Dear Bookish friends, It was a while since I posted here. Spring, and especially May was a very busy time, with both good and bad things. I am hoping for a quieter June with more time to communicate, read and relax as we are nearing summer in Sweden. This article will be about bookish thoughts and an interesting historical revelation. My Summer Challenges This summer I will follow two challenges: 20 Book of Summer , although I will limit myself to 10 books, all from my TBR shelves. At the...

Since I have been very busy at the first half of this year, I have not participated in any real challenges, and hardly read or reviewed any books either. But, when I saw AnnaBookBel’s annual challenge of 20 Books of Summer, I decided to try out at least ten books from my TBR. Here are some of the rules (very easy and flexible) but head over to her web-site for more information. This is your first call to start planning… The #20BOS26 challenge runs from Monday June 1st to Monday August 31st...

“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 images of the...