The Smell of Ink/Lukten av Trykksverte

Woho, it's finally  Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon . While some people look forward to Christmas, I look forward to these readathons. I may have started a bit early on it (it officially started at 2 PM here in Norway), by me stopping by at  Egersund Chokoladefabrik & Co  for a treat and some reading. Anyway, as the readathon has officially started, I figured out it's time for the opening event survey and here's my answers. What fine part of the world are you reading from today? The small costal town of Egersund, Norway. Which book in your stack are you most looking forward to? I can't decide between The Story So Far by Jane Eklund or The Cat Who Saved Books by Sosuke Natsukawa. Which snack are you most looking forward to? Beverage-wise it's probably the salted caramel-flavoured hot chocolate from Starbucks and food-wise it's probably the peppermint-flavoured Aero. Tell us a little something about yourself! I'll be 34 years later this year and I've be...

April is more or less over, so perhaps it's time for me writing the monthly summary of books I've read this month. There's been quite a few crime/mystery novels this month, as I got a bit addicted to The Vampire Knitting Club series. Anyway, here's the books I've read this month. Murder with Fried Chicken and Waffles by A. L. Herbert Skjærsild by Tina Frennstedt Annabelle by Lina Bengtsdotter Stitches and Witches by Nancy Warren Crochet and Cauldrons by Nancy Warren Stockings and Spells by Nancy Warren Purls and Potions by Nancy Warren Fair Isle and Fortunes by Nancy Warren A Witch Hunt in Whitby by Helen Cox A Body by the Lighthouse by Helen Cox Harlem Shadows: Poems by Claude McKay

A while back I read the paranormal cosy mystery The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren and today I'll post my review. Description from Goodreads At a crossroads between a cringe-worthy past (Todd the Toad) and an uncertain future (she's not exactly homeless, but it's close), Lucy Swift travels to Oxford to visit her grandmother. With Gran's undying love to count on and Cardinal Woolsey's, Gran's knitting shop, to keep her busy, Lucy can catch her breath and figure out what she's going to do. Except it turns out that Gran is the undying. Or at least, the undead. But there's a death certificate. And a will, leaving the knitting shop to Lucy. And a lot of people going in and out who never use the door—including Gran, who is just as loving as ever, and prone to knitting sweaters at warp speed, late at night. What exactly is going on? When Lucy discovers that Gran did not die peacefully in her sleep, but was murdered, she has to bring the killer to justice...

I came across the Spring Cleaning Book Tag created by  Fictionally Sam and I decided to participate as it looked like a fun tag to do. Tag rules Link back to the original post Tag as many friends as you want Have fun! The Questions 1. Getting started: A book series you’ve been wanting to read The Raven Rings by Siri Pettersen 2. Cleaning/organizing the closet: The best way to organize books Personally, I don't think there's a right or wrong way to do things, but personally I've organised my books by read/unread, as well as genre/topic and piled books by the same author together. I tried sorting the books alphabetically within genre, but as I've got so many books, I gave up after a while (my shelves are overflowing). 3. Getting rid of unnecessary things: Book/series you no longer need I'm pretty sure I don't need all the course books from university, but so far, I can't make myself get rid of them. 4. Get some air: Your favorite light-hearted read The Little...

It's Wednesday and perhaps time to write another Top Five Wednesday post, courtesy of the Goodreads group . The theme of the week was adult book love. In order to narrow it down a bit, I decided focusing on Asian literature and here's my five picks. Kim Jiyoung, Born 1982 by Cho Nam-Joo Description from Goodreads Kim Jiyoung is a girl born to a mother whose in-laws wanted a boy. Kim Jiyoung is a sister made to share a room while her brother gets one of his own. Kim Jiyoung is a female preyed upon by male teachers at school. Kim Jiyoung is a daughter whose father blames her when she is harassed late at night. Kim Jiyoung is a good student who doesn't get put forward for internships. Kim Jiyoung is a model employee but gets overlooked for promotion. Kim Jiyoung is a wife who gives up her career and independence for a life of domesticity. Kim Jiyoung has started acting strangely. Kim Jiyoung is depressed. Kim Jiyoung is mad. Kim Jiyoung is her own woman. Kim Jiyoung is every w...

It's Tuesday and time for a new Top Ten Tuesday post, courtesy of That Artsy Reader Girl . The theme of the week was books with X on the cover, and I decided on women/teenage girls. Here's my picks. The Vampire Knitting Club by Nancy Warren Dread Nation by Justina Ireland Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco Spellbook of the Lost and Found by Moïra Fowley-Doyle This Poison Heart by Kalynn Bayron Jamilia by Chingiz Aitmatov The Dead Don't Drink at Lafitte's by Seana Kelly Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand

Tidligere denne måneden leste jeg krimromanen Annabelle av Lena Bengtsdotter og i dag kommer omtalen av boka. Beskrivelse fra forlaget Alle småbyer har en hemmelighet. En varm sommernatt forsvinner sytten år gamle Annabelle fra småbyen Gullspång. Foreldrene hennes er fra seg av uro, og politiet står uten spor. Politietterforsker Charlie Lager sendes til Gullspång sammen med en kollega for å bistå det lokale politiet. Hun er etterforsker ved Politiets nasjonale operative avdeling, er dyktig i yrket sitt, og har funnet en ro i arbeidsoppgavene sine, de beroliger hennes kaotiske indre. Hun vegrer seg for å reise, men gjør som alltid, hun følger ordre fra sin sjef. For Charlie blir dette en reise tilbake til fortiden. Hun tvinges til å forholde seg til den lille småbyen hun selv forlot da hun var fjorten år. En fortid og en barndom som hun har gjort alt for å legge bak seg. En småby der valgmulighetene var få, og med en mor som var alkoholisert og syk. Alt hun drømte om, var å komme seg b...

