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...

TBR 2020





2019 update: I read 41  books and out of 219 from my TBR shelves.
Carrying over into 2020 is 179 books. Continuing going down, although at a slow pace.

The status read 2015 - 42/274
The status read 2016 - 51/220
The status read 2017 - 55/233
The status read 2018 - 58/223
The status read 2019 - 41/219
The status read 2020 - 64/271



A (0/2)
Almström, Stig - Kallad av Gud (NF)
Auster, Paul - The Brooklyn Follies

B (0/18)
Backman, Fredrik - My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry
Baker, Carlos - Ernest Hemingway (NF)
Banning, Tim - The Pursuit of Glory - The Five Revolutions that made Modern Europe 1648-1815 (NF)
Banville, John - Doctor Copernicus
Banville, John - Kepler 
Beckford, William - Vathek
Beevor, Anthony - Stalingrad (NF)
Bengtsson, Ingvar - Kapet av Skåne, Stormaktssveriges viktigaste triumf (2020) (NF)
Berggren, Laurence - Columbus, The Four Voyages (NF)
Blom, K Arne & Moen, Jan - Skånska stenar berättar (2020) (NF)
Bojs, Karin - Min europeiska familj, De senaste 54000 åren (NF)
Bowen, McAleer, Blyth - Monsoon Traders, The Maritime World of the East India Company (NF)
Boyd, William - An Ice-cream War
Brooks, Geraldine - Nine Parts of Desire
Brown, Carolina - Den bekväma vardagen, Kvinnor kring bord på t700-talets Näs (2020)
Bullen, J.B. - Thomas Hardy - The World of His Novels (NF) 
Bussy-Rabutin - Histoire amoureuse des Gaules
Byatt, A. S. - The Children's Book

C (0/11)
Chang/Holiday, Juang/Jon - Mao - The Unknown Story (NF)
Coelho, Paulo - Valkyriorna (As Valkirias (The Valkyries) (2020)
Coelho, Paulo - The Devil and Miss Prym (2020)
Coelho, Paulo - Aleph (2020)
Coelho, Paulo - eleven minutes (2020)
Coelho, Paulo - Brida (2020)
Coetzee, J.M. - The Childhood of Jesus
Coote, Stephen - John Keats - A Life (NF)
Cornwell, Patricia - Trace
Craik, W.A. - The Brontë Novels (NF)
Cron, Lisa - Story Genius (NF)

D (0/2)
Dalrymple, William - In Xanadu, A Quest (NF)
Desmond/Moore, Adrian/James - Darwin's Sacred Cause, Race, Slavery and the quest for Human Origins (NF)

E  (0/9)
Eco, Umberto - Baudolino
Eco, Umberto - The Island of the Day Before
Edwards, Amelia - A Thousand Miles up the Nile (NF)
Ekman, Kerstin - Händelser vid vatten (Blackwater) (2020)
Ekman, Kerstin - Grand final i skojarbranschen (2020)
Englund, Peter - Ofredsår (NF)
Englund , Peter - Den oövervinnelige (NF)
Ernestam, Maria - Alltid hos dig
Erskin, Barbara - Kingdom of Shadows

F (0/15)
Faber, Michael - Sugar
Fagerholm, Monika - Den amerikanska flickan
Falkdbakken, Knut - Föreförelsen (2020)
Farman Farmaian, Shattareh - Daughter of Persia (NF)
Ferguson, Niall  - The Ascent of Money (NF)
Ferguson, Niall  - Civilization - The West and the Rest (NF)
Fernandez-Arresto, Felipe - Millennium
Fermi, Sarah - Emily's Journal (NF)
Figes, Orlando - Natasha's Dance
Fitzgerald, Penelope - Edward Burne-Jones - A Life (NF)
Forster, E.M. - Howard's End
Foster, Thomas C., - How to Read Novels Like a Professor (2020) (NF)
Franzen, Jonathan - Freedom
Freud, Sigmund - Fallstudier (NF)
Frostegård, Johan - Evolutionen och jag ("The Evolution and I") (NF)

G (0/11)
Gabaldon, Diana - The Scottish Prisoner
Gabrieli, Francesco - Arab Historians of the Crusade (NF)
García-Alas y Ureña, Leopoldo (Clarin) - Presidentskan (La Regenta/The Regent's Wife)
Gay, Peter - Freud - A Life of Our Time (NF)
George, Elizabeth - Well-schooled in Murder (2020)
Gibson, Carrie - Empire's Crossroads, A New History of the Caribbean (NF)
Gilhus, Ingvild S & Thomassen, Einar - Antikens religioner (2020) (NF)
Gogol, Nikolai - The Overcoat and Other Short Stories
Goldsworthy, Adrian - The Fall of Carthage (NF)
Greve, Tora - Hammerslag, En oscariansk alternativhistoria
Gunve. Marianne E. - Fina flickor

