LIKING IN FEBRUARY

- daylight
- Patti Smith
- writing on paper
- Vesterbro
- coffee
pipfugl

Reading list for 2013

1. Haruki Murakami: What I Talk About When I Talk About Running
2. Stephen Fry: The Fry Chronicles
3. David Mitchell: Cloud Atlas
* David Foster Wallace: Both Flesh And Not (essays)

Reading list for 2012 (very much incomplete and most likely not in the right order)
1. Alexandre Dumas: The Three Musketeers
2. Noelle Oxenhandler: The Wishing Year
3. All the True Blood books (oh dear – leagues above the Twilight books, though)
4. Stephanie Pearl-McPhee: All Wound Up
5. Molly Wizenberg: A Homemade Life
6. F. Scott Fitzgerald: Tender Is the Night
7. Nigel Slater: The Kitchen Diaries
8. Mary Karr: Lit. A Memoir
9. Patti Smith: Just Kids
10. Siri Hustvedt: Living, Thinking, Writing
11. Arnaldur Indridason: Fjellet
12. Junot Díaz: This Is How You Lose Her
13. Per Petterson: I kjølvannet
14. Monty Don: The Ivington Diaries
15. Jennifer Egan: A Visit From the Goon Squad

Reading list for 2011
1. Philip Pullman: The Shadow in the North
2. Philip Pullman: The Tiger in the Well
3. Sue Grafton: S is for Silence
4. Philip Pullman: The Tin Princess
5. Jonathan Lethem: Motherless Brooklyn
6. Ruth Rendell: End In Tears
7. Halldis Moren Vesaas: I Midtbøs bakkar
8. Halldis Moren Vesaas: Båten om dagen
9. Tarjei Vesaas: Fuglane
10. Leif GW Persson: Linda – som i Lindamordet
11. J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
12. Maise Njor & Camilla Stockmann: Charlie Hotel Oscar Kilo
13. Henning Mankell: Den urolige mand
14. Jussi Adler-Olsen: Fasandræberne
15. Leif GW Persson: Samfundets støtter
16. Jussi Adler-Olsen: Flaskepost fra P.
17. Monica Ali: In the Kitchen
18. Jonathan Lethem: The Fortress of Solitude
19. Scarlett Thomas: The End of Mr. Y
20. Stephenie Meyer: Twilight
21. Stephenie Meyer: New Moon
22. Stephenie Meyer: Eclipse
23. Stephenie Meyer: Breaking Dawn (oh dear. I had vowed I wouldn’t, but here I am)
24. Siri Hustvedt: The Summer Without Men
25. Gabrielle Hamilton: Blood, Bones and Butter
26. Haruki Murakami: 1Q84 (I & II)
27. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Green Gables
28. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Avonlea
29. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of the Island
30. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Windy Poplars
31. L. M. Montgomery: Anne’s House of Dreams
32. L. M. Montgomery: Anne of Ingleside
33. L. M. Montgomery: Rainbow Valley
34. L. M. Montgomery: Rilla of Ingleside
35. George R. R. Martin: A Game of Thrones
36. George R. R. Martin: A Clash of Kings
37. George R. R. Martin: A Storm of Swords
38. George R. R. Martin: A Feast for Crows
39. Lucy Knisley: French Milk (graphic novel)
40. Tamar Adler: The Everlasting Meal
41. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes
42. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Sign of the Four
43. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: The Casebook of Sherlock Holmes
44. Francis Scott Fitzgerald: The Great Gatsby
45. Helen and Scott Nearing: Living the Good Life
46. Amanda Blake Soule: The Rhythm of Family
47. PG Wodehouse: My Man Jeeves
48. Haruki Murakami: IQ84 (III)
49. Jonathan Lethem: Chronic City

Books I didn’t finish (but want to):
Walden
Jonathan Safran Foer’s Eating Animals
Jonathan Franzen’s Corrections
Monty Don’s Ivington Diaries




My reading list for 2010, in which I didn’t manage to read 52 books:

1. Edith Wharton: House of Mirth
2. Arto Paasilinna: Den elskelige giftblandersken (translated from Finnish into Norwegian. It doesn’t seem to be in English translation but would be something like “the dear poisoner”)
3. Agatha Christie: The Secret Adversary
4. E. M. Forster: Howards End (I can’t tell you how much I loved this book)
5. Karl Ove Knausgård: Min Kamp 1 (in Norwegian – volume 1 of a 6-volume autobiographical novel (!))
6. Siri Hustvedt: The Shaking Woman, or a History of my Nerves
7. Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma
8. Nigel Slater: Tender I
9. Jonathan Safran Foer: Eating Animals *
10. Per Petterson: Det er greit for meg (in the original Norwegian (read him if you haven’t already!))
11. Jonathan Safran Foer: Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
12. Samantha Harvey: The Wilderness
13. E. M. Forster: A Passage to India *
14. Haruki Murakami: Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
15. Simone de Beauvoir: En ung pikes erindringer (her early memoirs in Norwegian translation)
16. Elizabeth Gilbert: Eat, Pray, Love
17. Colm Toibín: Brooklyn
18. P.D. James: The Private Patient
19. Sara Paretsky: Indemnity Only
20. Dennis Lehane: A Drink Before the War
21. Joseph O’Neill: Netherland
22. Ilse Crawford: Home Is Where the Heart Is?
23. Colin Dexter: Service For All the Dead
24. Marilynne Robinson: Home
25. Jonathan Safran Foer: Everything is Illuminated
26. Jo Nesbø: Hodejegerne
27. Fred Vargas: Neptuns vinde
28. Jussi Adler-Olsen: Kvinden i buret

(an asterisk means that I’m currently reading this book and haven’t finished it yet)