For en liten stund siden leste jeg krimromanen Ødemark av Stina Jackson og i dag kommer omtalen av boka. Beskrivelse fra forlaget Liv har drømt om å forlate bygda Ødemark i hele sitt liv. Men hun bor fortsatt i det slitte huset med sin gamle far, Vidar, og tenåringssønnen Simon. Liv arbeider på stedets eneste bensinstasjon og føler blikkene fra naboer og alle kundene som er innom. Alle lurer på hvorfor hun har blitt hjemme hos sin far, som det ryktes er en veldig rik mann fra penger han har tjent på kjøp og salg av skog. Han bruker ikke penger på noe som helst, minst av alt på familien sin, som han holder i et jerngrep. Enkelte tenker at han kan være et lett bytte, og det går rykter om at han har gjemt hele formuen hjemme i huset. Så skjer et drap. Ødemark er en spenningsroman om menneskers tilhørighet til hverandre og stedet der de er vokst opp, hvor sterke båndene kan være, og hvor vanskelig det kan være å bryte opp. Mine tanker om boka For min del, følte jeg at boka var vel så atmo...

Next Saturday, it's Dewey's 24 Hour Readathon again. It's a fun readathon I've participated in multiple times over the years and there's readers all over the world connecting over reading for 24 hours. There's an  official website  as well as a  Facebook group , to name a few places to connect. Anyway, one thing that I've learned is that it's probably not the wisest of ideas to read a heavy duty doorstopper such as Bleak House by Charles Dickens during the readathon (but if you want to read something like that, of course I can't stop you), but perhaps rather opt for some shorter reads. With that in mind, I wanted to make a list of book recommendations, containing books with less than 250 pages to read during the readathon. Shorter reads, in my opinion at least, is a bit more manageable. Here's my ten book recommendations. Train Dreams by Denis Johnson Description from Goodreads This is the story of Robert Grainer, a day labourer in the American W...

As I've read a few other of Bryce Gibson's books, I couldn't resist The Resort and today I'll post my review of this thriller novella. Description from Goodreads A fun and fast paced teen thriller… Imagine The Island of Dr. Moreau and The Ruins meets The In Crowd. With an island full of teenagers and no internet access, there is the overwhelming sense that all hell is about to break loose. Living on a tropical island is a paradise that most people dream of, but seventeen-year-old Mackenzie Walker is torn between staying there and the idea of having a normal life on the mainland. Spring Break is when boatloads of thrill-seeking high school and college students flood the resort, but it’s not an endless party for Mackenzie. He’s stuck working. When a frat guy winds up dead, the blame is placed on a dangerous hazing ritual, but Mackenzie’s eccentric father is convinced that it was murder. Mackenzie and his friend, Kristen, set off to discover the truth, but what the two of...

I came across The Spring Book Tag over at  A Little But A Lot and as it looked like a fun tag, I decided to participate. The Questions 1. What's on your spring TBR? As I'm a bit of a mood reader, I don't like to plan too much, but I'm thinking of reading a few books by Asian authors. 2. If someone asked you for a spring release recommendation, what would it be? As I haven't read any spring releases, I'm struggling to answer that question. 3. Which two books coming out before summer are you eagerly awaiting? The Hob and Hound Pub by Seana Kelly and Give Up the Ghost by Angie Fox 4. Which character would make a great Easter bunny? Either Luna Lovegood or the Weasley twins from the Harry Potter series. 5. What book makes you think of spring? Toxic Toffee by Amanda Flower 6. Name a cover with flowers on it. Matchmaking Can Be Murder by Amanda Flower 7. Which two characters would you go on a Easter egg hunt with? Sophia and Constance from Cinderlla is Dead by Kalynn...

It's Wednesday and perhaps time for a new Top Five Wednesday post, courtesy of  the Goodreads group  and the theme of the week was surprising read. In order to narrow things down a bit, I decided focusing on historical fiction. Here's my five picks of books that I enjoyed. Freud's Sister by Goce Smilevski Description from Goodreads Vienna, 1938: With the Nazis closing in, Sigmund Freud is granted an exit visa and allowed to list the names of people to take with him. He lists his doctor and maids, his dog and his wife’s sister, but he doesn’t list any of his own sisters. The four Freud sisters are shuttled to the Terezín concentration camp, while their brother lives out his last days in London. Based on a true story, this searing novel gives haunting voice to Freud’s sister Adolfina—“the sweetest and best of my sisters”—a gifted, sensitive woman who was spurned by her mother and who never married. From her closeness with her brother in childhood, to her love for a fellow st...

