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Finished another one from my stack of my own books for June. Both under 100 pages but very different from each other.

Childhood - looks at a poverty stricken childhood in Copenhagen in the 30s (memoir).
La Bastarda is a novel in translation from Equatorial Guinea exploring the coming of age of a young gay woman.

.... how such monstrous sentences can find their way into a book that gets into the library where a clever and attractive woman like Miss Mollerup actually recommends it to defenseless children to read. For now, however I can't express these thoughts, so I have to be content with saying that the books are boring ...

Only when I stubbornly insist on having access to the shelves with the adult books does she give in...

So my mother was alone, even though I was there, and if I was absolutely still and didn‘t say a word, the remote calm in her inscrutable heart would last until the morning had grown old and she had to go out to do the shopping in Istegade like ordinary housewives.

"Childhood is long and narrow like a coffin, and you can't get out of it on your own." ?
Unflinching is the word that comes to mind so far for this book.

Book buying ban still in effect but some books I pre-ordered in December have arrived. After reading Lucy Scholes's review of this trilogy (I'm still waiting on Book 3), I couldn't resist. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/12/09/re-covered-a-danish-genius-of-mad...

In honour of my final day doing the #20Series20Books challenge, I thought I‘d share this series that I just bought (and have yet to read).

The Copenhagen Trilogy is Danish author Tove Ditlevsen‘s memoir and begins with the volume Childhood, about growing up in working-class 1920s Copenhagen. I probably had a bit of “cover love” going on here when I bought them; these slim pink editions are so pretty. 😆

@Andrew65

First volume in the Copenhagen Trilogy a trilogy a memoir of the authors life.A gift from a sweet friend.

The first in a trilogy of memoirs, this short book is beautifully written - the author was a poet. She suffered with addiction and depression in later life and you can start to feel this in her difficult childhood.

And Minette, you must have known I like to match my bookmarks to my books - your lovely pink note arrived just in time to bookmark this book! 😘 @gradcat

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