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artemisofthebow · 3 years

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My favourite reads of 2020:

According to my goodreads account, 2020 has been an excellent year for reading. (A bit self-explenatory - considering the circumstances.) Thought I’d have a look at which of the books I read I would like to recommend. I felt some books more keenly than the other ones, of course. Many of them have a message I especially like:

1. Björnstad / Us against you: Two parts of a series of which I’m eagerly awaiting the third book. They consist of several interesting stories and characters. At the heart of it all is a hockey-team, their victories and their losses. It is a story of a town so far north that the forrest keeps eating at it, one house at the time. It is about how most of the people living there need to reajust their attitudes and how hard it can be to change.

2. Hør her’a: Best feel-good book of the year, even if it touched upon som impactful themes and questions. The main character, Mahmoud of 15, gets a visit from his pakistani uncle and has to guide him through Oslo. This allows the reader a look into his perception of the city, of “Norwegian Norwegians” and also into his neighbourhood. Mahmouds ponders some important questions on culture and identity. There are very clear obstacles in his way, but I like how it ends well. I don’t know if it’s a realistic ending, but I loved it even so.

3. Not forgetting the whale: Maybe I liked this one so much because it deals with a pandemic and felt so recognisable to our own situation this year. I love dystopic books, but this one managed to make me feel good as well as describing a form of apocalypse. The key to that was the unexpected factor that solved everything in the end. A perfect read for 2020.

4. Min mormor hälsar och säger forlåt: A real fairy-tale for grown ups, this one. I am amazed at how a grown man was able to write this wisely about mother-daughter-relations, about grandmothers and their grandchildren. The events of the book are both tragic and difficult for a seven year-old to deal with, but Elsa gradually discovers how her grandmothers fairy-tales all had some truth to them. And she learns that she actually has some of the bravest, most interesting characters from those stories present in her life.

5. Glasshjerte: The last 5-star rating om my list this year is definitely more than crime-fiction. It has beautiful descriptions, especially those seen through the eyes of mentally disabled Robin. The relation between him and his brother, Mikkel gives heart to the book. I also liked the investigatiors dealing with their own problems, one hypocondriac and one convicted fellon. A surprising, yet melancolly conclusion to it all made an extra impression on me.

#reading #best reads #2020 #story inspiration #inspiration #björnstad #us against you #mormor hälsar och säger förlåt #hør her'a not forgetting the whale glasshjerte

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c-i-t-a-d-e-l · 3 years

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Det är inte så jävla noga exakt vad det är man tror på, men något måste man tro på, för annars kan man lika gärna skita i alltihop.

Fredrik Backman, Min mormor häslar och säger förlåt, [365]

#min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt #på svenska #Fredrik Backman

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iridescent-bitch · 4 years

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belle!

Why is your favourite book your favourite book?

Hmm.. My favourite book is my favourite book because it feels so real in describing humans and their social connections, the story is beautiful and it's tied together nicely at the end. You feel uplifted and enriched. But it also doesn't feel fake or like looking through a rose-tinted glass, it's so real in what life means. Ups and downs. And then of course, all of this written with SUCH beautiful language. *mwah*

#unfortunately it's in swedish tho #i don't want to risk it being poorly translated #it's Fredrik Backman who's written it #that man is a GENIUS uahdhwujdhejwiwisiwoif #.... the book is called Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt

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tastytoastz · 3 years

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9,12 and 20 pleaaase!, and if you had to choose between writing angst and fluff, what would u choose and why?

9:(This is also a hard one because I have a whole playlist with songs) (I don’t know which fic you wanted to know about so I will just say Showstoppers). I would say that it could be “I was an island” by Allison Weiss but I have like 10 others songs I also would say that they fit.

12: Fredrik Backman, I especially like his book “My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises” (or in swedish: “Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt)”

20: I don’t know really know,

And for the last question I would chose fluff. I can write a whole fic just with fluff but I wouldn’t be able to do that with only angst. I would rather take teeth rotting fluff than hurt no comfort.

#ask game

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manuscripts-dontburn · 4 years

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Hey, sorry to pop in from out of the blue, but as a fellow newbie to the magical readathon I was super excited to see your TBR. Anyway I was wondering about the title My Grandmother Sends Her Regards. I think it's the same Backman book I read last year that was titled My Grandmother Asked Me To Tell You She's Sorry. I'm American so I assume that's the American title, is your copy an American translation or is this a whole new side of the publishing industry I know nothing about?

