Completely forgot to mention in my last post that I read Sweet tooth by Ian McEwan this week. It was a bit so-so, but the ending was really good.

WOLF HALL

Finished reading The goldfinch a couple of weeks ago. PEOPLE, READ IT. God, it was good.

After that, I read Fatherland by Robert Harris and managed around 400 pages of The passage before I got too tired of virals and vampires. Had a really hard time deciding what to read, so bought some new books yesterday; Hilary Mantel's Wolf hall, Affinity by Sarah Waters and Every contact leaves a trace by Elanor Dymott. Currently reading the last one which really is quite good, despite its horrible title. The Wolf hall cover is, by the way, probably one of the best covers I've ever seen. Whoever designed it should be proud:

http://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/nov/17/doris-lessing-death-margaret-atwood-tribute

DORIS LESSING

Today Doris Lessing passed away in her London home, aged 94. I cannot even describe how truly, truly sad this makes me.
 I WILL LOVE YOU FOREVER.

Q/A

OK, so I kind of borrowed this list from a Swedish blog. Translated the questions, skipped some, changed some. All pictures by my good friend, Karin Wåhlberg.  Here we go:

Currently reading: The goldfinch by Donna Tartt.

What you are planning to read after that: The passage by Justin Cronin (feel a bit embarrassed by this fact) or maybe Fatherland by Robert Harris.

Favourite bookstore: In Stockholm: The English Bookshop. In London: Foyles (though I really like Waterstones on Picadilly Circus). In Berlin: Saint George's English Bookshop.

Favourite place to read (at home): In my bed or on the sofa.

Three favourite authors: Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Margaret Drabble (schocking, I know!).

Best thing to read when hungover: Blogs. I almost never read when I am hungover. I mostly eat and look at clips of Taylor Swift on Youtube.

The best book you've read this year: Well. OK. The best book I've read this year in terms of good writing: The sweetest dream by Doris Lessing. In terms of couldn't-put-it-down-cried-when-it-was-over: Gone with the wind by Margaret Mitchell.

The book(s) you bought most recently: The passage (yep, still embarrassing.)

Favourite genre: I honestly don't know. I don't much like poetry, and I only like science fiction if it is by Margaret Atwood (and even then, I can't say I'm the biggest fan). I always thought I didn't like thrillers, but then I discovered Gillian Flynn. And Sophie Hannah. And Tana French.

Favourite place to read (outside of your home): I do like to read on the underground, but generally I don't read in public. I don't drink coffee, I only drink wine and I'd rather do that in company than with a book.

A writer you admire: If I have to choose only one: Doris Lessing. But Siri Hustvedt is worth mentioning as well.

The worst book you've read this year: Probably Now you see her by Joy Fielding. It was so boring and badly written I wanted to fall asleep (I have no idea why I kept reading it - maybe because I waited for it to get better the whole time? It didn't.)

Favourite quote: "I meant to keep myself out of this story, which is a laugh, really, I agree: I see however that in failing to disclose certain facts I make myself out to be some sort of voyeuse, and I am too vain to leave anyone with the impression that the lives of others interest me more than my own." A summer bird-cage, Margaret Drabble. But the most perfect sentence ever is this one from Elaine Dundy's The dud avocado: "A rowdy bunch on the whole, they were most of them so violently individualistic as to be practically interchangeable."