Tolerant or Picky?

I read on a forum a couple of days ago about a guy claiming that about every third book or author he picked up, he didn’t enjoy. I must disagree with him. There are usually very few authors and books I don’t enjoy. Then I started thinking. Am I just a more tolerant reader who will ready anything for the joy of reading or am I not picky enough with my reading and expect very little from the books I read? I like to see myself as tolerant a more positive spin on the issue. What kind of reader do you consider yourself? Tolerant or Picky?
Josefine

My recommendations: April in Paris by Michael Wallner.

1001 revisited

As some of you might know, my new years resolution this year, was to try to include at least one book from each chapter (century) from my 1001 books you must read before you die (the Swedish version). Well past the six-month mark I have to say that it hasn’t gone as good as I anticipated. So far I have managed to read two books from the 20th century, both by Russian authors (Bulgakov: Master and Margarita and Pasternak: Doctor Zhivago) and that’s it. In the near future I hope to read some of the Russian writers of the 19th century, hopefully before the end of this year. But we’ll see how it goes.
Josefine

My recommendations: A passage to India by EM Forester

The Book People arrived

I just collected my books from my latest The book people order and I am ecstatic. Not only did I score the first Christmas present of the year, a princess collection for a friend’s daughter but I also bought a collection of Roald Dahl books for dirt-cheap and an assortment of 10 novels for £5. Too good to be true, even if they turn out to be rubbish, for 50p each I can afford to finish them and never look at them again.
This company probably has the best deals I have ever encountered when it comes to books and the best part is that they come to my work and all I have to do is fill in my order and they will return the books to me.
Josefine

My recommendations: Go online and see if The Book People will deliver to your work as well

Why do I take the time to read?

Sometimes life spins out of hand and you only have time for the necessities work, eat and sleep, then it is nice to have a hobby where you can disappear for awhile, even if it is just for ten minutes. A good book can stop time and help recharge your batteries.
Josefine

A Place called Here

Did you ever see the movie PS I love you, or maybe you read the book? That is how I found Cecilia Ahren’s book A Place called Here. It is an interesting book about where lost things go when they disappear and about a woman who has to loose herself before she finds her way home to what she already has.
The book is a strange mix of this worlds issues and another dream world somewhere else. It took me some time to get into the book, because I had expectations of it that it didn’t fulfil. It is one of those books you have to pick up without any expectations and be open for anything to happen. I would not recommend this book to the traditional reader who doesn’t want to cross the limit of unnatural things, but otherwise it was a good read.
Josefine

My recommendations: The Horse Whisper by Nicholas Evans

Moving books

It is when you're moving, you realise how many books you actually own. I am in the process of doing just that. Even though I only lived here for a year I have collected numerous books which all now have to go into boxes and be transported to my new apartment. Some of them I have released through bookcrossing.com, but the majority will follow me. This is mostly because I haven’t read them yet and the others I like to save and at one point re-read.
It is nice to always have a vast selection of books to my disposal, just not when I am moving!
Josefine

My recommendations: Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte

More books released

I have released two more books through Bookcrossing.com. As I am cleaning out my bookshelf, (See why in coming posts) I have released two more books today. One in Swedish (Anyone but Him, Sheila O’Flanagan), which no one might pick up, but I didn’t want to keep it and then Adriana Trigiani’s trilogy about Big Stone Gap. Both were released on the London Underground, hopefully someone will pick them up and enjoy them as much as I do. If you found it give me a note on the website or leave me a comment here what you think in general about these books.
Josefine

My recommendations: Anyone but him, by Sheila O’Flanagan