Hi there fellow booklover! :) You are correct that they are one and the same book. I suppose the differing titles are a preference of publishers. My copy, bought in the Czech republic and imported from the UK, was published by Sceptre books. The original title is “Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt” and my translator did this with it: “My grandmother says hello and says sorry” which would put it closer to “my” edition´s name.

(The one I got is actually fun. I can always switch the word “Grandmother” for “the Lannisters”. :D )

#sharkybaeshaw

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lilla-prinsen · 4 years

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I was tagged by my child @jinjinmyworld

1. Name: Timoteo

2. Nickname(s): Tim (by family) and Theo by everyone else (My niece also calls me Adidias, my mum calls me Timmeling and my partner @kiominkio calls me their dumbdumb sometimes)

3. Zodiac: Aries

4. Height: 169 cm (i’m to lazy to make it feet and inches lol)

5. Languages I know: Swedish, English, Spanish, some mandarin and Swedish Sign language (STS)

6. Nationality: Swedish/chileno

7. Favorite Season: Winter, but only those really snowy ones

8. Favorite Flower: black roses, sunflowers and dandelion

9. Favorite Scent(s): scented candles, my dog, my mum and my partner

10. Favorite Color: Green, but not a dark one more to the lime ish green. (to be very specific the directions hair dye spring green)

11. Favorite Animal: dogs, great white sharks and rats

12. Favorite Fictional Character: so here’s my list: The little prince (from the little prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry), Elsa from a Swedish book called “min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt (eng. my grandmother send her regards and apologies) and last Magnus Bane from the shadowhunters books

13. Coffee, Tea, or Chocolate: I’m guessing you mean hot chocolate bc in that case then that, but if it isn’t that then Chai Latte (both a tea and a coffee don’t fight me)

14. Average Hours of Sleep: what is sleep??? (jk like maybe 5?)

15. Dog or Cat: I used to be a DOG person but now I’m more like both have very good qualities that I love and enjoy so both.

16. Number of Blankets you like to sleep with: 2 duvets and a blanket, not because I get cold (I don’t) but because of how comfy and snuggly the bed gets especially in the morning, fuck I love that.

17. Dream Trip: hmm... though question, I mean I wanna go to America and visit Taylor ( @littlesqu1sh ), but Chile is also on the list, then mine and Kio’s Europe trip is up there so I guess those???

18. Blog Established: Jesus, a long as time ago but I didn’t properly use it until like maybe 4-5 years ago

19. Followers: I have no idea 200 maybe???

20. Random Fact: When I was really young, like maybe two or three years old my dad picked me up from kindergarten and as we walked out the door I wanted to be thrown into the sky so my dad picked me up and threw me. Only thing was that he forgot that there was a roof over the door and he threw me straight into it. Instead of catching me he was so shocked he watched me hit my head then fall onto the pavement where I laid and didn’t move for a long ass time. My dad told me about what he was thinking in that moment and he was thinking about how he was gonna tell my mum about this. Lucky for him I woke up and cried/yelled because of how much it hurt. My mum still doesn’t know that it happened.

I’m tagging the best person on the planet @littlesqu1sh and the loml @kiominkio

#idk why i did this #it was fun tho #12/10 would do again

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laennil · 6 years

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The joy of a cappuccino, book and cake!

#coffee #cappuccino #cake #mormor hälsar och säger förlåt

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oertendahlii · 5 years

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Sooo, a long, long time ago (but not a whole year at least) I was tagged by the lovely @stolligaseptember! // I’m starting to catch a cold so I’ve got no energy to study so yeah, look what kind of things I’m catching up on doing instead :) //

Rules: tag 9 people with excellent taste: to avoid tagging pretty much the same people as I did earlier today and let them catch a break, let’s say that if you’re reading this and feel like doing it I’m absolutely tagging you! :)

Colour(s) I’m currently wearing: Some kind of greyish beige or something, I have no idea, as well as grey, white and black. Not even my socks are colourful, what is this!?

