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1 minute ago, Alexander the Great said:

 

I found it here: http://www.mynameday.com/a.html

 

Not sure how official that is, but I like the date ^^ I'll have to celebrate for 26 years worth then!

 

You have a lot of catching up to! But the good thing is, you have almost half a year to plan your celebration, so I'm sure you'll come up with something suitably amazing :D 

 

According to your source, I don't have a name day at all :(   Mine's cancelled! 

 

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Just now, frankie said:

 

You have a lot of catching up to! But the good thing is, you have almost half a year to plan your celebration, so I'm sure you'll come up with something suitably amazing :D 

 

According to your source, I don't have a name day at all :(   Mine's cancelled! 

 

:lol:

 

Maybe it's on this website? http://www.namedaycalendar.com/

 

I sense there will be books and coffee involved! Also ice cream.

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1 minute ago, Alexander the Great said:

 

I sense there will be books and coffee involved! Also ice cream.

 

Sounds like a plan! :)  Book presents, obviously. A trip to a book fair, maybe? I wonder if you could find a book fair for that date, somewhere in the world. 

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Just now, frankie said:

 

If you were Finnish, your name date would be 11.9. and that's not a good date for anything. :no: Happy you're not Finnish! :D

 

I would love to be Finnish, but I'd keep the January 2nd nameday. I like that one best!

 

I probably already told you this sometime, but ten years ago I was planning on studying Finnish at university and moving to Finland ^^ Ah, the influence of Nightwish on a teenager!

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Just now, Alexander the Great said:

 

I would love to be Finnish, but I'd keep the January 2nd nameday. I like that one best!

 

January 2nd it is :D 

 

Just now, Alexander the Great said:

 

I probably already told you this sometime, but ten years ago I was planning on studying Finnish at university and moving to Finland ^^ Ah, the influence of Nightwish on a teenager!

 

:lol: You are very kind, good sir! Finland would be glad to have you here. As a small country, we appreciate when we are appreciated by people in foreign countries. Finland has a low self-esteem and we love compliments! :D:blush: 

 

Kiitos! 

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43 minutes ago, frankie said:

 

January 2nd it is :D 

 

 

:lol: You are very kind, good sir! Finland would be glad to have you here. As a small country, we appreciate when we are appreciated by people in foreign countries. Finland has a low self-esteem and we love compliments! :D:blush: 

 

Kiitos! 

 

It's still a dream to visit one day! I don't like fish though... not as food, not as animals, and I'm always worried I'll starve!

 

The language is so mesmerising, too. I love how different it is as a Finno-Ugric language it from Germanic languages (I do love German and Danish and such too). I still can sing along to Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan - even though I have no idea what the individual words in the song mean, just generally what it's about. I learnt the word Kiitos from Nightwish' "End of an Era" dvd and know how to pronounce Tampere thanks to Floor Jansen :D

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6 minutes ago, Alexander the Great said:

 

It's still a dream to visit one day! I don't like fish though... not as food, not as animals, and I'm always worried I'll starve!

 

I don't like fish either, and I've survived for 35 years :D  I will eat it when it's put in front of me and I will sometimes make it myself as it's supposed to be good for you, but it's my least favorite animal protein to eat. You'll do fine! :D

 

6 minutes ago, Alexander the Great said:

 

The language is so mesmerising, too. I love how different it is as a Finno-Ugric language it from Germanic languages (I do love German and Danish and such too). I still can sing along to Kuolema Tekee Taiteilijan - even though I have no idea what the individual words in the song mean, just generally what it's about. I learnt the word Kiitos from Nightwish' "End of an Era" dvd and know how to pronounce Tampere thanks to Floor Jansen :D

 

That's proper awesome that you can sing along to Kuolema tekee taiteilijan!! :o I'm  amazed!  I don't think I know anyone else who could sing a Finnish song! :o  Should you ever come to Finland, I'd be more than happy to show you around :)   You could teach me Dutch! 

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So sorry, hope you don't mind me jumping in Frankie. I knew a Finnish guy once. There is definitely something different about Finnish people. We talked online for a few months and I met him by chance in London one day (at a wargaming show) I had two of my kids with me. He had only just moved to the UK with his wife.  He was a a young guy but very confident , relaxed and warm.  My kids were mesmerised by his personality. Then suddenly he pulled out this huge knife. I said " Thomas! This is England!  You can't carry a thing like that about in the streets. You better put it away!" . He grinned and put it away sheepishly. He said everybody carried a knife like that in his village to skin rabbits and suchlike. We talked about Finland and he said that the Finns were behind everybody else, not in intelligence or anything but they had only recently got civilized in the last couple of hundred years. That was his theory. He said that's why the Russians didn't mess with them any more.

