Happy Holidays Vox Friends!
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Vox got on my nerves just one too many times. I like sidebars, Vox doesn´t, especially not widgets. It´s not possible to export from Vox to wordpress (and I´m not in the mood to do this manually) so I´m basically starting new or just continuing on wordpress. My German blog is also on there and it´s much easier to have both blogs on wordpress.
A lot of you guys have already left vox and moved (all to wordpress I think) so I´m being a sheep and following you :)
I´ll try to link to new posts on Vox and hope you´ll continue to follow my book blog over here:
I picked up this collection of short stories after reading Emily's review over at Books, the universe and everything.
I´ve heard a lot of peole talking about their Christmas reading lists and thought about sharing mine. Then I realized I don´t actually have any Christmas related reading list, or books I reread every Christmas. I don´t even read Dickens´ A Christmas Carol (I think I´ve never actually read this). But then I remembered The Herdmans, that is The Worst.Best Christmas Pageant Ever. While it´s been one of my favorite books since I learned how to read, it´s also Christmas related!
For my previous post about this and a summary go here.
The Herdmans are the worst kids ever but what they add to the otherwise routine pageant is both hilarious and profound. I can´t recommend this enough! I´m going to reread this next week to get into the (admittedly unorthodox) Christmas mood.
Here´s the German cover to give an idea about the Herdman kids:
Christmas break! I´m allowed to read and blog as much as I want to :)
I´ve also signed up for S.Krishna´s South Asian Author Challenge and am trying to read 7 books for it. I love South Asian litarure, especially when it deals with clash of cultures. My favorite author in this genre is Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, highly recommend The Mistress of Spices.
I haven´t made a list for this challenge either but there will definitely be some of her books on it! Apart from that I´m thinking White Tiger, Unaccustomed Earth, some Rushdie.
Sign ups are open till the end of the month!
Link to all the challenges I´m participating in.
Yes, another challenge. I´m blaming Michelle for first getting me interested and making it sound so fun! :)
Lesley of A Life in Books is hosting the 2010 Bibliophillic Books Challenge. Goal is to read books about reading or literature (fiction and non-fiction) and you have the whole of 2010 to complete it. These are the levels to choose from:
Bookworm -3 books
Litlover- 6 books
Bibliomaniac- 12 books
Go sign up here (till January 31st)!
I´ve signed up for the Litlover level, reading about reading is everyone bookworm´s dream anyway so I don´t think it will be difficult to complete the challenge. I´m not quite sure about my list for this challenge, any suggestions? I recently bought Sara Nelson´s So Many Books So Little Time which fits the challenge perfectly, and I´ll probably reread one of the Thursday Next books.
Go sign up everyone: Jennifer at Mrs.Q:Book Addict is hosting her first challenge, The Canadian Authors Challenge 2010. I thought I´d sign up for level 3 because I´m also doing a South Asian Challenge and have to leave room for spontaneous decisions. Now I´ve decided to go for 5 books, it´s still not actually a lot, but very possible to achieve and much better for my list:
The third novel on my list is Nancy Huston´s Fault Lines (Lignes de Faille), which I´ve wanted to read before to improve my practically non-existent French. This time I´ll just go ahead and read the English translation, it´s embarrassing but still better than not reading it at all.
Alan Bradley´s The Weed that Strings the Hangman´s Bag is the second Flavia DeLuce book and comes out in March. I highly recommend reading at least the first book, The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie (read my review here).
Last on my list is Alice Munroe´s new work Too Much Happiness, a short story collection. Somehow I have never read anything by her, not even for uni, and I´m curious whether she really is as great as everyone claims.
I think a lot of you are putting The Little Girl Who Was too Fond Matches on their list (at least I´m hoping you wil), I´m excited to discuss some aspects of this!
