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Hi inger really nice to see where you are living and that you are experiencing snow! You must be missing the warmth of the sun, your garden and that wonderful view you used to have back home. I looked up Lilli Palmer and noticed she was also an artist so I had a look at her abstracts which were very good. The Red Letter, is such an old classic but I have not read it but I think it is a moral tale that might be a challenge to read in that the writing is very old fashioned. I am going to read Under the Greenwood Tree by Thomas Hardy, I have actually made a start on it and so far it is going to be quite hard to read as everything about it is very ye old England with lots of characters and not much happens, well not so far! But I am determined to carry on! Still reading the Morville Hours by Katherine Swift which is full of interesting things about history, gardens and insects! Sorry you didn't enjoy your book, but at least you didn't give up! Have a good rest of the week!

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Amazing video. It’s always wonderful to get an insight into one of the best authors ever. In terms of a recommendation outside of her mainstream novels, I would go The Eye of theHeron. It’s the best novel I’ve read under 200 pages, it has a really interesting approach to world building and some amazing discussion of non-violence activism in a violent world.

It has been years since I read 'A Picture of Dorian Grey' by Oscar Wilde. It is not too long so you can quickly read it. Let us know how you get on with the books!

The snag with e-readers is that you're looking at a screen for hours on end, and that can make your eyes sore.

Great haul! Is that a kindle? I'm looking to get myself a kobo clara in the near future.

Whenever I need to muse on a topic I am writing about or researching,I take a bath. I think there is a huge difference between a bath and a shower. Less noise in a bath, all the body covered at the same time in water if you wish( except of course the head), you can just be there for a while and think in silence.....

I loved this video, it felt so calming. Also i love this part when new year starts and we set up our goals and journals for the rest of the year!! Ahh so fun ❤❤

I'm all for ditching reading goals, for all the reasons you named, and then some. Let's leave speed reading for throw-away content to the booktok girlies.

Happy New Year to you! I'm starting off 2025 with A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving. What about you? I think the only reading goal I have for this year is to read more books than I did last year 😂 In regards to video requests, maybe you could do like a top 10 favourite movies/documentaries/series of all time?

I bought my husband the Stephen Hawking book and he found it very good. Though found trying to understand black holes and the big bang really hard to grasp, it isn't easy is it! Thank you for talking about the book. Which part of the book did you like best.

Hi inger all the best for 2025! I am continuing my seasonal reading which also helps with my nature journaling. I have three almanacs on the go at the moment. I am not sure if I mentioned to you before that I am reading Nature Tales for Winter nights which is very good do look it up! I am actually writing a few lines on each tale I am reading just so I remember it. Nice to read only a page or perhaps some are four pages at most by each author. Still reading Jane Eyre which I haven't really managed to read during the holidays as planned. Your tracking system really looks interesting thanks. It would be good to perhaps see a little of your surrounding area that you are living in. Maybe a well known spot or a quiet place that you discovered. Do you have snow, we do? Always good to watch some cooking or flower arranging! mainly because it is very relaxing to watch. How is your ginger cat doing back home?

I read 22 books this year. This is the first time I've read this many books in a single year 😂 My favourites are: - The Other Valley by Scott Alexander Howard - The Fisherman by John Langan. For non-fiction, they are: - The Wager by David Grann - The Crime of the Century by Dennis L. Breo and William J. Martin

This looks fun! Unfortunately, my poor attention span wouldn't allow me to do this 😂 Anyway, I'm currently reading The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles and really enjoying it so far. Maybe you could do a reading only historical fiction for 24 hours type of video?

Mmm... no phone during the entire video... impressive ;-)

Also, Ursula Nordstrom!

I'm in! This has always been something I've wanted to do for the longest time. My phone usage has definitely caused my attention span to decrease over the years. Sometimes I can't even read a few paragraphs without my mind wandering. Have you ever dealt with a similar problem? I can also relate to the lethargic feeling you get from spending hours on the phone without taking any breaks.

Sadly, i needed to stop watching because the background sound gave me a beadache. You do you, but I recommend buying a mic 👍

I love writing my zero drafts by hand. I prefer unlined paper, as it feels more freeing, so I usually just write on blank printer paper. For outline/ideas that come later, I have post-it notes where I jot those ideas down, typically organized by scene. Write on!

I use a Kaweco classic fountain pen as it flows much better than using a biro. I find writing by hand slows me right down as I have to carefully think about what I am going to write! I do make lots of mistakes and my worse fault is using the same word in the next sentence to either describe something or I just repeat myself which is annoying! After writing on lots of small bits of paper I write it again in long hand onto ruled paper. Anyway at this rate it will take me ten years to write an introduction to my book! Would be interested in Sylvia Plath's writing routine, though in the movie when she got writer's block she baked so many cakes she could have opened a cake shop! Great video thanks!

Do Brandon Sanderson! 😁

Thank you I love these videos! As someone who always does a first draft by hand I completely agree with you about the editing. However it does get me writing and worry less about how it reads also it helps me memorize names and lore. Yes my memory is that bad 😂 Interviewing an accomplished author and asking her about Stephen Kings, I assume, unrequested advice. Is absolutely unhinged and I feel would never happen if she was a man. It would be bad enough to ask about a criticism but advice it just centers the other author on what is your interview.

