How many things that I love can you fit in one picture? A bookstore. Featuring diverse stories (which is another way of saying stories you haven’t heard a thousand times already). And Icelandic wisdom. Throw in a latte and you’ve got my perfect day.
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A Thousand Rooms of Dream and Fear
I’m terrible about starting book clubs and reading challenges and never finishing them. But the idea of a “reading around the world” challenge has been going around the internet for a few years and it really appeals to me. So the last time someone’s Reading Around the World book list popped up in my feed, I looked at it a little closer.
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My 2019 in Books
Another year, another Goodreads Challenge. Since I started reading so many graphic novels, setting my challenge goal has been a challenge in itself. On the one hand, I happily recognize graphic novels as real books. On the other hand, it takes about one hour to read a volume of manga, where the average novel takes about 12 hours. So I set a ridiculously high goal that includes both, but I try to sort my results so I can see how much “regular reading” I did apart from “graphic reading.” I’m probably the only person who cares about my reading data, but since I got to read a lot of interesting books last year, you might want to read on to discover some cool stories.
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Because I’ve Read The Shock Doctrine
So you could say I’m a little bit late on this one. I’ve always had trouble with book clubs. But the Because We’ve Read project is an interesting one that leads me to important works I wouldn’t have read on my own. So I keep trying. Naomi Klein’s The Shock Doctrine was their choice for September, 2018, and I can finally report that I’ve read it.
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Book Report: Henrik Ibsen Four Major Plays
In preparation for my trip to Norway, I tried reading some Norwegian authors. I wrote about Hamsun first, but the first author I read was Ibsen. I started with Four Major Plays.