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Camilla Ulleland Hoel




To talk in public, to think in solitude, to read and to hear, to enquire, and answer enquiries, is the business of a scholar.
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Strong Poison -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Have His Carcase -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Et liv i redningsvest: Dagboksopptegnelser om norsk rasisme -- Sumaya Jirde Ali

Frames of War: When Is Life Grievable -- Judith Butler

Strengt fortrolig: Norges hemmelige forsøk på å stanse krigen i Libya -- Henrik Thune

Gaudy Night -- Dorothy L. Sayers

An Unkindness of Ghosts -- Rivers Solomon

Busman's Honeymoon -- Dorothy L. Sayers

Driftglass -- Samuel R. Delany

Roboten er løs! -- Philip Newth

I, Robot -- Isaac Asimov

Palestine -- Joe Sacco

All Systems Red -- Martha Wells

Neuromancer -- William Gibson

The Game of Courts -- Victoria Goddard

Winterferie -- Janne S. Drangsholt

Hands of the Emperor -- Victoria Goddard

She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harrassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement -- Jodi Kantor & Megan Twohey

Exhalation -- Ted Chiang

Gujarat Files: Anatomy of a Cover Up -- Rana Ayyub

Islands in Flux: The Andaman and Nicobar Story -- Pankaj Sekhsaria

The Return of Fitzroy Angursell -- Victoria Goddard

Putin's Trolls -- Jessikka Aro

The World We Make -- N. K. Jemisin

At the Feet of the Sun -- Victoria Goddard

An Autobiography -- Angela Y. Davis

Klok kvinne eller digg dame? Eit stridsskrift om kjønn og Håvamål-omsetjing -- Kristin Fridtun

En liten detalj -- Adania Shibli

Welcome to the Hyunam-Dong Bookshop -- Hwang Bo-Reum

The Dog Who Dared to Dream -- Sun-Mi Hwang

Washington Black -- Esi Edugyan

The Village of the Eight Graves -- Seishi Yokomizo

Secrets, Lies, and Consequences: A Great Scholar's Hidden Past and His Protégé's Unsolved Murder -- Bruce Lincoln

The Inugami Curse -- Seishi Yokomizo

The Showman: The Inside Story of the Invasion that Shook the World and Made a Leader of Volodymyr Zelensky -- Simon Shuster

Tilbakeslaget -- Carline Tromp

Artificial Condition -- Martha Wells

Rogue Protocol -- Martha Wells

The Seven Moons of Maali Almeida -- Shehan Karunatilaka

Hallowe'en Party -- Agatha Christie

Leila -- Prayaag Akbar

Tyrants on Twitter: Protecting Democracies From Information Warfare -- David L. Sloss

The English Understand Wool -- Helen DeWitt

Exit Strategy -- Martha Wells

Network Effect -- Martha Wells

Fugitive Telemetry -- Martha Wells

The Russo-Ukrainian War -- Serhii Plokhy

System Collapse -- Martha Wells

The Immortal King Rao -- Vauhini Vara

Peace Has Come -- Parismita Singh

The Hands of the Emperor -- Victoria Goddard

I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem -- Maryse Condé

If/Then: How the Simulmatics Corporation Invented the Future -- Jill Lepore

Tusen dager med Taliban -- Ayesha Wolasmal

At the Feet of the Sun -- Victoria Goddard

I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings -- Maya Angelou

They Called Us Enemy -- George Takei, Justin Eisinger, Steven Scott & Harmony Becker

The Time Regulation Institute -- Ahmet Hamdi Tanpinar

Nova -- Samuel R. Delany

Translation State -- Ann Leckie

L'Aiguille Creuse -- Maurice Leblanc

Matter -- Iain M. Banks

1177 B. C. The Year Civilization Collapsed -- Eric H. Cline

Sea of Tranquility -- Emily St. John Mandel

The Bone People -- Keri Hulme

Midnight Robber -- Nalo Hopkinson

The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empire -- Jack Weatherford

