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 »

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 »

Den hemlösa sexualiteten: en antologi
by a number of different authors
&
For the A-Z and To Be Read reading challenges.
Swedish
286 pages
Bokförlaget Libris
ISBN: 91-7195-402-3
First line: n/a
Back cover blurb:
Homosexualitet är en av de mest brännande frågorna i kyrkorna i dag. Ämnet väcker starka känslor. Många tycker att det är svårt att ta till orda, andra [...]

Posted on February 23rd, 2008 by Love
Filed under: A-Z Reading Challenge, D, GLBT interest, Religion, Swedish, To Be Read | No Comments »

Not too many hours left of this year now—just over twenty-five here, actually.
I’ve looked over the challenges for next year and finally got around to joining two more I’ve been meaning to sign up for for a while. All lists are now set in stone (with the possible exception of the Decades challenge, which gives [...]

Posted on December 30th, 2007 by Love
Filed under: Back to History, General booktalk, Personal challenges, To Be Read | No Comments »