trisweather's 2011 in books

The first book I finished this year were Dark Matter which were one of the books I received in SantaThing. It is fictional story about a scientific expedition to Svalbard in the 30s. Due to bad luck one of the men has to stay alone for some weeks during the dark period. But something/someone is there with him.
It is a very interesting book. We follow the scientist as they travel to their camp blindly believing in science and unwilling to believe the locals's warnings about their choosen camp post. But as darkness come it isn't the easy any longer to trust in their science.
I really liked it. And it had some beautiful written images about how total light and total darkness feels like and the way it can influence body and mind

yesterday I finished Elsker mig - elsker mig ikke . Translated the titel would be Love me - Love me not.
It is a collection of short stories about love written for young adults. 16 authors from 8 different language areas in the Nordic Countries have written about young love in the Nordic Countries in 2010. The book should be out in all 8 languages. The Greenlandic titel is Asavaanga -asanngilaanga.
I really enjoyed learning about young adult life in the different countries and different areas. To read how things differ, but also how many things are the same. In many areas a young Greenlandic girl isn't that different from a girl in Sweden or from a Same girl.

>2 trisweather:
That sounds interesting. Want to translate it into English? ;-)

Thursday I read Dragonfly by Julia Golding I read it in Danish, where the titel is Guldsmed. The Danish word for Dragonfly. I really liked it as young adult fantasy. The story about different cultures misunderstanding each other because of prejudices is a ever relevant subject in fantasy and in real life. It was the interaction between the the main charactors that lifted the story above a well known plot

#3 I am afraid my English isn't good enough

For quite som months I have been reading Vinterens Hjerte by Kirsten Hastrup. Translated the titel would be something like Winter's Heart. It is a very comprehensive biography about Knud Rasmussen. It isn't a chronological book. Hastrup's book is devided into three parts. Part one is Knud Rasmussen as the polar explorer. Part two is Knud Rasmussen the hunter and part three is Kund Rasmussen the story teller. During the three parts one learns about about his life in Greenland and in Denmark, his expeditions, his mind and body, the time and world he lived in and the people in that world.
It is a very interesting book and yesterday I finally finished it. The reason it took me a long time was the it is a very big book. Both in story and in format. So breaks was needed. If one has an interest in Knud Rasmussen this is the book to read. It is full of great stories, great science and beautiful pictures. In alot of the photos of inuit one can really see the wisdom and the wild in the faces. To hear how Kunuunnguaq (=big Knud in Greenlandic. His name uphere) interacted with the Inuit is amazing. He was a very special man.

been busy with culture night preparations, so I haven't really read that much in January.
But I have read two children's books. The first was Uhyrernes hav. The original titel is The sea of monsters. I liked it as good and easy entertainment, where I didn't have to think that much. I especially like the (good and bad) monsters that were introduced.

The second book I read was Bedstemor Huldas bibliotek. Translated it would be Grandma Hulda's library. It is an Icelandic book. The original titel is Bókasafn ömmu Hulda. It is written by Thórarinn Leifsson.
It is about Albertina who lives in a world run by a bank. So there are no books in the school. They are only taught about interests and loans. Albertina has taught herself to read by looking at the word on shampoo bottles and anything else that have letters on them.
Everybody owes money to the bank and if they can't pay they are taken away to work for the bank. But one day grandma Hulda shows up with her library. And her and the books give the children courage to rebel and board the bank planet.
It is a really quirky book that is different from anything else I have read. The fact that the emergency exit is a toilet bowl says something.
Somewhere in the book it says:

Some books one have to taste right away. Others one have to swallow whole and finally there are those that one have to taste bite by bite and digest later. But they all live on inside you. Yes, one can say that you become what you read.

