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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

Happy New Year! I wish you all the best for 2026 and a great new reading year This is the time of the year when we look back on the previous year and what we read. I read a record 120 books last year. It turned out to be a lot of mystery books, and that is probably why the number of books is somewhat higher. They are easy to read. Furthermore, I do listen to a lot of the Agatha Christie books I read. I register the books I read on StoryGraph, which also provides the statistic

This book was published already in 1992, and has been a bestseller for many years. It is planned as a twelve-week program, and designed to help creators to finding their inner creative confidence, take away internal blocks - such as fear, perfectionism, and self-doubt, that I guess most creative people have. The base for the exercises is “Morning pages” and “Artist Dates” and they repeat themselves over the weeks. Morning pages should be a stream of consciousness way of writi

I must have read about this novel, with its distinct gothic touch, on one of the blogs I follow. When something catches my interest, I usually download it—if available—through my Nextory app. This one turned out to be a surprising story that keeps you guessing until the very end. In other words, exactly the kind of story I love. "At seventeen, Lenora Hope Hung her sister with a rope Now reduced to a schoolyard chant, the Hope family murders shocked the Maine coast one bloody