Lights, Books and Flowers [Daily Photo #957, #958, #959, #960]

Daily photo digest for 13-16.11.18!

#957: Got new books from the library!

The City of Brass by S.A. Chakraborty (fantasy)

and

The Cutting Season by Attica Locke (crime)

My September and October 2017 Reading

My September 2017 reading is introduced to you by Russian Bear!

Sandhya Menon “When Dimple Met Rishi” [India, USA]

Agatha Christie “The Murder of Roger Ackroyd” (Hercule Poirot #4) [UK]

Lisa See “Snow Flower and the Secret Fan” [USA]

Short story:

Kameron Hurley “Tumbledown” [USA]

When Dimple Met Rishi

My July and August 2017 Reading

My July 2017 (yes… I'm slow ^^;;;) reading is introduced to you by The Pink One!

Agatha Christie “Why Didn't They Ask Evans?” [UK]

Chigusa Kawai “La Esperança, Vol. 1-2” translated by Suvi Mäkelä [Japan]

Sarah Waters “Fingersmith” [UK]

“Love Beyond Body, Space, and Time: An Indigenous LGBT Sci-Fi Anthology” [USA, Canada]

A novelette free online:

JY Yang “Waiting on a Bright Moon” [Singapore]

Why Didn't They Ask Evans?

Sherlock Holmes [Daily Photo #316]

I'm reading The Valley of Fear now, which is Sherlock Holmes #7.

December Reading: How I Finished My Bookish 2016

My December reading is introduced to you by Muuks!

Books:

• Farida Khalaf, Andrea C. Hoffmann “The Girl Who Beat ISIS: Farida's Story” [Iraq, Germany]
• Liquid City Volume 2 [the Philippines, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam, Indonesia]
• Eden S. French “Reintegration” [Australia]
• Ji-Un Yun “Cynical Orange” vol.4-5 [South Korea]
• Kathryn M. Drennan “To Dream in the City of Sorrows” [USA]
• Per Hafslund “Löytöretki luontoon” (Naturens eventyr) [Norway] 
• Holly Webb “Smudge the Stolen Kitten” [UK]
• Agatha Christie “Ordeal by Innocence” [UK]

My October Reading: Feminism, Poirot, Cambodia

My October reading is introduced to you by The Assistant!

• Takako Shimura “Wandering Son” vol.5 [Japan] 
• Roxane Gay “Bad Feminist” [USA] 
• Shamini Flint “A Deadly Cambodian Crime Spree” [Malaysia, Singapore] 
• Agatha Christie “Death on the Nile” [UK] 
• Rebecca Solnit “Men Explain Things to Me” [USA] 

Coffee and Books [Daily Photo #203]

You know I might one day become addicted to this “read books while sipping coffee in a cafe” thing. =D

August Reading: Tanzania, Werewolves and Writing

My August reading is introduced to you by Gusynya! Descriptions from Goodreads.

Holly Black “The Coldest Girl in Coldtown” [USA] 

Rachel Aaron “2k to 10k: Writing Faster, Writing Better, and Writing More of What You Love” [USA] 

Sunday Ngakama, Sanna Hukkanen “Karkuteillä” [Tanzania, Finland] 

Patricia Briggs “Moon Called” [USA] 

Kelly Sue DeConnick “Bitch Planet. Book One, Extraordinary Machine” [USA] 

Salla Simukka “Valkea kuin lumi” (Lumikki Andersson #2) [Finland] 

Agatha Christie “Crooked House” [UK]

Short fiction:

Carrie Cuinn “Visitation of Irba” [USA]

August Reading: Tsunami, Agatha Christie and Cute Animals

My August reading is introduced to you by my friend Tiny Frog!

Geoff Tibballs “Tsunami: The World's Most Terrifying Natural Disaster” 

Sophia French “The Diplomat” [Australia] 

Liz Climo “The Little World of Liz Climo” [USA] 

Agatha Christie “N or M?” (Tommy and Tuppence #3) [UK] 

Moto Hagio “A Drunken Dream and Other Stories” [Japan] 

The Great East Japan Earthquake and Tsunami: A photojournalistic account of the first 10 days of the disaster [Japan] 

April reading: South Africa, birds and Japan

My April reading is introduced to you by The Bookend Horses. I read a few South African books because a certain person made me curious about that land. And reading the world is fun!

There will be LOTS of photos in this post. :)

• Suzanne van Rooyen “Obscura Burning” [South Africa] 
• Niki Daly “The Herd Boy” [South Africa] 
• Vuoden lintukuvat [Finland] 
• Deon Meyer “Devil's Peak” [South Africa] 
• Lauren Beukes “Zoo City” [South Africa]
• Aya Kanno “Otomen” ( オトメン / 乙男) vol. 1-5 [Japan] 

Obscura Burning

Whatcha doing there?

Guys, guys, what are you doing there?

March reading: Finnish werewolves, Grumpy cat and cute detectives

My march reading is introduced to you by Chuck (aka the yellow angry bird) and Minion Pig. In march I decided to read more Finland than usually.

