Murders, books and plans

[starsthatshine]

I just(-ish) saw Midsomer Murders and oh, how I love that show. And this episode was particularly funny for some reason. The sarcasm was just pouring in, which was lovely. I think the episode in question was called 'Death and Dust'. I really have to get my hands on those novels which the series are based on. I saw there were two in my local (-ish) library and it will further distract me on my path on reading SWEDISH books. You see, I will fail my Swedish courses if I don't improve and actually read.

Which, Swedish friends or at least Swedish readers, my future Swedish grade is begging you to give me some recommendations on good Swedish books, or at least some that has been translated, because quite frankly, I'm in desperate need of something literature-ish. I tried reading The Devil Wears Prada in Swedish but it's boring me and I've only managed to go to page 40 in my attempts (count them, three). I tried to find the Dexter books alas my library isn't that cool.

Tomorrow, I'll be a training rabbit and work my ass off in the home-gym that we have, also I'll be perhaps watching Supernatural and then maybe some Sarah Connor Chronicles (to see if it's any good) and then perhaps sigh a bit about John Simm and then some about Ellos.se (oh, the clothes that they have there...)

Comments

[geeky-webmaster.livejournal.com]

The only time I ever read Swedish books is for Swedish class, but the ones that we did read I actually liked. I'd recommend Candide by Voltaire, Det går an by Carl Jonas Love Almqvist and Herr Arnes penningar by Selma Lagerlöf. They're all fairly short but they're good.

[aliasagent.livejournal.com]

I'll definitely check them out. I was this close to borrow 'Gösta Bärlings saga' from the library, but thinking that the purpose of my reading was to improve my Swedish, something more contemporary might've been a good idea. And I ended up with no book at all :P Besides French ones.