This is Stridsberg‘s newest novel and it‘s not in the database so tagging her breakthrough novel. This is my first Stridsberg, but I‘ve wanted to read her for years

This is a family saga, both told backwards and forwards.
It‘s the 1900s and Laura has just given birth and telling two men that they‘re the father. This part is told as on a dream

In the present, our protagonist is telling us about her life, parents and grandparents, and these

In effect, the swain was standing up in his gondola, card-case in hand, affecting to put the question to a servant. This conjunction of circumstances led to his immediately afterwards presenting himself before the young ladies in a posture, which in ancient times would not have been considered one of favourable augury for his suit, since the gondoliers of the young ladies, having been put to some inconvenience by the chase, so neatly brought

Today, I‘ve been on Litsy for 9 years

Time really do fly by when you‘re having fun and what is more fun than discussing books with other book lovers

Thanks for all the buddy reads and the expansion to my ever growing tbr

#BookReport

I‘ve read The Wedding People and Et jentebarn (A Baby Girl)

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued the buddy reads: Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens, Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I‘ve started The Strawberry Patch Pancake House

(A Baby Girl) Not in the database. This came out to great acclaim earlier this year, so naturally I put myself on the wait list at the library

It‘s winter 1814, & the Danish king has surrendered Norway to Sweden, & the Norwegians won‘t have it. The army is calling in any able bodied young man. Aslak is called in & goes against his parents wishes. As Aslak trains to be a soldier, his parents are forced to think about what they did 18 yrs ago

“Everyone” seemed to be reading this on Litsy a few months ago and loving it. I‘m so glad it was put on my radar.

A year after her divorce, Phoebe travels to an expensive hotel across the country to end her life. Once she arrives there, she discovers that everyone else is a part of a wedding and soon she is more involved in this wedding that she expected.

A disabled woman in a wheelchair living with the help of a ventilator, is working as an erotica writer. She lives in a home so her entire life is contained within its walls.

I didn‘t love this as so many others, maybe some of the shock factors where less shocking since I‘ve heard so much about them? Or maybe the book was just too short for me?

#BookReport

I read Beach Read and Sjøkuer og andre utryddelser

I continued with my yearlong reads on the right

I continued The Flower Farm on audio

I continued Little Dorrit #WhatTheDickens. Last week was also the beginning of a new month, so I started two new buddy reads; Mansfield Park #PemberLittens #JaneAustenThenAndNow and Tombland #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve also started Hunchback

The dignified old gentleman turned out to be Lord Lancaster Stiltstalking, who has been maintained by the the Circumlocution Office for many years as a representative of the Britannic Majesty abroad. This noble Refrigerator had iced several European courts in his time, and had done it with such complete success that the very name of Englishman yet stuck cold to the stomachs of foreigners who had the distinguished honor of remembering him, at a

I have no idea how to translate this title, but it‘s a mostly nonfiction book looking at extinction of animals in the north.

Looking into Bering‘s expedition in 1741 and Stellar‘s discoveries, the Alaskan governor and his family in 1859 and lastly Johan Grønvoll in the 1950s

A book that shows that one person matter and one person is all it takes to change the future for one species, both on the bad and the good side. And it shows how hard it

Emily Henry writes the perfect summer books.

It‘s a year after January‘s father died, and she found out he wasn‘t who she thought he was. She moves to her dad‘s country cottage to finish her next novel. Her neighbor is another author who she also went to college with.

I loved the main characters and all the side characters.

The ending has me in tears

My #BookSpinBingo card for July

My #BookSpin is a #NancyDrewBR
My #DoubleSpin is part of a #WhatTheDickens

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