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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...

September Wrap-up

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I can't believe that we have already entered the month of October. Autumn is here in Sweden and the trees start to change colour into wonderful yellow/orange/red. Still the green is trying to keep its grip. The other day we were visiting the 'House of Tomatoes' (image below). For more on this you can go to my newsletter, The Content Reader Newsletter . You can subscribe for free and unsubscribe at any time.  I only read six books this months. They were all very slow, although not bad. Sometimes the finishing of a book goes very fast, and other times I struggle with finishing a book. Here are the books I read. Beckford, William - Vathek Sansom, C.J. - Dissolution Harrison Lindbergh, Katarina - Nordiska Gudasagor (Nordic Norse Tales (my transl) Wung-Sung, Jesper - Kvinna sedd bakifrån (Woman Seen From Behind (my transl) Jenkins Reid, Taylor - The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo Larm, Victoria - Den nionde kretsen  My own challenge a nonfiction from my TBR - The Norse Tales by K...