#erlend loe

[austen-woolf]

24/10/2023

This is my journal, started in January this year. I've been keeping them for over 10 years and they all sit in a box in my mother's garage, or they pile up here in Spain until I get them back there.

The first page has quotes from Persuasion, by Jane Austen, which is a book my penpal in Canada sent me, we often exchange books. I actually just finished another one she sent me called Deafening, by Frances Itani. It is a story of a young woman who loses her hearing as a child and has to learn language all over again. But I like the way one person on GoodReads described it as an 'ode to language' as it really focuses on that aspect of the story. Highly recommended.

The flowers and leaves are from my summer school, this beautiful place which I will miss dreadfully as I doubt we will be returning to this same place.

I had a really turbulent weekend and a lot happened. I just finished writing about it in here but not sure when I will be able to relay it here.

I really walked through the city to work yesterday feeling like a different person, when I arrived at the school 3 kids gave me a hug... for the first time since we started a few weeks ago. I was really touched.

"I don't want all that much. But I want to be fine. I want to live a simple life with many good moments and a lot of fun."

- Naive, Super by Erlend Loe.

#journalling #dear diary #diary entry #journal entry #my journal #erlend loe #quotes #persuasion #jane austen #journal of a stranger

[movie-titlecards]

Catch That Kid (2004)

My rating: 6/10

So the male leads are still capricious, entitled little jackasses, but apart from that I still kind of like this movie

#Catch That Kid #Bart Freundlich #Nikolaj Arcel #Fabian Wullenweber #Erlend Loe #Kristen Stewart #Sam Robards #Jennifer Beals #rewatch #Youtube

[zaaflardaolurmus]

Hayatta yapayalnız kaldığı, dünyanın acımasız bir yer olduğu kafasına dank etmeye başladı; bir gelecek görmüyor, hiçbir şeyin anlamı yok.

#Erlend loe

[dirtwatching]

i bought my textbook used online, to not only find that it is from 2003, so prob. like 5 editions behind, and that all the tasks in lessons 1, 2 and 3 are already filled in. So I get to practice my Norwegian by correcting the previous owner's mistakes...

#i dont regret it #i paid 5€ less than the others and got a new book by erlend loe

[therealvinelle]

Hi, are there any relatively modern (past ~75 years) Norwegian authors you'd recommend? I'm more interested in genre fiction if you want to narrow it down, but anything goes. Thanks!

(Post on classic Norwegian literature)

I have a few! I unfortunately don't read much Norwegian literature, and the authors I have strong feelings about are older (namely Amalie Skram, Ibsen and Krogh).

Dag Solstad I haven't read but heard so much that I know I must.

Erlend Loe I haven't read myself, but heard great things about him. Has a very charming writing style.

Gerd Nyqvist, Norway's Agatha Christie. Only read one of her novels, "Avdøde ønsket ikke blomster" (the deceased did not want flowers at the funeral), but I liked it.

Jostein Gaarder writes philosophical and esoteric novels. The Christmas Mystery, The Cabal Mystery, and Sophie's World are all fantastic (though you have to start on December 1st with The Christmas Mystery and make your way through one chapter a day)

Unni Lindell is a crime author, though I haven't read any of her crime novels. I have, however, read "Knut - Nobody's baby", which is an autobiography told through the cats which have impacted her life, the most formative being a cat named Knut who forced her to move several times (she tried moving away from him at one point, didn't work out), became a national celebrity, and caused furore among the Norwegian cultural elite on several occasions. I'm not sure if Knut has been translated to English, but I'm hoping some of her works are.

Vigdis Hjorth because she is so incredibly controversial. Triggered national debate when she wrote a novel about sexual molestation in the family that was inspired by her real family even though she's never been molested, which made her family so upset that her sister wrote a novel about when your sister writes a novel about how she totally got molested except she didn't. From what I hear, the novel Hjorth wrote ("Arv og miljø", hopefully been translated to English) was really good and I've been meaning to read it.

