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 »

Mamma sa att jag var sjuk
by Julie Gregory
Original title: Sickened

For the A-Z reading challenge.
Swedish
259 pages
Bra Böcker
ISBN: 978-91-7002-361-6
First line: Det värsta var att bli rakad.
Back cover blurb:
An unusual memoir describes growing up as the victim of Munchausen by proxy, a dangerous form of child abuse in which her mother invented or caused a series of [...]

Posted on February 3rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, Biographies, D, Diseases and disorders, Swedish | 1 Comment »

The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl
by Shauna Reid

For the A-Z reading challenge.
English
408 pages
Corgi Books
ISBN: 978-0-552-15578-6
First line: I’ve got the biggest knickers in Australia.
Back cover blurb:
In January 2001 Shauna Reid was twenty-three years old and twenty-five stone. Determined to turn her life around, she created the hugely successful weblog The Amazing Adventures of Dietgirl and, hiding [...]

Posted on January 30th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Biographies, English | 1 Comment »

Ge aldrig upp
by Michael Alonzo

Swedish
239 pages
Frank förlag
ISBN: 978-91-858565-00-0
First line: Jag sprang in på apoteket.
Back cover blurb:
I Ge aldrig upp berättar Michael Alonzo, den förre sångaren i kultpunkbandet KSMB samt Stockholms negrer, sin egen historia. Det är berättelsen om hur han lever med en kvinna som utåt sätt är kärleksfull och god, men som inom [...]

Posted on December 18th, 2007 by Love
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Movie Icons: Cary Grant
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)

English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2212-8
First line: He is the most self-invented man in movies, this side of Charlie Chaplin.

Thoughts: Much like the book on James Dean, this book on Cary Grant was chock-full of photos, but not so much actual text (a fair few quotes, by and [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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Movie Icons: James Dean
by FX Feeney and Paul Duncan (ed.)

English
192 pages
Taschen
ISBN: 978-3-8228-2220-3
First line: He died at age 24 in a car crash, testing a new, lightweight, ultra-swift Porsche Spyder en route to a weekend race in Northern California.
Thoughts: Full of photos, but not so full of actual text (though there are quotes and a [...]

Posted on November 30th, 2007 by Love
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Mitt brinnande hjärta
by Tasso Stafilidis

Swedish
234 pages
Normal förlag
ISBN: 91-855505-13-7
First line: Det är tidig höst på Fredriksdalsskolan i Helsingborg.
Back cover blurb:
Mitt brinnande hjärta är Tasso Stafilidis personliga resa genom politiken och teatern. Det är en självutlämnande bok om rättsröta och rättspatos, men också om svikna ideal och slitig vardaglig kamp för förändring. Tasso Stafilidis berättar [...]

Posted on November 21st, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Biographies, C, GLBT interest, Swedish | No Comments »