Feeling Kind-of Bookish...
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hantsbearI seem to be reading more of late; that is, when I'm not dozing in some kind of weather induced topor. Two books on the go at the moment - "Lost in a Good Book" by Jasper Fforde and "The Settlers" by Vilhelm Moberg. One serious; one not so serious. Symptomatic of my current frame of mind? Maybe.
I started reading Moberg's Emigrant novels to try and understand the musical "Kristina Från Duvemåla", which is of course in Swedish and my Swedish is somewhat limited. Being as it does not seem to be being staged in English any time soon, I thought I'd better get reading. The story is of a group of emigrants from Småland in southern Sweden, and chronicles their trials and tribulations as they leave Scandinavia for the USA in the mid 19th century. They settle in Minnesota, but the story continues as they make their new lives in the Brave New World.
The Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde - I got started on these through Russ; mainly amused by the concept of a heroine and her pet Dodo. (I still have visions of Bill Oddie saying "You know, I've realised the reason Dodos became exctinct - they're absolutely delicious!!") It is 1985, but life is not as we know it. The Crimean War still rages; Wales is a socialist republic and the Goliath Corporation supplies All You Ever Need (tm). Thursday Next, literary detective, and Crimean War veteran, tries to rescue her aunt who has been imprisoned in a Wordsworth poem and prevent the course of literature from being perverted by Acheron Hades.
I started reading Moberg's Emigrant novels to try and understand the musical "Kristina Från Duvemåla", which is of course in Swedish and my Swedish is somewhat limited. Being as it does not seem to be being staged in English any time soon, I thought I'd better get reading. The story is of a group of emigrants from Småland in southern Sweden, and chronicles their trials and tribulations as they leave Scandinavia for the USA in the mid 19th century. They settle in Minnesota, but the story continues as they make their new lives in the Brave New World.
The Thursday Next novels by Jasper Fforde - I got started on these through Russ; mainly amused by the concept of a heroine and her pet Dodo. (I still have visions of Bill Oddie saying "You know, I've realised the reason Dodos became exctinct - they're absolutely delicious!!") It is 1985, but life is not as we know it. The Crimean War still rages; Wales is a socialist republic and the Goliath Corporation supplies All You Ever Need (tm). Thursday Next, literary detective, and Crimean War veteran, tries to rescue her aunt who has been imprisoned in a Wordsworth poem and prevent the course of literature from being perverted by Acheron Hades.
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Date: 2003-06-17 11:03 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2003-06-17 11:29 am (UTC)Apropos of nothing...
Date: 2003-06-17 12:08 pm (UTC)This is what happens when I'm tired and subsisting on sheer will and caffeine.
Deny me sleep and caffeine and feel my wrath, you will, oh, yes.
Ummmmm......
Date: 2003-06-18 04:18 pm (UTC)Re: Ummmmm......
Date: 2003-06-19 10:47 am (UTC);-{)}
Re: Ummmmm......
Date: 2003-06-19 04:04 pm (UTC)Does that mean that I get to read it, first? *LOL!*
Speaking of which, I have the audio books. Do you want copies?