Category Archives: Literature

Book trading, dahlias, quince and 1Q84. Photo of the Week #139

Posted on October 8, 2011 by anninateatime

I’ve had two paper bags of books sitting on my bedroom floor for months waiting to be gotten rid of. And how do you do that in a decent way? It feels wrong to throw books away somehow, and yet, … Continue reading →

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Sherlock

Posted on February 5, 2011 by anninateatime

Sherlock Holmes is forever connected with long summer holidays in the family cottage by the sea where I read the stories of the master detective in my teens. And I still love Sherlock though its been years since I picked … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten – instalment 6. A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful

Posted on August 12, 2010 by anninateatime

One of the books that really mattered during my studies was Edmund Burke’s A Philosophical Enquiry into the Origin of our Ideas of the Sublime and Beautiful. I hardly wrote an essay without referring to it ever since I encountered … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten – instalment 5. Désirée

Posted on July 13, 2010 by anninateatime

I first read Anne Marie Selinko’s Désirée when I was 13, which was probably the best moment in my life to read that book. A history lesson in the shape of a romance – what’s not to love when you’re … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten, instalment 4. The Count of Monte Cristo

Posted on May 27, 2010 by anninateatime

Alexandre Dumas’ The Count of Monte Cristo was read aloud to me and my siblings under a crescent moon in the island of Giglio just off the Italian west coast with a view of Monte Cristo it self in the distance. … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten, instalment 3. Jane Eyre

Posted on May 7, 2010 by anninateatime

Charlotte Brontë’s Jane Eyre from 1847 is my favourite novel. Full stop. I love the set-up and characters, and I love the intricate love story I may have been a little thick but when I first read the novel I … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten, instalment 2. Vasari.

Posted on April 24, 2010 by anninateatime

Are you ready for the second instalment of Annina Teatime’s all-time favourite books a.k.a. Books that Changed my Life?! I’m sure you are so here goes: Giorgio Vasari, Le Vite de’ piú ecellenti architetti, pittori, et scultori italiani da Cimabue … Continue reading →

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Great Books. The Top Ten, instalment 1. Ovid.

Posted on April 20, 2010 by anninateatime

It is a weblog classic to do a top ten of the books that changed your life. And I like a good classic – as my list will show. Because I will of course make a list. I like lists. I … Continue reading →

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Bad taste… for blood

Posted on October 7, 2009 by anninateatime

I’m all about vampires at the moment having read the Twilight books and chewing away at the series True Blood. Two very different things – the former I’m a bit cringy to admit having completely swallowed up to a point … Continue reading →

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Lingonberries and Siegfried-motives in Astrid Lindgren’s Emil from Lönneberga. Photo of the Week #53

Posted on September 20, 2009 by anninateatime

In the marketplace of Lund, Sweden you can buy all sorts of wonderful local produce. At the moment the chanterelles and lingonberries would be my primary choice. Look at those masses of lingonberries: This seems to be one of the … Continue reading →

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