Since I’m sick* and way behind on reviews, I’ve realised the only way to catch up is to make them speed reviews and post a whole batch at once.
The Age of Napoleon; Alistair Horne, eng, 235
Interesting, but a little choppily written, and also the author assumes you know certain things and never explains them, [...]
Posted on July 7th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Book Blowout, C, Classics, D, English, GLBT interest, Historical, History, Lifestyle, Mystery, Religion, Romance, Science Fiction, Sex, sexuality & gender, Speed reviews, Swedish, To Be Read, Young Adult | 1 Comment »
Annika Larsdotter: barnamörderska
by Inger Lövkrona
For the Back to History and To Be Read reading challenges.
Swedish
255 pages
Historiska Media
ISBN: 91-88930-64-5
First line: Boston — Min vän slänger tidningsartikeln på skrivbordet med en kort kommentar: “Ja, här har du en till.”
Back cover blurb:
Annika Larsdotter avrättades 1765, 18 år gammal. Hon hade då erkänt dråp på sitt nyfödda barn [...]
Posted on June 9th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, C, History, Swedish, To Be Read, True crime | No Comments »
Tjuvlyssnat
by Damon Rasti and Gloria Hedman
Title translated to English: Eavesdropped
Swedish
140 pages
Känguru
ISBN: 978-91-85476-61-9
First line: n/a
Back cover blurb:
Vi har alla gjort det: tjuvlyssnat på andras samtal.
På tunnelbanan, i kön i mataffären, på ett café—det går helt enkelt inte att låta bli. Att tjuvlyssna är mer än ett behov. Det är en livsstil, ett folknöje, en del [...]
Posted on May 18th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, Humour, Non-fiction, Swedish | No Comments »
Ior och hästarna
by Renata Wrede
Title translated to English: Eeyore and the horses
Swedish
133 pages
Forum
ISBN: 91-37-06412-6
First line: Vi låtsas inte om, känns inte vid, vill inte medvetet medge den mänskliga faktorns existens, i alla fall inte hur stark den är, trots att den är det starkaste vi har, den är starkare än vi.
Back cover blurb:
“Kärleken till [...]
Posted on May 14th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: Biographies, C, Fiction, Swedish | 1 Comment »
Kårnulf Was Here
by Josefine Adolfsson
Swedish
167 pages
Bokförlaget Atlas
ISBN: 91-7389-132-0
First line: När jag och min tonårsbästis Anna är femton, flyttar hon hem till en trettio år äldre man som heter Charles.
Back cover blurb:
“När jag och min tonårsbästis Anna är femton, flyttar hon hem till en trettio år äldre man som heter Charles. Vi sitter ofta i [...]
Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, Biographies, Fiction, Swedish | No Comments »
My War: Killing Time in Iraq
by Colby Buzzell
English
358 pages
Berkley Caliber
ISBN: 0-425-21136-3
First line: Kids from the suburbs don’t really join the military.
Back cover blurb:
Colby Buzzell traded a dead-end future for the army—and ended up as a machine gunner in Iraq. To make sense of the absurd and frightening events surrounding him, he started writing a [...]
Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, Biographies, English | 1 Comment »
I Am America (And So Can You!)
by Stephen Colbert
For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
iPod audiobook
First line: Hi, I’m Stephen Colbert and I am no fan of books.
Back cover blurb:
Realizing that it takes more than thirty minutes a night to fix everything that’s destroying America, Colbert bravely takes on the forces aligned to destroy our country [...]
Posted on May 5th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, English, Humour, Politics, Religion, Sex, sexuality & gender | 3 Comments »
102 minuter: den sanna berättelsen om kampen för överlevnad inne i World Trade Center
by Jim Dwyer and Kevin Flynn
Original title: 102 Minutes: The Untold Story of the Fight to Survive inside the Twin Towers
Swedish
427 pages
Bra Böcker
ISBN: 91-7002-370-0
First line: Under 102 minuter på morgonen den 11 september 2001 slogs 14 000 människor för livet i [...]
Posted on May 4th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, History, Swedish | No Comments »
Rockabilly: en bok om de sista romantikerna
by Josefin Ekman
Title translated to English: Rockabilly: a book about the last romantics
Swedish
263 pages
Atlas förlag
ISBN: 978-91-7389-303-9
First line: I juli 1959 reste den amerikanske vicepresidenten Richard Nixon till Moskva för att öppna American National Exhibition, en utställning om de tekniska och materiella framsteg som USA gjort.
Back cover blurb: n/a
Very [...]
Posted on May 1st, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, Fashion, History, Lifestyle, Music, Swedish | 1 Comment »
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 »
