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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Read 2020


January


1. Marsh, Jan - The Pre-Raphaelite Sisterhood (NF)
2. Foss, Jason - Byron's Shadow
3. Malet, Léo - 120, Rue de la Gare
4. Harper, Jane - The Dry
5. Shakespeare, William - The Merchant of Venice
6. Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - The Prisoner of Heaven (El prisionero del cielo)

February

7. Fossum, Karin - Don't Look Back
8. Melville, Herman - Moby Dick
9. Handke, Peter - A Sorrow Beyond Dreams: A Life Story (Wunschloses Unglück)
10. Ruiz Zafón, Carlos - The Labyrint of the Spirits
11. Westover, Tara - Educated: A Memoir (NF)
12. Birk, Philip - Kyldygnet
13. Hägg, Göran - Medici - Magnifika miljardärer och mördande mecenater i renässansens Florens (Medici - Magnificent Billionaires and Murderous Patrons in Renaissance Florence - my transl.) (NF)
14. McLachlan, Jane Ann -  The Girl Who Tempted Fortune

March

15. Wägner, Elin - Pennskaftet
16. Bergsten, Staffan - Gustaf Fröding (NF)
17. Lev, Elizabeth - The Tigress of Forli (Renaissance Italy's most courageous and notorious countess, Caterina Riario Sforza de' Medici (NF)
18. O'Shaughnessy, Perri - Presumption of Death by Perri O'Shaughnessy
19. Hughes, Kathryn - The Letter


April

20. Nesbo, Jo - The Leopard
21. Larkin, Philip - The Whitsun Wedding  (Poetry)
22. Barnes, Julian - Before She Met Me
23. Honeyman - Gail - Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine
24. Banville, John - The Newton Letter
25. Sarenbrant, Sofie - Tiggaren
26. Harper, Tom - The Book of Secrets
27. Prange, Peter - Drömmarnas vals (Die Strauß-Dynastie) 

May

28. Söderberg, Alexander - The Andalucian Friend
29. Söderberg, Alexander - The Other Son
30. Söderberg, Alexander - The Good Wolf
31. Slimani, Leila - Vaggvisa (Chancon douce)
32. Skybäck, Frida - Bokhandeln på Riverside Drive 
33. Mornings in Jenin by Susan Abulhawa
34. Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy - Hell
35. Rosman, Ann - Vågspel (Venture) 
36. Wetterberg, Gunnar - Axel Oxienstierna, part I (NF)
37. Boström Knausgård, Linda - Välkommen till Amerika 

June

41. Harlond, J.G. - The Empress Emerald
43. Broberg, Gunnar - Nattens historia (NF)
51. Mann, Thomas - Death in Venice

July

53. Kasasian, M.R.C. - The Mangle Street Murders
54. Mann, Thomas - Mario and the Magician
55. Mann, Thomas - Tonio Kröger
56. Mann, Thomas - Tristan
58. Carlsson, Magnus - Medicinhistoriska promenader (NF)

August

63. Tudor-Sandahl, Patricia - Längtan visar vägen
64. Burton, Nina - Den nya kvinnostaden (NF)
65. Burton, Nina - Flodernas bok (NF)

September

70. A. Floren, S. Dahlgren and J. Lindegren - Kungar och krigare (NF)
71. Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy, Purgatory

October

75. Atkinson, Kate - Transcription 
76. Papageorgiou, Vasilis, William-Olsson, Magnus (interpretation and comments) - Sapfo, Dikter och Fragment
78. Alighieri, Dante - The Divine Comedy, Paradise
79. Bra sagt genom tiderna (NF)
81. Hagerfors, Lennart - Framåt natten uppklarnande 
82. Blom K Arne & Moen, Jan - Försvunna städer i Skåneland (NF)
85. Indridason, Arnaldur - Den stora matchen (Einvígið (The Duel)
86. Lindgren, Torgny - Hummelhonung
87. Mörkret vet (Myrkrið veit) by Arnaldur Indridason

November

88. Litteraturorientering (NF)
89. Lindgren, Torgny - Dorés bibel
90. Svensson, Patrick - Ålevangeliet (The Gospels of the Eels) (NF)
91. Lindgren, Torgny - Pölsan
92. Paver, Michelle - Thin Air
93. Tägil, Ingela - Näktergalen (NF)
94. Gruzenhout, Frans - Vermeer's Little Street (NF)
95. The Plague by Albert Camus
96. Bailey, Anthony - A View of Delft, Vermeer then and now (NF)

December

97. Barry, Sebastian - Days Without End
98. Lövestam, Sara - Handbok för språkpoliser (NF)
99. Guillou, Jan - Ingen mans land
100. Jung, C.G. - Jaget och det omedvetna (Die Beziehungen zwischen den Ich und dem Unbewussten) (NF)
101. Burman, Carina - Min salig bror Jean Hendrich
102. Hultqqvist, Marie & Lennart - Sophie Brahe (NF)
103. Weldon, Fay - Habits of the House 
104. Quinn, Julia - The Viscount That Loved Me
105. Quinn, Julia - An Offer From a Gentleman
106. Quinn, Julia - Romancing Mr Bridgerton
107. Quinn, Julia - To Sir Philip With Love



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