It's Tuesday again and perhaps time for another Top Ten Tuesday post, courtesy of That Artsy Reader Girl . The theme of the week was bookish merchandise I's love to own and as I've got a weak spot for Etsy, I decided finding some bookish items there. Here's my picks. Bibliophila tote bag Books & Coffee tote bag C. S. Lewis mug My Weekend Is Booked mug Book Dragon mug Dark Academia Art Print Old Bookshop Soy Candle Book Blogger Mug Nevermore Soy Candle Legend of Sleepy Hollow Candle

After reading so much about it online, I decided reading People Like Us by Dana Mele. Today I'll post my review. Description from Goodreads Kay Donovan may have skeletons in her closet, but the past is past, and she's reinvented herself entirely. Now she's a star soccer player whose group of gorgeous friends run their private school with effortless popularity and acerbic wit. But when a girl's body is found in the lake, Kay's carefully constructed life begins to topple. The dead girl has left Kay a computer-coded scavenger hunt, which, as it unravels, begins to implicate suspect after suspect, until Kay herself is in the crosshairs of a murder investigation. But if Kay's finally backed into a corner, she'll do what it takes to survive. Because at Bates Academy, the truth is something you make...not something that happened. My Thoughts on the Book People Like Us is one of those "what the fuck?" books to read. It's for the most part driven by ch...

A little while ago, I read the historical mystery novel Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang and today I'll post my review. Description from Goodreads New York City, 1899. Tillie Pembroke’s sister lies dead, her body drained of blood and with two puncture wounds on her neck. Bram Stoker’s new novel, Dracula, has just been published, and Tillie’s imagination leaps to the impossible: the murderer is a vampire. But it can’t be—can it? A ravenous reader and researcher, Tillie has something of an addiction to truth, and she won’t rest until she unravels the mystery of her sister’s death. Unfortunately, Tillie’s addicted to more than just truth; to ease the pain from a recent injury, she’s taking more and more laudanum…and some in her immediate circle are happy to keep her well supplied. Tillie can’t bring herself to believe vampires exist. But with the hysteria surrounding her sister’s death, the continued vampiric slayings, and the opium swirling through her body, it’s becoming increasing...

Siden jeg allerede hadde lest  Menn som hater ulver tidligere, klarte jeg ikke å motstå Norske tilstander av Lars Lenth. Nå har jeg lest romanen og i dag kommer omtalen. Beskrivelse fra forlaget Familiedrama, rasisme, vindmøller og et forblåst hjørne på Stadlandet - Lars Lenth er tilbake med et samfunnsengasjert eventyr om norske tilstander. Advokat Leo Vangen er forelsket. Anita Fostervold fra Stadt virker som alt han har drømt om, men det er før han treffer moren, 84 år gamle Agnes Fostervold - eks-akademiker, rasist og Rolling Stones-fan. Hun driver vindmøllepark på Hoddevik-fjellet og asylmottak i det gamle familiehotellet i Selje. Nå er mottaket tomt. Myndighetene har skrudd igjen krana. Matriarken vil selge både hotellet og vindmølleparken. De skadeskutte barna posisjonerer seg. Men for at salgene skal gå i orden, må Agnes Fostervold først kvitte seg med den afghanske familien i kjelleren, og leieboeren i steinbua på nabotomta - en lite samarbeidsvillig mann i bar overkropp...

It's Friday and perhaps time for a new Let's Talk Bookish post, courtesy of Book Nook Bits . The theme of the week was joys and pet peeves of the (book) blogging community. Here's the further prompts on this topic. What are some things you love about the blogging community? What are some things you dislike? When do you feel the most/least connected to the community? What are some things you’d like to see changed when it comes to blogging? Have there been any major changes in the community since you started to blog that you love? I may be a bit on the outskirts of the book blogging community and a bit of an underdog at times, so my opinions may be a bit influenced by that. That said, one of the things that I like about the book blogging community is that there's a lot of nice people who blog and I do get a bit of bookish inspiration reading their blogs. Some of the things I dislike though, includes consumerism (I may be a bit guilty of that one at times) and the slight ...

I came across this fun book tag called Splendid Spring Book Tag created by  Victoria Mann the booktuber and I decided participating as it is spring after all. Now, over to the fun part, the questions. 1. Everywhere you look flowers are blooming! Choose a book you love or think you will love with flowers on the cover. I really enjoyed The Little Bookshop of Love Stories by Jaimie Admans when I read it over a year ago. 2. Spring is the perfect time for a fun trip! Choose a book you’ve read or would like to read while traveling from one place to another. Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 3. Who doesn’t love a good Spring Fling? Choose a book you were obsessed with for a short period of time, but then you swiftly cast it aside. Longbourn by Jo Baker 4. Everyone loves the smell of freshly mowed grass, but not at an ungodly hour! Choose a book that personifies as a middle-aged dad waking up at 7am on a Saturday to mow the lawn when he should be sleeping like the rest of us. The Mill on the ...