The second trimester of the books I've read over the spring. A recap before starting with the summer book list.
Umayya Abu-Hanna: Sinut
Alan Bennett: Epätavallinen lukija
Katja Boxberg & Taneli Heikka: Lumedemokratia - Kun konsensus vei rahan ja vallan suomalaisilta
Minna Canth: Anna Liisa
Eve Ensler: The Good Body
Steven Hall: Haiteksti
G.H. Hardy: Matemaatikon apologia
Marko Hautala: Itsevalaisevat
Risto Isomäki: Litium 6
Carolyn Keene: Neiti Etsivä ja lepakkometsän salaisuus
Aleksis Kivi: Seitsemän veljestä
Leena Krohn: Tainaron
Leena Krohn: Unelmakuolema
Susan Kuronen: Pääministerin morsian
Leena Lehtolainen: Ennen lähtöä
Leena Lehtolainen: Ensimmäinen murhani
Leena Lehtolainen: Luminainen
Leena Lehtolainen: Tuulen puolella
Rosa Meriläinen: Puheet ovat tekoja
Alan Moore & David Lloyd: V for Vendetta
Toni Morrison: Song of Solomon
Eppu Nuotio: Kosto
Outi Pakkanen: Kuolema käy jatkoilla
John Polidori: Vampyyri
Carl Sagan: Billions & Billions - Thoughts on Life and Death at the Brink of the Millenium
Jarkko Sipilä: Koukku
Junichiro Tanizaki: Avain
Voltaire: Candide
28? Sounds a bit... well, not much. And not many classics, either. And the whole list seems.. incoherent. Except of course with the Leena Lehtolainen part. I decided it was time to found out why she is so popular. I have to admit I still don't like the genre much but she's a good writer and I especially like the way she integrates everyday feminism in the Maria Kallio stories. All the credit for popularising that!
But now I'll continue with the books already on my desk and then with the ones on the list I posted earlier. More on those later, I'm sure. Until then I'll spend a little more time putting together that online reading journal again. I'm a year behind in the updates (thought let it be noted that I did start it last year and there's only so much time I can spend on it...). Gotta work on it.
2 kommenttia
millikan
28.5.2009 10:46
"Neiti Etsivä ja lepakkometsän salaisuus"? Was the name of the book the attracting factor or something else?
Splenetic
28.5.2009 19:22
I plea guilty. ;) A teacher of mine mentioned a couple of years ago that she's planning to do a little trip down the memory lane and read some of her childhood/youth books again, this time from a rather different point of view (well, ten years later you might expect a change in the viewpoint, alright...).
Anyway, I decided to do the same. I go to the library, to the right wing, to the right section... and there are about a hundred Nancy Drews. So my "attracting factor" was indeed the name of the book. If not in the subliminal semantics but at least with the animal species since they are kind of cute (and your enemy's enemy is my friend). It was better than I remembered, nowhere near as annoying as I thought (though Nancy's 'girl next door' habitus is irritating, not to mention the all too stereotypical female roles). One of the reasons for the low irritation level was undoubtedly the fact that a) their stereotypical white-and-straight-and-everything's-fucking-fabulous families were out of the picture, and b) their stereotypical white-and-straight-and-everything's-fucking-fabulous boyfriends were out of the picture. Just the three girls, one girl as a suspect and one older woman (George's aunt) as the catalyst and mentor. The less men, the better (though, surprisingly enough, it is male greed that turns out to be the "killer" of the story). I won't try my luck again in anywhere near-future since it would be likely both of the abovementioned irritation factors' presence would make my head explode.