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Category: Reading

  • Lisbeth was back

    I went to see the third and last episode of the films from Stieg Larssons book: the millenium. Well, since it was the first day out here in Sweden, i will not tell more and let people the chance to get an own opinion.

  • Låtskrivarens känslighet för vibrationer

    This was a very nice book from Fredrik Karlsson, full of humour and funny reflexions about the story of a young 20 years
    old guy, breaking up with thei for ever girlfriend and telling this in a really good written way. The boy is even working in an home for older people and making us part of his reflexions about death and being old.

    Not sure it has been translated, but swedish readers, go for it, it is nice at every age.

    Quote from the book: “Varje dag som vi inte är döda lever vi”
    in my poor english: “each day we are not dead, we are alive”.

  • Lapidus, Bergting – Gängkriget 145

    it is in the same line as Snabba cash and Aldrig fucka upp, but this time as comics for grown up. Nice BD, me liked!

    http://www.gangkrig145.se/

  • Philippe Claudel – les âmes grises

    this is the last book i finished to read and it was a masterpiece. (you can find it in swedish too with the title graa själar).

    A lots of people in this litle french town during WWI, a lots of sad happenings and always a guy there to tell us years after how it was.

    Very good written, it takes a <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 <3 from me.

  • Julia Tommas – Brain damage

    maybe it is because i find boring to read in french now, but i did not find anything special in this book. Criminal history without big suspence and kind of patethic people. But ah well, the story is partly in New York, so i remembered my trip there last winter.

  • Maria Ernestam – Caipirinah med döden

    a wonderful book, with a lot of humor and kind of a black vision about death within life and stuff. I really enjoid this book, i recommend it to all people reading in swedish!

    me <3 <3 <3 <3 <3

  • Lisa Gardner – Say Goodbye

    I finished this book this morning and I have to admit that it was a good one. I grew kind of tired of criminal novels but this one was untertaining and nice, though the crual descriptions and stuff. me liked.

    Lisa Gardner is an American author of fiction. She is the author of several thrillers including The Killing Hour and The Next Accident. She also wrote romance novels using the pseudonym Alicia Scott. Raised in Hillsboro, Oregon, she graduated from the city’s Glencoe High School. As evidenced by her 2003 work, “The Killing Hour,” Gardner has been heavily influenced by the box office smash and best selling book The Silence of the Lambs. Her novel Gone is set in a fictionalized version of Tillamook, Oregon. As of 2007, Gardner lives in New Hampshire.

  • Ronnie Sandahl – Vi som aldrig sa hora

    really good book written by the 25 years old (sick!) Ronnie Sandahl. The story is fantastically (?) built but what is told is hard sometimes. But really good book!

    me liked that much: <3 <3 <3 <3

  • Mina drömmars stad

    So I finished to read the first of the 10-list yesterday and it was Mina drömmars stad by Per Anders Fågelström.

    Racism, hard work, big city, unemployment, lonelyness, the 1860’s seemed really alike today.

  • the 10 must read swedish novels

    I got for some weeks ago a list of the ten swedish novels that every swede have read (or knows about). Here you go:

    • By Carl Jonas Love Almquist: Det går an
    • By Göran Tunström: Tjuven, Juloratoriet
    • By Hjalmar Söderberg: Doctor Glas
    • By August Strindberg: Hemsöborna
    • By Selma Lagerlöf: Herr Arnes penningar, Gösta Berlings saga
    • By Karin Boye: Kallocain
    • By Jan Fridegård: Trägudars land
    • By Per Anders Fågelström: Mina drömmars stad
    • By Moa Martinsson: Kvinnor och äppelträd
    • By Sjöwall och Wahlöö: Mannen på taket.

    I began yesterday with “mina drömmars stad”, we will see if i manade to read the list within this year and be on a better way to my swedish way of life.

  • Ligg hos mig

    by Joanna Briscoe.

    at the beginning, it seemed interesting: i read the 177 first pages quite quick and wanted to know what happens next. But then, this book just turned out to be a writing about frustration. And who needs more frustration nowadays?

    So i don’t know, it gets a 3/5 for the whole, but i haven’T read the 20 last pages, bored i was…

  • JMG Le Clezio

    this week, Le CLezio got the nobel prize. a colleague told me that at work and immediatly asked if i already read a book from him. and YES, i did, when i was 15 or 16. it was “la quarantaine” and i remember i liked it. so… once in my life, i did not feel ignorant.

