I am currently rereading my way through Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone
After hearing all the hype around it, I wasn’t going to read it. But then I was working in the children’s department of the library the summer I turned 18, and the book was put on hold for someone. I started reading it, and immediately put it on my wish list for my birthday.
It has been a while since I have read it, and I am discovering that it doesn’t fade in rereads. It is still as magical as it was back then.
No time for reading today – so no advent calendar. Instead I spent the evening with my sister, my mother and two of my mother’s friends making 9-10 kransekakes for Christmas. It was a kransekake factory.
I just finished reading this, and immediately thought of about several people I know who would love it. Everyone from colleagues to friends. It is such a simple text, yet it fully describes how I think the world should be.
(How the world, fortunately is for me, growing up and living in Norway, but, should be for everyone.)
“If we do something over and over, it becomes normal. If we see the same thing over and over, it becomes normal. If only boys are made class monitor, then at some point we will all think, even if unconsciously, that the class monitor has to be a boy. If we keep seeing only men as heads of corporations, it starts to seem “natural” that only men should be heads of corporations.”
Whenever someone asks me to name my favourite books, Anne of Green Gables
Mainly because it is one of the first non-picture books I remember reading by myself, and not being read by my parents. But also because the story is riveting. Anne is a great character to grow along with, and the friends she makes is wonderfully described.
I recommend the whole series, but it is really the first book in the series that captivated me into the universe of Anne and Gilbert.
Today’s book is not one of the new ones out there, but rather a comfortable old friend from the late 90s. The Christmas Mystery – Jostein Gaarder
It is two separate stories in one – one of a boy opening an advent calendar. Another one of a girl and an angel making their way to the birth of Christ.
I read it and loved it. My mother read it, and continues to re-read it every December as an advent calendar.
Day 4 – and I’m bringing out a quick and easy and fun read I did this year. I like the quirky stories. The fun stories. And this is that.
Dear Girls above me is the story of the Twitter feed, where two girls move into the apartment above the author. He discovers that the soundproofing between the apartments is non-existent, and starts to share the stories on Twitter.
It’s the type of book that makes you grateful for your own space. But if you’ve ever lived in dorms or any place with paper thin walls, you can recognise it. (My downstairs neighbour liked to play jazz at the same time as the neighbour to the side of me played hip-hop… and this was a place with concrete walls.)
Whatever possessed me to thinking that doing Nanowrimo (I’m norwegianne over there, if you want a writing buddy), Nerdopolis over at Revelry (norwegianne there as well), and continue on my Goodreads reading challenge would be smart to do at the same time in November?
For reference:
* Nanowrimo is about reaching 50,000 words.
* Nerdopolis is about knitting items that match challenge topics and you earn points for your team.
* My GoodReads challenge is to read 669 books in 2015. I am 39 books behind schedule so far.
All of these three things have one thing in common: they’re not easy to do at the same time.
