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And Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe (1946, tr. Elizabeth Rokkan). A woman in a small Norwegian town, who has been ground down by poverty and the demands of others, reaches breaking point and scandalises the town.
Cover of The Women's Press edition of Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe, showing an illustration by Gill Day of two women cleaning the tables of an empty cafe, with a village and mountains visible out of two windows. Epigraph page of Cora Sandel's Krane's Cafe. "If people can see that you're suffering, you're finished" - Agnes Mowinckel. "Poverty is terrible. Of all so-called misfortunes, it's the one that affects you most deeply internally" - Hjalmar Söderberg
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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A couple of highlights: Nina Bawden's A Woman of My Age (1967). A vivid and often brutal novella of a middle-aged woman looking back on her life and marriage, while on a disastrous holiday in Morocco.
Cover of a Virago Modern Classics edition of A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden, featuring a painting of the back of a nude woman sitting on a red cushion ("The Red Cushion" by Dorothy Cadman).
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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My favourite books of 2024. Read some wonderful books last year, and discovered some new authors (to me) that I'm excited to explore further in 2025.
A pile of book spines. From top: A Woman of My Age by Nina Bawden, Ragtime by EL Doctorow, How I Came to Know Fish by Ota Pavel, Grand Hotel by Vicki Baum, Indelicacy by Amina Cain, One Clear, Ice-Cold January Morning at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century by Roland Schimmelpfennig, Krane's Cafe by Cora Sandel, Death in the Museum of Modern Art by Alma Lazarevska, The Foxes Come at Night by Cees Nooteboom and Dusty Answer by Rosamond Lehmann.
January 1, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 20
December 6, 2024 at 8:03 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
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#BookChallenge
Day 19
December 5, 2024 at 9:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 18
December 4, 2024 at 6:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 17
December 3, 2024 at 6:09 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 16
December 2, 2024 at 6:20 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 15
December 1, 2024 at 5:23 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 14
November 30, 2024 at 8:37 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 13
November 29, 2024 at 7:19 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 12
November 28, 2024 at 6:05 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 11
November 27, 2024 at 7:53 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 10
November 26, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 9
November 25, 2024 at 6:31 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 8
November 24, 2024 at 5:12 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 7
November 23, 2024 at 7:44 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 6
November 22, 2024 at 7:02 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 5
November 21, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 4
November 20, 2024 at 6:28 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 3
November 19, 2024 at 6:25 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 2
November 18, 2024 at 6:48 AM
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Choose 20 books that have stayed with you or influenced you. One book per day for 20 days, in no particular order. No explanations, no reviews, just covers.
#Books
#BookSky
#BookChallenge
Day 1
November 17, 2024 at 5:23 AM