H (0/19)
Hadley, Tessa - The Past
Hagerman, Maja - Spåren av kungens män (2020) (NF)
Haldon, John - Byzantium (NF)
Harrison, Dick - Slaveri - Forntiden till Renässansen (NF)
Haslip, Joan - The Lonely Empress (NF)
Hemingway, Ernest - In Our Time
Herman, Eleanor - Sex with kings. 500 years of adultery, power, rivalry, and revenge (2020) (NF)
Herrin, Judith - Byzantium - The Surprising Life of a Medieval Empire (NF)
Hibberd/Usmar, Jessamy/Jo - This Book Will Make You Mindful
Holmes, Rachel - Eleanor Marx (NF)
Homer - The Illiad
Hough, Robert - The Final Confession of Mabel Stark
Hourani, Albert - A History of the Arab Peoples (NF)
Hristova, Stoika - Kristuskvinnan (2020) (NF)
Hughes-Hallett, Lucy - Gabriele d'Annunzio (NF)
Hughes-Hallett, Lucy - Cleopatra (NF)
Hägg, Göran - Sanningen är alltid oförskämd, En biografi över August Strindberg (NF)
Håkansson, Gabriella - Aldermans Arvinge
Håkansson, Håkan (red) - Tycho Brahe (NF)

I (0/2)
Ivesköld, Monica - Porten till friheten (2020)
Ivesköld, Monica - FramgångsRIK&Lycklig (2020) (NF)

J (0/1)
Jacobovici, Simcha and Wilson, Barrie - The Lost Gospel - Decoding the Ancient Text that Reveals Jesus' Marriage to Mary the Magdalene (NF)


K (0/7)
Kamen, Henry - The Exiles Who Created Spanish Culture  (NF)
Karlsson, Ingmar - Turkiets historia (The History of Turkey) (NF)
Karlsson, Ingmar - Det omaka paret, Tjeckernas och slovakernas historia (NF)
Kean, Sam - The Disappearing Spoon(NF) 
Kert, Bernice - The Hemingway Women (NF)
Koen, Karleen - Och nu ansikte mot ansikte (Now Face to Face)
Kylhammar, Martin - Ett hemligt liv (NF)

L (0/13)
Lagerkvist, Pär - Barabbas (2020)
Lagerkvist, Pär - Sibyllan (2020)
Lane Fox, Robin - The Classic World - An Epic History of Greece and Rome(NF) 
Laoutaris, Chris - Shakespeare and the Countess
Lawrence, D.H. - Women in Love
Lawrence, D.H. - Sons and Lovers
Lawrence, T. E. - Seven Pillars of Wisdom
Lawrence, T.E. - The Mint
Laws, Bill - Fifty Plants that Changed the Course of History (NF)
Lee, Hermione - Edith Wharton (NF)
León, Vicki - Working IX to V, Orgy Planners, Funeral Clowns, and Other Prized Professions of the Ancient World (2020) (NF)
Liljestrand, Jens - Mannen i skogen (NF)
Lindqvist, Herman - Sverige och Polen, 1000 år av krig och kärlek (NF)


M (0/19)
Mackay, Charles - Extraordinary Popular Delusions and the Madness of Crowds (NF)
MacEwan, Helen - Winifred Gérin: Biographer of the Brontës(NF)     
MacEwan, Helen - Through Belgian Eyes, Charlotte Brontë's Troubled Brussels Legacy
MacKrell, Judith - Flappers
Madame X - My Notorious Life
Man, John - Attila the Hun (NF)
Marshall, Tim - Prisoners of Geography (NF)
Maugham, Williams Somerset - The Moon and Sixpence (2020)
McBain, Laurie - Tears of Gold
McDermid, Val - Dead Beat
Mansel, Philip - Constantinopel (NF)
Maugham, W. Somerset - A Writer's Notebook (NF)
Modiano, Patrick - De yttre boulevarderna (Les boulevards de ceinture (Ring Roads) (2020)
Modiano, Patrick - De dunkla butikernas gata (Rue des boutiques obscures (Missing Person) (2020)
Montefiore, Simon Sebag - Sashenka
Montefiore, Simon Sebag - Jerusalem (NF)
Mortimer, Ian - The Time Travelling Guide to Medieval England (NF)
Mo Yan - Det röda fältet
Munthe, Axel - The Story of San Michele (NF)

N (0/9)
Nicholl, Charles - The Lodger, Shakespeare on Silver Street
Nilsson Bassell, Stina - Spegeln i rummet utanför (2020)
Njal's Saga
Norrby, Göran - Huset von Fersens uppgång och fall (NF)
Norrhem, Svante - Christina och Carl Piper, En biografi (2020) (NF)
Norström, Åke - 1500-talets Malmö, Om människor i en stad (NF)
Norwich, John Julius - Byzantium II: The Apogee (NF)
Norwich, John Julius - Byzantium III: The Decline and Fall (NF)
Nyberg, Andreas - Världens största konspirationer (NF)

