New British detective series in the pipeline

| June 30, 2010

Tomorrow is the premiere of the British detective series, Luther, which holds Idris Elba stars as John Luther. The series consists of six parts and the first part appears tomorrow night at. 21 on television 4th This happens in the first episode: John Luther has just returned to work after a traumatic experience, and his first [...]

Tedious detective story by Ann Cleeves

| June 29, 2010

Author: Ann Cleeves Swedish title: Black as night Otiginalets title: Raven Black Year: 2006 Publisher: Albert Bonnier Publishing Translation: Jan Järnebrand Number of pages: 383 Source: Library of Interest: Voltage, series Average Rating It's a cold January morning and the town of Lerwick on Shetland lies under a deep blanket of snow. The crows flying up above the single mother Fran Hunter [...]

The blog turns 1 year!

| June 28, 2010

How time flies! Today, exactly one year ago I wrote my first post that has since been joined by a further 422 pieces. This suggests a somewhat slow start, but this time for the first anniversary is the time to raise the level of ambition with a vengeance. Sweden's biggest bloggers spend several [...]

Oral vs. written

| June 27, 2010

I am a language police. I do not read the words that I know it is envisaged that it will stand, no, I read it out to be significant. Is it for example "Kurkor" instead of "pots" or "Pepp cake" instead of "Gingerbread", it is this extreme abuse of the Swedish language is the only [...]

New Bokus is a flop

| June 26, 2010

To my great sorrow Bokus changed the look and the change is not for the better: it's harder to find what you want, the page is tougher than before, titles, we know there will be no hit on, some books have no author's name but is involves taking the name of and so on. and so on. Then there is [...]

What exactly is a text?

| June 26, 2010

Some time ago I read a post that Thoughts on the text was written. It was not the post itself, but the name of the blog that got my mind to wander off to a course in popular literature, which I started, but unfortunately I could not finish. There I learned that fact until [...]

Just as football crazy as me?

| June 25, 2010

If you, like me, love football, I think you will be visiting libraries tip that lists a variety of books related to this noble sport to do. My football interest began when I was about five years old. I remember how I, my brother and my parents parked us on the couch just before [...]

Bokomslagens relevant

| June 25, 2010

Many, especially English and American, bloggers put great emphasis on a nice book cover. Some go so far as to even the wrapper that determines whether they will read the book or not For me, the cover itself totally uninteresting. I watch primarily on who has written the book and [...]

Prior to blogathon

| June 24, 2010

I hope that you have selected the 12 - 16 July in your calendar for when pulling namely Blog Marathon running, which is an excellent opportunity to get the changes you want made. You may want to strive to get more visitors, a nicer design, more comments, the time to write many many interesting articles [...]

Review: Extortion by Lynda La Plante

| June 23, 2010

Author: Lynda La Plante Swedish title: Extortion Otiginalets title: Cold Heart Year: 1998 Publisher: Richter Translation: Carla Wiberg Pages: 346 Source: Library of Interest: Voltage, series Previous titles published in the series: outcast & Voodoo Average Rating Cindy suspected murder of her husband, film producer Harry. She engages a private detective, Elaine Page, which finds that many had [...]