Update on books by early June, so far I’ve read:

- Livsglede i livsalvoret by Per Anders Nordengen (in Norwegian)
- Shopaholic and sister by Sophie Kinsella
- Shopaholic and baby by Sophie Kinsella
- The Clutter-Busting Handbook by Rita Emmett (I read it in Norwegain: Rotekoppens ryddebok)
- Love over Scotland by Alexander McCall Smith
- The right attitude to rain by Alexander McCall Smith
- The careful use of Compliments by Alexander McCall Smith
- Book of the dead by Patricia Cornwell

I’ve started on a few, but not finished as of yet:

- Sepulchre by Kate Moss
- At risk by Patricia Cornwell
- Understanding Children Understanding God by Ronni Lamont
- Italienske sko by Henning Mankell (Norwegian edition)
- Van Goghs rom by Martin Lønnebo (Norwegian edition)
- Paula by Isabel Allende

Always reading:

- the Bible

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So I’ve tried it before to record how many books I read during the year, what they are called and what I think of them - and not succeeded. But I try once again, maybe 2008 is the year to do it!?

Sadly, but I’m already behind. But as soon as possible I’m going to tell you a tiny bit about the book: Book of the Dead by Patricia Cornwell, I finished yesterday. I loved it Hopefully the sequel won’t be more than a year away, I’m so curious of where a certain person am and if the person is dead or alive!!

This is January and a fresh start, this is what I have read:

The right attitude to rain is about Isabel Dalhousie, a philosopher living in Scotland. We learn news about her romantic life and about her sainted American mother. But mostly we follow her everyday life and thoughts as in the previous books about her. And off course there is another mystery for her to solve; or get her self into by her noisiness, as her much younger friend Jamie might have put it.

I love how Alexander M. Smith lets Isabel’s thoughts wander, letting her worry about the ethics of her life and about how the choices she make will affect others. It makes the books feel-good-books without making them easy or thoughtless.

So it was an easy choice to read the next book in the series:

The Careful Use of Compliments is the 4th book in the series about Isabel Dalhouise and her life as a philosopher of the applied ethics. In this book we learn more about Isabel as a mother, her relationships with friends and family and her search for the truth about the death of an famous painter. We also learn that Isabel gest sacked from her much loved position as editor of the Review of Applied Ethics and we follow her struggle figuring out the right response to this. Her solution might surprise, but then again Isabel is a woman with attitude no matter how kind and nice she also is