May Wrap Up - Classics I promised to read 

your so real. love it

Finally, you got it😃 Reading is about enjoying and read what you want. I like that your channel is so unpredictable 🤩

We change with age, I suffered through the old man and the sea and Sult ( hunger) in school. But when I read the old man and the sea a couple of years ago I cried, the same with Victoria by Hamsun, I cried like a baby. Sometimes we need more experience, to enjoy the book. I just finished for whom the bell tolls, and Salka Valka, the last one because you told me to 😉

Interesting month for you! I haven’t read very much this month, and I think the ones I’ve read have all been pretty good, so that’s pretty good I guess 😊 There were also a couple of nonfiction audiobooks that didn’t really live up to my expectations but I really liked Stolen/Stöld by Ann-Helén Laestadius and Before the coffee gets cold

Great book discussion. Thank you. 😺✌️

NRK hadde en serie om Hansum's bøker da han hadde jubileum i Korona årene eller der omkring, hvor de leste hans bøker. Arrangementet var laget av Hamsun Museum, her in Nordland.

Yes! Synchronicity alive! I was thinking today of the name Lisel, how much I like it. I have never had that thought before. I heard a similar name pronounced, and I thought, No, Lisel, had I a daughter I would call her Lisel! And,I have read nothing this month except half of Oscar Wilde's Complete Short Fiction in a Penguin Classics edition and a dozen poems by Ralph Waldo Emerson, which impressed hell out of me I think I'll read some of his essays soon. I read a lot of other poetry too and listened to podcasts, notably The Rest Is History. Otherwise, painting pictures

I can't believe I've actually read two of the books you read in May. I've read Knut Hamsum's Hunger and W.G. Sebald's Austerlitz. I really enjoyed Hunger. Taken in context to the time when Hunger was written, Hamsum is striking in how he turned from the realist movement in literature and explored ideas central to the modernist movement. I've also read Pan by him. It was great. I loved how different it was. W.G. Sebald is an author I really admire. I've read two of his books, Rings of Saturn and Austerlitz. I loved Rings of Saturn. It was a marvelous book. Austerlitz, on the other hand, I did not like at all. The main character was not likeable. He struck me as being unreasonable and ungrateful. An author I am sure I've recommended to you is Robert Walser. I've read two books by him, The Tanners and Jakob von Gunten. I loved both. There is a peaceful sensitivity in Walser's writing. Such wonderful books.

I have tried reading Hunger (Sult), as well as some of his other books. I wouldn't call Hunger fun, nor do I like the writing style, at all. I forced myself through Mysteries (Mysterier) for LIS, but it was a struggle. 😅 The only Frode Grytten I have read are a short story collection (Popsongar), a picture book (Gabba gabba heyand), and a non-fiction on Dublin (surprisingly called Dublin). Loved the short stories, the picture book was fun, but I disliked the book on Dublin. 🤣

I have a book that I finished that I think you would enjoy! “Apparitions” by Adam Pottle! 📚