This was interesting. Makes me want to read one of her books. 3h in one go sounds fairly acceptable. Though I'm sure you were tired enough after that. If you could figure out Jrr tolkiens writing routine it would have been quite something to see.

You're a speedy reader. I've spent the last six weeks trying to read Mary Stewart's "Thunder on the Right", and I'm still only on page 59...!

At first I thought the Stephen Hawking's book would be too much to read in so short a time. Then I went to look at it online and it looks very interesting. Just ordered it for my husband! Good luck with the reads! I will think about what I have read this year as I have read quite a few books thinking about it!

Good luck to you! These sound like interesting books. Just counted and I have read 35 books at this point. I do not have a goal, but I am actually not sure I'll get to 40. Let's see.

I am moving back to my hometown in a month or so. I have started slowly moving my books a two months ago. Every time I went to visit I would bring a couple of books to make future move easier. Weeeeell after few rounds I figured that I am not even making a dent so I had to upgrade to full suit case of books each time. In the end it was also not enough. Bibliophile problems.

I believe I have mentioned my randomization approach which might help with those classics that are eternally on "to read" list but never read. I keep to read list in digital format together with any book that I have received as a gift etc. For digital books my dynamic is something like... I will read one book that was earliest entry on the list (to make sure that one that are oldest are not eternally overlooked), then one that is latest (to read what I am currently interested in), after that one randomly picked by some random number generator (Because list has more than 400 entries...and to spice it up a bit). And I will repeat the process. For books that I have in paper I will actually always go for random number generator. Of course I make some exceptions. For instance I have decided to read Karl Jung's books by publication date so if I draw one of his books I will not read specific book in question but the one that is next in line chronologically.

I read "Beloved", "The Bluest Eye", "Sula" and "A Mercy" by Toni Morrison so far. I can recommend all of them, but I would recommend reading "The Bluest Eye" and "Beloved" next.

Greta sucks

Love love love the audiobook version of The Secret History! Donna Tartt does such a great job of narrating it 😊

Good to hear you have managed some reading inger! Thanks for updating us. Take care!

So interesting to see Italy, I have been to Florence and Rome. What was the coastal location it looked amazing? Hope you settle in soon, it does take some getting used to living by a road. All the best!

That’s such a good idea for journaling! But I’d like to mention that knowing that life was slower back then doesn’t mean it wasn’t a luxury to write so much as Virginia did. Only wealthy people had the possibility to be literate, educated and full of free time to dedicate to their passions-so that you can see through their writing what author was rich and which was poor.

Stream of consciousness? :) Glad you made it to Europe!

Best of luck in Germany!

Welcome to Germany back at you!

Hi! Loved this discussion. Could you tell me the page that this quote is from, I'm struggling to find it. “The truth,” says Mia, “is only visible from the corner of one’s eye. The moment you look at it squarely, it becomes a lie.” - thank you in advance!

Gosh some difficult choices to make! So glad kitty came to say hello! The Tenant of Wildfell Hall is not an easy read. I have the series on DVD which is nice and atmospheric and I also listened to it as an audio book. However the book itself did tend to wear me down. I wanted to shake Helen Graham by the shoulders as I could not understand her overly devote nature, especially when it came to her decision to return to her prior home to undertake what she felt was her 'duty'. Yet there are strengths in this book, the realism of how gender roles played out. How appallingly spoilt boys and young men were and how ignored young women were. However much we feel there is something 'romantic' about those days in truth owning nothing which is what amounted to a woman's life must have been pretty dire. Also Charlotte Bronte whose work I really love as a person annoys me a bit because she was either protecting or embarrassed by her sister's works. I hadn't realized that Charlotte had not allowed 'The Tenant of Wildfell Hall' to be published until after Anne's death! Charlotte also didn't like 'Wuthering Heights' which is hardly surprising because everyone in the book is really unlikeable, yet it is also a masterpiece especially as it was written by a young woman who had no experience of love or romance or so we are told. I believe Branwell appears in all of the sister's books as the unpleasant and violent character who set out to destroy the peace and harmony that could have existed both in his own life and in how the novels develop. However without him perhaps the Bronte's would never have written those incredible books! Have a great trip!!

Lovely work, writers have a routine.

Gosh inger it all sounds very exciting. Lovely to know you will be staying with your grandma at the beginning. Looking forward to your vlogs from Germany!

So excited for the unknown new stuff!!! 🎉❤

Haruki Murakami has an interesting routine too. Gets up even earlier though 😅

I hope your move to Germany goes smoothly. Take care! 🤗

All the best wishes for your time in Germany! ;)

She also had THREE children there while doing this stuff. haha. I think her time to write was the time her kids were at school.

Inger!! a bit of a shock to hear you are going away, what about your beautiful cat will your Dad look after it. All very mysterious. Wishing you a very safe journey and that you settle in well in Germany, will you be working in a book shop there? take care and be well!❤🙏

Wishing you a happy journey and all the best ❤

Good luck on your journey hopefully you'll more videos from Germany

I really enjoyed “My Year of Rest and Relaxation” 😊 I wish you all the best with moving and your next stage of your life! ❤