These past few days I've been reading some books in Swedish. Feel free to visit http://librisvedese.blogspot.se/ and if you scroll down a bit, you can check out what I read in Swedish last year.

OUT ON THE WILEY, WINDY MOORS

Just finished reading Wuthering heights by Emily Brontë - first book 2013. I read it when I was seventeen and always said I hated it, but I was just a completely different reader then (I think the fact that Bret Easton Ellis was my favourite writer really says it all). Now, I truly enjoyed it.

NOBODY, SHE CONCLUDED BITTERLY, CARES ABOUT DECORUM ANYMORE.

Books I've read and re-read this year (the ones in bold are the books I loved, loved, loved):

Margaret Atwood - Life before man
Margaret Atwood - Alias Grace
Margaret Drabble - The seven sisters
Margaret Drabble - The Garrick year
Margaret Drabble - A summer bird-cage
Margaret Drabble - Jerusalem the Golden
Doris Lessing - Love, again
Doris Lessing - The golden notebook
Marilyn French - The women's room
Joan Didion - The year of magical thinking
Lynne Reid Banks - The L-shaped room
A.M. Homes - In a country of mothers
Tim Lott - The scent of dried roses
Joyce Carol Oates - A fair maiden
Curtis Sittenfeld - The man of my dreams
William Styron - Sophie's choice
Jeffrey Eugenides - The marriage plot
Amor Towles - Rules of civility
Harper Lee - To kill a mockingbird
Richard Yates - The Easter parade
Lionel Shriver - The post-birthday world
Elaine Dundy - The old man and me
Agatha Christie - Sad cypress
Ruth Rendell - A judgement in stone
Ruth Rendell - Adam and Eve and Pinch me
Anita Loos - Gentlemen prefer blondes
Charlotte Brontë - Jane Eyre
Jonathan Franzen - Freedom
Anita Shreve - Testimony
S.J. Watson - Before I go to sleep
Tawni O'Dell - Back roads
Scarlett Thomas - Bright young things
Carol Goodman - The lake of dead languages
Ira Levin - Rosemary's baby
Hans Fallada - Alone in Berlin
Simone de Beauvoir - The age of discretion
Daphne du Maurier - Rebecca

See you in 2013, book blog!

Reading Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier.

ALIAS GRACE

Finished reading Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood earlier today.
It was so good.

I TELL YOU I AM JUST LIKE YOU!

I've been so bad at updating this blog but the truth is, I am really struggling with finding something to read right now. I read Hans Fallada's Alone in Berlin and it was so good, I just haven't been able to follow up on it. Read the short story The age of discretion by Simone de Beauvoir and then the first part of Jonathan Litell's The kindly ones, but nothing really gets me interested. Well OK, The kindly ones is something I really am interested in (if you haven't read about the controversy surrounding that book, I highly suggest you Google it) but I want to read something else, something that feels like me. Why have I already read The women's room? The golden notebook? The millstone? Cat's eye? Blonde? I don't know what to read, unless I re-read something (Drabble). So while continuing to search for the next great book, allow me to say hi (waving with a very strange hand):

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