#literature #norwegian things #book recs #literature recs #norwegian literature

[nitta86]

Miket olvastam a nyáron

Időrendi sorrendben:

Tracy Chevalier: Ártatlanok

Ilona Andrews: Magic Burns

Ilona Andrews: Magic Strikes

Marie Aubert: Bárcsak történne valami

Ilona Andrews: Magic Bleeds

Háy János: A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia

Bányainé Nagy Judit, Fancsikai Eszter, Tapasztó Orsi: Nem akarok beleszólni – Innen szép nyerni!

Meg Mason: Bánat és öröm

Ilona Andrews: Magic Slays

Lucy Diamond: A tengerparti kávézó

Hidas Judit: Nem vagy többé az apám

Ilona Andrews: Magic Rises

Lucy Diamond: Egy majdnem tökéletes nyaralás

Karin Tidbeck: Amatka

Felénél tartok:

Erlend Loe: Doppler hazatér

Csomó mindenről jó lenne részletesebben is írni, talán majd ha lesz rá időm.

Amik a legjobban tetszettek:

Hidas Judit: Nem vagy többé az apám

Karin Tidbeck: Amatka

Háy János: A bogyósgyümölcskertész fia

Ami ponyva volt, mégis meglepően jó:

Bányainé Nagy Judit, Fancsikai Eszter, Tapasztó Orsi: Nem akarok beleszólni – Innen szép nyerni!

#szövegesposzt #mitolvastam

[belhelgalar]

DID SOMEONE SAY JO NESBØ⁉️‼️

Yeah, he's my favorite norwegian writer of crime novels.

The second favourite norwegian is Erlend Loe x)

[littlebitofbluelittlebitofcoffee]

96/365:

I finished reading the book I started on February (finally!). It was different but in a good way. I liked it. -> Doppler by Erlend Loe

Found really good place to order food when the food I make finishes.

Morning lesson that supposed to be done tomorrow morning canceled. Thank you god, zeus, sky, universe etc etc

I texted a friend to ask if she’s doing okay because I thought she was a bit cold to me which is totally okay because I turn ice cold person on pms but it turned out she’s not cold to me but she’s irritated in general because of working with people she doesn’t like this month. Very unnecessarily long sentence. Wow. Anyway the point is taking the first step might not be as bad as we think.

#me myself and i talking #365 days of 2023

[reeseh]

here we go

‘hello i hope somebody is listening’

it’s because of you alice oseman i am here

so

as you see i’ve finished reading radio silence

erlend loe made me buy hammer-and-nails toy

alice oseman made me get started tumblr and follow guy denning

hanya yanagihara just tore me apart (that’s why i’m reading a little life for a second time)

they are arranged randomly by the way

so

it’s not gonna be about books

i mean not only

it’s gonna be about everything and nothing

hello world

i’m here now

[burythemtogether]

Hi. I love your blog and am really interested to know what are your favourite movies & books? Also, I hope you are well. Have a beautiful day. 🌼

it's always a surprise to receive an ask on this blog, thank you. i'm glad someone enjoys this place. i don't have enough time to read books that i want, unfortunately. but from those i have read my favourites are : 'devils' and 'poor folk' by fyodor m. dostoevskij 'is-slottet' by tarjei vesaas 'empire of the sun' by j.g ballard 'doppler' by erlend loe 'mannen som elsket yngve' by tore renberg

my taste in films is narrow, i rarely watch any beside war/communist documentaries found on youtube. 'come and see' from 1985 is maybe a film that i watched too many times.

have a peaceful day.

#i lately watch more shows than films which is unusual to me but it just happened #nasjonal tragedie

[zaaflardaolurmus]

İnsan birdenbire kendini tanıyamaz oluyor. Beden kendini yabancı ve korkmuş hissediyor. Alışkın olduğun o hal ve sahip oldukların birden itici gelmeye başlıyor ama öyle zırt diye başka biri de olamıyorsun.

#Erlend loe #Bu evre

[drunkwhenimadethis]

Erlend Loe's Muleum was one such book for me when I was in my late teens, 19 maybe? I'd like to reread that some day, actually.

Rereading books we loved when we were younger 💘 I used to do that all the time w The Book Thief by Markus Zusak. Idk the way he used words blew my mind when I was a teenager. I love perusing Norwegian works I find them a very pensive kind thank you for sharing!

