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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...

New purchases!

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I am in Sweden and it has been a very busy time, that is why it has been rather quiet on the blog. My son starts his studies in another city this year, so a lot of things to do to help him settle. I managed to visit some flee markets and bought some interesting books. Eleven books for eleven euros! Not bad. Here is a list of the books (one is already finished) in no special order. The Binding Chair by Kathryn Harrison Under jorden i Villette by Ingrid Hedström In Our Time by Ernest Hemingway The Spy Wore Read by Aline, Countess of Romanones "K" is for Killer by Sue Grafton Notorious by Janet Dailey Fingersmith by Sarah Waters The Point of Murder by Margaret Yorke (read) The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield The Last Girls by Lee Smith The Distant Hours by Kate Morton I am quite pleased with the variety. Some thrillers which I normally don't read that much. I don't know why, because I really like them. Have you read any of the bo...