Salla Simukka “Punainen kuin veri” [Finland] 

Niskatuki ja muita sarjakuvia [Finland] 

Aino Kallas “The Wolf's Bride” (Sudenmorsian) [Finland] 

Ana Blandiana “The hour of sand: selected poems 1969-1989” [Romania] 

“Grumpy cat: yrmeä kirja (Grumpy Cat: A Grumpy Book)” [USA] 

Emmi Itäranta “Memory of Water” (Teemestarin kirja) [Finland] 

Agatha Christie “Partners in crime” [UK] 

Octavia E. Butler “Wild Seed” [USA] 

“Punainen kuin veri” (As Red As Blood)

January Reading 2015: Crossdressing women, time-travellers and infidels

My January books are introduced to you by Giggling Frog!

Zack Whedon “Serenity: Leaves on the Wind” [USA] 

Kameron Hurley “Infidel” [USA] 

Hergé “Tintin in Tibet” [Belgium] 

Robert Cheeke “Vegan Bodybuilding & Fitness: The Complete Guide to Building Your Body on a Plant-Based Diet” [USA] 

Marjorie M. Liu “Black Widow: The Name of the Rose” [USA] 

Audrey Niffenegger “The Time Traveler's Wife” [USA] 

Nekota Medetai “Hamsteripäiväkirjat” vol. 5 (Hamster Club) [Japan] 

Agatha Christie “The Secret Adversary” (Tommy and Tuppence #1) [UK] 

Nekota Medetai “Hamsteripäiväkirjat” vol. 6 (Hamster Club) [Japan] 

Terry Pratchett “Monstrous Regiment” [UK] 

Fuyumi Soryo “Mars: Horse With No Name” (includes stories "Sleeping Lion" and "A One-Carat Fruit") [Japan]

I miss Firefly T_T 

Read this on the New Year night.

Books I read in November: boxing, space opera and hamsters

November books are presented to you by Losik!

Boris Akunin “Любовник смерти” [Russia]

Thora Kerner, Jin Baron “Japania mangan avulla 1/2” (Japanisch für Manga-Fans) [Germany] 

Ann Leckie “Ancillary Justice” [USA] 

Suzanne van Rooyen “The Other Me” [South Africa, Finland] 

Tiitu Takalo “Kehä” [Finland] 

Nekota Medetai “Hamsteripäiväkirjat” vol. 4 (Hamster Club) [Japan] 

Arthur Conan Doyle “The Return of Sherlock Holmes” [UK] 

武内 直子 「美少女戦士セーラームーン」 vol.4 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol.4) [Japan] 

Marjane Satrapi “Persepolis 2: The Story of a Return” [Iran, France] 

Historical mystery novel by Boris Akunin. 

Thrilling even though I guessed the bad guy. :D

Books I read in August

Hello, ten readers of this blog! ^.^ It's my monthly reading post again. In August I read an Egyptian author for the first time, lots of Korean and Japanese manga and some other things.

The books are presented to you by the Softy Dinosaurs!

Bookworm Problems

I had a great time in the library today. Usually there aren't many people there in the evenings, so I had a whole sofa for myself. I got four books: The Silkworm (finally! I loved The Cuckoo's Calling, now I can read its sequel), two books about Japan for research and a historical mystery novel by Boris Akunin.

Books I read in July

I want to read books from all sorts of countries, not just Europe (so far it's mostly been Finland, UK and Russia), USA and Japan, so from now on I'll be paying attention to where the author is from. In July I read Caribbean, Irish and Korean writers for the first time!

This month, the books are introduced to you by the Trio of Curious Lizards!

My July Reading

June Reading: LGBTQ

Because June was LGBTQ Pride Month, I only read books with queer characters. Here they are:

Wolf Kankare “Miska Pähkinä” (transgender)

Дарья Вильке «Шутовской колпак» (gay)

Arthur Conan Doyle “The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes” (asexual, aromantic)

Caitlín R. Kiernan “The Drowning Girl” (lesbian, transgender)

Joana Estrela “Propaganda” (everyone? ^^ you can get this comic book here, read a review here)

Alaya Dawn Johnson “The Summer Prince” (bisexual, polyamorous)

Julie Maroh “Blue is the Warmest Color” (lesbian, gay)

Laura Lam “Pantomime” (intersexual, bisexual, gay)

Watched in June: 

May Reading

Here are the books I read in May. Quite many comics this time ^^

Aino Sutinen “Taksi Kurdistaniin”

Mira Grant “Feed”

Kameron Hurley “The Women of Our Occupation” (a short SFF story, I liked it a lot)

Robert Galbraith “The Cuckoo's Calling”

武内 直子 美少女戦士セーラームーン vol.1 (Naoko Takeuchi “Sailor Moon” vol.1)

Books I read in April ☆(⌒▽⌒)☆

This bookworm was very hungry last month. She read:

Ёсано Акико «На ложе любви. Из японской поэзии Серебряного века»

Witi Ihimaera “The Whale Rider”

Наталья Щерба «Часодеи: Часовой ключ»

Agatha Christie “Sparkling Cyanide”

Malinda Lo “Ash”

Jackie Chan, Jeff Yang “I am Jackie Chan. My life in action”

Rainbow Rowell “Eleanor & Park”

Terry Pratchett “Soul Music”