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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...

Challenges for 2015

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A while ago I said I would not follow any challenges for 2015, but my own. In principal this is what I am going to do. My idea is to do ' connected reading ' which means that the book I am reading will lead to another book. The dilemma will be, that the next book has to come from my TBR shelves or the library. I definitely need to lower the number of books at these shelves. Apart from the 'connected reading' I will read other books as well. I will read: The following fiction: 1. The City of Fallen Angels by John Berendt 2. The Children's Book by A.S Byatt (I even have a signed book since I bought it on an event where she was talking about her books) 3. The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins 4. The Prague Cemetery by Umberto Eco 5. Light in August by William Faulkner 6. Sophie's World by Jostein Gaarder 7. My Childhood by Maxim Gorky 8. The Go-Between by J.P. Hartley 9. Women in Love by D.H. Lawrence 10. Det röda fältet (The Red Field) by Mo Yan 11...