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“Well, at heart I knew she'd never be a normal woman. And I didn't want her to be one, because what I loved in her were the indomitable and unpredictable aspects of her personality” ― Mario Vargas Llosa, Travesuras de la niña mala I have read my first book by the Peruvian author and Nobel Prize laureate Mario Vargas Llosa: Den stygga flickans rackartyg, or The Bad Girl in English. Vargas Llosa won the prize for “his cartography of structures of power and his trenchant ima

Hello, Life has been busy and my posts rare. Now I have three posts to share with you. These days I use Substack as my main blog. Feel free to head over there for subscribing, or just to have a look. You find it here: My Bookish Corner My Artist Date for mid March What is a Myth? To be obsessed by a TV-series

I am currently mostly writing my posts on my substack account. I will from time to time write a post with links to them, or I might write a full post here as well. I very much enjoy working and writing on substack. Somehow it gives you another dimension. I have been slow in general lately, due to personal reasons, to post at all. It starts to get better now, so hopefully there will be a few more reviews and update on challenges here. In the meantime, I have three posts that m

When we are travelling with our van, we sometimes have big plans for the places we visit, and sometimes we have an end station and discover a lot of interesting places on the way. This is how we discovered Chillon and its mysterious and dangerous past. As always, while visiting interesting places or museums, I try to find a book about the place and the story behind. In the Castle of Chillon I found a small literary guide edited by Patrick Vincent. He has collected “travel nar

January passed very quickly and we are already into February. I can’t say that I had a very interesting reading month, more leisurely wise. As it was not the best month for me, I took it easy with my choices, which is why they tend to lean on the lighter side. Read in January Death in the Clouds by Agatha Christie En klenod i samlingen by Agatha Christie The Accidental Tourist by Anne Tyler Muhammed by Klas Grinell Passenger to Frankfurt by Agatha Christie I Feel Bad About My

The Artist Way and its exercises have been dormant for a while. I was travelling in December and beginning of January. Then my father suddenly passed away in mid January and my life went on a hold. He was 100 years old, but it still came as a chock, partly because it happened so fast. I was in time to spend some days with him in the hospital before he quietly passed, and I am happy about that. Still, it has affected my life, and the emptiness takes away my energy. I am now tr

My last posts were mostly about statistics, and here is another one. I promise it will be the last for the 2025 reading. It is a different approach to choose your favourite book of the year. Some year ago I followed a youtube blogger; Books with Emily Fox who had an interesting approach for choosing the best book read in 2022. I saw that another book blogger, The Plant Based Bride who does a similar exercise. What you do is to write down all the books your have read, or lik

I guess you can add as many statistics as your fantasy reaches. I have read many of your statistics and most are amazing in their details. Not so much here, but I wanted to add a few more interesting takes on my reading. New to me authors and the countries they are from I have never looked att new authors that I have read earlier, so I have nothing to compare it to. Of the 120 books read, I have read 62 authors for the first time. They represent 15 countries. I can imagine th

Thanks to Brona @ This Reading Life I am joining Book'd Out for reading nonfiction in 2026. You find the rules under the link, but here are a few of them. HOW IT WORKS You can select, read and review a book from the categories listed below during the year for a total of up to 12 books; OR select, read and review any nonfiction book. A book may be in print, electronic or audio format. Choose a goal: Nonfiction Nipper: Read & review 3 books, from any 3 listed categories Nonf