Just a personal anecdote. Nothing whatsoever to do with your conversation!  

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59 minutes ago, vodkafan said:

So sorry, hope you don't mind me jumping in Frankie. I knew a Finnish guy once. There is definitely something different about Finnish people. We talked online for a few months and I met him by chance in London one day (at a wargaming show) I had two of my kids with me. He had only just moved to the UK with his wife.  He was a a young guy but very confident , relaxed and warm.  My kids were mesmerised by his personality. Then suddenly he pulled out this huge knife. I said " Thomas! This is England!  You can't carry a thing like that about in the streets. You better put it away!" . He grinned and put it away sheepishly. He said everybody carried a knife like that in his village to skin rabbits and suchlike. We talked about Finland and he said that the Finns were behind everybody else, not in intelligence or anything but they had only recently got civilized in the last couple of hundred years. That was his theory. He said that's why the Russians didn't mess with them any more.

Just a personal anecdote. Nothing whatsoever to do with your conversation!  

 

Well, that guy  was obviously a creep. You don't carry a knife here in Finland just like that and get away with it. You just don't do that kind of stupidness. I hope you don't think that it's okay to carry a knife around like that here in Finland. I'd be equally upset over here if I saw someone carrying a knife. 

 

I think this guy was personally behind with things by miles.... He could not have been right in the mind.

 

I'm not saying all Finns are awesome. We have our more than fair share of alcoholics and I think Finland is one of the leading countries in the statistics re: suicides and stuff. But still. As a Finn, I don't consider it normal to have a guy pulling out a knife. Sorry you had to deal with him :(

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20 minutes ago, frankie said:

 

Well, that guy  was obviously a creep. You don't carry a knife here in Finland just like that and get away with it. You just don't do that kind of stupidness. I hope you don't think that it's okay to carry a knife around like that here in Finland. I'd be equally upset over here if I saw someone carrying a knife. 

 

I think this guy was personally behind with things by miles.... He could not have been right in the mind.

 

I'm not saying all Finns are awesome. We have our more than fair share of alcoholics and I think Finland is one of the leading countries in the statistics re: suicides and stuff. But still. As a Finn, I don't consider it normal to have a guy pulling out a knife. Sorry you had to deal with him :(

 

Ah that was several years back. I don't know what happened to him, I didn't talk with him online after that. 

When are you coming over again? I take it you won't bring a bladed weapon :hide:

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11 minutes ago, vodkafan said:

When are you coming over again? I take it you won't bring a bladed weapon :hide:

 

I was hoping I'd be able to visit this summer, but it's not to be, unfortunately. My summer holiday weeks were scheduled for earlier than I'd thought, and I've not been able to secure a lease for my apartment for more than 4 months, so I need to be saving money for a possible move in November. 

 

My weapon of choice will be a book. A paperback. 

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21 hours ago, frankie said:

Very interesting! And you don't get this kind of detailed info and data from anywhere else but here! :D   How educational is this place, right? :D

 

It's very educational :D.

 

21 hours ago, frankie said:

I can't wait for you to read the book so we can compare notes, and I'll get to know how you liked it! :)  And I want to know what you think about the things I mentioned in the spoiler tag.  And don't get me wrong, it was good, I gave it 4/5 after all! I think my review sounded like I might've given it a lower mark :unsure::D  

 

I'll be sure to let you know when I read it :D.

 

21 hours ago, frankie said:

I'm now curious what you came up with! :D  CP means cerebral palsy, which is what my Boss has. The author of the book I bought has a more severe form of CP than my Boss and I think he cannot speak (I've not read the book yet so I'm not 100% sure). 

 

Well the internets came up with cp meaning copy and paste in Linux (which I knew), and with 'child porn' (I'm not sure if I can write that here..?). I guess I should've searched a bit longer, maybe I would've found the right answer. It must be very difficult not being able to speak :(. I hope the book will be interesting.

 

21 hours ago, frankie said:

I was going to explain it in my own words but then it sounded so weird, so I hope you don't mind if I just give you the link to the wiki page!  And here's the gist of it:

 

Wow, I had no idea there was such a thing as a name day (I mean, in real life)! We don't have that here. That's very cool :). I read the part of Finland on the Wikipage, very interesting! Thanks for your explanations :)! How interesting you don't have many unisex names in Finland. We have a few here, though I'm not sure of how many.

 

I couldn't find my name on any of the websites you and Alexander mentioned, the closest I could find was "Gaja" which is almost the same but with one letter difference, which would be either December 24th or December 29th depending on which country of origin you pick (Lithuania or Slovak Republic).

 

20 hours ago, frankie said:

I want to write a bit about my holiday, or rather something specific about that.