  • Snabba cash

    this is the last book i managed to finish recently. a really exciting story, a naiv girl like me was very astonished to discover this parallel world. of course, i know maffia does exist but now, i look really sceptical to every people driving a black BMW.

    plus in the DN this morning, there were some article about en Ratko who were murdered and ah ja, where is the limit between fiction and reality!??!

    nice book though, got 5 stars in my own scale.

  • Norwegian Wood

    this is the book i am currently reading, from Haruki Murakami. He is telling the story of a japanese guy in his early 20’s in a Japan from the end of the 60′, beginning of the 70′ and this is delicious.

    The way of life looks pretty much like the one in Sweden. But who said that Sweden is Europe’s Japan?

  • Martin Bengtsson

    http://www.martinbengtsson.se/index.htm

    the charming boi is telling his tragic story. i was up and down when i listened to him on the swedish TV this week. I am waiting for his book to come at my place, so i can read his thoughts about how it is to be succesfull, depressed, really down and to have a normal life again, at least one that one likes.

    link to the TV show: http://svt.se/play?a=1138980&from=tipsa

  • A girl with a one-track mind

    this is the last book i read in swedish and it was better than any other school book to get into a special kind of vocabulary ;)

    actually, i enjoid this reading pretty much. Fresh, dynamic, accurate, this book is the real story of a girl in her 30’s talking about her sex life and stuff. At the beginning, it was a blog which adress is:
    http://girlwithaonetrackmind.blogspot.com/

    i recommend it to all the girls that think they don’t fit in the “normal” modell “boifriend-house-car-plan for baby”.

  • Talk to snail

    one of my last lectures was “talk to snail” by Stephen Clark. a book about the french and the 10 most important things to know when you´re a foreigner and want to live and understand the french.

    Most of the things were ok, but sometimes, you feel like this book is just about to say that if you´re french, shame on you. ah well, good things to take with and some other to leave.

  • Mort aux cons

    My last lecture, “Mort aux cons” is a pretty funny and weird book about a man that decides to put an end to the life of every dum people he meets. He describes himself as the biggest serial killer all over the times but the only one who acts by philosophy.
    This book is hilarious and every step farther in his “illness” is really weird and funny at the same time. Good lecture!

  • Ligne de Faille, Nancy Huston

    it´s the last book i finished to read and i found it really good, surprising, and i learnt a new thing about WWII.

    The story is about a familly, and as everyone knows, every familly has its secrets and this one has very special one. I cannot tell more unless it would destroy the suspens for the reader but it´s written with a lot of humor sometimes although if the subject is quite hard to think about with smile sometimes.

    But a really enjoyable book! Merci papa!

  • Roseanna

    I´m right now reading this police novel and it´s really good  written (also good for my swedish…)

     

    Roseanna (1965)
    The dead body of a young woman is fished out of the water of the Gotacanal. Who is she and who killed her. A case for Martin Beck. The mystery becomes even bigger when research shows that no-one has gone missing in the area and that no-one matches the description of the woman…The authors:
    Maj Sjöwall was born in 1935. She works as writer and journalist in Sweden. Wahlöö was born in Göteborg in 1926. After finishing his studies in 1946 he worked as a journalist.

    Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö met in 1961 while working for magazines published by the same company. They married next year and the carefully planned crime series was created in the evenings, after their children had been put to bed. According to Wahlöö, their interntion was to “use the crime novel as a scalpel cutting open the belly of the ideological pauperized and morally debatable so-called welfare state of the bourgeois type.” Per Wahlöö died in Stockholm on June 23, 1975.

    read also that.

  • Den femte kvinnan

    That´s hwat i´m reading / listenning right now. The fifth woman is a crime roman. Here comes the résumé:Four nuns and a fifth woman, a visitor to Africa, are killed in a savage night-time attack. Months later in Sweden, the news of the unexplained tragedy sets off a cruel vengeance for these killings.

