My Struggle: Book 2: A Man in Love | 
Anyone read this author? People say the Norwegian is following the footsteps of Marcel Proust. Reading now
An evergreen, ever-long, book on the TBR.
#12coloursofdecember #WinterGames2020 #wintergames #MerryReaders
@Clwojick, +10 +1 points
pickBook 2 finished. Philosophical explorations pointing me in the direction of where to go and what feels fresh; conversations I wish I‘d had but that move me enough to just be thankful I read them; an entryway into another person‘s gorgeous, tormented, inflammatory mind, which then manages to feel like a reflection of my own, whether that‘s rational or no (probably no)—but you know how you see yourself in what you admire... 🤪
When I was twenty it was only ten years since I had been ten. Everything in my childhood was still close. It was still my reference point, from it I made sense of things. Not now, not anymore.
I am on a total journey lately with the things I‘m reading, that being “David Copperfield” and the “My Struggle” series.
Sometimes it gets tough because there are so many modern novels I want to read, but then I chill out again because I‘m, really, getting so much out of the Knausgaard. It‘s completely stimulating and I do feel like I‘m on a trip, like I said. So I remember that it‘s worth it just to focus on that.
The crabmeat on the bread was both smooth and uneven, reddish brown like the leaves on the field, and the salty, almost bitter taste of sea, softened by the sweetness of the mayonnaise, yet sharpened by the lemon juice, overtook all my senses for a few seconds.
I decided to go for the crab and seagull story, wrote twenty pages, wrote thirty, my short runs became longer and longer, and soon I ran all the way around Söder, while the kilos flowed off me and conversations with Tonje became fewer and fewer.
Then I met Linda and the sun rose.
Everyday life, with its duties and routines, was something I endured, not a thing I enjoyed, nor something that was meaningful or that made me happy. This had nothing to do with a lack of desire to wash floors or change diapers but rather with something more fundamental: the life around me was not meaningful. I always longed to be away from it. So the life I led was not my own.
Back to (mostly) sound body and mind so back to Karl Ove. [Why isn‘t the hardcover edition in Litsy for V2 when it is for all five other volumes? Can‘t wait for Librarything to get that straightened out...🤔]
Für mich geht es mit "lieben" von Karl-Ove Knausgård weiter.
Hach, ich lieber seine Bücher!
Seid ihr ihm auch verfallen? Welcher Band hat euch bisher am besten gefallen?!
#lesen #currentlyreading #books #buch #buchliebe #buecherwurm #ilovetoread #bookish #bibliophile
“I love you, and perhaps you think you love me, but you don‘t. I believe you like me, I‘m fairly sure of that, but I‘m not enough for you, and you know that deepest down. Perhaps you need someone now, and then along I came, and you thought, well he might do. But I don‘t want to be someone who might do, that‘s not good enough for me, it has to be all or nothing, you have to be ablaze, the way I am ablaze. To want the way I want.”
#ReadingResolutions Day 9: These translated titles definitely qualify as #ForeignReads. I am only missing Books 1 and 3. These are #BlameItOnLitsy titles. Originally from Norway, I believe.
My candy store. My happy place. My breathing space. Another book sale - brand new books starting at 5 sgd each (only 3 of my finds are worth more than 5 dollars) - I think I got great deals. :) Book hunter forever and ever, amen.
pickThis book literally took me years to read, after I had devoured the first one. I found this one to be more of a mixed bag - the Geir parts particularly dragged for me- but even the dull sections are good representations of the day-to-day life captured by Knausgaard. I find his writing on parenthood pretty fascinating!
pick#nonfiction The whole book is stream of consciousness of a man who is coping with everyday life. Very intimate and honest insight into the emerging love, family and friendship. I‘m very interested in wife's opinion and her reaction when she read this book ... I certainly wouldn't be the happiest wife in the world. If you interesting in pathology of a daily life written in a fluent, clear prose then this book is for you.
#quotsydec17 #nightmare
#audiowalk #litsypartyofone ... surrounded by magnificent autumnal colors 🍁🍂🍁🍂
pickPhenomenal. Every page of this long series manages to celebrate life in a subtle, understated way. I can't wait for book six.
I've never mentioned this before, but I'm a Knausgaard stan. Yes, I'm one of THOSE people, obsessed with and addicted to just about anything he writes. I've read My Struggle 1-4 already and am now approaching the end of book five. 😂
...but book six doesn't come out till sometime in 2018 and I don't want to wait!
pick...and I continue to be utterly impressed by Knausgård! I don't think I've ever read a book where I identify so much with the narrator, and where I find someone's observations and daily life so interesting. Not to mention the impeccable writing. Looking forward to part 3!
Sounds familiar ? As so much does in Knausgård's books.
Before getting a dog, I thought dogs would be more cuddly than cats (my parent's hunting dogs are somewhat cuddly, but they're hunting dogs, so I never really thought they counted), but it's actually very rare for Walter to come this close. The cats, on the other hand, are cuddle machines.
I couldn't handle any more of Thoreau's rambling, and Stepnova has me doubting my Russian skills, so I caved in and started another book. I love Knausgård's social awkwardness, his observations and his honesty.
pickThis is so good. How difficult it must be to love him, according to his own writing. Yet I do 😍!
pickI love these series. I feel so close to Knausgaard, like I know him. I admire his honesty immensely and I enjoy reading about his struggles. This 5th installment is about the time he starts writing while teaching in a desolate Norwegian village. Impressive again.
Last pages of Knausgaard's book in a super cosy and cool (literally!) café. As usual, pretty hooked by his writing. #karloveknausgaard
pickI'm sooo invested,loved book 5 . Is it the quiet emotionalism? the self doubt?the fact Karl Ove spends too much on books and music like I do?I just figured out the book 6 hardcover will not be out till the end of 2018?aarrrrhhhhh!!!!How long does it take to learn Norwegian?
#17BookLove #MemoirLove
I love this series, but I hate how the publisher is making dedicated readers wait 2 years for the very last volume😡. For five years in a row, they've released a volume each April/May-- EXCEPT this year.😤 Why-o-why does everything have to be such a... struggle?
Snickerdoodle hot chocolate and a good book
(I ADORE this series from Karl Ove Knausgaard)
I had initially planned to work my way through this six-volume giant on an every-other-book basis, but after plowing through book one in a few days NOW I CAN'T STOP. It's brilliant and beautiful and heart wrenching and I never want it to end. #currentlyreading #karloveknausgaard #mystruggle #book2
pickOnce I abandoned the audio (narrated, not by him, in an arrogant tone of voice) in favor of the text, Knausgaard seduced me with his brainy, wide-eyed non sequiturs, his joys and humiliations just as much as in the first volume. It's going to be a long-term relationship.
Lucky enough to have this week free before starting my new job... read read read!
