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“Your first 10,000 photographs are your worst.”⠀ ― Henri Cartier-Bresson⠀ ⠀ Creative Monday! 💡⠀ As mentioned before I am trying to teach myself to like Mondays more, so I have been scheduling some creative projects on Mondays. This weekend I ended up walking home after meeting some friends, and I figured I could use some of the tips I got from a @skillshare class I have been following lately.📸⠀ ⠀ I tried to get some pictures of flowers covered in rain drops and then spending some time editing them on the @lightroom mobile app. A tip I picked up from @seandalt was to edit a picture and then edit it ten different ways, give it a break and then come back to it. I havent posted my ten different versions here, but its fun to see the little changes I have done in each picture of the five I have posted. 🍁⠀ ⠀ So far its really fun! I am enjoying editing, and I am thinking that I might go back to my photography books. I am still a bit shy when it comes to taking pictures in public - but that is just another step to take. ⠀ ⠀ Hows your reading week going by the way? I am slowly getting through Treasure Island. 😅Somehow I lost a little interest in it, but I am guessing it will come back to me. Books written in the 1800s are a bit like that, I dont always feel that drawn to their style of writing. So I turned to this books instead: The Falcon Throne. To be honest I just saw the word throne on the shelf and my cravings of Game of Thrones made me just grab it. 😂 Going into it with an open mind 🙈 ⠀ Anyways, only 9995 more pictures to go! ⠀ ⠀ #creativemonday #bookstrider #thefalconthrone #bookstagramcommunity #bookworm #bibliophile #bergenreads #skillshare #skillshareclass #bookcommunity #alwaysbereading #bookworm_insta #instabook #photography #autumnphoto #autumnphotography #bookish #bookshelves #bookstagrammorway #bookconfession #bookconfessions #photographyiphone #biblio #bookwormlife #bookphotography ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ ⠀
"Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why."⠀ ⠀ Eddie Cantor⠀ ⠀ I had a really long and exhausting, but fun week and even though I had stuff planned for this weekend, I still managed to get some quality time with my current read and a few (way too many) cups of tea.☕️⠀ ⠀ I am currently (or well still) reading The Priory of the Orange Tree by Samantha Shannon, and even if this is one of those books I normally would binge read, I am taking my time with it. I cant really explain why, but lately I have found some peace in slowing down. ⠀ ⠀ Slowing down in life has a strange effect on me. Instead of running back and forth between stuff I have to do, I have just: slowed down. To my surprise I am enjoying life more. I have been noticing stuff around me more, partly because I gave up my bus card, which means I am walking or biking everywhere, but that also allows me just to see more. ⠀ ⠀ I cant seem to explain it well, but yeah: I am just seeing more than I used to when I was running back and forth between work and whatever else I am up to after. ⠀ ⠀ It has also affected my reading. Taking my time with a book like this, makes the reading experience better. I am only reading one or maybe two chapters at a time, which I am enjoying so much. This book is so well written that even if I am slowreading (is that a word?) it, I enjoy every page to the fullest. ⠀ ⠀ Maybe I'll make a habit out of it, one book should be my slowread from now on. ☺️⠀ #bookstrider #theprioryoftheorangetree #samanthashannon #slowread #slowreading #slowdown #bookstagramnorway #bookstagramit #bergenreads #bookish #bookstagramcommunity #bookworm #goodreads #bookshelf #bookishsunday #sundaybook #bookaholic #bibliophile #weekendbooks #fantasybook #fantasy #bloomsburypublishing #bookcommunity #alwaysbereading #bookworm_insta #instabook #bookishthoughts ⠀ ⠀
“Compromise where you can. Where you can't, don't. Even if everyone is telling you that something wrong is something right. Even if the whole world is telling you to move, it is your duty to plant yourself like a tree, look them in the eye, and say 'No, you move'.” ⠀ ⠀ Do you love comics? ⠀ I had a thing for Captain America for a while, but then I discovered Black Widow and Peggy Carter - and my interest in him was gone like the wind! Female heroines who fought nazis and a assassin/ spy?🤯⠀ ⠀ I grew up with comics and they were a big part of my life when I was younger. To this day, I still feel like a kid when I crawl into my corner of the sofa and dive in to a new copy. ☕️Its only now that I truly appreciate the art about them, before it was all about the heroes, their struggles and wins. ⠀ ⠀ Now I look more into the design, the details, the dialogue and everything around it. But also, all the lessons that were hidden away between the drawing lines. It is always funny to go back to your favourite book or comic and see what they taught you, even when you werent aware of it. ⠀ ⠀ What I enjoyed most about these comics were the different stories about women. It was the first time I had seen women equal to the male superheroes I had seen before. Of course I had read books with female protagonists, but this was the first time I really saw heroines. ⠀ ⠀ I know there is a lot of criticism of how these characters are treated, some of it is rightfully there, while some I just dont agree with. There are some comics I love as the story is really good, but the way it portrays female characters I find myself struggling. Do I want a copy of it, or should I leave it be? 🤔⠀ ⠀ Overall, I believe the comics made me realise that women did have a role to play in saving the world. My point being, as a 7 year old girl, watching a female superhero kick someones ass and defend the world was just amazing. In my world - at least until then, only men could do that - but then I realised women also had a role. I guess, in a lot of ways, my feminism started right there. If Wonder Woman could do it, so could I! ⠀ ⠀
