I just found a finnish bookshop that actually offers buying and shipping information in English, so I fear I might do something really really stupid come next month. Maybe I’ll order Harry Potter in Finnish or one of the Moomin books. Not that I know enough Finnish to be able to understand one whole sentence, […]

What made me order FIVE books today? Five! As in.. you know, FIVE! On the other side I can only read so fast, so it just means that I might not need to order books any time soon (meaning: the next three or four weeks). Just so you can share my anticipation of the next […]

The Dogs of Babel… Check. The Eyre Affair… Working on it. Wicked… On order. Thanks to Brandon I ordered Wicked today. It was his favorite book of 2004, and since it was on my list I felt I had no choice but to go to amazon and secretly put it in my cart, then hurry […]

Is it just me or did they leave out about three quarters of the book when they made ‚Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban‘ into a movie? Now I’m the greatest defender of movies based on books, but this… no. Just no. It’s not the fact that they left out parts. It’s that they […]

I started with one of DeAnn’s suggestions: The Dogs of Babel. First, because I’ve thought about buying it before and second, because it was the only one of my list available at the bookshop in the train station. I have read about 60 pages or so and this is such a great book. Thanks DeAnn, […]

Thanks to everybody who commented and recommended. So far there has not been a single recommendation I didn’t like. Anyway, since I figured there might be other blog readers out there searching for an inspiration on what to read next, I decided to post the results. Of course they can all be read in the […]

I finished ‚Our Lady of the Forest‘ by David Guterson this morning on the train. I thought it was a really strange book and I have to admit that there were times when I had trouble relating to anyone of the main characters. Also, as I have mentioned before, Guterson doesn’t really seem to like […]

Because I can put the simple statement ‚My life sucks‘ in words like these: Currently there are certain aspects of my life that lack complete perfection. Thank you all very much. Here are some examples: 1) I can’t argue with my father. It’s not because of me. Nobody can argue with my father. The only […]

I got this from DeAnn’s Blog. I had seen it before but I just decided to do it. Here are the rules: 1. Grab the nearest book. 2. Open the book to page 123. 3. Find the fifth sentence. 4. Post the text of the sentence in your journal along with these instructions. 5. Donâ??t […]

I’m in meme mood. There are some news on the strange tenant, but I’m too lazy to write about it. Besides we won’t know anything for sure until tomorrow. This is how this meme works. Copy the list from the last person in the chain, delete the names of the authors you don’t have on […]