    Inspector Kurt Wallander is home from an idyllic holiday in Rome, full of energy and plans for the future. Autumn settles over the province of Skåne, and Wallander prays the winter will be peaceful. But when he investigates the disappearance of an elderly bird-watcher he discovers a gruesome and meticulously planned murder – a body impaled in a trap of sharpened bamboo poles. Then another man is reported missing. And once again, Wallander’s life is on hold as he and his close knit team work tirelessly to find a link between the series of viscous murders. Making progress not through revelation but through dogged police work, and forever battling to make sense of the violence of modern Sweden, Wallander will lead a massive investigation to find a killer whose crimes are the product of the new realities that make him despair.

    I can sadly remark that all the Wallander books are written with the same structure, it´s a bit dissapointing. But now that I live in this area, i´m more afraid and i can also notice some swedish ways…

  • att komma hem ska vara en schlager

    hi,

    i´m right now reading this book Att komma hem ska vara en schlager by Per Hagman and it´s quite funny. This is the story of a 33 years old swede, who lived a lot between France and Sweden. He´s a bit bored by his life style and try to find his right place and does travel a lot in train around France. Through the book, he explains what he did before, how was his lifeI think he´s a clever swede: he can distinguishe the qualities and pervers sides from the french (but this, all the foreign people can do it, you just have not to feel french patriotic :) ) and he also does enounce some strange sides from Sweden, that I remarked myself before. I mean, he´s clever because to have distance with his own country and homeland, it´s not common. Most of the time, anyway what happen, people feels strong associated with their land and cannot see the bad sides.

    Some examples:

    Fransmännens arabrädsla verkar ibland nästan vara större än amerikanernas, men förmodligen beror der bara på att den är djupt rotad i foksjälen att den blivit lika ihåligt pittoresk som baskern med baguetten.
    The fear of arabers from the french is sometimes bigger than this one from the americaners but it´s maybe just because it´s deep in the people mind that it has been deep dug like the basques and their baguettes.Innan jag kom till Marseille trodde jag att det arabiskt elle snarare kabiliskt präglade barlivet skulle te sig ungefär som det i Barbès eller Belleville i Paris. Men det här är alldeles magiskt annorlunda.
    Before I arrived in Marseille, i believed that  the arab or at least the invented  cabilist bar -life  will be nearly the same as this one in Barbès or Belleville in Paris. But,  it was completly magically  different.

    Tyvärr blir jag efter mina första dagar i denna romantiskt hårda stad mer och mer uppskrämd av varje fransk taxichaufför, fransk hotellportier eller fransk bartender jag träffar. Alltid samma dialog. “första gången du är i Marseille?” “Ja.” “Akta dig för araberna!”
    Unfortunatly , after my first days in this romantic ciyt I became more and more afraid of every french taxi-driver, french hotell-groom or french bartender that I could meet. Always the same speach. “first time in Marseille?” “yes” “take care of the arabs!”

    Allt strålande borta och allt grått framträder så tydligt ellle lindar liksom in mig i mörka slöjor: videobutiker, minimalism, kvinnor som är stolta över att inte göra sig vackra, Seven Eleven, Dagens Nyheter, Absolut Vodka, bake-up ciabatt i plast, storkök och veganer, gråmulen februarieftermiddag i Stockholm. allt så tomt och grått att man hjälplös vill lägga sig ner och gråta som ett litet barn.
    All the shines away and grey appears so clear or happens like in me in a dark voile: videoshop, minimalism, women who are proud not to make themself beautiful, Seven Eleven, Dagens Nyheter, Absolut vodka, bake-up ciabatta in a plastic, grey clouds in a februar afternoon in Stockholm. all so empty and grey that one will just helpless sitt down and cry like a litle child.

     

  • beer from tap

    i read the news this morning and, huh, i would like to live in Christiansund :) here is the article.

    Plötsligt kom det öl ur hennes vattenkranar
    Haldis Gundersen, 50, skulle laga mat åt sig själv och sonen.
    Men ur kranarna kom inget vatten, utan öl i stället.
    -Jag trodde att jag kommit till himlen, säger Gundersen.

    Skål! Givetvis plockade Haldis fram kameran och förevigade ölmiraklet.
    Haldis Gundersen i norska Kristiansund trodde inte sina ögon när honvred på vattenkranarna på lördagskvällen. Både i köket och på toaletten kom det öl i stället för vatten.
    Haldis tipsade sin granne, men denne hade bara vatten i sina kranar.
    Två våningar under Gundersens lägenhet ligger en krog. De hade vatten i sina ölkranar. Gästerna i den fullsatta baren fick klara sig med flasköl.