“I whisper “What the fuck?” to myself at least 20 times a day on Monday”⠀ ⠀ It is no secret I am not a morning person - my bed is my favourite place in my apartment. 🙈Consequently I am definitely not a Monday person. If it was up to me, Mondays would be cancelled or I could just spend them sleeping in, having a chill morning and not working. ☕️⠀ However, since I cant seem to get rid of them nor make the mornings wonderfully nice - I am trying a new strategy. Mondays are becoming my creative Mondays!💡⠀ ⠀ I have been trying it out for a few weeks now, and its slowly working. Every Monday I try to learn something new after work. I've been scrolling through Youtube videos, watching Skillshare tutorials and brainstorming of what I can teach myself. ⠀ ⠀ Lately I spent a few hours watching some tutorials on editing pictures, pictures taken on your phone or your camera. Learning angles, best ways to edit, when to have a photoshoot and learn to work with what I have around me. Surprisingly enough I knew more than I thought, and it has not been as hard as I thought it would be. ☺️⠀ ⠀ For now I cannot say that I am loving Mondays, but they are definitely growing on me. Focusing on something more positive has that effect on you I guess. Now that today's lesson is over, I can crawl into bed with my book - I am loving The Priory of the Orange Tree so far, and be happy that tomorrow: its a new day AND it is not a Monday! 😂⠀ Are you teaching yourself something new with your bookstagram account? #bookconfession #mondays #creativemonday #booklove #lightroomlessons #lightroomtutorials #skillsharr #bookstrider #bookstagramnorway #bergenreads #bibliophile #bibliophilia #bookcommunity #librarybooks #librarylove #alwaysbereading #alwaysbelearning #treasureisland #robertlouisstevenson #biblio #bookstagramit #instaread #bookwormlife #bookphotography
🇳🇴/🇬🇧⠀ "Fifteen men on the dead man's chest Yo-ho-ho, and a bottle of rum!" ⠀ ⠀ Denne månedens bok i Elidaslesesirkel er temaet: en bok som er utgitt mellom 1801 og 1900, og etter litt research falt valget mitt på Treasure Island av Robert Louis Stevenson. 📖⠀ ⠀ Treasure Island ble utgitt for første gang i bokform i 1883 av Cassell & Co, men før dette hadde den blitt publisert som serie i et britisk magasin for barn, Young Folks i 1881 og 1882.⠀ ⠀ Jeg har alltid vært veldig glad i pirathistorier, og da jeg vokste opp hadde jeg to kvinnelige pirater som de ultimate heltinnene mine: irske Anne Bonny som angivelig unnslapp døden ved å be om livet sitt fordi hun var gravid da hun ble tatt. Hva som skjedde med henne etterpå, er det visst ingen som vet.⚓️Og bergenske Elise Eskilsdotter en adelskvinne som ble pirat etter at hanseatene drepte mannen hennes på Munkeliv kloster her i Bergen. Så selv om Treasure Island ikke handler om kvinnelige pirater så var det fremdeles pirater i historien, dermed ble valget lett. ⠀ ⠀ Jeg har så smått begynt å lese på den, og jeg fryder meg allerede over den fordrukne piraten som sitter i stuen. Av en eller annen grunn har jeg gitt han Geoffrey Rush sin stemme. 🙈Jeg gleder meg til å dykke ned i pirathistoriene! ⠀ ⠀ 🇬🇧⠀ It is finally October, which means a new book! 😍This month its Treasure Island by Robert Louis Stevenson. I did a little research in advance and found out that it was first published as a book in 1883, but had already been published in 1881 and 1882 as a series in a magazine called Young Folks. And, who knew? Treasure Island was considered a coming of age story😄⠀ ⠀ Growing up I loved pirates! I found them so fascinating and I even had two favourite female pirates: the Irish pirate Anne Bonny, who escaped execution by begging for her and her unborn childs life. What happened to her after that is still a mystery - but I like to think she got away. 😍⠀ And then a local pirate: Elise Eskilsdotter, who was a noblewoman (!) who became a pirate after the hanseatic merchants killed her husband at Munkeliv abbey. ⠀ Treasure Island does not feature any female pirates, that I know of now - nevertheless, excited to read it!
"Thousands of men had died needlessly so that two madmen could betray a good king."⠀ ⠀ ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⠀ King of Ashes is the first instalment of Raymond E. Feist's new fantasy saga: The Firemane Saga. With this book Feist demonstrates again why I have loved his books in the past so much.⠀ ⠀ Starting off in a battlefield, witnessing the execution of the royal family of Ithrace - you know you are entering a world full of intrigues and power struggles.⠀ ⠀ After centuries of peace amongst the five kingdoms, the four kingdoms of North and South Tembria turn on the kingdom of Ithrace. With the entire royal family of the Firemane slaughtered, the kingdom of Ithrace is destroyed. However, the infant son of the Firemane king, Steven Langeren, is saved and smuggled out of the kingdom. He is sent to the Kingdom of Night where he is to be raised and trained in the skills of the powerful and lethal Nocusara.⠀ ⠀ 16 years later the infant boy, now called Hatu, has grown up and is still under training. He has always known he is different, by the way he is treated, but also for his red bright hair that he has to keep hidden. As he sets out on his final part of the training, events will unfold that will make sure that the last son of the Firemane will find his way home.⠀ ⠀ At the same time, Declan, an orphaned smith’s apprentice is close to become a smith and maybe even taking over his masters place when he has reached the next level. He is working under Edvalt, a legend within his field, who also fought in the wars. However, his life changes when soldiers reach his village and changes his course.⠀ ⠀ King of Ashes is the kind of fantasy book that I really enjoy, there is a lot of character and world building, there are plot twist and it is well written. Look out for this saga, I am excited for the next book that is due to be published in 2020! ⠀ ⠀ Full review you can find on my blog - link in bio ☺️⠀ ⠀ #kingofashes #raymondefeist #fantasy #bookstrider #bookcommunity #bookstagram_insta #bookstagramnorway #bookloversday #bookshelf #bookstagramit #bookreview #bookreviewer #thefiremanesaga #firemane #harpervoyager #harpervoyagerbooks #harpervoyageruk #bergenreads #alwaysbereading

