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The Lady and the Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars


This is a beautiful, beautiful book!

The Lady and the Unicorn is a historical novel, set in 15th century France. As Jean Le Viste commissions painter Nicholas des Innocents (who is anything but innocent) to design six tapestries with battle scenes, Jean's wife ask Nicholas to make something else. So he suggest scenes of a lady seducing a unicorn.

Each chapter is told by different people who takes part in making these tapestries. From Nicholas to the lassier who weaves, to girls who get sedused by Nicholas. He loves telling the ladies about the (his) unicorn horn and how if the horn is dipped into a poisoned well it becomes pure again...

It's a great book of love that cannot be, corruption and sex. We also get to know how these tapestries are made, from treading the loom to coloring the yarn - but in a interesting way.


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My purple target socks are done :) And I'm so pleased with them! When I went through my stash of sock yarn, I found two balls of grey, but they were two different brands. They have almost the same shade of grey and I guess I'm the only one who can see it ;)

The History of Love: A Novel by Nicole Krauss

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars

"Once upon a time there was a boy who loved a girl, and her laughter was a question he wanted to spend his whole life answering."

After seeing this book a lot around, I desided that I had to read it. At first I struggeled a bit to get into the story, but I'm glad I continued reading. Because the book is beautiful, filled with love, hope and loss.

The main story is about Leo Gursky. He's an author, but has never published a book. Before ww2 he lived in Poland, and fell in Love with Alma. Leo wrote a book about her, but it got lost. Her parents sent her to usa to get her away from the war, and she promised to wait for Leo. After five years Leo has finally made to get to usa, just to find Alma married to another man. She thought he had died. But there is one proof of their love - a son.

We alos get to know Alma, a 14 years old girl. Her parents named her after Alma, the main character in the book "The history of love" - Leo's book. It's been published, but by who? As alma's mother get's a letter asking her to translate this book from spanish, Alma get's drawn into a search for Alma in the book, which she belives is a real person.

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Heksen by Bergljot Hobæk Haff

My review

rating: 4 of 5 stars
Historien her fortelles av en 19 år gammel jente som er prestens skriver. Hun er halv tater og for ofte onde blikk kastet på seg. Handlingen er lagt til 1500-tallet, og kampen mellom katolismen og lutherdom er sentral. Følgene av denne kampen er hekseprosesser og både fortelleren og Hanna Mann, en urtekone, blir tatt til fange og anklaget for hekseri.


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My target socks have been laying around for a couple of days just waiting for me to sew in the ends... It's weird that the easy and fast part is the hardest part to get done..


Anyway, these socks was a very fun knit! And I really want to knit up some more pairs :) I like to have similar stripes on my socks, and I thought I'd managed it on this pair too. But when I got to the toe on the second sock, the yarn knit up three of the orange stripes. (as you can see on the sock to the left)


And taking photos of one self is not easy ;) With no one to help me, this was the best shot from the back of my legs I managed to get...