A Memory Called Empire -- Arkady Martine

Propaganda and Persuasion -- Garth S. Jowett & Victoria O'Donnell

A Desolation Called Peace -- Arkady Martine

Americanah -- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

The Last Samurai -- Helen DeWitt

A History of the Roman Empire in 21 Women -- Emma Southon

Memory Makers: The Politics of the Past in Putin's Russia -- Jade McGlynn

The Color Purple -- Alice Walker

The Ionian Mission -- Patrick O'Brian

Spin Dictators: The Changing Face of Tyranny in the 21st Century -- Sergei Guriev & Daniel Treisman

The Thief -- Megan Whalen Turner

The Man With the Compound Eyes -- Wu Ming-Yi

Anaximander and the Nature of Science -- Carlo Rovelli

The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America -- Timothy Snyder

Shubeik Lubeik -- Deena Mohamed

The Hands of the Emperor -- Victoria Goddard

The Hundred Years' War on Palestine: A History of Settler Colonial Conquest and Resistance -- Rashid Khalidi

Monstrous: A Transracial Adoption Story -- Sarah Myer

Light from Uncommon Stars -- Ryka Aoki

At the Feet of the Sun -- Victoria Goddard

Féonie and the Islander Regalia -- Victoria Goddard

Terec and the Wall -- Victoria Goddard

The Saint of the Book Store -- Victoria Goddard

The Queen's Conjuror: The Life and Magic of Dr Dee -- Benjamin Woolley

Traveller's Joy -- Victoria Goddard

Call Them By Their True Names: American Crises (and Essays) -- Rebecca Solnit

The Queen of Attolia -- Megan Whalen Turner

The King of Attolia -- Megan Whalen Turner

How to Spot a Fascist -- Umberto Eco

On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons From the Twentieth Century -- Timothy Snyder

A Conspiracy of Kings -- Megan Whalen Turner

Det jeg så: Flukten, familien og livet som krigsreporter -- Yama Wolasmal

Recognising the Stranger: On Palestine and Narrative -- Isabella Hammad

Thick as Thieves -- Megan Whalen Turner

The Return of the Thief -- Megan Whalen Turner

Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement -- Angela Y. Davis

Debating Genocide -- Lisa Pine

Lords and Ladies -- Terry Pratchett

Maskerade -- Terry Pratchett

Whose Body? -- Dorothy L. Sayers


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Articles:

2021 in Books -- a Miscellany

A decade in books

2020 Book Variations

Detectives

The Mystery of Edwin Drood

(Still waiting for) pockets

2019 in books -- a selection

Distilled highlights of 2018 in books

Shaw's Manslaughter Plan

Liveblogg nyttårsaften 2017

The Default She: Power Inversion in Feminist Science Fiction

Playful allusion and undiscerning critics

Liveblogg nyttårsaften 2016

Reading in dark times

The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage

Tolkien reading day

Umberto Eco & why he is wonderful

The Abominable Bride

Liveblogg nyttårsaften 2015

Reading intersectionally

Terry Pratchett & why he is wonderful

The Iliad

The narrative significance of Dickens' death

Clovelly

Cycling to work

International Women's Day

Toasting the Professor

Read non-Western writers in 2015

Liveblogg Nyttårsaften 2014

2014 in books

Gingerbread TARDIS & Daleks

Christmas stories: The Father Christmas Letters

Christmas stories: The Nightmare Before Christmas

Christmas stories: Christmas at Cold Comfort Farm

Christmas stories: Journey of the Magi

Christmas stories: Hercule Poirot's Christmas

Christmas stories: A Christmas Carol

Christmas stories: The Night Before Christmas

Christmas stories: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe

Christmas stories: A Visit from St. Nicholas

Christmas stories: Nicholas Was...