I really like that and it sets a great tone for Grandma Huldas Library

Bedstemor Huldas bibliotek sounds wonderful! Did you read it in Icelandic?

no. I don't read that much Icelandic. If I really concentrate I can read and understand some Icelandic, but unfortunately not enough to read a book

It sounds like a great book! I need see if it's translated to Swedish... *wanders off to search the national library database...*

Edited to add: No, it wasn't. I can get it in Danish, which is OK for me but I was thinking it might be a good read for/with our son, and translating on the fly never results in a good experience for the listener :(

I have tried translating a book while reading it for someone and I totally agree. It is never good

Some days ago I read Bidende kulde, original titel Frostbite. It is book two in the vampyre serie Vampire Academy. It was ok enough for me to keep reading and I will probably also read the next book, but to me the romance parts were too dominant in this book. Too bad, because the fight in the end were pretty good. So I hope number three will be less pink

Yesterday I read For foden af trappen, which translated would be something like At the end of the stairs. It is written by a new Danish author called Pernille Eybye. It is a young adult book
It is a story about the boy Samson who moves with his family into a house which also houses Ella, who is a ghost. Ella is convinced that she were killed by one of her 4 best friends and she convinces Samson to help her figure out who and why.
I really liked it, because all the persons were really well written and the suspence were held until the end with some surprises thrown in.

just finished East of the sun by Julia Gregson. It is about three young girls travelling to India in the 1920s. They are three very different girls each with their own reasons to travel to India. I loved the descriptions of India, the kaste system and the political situation at that time. I could easily picture it. And the descriptions of women's few choices and their lives was interesting too.
But why does marriage have to be the one thing that makes it all better and makes fulfilled lives? Especielly concerning Viva. She seemed so different, but what made her interesting seemed to take a backseat to her love story in the end.
I liked the book for the most part, but the end for me didn't suit the rest of the book

Yesterday I finished Livsmod. Socialpædagogisk og psykoterapeutisk behandling af børn i Grønland by Conni Gregersen Translated the titel would be something like: Life courage. Socialeducational and psychological treatment of children in Greenland.
The book was published last year and really filled a gap. Very few scientific books with an Greenlandic angle gets published. Especially about kids, so it was great to read this book. I really learned alot. Also things that I can use in my work as a children's librarian. To really work with Greenlandic children one needs to know the differences between them and Danish/European children and in what ways they react different from what I as Dane expects them too

How interesting. I'd love to hear more on the subject. Could you give us a brief idea as to the differences?

#15 well for examble how the spoken word is used. The Danish language's premis is logic. It reflects an formelized logic and builds understanding through explanations and logical arguments. Danish is made understandable through mouth and mind. The Greenlandic language is more metaphorical (hmm is that a word in English?) and reflects a non-linear thoughtprocess. A language of memories, feelings, moods and body language. Greenlandic is understandable through mouth, memories, traditions, mind and eyes. So even though a Greenlandic kid might understand the Danish words I am speaking, she might not understand my meaning... It is a bit hard for me to explain in English, but I hope it is understandable.

And at the same time Greenlanders shy away from conflicts. They don't argue, so sometime a Dane can almost bowl over a Greenlander in a meeting or in a converstion, because we speak and understand the same language differently.

So the book really reminded my to use my knowledge about my own culture and my ever expanding knowledge about Greenlandic culture, when I speak with the children. To use almost a kind of story telling when speaking with the children and/or teaching them something. And to tone down the purely logical arguments.

To me there is a big difference between understanding the words of a language and understanding the actual language.

Fascinating. It reminds me of the adjustments white teachers in the U.S. have to make when teaching Native American children. Body language and cultural norms are very different and can give wrong impressions unless understood.

Thanks for your explanation. I appreciate a peek into your life and life in a place that seems so far away to me.

Edited for more clarity.

MM, can you give some examples, too? I love learning about cultural differences.

The example I am most familiar with is that of eye contact. White teachers have to learn that a student that does not meet your eyes is showing respect. Insisting that the student look at you is definitely counter-productive.

The children I know are also extremely family oriented. They don't often think to explain this to an outsider, and the outsider might think that the student is skipping school, missing an appointment, or not keeping to a schedule because of apathy or dislike, when it is instead a family need that always comes first.