Last band I saw live: Flogging Molly! They were so so good! Actually I thought about answering this some weeks ago but by then I hadn’t been at a concert for like years so I decided to wait ‘til after I saw Molly…

Last song I listened to: The price of a mile by Sabaton, before that it was the full swedish Talespin theme song and before that the song Reser fast jag inte vill from a swedish musical I’d love to see. I think this illustrates my diverse taste in music in a lovely way (although there’s a lot of my preferred genres missing)

Lipstick or chapstick: Chapstick

Last movie I watched: I think it was Mission Impossible: Ghost protocol

Last 3 TV shows I watched: Backstrom, Scooby-Doo, where are you! and uuh, BBC’s Big Cats maybe? (if you like nature documentaries I highly recommend it! If you’re swedish it’s called Världens natur: Katternas planet and you can see the second episode on SVT Play for two more days)

Last YouTube video I watched: Daniel Radcliffe Answers the Web's Most Searched Questions

3 characters I identify with: Newt Scamander, Robert Nilsson (The Emigrants novels/the musical Kristina from Duvemåla) and the Hemul (Moomins). Although I must say I sadly haven’t read a lot of Moomin books so I don’t really know, but he adores flowers and sometimes wanders around in caves and I just feel like yeah, you and me both love

Books I’m currently reading: Oh. Oh. Okay. Lets’ see, well there’s the Sands of time (the Hermux Tantamoq adventures) which I read somewhat regularly. And sometimes, but not particularly often, I read Rån och inga visor (the little old lady behaving badly) and Små citroner gula (small yellow lemons). And I sporadically read (aka even less than the books I don’t read particularly often) Utvandrarna (the Emigrants), En stund på Jorden (A time on earth), Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt (My grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry), Trollkarlens hatt (Finn family moomintroll), Kalle Blomkvist – Mästerdetektiven lever farligt (Bill Bergson lives dangerously), Kalle Blomkvist och Rasmus (Bill Bergson and the White Rose Rescue) and The Book Thief. I think that’s most of them? But alas, who knows, I can’t keep up with all the books I’m currently reading. For someone that doesn’t read that often I sure read a lot of different books.

Oh and wait, I’m also currently reading Life: The science of biology and Introduktion till mikrobiologi: med inriktning mot naturvetare och farmaceuter (something like: “An introduction to microbiology: for scientists and pharmacists”). Which is, surprise surprise, the two books I read most regularly of all the ones mentioned.

#text #kako blev taggad #stolligaseptember

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benperorsolo · 5 years

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Hmmm too much worrying in this fandom lately. What are your favorite books/movies? Doesn’t have to be Star Wars!

Awww, this ask is so sweet! Thank you!

Favorite books:

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov, Sophie’s World by Jostein Gaarder, A Canticle For Leibowitz by Walter Millter, Dune by Frank Herbert, Out of The Silent Planet by CS Lewis, Mere Christianity by CS Lewis, Everything that Rises Must Converge as well as anything else Flannery O’ Connor has ever written, A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket/Daniel Handler, Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt (My grandmother gives her greetings and says she’s sorry) by Fredrik Backman

Favorite movies:

Spaceballs, Toy Story, Dead Poets Society, Hot Fuzz, Baby Driver, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Titanic

#asks #nonnie #about

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ansalm · 2 years

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Fredrik Backman: "Folk med ångest"

Backman ist hierzulande vor allem durch "Ein Mann namens Ove" bekannt geworden. Er hat aber noch viel mehr drauf. Zu meinen Lieblingsbüchern gehört "Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt" ('Oma lässt grüssen und sagt, es tut ihr leid'). Für Jugendliche sind auch "Björnstad" und "Vi mot er" sehr empfehlenswert (ca ab 14J.).

Wie oft bei Backmans Romanen, ist die vordergründige Geschichte - der 'plot' - leichtfüssig, spannend, manchmal bissig-ironisch. Dahinter stehen aber all die Geschichten der einzelnen Individuen, ihre Hoffnungen und Ängste. Diese werden sehr einfühlsam, fast liebevoll erzählt. Der Schluss birgt eine Überraschung, die hier nicht verraten wird.

Leider ist der Titel der deutschen Übersetzung, "Eine ganz dumme Idee", irreführend und wird dem Inhalt nicht gerecht. Die englische Übersetzung entspricht dem Original: "Anxious people".

Ich warte seit dem Sommer drauf - weit und breit noch nicht zu sehen 😎.

#fredrik backman #folkmedångest #literatur #roman #lesen #svenska

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saint-leibowitzing · 6 years

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anna’s endless book list— min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt (my grandmother asked me to tell you she’s sorry) • fredrik backman

Men det är ju bara det här med att alla hjältar i slutet av alla sagor alltid är menade att leva lyckliga i alla sina dagar. Och det blir ju problematiskt, det blir det ju, rent berättartekniskt. Eftersom alla i sagor som har levt färdigt sina dagar lämnar andra efter sig som måste leva sina dagar utan dem.

