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About last week.. When the debilitating summer he

About last week..

When the debilitating summer heat teamed up with Midsummer nostalgy and the fact that my grandmother would have turned 100 a few days ago — not to mention offensive abominations such as the overturn of Roe v. Wade — I would’ve been more than happy to jump on a train with destination Neverland (as long as the temperature was nice and cool and there were no rightwing evangelicals as fellow passengers) and escape the overwhelmingness.

This week is lighter. 🤍

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#neverland #escapism #landetingenstans #elpaisdenuncajamas #downboundtrain #roevwade #nostalgy #nostalgia #summer #summervibes #summerheat #grateful #gratitude #gratitudeattitude #reading #booksbooksbooks #thankgodforbooks #tbt #ᴛʙᴛ

𝑮𝒍𝒂𝒅 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒂𝒓!

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#sommar #midsommar #midsommarkrans #midsommarblomster #midsummer #swedishmidsummer #summerholiday #tradition #swedishtradition #🇸🇪 photocreds: @blekingeplantan

. ❞I know a bank where the wild thyme blows, Whe

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❞I know a bank where the wild thyme blows,
Where oxlips and the nodding violet grows,
Quite over-canopied with luscious woodbine,
With sweet musk-roses and with eglantine.

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Quote from my old, thumbed edition of 𝑨 𝑴𝒊𝒅𝒔𝒖𝒎𝒎𝒆𝒓 𝑵𝒊𝒈𝒉𝒕’𝒔 𝑫𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒎 from Washington Square Press with illustrations from Folger Shakespeare Library (Washington D.C.).

According to Swedish Midsummer tradition, you pick seven different flowers and place them under your pillow before you go to bed. Today, in my daydreams, I find myself back in my childhood landscape — maybe not too different from Shakespeare’s? — surrounded by vast flowering meadows.

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🏷 @simonandschuster @folgerlibrary

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#shakespeare #shakespearequotes #amidsummernightsdream #midsummer #midsommar #swedishmidsummer #sverige #gladmidsommar #meadow #sevenflowers #sjublommor #tradition #swedishtradition #folgerlibrary #oldedition #washingtonsquarepress #nostalgy #homesickblues #theplacetobe #varärminblomsteräng #daydream #daydreaming #bookstagram #klassiker #classic #classicbooks

✔️ When deadline’s met, the finished project

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When deadline’s met, the finished project’s sent off and you feel like a wrung-out dishcloth… Well, then you need a soothing read.

I picked up the copy of 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕𝒍𝒆 𝑷𝒂𝒓𝒊𝒔 𝑩𝒐𝒐𝒌𝒔𝒉𝒐𝒑 by Nina George I bought a few months ago (books about books, what’s not to like, right?) and decided to give it a go.

A few pages in, I knew I’d picked the right book: a Parisian bookshop on a barge, run as a 𝑷𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒄𝒊𝒆 𝑳𝒊𝒕𝒕é𝒓𝒂𝒊𝒓𝒆, visited daily by two stray cats named Kafka and Lindgren — Franz, obviously, and Astrid (which I hope is just as obvious).

𝑱’𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓𝒆.

➛ A teaser: the first advice given by bookseller Jean Perdu (and yes, he’s a bit lost!) in the book is for a lady who had picked out the ’wrong’ book:
’With all due respect, what you read is more important in the long term than the man you marry, 𝘮𝘢 𝘤𝘩è𝘳𝘦 𝘔𝘢𝘥𝘢𝘮𝘦.’

⇽ swipe left for back cover summary

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.#booksaboutbooks #bookish #booksbooksbooks #reading #readingtime #feelgoodbook #cr #bookstagram #bookstagrammer #deadline #deadlinemet #abacus #summerreading #knaurverlag #bookshop #bookstore #paris #jadore #bibliotherapy #apothecary #literary #literarylifestyle #translatorlife #translator #ninageorge #parisian #parisianstyle #thelittleparisbookshop #bookrecommendation

☕️ When your deadline’s quickly approaching

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When your deadline’s quickly approaching and your life seems to depend on those short — but oh so sweet — coffee breaks! ツ

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Btw, the book is Mei-Mei Berssenbrugge’s 𝑯𝒆𝒍𝒍𝒐, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝑹𝒐𝒔𝒆𝒔.

