Are you a one book at a time reader, or a multiple books at the same time reader?
This is one of the topics we pondered.
Come join Lisbeth and me as we ask each other this and other questions, and we talk about books, our shared fascination for castles and ruins, and and we both agree about what is the truest luxury.
Lisbeth also shared some thoughts around what she calls “the many faces we have throughout time” (such a beautiful sentence that I had to make it into the headline for this podcast episode), one face as a child, one as an adult, as a spouse, and then when we are retired, how to reconcile ourselves with the face of that phase in our life. And also, we talked about how we all need to feel useful.
And you get to learn a Swedish word: Fika!
Lisbeth reads
Faust by Goethe
The World of Yesterday by Stefan Zweig
No Angel by Penny Vincenzi
Madonna in a Fur Coat by Sabahattin Ali
Marie Antoinette’s Head by Will Bashor
The Razor’s Edge by Somerset Maugham
Jorunn reads
Beartown triology by Frederik Backman
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim (and will soon read Elizabeth and Her German Garden)
The Lost King of France by Deborah Cadbury. In the podcast recording, I mistakenly called this book “the lost prince” but that is an entirely different novel, The Lost King of France is about the young son of Marie Antoinette.
And of course we talked about food
Regarding the Spätzle we talk about (the ultimate comfort food if you ask me), here is a link to a recipe for Käsespätzle. Which is Spätsle with cheese, for those moments when the mouthwatering, melt-in-your-mouth deliciousness of plain Spätzle isn’t enough. It’s like macaroni and cheese, but better... And if it sounds daunting because you don’t have a Spätzle maker, look up this link for some really handy tips on how to make Spätsle without one.
How to connect with Lisbeth
Her blog is called The Content Reader and you can also find her here on Substack.
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