https://leseambisjon-en.pages.devÅ tørre å prøve seg på litt vanskeligere tekster. Og det gjelder ikke bare barn.enMon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/men-skriving.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/men-skriving.htmlMon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Writing in school: short reading comprehension answers, no whole stories, and what lots of practice has to do with it. From a letter to Skrivesenteret, August 2026.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/a-map-for-one-reader.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/a-map-for-one-reader.htmlTue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 +0000Sicily in June with a guide that exists in no app store — and the Norman king, the Arab geographer and the Athenian actor who kept turning up in ithttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/komme-i-gang.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/komme-i-gang.htmlTue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000I pick a few key episodes in history, and get into that moment as richly as I can.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/petrarca-as-method.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/petrarca-as-method.htmlTue, 07 Apr 2026 00:00:00 +0000Crete, the fog-of-war map, Charlemagne as an anchor, why hooks need a skeleton, and reading by the fireplace. Excerpts about method from a 2026 essay.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/siste-utgave.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/siste-utgave.htmlTue, 30 Dec 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Jew clause, Christmas services and a poor parish clerk, lazy boys and drunkards. 24.12-31.12https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/bakgrunnskunnskap.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/bakgrunnskunnskap.htmlThu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000Some kids get it from home, and some don't. It's not enough that some teachers are heroic.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kunnskapsstrategi-for-voksne.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kunnskapsstrategi-for-voksne.htmlThu, 13 Nov 2025 00:00:00 +0000Why doesn't Teater Innlandet have a little lecture series on theater history? (Why doesn't NRK????)https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/gamle-boker.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/gamle-boker.htmlFri, 10 Oct 2025 00:00:00 +0000Robin Hood from 1938, a boys' book from 1931, Little Lord Fauntleroy from 1885. About old books and movies for an eleven-year-old, and what rubs off.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/er-det-lov.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/er-det-lov.htmlMon, 15 Sep 2025 00:00:00 +0000The most condescending thing you can say about ordinary people is surely that world literature "isn't for them".https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/plato-in-athens.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/plato-in-athens.htmlWed, 30 Jul 2025 00:00:00 +0000Thirty days in Athens in the summer of 2025: an 1872 Plato from an auction, a bookbinder, Elektra and Oedipus in Epidaurus, and the dialogues read on the spots where they are set.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/horte-aldri-om-hirsch.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/horte-aldri-om-hirsch.htmlWed, 11 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000What is even the point of lots of fancy theories and PhDs when you don't do the absolute simplest thing possible?https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/den-store-nordiske-krigen.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/den-store-nordiske-krigen.htmlFri, 06 Jun 2025 00:00:00 +0000Peter the Great incognito as a shipbuilder, a fox-tossing Polish king, a Swedish army in Ukraine, Charles XII's vacation in the Ottoman Empire...https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/fryktens-teater-fyrst-ugolino-i-tarnfengselet.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/fryktens-teater-fyrst-ugolino-i-tarnfengselet.htmlFri, 30 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000a German theater of fear, inspired by Dante who was himself inspired by Greek myths...https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/gode-ideer-for-byutvikling-fra-sveits.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/gode-ideer-for-byutvikling-fra-sveits.htmlThu, 22 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000How do we get tourists to take the train? Toy libraries, pedibus and farm tourismhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/rette-baker-for-smed-rim-og-rytme.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/rette-baker-for-smed-rim-og-rytme.htmlMon, 19 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000From André Bjerke to French tragedies, Wessel and pantomimehttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/tristan-og-isolde-fra-wagner-til.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/tristan-og-isolde-fra-wagner-til.htmlThu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000Opera, medieval romance, children's book and Norwegian folk song: from Wagner to Old German, via Old Norse.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/forste-opera.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/forste-opera.htmlThu, 15 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Flagstad festival, a book from the library, a recording from Stockholm on Youtube, and a year later Copenhagen with my son.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/kristofer-janson-historiske-romaner.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/kristofer-janson-historiske-romaner.htmlSun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000Kristofer Janson's historical novels, Jens Munk and the Northwest Passage.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/mellomspill-kaninhull-og-skemotor.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/mellomspill-kaninhull-og-skemotor.htmlSun, 11 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000Kristofer Janson, Johan Herman Wessel, and amateur historyhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/bibelen-som-litteratur.