Friday 28 December 2018

Weekend Blog Hops - 28 December 2018

It's the weekend once more. That means it's time for my book-blogger hopping.
http://www.coffeeaddictedwriter.com/2017/01/book-blogger-hop-january-13th-19th.html
Did you get any books for Christmas? If so, name the titles.
I get books every Xmas, and in large numbers. This year I got around twenty new ones--so a few too many to list individually! Anyone interested, though, can check them out on my Want to Read page on Goodreads, which you'll find HERE.


http://www.rosecityreader.com/


http://www.fredasvoice.com/Opening sentence:
He was standing on the foreshore below the farm with the oyster catchers and purple sandpipers, watching the waves soughing in and out

 



From page 56:
When the parish pauper started writing out his own poetry in a book on Sundays, it was hardly surprising that the members of the family began to look at him askance.
My Current Read
World Light
Halldór Laxness

As an unloved foster child on a farm in rural Iceland, Olaf Karason has only one consolation: the belief that one day he will be a great poet. The indifference and contempt of most of the people around him only reinforces his sense of destiny, for in Iceland poets are as likely to be scorned as they are to be revered. Over the ensuing years, Olaf comes to lead the paradigmatic poet's life of poverty, loneliness, ruinous love affairs and sexual scandal. But he will never attain anything like greatness.

As imagined by Nobel Prize winner Halldor Laxness in this magnificently humane novel, what might be cruel farce achieves pathos and genuine exaltation. For as Olaf's ambition drives him onward--and into the orbits of an unstable spiritualist, a shady entrepreneur, and several susceptible women--
World Light demonstrates how the creative spirit can survive in even the most crushing of environments, and even the most unpromising human vessel.

22 comments:

  1. You have my attention! Sounds like an interesting read! I added you to the Linky. Wishing you the best for 2019!!

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    1. I love all Laxness' books. He's an amazing writer. Thanks. Same to you.

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  2. I hope you are enjoying this one. Other than the setting, nothing grabs me from the description. This week I am spotlighting The Wild Dead by Carrie Vaughn - a dystopian mystery. Happy reading!

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  3. This sounds like it would be a good movie. And I like the story line and setting:)

    My Friday 56 from That Which Grows Wild

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  4. ENJOY all of your 20 books. :)

    Happy New Year!!

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  5. I like the sound of this one. Thanks for sharing and for visiting my blog.

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  6. You must be quite loved to receive so many books at Christmastime. Hope you have a great weekend. - Katie

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    1. Everyone knows I love books! Plus, I'm in a different country from all my family, so it's nice and easy for them to order from TBD and have it sent straight to me with no postage costs. :)

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  7. WOW! That's so awesome that you got so many books for the holiday! Enjoy!!

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  8. This sounds like quite an interesting read! Thanks for sharing! Happy New Year! :)

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  9. I just pictured some astonishing faces, haha. Hope you enjoy the New Year!

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  10. 20 books for Christmas?! That's amazing!

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  11. I got 19 books for Christmas but I bought them myself. I shared about them here: http://smsnonfictionbookreviews.com/2018/12/bbh-books-i-got-for-christmas/

    Happy New Year!

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