Books mentioned: The hills reply/Båten om kvelden by Tarjei Vesaas The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Swann's way by Marcel Proust Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu A new name/Eit nytt namn by Jon Fosse
Best reads 2021Silje2022-01-31 | Channel mentioned: @PaperBird
Books mentioned: The hills reply/Båten om kvelden by Tarjei Vesaas The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald Flights by Olga Tokarczuk Swann's way by Marcel Proust Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu A new name/Eit nytt namn by Jon FosseJust a little shortSilje2023-12-05 | ...Just practicing showing my face on camera.Silje2023-08-26 | ...A cover trend?Silje2023-08-01 | ...My year in books - 2022Silje2023-01-02 | ...Some of my all time favorite books.Silje2022-12-29 | ...November readsSilje2022-12-10 | ...I got some books 🥰Silje2022-11-29 | ...The Paris Book TagSilje2022-05-13 | Created by @jimsbooksreadingandstuff Tagging: @booksimnotreading Other channels mentioned: @RememberedReads @PaperBird
The prompts 1. What was the last book you read set in Paris? 2. What words can't be translated into English? 3. Do you have a favorite book in translation? 4. Have you read books in other languages? 5. Jules Verne studied at law school in Paris. Do you have a favorite book by Jules Verne? 6. Do you have a favorite movie set in Paris? 7. Do you have a favorite French car? 8. Have you been to Paris? When was the last time you visited Paris? 9. Do you have a favorite French Painter or a painting set in Paris? 10. Do you have a favorite French writer?Butterfly Valley by Inger Christensen - a poetry readingSilje2022-02-27 | A reading of the first poem in Inger Christiansen's collection Butterfly Valley. Translated by Susanna Nied.
Books mentioned: Enter the aardvark by Jessica Anthony Mordew by Alex Pheby Lucia by Alex Pheby Shadows of the Dark Crystal by J.M. Lee Song of the Dark Crystal by J.M. Lee Tides of the Dark Crystal by J.M. Lee Flames of the Dark Crystal by J.M. Lee Malamander by Thomas Taylor Nordlys Portaltreet del 1 by Malin Falch Butterfly Valley by Inger Christensen, translated by Susanna Nied Autonauts of the Cosmoroute by Julio Cortazar and Carol Dunlop, translated by Anne McLean The Fear of Losing Eurydice by Julieta Campos, translated by Leland H. Chambers Leave-taking by Peter Weiss, translated by Christopher Levenson Speak, Silence. In search of W.G. Sebald by Carole Angier Tove Jansson. Work and love by Tuula Karjalainen, translated by David McDuff Nina Simone's Gum by Warren EllisThe 26 random questions tagSilje2021-12-30 | Tag created by: @davidmurphy5142 youtube.com/watch?v=Fg8GLhBVx08&t=1s First saw this at @BookishTexan youtube.com/watch?v=O3pNxUbFVow
I tag: Heather at @TooManyHeathers Sian and Bert at @pastorytime2683 Noah at @EveryoneWhoReadsitMustConverse Elin at Lunacia Books: youtube.com/c/LunaciaBooks
Questions: 1. What was your most recent YouTube rabbit hole? 2. What song is currently stuck in your head? 3. What kind of music do you listen to the most? 4. What is something you need to get better at? 5. Do you set goals? What are your goals for the end of the year? Next year? 6. When was the last time you lost your temper? 7. Do you swear too much? 8. Do you spend too much money on shoes? 9. What is the worst book you have ever read? 10. Are you a homebody or are you more adventurous? 11. Do you take naps? 12. Have you ever been to Minnesota? - the greatest state in the Union. 13. Have you ever tried to emulate someone? 14. What is the worst food you have ever eaten? 15. Do you enjoy bars? What kind? Are you or have you been a regular at one? 16. Have you ever been hungover? 17. When was the last time you laughed out loud while reading? 18. How would you label or describe yourself politically? 19. What was the last movie you watched? 20. Do you Want kids? Do you wish you had kids? If you have kids give a piece of advice. 21. Do you get along with your siblings? 22. What is a book you have serious issues with but love? 23. What is your favorite theme song to a movie and/or TV show? 24. Do you like your job? If you switched careers, what would you do? 25. What is something you love about the city you live in? 26. Who is your celebrity crush?Questions: 1. What was your most recent YouTube rabbit hole? 2. What song is currently stuck in your head? 3. What kind of music do you listen to the most? 4. What is something you need to get better at? 5. Do you set goals? What are your goals for the end of the year? Next year? 6. When was the last time you lost your temper? 7. Do you swear too much? 8. Do you spend too much money on shoes? 