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1QueenOfDenmark
I've been a bit hit and miss with my reading log this year.
I wasn't able to get onto LT for a while, so I was keeping my list on a Pinterest board instead, and it's not quite the same, I kept forgetting to add the Pins.
I thought since I was back I would post a few of the books I've really enjoyed this year, starting with The Year of Living Danishly (well, since I'm Queen now) by Helen Russell. It's about a London couple who decide to accept work in Denmark and see how their year changes their lives.
I don't think I learned a great deal about what it's really like to emigrate to Denmark, I think she put in the nicer, funnier bits but it was a likeable book all the same.
I've also read a couple of books by Pamela Hartshorne, The Edge of Dark and House of Shadows, having previously read two of her other books last year. Her books are all the same but in a good way. A woman in modern day times finds herself haunted by memories belonging to a woman in Elizabethan York, usually because there is a mystery to solve or a wrong to rectify.
It's hard to say I liked this one, but One Of Us by Asne Seierstad is an account of the murders committed by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011. I found she wrote sensitively and with a lot of care for the victims of the attack, and it was an interesting look at the politics of the times as he was growing up, which may have influenced him, and the dysfunctions in his family.
And I've just finished reading Wake by Elizabeth Knox, which is set in New Zealand, where a small community is isolated and suddenly driven insane by an entity which feeds of fear and despair. I wasn't entirely happy with the explanation for part of it, but I liked it and I would read more by the author.
I wasn't able to get onto LT for a while, so I was keeping my list on a Pinterest board instead, and it's not quite the same, I kept forgetting to add the Pins.
I thought since I was back I would post a few of the books I've really enjoyed this year, starting with The Year of Living Danishly (well, since I'm Queen now) by Helen Russell. It's about a London couple who decide to accept work in Denmark and see how their year changes their lives.
I don't think I learned a great deal about what it's really like to emigrate to Denmark, I think she put in the nicer, funnier bits but it was a likeable book all the same.
I've also read a couple of books by Pamela Hartshorne, The Edge of Dark and House of Shadows, having previously read two of her other books last year. Her books are all the same but in a good way. A woman in modern day times finds herself haunted by memories belonging to a woman in Elizabethan York, usually because there is a mystery to solve or a wrong to rectify.
It's hard to say I liked this one, but One Of Us by Asne Seierstad is an account of the murders committed by Anders Breivik in Norway in 2011. I found she wrote sensitively and with a lot of care for the victims of the attack, and it was an interesting look at the politics of the times as he was growing up, which may have influenced him, and the dysfunctions in his family.
And I've just finished reading Wake by Elizabeth Knox, which is set in New Zealand, where a small community is isolated and suddenly driven insane by an entity which feeds of fear and despair. I wasn't entirely happy with the explanation for part of it, but I liked it and I would read more by the author.
2SylviaC
Congratulations on your promotion, Your Majesty!
Shall I add this thread to the master list of Green Dragon personal reading journals?
Shall I add this thread to the master list of Green Dragon personal reading journals?
3QueenOfDenmark
I'm not sure if I'd call it a master list yet, it's likely to fill up with "I forgot about this one as well..." posts now I've picked the best so far out of my list.
I haven't been reading enough because of all the crown wearing practice. ;)
I haven't been reading enough because of all the crown wearing practice. ;)
4SylviaC
>3 QueenOfDenmark: Heavy is the head that wears the crown!
The master list is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/213116 so we can all find each other's pages.
The master list is here: http://www.librarything.com/topic/213116 so we can all find each other's pages.
5MrsLee
Lovely to have you back! I like to think that we knew you when, and we all knew you were headed for great things!
6Sakerfalcon
>1 QueenOfDenmark: Welcome back, Your Majesty! I'm glad you enjoyed Wake because I have a copy on my Tbr pile that I need to try and read soon. Have you read any of Knox's other books?
7QueenOfDenmark
Thank you for the master list SylviaC.
Hi MrsLee, I'm glad to be back.
I haven't read any of her other books yet Sakerfalcon, but I will keep an eye out for them because Wake was very good.
Hi MrsLee, I'm glad to be back.
I haven't read any of her other books yet Sakerfalcon, but I will keep an eye out for them because Wake was very good.
