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 »

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 »

Sanna historier om andra världskriget
by Paul Dowswell
Original title: True Stories of the Second World War

For the A-Z challenge.
Swedish
160 pages
Historiska Media
ISBN: 91-85057-78-9
First line: Trots att det nu gått mer än sextio år sedan andra världskriget rasade kommer det hela tiden nya filmer, tv-dokumentärer och böcker om kriget som vittnar om ett fortsatt starkt intresse för [...]

Posted on March 4th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, History, Non-fiction, Swedish, Young Adult | 1 Comment »