New book community

Since learning about Amazon buying Goodreads, I’ve found myself looking for alternatives – just in case. It’s not that I’m going to delete my GR account, but I just don’t know how this will turn out. In any case, after trying a number of other sites, I found Booklikes and I absolutely love it. It’s

Free legal book downloads

Recently I read a post on Tumblr where someone listed links where you could download free books. Some of those books were modern or at least still copyrighted books. As far as I know copyrighted books aren’t available for free downloads. Now I’m not familiar with the copyright laws in all countries throughout the world,

Doing some shopping – and more

Yesterday I went shopping in the bigger town (“Thn”) that is about ten-fifteen minutes away (by car – a little longer by bus). It’s pathetic really, how different it feels from shopping here. This is probably just me, but I feel more confident there and even thinner (LOL), even though it’s basically the same as

The books are to remind us what asses and fool we are. Ray Bradbury, Fahrenheit 451

Free library books online

Since I found out that library books are available as free downloads here in Sweden, I’ve wanted to try. For various reasons, I’d really prefer not to have to go to the library and pick up actual books (though when it comes to buying new copies at the book store, it’s the other way around.)

World Book Day

Because it’s World Book Day, I’d like to share a little story about a few of the first books I read myself, as opposed to all the others grownups read to me. Of course I didn’t love those any less. When I turned four, I got – among other things – Tintin in Tibet and

Meme: Which ones have you read?

The BBC predicts most people have only read 6 out of 100 of these books. 01 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen (seen the movie, tv series and read the book) 02 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien (of course) 03 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte 04 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling

Disappointing books

Warning: Self-pity Lately almost all the books I’ve read have been disappointments, at least to some extent. I can’t believe I’ve completely lost my judgment so I can only imagine that somehow the books (or their writers) or I have changed. It’s probably the latter. The me of today has changed too much. I’m sadder

Warning: self-pity

Lately almost all the books I’ve read have been disappointments, at least to some extent. I can’t believe I’ve completely lost my judgment so I can only imagine that somehow the books (or their writers) or I have changed. It’s probably the latter. The me of today has changed too much. I’m sadder and more

Disappointing books

Warning: Self-pity Lately almost all the books I’ve read have been disappointments, at least to some extent. I can’t believe I’ve completely lost my judgment so I can only imagine that somehow the books (or their writers) or I have changed. It’s probably the latter. The me of today has changed too much. I’m sadder