But that’s just it with all of the heroes at the end of all the stories always meant to live happily ever after. And it becomes problematic, it does, pure narrative technique. Because everyone in stories who has lived out all their days leaves others behind who have to live their days without them.

#all translation errors mine #hi so if you ever want to feel every emotion possible and then cry a lot read this?#my grandmother asked me to tell you she's sorry #min mormor halsar och sager forlat #fredrik backman #my edits #endless book list

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boneless-mika · 6 years

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I love how american publishers have to extend swedish titles to eternity and sometimes even change the meaning.

Män Som Hatar Kvinnor (Men Who Hate Women) = The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Why? Just why.)

Min Mormor Hälsar och Säger Förlåt = My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She’s Sorry (caused by the lack of the word “hälsar” in this context in English)

Björnstad = Beartown / The Scandal (English doesn’t actually put words together like Swedish does, it’s why they react so strongly to German, so it should be “Bear Town” and the other one....)

Kim Novak Badade Aldrig i Genesarets Sjö = The Summer of Kim Novak (Okay, here the original is way longer but it’s also better)

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c-i-t-a-d-e-l · 3 years

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Det är egenodmligt hur snabbt innebörden av en lukt kan förändras, beroende på vilken avfart den väljer på väg genom hjärnan. Det är egendomligt hur nära kärleken och rädslan bor varandra.

Fredrik Backman, Min mormor häslar och säger förlåt, [240]

#min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt #på svenska #Fredrik Backman

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j-k-nelson · 6 years

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reading challenge ‘17

the year is coming to an end and it’s time to tell you about the books i read in 2017. i used popsugar’s challenge - the link is unfortunately not valid anymore so it looks like they removed it from their site - and ended up reading only 27 of the 40 mandatory prompts, and i never even got started on my list for the 12 advanced prompts. i’m not unhappy though, and next year i’ll do my best to finish a full list. if you’ve found any good reading challenges - hit me up!

strikethrough means i didn’t read, italics means i didn’t enjoy it, and bold are the ones i recommend. sometimes there is commentary. i apologise.

det finns ingenting att vara rädd för - johan heltne

huckleberry finns äventyr (the adventures of huckleberry finn) - mark twain

den unge werthers lidanden (die leiden des jungen werthers) - johann wolfgang von goethe

maskrosungen - sandra gustafsson

ett öga rött - jonas hassen khemiri if you’re from sweden and interested in how language evolves: children it is time to read this book. i don’t think it was ever published in english and even if it was the reading experience just wouldn’t be the same.

under all denna vinter - negar naseh

djävulen hjälpte mig - caroline eriksson

sverigedemokraternas svarta bok

playground - lars kepler i was never a huge kepler fan but like. it’s obvious that they are so used to the same main throughout many books because they give us NO time to get used to this main and the people around her so when her kid was close to death i literally didn’t care because there was no sentimental bond between the two of them or them and me.

min katt jugoslavien - pajtim statovic

hypnotisören - lars kepler

the shining - stephen king

som zlatan fast bättre - niclas christoffer

påven johanna - donna cross no offense but this book fucked me up the ass without lube and i said thank you. i was in south africa when i read this and i didn’t give a shit about goddamn white rhinoceroses or whatever, i just wanted to finish this book but also never put it down in my lifetime and i think i might get it surgically attached to my body.

äventyr i svenssonland: seriemördaren peter mangs - joakim palmkvist

frågor jag fått om förintelsen - hédi fred

kejsarn av portugallien - selma lagerlöf

harry potter og de vises stein (harry potter and the sorcerer’s stone) - j k rowling

kaffe med rån - catharina ingelman-sundberg

svarta fanor - august strindberg

förvandlingen (die verwandlung) - franz kafka

around the world in 80 days - jules verne wow to be a celebrated classic this was fucking boring?

near death - e r kitchen

norrland - po tidholm

månen tur och retur - hergé

sapiens - en kort historik över mänskligheten (קיצור תולדות האנושות, sapiens - a brief history of humankind)- yuval noah harari

sherlock holmes, en studie i rött (a study in scarlet) - arthur conan doyle

på västfronten intet nytt (im westen nicht neues) - e m remarque

till esmé - j d salinger i can’t believe the writer of fucking THE CATCHER IN THE RYE wrote this. i loved it. he had to find some way of paying his debts to the world for creating holden caulfield i guess

miss peregrines hem för besynnerliga barn (miss peregrine’s home for peculiar children) - random riggs

follow the rabbit proof fence - doris pilkington

min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt - fredrik backman

främlingen d. 1 (outlander pt. 1) - diana gabaldon

första gången han hörde ljuden var en onsdag - johan frisk

hotell carmen - dan mikael

madicken - astrid lindgren

the circle - dave eggers

magisterlekarna - kristoffer folkhammar WHEN I DOWNLOADED THIS I WAS NOT EXPECTING GAY BDSM BUT THAT’S WHAT I GOT :)

ett gräseligt spektakel - j k nelson

närmare - fredrik nyström i can’t say this was good or bad because i don’t fucking remember it. i crossed it out on my list but i have no memory of ever picking up this book so. probably not memorable then

