what are you reading?

I'm working my way through W.E.B. Griffin's books about military men and women. It might take me a while... he is a very prolific writer.

I read mostly fiction... for entertainment and mental exercise.

I haven't gotten around to either of those (the film or WooD), but I'll keep that in mind. After this, I may move onto another easy read, perhaps the second book in The Passage series - but then, I'm kind of hooked on classics at the moment, so we'll see.

Will be starting on A Goat's song by Dermot Healy

Love & Respect, for the second time.

Noe fremmed i mitt sinn (Kafamda bir tuhaflik) - Orhan Pamuk

(Apparently the English title is: A strangeness in my mind)

Finished The Chinese ginger jars, about the trials and achievements of a missionary couple who lived thru dangerous days in China for some 20 yrs since 1930. By Myra scovel.

Today I read "The Manipulated Man" by Ester Vilar.

It really caused me to think. I love books like that. Easy read. I found it really funny in a few places.

I'm currently reading nothing interesting.... I should change this.

Did you read Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Unset? I think it won the Nobel Prize in 1921 or 1922. I read it about 10 years ago or so, and liked it a lot, although it was sooooo long. My great great grandfather was Norwegian and my great great grandmother was half Norwegian, half German. So I liked reading Kristin Lavransdatter for that reason as well as the fact that it was really immersive, I felt like I was in medieval Norway.

I have read "Jenny".

Right now I've got a stack of John Grisham books waiting on me. Reading them brings me back to the Southland, even he's from (at least we're not...) Mississippi jk.

You got kins in Norway? Cool, what part?

I never read any Grisham books. My middle sister went through a phase where she was reading them. She liked A Painted House the best, but it is unusual as it is not a mystery. I can't be TOO hard on Mississippi as my father is from there, as is Elvis.

I'm not sure where my ancestors were from in Norway. Apparently, Mobile was a main port back in the day, all the bananas coming into the US came in through Mobile at one point. Anyway, many Norwegian trading ships came into Mobile. We surmise our ancestor was a sailor on one of these ships and liked Mobile and went home to Norway and told them how great it was. This would have been my great, great grandfather. He came over with his wife and his Nielsen cousin. They settled in Coden and a few more of their Johnson and Nielsen kin came over. They were all commercial fishermen.

My sister may know where they were from in Norway as she did the whole genealogy.com thing.

That's cool!

No, I haven't read it (For some reason I read few Norwegian books. I guess I will at some point though.

I can recommend a trilogy by Jan Ove Ekeberg *looks for English title* Don't think it's been translated
If they do translate it (correctly) it will be called something like "In the age (or "time") of the sword"

Jeg synes Hamsun er helt fantastisk. Jeg tror faktisk han MÅ leses på norsk. Men han er ikke noe særlig populær i Norge?

Har ikke lest noe av ham ennå. Han er ikke så populær nei, ettersom han var nazi-sympatisør, men han kan vel ha skrevet gode bøker til tross for det

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Ja, synes egentlig det. Her i Nord Norge virker det for øvrig som om de har mer sans for ham. Apropos Nord Norge, nå har jeg oppdaget Oluf lol.

I'd have to wait for it to be translated to English. Fair warning: Kristin Lavransdatter was the longest book I ever read, at 1,000 plus pages! I decided to read it since it was a Nobel winner and I figured it would be worth the investment.

I'm reading a book of compiled essays by E.B. White, famous children's author. It is surprising! I always loved his children's books, and his essays are actually funny and interesting, more like short-stories than scholarly essays. Multi-talented man

This month:

-A man after God's own heart
-Capture her heart: becoming the Godly man your wife desires
-shaken: discovering your true identity in the midst of life's storms
-the book of proverbs


Then 3 others that are kind of self help/personal.