. It isn‘t a fictionalised monster, they are real problems in the world. And it made me so uncomfortable to read about. So yeah, not really sure how I feel right now.

#SocialMediaFocus last book for #Booked2019, tho! 🙌

My Saturday #BookReport. I turned out, I needed to watch tv and series a bit more than I needed to read this week, so I didn‘t read as much as I expected. However, what I did read was great!

My two finished books are both 4⭐️, Frankissstein seems like it is going to be great, I just need to get into it, and I can‘t stop listening to You, even though it makes me mad and scared.

So all in all, a good week 👍

I started listening to this today on my drive to work, and oh my, Joe is a creep! I know I‘m late to the party, and so far, I‘m not sure I‘m that glad I joined 😅

Used for #SocialMediaFocus for #Booked2019

I took a day off today just because, and celebrated with possibly the biggest croissant in town, a second cake (because why not), and finishing this wonderful book from @erzascarletbookgasm ❤️

These tales take well known fairytales and flip them on their head. We get a tale from Rumpelstiltskin‘s perspective, a retelling of Beauty and the Beast, The Steadfast Tin Soldier, and the title story, 7 Wild Swans. Very well done, I enjoyed them a lot!

I‘m so happy this book excists, even though I hate it have to excist. What Weinstein did, what way too many men continue to do to women is beyond horrifying, and we need to talk about it. Because silence lets the offenders keep harrassing, hurting, raping, violating women. I have more respect for the work journalists put into exposing men like Weinstein. Spaces, where women‘s stories can be told, are needed, and journalists can provide that space.

#CurrentlyReading 🕯📖

We‘re on our way to a christening, so not much reading for me. But I‘m looking forward to the week ahead - no books in progress, so a fresh start to the week, a day off on Wednesday, and a weekend without big plans all combine to make me hopeful I‘m going to get through the above books 🤞 I don‘t have my audiobook(s) picked out yet, so I‘m going to surprise myself 😄

Have a great Sunday Littens ❤️

#WeeklyForecast

My week turned out as expected - not much time to read. But I finished the illustrated HP 4, listened to Never Enough (super interesting and informative) and read Heart Berries (right book, wrong time and format). All in all, a pretty good week, but I‘m looking forward to next week, which will bring more reading time (hopefully 🤞)

#BookReport

Sorry book, it is me, not you! I never read ebooks, but I decided to try with this because I got it through my library. But the format didn‘t help me take the content in, I just kept swiping the pages. I need to reread it again at some time, because Mailhot writes beautifully and poetically about tough subjects, and her words need to be taken in, thought over and felt, and I wasn‘t able to do that at the moment.

#IndigenousAuthor #Booked2019

I was worried this would be dry and a bit boring, but it wasn‘t (However it might be more interesting if you have a professional interest in the subject). Grisel uses her own experiences of struggling with addiction, and it works really well. It makes the science easier to understand, and it makes Grisel more relatable.

I don‘t expect much reading time next week, so I‘m keeping my expectations low 😅 #WeeklyForecast

Finish: HP and the Goblet of Fire (illustrated)
Listen to: Never Enough on my drive to work. Interesting, and relevant for my work as a paychologist treating teenagers with addiction problems)
Read: Heart Berries for #Booked2019

Yes to everything Caitlin Doughty does 🙌

I‘m a big fan, and I love how she can make death into something less gross, less scary, less taboo.

Dear Jessie, thank you so much for the #birthdaybooks ❤️ I finally got around to picking them up from the PO today. I‘m really excited for the tagged book, it has been on my tbr for ages! I already own and have read the Pinborough book (and really liked it!), but then I can #PayItForward to someone else, who hopefully will like it too!

Thank you my friend!

My #BookReport is actually on time today 😅

I finished Sadie and A Head Full of Ghosts as planned, and I‘m currently reading HP and listening to Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs, and loving both of them. Hoping to finish them both tomorrow, but we‘ll see 😊

All great reads this week!

Getting a bit into the Christmas spirit by making Christmas decorations (Advent candles on top, calendar candle on the bottom) 🕯

And I know the book isn‘t very Christmas-y, but I love Caitlin Doughty, so it is what it is 😄

#currentlyreading

My bf is at an office party, and I‘m partying home alone 🙌

#currentlyreading

I read this book in a day, and that says quite a lot about it, since I can‘t remember the last time I did that. It was creepy, had some great themes (religion vs. mental health, feminism, trauma), and Tremblay walked the line between horror and psychological thriller so well! Definitely not my normal kind of read, but not my last book by this author 👌

An afternoon well spent 👌

#currentlyreading

Between a pick and a so-so.

I liked the book, but it didn‘t blew me away. I was never fully engaged with it, and the ending annoyed me a bit. However, it was the kind of book that fits perfectly with my energy levels at the moment, and I quite liked the podcast format. 👍

Thanks for the book @BarbaraBB 😘

I took another day at home today, and good thing I did! Because look what my mailman just delivered to me 😍

Thank you @Cinfhen my #LitsyMom ❤️ I‘m really excited to read this, and I love the cover! And that bookmark and notebook make me want to go to Paris NOW!

#Bookmail

I went home early from work today, because of an annoying cold. Now I‘m hoping naps, cups of tea and relaxing reading time will so the trick, and get me back in working order again 🤞

#currentlyreading

I love Catherynne Valente‘s books, and this (her newest but not very new anymore), is very high on both my to-buy and to-read lists. 💙

#TrueBlue #MOvember

I forgot to post my #BookReport yesterday, so here it comes with my #WeeklyForecast 📚

I read the books lying down and listened to Lily and Dunkin. I think my fave was Eleanor and Park - it was just so sweet ❤️

I didn‘t get to Frankissstein this week, so on it goes to next week‘s reading list. But I‘m most excited about Sadie (from the sweet @BarbaraBB ❤️), so I think I‘ll start it today!