I think this is pertinent not only in the cases described above but between ANY languages & cultures - expectations of the "hidden" meaning carried by words and sentence structure or gesture etc often spoils cross-culture interaction - I sometimes feel it's a void, culturally, between me and people from the UK or the US. Not to mention Norwegians or Danes, or Finns.
The difference is simply HUGE.

The only way to really learn a language is to be able to switch mindsets, to switch between cultural expectation sets. Otherwise you just substitute one inadequate word for another, which is guaranteed to end up in a big FAIL.

I have been pretty much away from fun computer time these last couple of weeks, since we have been chip'ing our library, but now we have finished, so I have more time and energy to use om fun computer things.

#19 Greenlanders are very family oriented also. And family isn't just the parents and siblings. Also cuisins, great aunts and many more is close family. Family can be a whole community. And family comes before everything else uphere.

The hunt is very important also. In Nuuk we don't have that many hunters, but in the other towns and bygder people drop everything if for examble a polar bear is spotted.

Their hunting instincts and their community families work together in guarantering survival. The gifts from nature (meat, berries, and so on) are shared. A good hunter or fisherman is a big asset for a town/bygd

the last couple of weeks I have only done rereads, since I didn't have that much energy for reading. Storm Warning , Storm Rising , Storm Breaking , Exile's honor and Exile's Valor by Mercedes Lackey are all books that are relaxing for me to read and books I often read together due to their focus on Karsite people.

I have just started Tortall and other lands which I received from Amazon tuesday

Heh, I just finished the Storm books and am on the second Exile book. They are great comfort reads, aren't they?

"Have no sense of humor. All know this."

exactly. Love comfort reads. In Exile's Valor I love the part where Alberich has to get comfirmation from Kantor that Myste is indeed inviting him up to her room to...

friday I read Mellem to verdener by Aline Sax. The original titel is Wij, twee jongens. It is an young adult book about a belgian family moving to USA around 1900, but only Adriaan is let into the country. The book is about how he manage and find his place in the world. And it is also about family, friends and love. Adriaan meets and fall in love with Jack, so it is also a story about homoseksuel life at that time.
It was a good book with many interesting themes done in a good way. However something was lacking for me a little bit, but I can't put my finger on it. It is a book that I will recommend. Especially to read about a different from most immigration stories taking place at that time.

Saturday I finished Girl in the mirror by Cecelia Ahern. The book is made of two short stories. The titel story and the story The Memory Maker. I really liked them. The titel story is about choices and covered mirrors, and the second story is about memories, loss and what we choose the remember and what we would like to do different.
Very short and interesting stories

Some time last year I began reading Tallgrass by Sandra Dallas, but I didn't get that far in it. It couldn't really grab my attention. But yesterday I re-started it and am finding it pretty interesting

Finished Tallgrass last week. I really liked learning about the country life in the 40s in USA near one of the internment camps. It is a fiction book, but seems well researched.
I likesd to experience the story through a young girl's eyes. She is between child and adult, finding her place in the world and figuring out what is right and wrong for her.
The murder in the story was resolved a little to quichly in the end in my taste, but is the only minus for me

Just trying to figure out how to post pictures and I finally succeeded.

The picture is from September 2010. It is a view of Godthåbsfjorden from the top of Lille Malene (small mountain) just behind Nuuk.

Yay!!! We are all the beneficiaries of your having figured out how to post photographs. I am looking forward to more.

This photograph is stunning. Thank you for sharing it.

What maggie said - stunning picture, trisweather. Thanks.

so beautiful!

Thanks. It is very easy to take beautiful pictures uphere with the wild nature just outside your door

Last week I read Minding Frankie by Maeve Binchy. I like books with multiple charactors and intertwining stories, so Maeve Binchy is almost always an enjoyable read for me. This one was too. Just a cozy read perfect for stormy days. It is about families, the one you are born with and the family you choose. About love, friendships and choices.

But last I mostly read some non-fiction library magazines and articles. I am at the moment looking into taking my master in children and youth culture as a self study. The master isn't offered here in Greenland, so I will take it via a Danish university. So I have spend some time reading about the master, about options and trying to find ways too make Greenlandic children's culture a part of my master.

