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Bøker jeg har lest: 2015

Måtte gi opp å skrive litt om hver bok jeg har lest, men en liste klarte jeg i alle fall å lage: Alle bøkene er lest på min Kindle, unntatt de merket med papirbok, derfor så mye på engelsk. Atkinson, Kate: Life after life Galbraith, Robert: Career of evil Lee, Harper: To kill a mockingbird Rowling,J. K.: The casual vacany Bryson, Bill: The mother tongue Franzen, Jonathan: The corrections St.Aubyn, Edward: Lost for words James, Christina: Sausage Hall Chandra, Vikram: Geek sublime: The beauty of code, the code of beauty Williams, Niall: History of the rain Hawks, Tony: Round Ireland with a fridge Broberg, Henrik: Da byen ble stille (papirbok) Renberg, Tore: Pixley Mapogo (papirbok) Pluss alle de jeg glemte å skrive ned ...

The Music of 2015: My Top 20 Albums

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Creating a list of a year’s favourite albums is hard work. You need to keep an eye (and two ears) open all through the year to catch all the good releases, you have to remember which albums were your favourites in February and July when the year comes to an end, and you have to rank the albums according to a set of rules only you know about, some of which you simply invent as you go along. But the worst part of it is the knowledge that no matter how many wonderful albums you stumble across throughout the year, you can be pretty sure of missing out on an unknown number of equally wonderful albums. As I said – hard work! The 2015 list turned out to be impossible to limit to only 10, so I’ve doubled it. When summing up in December, I found around a hundred high quality album releases that I’ve been listening to for something between a couple of weeks to almost a year. All in all, I've written more than 8 pages of notes to these albums, and spent A LOT of hours enjoying the mus...