read a book a week

I have had this boo for a while but didn’t get to it before now. Hornby writes well and I found it suprisingly easy to identify myself with the middle age writer. The text was wonderfully bitter sweet just like life is. It also opened to me more the writer behind so many books I have loved.

I gues this is a music lovers book tough Hornby talks also about many other things. But I guess that if you do not have a love relationship with music you are going to miss something that Hornby tries to transfer to his readers.

Ok book, or should I say a good blog that had translated itself quite well to a book. Belles life was kinda interesting but the book didn’t let me forget I were reading a blog and that did irritate me a bit. How ever it is good to know what all have talked about when they have talked about this book.

So, I know I haven’t writen these for I while, but I try to reactivate myself now on. I didn’t keep up the speed anyway during the fall so I better not try to complete the list in the midle. I’ll just start here and and keep on going, I hope.

So Bryson. He has writen quite a marvelous book about Brittain. I have been some what of a fan of the Brittish so it was interesting to read someone others tought about the counry. Bryson writes fluenty and and does ad to the text wonderful details and anecdotes about the country, his earlier travels and life. The book was really enjoyable tough I kinda missed some photos from some places he talks about.

Judith Levine writes about how she and her partner Paul lived for a year without buying anything else but necesities. The book was interesting, but time to time I hade hard time to find something incommon with the author, not only because she is quite a lot older than I am, but also because I also felt that the consumer culture and sosiety in USA and in Finland are quite differnent.

How ever the book raced lot of toughts about my own consuming and I’m quite sure it will effect my consuming habits in the long run.

(original name An uncommon reader)

I had never before red a book writen by Alan Bennett before, but now I feel that I have found a new favourite! The book was just wonderful! If was wonderfully ironic about the royalty but it wasn’t mean and I really sympaticed the Queen. Well, I think that in my case any caracter that like to read and uses the library is someone I can sympatice…

I read an other book during week 29 too. It was a Tove Jansson biography by Boel Westin, translated in Finnish. Roughly translated the title is Tove Jansson – Words, images, life.

This it the first real biography since Boel Westin has been the first person who got to do research in the personal archive of Tove Jansson.

The book is very well writen, and even tough Westin is an academic person and analyses Janssons work she does write in a way that its easy to understand what she means.

It think this book is enjoyable to all people who like the Moomin books or other works of Tove Jansson. At least I felt that it made the writer behind the books more human.

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I guess it is bit low to count a childrens book with very little text as the book of this week, but how ever I read it and since it is so wonderful, I’ve read it more than once.

This book is one of the most beautiful childrens book that I have seen in a VERY long time. And not only are the pictures beautiful, also the story is. It just is one of the best stories about friendship I have read.

I’m so glad I came across this book at the library. And bit sad about the fact I can’t keep it.

I have lot of books as I like to read a lot. I just don’t seem to have the habit of reading that patiently and much as I would like to. So with this goal I try to read at least one book every week and report about it to here. That can be any kind of book (exept school book), but I quess the books will mostly be fiction in Finnish since I’m Finnish and like to read fiction. I get back to this goal next week!