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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January

 4. von Arnim, Elizabeth - Enchanted April
 7. Swift, Deborah - Last Train Home
10. O'Farrell, Maggie - My Lover's Lover

February

11. de Balzac, Honoré - Ferragus
14. Chatterjee, Dr Rangan - Feel Better in 5
18. De Quincey, Thomas - Confessions of an English Opium-Eater
19. Nesser, Håkan - Den sorgsne busschauffören från Alster

March

April



May

43. Nesser, Håkan - Kära Agnes (Dear Agnes my transl.)
45. Malmsten, Bodil - Så gör jag, Konsten att skriva


June

59. Blom, Tomas - Sturemorden, ett blodigt maktspel

July

60. Corban, Harlan - The Boy from the Woods
62. Tullberg, Tomas - Sara Lisa von Linné 
64. Skopal, Eric - Hur mycket pengar behöver man egentligen
68. Rosman, Ann - Fyrmästarens dotter ("The Lighthouse Keeper's Daughter)
69. Ohlsson, Kristina - Stormvakt
70. Vine, Barbara - A Fatal Inversion

August

72. Ivesköld, Monica - Redigera framgångsRIKT
76. Runeberg, Johan Ludvig - Fänrik Ståhls sägner (The Tales of Ensign Ståhl)
77. Harrison, Dick - Mordet på Gustav III
78. Coetzee, J.M. - The Childhood of Jesus
79. Håkansson, Håkan (Ed.) - Tycho Brahe och hans tid
80. Lagercrantz, Olof - Dikten om livet på den andra sidan, En bok om Emanuel Swedenborg
82. Walpole, Horace - The Castle of Otranto

September

83. Beckford, William - Vathek
84. Sansom, C.J. - Dissolution
85. Harrison Lindbergh, Katarina - Nordiska Gudasagor
88. Larm, Victoria - Den nionde kretsen


October

89. Allende, Isabel - Violeta
91. Turton, Stuart - The Devil and the Dark Water
92. Kvensler, Ulf - Sarek (The Couple's Trip)
93. Cather, Willa - Death Comes to the Archbishop
94. Enquist, Per Olov - Livläkarens besök (The Visit of the Royal Physician)
95. Laws,  Bill - Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History
96. Norrhem, Svante - Christina och Carl Piper, en biografi (NF)

November

97. Hoffmann, E.T.A. - The Sandman
98. Garai, Indrajit - The Bridge of Little Jeremy
99. Tolstoj, Leo - How Much Land Does A Man Need?
100. Cook, Thomas H. - The Chatham School Affair
101. Kafka, Franz - Metamorphoses
102. Beard, Mary - Gudar och människor (How do we Look? The Eye of Faith)
103. de Saint-Exupéry, Antoine - The Little Prince
104. Schulman, Alex - Malma station (audio book)
105. Bainbridge, Beryl - Master Georgi
106. Nicholl, Charles - The Lodger, Shakespeare on Silver Street
107. Cervenka, Andreas - Girig-Sverige
108. Leskov, Nikolai - Lady Macbeth of Mtsensk
109. Krien, Daniela - Kärlek i fem akter (Liebe im Ernstfalle/Love in Five Acts)
110. Blom, K. Arne/Moen, Jan - Skånska stenar berättar (NF)

December

111. Dougherty, Martin J. - Vikings, A History of the Norse People











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