9. What is the worst book you have ever read? 10. Are you a homebody or are you more adventurous? 11. Do you take naps? 12. Have you ever been to Minnesota? - the greatest state in the Union. 13. Have you ever tried to emulate someone? 14. What is the worst food you have ever eaten? 15. Do you enjoy bars? What kind? Are you or have you been a regular at one? 16. Have you ever been hungover? 17. When was the last time you laughed out loud while reading? 18. How would you label or describe yourself politically? 19. What was the last movie you watched? 20. Do you Want kids? Do you wish you had kids? If you have kids give a piece of advice. 21. Do you get along with your siblings? 22. What is a book you have serious issues with but love? 23. What is your favorite theme song to a movie and/or TV show? 24. Do you like your job? If you switched careers, what would you do? 25. What is something you love about the city you live in? 26. Who is your celebrity crush?The Reading Diaries 12/2021: Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu and some horror.Silje2021-11-22 | Channels mentioned: @PaperBird
Books read: House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix
Music used from: epidemicsound.com/music/featured Hidden beneath by Rikard From A sky sparkling by Johannes Bornlof The old tin roof by Rikard FromThe Reading Diaries 11/2021: Fosse, Simenon and starting Blinding by Cartarescu - and some horror.Silje2021-10-31 | Channels mentioned: PaperBird: youtube.com/c/PaperBird Sian at @pastorytime2683
Books mentioned: Eit nytt namn/A New Name by Jon Fosse Blinding by Mircea Cartarescu, translated by Sean Cotter Maigret and the killer by Georges Simenon, translated by Shaun Whiteside House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland
English Country Garden by Aaron KennyAn eclectic Bergen book haulSilje2021-10-24 | Books mentioned: Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon Maigret and the Killer by Georges Simenon Night at the Crossroads by Georges Simenon The Late Monsieur Gallet by Georges Simenon Maigret's Madwoman by Georges Simenon Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake Shakespeare and Company by Sylvia Beach Burn our Bodies Down by Rory Power The Year of the Witching by Alexis Henderson Antkind by Charlie Kaufman Herdis-trilogien by Torborg Nedreaas The Low Low Woods by Carmen Maria Machado, Dani and Tamra BonVillain The Dollhouse Family by M.R Carey, Peter Gross ,Vince Locke and Cris Peter
Channels mentioned: @pastorytime2683 @sleepyreader666 Travis at OddFellowsThoughts: youtube.com/user/oddfellowsthoughtsPoetry Thursday: Einsamflygar/ Lonely Flier by Halldis Moren VesaasSilje2021-10-21 | Music from Epidemic Sound: epidemicsound.com Slowly Growing by Rikard From
#PoetryThursdayThe Reading Diaries 10/2021: Reading Fosse and a trip to BergenSilje2021-10-18 | Channels mentioned: PaperBird: youtube.com/c/PaperBird
Books mentioned: Eit nytt namn/ A new name by Jon Fosse The Beetle by Richard Marsh Maigret and the Loner by Georges Simenon
Bits from Radka Toneff's album Winter Poem.The Reading Diaries 8/2021: Autumn days and reading Sebald - a silent vlog.Silje2021-09-26 | Channels mentioned: PaSTORY time: youtube.com/channel/UCfL19Zqjv6R0N94XcrhxgLg
Music: Lifting Dreams by Aakash Gandhi Gymnopedie no 1 by SatiePoetry Thursday: Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke (translated by Edward Snow and Jon Fosse)Silje2021-09-23 | Channels mentioned: David Wiley: youtube.com/watch?v=PKUGzeLygdk&t=3s
Books mentioned: Vertigo by W.G. Sebald The Emigrants by W.G. Sebald The Rings of Saturn by W.G. Sebald Austerlitz by W.G. Sebald After Nature by W.G. Sebald A Place in the Country by W.G. Sebald Campo Santo by W.G. Sebald Eit nytt namn/The New Name by Jon Fosse Dikt i samling by Jon Fosse Light by Eva Figes Blodmåne and The Butterfly House by Katrine Engberg The Lights og Prague by Nicole Jarvis Strange Creatures by Phoebe North The Illustrated Child by Polly CrosbyThe First Time Book tagSilje2021-09-13 | Just in case you missed who I was tagging, I decided to use the clip twice....
QUESTIONS 1. Sorry, not sorry. The first book that you could NOT stop gushing about. 2. Thank you, next. The first book you wish you had DNF'd. 3. Working wonders. The first book that helped you through something hard in your life. 4. Don't turn out the lights! The first book that gave you chills. 5. Can I get my time back please? The first book that made you angry. 6. Out of comfort zone. The first book that made you fall in love with a genre you'd never really explored before. 7. Mirror image. The first book that made you feel known. 8. Hop aboard the way back machine. The first book you reviewed on booktube.
