Since I spent some hours in the planes and waiting at the airport on saturday, I managed to rea a book. This was the first of the trilogy of Erik Axl Sund (duo of swedish writters) about Victoria Bergman.

Well, what to say… The book is pretty easy to read, with kind of a twist around Victoria but I am right now growing sick of reading about people with problem in their heads. The vocabulary is not very rich either, so it makes the whole a little poor and I won’t read the other parts of the trilogy.

My sister forgot this book at home when she came to visit for Xmas, so I read it. La délicatesse. Its a short book (around 200 pages) that I read in few hours. It was well written, with a little bit of humour, but somehow, I found the history a little poor. I don’t know why, maybe it’s because my last reading was much more powerfull with feelings or because I am not a romantic person, I don’t know.

One thing I liked though was the few description the author made about swedish people: they made me smile.

The book gets a 3 of 5 from me. Nice to read to spend few hours, but not the kind of book that will make a revolution in your head.

Note: this book is to be found in english as well, google “delicacy book” (the first results come for the film, that I haven’t seen).

And is there something more delicate than a feather?

I received tons of french books from my lovely mother for xmas and the first i read was this one: L’amour et les forêts, by Eric Reinhardt. I choose to read this book first because of the title, that I found poetical. I read the book in 2 evenings, so good it was. I was sceptical at first: the 20 first pages were boring, long descriptions that were not getting anywhere and suddently, POUF the story began and I couldn’t stop reading.

This is a book about the destructive relationships, self-esteem, moral torture, pride and above all, a story of today, thousands of women fighting in silence to survive within a golden cage. The main character, Bénédicte, lives a life in the shadow of a strong and bad man, and the story is all about her way to make it look normal. The story seems easy at the beginning but it grows harder and harder, making the book hard to lay down, you just have to finish it and know how it went.

I liked very much the writing as well: this book seemed almost modern, with meetic, sms and internet but I think that this feeling will dissapear in 2 years. It was a real step toward modernity though that Eric Reinhardt made in this book, when you compare to other french litterature from 2000 and now: when I read them, I often feel like they were written in the 90’s and this is boring. It seems that litterature is too pretty to be willing to be modern. It often doesn’t describe how it is for real, but keep on thinking that people still use phone attached on the wall to communicate. I liked L’amour et les forêts a lot for this try of getting more modern.

The langage as well was modern, even if I disliked the fact that the author wrote the “young” words in italic. I don’t know if it was an help for older readers or what, but it was unnecessary to me.

At the end of my reading, I was happy to have read this good book, talking about a difficult topic without any taboo but I also felt sad for all these women living this kind of life.

The topic of this book reminds me of the podcast I listened to the other day, from Les Pieds sur Terre called Allo Ménie! -I listen to tons of podcasts and I wrote about it the other day, if you want some inspiration yourself- Allo, Ménie was a radio program, sent between 1967 and 1982 when people could anonymously write or call to ask questions, often about relationships and sexuality to Ménie Grégoire, who was the program leader. I had never heard that program live, since it stopped the year I was born. In the podcast, they just introduce what the program was about and they just play extracts from it, without commentating any of it. When I began the listening, I thought “oh, cool that there was a program to talk about sexuality and stuff, so early” but then, I changed my mind.

In a couple of extracts, women call and ask questions, where they often are kind of victims, and don’t know how to say no to their husband in a proper way. This is often about getting pregnant all the time and not willing to have 10 kids to feed, at this time where the contraceptive pill was not very common. The women calling were mostly talking about men that did not care how they felt when making love, or if they wanted to make love at all.

There is also this woman, talking about how she desires her husband and how he refused to sleep with her at all after they got their 2 children. This woman had so far lived 15 years without any sex with her husband and without being able to talk about it with anyone. The answer that Ménie gave to her was pretty chocking to me. It was, in a short version, “you have a problem with your sexuality and may be a nymphomaniac”. I thought of this poor woman, who was trying to make everything work, called the program to get any help and instead, she got a ton of debts, and the advice to go to the psychologist to cure her mental trouble. I mean, isn’t it normal to get love by her husband, when you are married?

In the podcast, you hear just a few parts of 15 years of program, but these few parts let me think that I would have switched the radio off, if I had been an adult at this time. The answers the “specialists” gave to these women were so conservative, degradating and so on.

Anyway, read this book, L’amour et les forêts, by Eric Reinhardt, it gets a 4,5 of 5!

I am not sure if the english translation exists, but if or when it does, just go and borrow/buy this book: Le cas Eduard Einstein. This is the story of the second child of Albert Einstein, and the story is told both by the mother, the father and the son himself. Between the line, you can feel the fear of nazism growing in Europe before the WWII. The version of the son is very poetic, and tells us a lot about imagination, how situations can be lived, about the need to be seen by the parents. The version of the mother is kind of desesperate, but mostly because of the loves she lost in her life. And Albert in all that, it seemed like he had most global fights to win somehow.