Dear @BarbaraBB ❤️ thank you for the lovely birthday package! Both books have been on my tbr for so long, and the tagged book will be my “Danish” pick for #ReadingEurope2020 🙌 ❤️

I just signed up to #ReadingEurope2020, and I‘m excited! 🙌

@BarbaraBB asked for inspiration for Danish authors, so I thought I would compile a little sample of both classic and contemporay Danish authors, that I have read a liked/loved. There‘s a lot of crime/mystery writers in Denmark, but that‘s not my genre, so you‘ll have to find those for yourself 😅

List of authors in the comments 👇

This was a fun and informative GN, but I have a feeling it would work better for a younger audience. I knew a lot of the women and the history told in the book, so there were no surprises for me. But nice artwork and a feminist history is enough to earn a pick from me! 🙌

Ever wondered what Penelope did all those years Odysseus was out adventuring, waring, tricking and exploring? This book gives Penelope‘s point of view, from being married off, always being in the shadow of her cousin, being disregarded, left behind and left to fend for herself in a world where a woman‘s word doesn‘t count for much. And in typical Atwood style, this is feminist, strong and a new take on a classic tale, and it was great!

It has been quite a while since I joined a swap, but I couldn‘t resist this one! Send one book and some chocolate to a fellow Litten sounds like just the kind of swap I can deal with at the moment 😅

Want to join in? Head to @MaleficentBookDragon and see the details and find sign up link 👍

#JolabokaflodSwap

When a book makes ypu tear up in your car on the way to work, you know it is a good one. This book felt like a squeeze to the heart and a big hug all in one. It was sweet, diverse, sad at times, and fun at times. Lily and Dunkin felt, to me, like great representations of a transcender child and a child with mental illness in the form of bipolar disorder.

#DiverseMiddleGrade #Booked2019

In a maybe-not-so-distant #future we might end up in a situation like Peter - he is going as a missionary to a new planet to preach the word of the bible. At Earth he leaves his wife Bea, and slowly, and from a universe away, Peter learns how life on Earth has been changing in drastic ways. Will there even be a home for him to return to?

Also, this cover is so shiny, I can‘t even 😍

#MOvember

It seemed like I picked a good day to work from home, since this little surprise package decided to arrive today ❤️ it looks like it is sent from Holland, so I‘m thinking @BarbaraBB might be my #bookfairy? ☺️

When Dunkin sees a #beautifulstranger in the form of a blond girl, in a red dress, with eyes as blue as forest lakes, he becomes instantly interested in learning more about her. But the next time he meets the girl, she is wearing boy‘s clothes and says her name is Tim. Which is the name Lily was given at birth, but not the name of her real self.

And so begins the story of Lily and Dunkin, which is shaping up to be just wonderful ❤️

#MOvember

My #WeeklyForecast consists of three library books that are due in a couple of weeks and whatever audiobooks I feel inspired to listen to during my drive to and from work.

I‘m pretty sure I won‘t read both of the novels, but I might have a bit more reading time the next week than usual, so I‘m keeping my hopes up 🤞

Phew, this felt like a punch to the gut, but in a good way. I expected a sweet, YA love story, which I definitely got, but I got a whole lot more, too. I hadn‘t expected the darker sides of the story - bullying, racism, violence, abuse - but they brought some rawness and realness to the story, which I really liked!

In the second book of His Dark Materials, Will and Lyra arrive in the deserted #ghosttown Cittàgazze, where all the adults have fled the city, and left it to a band of kids and the Spectres ?

Also, who else is watching the BBC series of the first book? I saw the first episode on Monday, and I can‘t wait for the continuation tomorrow ?

#MOvember

I haven‘t had much time to read Friday or Saturday, because I celebrated my birthday (a week early) with my family yesterday. I had a lovely day, and among other great gifts, I got these two lovely books 📚

Today, I‘m going to relax with Eleanor and Park, and enjoy not having any plans 🙌

#BirthdayBookHaul

My Saturday #BookReport - my reading week turned out as expected, except for my audio pick, which was on a bit of a whim. The two books I finished were both great, and I‘m loving Eleanor and Park, so far 🙌

A quick audiobook for my commute. I‘m so not ready to not be in this world, so I‘m trying to find every read-a-like I can. So if you have any recs for a big fan of Rothfuss‘ work, please post it in a comment! 🤞🙏

1. Bring able to connect with book lovers, getting to know people from all over the world, getting honest book recs
2. I just scroll past, everyone likes something different
3. Grids, as suggested by @BarbaraBB and only one edition of each book. I hate having to stack a book again and again.
4. It has become less after I started working, but I try to post at least a couple of times a week
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I‘m not #sorry I received the Persephone Biannually, but I‘m sorry for what their magazine does to my #crave for new books 😅 I‘m trying to control my riges by reading this not-so-light, but very sweet book, and so far, it is working 🙌

#MOvember

This book is about a boy and three #GirlsGoneWild in the fantastical Glass Town. Where Napoleon is riding around on a porcelain rooster, suitcases can transform into transportation and people are more often made from iron or wood, than from blood and bones. Oh, and all of this is an imaginary world made up by the Brontë siblings.

Valente reimagines the Brontës childhood, and it is a delightful read for both young and old ?

#MOvember

I forgot to post my #BookReport yesterday, because I watched The Hunchback from Notre Dame musical with my mom. But my week turned out exactly as I had imagined, reading wise, and it was great!

I‘m hoping my #WeeklyForecast will go as plan, as I‘m hoping some lighter reads will #RescueMe from spending to many nights falling asleep while reading 🤞

#MOvember