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message 1: by Beyla (last edited Dec 22, 2023 12:59PM) (new)
Jan 02, 2023 12:25AM

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✔️Sq 1 = Sq 1 = a short story or a short story collection
Knutar by Gunnhild Øyehaug (Norway, 2004)

✔️Sq 2 = a title from our bookshelf that you haven't yet read
Nordisk fauna by Andrea Lundgren (Sweden, 2018)

✔️Sq 3 = a fantasy novel or a sci-fy
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield (UK, 2022)

✔️Sq 4 = a title about / from a country we will be reading in 2024 or 2025
Penge på Lommen by Asta Olivia Nordenhof (Denmark, 2020)

Sq 5 = a graphic novel
Liv Strömquist

✔️Sq 6 = free choice
Svält by Knut Hamsun

✔️Sq 7 = a (Nobel) prize winner
Det andra namnet: Septologin I-II by Jon Fosse (Norway, 2019)

✔️Sq 8 = a title about or set in one of the 5 smallest European countries
Bessarabian Stamps: Stories by Oleg Woolf (Moldavia, 2009)

✔️Sq 9 = a children's book
Jefferson by Jean-Claude Mourlevat (France, 2020)

✔️Sq 10 = a crime story / novel
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

✔️Sq 11 = a travel report about a European region, city or country (not necessarily by a European author)
A Moveable Feast by Ernest Hemingway (US, 1964 - about Paris)

✔️Sq 12 = a poem or a poetry collection Le Spleen de Paris by Charles Baudelaire (France, 1869)

✔️Sq 13 = a title from a country we will be reading in 2026 or 2027 - Bolla by Pajtim Statovci (Kosovo, 2019)

✔️Sq 14 = a play
Six Characters in Search of an Author by Luigi Pirandello

Sq 15 = a group read
The Water Statues by Fleur Jaeggy

✔️Sq 16 = an essay or an essay collection
The Language of Plants: Science, Philosophy, Literature by Monica Gagliano et al (Italy, 2007)


message 2: by Orgeluse, Contemporary reads (last edited Jan 02, 2023 01:19AM) (new)
Jan 02, 2023 01:19AM

Orgeluse | 567 comments Mod
Beyla wrote: "Sq 1 = a short story or a short story collection
Svenska noveller: från Almqvist till Stoor (Sweden, 2018 - a brick-size short story anthology)

Sq 2 = a title from our bookshelf th..."

I see that The Books of Jacob is still on your list - I also still have it on my TBR :))
All the best for your Bingo this year!


message 3: by Beyla (new)
Jan 04, 2023 12:53AM

Beyla | 13 comments That's funny - let's make 2023 the year we actually read The Books of Jacob!


message 4: by Orgeluse, Contemporary reads (new)
Jan 04, 2023 02:28AM

Orgeluse | 567 comments Mod
Yes, that's what we should do :))


message 5: by Beyla (new)
Dec 09, 2023 12:55AM

Beyla | 13 comments Orgeluse wrote: "Yes, that's what we should do :))"

Or 2024? I've heard that 2024 is a really good year to read The Books of Jacob. :)


message 6: by Orgeluse, Contemporary reads (new)
Dec 09, 2023 05:44AM

Orgeluse | 567 comments Mod
:-))))


message 7: by Orgeluse, Contemporary reads (new)
Dec 10, 2023 01:20AM

Orgeluse | 567 comments Mod
You read some really interesting books this year! Helaas there is no translation of the Asta Olivia Nordenhof into English, but I have added some of your other titles to our group's bookshelf :).


message 8: by Beyla (new)
Dec 10, 2023 02:30PM

Beyla | 13 comments Most good reading this year has been tips from Goodreads, including this group - it's such a good resource! :)


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