Books mentioned: Sagaen om Isfolket by Margit Sandemo Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe By the pricking of my thumb by Agatha Christie Pan by Knut Hamsun Victoria by Knut Hamsun Hvor er jeg - når jeg trenger meg mest? by Tuppen Norvalls The lost honor of Katharina Blum by Heinrich BollYour answer cant be book - tagSilje2021-08-21 | Created by Book Buds: youtube.com/channel/UCrj6tJF-3E2OsjyQXiygZZA
Prompts: 1. What is something that you own way too many of, other than books? 2. What is something that you do for fun that’s not reading a book? 3. What is something special or important on your nightstand, that’s not a book? 4. What’s something that you buy at a bookstore other than books? 5. What’s a fun gift that you’ve received that wasn’t a book or a gift card for books? 6. What’s a YouTube channel that you watch, that’s not related to books? 7. Tag five BookTubers that you want to learn more about.The Reading Diaries 7/2021: Encircling 2 by Carl Frode Tiller and Ice Cream Man - and a squirrel!Silje2021-08-11 | Books mentioned: Encircling 2 by Carl Frode Tiller Ice Cream Man by Prince, Morazzo and O'Halloran Six Four by Hideo Yokoyma, translated by Jonathan Lloyd - Davies
Heavenly by Aakash Gandhi Lifting Dreams by Aakash GandhiThe Reading Diaries 6/2021: Encircling by Carl Frode Tiller, Sondre Lerche’s essays & Japanese crimeSilje2021-07-17 | Books mentioned: Encircling by Carl Frode Tiller Alle sanger handler om deg by Sondre Lerche Six Four bye Video Yokoyama
Lifting Dreams by Aakash Gandhi Gymnopedie 1 by SatieThe Reading Diaries 5/2021 - a silent vlog: Reading Sebald and Norwegian fantasySilje2021-07-02 | I will be taking about these books in my next reading diary.
Books read: Vertigo by W.G.Sebald Jernulven by Siri Pettersen (The Iron Wolf)
Music - from YouTube library Lifting Dreams by Aakash Gandhi Heavenly by Aakash GandhiThe Reading Diaries 4/2021: Perfume, The Illustrated Child and a weekend in OsloSilje2021-06-27 | Books mentioned: Perfume by Patrick Suskind The Illustrated Child by Polly Crosby Animals by Hebe Uhart
Lavender by Sergey Cheremisinov is licensed under a Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License. freemusicarchive.org/music/Sergey_Cheremisinov/movement-1/lavenderThe Reading Diaries 3/2021: The Hills Reply by Vesaas, Mister Blue by Poulin & a fantasy.Silje2021-06-06 | Books mentioned: Flights by Olga Tokarczuk The Hills Reply by Tarjei Vesaas Mister Blue by Jacques Poulin Northern Lights - the kingdom of the trolls by Malin Falch
Music: In my Dreams Gymnopedie 1 by SatieThe Reading Diaries 1/2021: Vesaas and the lords of chaosSilje2021-05-14 | Books mentioned: The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas Lords of Chaos by Michael Moynihan and Didrik Søderlid Flights by Olga Tokarczuk
Books: Hey Bert by Roberto Pastore Horrid by Katarina Leno Never any end to Paris by Enrique Vila-Matas Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas Water shall refuse them by Lucie McKnight Hardy Kimen by Tarjei Vesaas
The questions: 1. Let's assume you do reread if you're doing this tag. So where do you sit on the rereading scale from "almost never" to "all the time"? 2. Has that changed over your reading life? 3. When do you reread? Maybe immediately after finishing a book or not till years later? Or when the mood strikes? 4. Why do you reread books? 5. How do you reread? Faster, slower, just the best bits? 6. Who or what do you reread, more specifically? Which authors or genres or individual books? 7. Is there a book that you found better when you reread it? 8. And one that was worse? 9. Which one book have you reread most times?The 20 Random Questions TagSilje2020-11-08 | Steve's video: youtube.com/watch?v=67CgyDTM0aI
