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She sounds like a real matriarch, maybe someone like Richard Gilmore's mother and Lorelai and Rory's grandmother in Gilmore Girls, only hopefully nicer =D

My mom lives in a small town and doesn't have many friends other than her sisters, and her mother was that way too. Sometimes I wonder if I'll be the same when I get older because I am a private person and sometimes reserved. But I don't wish to be like that, I wish to be something like your grandmother, too! Or rather like my BF's mother, she's incredibly active socially and otherwise. To be still able to giggle at life and oneself when older would be nice The part about your grandmother making you change before dinner is hilarious =D

Yep nordic novels are easier to find in Finnish than in English. Reading nordic novels every now and then is like coming home, they are so different from British or American or other foreign novels.

If you like funny novels, I highly recommend Ingvar Ambjørnsen's novels of Elling (you may have heard of the Elling movies?), there's at least two in Finnish, Tiputanssi and Veriveljet.