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Etter å ha hatt så altfor liten tid til å lese de siste ukene, er jeg nå tilbake i en god rutine. Har akkurat lest ferdig boken fra Tyrkia og er ivrig etter å starte på neste bok og neste land. Dermed tar jeg meg rett og slett ikke tid til å skrive et eget blogginnlegg på norsk her, men kopierer det jeg akkurat skrev på Books on the Menu. Nå skal det nemlig leses!
Christmas has been a slow reading period for me, but now, as the every days are back, I am also back to a more full reading routine, and on the bus home from work this afternoon, I finished Elif Shafak´s The Bastard of Istanbul and chan check the fourth country on my world travel list.
I visited Istanbul in August 2013. It was a work trip and the days had a busy program, but one afternoon I was able to find time to meet a friend I´ve got to know though internet. She took me around, showed me places I would not have found by myself, told my fortune in my empty coffee cup and told me about Turkish writers. Agaian and again she mentioned Elif Shafak, and when I found a bookstore the next day with Turkish books in English, I knew what to look for. Shafak of course, but also a few others. When I started this world travel project, I sent my friend an email, asking her when she would recommend from her country, and again she mentioned Shafak. So it ended up being an easy choice for me to find out what to read from Turkey.
I am not going to write a review of the book, it is so easy to google it and find one if you want. But I can´t help sharing that, though the book gave me a slow start, I felt there were too many loose threads, as soon as I knew how to knit them together, I was mezmerised by the tale. And was it not for the fact that I must now continue to a new country, I would have made a stop now to read more Elif Shafak.
The photos are from my visit in 2013.
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