O (/3)
Oates, Joyce Carol - Blondie
Ohlsson, Bengt - Gregorius
Oz, Amos - En berättelse om kärlek och mörker

P (0/9)
Palm, Anna-Karin - Jag vill sätta världen i rörelse (2020) (NF)
Pasternak, Boris, Doctor Zhivago
Pearl, Eric - The Reconnection (NF)
Pears, Iain - Den fjärde sanningen (An Instance of the Fingerpost)
Perlmutter, David - Grain Brain (NF)
Pessoa , Fernando - The Book of Disquiet
Peterson, Jordan B. - 12 Rules for Life, An Antidote to Chaos (NF)
Preston, John - A Very English Scandal
Pye, Michael - The Edge of the World - How the North Sea Made Us Who We Are (NF)

R (0/9)
Read, Sara - Maids, Wives and Widows (NF)
Reeve, Simon - The New Jackals (NF)
Reynolds, Michael - Hemingway, The Paris Years (NF)
Robinson, Peter - En lek med eld (Playing With Fire)
Roslund & Hallström - Flickan under gatan
Runeberg, Johan Ludvig - Fänrik Ståhls sägner
Rutherford, Edward - Sarum
Rutherford, Edward - Russka
Rydell, Anders - Boktjuvarna (NF)

S (0/14)
Sackville West, Robert - Inheritance (NF)
Saijonmaa, Arja - En ung naken kvinna - mötet med Mikis (NF)
Sansom, C.J.  - Upplösningen (Dissolution)
Saramago, Jose - Historien om Lissabons BelägringSeton, Anya - Katherine
Seymour, Gerald - The Untouchable
Shakespeare, William - Complete works (read 3/42)
Shaw, George Bernard - The Doctor's Dilemma
Sjöström, Oskar - Fraustadt 1706, Ett fält färgat rött (2020) (NF)
Stendhal - The Red and the Black
Stig, Oline - Jupiters öga (Jupiter's Eye)
Stille, Sara - Bära leggings i januari (2020)
Strandberg/Bergmark, Mats/Sara - Eld
Svensson, Lars (ed) - Abraham Ekerholms Dagboksanteckningar från 1792 (NF)
Swingler, Susan - The House of Fiction


T (0/9)
Talbot Rice, Tamara - Tamara - Memoirs of St Petersburg, Paris, Oxford and Byzantium (NF)
Tannen, Deborah - Det var inte så jag menade (It's Not What I meant) (NF)
Tannen, Deborah - Du begriper ju ingenting (You just don't understand) (NF)
Tellcamp, Uwe - Tornet (der Turm, The Tower)
Terzani, Tiziano - A Fortune-Teller Told Me
Theroux, Paul  - Riding the Iron Rooster (NF)
Tolstoy, Leo - Anna Karenina
Trenhaile, John - Krysalis
Turnbull, Andrew - Scott Fitzgerald (NF)


U (0/1)
Urban, William - The Teutonic Knights (2020) (NF)

V (0/1)
Vincenzi, Penny - no angel (2020)

W 0/19)
Wahlberg, Karin - Än finns det hopp
Walker, Matthew - Why we sleep - unlocking the power of sleep and dreams (2020) (NF)
Wa7pole, Horace - The Castle of Otranto 
Waters, Sarah - Fingersmith
Weldon, Fay - Long Live the King
Weldon, Fay - The New Countess
Wesseling, Henk, Imperiernas tid 1815-1919 (Europa's koloniale eeuw. De koloniale rijken in de negentiende eeuw, 1815-1919) (2020) (NF)
Wheatcroft, Andrew - The Habsburgs (NF)
Wetterberg, Gunnar - Kansler Axel Oxenstierna, 2 (NF)
Wetterberg, Gunnar - Skåne 11500 f.Kr - 1375 (2020) (NF)
Wetterberg, Gunnar - Skåne 1375 - 1720 (2020) (NF)
Wetterberg, Gunnar - Skåne 1720 - 2017 (2020) (NF)
Wilde, Oscar - Complete Works of
Wolff, Lina - Köttets tid (2020)
Woolf, Virginia - Moments of Being
Woolfolk Cross, Donna - Påven Johanna (Pope Joan)
Wright, Peter - Spy Catcher (NF)

Y (0/0)

Z (0/2)
Zusak, Markus - The Book Thief
Zweig, Stefan - Marie Antoinette (2020) (NF)

Å (0/1)
Åsbrink, Elisabeth - Orden som formade Sverige (NF)

Ö (0/0)

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