Christmas stories: Luke 2:1-20

Christmas stories: The Santa Klaus Murder

Christmas stories: A Very Klingon Khristmas

Christmas stories: The Regeneration of Two

Christmas stories: The Nutcracker and the Mouse King

Christmas stories: The Adventure of the Blue Carbuncle

Christmas stories: How the Grinch Stole Christmas

Christmas stories: A Child's Christmas in Wales

Christmas stories: The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus

Christmas stories: The Festival

Christmas stories: Jeeves and the Yule-tide Spirit

Christmas stories: A Christmas Memory

Christmas stories: Hogfather

Christmas stories: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Science fiction and the extended idea of Bildung

Momsfritak

Mole

Equal opportunities

Bjørnsonfestivalen: "Norway at war"

A bimillennium

Science fiction and alterity

Science fiction and society

March 8

Science Magic

Burns Night

Read Women in 2014

Liveblogg Nyttårsaften 2013

Gingerbread Star Destroyer

Matspalte: Årets julegodt

Questions about Life, the Universe and Everything

Unnskyld meg

Norge bør boikotte vinter-OL i Russland

New Doctor!

Jane Austen & why she is wonderful

Spinning a yarn

Star Trek Into Darkness

Charles Dickens and H. C. Andersen

Coding. Oh, my

Coding. Me.

March 9-7

En dårlig idé

Star Trek: Spock, love and a terrible mistake

Pykisk helsevern og straff

Reading Dickens as he was published

Liveblogg Nyttårsaften 2012

Desembermat: Dødsstjerne

New Tolkien book on the way

Novembermat: Hane i vin

Oktobermat: Falafel

Septembermat: Gin Garden

Sjokolade og alt som er galt med verden

Augustmat: Rødvinsmarinert indrefilet

A Game of Thrones

Taxes and Americans

If you're going to San Francisco

Julimat: Gumbo

Viva

Junimat: Rabarbrapai

Women and video games

Maimat: Wookiee Cookies

Get running

The Mythology of the Secret Societies

Nye briller

Aprilmat: Helstekt stokkand med appelsinsaus

Marsmat: Lammebog med appelsin og ingefær

"He did not know the soldier or his family..."

Gender equality in the West?

Februarmat: Eplepannekaker

Angelmaker

Charles Dickens Bicentennial

Januarmat: Oksegryte

The book

Mat og oppskrifter

Liveblogg fra Nyttårsaften 2011

A Christmas Carol

Lightning Rods

Ufred i heimen

Leveson inquiry

Love and Tensor Algebra

Updates

Tim Minchin's ``Storm''

Structured procrastination

Hats

Fleksnes var ikke en original

Moldejazz: The Bård Watn experience

Born to be Gay

Ravelry

Spekulative overskrifter

Ratko Mladic arrested

25th of May

To Kill a Mockingbird

Min digitale arbeidsplass

Rape is not in the same category as adultery

Rapture

Not our independence day

Royal Wedding

Blow on it

Britiske moromenn (og -kvinne) II

Never Let Me Go

April Fool's

Private Eye

Census

Fobia

John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester

Casino Royale

100 år med kvinnedager

Spring and fresh air

Brideshead Revisited

Rettskriving og rasisme

Quicksilver

Bøker og omgivelser

The Pillow Book of Sei Shōnagon

Bridge of Birds

Tiårets bøker

Remember, remember, the 9th of December?

Anti-cuts snowball fight

Tiddelibom

Anti-cuts study-in

Jeremy Benthams forunderlige skjebne

The Rosicrucian Enlightenment

Dødsstraff

Camilla's rules for essay writing

Doctor Who fudging

Fredsprisen til Liu Xiaobo

Mario Vargas Llosa får Nobels litteraturpris

In Progress...

Pavebesøk i Edinburgh

The Fry Chronicles

Moab is my Washpot

Word count

Cockney Rhyming Slang

Fe-rist

Footlights in ``Good For You''

Barry and Stuart -- 98% séance

Jazz at Lunchtime

Sherlock

Cloud Atlas

In the Land of Time and other Fantasy Tales

Pretty colours!