 

Interesting about the cats! It's nice you got along with those you met :). I'm more of a dog person too, but when I was a kid I really liked cats. We had two of them. But then I got allergic (that was after they died, I think I was maybe 7ish years old), and I couldn't be near cats anymore, let alone pet them. I could just look at pictures of them. A few years later we got guinea pigs which I liked a lot. When I was 15 we got our first dog, and I've been a dog person ever since. When I was little I was afraid of my aunt's dogs, who were quite a lot smaller than the dog we got when I was 15. I don't know why I was afraid, I was only small. When we got our own dog I became unafraid of dogs, and started to love them instead. Ah, how things can change! It was interesting reading about your experiences with cats :).

 

 

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6 hours ago, Athena said:

Well the internets came up with cp meaning copy and paste in Linux (which I knew), and with 'child porn' (I'm not sure if I can write that here..?). I guess I should've searched a bit longer, maybe I would've found the right answer. It must be very difficult not being able to speak :(. I hope the book will be interesting.

 

Did you do a google search? When I did one, just to see what would turn up, the first hits were about cerebral palsy, and there was on reference to copy+paste. 

 

6 hours ago, Athena said:

 

Wow, I had no idea there was such a thing as a name day (I mean, in real life)! We don't have that here. That's very cool :). I read the part of Finland on the Wikipage, very interesting! Thanks for your explanations :)! How interesting you don't have many unisex names in Finland. We have a few here, though I'm not sure of how many.

 

Just goes to show, yet again, how educational a forum we have :D  We learn about things without even meaning to! :D

 

6 hours ago, Athena said:

 

I couldn't find my name on any of the websites you and Alexander mentioned, the closest I could find was "Gaja" which is almost the same but with one letter difference, which would be either December 24th or December 29th depending on which country of origin you pick (Lithuania or Slovak Republic).

 

You could celebrate on those days, or maybe choose your own date for your name day :D Everyone deserves a name day celebration!! 

 

6 hours ago, Athena said:

Interesting about the cats! It's nice you got along with those you met :). I'm more of a dog person too, but when I was a kid I really liked cats. We had two of them. But then I got allergic (that was after they died, I think I was maybe 7ish years old), and I couldn't be near cats anymore, let alone pet them. I could just look at pictures of them. A few years later we got guinea pigs which I liked a lot. When I was 15 we got our first dog, and I've been a dog person ever since. When I was little I was afraid of my aunt's dogs, who were quite a lot smaller than the dog we got when I was 15. I don't know why I was afraid, I was only small. When we got our own dog I became unafraid of dogs, and started to love them instead. Ah, how things can change! It was interesting reading about your experiences with cats :).

 

Yep, the things and how they change :)  I think it's only natural to begin to like something more when one gets more accustomed to said thing. It's easier to like the known than the unknown. I've never liked horses and I'm wary of them, but if I think about it rationally, if I were to meet a lot of horses and spend time with them, I'd probably get over my fearing them a bit, and I might even start to like them. 

 

But for now, I'm happy to love dogs :D  

 

 

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24. The Lies We Told by Diane Chamberlain 

 

Blurb: Orphaned by the brutal murder of their parents, Maya and Rebecca Ward only had each other. But on the night they saw their parents killed, the teenage sisters buried secrets that should never see the light of day. 

 

Twenty years later, Rebecca is faced with the news that her sister is missing, feared dead. She is left to mourn and hope for a miracle. The only person she can lean on is Maya's husband. But, as the days pass and hope fades, Rebecca's grief brings to the surface feelings that she must bury. Deeper than the lies they once told...

 

Thoughts: I think this book was well written in the sense that I didn't want to put it down, but maybe that's because I think I've gotten my reading mojo back. I didn't much like the book, I'm afraid. I didn't find the story very compelling, at all. I think that's mostly because I was expecting something completely different. I think I expected this to be more of a thriller type of thing. :unsure:

 

I'll write the things that I didn't like in the spoiler tag so as not to spoil the read for anyone else. 

 

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Personally I didn't find the DIDA stuff interesting. I guess I don't like to read about natural disasters and hospital stuff, it's just not my cup of tea. I thought Rebecca falling for Adam was predictable. Also, when Maya was alive and stranded on an island and she had no way to leave, I instantly knew something was up and that she would be held 'prisoner'. I had a feeling Tully (and possibly Simmee) were hiding from the law and that the reason Maya was held back was because they wanted her to help with the birth. I was kind of annoyed that I'd sussed it and that I was only to read on to see how they did it. I am glad, though, that there was more to Simmee's story, what with Jackson. That I did not see coming, so it wasn't a total snooze fest. 

 

2/5

 

 

Edit: Hey, at least it was a TBR read :D A silver lining... 

