#WeeklyForecast

I want to finish The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches and A Sunny Place for Shady People

I want to continue listening to The Christmas Bookstore and continue buddy reading Revelation #ShardlakrBR

I want to read 14th Nancy Drew: The Wispering Statue #NancyDrewBR and maybe get a start on The Christmas Tree Farm

#BookReport

I read The Ministry of Time

I finished The Winter Cottage on audio and started The Christmas Bookshop

I continued my reading of Revelation #ShardlakeBR and A Sunny Place for Shady People

I‘ve started The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

A time travel-romance, a spy thriller and a look into workplace dynamic.

I was really enjoying this novel until the last 60-50p and then she lost me. Still a pick, but not as strong as it could have been.

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Revelation #ShardlakeBR and A Sunny Place for Shady People

I might finish The Winter Cottage on audio

I‘m about to start The Ministry of Time and hope to get to The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches as well

#BookReport

I finished both Missing Persons. Or: My grandmother‘s secrets and Xiania 2: Ada

I read Night Before Christmas

I kept listening to The Winter Cottage

I continued Barkskins, and started both A Sunny Place for Shady People and Revelation #ShardlakeBR

It‘s the night before Christmas and Santa comes in a visit

3rd book for #Adventathon
#BookSpin for December

The 2nd book isn‘t in the database, so tagging the 1st in this series

In this 2nd book we follow Ada and follow her story from the 1880s until 1922. She was gambled away by her father, escaped the following marriage, ended up in Christiana at a brothel, but was never a prostitute. How she met madam Josephine, Nastinka, Freddie and Mateo. And she tells about how she got into the business of helping women with illegal abortions. The book ends,

It‘s doesn‘t seem like Litsy have the entire title: “Missing Persons. Or: My grandmother‘s secrets”. It‘s also interesting that the Norwegian title has switched the sentences.

So what is this about?
In her 20s Wills is told about a cousin she never knew about. Apparently her uncle Jack fathered a child in the 50s. Since he and the mother didn‘t want to get married, the mother was sent off to a home to give birth.

How could her family accept

My #BookSpinBingo card for December is ready.

My #BookSpin is the children‘s picture book “The Night Before Christmas”

My #DoubleSpin is the 3rd in the Dream Harbor series

The numbers are definitely telling me to read Christmas books this season

The 3rd in the Shardlake series.

In this, Shardlake is summoned to Cranmer who wants Shardlake to follow along the King‘s travel to York in his capacity as a barrister. And by the way can he make sure that a rebel is kept alive until they reach London and The Tower?

And before Shardlake knows, he‘s entangled in so much more.

#ShardlakeBR

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

A list of buddy reads, Christmas reads and everything else

I can‘t believe 2024 is almost over. Where did the year go?

Can you love art by a person who has done despicable things? This is what Dederer is looking into focusing on among others the movies by Polanski and Woody Alan, the novels by Hemingway and the art by Picasso. This also leads to a discussion on the genius. Who is defined as a genius? And what comes first the genius or the great art? And also looking into the biggest sin a female artist can make, abandoning her children even if male artists to it

#WeeklyForecast

Finish Missing Persons. Or: My grandmother‘s secrets
Throughout the year I‘ve always had a nonfiction book on the go, but during advent I thought I should try something new. So after the Willis book, I‘ll start A Sunny Place for Shady People

I‘ll continue The Winter Cottage on audio

I‘ll read Revelation with #ShardlakeBR

I‘ll continue Barkskins, but also have some books due back at the library soon that I want to get to. 🔽

This is a short story and a short one of that ad well.

About a young woman and her love of animals

#BookReport

I‘ve finished Monsters

I continued listening to The Winter Cottage

I‘m currently reading Barkskins which I‘ve made less progress in than I expected, and Missing Persons. Or: My Grandmother‘s Secrets

2 months before Hazel turns 30. She thinks her life is too dull & decides to do all the crazy things you do in your 20s over the next 2 months. When Hazel discovers a clue hidden in a book in the bookstore she works, Noah is there, happy to help. This turns into a scavenger hunt and them spending some time together

I‘ve never read a romance with this much focus on consent and communication during steamy scenes. This is more steamy than the 1st

Not that many books on this week‘s #WeeklyForcast

I‘ve almost finished reading Monsters and when I do I‘ll start on Missing Persons. Or: My Grandmother‘s secrets

I‘m about to start Barkskins

And hopefully I‘ll listen to my audio The Winter Cottage

“It is in the everyday/ the magic lives.”

Another one of my favorites

“But if you try,/ and does not give in,/ that little spark,/ can bring to farther.”

One of my favorite illustrations

I saw this book in a bookstore window where you also where showing some of its illustrations. So I had to borrow it from the library.

A stories about love, dreams and courage.
But it‘s the illustrations that tell these stories and they are amazing

I‘m just gonna leave that as it is

#BookReport

I continued reading Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Monsters

I listened some more to my audio The Winter Cottage

I finished Playground

I read I Hate Fairyland 5: Gert‘s Inferno and Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland

I‘ve started The Cinnamon Bun Book Store

Why does all this matter? Because genius informs our idea of who gets to do what. Who gets to have license. Who gets to give in to their impulses. Whom we choose to aid and abet when they do indulge in those impulses. When genius is tied to masculinity - a masculinity that continually reasserts itself - then someone is being left out.
All of which is to say, the genius is not you. Not me. The genius, as we understand it, is not the person who

I‘m the same, Hazel. I have a feeling we‘re not alone in this feeling on Litsy

Hazel Kelly loved a good story.