Jazz Festival day 6: Break of Day with Molvær

Jazz Festival evening 1: Farmers Market in Alexandraparken

Jazz Festival day 1: We are all Shibusa Shirazu Orchestra!

Calcuttaguttalaunch torsdag

Aperture 3

Possession

Jazzfestivalfest / Calcuttaguttalaunch

Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency

Sophie Scholl -- The Final Days

Pickings from the Bookman "Young Authors" column

Matspalte: Chili-, lime- og sjokoladebrød

Publishers' Circular -- pickings

Hendrick's Gimlet

Library pickings

Jacqueline Rose on the Dreyfus affair

Drood

Mind boggled

Geek Pride

Valgvake Storbritannia

Britiske partier

Hvorfor valget i Storbritannia er spennende

Roma

The Children's Book

Vulkan-fast

New Doctor

Thackeray's open letter to Dumas on Ivanhoe

Såh, hvordan er været i Norge?

His Master's Voice

The Red House Mystery

In Bruges

Eternals

Allminnelig rettsfølelse

Bøker eller OL?

Aphra Behn

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Hannah Montana: Crush-tastic

Canterbury Tales

Arthur-legender

Flight bag

Årets bokplan

Julemysteriet

Frolicking in the snow

OED

Strikking: the beginning

Robinson Crusoe

We Will Rock You

Le Chevalier de Sainte-Hermine

—Ikke farligere enn vann.

Guardian gag III: NRK er involvert!

Guardian gag II: Trafigura, a.k.a. oljeselskaper er onde

Guardian gag I: John Wilkes og Twitter

Death of Bunny Munro in Edinburgh

Talk to the Hand

Unseen Academicals by Terry Pratchett

The Boat That Rocked

Do we love Leith?

Valgdagsmålinger -- skumle greier?

Matspalte: Rype

Hvorfor vin i butikken er en dårlig idé

Die Zauberflöte

Vi har stemt

Grant Management, a.k.a. the horror, the horror

Two Thin Laddies

Cool fun, a Manifesto and What is Wrong with the News

Rob Deb & the competition

The Fringe 2009

En utenlandsstudents bemerkninger

Arthur Conan Doyle

Ibid: A Life

Morgenkonsert

Leonard Cohen

Melody Gardot

Dagens dumme

Problemer i Alexandra-parken

En ny taler?

Tour de France

Delicious Library a.k.a. Camilla får endelig oversikt

Expenses

Matspalte: Mojito

Eksamenslesning med Karoline

Unspeakable Desolation Pouring Down From the Stars

David Carradine

Police Box Coffee -- Doctor Who style

Britiske moromenn I

The Gone-Away World

John Oliver goes to LHC

Beltane

Svineinfluensa

Is television liberal?

Hjernekluss

Flyplassetikette

På grensen

...som om Royal Bank of Scotland ikke har fått nok bank

Bibliotekarfobi

Sex! Sex everywhere!

Objektsformer

1066 and All That

Det er sommer, det er sol, men dessverre ikke søndag

Ting og tang fra historien

Comic Relief

Blackpool

Having watched Watchmen

Jeg, eg, ej, e, i, æ...

Bøker man bør lese før man dør

Er PFU idioter?

Dylan Moran

Virginia Woolf & indecency

Eddie Izzard

På The Elephant House

På biblioteket

Burns Night & Ceilidh

Inauguration a.k.a. Buhbye, Bush!

Tidbits from The Illustrated London News

Skyld og skam

WorldCat

Dunkdunkdunkdunkdunkdunkdunkdunkdunk

Kornsirkelmysteriet

50 book challenge

Bør Tor droppe lue når han skal kjøpe vin?

Musikklinjas julekonsert 2008

London-bilder

Hamlet

Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds

Nostalgi i sangform

Grosvond

Remember, remember the 5th of November

Live-blog valgvake

Tom Bakers hemmelige identitet

Sukk, hjerte...

