It is assumed that “The Librarian” project was started around 2013, a librarian at a library in Oslo, met a young woman in the library who was confused about what to read. Eager to help, librarian he was, to spare her the choices between the endless shelves of books, they agreed he’d reserve (and later, when the pandemic hit: send) her a new book for every book she finished.
– “It’s like a masochism of the mind!”
exclaimed a woman who first heard about this agreement. The reader did after hall have to finish all the books in order to get new ones, whether she liked them or not. This way she would be exposed to thoughts and worlds she would never otherwise have visited.
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Leser|Reading: Albert Camus – The Rebel (1951)
Rebellboka kommer til meg akkurat når jeg trenger den som mest. Andre ting som leses for tiden er blant annet Yoko Ono er en Sjarlatan av Ingvar Ambjørnsen. Stay tuned. Busybusy. Nyhetsbrevet er like rundt hjørnet, jeg lover.
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The Librarian just sent us: Ephemeral City by Simon Groth
The character of every city is organic and evolving, built over time by generations of stories that are never meant to last, but nevertheless endure. Ephemeral City is set in Brisbane from the 1930s to the 2010s. Its eight stories and nine pieces of ephemera weave in and out of significant events, told by people from the margins of history, all linked in direct and circuitous…
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Thomas Korsgaard – Hvis det skulle komme et menneske
Flyfoto av gården. Danske flagg i vinduet. Porselen fra Royal Copenhagen på veggene. Hun hadde fått ett for hvert år. Vi klatra i høyballer, livsfarlig. Med en barndomsvenninne klatra jeg gjennom et høl i stabelen og inn til veggen innerst. Jeg skjønner ikke at vi turte. I Hvis det skulle komme et menneske, så havner den stakkars ungen i rullestol da han får høyballene…
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Bibliotekarens anbefaling: Løpe Ulv av Kerstin Ekman
Ulf Norrstig er 70 år, pensjonert skogvokter og formann i det lokale jaktlaget. Han har vært gift med læreren Inga i nesten fem tiår. De to trenger ikke alltid å snakke så mye, men deler kjærligheten til både bøkene og naturen. Et møte med en ulv, en tidlig morgen i skogen, viser seg å få store konsekvenser, ikke bare for Ulf, men for samtlige…
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The Librarian recommends: If Books Could Kill , a podcast on the behalf of self help books
If books could kill is a podcast that with enthusiasm and wit dissicates the phenomenon of self help books. Think Rich dad, Poor dad, The subtle art of not giving a fk etc. We let you judge for yourselves whether its good. Anyway, here is the link to it. Enjoi!
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Notes from The Right Plaice, reading Pulse by Julian Barnes
THE PREVIOUS NOVEMBER, a row of wooden beach huts, their paintwork lifted and flaked by the hard east wind, had burnt to the ground. The fire brigade coame from twelve miles away, and had nothing to do by the time it arrived. Yobs on Rampage, the local paper decided; though no culprit was ever found…. What she said was what she did. She would…
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Vente og ikke se – Tor Ulven
Man kan bli fryktelig skuffet, tenker hun, over ikke å få en ting man har ønsket seg lenge, men man blir enda mer skuffet over aldri å få et menneske, det er som å motta en reklamebrosjyre istedenfor et brev. …hun lærer ham aldri å kjenne, hun lever (i verste fall) hele livet sammenklistret med et ukjent menneske, som er plassert inni en rustning…
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Peaces by Helen Oyeyemi
“Have you ever had an insultingly easy breakup?…. Just a shrug and a, thanks for the honesty?” What does it mean to be seen by those you value, and what befalls you when you become invisible to them? Helen Oyeyemi’s Peaces is a skilful and unsettling fable that is difficult to pin down, slowly allowing the existential angst to seep into the reader. Known for brilliant…
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Heime Aleine av Linda Breidablik
Alt er liksom linjer, men kjennest som ein stabel, nei, som ein haug, ein haug av tid og ting, og kor i alle dagar skal eg gjere av det. Ein eg-person som ikkje likar å planlegge bur i eit hus som ho snart må flytte ut frå, og jobbar i ein jobb i byråkratiet som ho har tenkt å slutte i, i ein by…
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Life is meaning by Viktor Frankl
“Any attempt at fighting the camp’s psychopathological influence on the prisoner by psychotherapeutic or psychohygienic methods had to aim at giving him inner strength by pointing out to him a future goal to which he could look forward. Instinctively some of the prisoners attempted to find one on their own. It is a peculiarity of man that he can only live by looking to…
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The Tiger – John Vaillant
Outside a remote village in Russia’s Far East a man-eating tiger is on the prowl. The tiger isn’t just killing people, it’s murdering them, almost as if it has a vendetta. A team of trackers is dispatched to hunt down the tiger before it strikes again. They know the creature is cunning, injured, and starving, making it even more dangerous. As John Vaillant re-creates…
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Grief is the Thing With Feathers by Max Porter
“We will never fight again, our lovely, quick, template-ready arguments. Our delicate cross-stitch of bickers. The house becomes a physical encyclopedia of no-longer hers, which shocks and shocks and is the principal difference between our house and a house where illness has worked away. Ill people, in their last day on Earth, do not leave notes stuck to bottles of red wine saying ‘OH…
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Dette er eit teaterstykke
Dette er eit teaterstykke som straks er over. Vi ser ein gamal kjerreveg, og på kjerrevegen står ei kjerre med eit lass på, og ei ung kvinne plukkar opp noko fra bakken som ho legg oppi det som vi også kan kalle vogna.Det er mørkt fordi det er kveld. Det gjer at vi omtrent ikkje kan sjå vegen, som forsvinn innover ein skog på…
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Deaf Republic by Ilya Kaminsky
from Deaf Republic: 1 BY ILYA KAMINSKY Such is the story made of stubbornness and a little air, a story sung by those who danced before the Lord in quiet. Who whirled and leapt. Giving voice to consonants that rise with no protection but each other’s ears. We are on our bellies in this silence, Lord. Let us wash our faces in the wind and forget…
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Albert & The Whale
Dürer ought to know better than to go fishing for such monsters. [1] [1] Philip Hoare, 4th Estate, Grait Britain, 2021 Read as part of The Librarian 2021.
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The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
“The first thing I hate is called a Russian doll. It holds a smaller version of itself inside it, and another inside that and so on. How awful. They are prisoners. I imagine them all screaming in the dark, unable to move or speak. The doll’s face is broad and blankly smiling. It looks so happy to be holding its children captive.”― Catriona Ward, The Last…