Read this book, this is full of poetry and melancoly.

Sunday on earth, rainy and grey. Perfect for reading and fill up the mind with inspiration. Last night, I finished to read Svarta lögner, rött blod from Kjell Eriksson and during the whole reading, I felt like I knew the story. This was so close from the plot from The Killing, Tv-show that we watched this summer. So I thought that this book was the origin of the show, but it seems that it is not that obvious. Of course the story doesn’t take place in the same geographical area but the names of the characters are really similar, their life situations and actions as well, this is disturbing.

Whoever came with the ideas first, it doesn’t take off this book the action and it was entertaining to read it. I recommend it!

I woke up for a little while and read this funny book about what dog think:

Short but some smiles came.

Holiday is synonimous with reading. Tonight, i laughed with this book:

A really quick readen book and pretty funny. Gave it an hour, you will enjoy it!

This is the last book I read and it was mervellous! A  really exciting reading about an expedition of 3 Swedes who wanted to fly over the north pole with a baloon. It did not go how they wanted and more than hundred years later, a young woman, who was fascinated by this expedition tried to find out what they died of. It was really well done, with a lots of facts, very beautiful pictures and story telling.

Changes are the best to make one think!

Citation from me. Ok, not very high level, but I need to explain you some changes. Also, a short story in a big post.

I have beein blogging since august 2005 and it results in a little more than 1700 post. Not all of them are interesting and to be honest, I am not sure that 10% is valuable for anyone else than me. It’s a lots of memory and a lots of pictures that I saved through the years and despite computers crasches. I have a strict policy of privacy on here though, so you will never see a name or a people around me in picture, I choose to protect people around me against the evil internet that has a too good memory. And myself too by the way. Even if I am a boring people, it would bother me to expose my name and everything. There is something scary in it.

Anyway, back to the story!

So, the blogging platteforme I was using until the past days had a big update and we, with blog with low visitors numbers, we would have migrated our blogs like in 50 years or something, so I tried to find a way to save all my stuff somewhere and to find a platteforme which has much more possibilities to export and save the content of the blog. I landed here, at Spotlife, that is using WordPress in the bakground. It feels safe so far and I have much more possibilities to blog from my phone and to put some pictures and so in the posts, so maybe it will be a little more life on here.

I like the simple design as well. No Trams on here, only text. The less good thing is the publicity you may see between the post. I hope it won’t disturb you too much.

Have a good reading and I -sort of- promise to write more interesting things and a litle more often! Instead of playing at candy crush, I will tell you my life, nice, huh?! :)

Trying to prepare myself for the toefl on Saturday, I am lying in my bed, reading loud for myself from this book. Think if I get a bad result on Saturday? All thus energy and money and time for nothing? Would be a pity. The test in Swedish will take place on Tuesday. I will spend the whole day at Linköpings university. Think if I would fail there too? I took a run tonight, when the light was between grey and black. I feel really well in my body after that, this is crazy how even my little me got addicted to endorphins and other good hormones. Another thing I noticed is that I feel a waaaay better when I regularly get some hugs from M and 5 days are definitively too much. I am really looking forward Friday evening, when we will go downtown in malmö and take a drink. Can’t wait! For now, some reading!

I came back from uppsala tonight and after a tomatoe soup, I am lying in my bed with a news paper and a book. I guess I will fall asleep within 30min so let me say good night!

I am sitting on the train to Stockholm and a young lady also had a paper from the half marathon tomorrow. I will not be alone! The pressure is growing and I hope that the weather will be better than today, it’s raining as hell!

My friend A is fantastical: she sent me a book that will be a very interesting reading. Thank you do much! It is Friday on planet earth and in order to pick up the book at the post office, I came to work around 8 which is a way later that usual. It smells like autumn here, scarf is on and the day is full of meetings, some for work and some for my personal life. It has been te second week at work after the Holliday ad honestly it almost feels like it was years ago. When I look at my calendar ahead, I am a little scared by all the nights I will have to spend at some hotel, but it also means that I will meet a lots of people and be richer of that. Have a good week end, maybe I’ll write some post :)

Back on track has its meaning for real now: I am sitting in the train to Uppsala and it is too early for my body. I have a big book with me since I should not need to use my computer this morning. Not sure how far I will come in the story though, there are a loooot of pages! Have a nice day people all over the world. May the sun be with you!

Oh you know what I hear? Give me a v, gieve me an a, give me a c, give me an a, give me a t, give me an I, give me an o, give me a n! Yes, you hear it, I checked out from work fr one month exactly and after a lunch home and a nap on my coach, I will attempt my first mission: finish this novel! It I fantastic sunny in Linköping and this is like a good sign for the month to come. My bags are packed, I even took a run this morning and I decided one thing. Since my motivation for running is low and the half Mara coming soon, I will take it easily but surely: run every two days and don’t bother about the achievement. Isn’t the most important to finish it, at least to survive it? Ok time for me to read what Malin Fors has been doing since the last time I opened this book!