Neil Gaiman og The Graveyard Book

St. Andrews i bilder

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

LotR film-maraton

Tradisjonsbrudd

The Scottish Play

Faren med Wikipedia

Lyotard og hvorfor universitetene ikke skal behandles som bedrifter

Polls Schmolls

Matspalte: Arroz con pollo

First against the wall...

Holberg-prisen 2008

Edinburgh Fringe: Gilbert&Sullivan; Jekyll&Hyde

Edinburgh Fringe: Free Fringe

;

Edinburgh Fringe: missed opportunities

Ridderturnering

Matspalte: Jordbær med vin og sitron

Slik går dagene...

Jazzfestival: dag 6 (Morgenkonsert)

Jazzfestival: dag 5 (en hel dag i parken)

Jazzfestival: dag 4 (minuspoeng til Alexandrakjelleren, og Ares kommentar til Romsdalsmuséet)

Jazzfestival: dag 3 (Romsdalsmuséet)

Jazzfestival: dag 2 (gratiskonsert på Veksthuset)

Jazzfestival: dag 1

LateX schmateX

Free hugs on the High Street

Doctor Who

Play - min første konferanse

Towel day - og litt til?

walter benjamin & trauerspiel

q.i.

Deleuze og film

Kvantefysikk og andre rare dyr

Terry Eagleton - en forelesning

Edinburgh 2.0

Literary Pub Tour

William Blake

Camilla endorses No One

Liveblogg nyttårsaften 2007 hos Camilla

Attentatet på Benazir Bhutto

Aleister Crowley

En spansk en

Sherlock Holmes

Leker

Nobels fredspris til IPCC og Al Gore

Doris Lessing får Nobels litteraturpris

Erich von Däniken

Dan Brown-diskusjonen

Happy peace day!

Towel Day!

Innocent

Jeg har klippet håret til Tor i dag

Kaniner!

Flytting

1. mai

Jeg ble spammet i dag

Borte, borte...

Bibliografi

Derren Brown

Gas! Gas!

Victory

Mugg

iWorks

Mary Queen of Scots

Edinburgh - nå i bilder

Svar

...og slik går dagene...

I wanna be a bureaucrat

Calvino og Borges

So long, mac...

Pangstart

Hjem, kjære hjem

Årets aktiviteter med mer

Mer om Edinburgh

Poststrukturalisme - enda mer

Mitt Edinburgh.

The Mary Whitehouse Experience

Aftenposten på latin?

Israel og Palestina - en innføring

Hvordan bli lykkelig

Poststrukturalisme - fortsettelse

Cartoon wars

Poststrukturalisme - bakgrunn

AFS trenger vertsfamilier

Bilde-himmelen II

Bilde-himmelen

Eksamen

Futuristene

Peru... jeg vet ikke hva jeg skal si

Dumme turister og - endelig - frekke folk som svarer

Scientologi

Påsken og Judasevangeliet

Monarkiets prakt V

The King and I

Monarkiets prakt IV

Monarkiets prakt III

Monarkiets prakt II

Monarkiets prakt I

3 bøker. Benjamin, Baudelaire og Calvino

Gresk historie i et nøtteskall

Shopaholic, thy name is Woman

Sikkerhetskontroll schmikkerhetskontroll

Litteratur for litteraturvitere

Fredag den 13.

Nytt år, ny trend

Den islamske revolusjonen i Iran i et sekulariserings-/desekulariseringsperspektiv

Årets julekonsert

Pseudovitenskap

Peace Geeks

En oppgave

Gresk religion

God jul - og gledelig saturnalia

Mer vold, sex og drap

Peru

Om originalitet: Homer, Vergil og Dante

Vold, sex og drap

Srebrenica ti år etter

Jonathan Strange and Mr Norrell

Tre bøker

Eskatologi

Drama på Solsiden -aka måker kan aikido -aka dumme mennesker

Engler og monstre, og en ond dronning

Samaritanene

Jezidene

Narratologi

Dette er en artikkel

Mitt slag for vitenskapen

John Graham Altman er en rar mann.

1. mai!

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