20 Questions Tag!
1 What’s the nearest place to you that’s so famous everybody knows it? And how near is it?
2 Have you ever had a paper cut so bad you thought you might die of it?
3 Have you ever found anything genuinely valuable in a used book you bought?
4 Have you ever read, met, or married Jacques Barzun?
5 Aside from your pets, what is the specific non-human animal you see most often?
6 Have you ever been inside a cathedral? If more than one, do you have a favorite?
7 Have you ever been actually seeing-and-hearing-things delirious?
8 Do you have blood relatives who read for pleasure?
9 How many species have you smooched smack dab on the lips?
10 Do you ever listen to the radio? Any favorite program or person?
11 Have you ever been to the Eiffel Tower? The Leaning Tower of Pisa? The Louvre?
12 What little thing do you miss most that you’ve lost due to the pandemic?
13 What little thing do you miss least that you’ve lost due to the pandemic?
14 What’s your relationship with smalltalk? Hate it like acid, love it, merely competent?
15 Have you ever won money at gambling?
16 Do you ever give money or time to charities?
17 Do you CRAFT? Knitting? Crocheting? Woodworking? Pottery-throwing?
18 Do you talk to yourself when you’re alone?
19 Were you/are you a social Queen Bee in college?
20 Are you a sunrise person or a sunset person?Reading vlog week 43Silje2020-10-25 | Books mentioned: The Rules for Vanishing by Kate Alice Marshall I have the right to destroy myself by Young- Ha Kim, translated by Chi-Young Kim
Music: A quiet placeA week in Bergen - a vlogSilje2020-08-03 | I went to Bergen in July, to rediscover the city.
Music: Beneath the Moonlight - Aaron Kenny Gymnopedie I- SatieSpringathon vlog - more nature than reading.Silje2020-05-17 | Books mentioned: Nightwalk by Chris Yates Wilding by Isabella Tree The Last Wilderness by Neil Ansell
Springathon is hosted by: Natalie at Curious Reader: Emma at A cup of books Juliana at The Blank Garden
Books mentioned: Nightwalk. A Journey to the Heart of Nature by Chris Yates (Plant) The Easternmost House by Juliet Blaxland (Water) The Last Wilderness. A Journey into Silence by Neil Ansell (Travel) Wilding by Isabella Tree (Bird and Animal)
GENERAL CHALLENGE: Read a nonfiction nature writing book PROMPTS: Bird (on the cover, in the title, or about) Water (on the cover, in the title, or about) Animal (on the cover, in the title, or about) Plant (on the cover, in the title, or about) Travel/Destination (on the cover, in the title, or about)
Tag Questions: The How Do You...? 1.Do you read more than one book at a time? If yes, what are you reading? And, do you read one book at a certain time of day and another at another time of day? 2. How do you organize your library? 3. Do you ever get the urge to re-organize your library in a different way? 4. Who’s your favorite small/finer press publisher? 5. Can you recall every book you have in your library? Or, are there books you find on your shelves that seem to have just showed up? 6. Do you collect bookmarks?
#booktagA week in Hay-on-Wye - book trip 2020Silje2020-03-01 | Every year Elisabeth at Bookish North and I go on a book trip. This time we went to the book town Hay-on-Wye in Wales.
Elisabeth's channel: youtube.com/channel/UCWbc5iLZ3b-9YcV7090fHyAMid February Wrap - up: Anne, Mr Y and #readsoullitSilje2020-02-21 | Books mentioned: Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery The End of Mr Y by Scarlett Thomas Binti by Nedi Okorafor Another Brooklyn by Jacqueline Woodson Strangers in Paradise by Terry Moore Men we Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Books mentioned: Anne of Green Gables by Lucy Maud Montgomery Agnes by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by Danusia Stok The End of Mr Y by Scarlet Thomas Anne of Avonlea by Lucy Maud Montgomery My Own Words by Ruth Bader Ginsberg
#translatedlitSunday vlog: a walk, a book and a plant eating cat - with book blanket updateSilje2020-01-26 | Book mentioned: The Last Wish by Andrzej Sapkowski, translated by Danusia StokReading Week 1/2020: Norwegian lit, booklovers and Ice Cream ManSilje2020-01-12 | Books mentioned: Dei sju dørene by Agnes Ravatn 84.Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff The Duchess of Bloomsbury Street by Helene Hanff Ice Cream Man vol 4 by W.Maxwell Prince, Martin Morazzo, Chris O'Halloran Anne of Green Gables by L.M.Montgomery Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo, translated by Margaret Sayers Peden Agnes by Peter Stamm, translated by Michael Hofmann
#annealong2020 #readgermanbooks2020 #84charingcrossroadnyd20202020 Reading Goals - squirrels and book blanketsSilje2020-01-05 | Books mentioned: Aura by Carlos Fuentes Pedro Paramo by Juan Rulfo The Stranger by Albert Camus
1) Please give your name, age and location 2) Do you have any siblings and if, where do you come in the sibling order? 3) What do you do for work/uni? 4) Do you have kids? 5) Do you have any pets? 6) Can you drive? 7) What is or was your favourite subject at school? 8) What is your favourite colour? 9) What is your favourite smell? 10) What is your favourite book or top three?Non - Fiction November Week 2 & 3: Figure skating and books on books - a reading vlog.Silje2019-11-24 | Books mentioned: Spinning by Tillie Walden Ex Libris by Anne Fadiman Ways of Seeing by John Berger A Single Man Christopher Isherwood