Emma @ Words and Peace and Annabookbel are hosting this year's summer read. There is another questionnaire to summarise our reading for July.

1. Which book surprised you the most this month?

Describe what made it stand out—was it a plot twist, unique character,

or something unexpected?

The Night Travellers by Armando Lucas Correa. From the start I thought it would be, more or less, like The German Girl, but it turned out to be so much more. A family saga, how earlier generations history trickle down through the heritage of the women in the family. Starting in the 1930s and going up to modern times. A really good story.

2. If your July reading experience was a weather forecast,

what would it be and why?

Did your reads feel like sunny days, thunderstorms, gentle breezes,

or heatwaves?

Difficult to say, but I would probably go for sunny days, interrupted by thunderstorms.

3. Name a setting from your July books where you’d love (or hate)

to take a summer vacation.

What drew you to (or repelled you from) the place?

I would say Cuba from The Night Travellers. I have been to Cuba and it is a fantastic, exotic place. I would not mind going back.

4. If you could turn one book into a summer festival,

what would the main event be?

Describe the vibe, activities, or the bookish highlight of your imagined festival.

I would say "LAGOM". A Swedish word that means "not too much, not too little", just perfect in other words. The festival would be lagom of many things; music, theatre, literary festival and whatever turns up. Lagom finns bara i Sverige, och andra myter om språk by Mikael Parkvall. My free translation: You only find LAGOM in Sweden and other myths about languages.

5. Choose your own adventure—recap July in the style of your choice:

You might write a diary entry, poem, comic panel, or even a simple list.

Be as creative as you like!

Visiting the wild parts of Norway with our camper van. We travelled around the south western part of the country, and it is like going around in a fairy tale. So beautiful. Especially, when you go along the fjords and "fjells" listening to Peer Gynt by Edvard Grieg. It felt like I was in another world.

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