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Tuesday, January 4, 2011

Nordic Challenge

Dates
January 1, 2011 to December 31, 2011
Rules for the Nordic Challenge
There is no need to make a list beforehand.  We can count any book set in a Nordic country or by any author born in a Nordic country (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway and/or Sweden).  Books from this challenge would also apply to my open-ended Book Around the World challenge.
Levels (I'll probably read 3-5 books)
  • Huginn and Muninn ~ read 2 books
  • Freya ~ read 3-5 books
  • Tor ~ read 6-10 books
  • Odin ~ read 11-20 books
  • Valhalla ~ read 20+ books
Links for our reviews
My book list (which may change)
  1. Hanna's Daughters ~ by Marianne Fredriksson, 1994 (English 1996, 1998), fiction (Sweden), 8/10
  2. Simon's Family ~ by Marianne Fredriksson, 1985, English 1997, fiction (Sweden)
  3. Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name ~ by Vendela Vida, 2007, fiction (Finland), 9/10
  4. Independent People ~ by Halldór Laxness, 1946 (Iceland)
  5. A Doll's House ~ by Henrik Ibsen, 1879 (translated by R. Farquharson Sharp and Eleanor Marx-Aveling, 1993), fiction (Norway), 8/10
NOTE (5-6-12):  I didn't keep up with this challenge at all.  That's terrible.  Simon's Family, which I own, would have been a re-read like Hanna's Daughters.  I checked my list of books completed in 2011 and found only the three "rated" above.  I checked out Independent People but returned it to the library without reading it.  Those links above go to a Library Loot post, since I didn't review any of these books.  I did, however, reach the Freya level, if reading and not reviewing counts.
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5 comments:

  1. ZeeTuesday, January 04, 2011 11:25:00 AM

    Welcome to the challenge! And thank you so much for the suggestions, I'll be adding them in the next day or two

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  2. (Diane) Bibliophile By the SeaTuesday, January 04, 2011 2:01:00 PM

    Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name, is one of my favorite books ever....enjoy! I hope to read Independent People by Laxness this year as well.

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  3. Reeta KaroliinaFriday, January 28, 2011 1:27:00 PM

    Vendela Vida ("Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name") is an American writer, not Norwegian.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vendela_Vida

    Anyway, the book happens partly in Finland.

    I wrote about it in my blog here:

    http://kertomusjatkuu.com/blog/2360398

    Otherwise very nice challenge! Good luck!

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  4. Bonnie JacobsFriday, January 28, 2011 5:28:00 PM

    The book happens MOSTLY in Finland, and that's what I had in a couple of other posts. I don't know how this one happened to have "Norway," but I've changed it to "Finland" now. Here are the two other places I mentioned the book, both times with "Finland" as the setting.

    http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/wintry-beginning.html

    http://bonniesbooks.blogspot.com/2011/01/start-year-with-reading.html

    By the way, I don't choose books based on the author's nationality, even though the rules given by the host of this reading challenge allow that. And I did not mention anything one way or the other about the author's nationality in this post.

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  5. CathyFriday, February 11, 2011 9:06:00 PM

    My name is Cathy and I live in Maine. I have just started this challenge. You can see my postings at http://cathysreadinglist.blogspot.com

    Hope you come and visit.

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