The bad news I received last week was of the death of my grandmother on dad’s side of the family. She was old, but I didn’t at all expect it. Now grandfather is on his own and we’re all a bit worried about him, as his memory isn’t what it once was. He seems to [...]

Posted on March 31st, 2008 by Love
Filed under: General booktalk | 6 Comments »

Making History
by Stephen Fry

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
556 pages
Arrow
ISBN: 0-09-946481-0
First line: It starts with a dream.
Back cover blurb:
Michael Young is convinced his history thesis will win him a doctorate, a pleasant academic post, a venerable academic publisher and his beloved girlfriend, Jane.
A historian should know better than to think he can predict the future.
Leo [...]

Posted on March 27th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, English, Science Fiction | 1 Comment »

(I removed the test that was here because it really messed up the layout. Sadly enough. Basically, I was apparently 91 % book nerd.)
I got some bad news this morning, so I don’t know if I’ll get much reading or blogging done in the next few days. But I’ll be back eventually, you can count [...]

Posted on March 20th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Memes | 3 Comments »

Linas kvällsbok 2
by Emma Hamberg
Title translated to English: Lina’s Nocturnal 2

For the A-Z reading challenge.
Swedish
303 pages
Bonnier Pocket
ISBN: 978-91-0-011399-5 (in the same volume as Linas kvällsbok 1)
First line: Jag har inte skrivit en rad sedan den femte juni.
Back cover blurb:
I Linas kvällsbok 2 lär Lina 16 år oss om det här med att välja. Tryggt [...]

Posted on March 17th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, Chick lit, Romance, Swedish, Young Adult | 2 Comments »

This weekend I’ve managed to finish one book (Hey Nostradamus! by Douglas Coupland — review coming later), but then the air sort of went out of me. I’ve started four books and am getting nowhere in any of them. Simply put, I’m in a slump.
I get like this sometimes and don’t read for weeks. I [...]

Posted on March 16th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: General booktalk | 1 Comment »

Hey Nostradamus!
by Douglas Coupland

For the To Be Read challenge.
English
260 pages
Harper Perennial
ISBN: 0-00-718258-9
First line: I believe that what separates humanity from all else in this world—spaghetti, binder, paper, deep-sea creatures, edelweiss and Mount McKinley—is that humanity alone has the capacity at any given moment to commit all possibly sins.
Back cover blurb:
Cheryl Anway, 17, secretly [...]

Posted on March 15th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, English, Fiction, To Be Read | 1 Comment »

The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
by Dorothy L Sayers

English
243 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104354-3
First line: “What in the world, Wimsey, are you doing in this morgue?” demanded Captain Fentiman, flinging aside the ‘Evening Banner’ with the air of a man released from an irksome duty.”
Back cover blurb:
Ninety-year-old General Fentiman was definitely dead, but no one knew [...]

Posted on March 12th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, English, Historical, Mystery | 1 Comment »

Unnatural Death
by Dorothy L Sayers

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
280 pages
Harper Mystery
ISBN: 978-0-06-104358-1
First line: “But if he thought the woman was being murdered—”
Back cover blurb:
The wealthy old woman was dead—a trifle sooner than expected. The intricate trail of horror and senseless murder led from a beautiful Hampshire village to a fashionable London flat and a [...]

Posted on March 10th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A, A-Z Reading Challenge, English, Historical, Mystery | 5 Comments »

Every year, at the end of February, there is a huge book sale here in Sweden. In the past couple of years, it’s lost a bit of its appeal as it’s not so special anymore as it used to be, but I am still a huge fan.
Most bigger book stores open at midnight to [...]

Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Shopping | 4 Comments »

What Jane Austen Ate and Charles Dickens Knew
by Daniel Pool

English
416 pages
Touchstone
ISBN: 978-0-671-88236-5
First line: What were the assizes?
Back cover blurb:
For every frustrated reader of the great nineteenth-century English novels of Austen, Trollope, Dickens, or the Brontës, who has ever wondered whether a duke outranked an earl, when to yell “Tally-ho!” at a fox hunt, or [...]

Posted on March 9th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, English, History, Literature | 4 Comments »