While doing that I haven't really read that much else. But when sitting in the bus from time to time I have read some chapters in Howard's end is on the landing, which I am enjoying. It is a good book to read in shorter pieces. Should finish it tonight

I haven't read that much in the last couple of weeks, since I received E.R. complete series, so I have been busy watching that. But now I only have three episodes left, so I am looking farward to read all day on saturday

I have just started Børn i Grønland, which is a report of an investigation of the welfare of children in Greenland

I was planning on doing the do nothing but read day on saturday, but things kept getting in my way, so I only got to read for a few hours. Because of that I have desided to do my dnbr day today.

The time is 14.39 here in Nuuk and so far I have finished The LEGO book. I was a fun and interesting book about all things lego filled with photos of amazing lego art and photos of lego that brought me back to my lego playing days. Got inspired to build some lego.

Next I finished Karuselli a beautiful children's book about time, giving time and how to use time in a good way. I loved it. It is certainly both a book for childern and adults. It had some very precise and saying sentences. For examble: In the course of a minut a smile can catch on. In the course of an hour your face will tire. Smile a hole day and people will be envious. During a week's time the smil will become something not special. A smile lasting a month nobody believes (my translation)

After that I took a break by reading Danish Elle may number. my favourite fashion magazine.

Last week I started Børn i Grønland and I have just finished it. It is a report on a investigation of 0 to 14 year old children's well being in Greenland. Very interesting. Especially since not many reports have been done about Greenlandic children.

Sunday I read all but two stories of Sun in glory and other tales of Valdemar. The last two I read yesterday.
I really enjoyed being in Valdemar again and meeting well known and new persons. It was great to read other authors's take on Valdemar and what they found interesting in a Valdemar setting. To experience Valdemar in times and setting that haven't been described that musch before.

while walking to and from work I am listening to the Danish translation of Harry Potter and the goblet of fire read by Jesper Christensen, a Danish actor (he is Mr. White in the new James Bond movies). I love his readings of the Harry Potter books. He does it perfectly

doesn't seem to get much reading done at the moment. This weekend I re-read The Guernsey literary and potatoe peel pie society. I favourite relaxing book.

I have just read alot of picturebooks, because I am helping a woman making a list of Greenlandic published books about friendship and bullying. So I had to read the picturebooks I hadn't read before to find the ones that were relevant.
I read:
Sara nanorlu (Sara and the polarbear) by Stinne Jacobsen. A small girl is bored, so she goes out in the countryside, where she meets a polarbear cub that she plays with

Sara qimmiaraatitaarpoq (Sara gets a puppy). Sara gets her first puppy. Together with her friends she plays with him. They practice dogsledding

Sara asimi (Sara in the mountain). Sara goes with her parents and a friend into the fjord to collect berries on the mountainside. There she and her friend meet Father of the Land. People's polluting has made his feet dirty and smelly, so he keeps all the animals away. The girls help him clean his feet and he lets the animals go.

Kammalaat Sofusi (my friend Sofus). A young girl is out fishing, but aren't catching anything. Her parent says that maybe the fish are busy. Suddenly a trout speaks to her. He tells her why they are so busy. They are looking for his best friend Juulut, who is missing. They make a search party. And finds him in the end hinding, because he has been bullied by some mean sharks, who told him that the other trouts were better off without him, because he canbe naughty. But the trouts tells Juulut how important he is to them all and he is happy again.
The picturea are really interesting. They are a kind of collage of photos

Nuka asimi (Nuka's summer). About a young girls , who spends the summer with her whole family in the fjord and mountain living of the land

Aima by Bolatta Silis-Høegh. A charming book about a small girl and her thoughts about what she wants to be, when she gets big.

