Pride and Prejudice Read-Along

Confession. I have read Pride and Prejudice two hundred times. I get lost in the language, words like 'Thither, Mischance, Felicity'. I'm always in agony over whether Elizabeth and Mr. Darcy are going to get together. Ah! Read it. I know you'll love it.   

                                                                                   

OK, so I am not reading Jane Austen’s book for the 200^th time like Kathleen Kelly in the movie "You've Got Mail" but there is just something about the story, which continuously lures me to re-read this classic novel. The persuader this time is LoveBooks’ Pride and Prejudice Read-Along that starts tomorrow and for the next 10 days I will read the suggested chapters of the book.

Daily visits

Some people might daydream during the day - one day my colleagues thought I was day dreaming until the realized, that I was watching a small bird just outside the office window next to me.

The resolution of the photos are not great as captured with my mobile phone - did not want to scare off the daily friend with getting too close to the window. Its a vipstjært (wagtail) - and it comes by my window more than once daily to get small insects etc. I smile every time I see it - it may not notice me at all, but I am still glad that is is there.

Fiber Poems - Clouds

Fiber Poems is the first to create an artwork at Smukification with knitting - and it's knit with yarn made of recycled clothes. She is a lady full of cool creative fiber ideas and can not wait to see what her next project might be.

 

Smukificering (Beautification) 2015

A circle Metro line is currently under construction in Copenhagen, so a lot of places a green fence is surrounding the sites where stations etc. will be, when they finish this big task.

But why settle with a big green fence? Why not make it a "canvas" for a lot of artists? That is exactly what they did this weekend in the Copenhagen borough, Vesterbro - below is just a few of the artworks - there were many many more.

Historic Car Park at Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix

Went to the Copenhagen Historic Grand Prix today - had heard about their historic Car Park so the camera was tossed in the bag before I left my apartment. Fell in love with several vintage cars and their details and was swept down memory lane when I saw cars that were IN in my childhood. 

July 2015 in Books

From Pulitzer awarded novel to the biography of a 1980s supermodel to graphic novel and detour to an eBook and a book by famous TV show host. The reading has been varied but a good distraction from the Danish summer of 2015: the weather has been cold, windy and wet - more like a month of fall than summer.

Normally I will show the pile of the entire month's reading material, but choose to run to the library more often knowing that there were a waiting line on some of the books - and a few of them was only a 2-weeks loan instead on the usual 4-weeks loan.

Effekten af Susan by Peter Høeg
(Translated Title: The Effect of Susan)*
Denmark
Library Book
BookFriend book July 2015

The Boston Girl by Anita Diamond
US
Library Book

What I Know For Sure by Oprah Winfrey
US
Library Book

Miss Perregrine's Home foe Peculiar Children - the Graphic Novel by Ransom Riggs/ Cassandra Jean
US
Library Book

Renée - At finde hjem by Renée Toft Simonsen
(Translated Title: Renée - to Find the Way Home)*
Denmark
Library Book

Wound Up in Murder by Betty Hechtman
US

To Kill a Mocking Bird by Harper Lee
US
eBook

Hollow City by Ransom Riggs
US
Library Books

*Translated title: the book has not been published in English version, so title is not an official title of the book.