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Ciara

I brought my new Jon Fosse with me today, to be read to me by me. Just after I left home, the library messaged that my Ann Patchett reservation is ready, to be read to me by Tom Hanks. So yeah, good luck with that, Jon.

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Screenshot of audiobook edition of The Dutch House by Ann Patchett in the Libby library app, loaned through my own library’s eReolen. The cover is a painting-like illustration of a dark-haired white young woman in a red coat, surrounded by painted birds and flowers. As well as the title and author name the text says ‘Pulitzer Prize finalist’ and ‘Performed by Tom Hanks’. You can see I haven't started and that the reading will take 9 hours 53 minutes and 6 seconds.

Resting on a black bag with an open gold-coloured zip, my paperback of Det Er Ales by Jon Fosse. A generic unappealing cover: a dull murky painting of a landscape with rocks and trees and clouds. As well as the title and author name, the text: Nobelprisen I Litteratur. Not on the cover, but should be: the translator name. It was translated from Norwegian to Danish by Karsen Sand Iversen. It’s a slim paperback, pristine and clearly hadn't been opened yet. And until Tom’s finished reading Ann to me, not going to be.

toooobeeee :verified:

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"Kvindernes Land" af Susanne Possing
Utrolig spændende beretning/fortælling fra en dansk udviklingsarbejder i Afrika. Sætter virkelig tingene i perspektiv.

afbildning af bogomslaget af ovennævnte bog: en sort kvinde i halvprofil. Det lader som om hun har en mobiltelefon, som hun holder oppe ved højre side af hendes hoved. Hun kigger betænksom forbi beskueren.

Ciara

Decades of reading dozens of short stories a month and I still don't know what to call a short story collection with stories that stand alone, but have linked events and recurring characters.

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On a worn wooden pavement café table, a glimpse of street beyond: my library sale hardback edition of the short story collection Kvinders Løgne ('The Lies of Women') by Ljudmila Ulitskaja. På dansk ved Trine Søndergaard. Cover: dark colours and murky mood. Black background. Title and author name in muted mustard-yellow and blue. A marble statue torso in dull purple light - a woman's face looking upwards with closed eyes, contemplative.

Camlarsch

Jeg tænkte, at Yellowface af Rebecca F. Kuang var min oplagte #fredagsbog, da jeg læste, at den handler om hykleri, slet skjult racisme og kynisme i forlagsbranchen og blandt forfattere.
Men fortælleren June, der tilfældigvis var der, da veninden(ish) Athena blev kvalt i en pandekage og derefter stjal hendes manuskript, er temmelig træls selskab: selvretfærdig, hyklerisk, misundelig. June får stor succes med bogen, og hendes forlag nedtoner, hvor hvid hun er …

Ciara

It's been ages since I read Jhumpa Lahiri. She's long been one of my favourite short story writers. So three stories in, I am surprised at how unexcited I am.

It was only when I went to write the Alt Text for the photo that I noticed the cover quote from the New York Times. 'Electric.' Fake news! The word I had been thinking of was 'flat'. (So far, to be fair. Her writing and the stories may get back to their old selves as I read on.)

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My English-language paperback edition of Jhumpa Lahiri's short story collection Roman Stories. Propped up on a yellow cushion, a yellow bookmark with a blue tassel sticking out. A bland dull generic cover, I think. Trees, seen looking up through them to where their shy crowns almost but don't quite meet, light blue sky showing in between. The white cover text is hard to read in places on top of the leafy green background. As well as title and author name: 'Translated by the author with Todd Portnowitz.' 'Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Unaccustomed Earth'. New York Times praise: 'Electric ... elegant ... deeply moving'.

Camlarsch

Jeg elsker alt ved titlen "Jeg har tænkt mig at skrige hele vejen" af Jenny Rosander (der jo er Lydmor). Men da jeg gik i gang med den, fangede den mig ikke rigtigt, så nu ligger den lidt. Overvejer at gå i gang med "Ellepigen Pif & 42, den tavse guru" af Peter Adolphsen (som jo også er en usædvanlig titel), når jeg engang når til #fredagsbog.

Men: I denne weekend er der jo Louisiana Literature, så måske kommer jeg hjem med inspiration til noget helt andet i aften.

Ciara

My first Stig Sæterbakken novel. So far, so absorbed.

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My paperback edition of Gennem Natten by Stig Sætterbakken. On a patio table with wooden slats in sunshine and shadow. Some plants just visible below. A nicely eerie cover: delicate pale grey with a muted image of a floor and walls and ceiling in whites and greys. Somewhere institutional. Or an art gallery. There's a sense that it's not a photo of an empty space, but a photo of something that's missing from it.