Sofie & Pullaq by Pernille Kløvedal Helweq. About a small Danish girl and how she reacts to the cleansing of a seal

and I read many more

What a nice project. Lots of good reading there.

last weekend I read two books.
Skyggekysset, original titel Shadow kiss, by Richelle Mead It is book three in the Vampire Academy books. I liked this one better than book 2. Skyggekysset is more dark and serious, and I like the more mature Rose. I found the story thread about her bond with Lissi interesting. But the best in the book for me were thread about choices and having to make them
Var det kærlighed by Kirsten Holst is a Danish young adult book. It is from the 90s and I have read it more than once. It is also about choices and sacrifice, so that is why I choose to read it after Skyggekysset. Other subjects is love, memories, mental illness and terrorism. It is a stand alone sequel to Min ven Thomas which is my favourite Danish young adult book from the 90s

This weekend I read:

Emily the strange - de glemte dage, original titel Emily the strange - the lost days. It was interesting, but I think it would have been better in comic book format. To me it seemed like pictures were missing. Pictures that the text didn't paint.

Løbeild, original titel Catching fire. I really liked it. The road the story is taking is interesting and the development in the persons make them more likable and real to me.

Rejseholdet rykker ud. A Danish non-fiction book about a special section of the Danish police and some of the cases they had.

Have finished Children's movies, a New York Times essential library book. It was interesting to read the author's choices for the 100 best movies for kids. Some I agreed with and some I find unsuitable for kids, but that is the way it is

on a train trip I read Playing with grown-ups by Sophie Dahl. It was ok, but too superficial for me. I didn't feel like I got to know the person probably or got to understand their actions

Haven't read much this last month. Two much vacation and too much work. I have only finished two books.

One day by David Nicholls which I really loved. The book takes place on July 15th over 20 years. It is very interesting to get to know people by only hearing about one day every year. To follow them developing, finding love and dreams. Very special. And I liked that it wasn't a rosy red ending.

Water for elephants by Sara Gruen. I very much enjoyed the circus and the people in it. To learn what takes place behind the scene and how rough the circus life were and how people coped with the circus and the depression

>46 trisweather: I think the book One Day has an interesting concept, I won't read it, but I like the concept. Also, there were a bunch of people of the 75 book challenge who were reading Water for Elephants. I actually know someone who read it, maybe I should ask her about it, just to see what else it's about.

#47 I find it hard to describe Water for elephants without making it sound too much like a book about a romance. It is in parts, but there are so much more to it than that, so that is why I didn't really described it.

I see. Well it must be good enough for a movie, right? Yeah, I have to get ahold of her and see to it.

I can't watch Games of thrones here in Greenland, but there have been a bit about the tv series due to one of the actors being married to a Greenlander (the daughter of one my collegues actually). I hadn't heard of the books before....I wonder how I managed that, since they sounded like my kind of books. So I desided to buy the first two books of the series to find out if they were for me.

I just finished A Game of thrones and the series is certainly for me. I really loved the complex world and story that was unfolded for me. It is a fantasy book, but the depictions of war were very real. I liked that warfare wasn't glorified, but shoved how war really is for the people in it.
I found all the persons interesting and multifacetted. Nobody are totally good or totally evil. Like real persons they all have good and bad sides. And they backstories often shows how they have become what they are now.
And the reader follows all different kinds of people. Fx the different kinds of girls that Sansa and Arya are. A girly girl and a tomboy. And the fight lovind Jaime and the thinking Tyrion. And all the rest.
Just started A Clash of Kings and are looking forward to learn more about them all and about the coming winter.

I have been sick, and in my sickness I wasn't really up for the grim A Clash of Kings, so I read The Bride's House by Sandra Dallas instead. It was well written and I liked the premis of following the three generations of women living in the house. But I didn't really liked the main charactors all that much. Nealie was such a 'all that sparkles' girl. Being men or things. She didn't learn anything. And her actions was a red thread for her daughter and grandaughter. I found all three without common sense and without sense to learn. And the whole thing about all three ending up being saved by men. Felt very old fashioned to me. Marriage is certainly a great thing, but to have it be the only savior, be what makes the woman. To me it is looking down on women and on what a woman's life is

eek. The Bride's House sounds pretty horrible to me. I'll avoid it and that author.

