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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, outcome of 2020

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  I enrolled in a few Challenges during 2020 and here is the outcome. Nonfiction November I read five books this month. Two about painter Johannes Vermeer, one about Jenny Lind, famous opera singer called The Nightingale, one about Eels, very interesting and one about literature. All were interesting in their own ways.  1. Litteraturorientering (Educational book on Literature) 2. Ålevangeliet (The Gospel of Eels) by Patrik Svensson 3. Näktergalen (The Nightingale, biography of Jenny Lind) by Ingela Tägil 4. Vermeer's Little Street by Frans Gruzenhout 5. A View of Delft, Vermeer then and now by Anthony Bailey Mount TBR  Challenge Hosted by Bev at My Reader's Block .  I almost made it up Mt Ararat (48 books) but ended at 43 a little bit below the top.  1. Gustaf Fröding by Staffan Bergsten 2. Presumption of Death by Perri O'Shaughnessy 3. The Letter by Kathryn Hughes 4. The Leopard by Jo Nesbo 5. The Whitsun Wedding by Philip Larkin  6. Eleanor Oliphant is Co...

Read 52 books in 52 weeks - TBR challenge

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Another challenge that will help me lower my TBR shelves. It is Robin of My Two Blessings hosting this very useful challenge. Go to the link to see all of the rules and to my  Challenge page for my own reading. I hope I will be able, and should be able, to finish this challenge without a problem. After all, even when I have no time to read, I read at least a book a week!