I haven’t written a lot about Swedish books on here have I. The reason for that is probably mainly that I hardly ever read any Swedish books. And why? Well because when I can I prefer to read books in their original language, and I just happen to read mostly English books for some reason. [...]

I don’t know if you remember, but a while ago (quite a long while ago) I posted a list of the 100 “best books of all time” according to a survey The Guardian had done…?
A few days ago we went to Uppsala and took the opportunity to visit our favourite bookshop here in Sweden, the [...]

My sister Viktoria (who returned home from England a couple of days ago. How long she will stay here before she goes back again though I don’t quite know yet) is doing a course in Swedish right now. And for that course there are several books she has to read, but she also gets to [...]

I received another lovely new book a couple of days ago from Amazon (now isn’t that nice of Amazon to just send me books?! )! Happy me! This book is one that I’ve long wanted, ever since I was first told of it by a lady who works in a bookstore and [...]

I promised you that I would write a post letting you know what I thought about Our Mutual Friend once I had read and watched it. And since I have now done both, here goes.

I haven’t had much time t devote to reading lately, so it has taken me quite a long time to read [...]

I promised I’d write down the answers to which books I quoted in my previous post. So here they are.

1. Jane Eyre (Charlotte Brontë)
2. David Copperfield (Charles Dickens)
3. Little Women (Louisa May Alcott)
4. Middlemarch (George Eliot)
5. North and South (Elizabeth Gaskell)
6. A Tale of Two Cities (Charles Dickens)

7. Anne of Green Gables (L.M. Montgomery)
8. The [...]

”It is a truth universally acknowledged that a single man in possession of a good fortune must be in want of a wife”. That is probably one of (if not the) most famous opening sentences ever. We all know where it comes from, and it’s been quoted again and again and again.
I was thinking about [...]

I just came back from a walk to discover a package had arrived for me from Amazon! What a lovely surprise! I love getting packages from them, somehow it feels like getting presents, even though I know I’ve paid for it myself… (oh yes, all of £0.01!)
The book I got was Our Mutual [...]

The reason I haven’t written anything about the Dickens adaptations we bough a little while back is because I haven’t yet seen many of them. But one of them we’ve just finished watching. The six hour long The Pickwick Papers.

I’ve never seen a screen adaptation of this book before, but I have read the book. [...]

Not too long ago I was in a bookshop, browsing through the classics section (my favourite part) when I spotted these two books on the shelf. They were new versions of Pride and Prejudice and Wuthering Heights (from Harper Teen, I think…?) but they looked like they were supposed to be a part of the [...]