Glad you are enjoying Westeros. Yes, every character is indeed complex and grows. It's what i love about the series the most.

the thing is I have read other of Sandra Dallas, which I loved, so I don't really know what happened with this one. So I was really disappointed

Are halfway through with Bluestockings, which I am loving. It is great to read a well written and engaging (doesn't look like it is spelled correctly)

have finished Bluestockings and have great admiration for those first women. To have the will to get an education despite great opposition from all sides. They are women to be heroines.

My new favourite place to read.

The view from the hut:



I was on a boat while tacking the pictures, so they are a bit crooked

lovely. I've taken quite a few shots from boats and understand completely!

That reminds me of a portion of the book I recently read about the author, E.B. White. He liked to write in a little hut by they bay near which he lived, in Maine.

I'm very jealous of your "Reading place" - great pictures.

I really enjoyed Bluestockings too - it was really well-written and easy to read, yet you could tell it was well-researched. It also showed how far we have come in the last 100 years - imagine telling a young woman nowadays that she couldn't handle Higher Education because her brain was too small or too fragile!

#58 love that. To read without any sounds beside nature sounds is the best. I can read in the noisiest room, but I read deeper in nature

Very lucky. Such undisturbed peace and quiet!

Quiet...except for the noises of the wind, the birds, and the sea. Looks like a delightful place to visit, although living there might be a bit much.

Yeah, lovely to visit but no way could I live there.

it isn't a place where one can live. The hut is only for sleeping in. Not kitchen or bathroom/toilet. The hut is a hiking hut. A place to sleep between hiking trips. Cooking is over fire and water is from the nearby spring. But it is great spending some days there

Yesterday I read the first two books in a new easy to read series for children called F.C. Englene (translation: F.C. The Angels) by Kirsten Sonne Harild. It is a Danish series about girls playing football/soccer. It is a well written series about friendship, family problems, beginning love and of course football. It was great reading a girls series that can be both girly and sporty

56 - Looks, and sounds, like a wonderful place to end up after a day's hike.

yesterday I finally finished Clash of Kings I don't know, why it took me so long, because I really like it. Now I am waiting for the rest of the series, which I have underway from Amazon

Finished The Cookbook Collector about collecting, choices and the dot com bubble. It was interesting to learn move about what could be behind the headlines and collections

Great pictures!

This weekend I read The Devil's Arithmetic by Jane Yolen. I saw the movie some years back and really liked it, so I had to read the original book. I really liked the book too. It is a tight dark story without fluff. Yolen could with few words paint a clear picture of a person. I only wished it was longer, so I could be with the charactors some more.

I also read Rock Hudson skal ikke dø i Ukraine translation: Rock Hudson mustn't die in the Ukraine. It is biographical novel about the life of Douglas Sirk. I really like the the few of his movies that I have seen, so it was really interesting to learn more about his very interesting life. From his youth under WWI, his big career in theater and the movies in Germany between the wars, his flight to USA (his wife were Jewish), the fight for a new career, success and in the end a return to Europe. He was a man marked by his past, but also a strong man who knew how to make the plays and movies he wanted without first the nazies and then the communist hunters figuring out the hidden meanings

Have finished A Storm of Swords 1: Steel and Snow I am still liking the A Song of Ice and Fire series, but due to the grimness of them it isn't a series that I read quickly. I need breaks. But it is certainly a series I will continue reading and enjoying. I don't find all the persons and their stories equally interesting, but on the other hand is it very interesting to see a conflict from different points of view

yup, I found breaks to be necessary also, but am enjoying it all as I near the end of book 5.

