Cannonball Read 18

Sticking It to Cancer One Book at a Time


Tsas letmi hisamatö rokkänrol mjuusik!

Popular Music by Mikael Niemi

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A little primer. There is a lot of history – good and bad – between Finland and Sweden that goes back to the time the Crusades. Finland was the Eastern part of Sweden for roughly 700 years. The basis for government, legal framework and education were established during our time as part of Sweden. The written Finnish language took it first steps, even though it was for a long time the language of the lower classes. Swedish was for upper classes, aristos, the university folks […]

Growing up (in the north of Sweden) is hard to do

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Matti grows up in a tiny town in the remote north of Sweden in the 1960s and 70s. The chapters in this book are more like little short stories about different aspects of his childhood and adolescence, chronicled with humour and the occasional forays into strange, magical realism-inspired fantasy sequences. The inhabitants of his town and the surrounding areas seem to be either deeply puritanically religious or Communists, not caring for the trappings of religion at all. The gruff and peculiar inhabitants are set in […]



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