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August 9: Top Ten Tuesday REWIND -- go back and do a topic you
missed over the years or recently or a topic you really want to revisit
-- I've made a handy spreadsheet to help (currently in the process of finishing it). My choice:
Top ten most favourite books I´ve read since I started blogging
1. Sem - Sandberg, Steve. The Emperor of lies
2. Seethaler, Robert, A whole life
3. Hearn, Lian, Over the nightingale´s floor
4. Toole, John Kennedy, A confederacy of dunces
5. Sorokin, Vladimir, Snöstormen
6. Stendhal, The red and the black
7. Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow country
8. Bannerhed, Tomas, The Ravens
9. Uusma, Bea, The Expedition
10. Henry David Thoreau, Walden
The Broke and the Bookish: August 2: Ten Books You'd Buy Right This Second If Someone Handed You A Fully Loaded Gift Card
Ferrante, Elsa, Her new name
Morrison, Toni, God help the child
Bertino, Marie - Helene, 2 a. m. at the Cat´s pyjamas
Strout, Elizabeth, My name is Lucy Barton
Hauge, Olav H., Dagbok 1 - 5. 1924 - 1994
Banno, Eri, Genki 2
Sutherland, John, Lives of the Novelists
Kincaid, Jamaica, The autobiography of my mother
Winterson, Jeanette, Gap of time
Joyce, Rachel, Love song of miss Queenie Hennessy
The Broke and the Bookish July 26: Top Ten Things Books Have Made Me Want To Do or Learn About After Reading Them
Ulla Wagner, Japan Imagined: The Ida Trotzig Collection of Photographs from the Meiji Era in Japan. Ida Trotzig lived i Japan for about 30 years and she really loved her new country and learned a lot about it. I hope I can learn a little something of all that she knew of Japan.
A. J Cronin, The Citadel about a young doctor saving lives in the mine districts in Wales and in Africa made me wish being a doctor. I found some of his books in my parents bookshelves when I was very young
Leo Tolstoy, Anna Karenina made me wish I had been there to prevent her committing suicide. I really don´t know how, but I would at least have tried.
Elin Wagner, Penwoman, 1910.
The protagonist, Barbro Magnus, a journalist like Elin Wagner, plans to maintain her independence in a
liberated marriage as she continues to be active in the struggle for
women's rights. I would hav liked taken part in these struggles.
Helen Wells, The books about Cherry Ames made me of course wish to be a nurse!
Walter and Steven Farley, The books about The Black Stallion. I wasn´t much interested in horses generally, but there was something special about the Black Stallion. Oh, what a horsewoman I should be!
Bea Uusma, The Expedition. This is a fascinating story about an expedition to the North Pole led by S A André, a Swedish engineer. It ended in disaster.
I wish I could have been there 1897 helping them out with their equipment, especially their clothes. They didn´t think of the arctic cold which is hard to understand.
Lian Hearn, Tales of the Otori. Otori Takeo och Shirakawa Kaede are a young couple who love each other. But you don´t marry for love in Japan by that time.
They meet with many difficulties. I would have liked seeing them excercise sword art. Both of them were very skilled
Jules Verne, Twenty thousand leagues under the sea. If I could have managed my fear I would like to have taken part in this marvellous journey.
Susan Sellers, Vanessa and Virginia. A nice cup of the with the two famous sisters Virginia Woolf och Vanessa Bell would have been interesting.
The Broke and the Bookish: July 19: Ten Books Set Outside The US (I don't know about you but
sooo much of what I read is set in the US and I love finding new recs
of stuff set outside of it!)
1. Michela Murgia, Accabadora Italy Sardinia
2. Marlene van Niekerk, Agaat South Africa
3. Kim Thúy, Vi Vietnam
4. Kerstin Ekman, Blackwater Sweden
5. Lars Mytting, Swim with those who drown. Norway
6. Svetlana Aleksijevitj, Secondhand Time:
The Last of the Soviets. Russia
7. Deborah Moggach, Tulip fever. Netherlands
8. Ekuni Kaori, Twinkle, twinkle Japan
9. Robert Seethaler, A whole life. Austria
10. Robyn Davidson, Tracks. Australia
11. Sebastian Barry, The secret scripture. Ireland
The Broke and the Bookish:
July 12: Ten Facts About Me (bookish or just general about you facts or ten facts about you as a blogger...whatever you want)
1. I like reading paperbacks. Easy to carry in my purse
2. I hate dog ears in books. It´s an offence!
3. I prefer reading books in stead of listening
4. As a rule I rather not read fantasy and sci - fi
5. I like autofiction
6. I read everthing from and about Japan, even
learning Japanese
7. I like reading children´s books
preferably with children
8. Thomas Hardy is an old acquaintance and favorite
9. I always read with pen and paper next to me
10. I very much like reading outdoors
The Broke and the Bookish: June 28: FREEBIE WEEK -- topic of your choice or go back and do one you missed!
I choose Top Ten Favorite Debut Books
Achebe, Chinua, Things fall apart. 1958
Atkinson, Kate, Behind the Scenes at the Museum. 1995
Brontë, Emily, Wuthering Heights. 1847
Burton, Jessie, The Miniaturis. 2014
Eliot, George, Adam Bede. 1859
Kawabata, Yasunari, Snow Country. 1948
Elizabeth Kostova, The Historian. 2005
Nam Le, The Boat. 2008
Peter Stamm, Agnes. 1998
Winterson, Jeanette, Oranges are not the only Fruit. 1985
The Broke and the Bookish:
June 14: Top Ten Most Anticipated Releases For The Second Half Of The Year (since
we did a topic about the releases we were excited about for the first
half of 2016 back in the beginning of the year) Feel free to tweak it
how you want to -- like most anticipated fantasy for the second half of
2016 or debut authors. Whatever you want!
I´m looking forward to read the following ten novels (among others)
1. Marilynne Robinson, Två par systrar (November)
Housekeeping
2. Fiona Barton, Änkan (October) The Widow
3. Linn Ullman, De oroliga (October) De urolige
(Norway)
4. Sofi Oksanen, Norma (September) (Finland)
5. Hanya Yanagihara, Ett litet liv (October) A little Life
6. Emma Cline, Flickorna (August) The Girls
7. Han Kang, Levande och döda (October)
Human Acts
8. Margaret Atwood, Den frystorkade brudgummen
(September) Stone Mattress: Nine Tales
9. Roy Jacobsen, Vitt hav ( September) Hvitt hav
(Norway)
10. Elena Ferrante, Hennes nya namn (October)
(The Story of a new Name)
The broke & the bookish:
May 31: Beach Reads Week -- top ten great beach reads, ten books I
plan to read on the beach, ten beach reads for those who don't like
typical ~beach reads~, ten authors who are my go-to for beach reads,
etc.
Lucia Berlin, A Manual for Cleaning Women. Short stories
Audrey Niffenegger, The Time Traveler´s Wife.
David Peace, The Yorkshire - Quartet
Erin Morgenstern, The Night Circus. A magic story.
Junichiro Tanizaki, The Makioka Sisters. Osaka before World War Two
Stefan Zweig, Amok. Short stories
Gail Carriger, Soulless: The Manga
Tan Twang Eng, The Garden of evening Mists. Malaya during the 1950s
Richard Ford, Canada
Lucy Dillon, The Secret of happy ever after
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