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 »

Kometen kommer
by Tove Jansson
Title in English: Comet in Moominland

For the A-Z reading challenge.
Swedish
150 pages
AWE/Gebers
ISBN: 91-20-07546-4
First line: Samma morgon som mumintrollets pappa fick bron över floden färdig gjorde det lilla djuret Sniff en upptäckt.
Back cover blurb:
Sommaren är som den brukar i Mumintrollets dal, varm och full av hemliga möjligheter.
Det lilla djuret Sniff har hittat en [...]

Posted on May 12th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, Adventure, B, Children's lit, Fantasy, Swedish | 1 Comment »

Hästen från Porten
by Carina Burman

Swedish
354 pages
Albert Bonniers Förlag
ISBN: 978-91-0-011729-0
First line: För andra gången kom jag till Philadelphia.
Back cover blurb:
Han hette Djinn. Åtminstone var det så hon kallade honom, succéförfattarinnan Euthanasia Bondeson, när de möttes i den syriska öknen.
Det fanns varken lugn eller inspiration där i hettan, där sanden letade sig in överallt och städerna [...]

Posted on May 6th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, GLBT interest, Historical, Mystery, 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 »

Educating Rita
by Willy Russell

English
123 pages
New Longman Literature
ISBN: 0-582-43445-9
First line: I was born in Whiston, which is just outside Liverpool.
Back cover blurb:
Rita feels that life is passing her by. She wants an education but does Frank, her lecturer, have anything to teach her? Willy Russell’s play is a hilarious yet moving account of a young [...]

Posted on April 30th, 2008 by Love
Filed under: B, English, Plays | 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 »