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There are reading nooks and then there are reading

There are reading nooks and then there are reading nooks.. 🤍

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.#readingnook #readingnooks #reading #outdoorreading #summerreading #beachread #beachreading #bythesea #morningbliss #coffeeandbooks #morningreading #läsning #tistheseason #readingbythesea #booksbooksbooks #cr #bookstagram #bookstagramespaña #bokstagram #mytime #qualitytime #metime #selfindulgence #justbecause #literarylifestyle #literarylife

Reading Irène Némirovsky’s biography of Anton

Reading Irène Némirovsky’s biography of Anton Chekhov made me reflect on her authorship in general, as well as her exceptional life that came to such an abrupt, horrible end in Auschwitz in 1942.

Irène and her family left Ukraine in 1917, escaping the Russian Revolution, and eventually settled in France. She would write in French, but was continously denied French citizenship. She was arrested by 𝑽𝒊𝒄𝒉𝒚 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒄𝒆 in front of her two young daughters and murdered in Auschwitz only a month later.

The girls would owe their lives to one of the gendarmes who came to arrest their father (also murdered in Auschwitz); he told them to pack a few things and disappear. Denise was thirteen and Élisabeth only five. Among the personal belongings they grabbed was a suitcase with their mother’s diaries, photos and manuscripts.

The girls survived hidden by brave friends and teachers in safe houses and convents until the war was over. Élisabeth wrote a biography of her mother, 𝑳𝒆 𝑴𝒊𝒓𝒂𝒅𝒐𝒓, based on letters from the suitcase (published in 1992, four years before she died).

Her older sister, Denise, discovered more than fifty years after her mother’s death that a notebook she and her sister had mistaken for a diary — and avoided reading anticipating a too painful experience — was in fact two novels, two of the five-part 𝑺𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏ç𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆. The novel was published in 2004 and was soon considered a modern classic.

In a BBC interview Denise says that 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖𝙣 𝙚𝙭𝙩𝙧𝙖𝙤𝙧𝙙𝙞𝙣𝙖𝙧𝙮 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙤 𝙝𝙖𝙫𝙚 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙪𝙜𝙝𝙩 𝙢𝙮 𝙢𝙤𝙩𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙗𝙖𝙘𝙠 𝙩𝙤 𝙡𝙞𝙛𝙚. 𝙄𝙩 𝙨𝙝𝙤𝙬𝙨 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙉𝙖𝙯𝙞𝙨 𝙙𝙞𝙙 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙩𝙧𝙪𝙡𝙮 𝙨𝙪𝙘𝙘𝙚𝙚𝙙 𝙞𝙣 𝙠𝙞𝙡𝙡𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙝𝙚𝙧. 𝙄𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙣𝙤𝙩 𝙫𝙚𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙖𝙣𝙘𝙚, 𝙗𝙪𝙩 𝙞𝙩 𝙞𝙨 𝙖 𝙫𝙞𝙘𝙩𝙤𝙧𝙮.

𝑺𝒖𝒊𝒕𝒆 𝑭𝒓𝒂𝒏ç𝒂𝒊𝒔𝒆 is one of my top favourite books. Have you read it? Or do you have another Némirovsky favourite?

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𝑪’𝒆𝒔𝒕 𝒍𝒆 𝒘𝒆𝒆𝒌𝒆𝒏𝒅..

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Bästa påskägget! 🌿📖 Önskar alla en ägg

Bästa påskägget! 🌿📖

Önskar alla en äggstra fin påskhelg! Happy Easter!

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🏷 @krickelin @thebookaffairforlag

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