The questions I have copied from joybee who had copied them from mrslee:

1. Favorite childhood book? Pippi Langstrømpe, Little house on the prarie and Dværgen fra Normandiet. I wasn't into fantasy, before I found Tamora Pierce when I was around 13

2.What are you reading right now? non-fiction books for my master in children and youth culture and A storm of swords

3.Bad book habit? all book habits are good habits. Except mistreating af books

4.Do you have an e-book reader? No

5.Do you prefer to read one book at a time or several at once? always several at a time

6.Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog thread? no

7.Least favorite book you read this year (so far)? have been pretty lucky so far

8.Favorite book you’ve read this year? The George R. R. Martin series about Westeros

9.How often do you read out of your comfort zone? I like to try something new, so if I get a recommendation I will often try it. But it often takes a recommendation

10.What is your reading comfort zone? fantasy, non-fiction books about movie history or children's culture, biographies, quirky chicklit

11.Can you read on the bus? always

12.Favorite place to read? couch or bed

13.What is your policy on book lending? I will lend any book

14.Do you ever dog-ear books? Yes always if it is my own, but never if it is a borrowed book

15.Do you ever write in the margins of your books? yes. Mostly in my non-fiction books. But a special fiction can also inspire me to comment

16.What is your favorite language to read in? Danish and English

17.What makes you love a book? Great memorable characters, great plot and entertainment

18.What will inspire you to recommend a book? A book that gets me to think or a book that won't leave for a while is recommendable to me.

19.Favorite genre? fantasy and historical biographies

20.Genre you rarely read (but wish you did)? science fiction

21.Favorite biography? Margrete den første about Margrethe the first of Denmark. I really clever woman in a mans world and a really indepth biography

22.Have you ever read a self-help book? no

23.Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)? I don't read 'inspirational' books

24.Favorite reading snack? grapes

25.How often do you agree with critics about a book? I don't really read critic's reviews. Reviews on LT is another thing

26.How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews? I don't really mind, because it is just what I think.

27.If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose? I would love to be better at reading Greenlandic

28.Most intimidating book you’ve ever read? I don't really know...

29.Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin? Ulysses

30.Favorite poet?I don't read enough poetry to have a favourite

31.Favorite fictional character? Pippi Longstocking and Trisana Chandler

32.Favorite fictional villain? I like villains, who surprises in the end, so Snape

33.Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation? whatever I am reading at the time

34.The longest I’ve gone without reading? A few days

35.Name a book that you could/would not finish. Wurthering heights have been reading it for 15 years

36.What distracts you easily when you’re reading? nothing really, if I am into the book

37.Favorite film adaptation of a novel? don't really know

38.Most disappointing film adaptation? P.S. I love you

39.The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time? around 1000 Danish kroners

40.How often do you skim a book before reading it? never

41.Do you like to keep your books organized? yes

42.Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them? keep. Give away if I don't like them

43.Are there any books you’ve been avoiding? no

44.Name a book that made you angry. I can't think of one

45.A book you didn’t expect to like but did? Cider house rules (agree with joybee here)

46.A book that you expected to like but didn’t? just resently The Bride's House

47.Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading? chicklit and fairytales

I don't get muc reading done at the moment. Too much else going on I guess. Am working full time and have just started a master, so any spare time is often spend spacing out in front of the tv.
I couple of weeks ago I finished A storm of swords 2 and have now moved on to the next in the series. Am still enjoying the series.
For my master I have read Legekultur by Flemming Mouritsen. The title tranlated is Play culture. The book is a collection of essays about child culture, play and story telling. It is very interesting, if one likes that subject. Flemming Mouritsen is the grand old man in Denmark , when it comes to childhood and play as a scientific subject. He is 69 and still very active in a relatively new study area

wow. busy schedule. Take time for you!

wow I really don't get much reading done at the moment...and the last month or so.
Last week I had the flu, which meant that I was home from work for two days. So I re-read a Mercedes Lackey serie as comfort.

