Blogging Anniversary - 10 years

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A while ago I checked when I did my first blog post, in order to celebrate with an anniversary post. Well, that day came and went without any reaction from me. Better late than never, so here a reminder of my very first blog post from 24 October 2012.  The book was New Finnish Grammar  by Diego Marani. Marani is an Italian novelist, translator and newspaper columnist. While working as a translator for the European Union he invented a language ‘Europanto’ which is a mixture of languages and based on the common practice of word-borrowing usage of many EU languages. It was a suitable book to start with, being a book about letters, languages and memories. With a beautiful prose, the novel went directly to my heart.  "One night at Trieste in September 1943 a seriously wounded soldier is found on the quay. The doctor, of a newly arrived German hospital ship, Pietri Friari gives the unconscious soldier medical assistance. His new patient has no documents or anything that can ide...
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Book lists - what to read?

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When I read your blogs I always stumble into books that I feel I want to read. Considering all the books I already have, I feel I have to go through some of them, before I can start buying new ones. Not to forget which books I was interested in (yes, that happens all the time!) I have made a list of books that seems interesting to read.

Just today I read, at the blog "Pocketlover" (A blog in Swedish), how great the book Stoner by John Williams is. I went to Google and found a review by Julian Barnes in The Guardian who named it the book of 2013. Not bad for a book published in 1965! So this seems a must. Below is a list of books I think is worth reading, with no special order, just as they have popped up.



Do you make a list of books you want to read? Inspired by other blogs? Write a comment and refer to possible reviews. Who knows, my list might increase!  


  • The Weight of Blood by Laura McHugh
  • Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn 
  • The Country Wife by William Wycherley
  • Time After Time (eBook) by D.P. Mendes-Kelly
  • A Moveable Feast by Hemingway
  • And the Sun Also Rises by Hemingway - received
  • Hemingway, the Paris Years by Michael Reynolds - received
  • Paris Was Yesterday by Janet Flanner - received/reading
  • EH A Life by Carlos Baker - received
  • Hemingway's Women - received
  • A book about the Dutch East India Company
  • The Taliban Cricket Club by Timeri Murari
  • A Cornish Affair by Liz Fenwick
  • En dos stryknin by Olle Mattsson (om gifter i litteraturen)
  • The Dutch Golden Age by Hans Goedkoop and Kees Zandvliet
  • The Seventh Etching by Judith K. White
  • I am Rembrandt's daughter by Lynn Cullen
  • The Paris Architect by Charles Belfoure
  • Necessary Lies by Diane Chaubetlain ?
  • Becoming Jane Eyre by Sheila Kohler
  • A Divide of Inheritance by Deborah Swift
  • The Valley of Amazement by Amy Tan
  • The Entity by Eric Frattini
  • The Last Romance by Kathleen Valentine
  • We Were Liars by E. Lockhart
  • All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doers
  • Stoner by John Williams


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  1. Anonymous31 May 2014 at 23:10

    My (great) public library in Washington, DC lets me put indefinite holds on books I want to read in the future. While this is not a book list as such, I can always activate my "hold" whenever I feel like reading a book that had caught my attention previously. A great system, and everything completely free of charge. I LOVE US PUBLIC LIBRARIES!

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