    Lyckades koppla fel
    Bartendern Ann-Mari Rande, 31, berättar för Expressen:
    – Jag skulle byta öltank och lyckades koppla fel.
    Hon fick ta kontakt med en ansvarig på bryggeriet som via telofon instruerade hur hon skulle rätta till misstaget.
    -Vatten- och ölrören ligger ganska nära varandra, men du måste vara rätt så kreativ för att lyckas koppla ihop dem, säger Per Egil Myrvang på Ringnesbryggeriet till VG.

    all this mean that a man discovered that beer flows from his kitchen tap. and it´s not in Germany! :)

  • Joffo

    i just read la jeune fille au pair by Joseph Joffo. i´m luckily not in the same situation as her, but the book was good at the beginning, quite deceiving at the end.

  • quote of the day

    Mieux vaut n’ penser à rien
    Que n’ pas penser du tout
    Rien c’est déjà
    Rien c’est déjà beaucoup
    On se souvient de rien
    Et puisqu’on oublie tout
    Rien c’est bien mieux
    Rien c’est bien mieux que tout

    Mieux vaut n’ penser à rien
    Que de penser à vous
    Ça n’ me vaut rien
    Ça n’ me vaut rien du tout
    Mais comme si de rien
    N’était je pense à tous
    Ces petits riens
    Qui me venaient de vous

    Si c’était trois fois rien
    Trois fois rien entre nous
    Évidemment
    Ça ne fait pas beaucoup
    Ce sont ces petits riens
    Que j’ai mis bout à bout
    Ces petits riens
    Qui me venaient de vous

    Mieux vaut pleurer de rien
    Que de rire de tout
    Pleurer pour un rien
    C’est déjà beaucoup
    Mais vous vous n’avez rien
    Dans le cœur et j’avoue
    Je vous envie
    Je vous en veux beaucoup

    Ce sont ces petits riens
    Qui me venaient de vous
    Les voulez-vous ?
    Tenez ! Que voulez-vous
    Moi je ne veux pour rien
    Au monde plus rien de vous
    Pour être à vous
    Faut être à moitié fou

    ~Gainsbourg

  • quote of the day

    “The desire not to be anything is the desire not to be.”
    -Ayn Rand

  • quote of the day

    även om jag har redan förlorat honom har jag vunnit en lycklig dag i mitt liv.
    ~Coehlo

  • quote of the day

    “No one wants to get this matter behind us more than I do—except maybe all the rest of the American people.”
    —Statement on the Monica Lewinsky affair, at Rose Garden press conference (July 31, 1998)

  • quote of the day

    Marty:   The penguins are going, so why can’t I?
    Alex:     Marty,the penguins are psychotic.

    ~Madagascar

  • ma première femme

    hi!
    the last book i read is ma première femme by Yann Queffelec. it was good written, i laugh at the vocabulary and the rythm of writting was quite fast and it made the book easy and pleasant to read.
    This book is very different fromLes noces barbares but i enjoyed it more than this Prix Goncourt.RÉSUMÉ DU LIVRE
    Marc Vignal, seize ans, brillant fils de famille perd sa mère la veille du bac. Il ignorait qu’elle était malade : il ignorait qu’elle pouvait mourir. Les premiers jours, anesthésié par le choc, il ne verse aucune larme. Il contemple, étonné, le chagrin des siens, sa soeur, son père, son grand-père. Il a son bac à préparer, il révise comme si de rien n’était. La veille il se saoule, et c’est en état d’ébriété qu’il se présente à l’examen. Dans l’alcool il a rencontré la douleur, et la douleur a le visage de sa mère. Il n’est pas question d’en faire son deuil, de l’oublier ni même d’accepter sa mort.

    Yann Queffélec gehört zu den angesehensten französischen Autoren der Gegenwart. 1985 wurde er für seinen internationalen Bestseller „Barbarische Hochzeit“ mit dem Prix Goncourt ausgezeichnet. Auch „Nellys Lachen“, Queffelecs zehnter Roman, eroberte in Frankreich umgehend die Bestsellerlisten. Der Autor lebt mit seiner Familie in Paris und in der Bretagne.