#FirstLineFridays

A book about love. Love between friends, love between partners, parental love and the love children have towards their parents. Most importantly it‘s a book about the love of nature and the sea and all the creatures that live in the sea.

I always love being back in the I Hate Fairyland world, but in this volume Young has gotten help from his friends. So I preferred some drawing styles to other. Gert was still the star of the show, though

Love this part of the introduction

I loved being back with Gertrude. She hasn‘t changed at all. This volume was sparkling with writer‘s joy.

I also loved chapter 5 where you can download a song and have it playing while you‘re “reading” the fight game.

I love being back with Gertrude again

Love this illustration

I love these endpapers. They also show up the story

This was such a sweet story about a squirrel that hides acorns every fall and never finding any in the spring and discovering what the true treasure is.

But is the illustrations that really make this story. They are amazing.

Cusk looks at the consequences of her divorce for both her and her children immersed with references to biblical history and the myths. About redefining what it means to be a woman and a mother.

#WeeklForecast

Continue with Sovereign #ShardlakeBR and Monsters

I want to continue listening to my audio, tagged book

I want to finish Playground

I want to read I Hate Fairyland 5 and Untold Tales of I Hate Fairyland 1

I hope to get a start on the second book in the Dream Harbor series, Cinnamon Bun Book Store

Strout‘s debut novel about a mother and a daughter, and their relationship. Amy is 16 and just starting life. Isabelle is a single parent, working as a secretary at the factory, trying to get by. It‘s the warmest summer in memory and things are about to change.

#BookReport

I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I finished both The Mystery of the Ivory Charm and Aftermath

I read Amy and Isabelle

I DNFed Orbital, I just wasn‘t in the mood for it

I‘ve just started Monsters

I know I wrote that if you won the Booker, I would give you another chance. So of course you won, but I‘m just not in the mood to do it right now. So maybe we‘ll meet again sometime in the future?

The winner of this year‘s Booker Prize

Off course it was Orbital.
Guess I have to give it another chance

The winner of the Booker Prize 2024 is announced tomorrow.

I‘ve read 4 of the books; James, Stone Yard Devotional, Held and The Safekeep. It probably says it all that I don‘t remember Held. I would be happy if any of the other 3 wins.

Orbital is a potential DNF, if it wins I might give it another chance.

I have picked up Creation Lake at the library and will get to it in the next few weeks.

Which book do you hope will win?

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I‘ve just started Aftermath and the tagged book #NancyDrewBR

I started Orbital last night, but I‘m not really feeling it. The winner of the Booker Prize is announced on Tuesday, and if it wins I might pick it up again

Then I‘ll see what I‘m in the mood for

The 2nd book about the Swifts. First they learn that while in Paris, Felicity has accepted an offer to stay with the Martinets at their hotel. Secondly, Shenanigan learns about the French cousins and the families hate each other. Then, a family picture is stolen by a thief that only steals stolen art. So the Swifts decide to go to Paris to visit their family

I loved this one as well, and will read anything that Lincoln writes in this series

Tagging on of Blix‘ previous books since her latest isn‘t in the database

This book does what the title says, looking at animals that are worse parents than us. She looks at 25 different species. So we read about animals that will their eggs with an other species, animals what kill kids that aren‘t their own and much more.

This was a very interesting read

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I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I read Dyr som er verre foreldre enn deg (trans. Animals that are Worse Patents than You) and The Safekeep

I‘m almost done with The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues

I‘m reusing last week‘s picture since The Safekeep has been returned to the library, so I didn‘t get to Orbital, but hopefully later today

The Netherlands 1961, 3 siblings. The oldest Louis changes girlfriends all the time. Isabel living alone in the family home. The youngest Hendrik lives with a man

After meeting Louis latest girlfriend, Louis suddenly tales Isabel that Eva will be staying in the family home while he‘s away. Isabel doesn‘t approve of this plan

A book about the consequences of war, memory and the truth

This book pulled me in and wouldn‘t let go until I finished it

The 4th book about the Cazalets and the war is over. There‘s still food and clothing rations, so things takes time getting back to normal.

We follow more of the family in this installation and I enjoyed that.

The first half was my #BookSpin for October

A little later than usual, but here‘s my November‘s #BookSpinBingo board

My #BookSpin book is a book I was thinking about reading for #Canada #foodandlit. I guess I‘ll get to it now

My #DoubleSpin is this months read with #NancyDrewBR

#WeeklyForecast

Continue Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I want to start Dyr som er verre foreldre enn deg (trans. Animals that are Worse Parents than You)

I want to read The Safekeep and The Swifts: A Gallery of Rogues

Maybe I can even get a start on Orbital

#BookReport

I continued Sovereign #ShardlakeBR

I reread my autumnal graphic novels; Garlic & the Vampire, Garlic & the Witch and Pumkinheads

I‘m currently reading Casting Off