#reading challenge '17

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myrna-nora · 5 years

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2018:Books

January 1. Diary of a Provincial Lady (1930) E.M. Delafield 2. Mary Poppins Comes Back (1935) P.L. Travers 3. Her Every Fear (2017) Peter Swanson 4. Magpie Murders (2016) Anthony Horowitz 5. Dr. No (1958) Ian Fleming

February 6. The Bertie Project (2016) Alexander McCall Smith 7. Carbonel: The King of Cats (1955) Barbara Sleigh 8. Victoria: The Heart and Mind of a Young Queen (2016) Helen Rappaport 9. A Slight Trick of the Mind (2005) Mitch Cullin 10. I'd Rather Be Reading (2017) Guinevere de la Mare 11. Every Secret Thing (2006) Emma Cole (Susanna Kearsley) 12. Still Me (2018) Jojo Moyes 13. But Gentlemen Marry Brunettes (1927) Anita Loos 14. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place (2018) Alan Bradley 15. Beartown (Björnstad) (2016) Fredrik Backman 16. Lord Peter Views the Body (1928) Dorothy L. Sayers March 17. The Strange Disappearance of a Bollywood Star (2017) Vaseem Khan 18. My Italian Bulldozer (2017) Alexander McCall Smith 19. Wires and Nerve: Gone Rogue (2018) Marissa Meyer 20. The Long Drop (2017) Denise Mina 21. The Blank Wall (1947) Elisabeth Sanxay Holding 22. See What I Have Done (2017) Sarah Schmidt April 23. The Little Book of Hygge: The Danish Way to Live Well (2016) Meik Wiking 24. The Unknown Ajax (1959) Georgette Heyer 25. The Pajama Frame (2018) Diane Vallere 26. For Your Eyes Only (1960) Ian Fleming May 27. The Woman Who Smashed Codes (2017) Jason Fagone 28. The Radium Girls (2017) Kate Moore June 29. I'll Be Gone in the Dark (2018) Michelle McNamara 30. The House of Unexpected Sisters (2017) Alexander McCall Smith 31. My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry (Min mormor hälsar och säger förlåt) (2013) Fredrik Backman July 32. Codename Villanelle (2014-2016) Luke Jennings 33. The Art of Discarding (Suteru! Gijutsu) (2000) Nagisa Tatsumi 34. Victoria & Albert: A Royal Love Affair (2017) Daisy Goodwin 35. Christy (1967) Catherine Marshall 36. The Word Is Murder (2017) Anthony Horowitz 37. The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club (1928) Dorothy L. Sayers August 38. The Death of Mrs. Westaway (2018) Ruth Ware 39. Midnight Riot (Rivers of London) (2011) Ben Aaronovitch 40. Mrs. Pollifax and the Hong Kong Buddha (1985) Dorothy Gilman 41. 84, Charing Cross Road (1970) Helene Hanff September 42. Whistle in the Dark (2018) Emma Healey 43. Jaws (1974) Peter Benchley 44. Transcription (2018) Kate Atkinson 45. Purple Hibiscus (2003) Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie October 46. Lethal White (2018) Robert Galbraith 47. The World of Lore: Monstrous Creatures (2017) Aaron Mahnke 48. Onions in the Stew (1955) Betty MacDonald 49. Bodies from the Library (2018) Tony Medawar (Editor) 50. Mrs. Pollifax and the Golden Triangle (1988) Dorothy Gilman November 51. Melmoth (2018) Sarah Perry 52. The Clockmaker's Daughter (2018) Kate Morton December 53. Becoming Mrs. Lewis (2018) Patti Callahan 54. Henrietta Who? (1968) Catherine Aird 55. Lover Come Hack (2018) Diane Vallere 56. My Sister, the Serial Killer (2018) Oyinkan Braithwaite

#yearly list #books

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louiseeklund · 6 years

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28 Augusti 2018 Tisdag