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My favourite books
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items Here's a growing collection of books I love! From Coffee Table books to novels.
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Tove Janssons Notes from an Island, well worth reading!
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphi...
In the bitter winds of autumn 1963, Tove Jansson, helped by Brunström, a maverick fisherman, raced to build a cabin on a treeless skerry in the Gulf of Finland. The island was Klovharun, and for thirty summers Tove and her beloved partner, the graphi...
Notes from an Island
My absolute favourite book! I read it at least once a year! So beautiful!
In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearin...
In The Summer Book Tove Jansson distills the essence of the summer—its sunlight and storms—into twenty-two crystalline vignettes. This brief novel tells the story of Sophia, a six-year-old girl awakening to existence, and Sophia’s grandmother, nearin...
The Summer Book (New York Review Books Classics)
If you haven't read this book yet, I highly recommend it!
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
It was the summer Coltrane died, the summer of love and riots, and the summer when a chance encounter in Brooklyn led two young people on a path of art, devotion, and initiation.
Just Kids: A National Book Award Winner
Another Patti Smith favourite. M Train begins in the tiny Greenwich Village café where Smith goes every morning for black coffee, ruminates on the world as it is and the world as it was, and writes in her notebook. Through prose that shifts fluidly b...
M Train: A Memoir
Annie Ernaux is another favourite author of mine.
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed hi...
Annie Ernaux's father died exactly two months after she passed her practical examination for a teaching certificate. Barely educated and valued since childhood strictly for his labor, Ernaux's father had grown into a hard, practical man who showed hi...
A Man's Place: Ernaux, Annie, Leslie, Tanya
Getting Lost is the diary Annie Ernaux kept during the year and a half she had a secret love affair with a younger, married man, a Russian diplomat. Her novel, Simple Passion, was based on this affair, but here her writing is immediate, unfiltered.
Getting Lost: Ernaux, Annie, Strayer, Alison L.
Coffee table books
If you are into retro and vintage design, this is a perfect coffee table book. Arne Jacobsen is one of my favourite designers.
Arne Jacobsen: Designing Denmark
Absolutely gorgeous design - japandi is the perfect fusion, which makes this perfect coffee table book!
Japandi Style: Japanese & Scandinavian Designs
Beautiful design from the era that resonates the most with me
Scandinavian modern design, 1880-1980
Overflowing with stunning photography, this collection discovers the best contemporary houses across Scandinavia’s most beautiful and remote locations, designed by both emerging and established architects. In a climate with dramatic shifts in tempera...
New Nordic Houses
Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from tiny cabins to elegant apartments in Sweden, Finland, Norway, and Denmark. 'Simply Scandinavian' is an inspirational survey of 20 outstanding homes, ranging from ti...
Simply Scandinavian: 20 Stylish Scandi Homes
As I love mid century modern, I also love this!
Charles & Ray Eames: Pioneers of Modernism
Grete Prytz Kittelsen (1917–2010) is regarded as "the queen of Scandinavian design." Her sphere of influence in the history of decorative art and design stretches from the Scandinavian Design period, 1945–65, to today. This book is the first comprehe...
Grete Prytz Kittelsen: The Art of Enamel Design
Designing Modern Norway: A History of Design Discourse is an intellectual history of design and its role in configuring the modern Norwegian nation state. Rather than a conventional national design history survey that focuses on designers and objects...
Designing Modern Norway: History of Design
Crime and Mystery
I'm not a particular crime novel reader, but there are some that catches my interest, like these.
This is a masterpiece in its genre! A classic whodunit with Agatha Christie's "The Murder of Roger Ackroyd," a novel that stands as a towering achievement in the mystery genre. Witness the cunning Hercule Poirot as he delves into a case that has baff...
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd: A Hercule Poirot Mystery
Another Christie favourite! Just after midnight, the famous Orient Express is stopped in its tracks by a snowdrift. By morning, the millionaire Samuel Edward Ratchett lies dead in his compartment, stabbed a dozen times, his door locked from the insid...
Murder on the Orient Express: A Hercule Poirot