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/bibelen-som-litteratur.htmlWed, 23 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000Matthew in Greek at Easter, Bondestudentar with no background knowledge, Wergeland's "Mennesket", and the plan for the Old Testament. The Bible as literature, for someone who quit the church at sixteen.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/the-high-school-education-i-never-got.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/the-high-school-education-i-never-got.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000From «never too late» in June 2020 to «in five years, you'll be five years older no matter what» in 2025: threads about starting late and building the education I never got.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/scenekunst.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/scenekunst.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000I would never have paid 800 kroner to go to the opera if I didn't know that I liked it.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/opera-with-a-ten-year-old.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/opera-with-a-ten-year-old.htmlTue, 22 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000The Barber of Seville as a first opera, Figaro two weeks later, then L'elisir d'amore with live translation on the couch.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/teksting-i-salen.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/teksting-i-salen.htmlMon, 07 Apr 2025 00:00:00 +0000In Athens all the performances are subtitled in English and Greek. We actually do have more than just waffles to offer!https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/the-language-learning-holy-grail.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/the-language-learning-holy-grail.htmlMon, 24 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000Parallel texts, Anki verses, the New Testament in Greek, and a method for reading in another language.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/voksne-nybegynnere.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/voksne-nybegynnere.htmlTue, 11 Feb 2025 00:00:00 +0000Uneducated rogues, happy amateurs and a study that should have been done: how adults get started with literature, art and music.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/lese-et-skuespill.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/lese-et-skuespill.htmlWed, 15 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000From "I can't read plays" to twenty plays in one year. The advice that helped: just trust that it comes together. And a play takes two hours.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/erasmus-montanus.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/erasmus-montanus.htmlMon, 13 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000He's completely in love with Erasmus Montanus and likes to try out rhetoric on his schoolmates.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/reading-plays.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/reading-plays.htmlFri, 10 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000From «I find it very hard to read and enjoy a play» in April 2024 to twenty plays a year later, and the one piece of advice that helped: be patient, keep reading, it comes together.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/1814-dag-for-dag-here-we-go.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kaninhull/1814-dag-for-dag-here-we-go.htmlMon, 06 Jan 2025 00:00:00 +0000How it all started, the first dayshttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kinoscene.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/kinoscene.htmlThu, 28 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000First symphony concert of my life, at the cinema in Lillehammer. About KinoScene, why the ticket is a vote.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/alt-som-ikke-overlever.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/alt-som-ikke-overlever.htmlMon, 18 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000One of the plays is on my bookshelf, reprinted again and again. The other was only performed once, and has never been republished.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/ordet.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/ordet.htmlFri, 15 Nov 2024 00:00:00 +0000I've been playing with the expression "leseambisjon", which apparently doesn't exist on the Internet at all.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/skjermen.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/skjermen.htmlThu, 15 Aug 2024 00:00:00 +0000Only those with high social capital manage to be strict about screens and still fill the house with books.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/det-ene-tok-det-andre.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/det-ene-tok-det-andre.htmlMon, 01 Jul 2024 00:00:00 +0000From a poster on Crete to Greek, Latin, Shakespeare, Racine and opera. It snowballed, one thing led to another.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/fjernsynsteater-til-klokka-to.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/fjernsynsteater-til-klokka-to.htmlMon, 13 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000Me, who can't last more than 20 minutes of a Netflix series before I start checking my phone.https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/ingen-sa-det-fantes.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/ingen-sa-det-fantes.htmlMon, 06 May 2024 00:00:00 +0000Never once did a teacher say to me "here's something a bit more literarily advanced that you might want to try".https://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/learning-effectively-with-podcasts.htmlhttps://leseambisjon-en.pages.dev/english/learning-effectively-with-podcasts.htmlMon, 06 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000Walks, a lecture series of 50 episodes, voice notes, and how the notes are processed days later.