Thursday I got a package from Amazon. Some movies and Pedro and me by Judd Winick. It is a biographic graphic novel about the author's friendship with AIDS activist Pedro Zamora. It is a really moving story about friendship and about how much a friendship can educate and change a person.
I remember watching The Real World San Francisco. Pedro Zamora was some of my first education about AIDS and what it mean and doesn't. I was really moved, when Pedro said that he was a person living with AIDS. He wasn't dying. And he would be a person LIVING with AIDS until his last breath. I think it is an amazing way to look at the situation he was in. He taught me alot even if I only knew him from The Real World

Yesterday I finished Weaving a library web. A guide to developing children's websites I have been reading it on and off for a year. It is very interesting, but since it is a book that inspire me to make alot of notes it is not a fast read for me. And it was also a book I took a long break from. Not because it was boring, but...well life got in the way. But for people with an interest in the subject it is certainly a book that inspire and a must read. Loved it

Am still working on a paper, so not muck pleasure reading is being done, since after work and studying I relax best with watching tv or a movie. Just finished watching season two of Downton Abbey. After having spent alot of time reading about internet and similar, it is great to watch something where internet isn't there.
A couple of week ago I re-read The Will of the Empress which is one of my favourites of Tamora Pierce.
Last week I read Mastiff which I actually loved. The Beka Cooper hasn't been a favourite. It wasn't bad, just only good. But I think that Mastiff was a great ending to a good serie. I loved how real (with good sides and bad) the persons felt and how they developed. And how even good people can turn and do bad things.

after taking a break from the series for some time I finished A Feast for crows yesterday. I liked it, but since it is timewise very connected to A Dance with Dragons I will hold my final judgement until I have finished that. It will probably take me some time since I have a paper due soon

well I am still mostly reading books for my paper, so yesterday I finished Usability of Websites for children: 70 Design Guidelines. It is from 2002, so it was dated in parts, but there were still some good points that I will be able to use in my paper. Especially some points about sites catering to children that doesn't have English as their first language

this December I have read Quest for a babe by Frances Hendry. A favourite when I was a child and a book I have read every few years since then. I have always just borrowed it at the library, but last month I bought it used. Still love it. The idea of a nothing girl meaning so much and being the one who chose how history plays out is very interesting. And I have a soft spot for the old Scotland.

For my master I have read Inuit in Cyberspace. It is a look on, how inuit use the internet and how how history, traditions and nature impact that use. Very interesting and useful for the paper I am writing at the moment.

I have also read Legetøj i Grønland. Translated the title would be Toys in Greenland. It is only 50 pages, but gets alot of history covered in the few pages. It was both read for my master, but also just for pure interest. I really like reading about all aspects of children's culture and the history of toys is a favourite part of that.

I'm still browsing old threads and found this one. >1 trisweather: may just have hit me with a BB. I've been to Longyearbyen a couple of times and would dearly love to go there again. A ghost story set there looks like something I might like, so on the wishlist it goes.

I was going to upload a couple of pictures--it's a fascinating, beautiful place--but I find my iPhone pics come out upside down. I'll see if I can figure it out alter.

>82 haydninvienna: Here's the pictures.
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The pictures were taken during a dogsled ride near Longyearbyen. I know some of you live reasonably far north, but Longyearbyen is at 78 degrees north. The pictures were taken at between 1132 and 1200 local time on 16 February 2018. I fear for places like this when global warming really gets a grip.

Has anybody seen or heard of Tris lately?

>84 hfglen: I did wonder that. A few other people seem to have gone AWOL too.

Stunning photos from somewhere I'd love to go myself. Thank you for sharing.

>86 Sakerfalcon: Thanks. And do you know what we did there, other than ride dog-sleds? Went to a chamber music festival. Haydn’s second cello concerto with Truls Mørk as soloist, and then a really, really memorable performance of Schubert’s Winterreise, in small, intimate spaces. Coming out of the second one into the Arctic night gave a certain poignancy to the last song in the cycle.

>83 haydninvienna: beautiful pictures.

>84 hfglen: and >85 haydninvienna:
Well I am back. I haven’t really been active on Librayrything for some years. I hadn’t realised that is had been so many years. The last years I have really only used LT as a cataloge, but today I desided to get back into it

>89 trisweather: Welcome home!

>Welcome back!

>88 trisweather: Glad to see you back, and thank you.

Welcome back! I hope all is well with you.

Welcome back! You've joined the ranks of returnees*, and we're glad to see you!

*Been quite a few in the last year, thankfully.