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 »

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 »

Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
by Tom Stoppard

For the Decades ‘08 (first performed in 1967) and the A-Z reading challenges.
English
77 pages
e-book
First line: “Heads.”
Back cover blurb: n/a
Thoughts: A couple of years ago I saw bits and pieces of the 1991 film adaption of this play. I don’t remember a lot of it, just that it seemed [...]

Posted on February 24th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, B, Decades '08, English, Humour, Plays | 1 Comment »

The World According to Clarkson: And Another Thing…
by Jeremy Clarkson

English
340 pages
Penguin Books
ISBN: 978-0-141-02860-6
First line: I suppose all of us were out and about before Christmas, pummelling our credit cards to within an inch of their lives.
Back cover blurb:
Jeremy Clarkson finds the world such a perplexing place that he wrote a bestselling book about it. [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: D, English, Humour, Non-fiction | 1 Comment »

Boy Meets Boy
by David Levithan

For the Young Adult and A-Z reading challenges.
English
185 pages
Random House
ISBN: 0-375-83299-8
First line: 9 P.M. on a November Saturday.
Back cover blurb:
Love is never easy. Especially if you’re Paul. He’s a sophomore at a high school like no other—and these are his friends:
Infinite Darlene, the homecoming queen and star quarterback
Joni, Paul’s best [...]

Posted on January 15th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, C, English, GLBT interest, Humour, Romance, YA Challenge 2008, Young Adult | 3 Comments »

The Rules of Modern Policing: 1973 Edition
by DCI Gene Hunt (Guy Adams and Lee Thompson)

English
128 pages
Bantam Press
ISBN: 9780593060209
First line: Sit down, shut up and pay attention.
Back cover blurb: n/a
Thoughts: I know you’re not supposed to take this book seriously, but it didn’t amuse me quite as much as I’d hoped it would either. However, [...]

Posted on December 6th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: C, English, Humour | No Comments »

Bush-Whacked
by Leland Gregory

English
248 pages
Andrews McMeel Publishing
ISBN: 0-7407-5471-8
Back cover blurb:
From the best-selling author of America’s Dumbest Criminals, What’s the Number for 911? and Hey, Idiot! comes a hysterical collection of perplexing quotes and wacky anecdotes devoted to the governmental goofs of the Bush administration.
With his expert nose for nuttiness, Leland Gregory has captured the Bush [...]

Posted on November 10th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: English, F, Humour | No Comments »