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Many years ago I started a blog category i called Booktalks on a Sunday.
I think it is time to blow some life into it again.
For many years I wanted to start a reading group.
Last August I did. Now we are 9 friends and book addicts meeting every 6th or so week to discuss a book. So far we´ve read Linda Olsson´s Sonata for Miriam, Anne-Lise Marstrand-Jørgensen´s fictional biography of Hildegard von Bingen, Yann Martel´s Life of Pi, and for the next meeting we are reading Please Look After Mom by Shin Kyung-Sook.
Both the Booktalk on a Sunday posts with its many comments and book suggestions, and the reading group, are enriching my life.
I now have an idea, a suggestion for my blog readers.
Why not make a reading group online, in The House in the Wood´s Blue Studio?
Why not make every Sunday a day to share books? Talk about one book in particular, share favorites, listen to other readers, pick a book to read for next Sunday.
I do have a long list of books I would like to read together with you, different genres, different styles. After all, reading is a lot about broadening the mind.
I do have a long list of author´s I would love to invite to our events. And I am sure you have some you can invite as well.
To get us started, I am suggesting that we read The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry by Rachel Joyce for next Sunday. It might be a too short notice for many of you to manage one book in a week, but let us try. And if it doesn´t work, the rules can be changed as we go. Like, we suggest a book to be discussed in two weeks. Then the Sunday in between can be for an open book discussion, or one of you can be a kind of guest blogger, presenting a favorite book, or we can find other book related themes for the in between Sundays. Or we can invite a writer to present his or her book.
It might also be a suggestion to set a date or a day for book suggestions to be in, then another day for voting. I don´t want to be the only one suggesting books. This is meant to be something we share.
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It is Sunday morning here in The House in the Woods.
Deep, beautiful winter, and Terje and I plan to go cross country skiing.
As I am sitting here writing, the white world outside my Blue Studio window starts to sparkle, I look out and see that the east sky is burning pink, sending reflections out to the wintery world.
Promises of a wonderful days.
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Three first photos are from my day outside Oslo on Friday.
Now I am eagerly waiting, crossing my fingers, to hear how you respond to my House in the Woods Blue Studio Reading Group ideas.
Are you in?
Do you have a book suggestion for our next read?
Do you want to host a book discussion?
Do you know an author we can invite?