[euphoniouspandemonium]

7, 17, 28, and 41 for the ask game, pls? sending all the good ~~vibes~~ your way, jana! :3 - 🔮⛈️

Thank you, Enchant!

7. Favorite/most inspirational book?

Maurice by E M Forster and Cuckoo Song by Frances Hardinge. They live in my head rent free and they both have a similar vibe to my WIP Cotton Mendings, which is a bonus.

17. What things (scenes/topics/character types) are you most comfortable writing?

Queer and usually neurodivergent POV characters, queerness in historical time periods in general, morally gray characters, characters who are arrogant little assholes, anything written in 2nd person, flashback scenes, scenes where the narrator is just monologuing about their deteriorating mental state and how trans they are-

28. How do you stay focused on your own work and how do you deal with comparison?

I don't. Know? I usually don't get distracted once I start writing a scene and when I'm not writing I rotate my characters in my brain like rotisserie chicken. I don't have like, a process for it?? Then again I write only when I feel like it so there's that. And as for comparing myself to others, I don't really do that? Or if I do it doesn't affect me enough for me to even remember doing it so. I dunno.

41. Are there any books you feel have shaped you as a writer?

The Story Of Mr Sommer by Patrick Süskind, literally anything Frances Hardinge has ever written but especially Fly By Night and Cuckoo Song, Trigger Warning and Neverwhere and Fragile Things by Neil Gaiman, books written in like the 19th or first half of the 20th century, so Maurice by E M Forster, the Arsenè Lupin series by Maurice Leblanc, the Sherlock Holmes series, Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier. Also shout out to Naïve. Super by Erlend Loe. It feels odd seeing all these books in one list but like. I'm not wrong.

#answers to ask games

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#Edebiyat

[daydreamrry]

So one of the greatest authors in Norway, Erlend Loe, has published his review of dwd, calling it «thin soup» which we say about things lacking substance🫣 He writes and critiques scripts and films so he knows what he is talking about.

“The rumours are sadly more interesting than the movie”

“Hard to understand how Silberman and Wilde went from booksmart to dwd” Well I mean, that was about ready for production when they couped it, right?

the funny part is that they stole the script for booksmart 🤭🤭🤭🤭🤭

[nitta86]

Ezeket olvastam ősszel

Szeptember:

Erlend Loe: Doppler hazatér

Jonathan Franzen: Diszkomfortzóna

Naomi Alderman: Engedetlenség

Emma Donoghue: Menedék

Karin Tidbeck: Rénszarvas-hegy és más történetek a peremlétről

Október-november:

Rácz Laura Rebecca: Tudatosan gyermektelenek

Ilona Andrews: Magic Breaks

Amelia Nagoski és Emily Nagoski: Érzelmi kiégés

Ilona Andrews: Magic Shifts

Ilona Andrews: Magic Binds

Ilona Andrews: Magic Triumphs

Szeptemberben nagyon sok tökjó könyvet olvastam, főleg még azokat , amiket a Líra nyári vásárán vettem. Főleg szépirodalmat olvastam, nagyon jók voltak, bár a Doppler hazatér az sajnos gyengébb volt, mint reméltem. Meg egy svéd horror fantasy novelláskötetet Karin Tidbecktől. Ez tetszett nagyon.

Októberben kevésbé volt kedvem meg időm olvasni, nem tudom miért. Viszont két non fictiont is olvastam október-novemberben, amire büszke vagyok, mert non fictiont általában tök nehezen és nyögvenyelősen olvasok. Az Érzelmi kiégés egy baromi hasznos könyv, csak sajnos borzasztó idegesítő amerikai hurráoptimista stílusa van. A gyerektelenes könyvhöz is kellett kitartás, pedig érdekes volt.

Ezenkivül, főleg a Kate Daniels sorozatot olvastam Ilona Andrews-tól ez baromi jó volt. A 10 kötetttel lezárult a fő történetszál, de most olvasok még kisregényeket, amik utána játszódnak.

#szövegesposzt #mitolvastam