Zenia Johnsen

Danske sommerfugle af Michael Stoltze er min #fredagsbog. Jeg fik bogen i fødselsdagsgave og hver dag læser jeg en sommerfugl, men lige nu er jeg 5 dage, eller 5 bredpander om man vil, bagud. Så det skal jeg have indhentet. Jeg har en lidt flagrende idé om at bruge en del af min ferie (som begynder i dag kl 13) på at tegne alle sommerfuglene fra bogen på gamle datokort. Fordi de føles jo så vigtige, alle de her danske sommerfugle.
Og vidste I at gråbåndet bredpande tidligere hed skovsmutter?

Ciara

It’s been a long and silly day, but my book is good and my bookmark has a tassel, so all’s well that ends well.

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My paperback edition of Here Again Now by Okechukwu Nzelu. A glossy, striking cover with a distinctive mustard-yellow and purple background and a close-up portrait of a young man's face - the protagonist, a Nigerian-English man. There are praise quotes from Derek Owusu; Brit Bennett; and The Guardian. The book is lying on a wool throw-blanket in deep blue shades. My bookmark is sticking out about 30 pages in - it has a blue silk seventies-curtain-style tassel that I love in a not even slightly ironic way.

Lars Henriksen ☕

"Mænd sår distræt deres sæd, forblindede af begær. Underkastet deres orgasme befrugter de os. De tropper op i os, retirerer og efterlader deres vildfarne genfærd i vores kød"

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《Dem der flygter og dem der bliver》 Side 423
https://minreol.dk/book/3PgrLQueNyOHeQxikqUdb5

Ciara

The title of this book is so familiar to me, so often mentioned, so beloved by so many, that it came as a surprise to me when I realised that I've never actually read it. Am on the move a fair bit today, so I just borrowed it to be my #Fredagsbog

(No matter how often I do that, it will never not seem like magic to me that I can browse the whole library and borrow a book in a matter of seconds, free of charge, without even leaving home.)

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Screenshot of the audiobook I Capture The Castle by Dodie Smith, in the Libby library app, borrowed through my local library card using eReolen Global. The cover is a nice, slightly abstract blue-green illustration of a grey castle looming above the tree-lined avenue that leads up to it. The title and author name are written in jaunty letters on the avenue. Underneath in smaller print: 'Starring Toby Jones & Holliday Grainger. A BBC Radio 4 full-cast dramatisation. The reading takes 1 hour 53 minutes and 53 seconds. I am just starting.

Thomas

#fredagsbog bog har længe været Emma Holtens "Underskud - om værdien af omsorg", men nu blev jeg endeligt færdig. Det er en vigtig bog. Grundig gennemgang af hvordan vores samfund hænger sammen, og hvordan den økonomiske styring er kørt af sporet.

Lars Henriksen ☕

Jeg har kigget lidt på @neodb - som alternativ til Bookwyrm, som virker lidt tungt på mig. Er der andre danske læsere, der vil prøve?

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Ciara replied to Ciara's status

My Thursday’s read is also my #Fredagsbog. A thoughtful and thought-provoking and provocative book. One of those books that I can’t nibble at, reading a few pages here and there, dipping in and out as time permits. I need to read it in longer sittings. I started it on a too-short train trip yesterday. Am hoping to finish it now. So if you see me tooting in here after this, please tell me and my attention span to log off and go away and get back to Rachel.

My Danish-language paperback library edition of Rachel Cusk's Aftermath. 'Efterskælv.' Sans serif slim black typeface. Broad off-white border. Above: title Efterskælv. Below: author name. Between them: big bland navy-blue image. I think it's the ocean with a thick white fault-line of white foam snaking through it. There's a pink and yellow woven bookmark sticking out more than halfway through the 200 pages. The book is lying on a wool blanket, because you need a blanket and a hot water bottle for reading on the couch in Denmark in the middle of Summer.

Camlarsch

Kairos af Jenny Erpenbeck var min anbefalelsesværdige #fredagsbog, der foregår i sen-80'ernes DDR. Den var virkelig god og virkelig frygtelig at komme igennem. Frygtelig, fordi forholdet mellem Katharina og Hans, som er bogens omdrejningspunkt, er klaustrofobisk, forskruet, smuldrende og giftigt ... Men hov, når parallellerne til det omgivende DDR bliver stadigt tydeligere undervejs, bliver man nødt til at læse videre. Det er en undergangshistorie. Det er en kærlighedshistorie. Det er historie.