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Leseeksemplar: Gjennom natten

Sorg er noe av det vanskeligste jeg vet om, fordi vi alle sørger så ulikt, vi går gjennom ulike prosesser og har ulike behov for å takle hverdagen når den kommer dundrende tilbake. Continue reading Leseeksemplar: Gjennom natten

The Firemane Saga: King of Ashes
Book reviews, Fantasy

The Firemane Saga: King of Ashes

King of Ashes is the first instalment of Raymond E. Feist’s new fantasy saga: The Firemane Saga. With this book Feist demonstrates again why I have loved his books in the past so much. Continue reading The Firemane Saga: King of Ashes

Det finnes ingen helter i 1984
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Det finnes ingen helter i 1984

Hvor begynner man etter å ha lest en bok som rystet innvollene mine så grundig som 1984? Continue reading Det finnes ingen helter i 1984

My first Agatha Christie novel: Death on the Nile
Book reviews, Thriller

My first Agatha Christie novel: Death on the Nile

Mr. Poirot is on vacation trying to enjoy the Egyptian landscape. However, mystery is never far away and his vacation on a cruise along the Nile quickly turns into a crime scene. Hercule Poirot finds himself on a ship where no one seems to be who they claim. Continue reading My first Agatha Christie novel: Death on the Nile

En suffragettes bekjennelser: The Suffragettes
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En suffragettes bekjennelser: The Suffragettes

Dette er historien om kvinnene som forandret verden, fortalt gjennom taler, pamfletter, artikler og brev. Continue reading En suffragettes bekjennelser: The Suffragettes

The Witcher and Lion Cub of Cintra
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The Witcher and Lion Cub of Cintra

Peace is over, war looms in the corners of the world and an assassins finds himself in care of a child that might change destiny. Continue reading The Witcher and Lion Cub of Cintra

Book review: A Court of Wings and Ruin
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Book review: A Court of Wings and Ruin

“How many others had seen the truth of my suffering – and tried to spare him from it? Seen my suffering and done nothing to help me.” Continue reading Book review: A Court of Wings and Ruin

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