The Content Reader

I usually read other blogs on Feedly. Since I am not too keen on making comments with my iPad, I save the posts to look them up later. Well, sometimes much later. This meme on books you read last year was posted by Brona at Brona's Books on 14 January 2020. Let's see what I can make of it with the books I read in 2019. THE RULES: Using only books you have read during the year (2019), answer these questions. Try not to repeat a book title. Describe yourself: The Secret Wife / Gil Paul How do you feel: The Silent Patient / Alex Michaelides Describe where you currently live: Saratoga Trunk / Edna Ferber If you could go anywhere, where would you go: The Hiding Places / Katherine Webb Your favourite form of transportation: Trains & Boats & Planes / Kille NcNeill Your best friend is: Kristin Lavransdattir / Sigrid Undset You and your friends are: The Noise of Time / Julian Barnes What's the weather like: Ett jävla solsken (A Bloody Sunshine) / Fatima Bre...

Hello again. Long time no see! It has been quiet on this blog for some time. From mid-July I have been travelling, seen family and have had visitors. A busy time which gave no time neither for blogging, nor for reading. In July I only finished ONE book! Scandalous, but what can you do. We have been camping among other things. We visited the island of Gotland and Fårö on the SE coast of Sweden. Wonderful place and more about that later. This picture is from the mainland, but it is not so bad to fall asleep and wake up to this view! Now things are calming down, but I have been reluctant to come back to the computer. I have tried to follow my usual blogs, commenting some, and even following a read-along of Moby Dick. Slowly, slowly, I also have finished a few books. Mostly thrillers which tend to be easily read. I have had a few thoughts during the summer on where I want to go with my blog. I am still thinking and planning a few changes. They will be revealed soon. I did manage to...

Inspired by Brona's Books  I took a look at my shelves to remind me of what I have there. To list titles from A-Z seems a good idea. You sometimes forget what is there. I could not fill all the letters, not even O! Letters X, Y and Z are more difficult to find, but obviously also O. I aimed at only using English titles, but had to add a Spanish and Swedish to make it. I even had to ignore a couple of "The" and "An". Here we go. A Divided Spy by Charles Cummings B efore we met by Lucy Whitehouse C leopatra by Lucy Hughes-Hallett D octor Copernicus by John Banville E leanor, The Secret Queen by John Ashdown Hill F reedom by Jonathan Franzen G abriele d'Annunzio - Poet, Seducer and Preacher of War by Lucy Hughes-Hallett H oward's End by E.M. Forster (An) I nstance of the Fingerpost by Iain Pears J ukebox by Åke Edvardsson K epler by John Banville L a Regenta by Leopoldo Alas Clarin M orgon i Jenin by Susan Abulhawa N ine Parts of Desire...

Thanks to Brona at Brona's Books  I have discovered the My One Word meme hosted by Sheila@Book Journey .  This meme comes at a perfect time for me. The idea is to find one word to represent your new year. Sheila means that "a word can fluctuate - take on new meaning depending on the circumstances, and come out at the end with a whole new meaning then first anticipated." She has been kind enough to link to a list with words, and I think I have found my word for 2017. ... and the word for me will be SPARKLE! I want to sparkle this year, both for myself and for my projects. I want to think of myself first, to feel good, style myself, gather energy and find a positiveness in life. If I manage that I will be able to give more to my beloveds, family and friends. 2016 was a very busy year, with good things, but it generated a lot of work, and left me rather fatigued and without energy. I hope 2017 will see me make my life and everything around me sparkle. To gather en...

Hello there!   I hardly dare to tell you that I failed again! I was so positive that I would make it for this spin. James Joyce, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, not a very thick book, so I started a while ago...and that is it. I just could not continue reading this book. I think that Joyce might not be the writer for me...but I would like to read him. Hmm! Maybe one day...or not! This book contains Dubliners and   A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man! No excuse really. Brona managed to read and post about Dubliners! But, if I may say, it starts better than A portrait...  Here is the first paragraph of the book: Once upon a time and a very good time it was there was a moocow coming down along the road and this moocow that was coming down along the road met a nicens little boy named baby tuckoo... His father told him that story: his father looked at him through a glass: he had a hairy face. He was baby tuckoo. The moocow came down the road where Bet...

On Brona's Books I found this 'one day every fourth year' challenge. Leap Year babies will tell you how special it is to be born on the 29th February. To celebrate a once in 4 year event - go to page 29 of the book you're reading right now and copy the first sentence onto your blog or into my comments section.  Here is the first sentence, on page 29, from The High Mountains of Portugal by Yann Martel which I am now reading:   His uncle beams, filled to the brim with pride and joy in his Gallic gewgaw.