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16 hours ago, frankie said:

Did you do a google search? When I did one, just to see what would turn up, the first hits were about cerebral palsy, and there was on reference to copy+paste. 

 

I did, on the Dutch Google, but I only clicked on the first link, which gave me copy+paste plus the other thing. I should've tried some more links, but I was tired so I decided to just ask you :blush:.

 

16 hours ago, frankie said:

Just goes to show, yet again, how educational a forum we have :D  We learn about things without even meaning to! :D

 

It's awesome :D.

 

16 hours ago, frankie said:

You could celebrate on those days, or maybe choose your own date for your name day :D Everyone deserves a name day celebration!! 

 

Aww thanks :D.

 

16 hours ago, frankie said:

Yep, the things and how they change :)  I think it's only natural to begin to like something more when one gets more accustomed to said thing. It's easier to like the known than the unknown. I've never liked horses and I'm wary of them, but if I think about it rationally, if I were to meet a lot of horses and spend time with them, I'd probably get over my fearing them a bit, and I might even start to like them. 

 

I'm afraid of horses too. But I've never really been near them. According to the hospital, I'm very allergic to them, so I've never gone near them for that reason, and I don't feel the need to. It's true, it is only natural, and it is easier to like the known than the unknown.

 

16 hours ago, frankie said:

But for now, I'm happy to love dogs :D  

 

Aww great photo :).

 

16 hours ago, frankie said:

24. The Lies We Told by Diane Chamberlain

 

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy this book :(. I can see it would be a disappointment if you were expecting a thriller. Diane Chamberlain doesn't really write thrillers, she writes more contemporary fiction, about characters and secret pasts / secrets and relationships between the characters (family, friendship and love) and such (she is sometimes compared to Jodi Picoult, though their books are similar in some ways, they widely differ in others). It's nice you're able to look at the silver lining, but I'm sorry you didn't like the book :(.

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25. Talking as Fast as I Can by Lauren Graham 

 

Book jacket: In Talking as Fast as I Can, Lauren Graham hits pause for a moment and looks back on her life, sharing laugh-out-loud stories about growing up, starting out as an actress and, years later, sitting in her trailer on the Parenthood set and asking herself, 'Did you, um, make it?' She opens up about the challenges of being single in Hollywood ('Strangers were worried about me; that's how long I was single!'), the time she was asked to audition her butt for a role and her experience being a judge on Project Runway ('It's like I had a fashion-induced blackout'). 

 

In 'What It Was Like, Part One', Graham sits down for an epic Gilmore Girls marathon and reflects on being cast as the fast-talking Lorelai Gilmore. The essay 'What It Was Like, Part Two' reveals how it felt to pick up the role again nine years later, and what doing so has meant to her. 

 

Some more things you will learn about Lauren: she once tried to go vegan just to bond with Ellen DeGeneres; she's aware that meeting guys at awards shows has its pitfalls ('If you're meeting someone for the first time after three hours of hair, makeup and styling, you've already set the bar too high') and she's a card-carrying REI shopper ('My bungee cords now earn points!').

 

Including photos and excerpts from the diary Graham kept during the filming of the recent Gilmore Girls: A Year in the Life, this book is like a cosy night in, catching up with your best friend, laughing and swapping stories and - of course - talking as fast as you can. 

 

Thoughts: A really great read for a fan of Gilmore Girls! :smile2: I had a great time finding out about Lauren's life, what her childhood was like and what her career had been like before GG. And of  course it was amazing to read all about the behind-the-scenes stuff of GG. I could've read on and on! 

 

There's so much I want to comment on the book but I don't want to spoil it for anyone! I don't even want to put the things in spoiler tags because some of you may not be able to resist the temptation. 

 

I started re-watching GG in the beginning of the year, and got to the last season and I only have 2 episodes left, but for some reason I've not been able to watch them. I think I just didn't and don't want it to end. But now I feel more prepared, oddly enough. I can then move on to re-watch the four new episodes. 

 

I hope A Year in the Life was not the last of it.... ;)

 

Edit: My new signature is from the book. :cool:

 

4/5 

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On 14.7.2017 at 7:10 PM, frankie said:

Update!

 

Borrowed books (5/16)

1. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan   4/5  

2.  My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella   4/5 

 

3. Sopivasti sekaisin by Veera Vaahtera 3/5 

 

4. Talking as Fast as I Can: from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham 4/5

5. Columbine by Dave Cullen  4/5

 

6. Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay - currently reading
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanism, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh - Ajan kanssa: kesäni Marcel Proustin seurassa by Petteri Kantola

- Irti sosiaalisesta jännittämisestä by a bunch of people

- Furiously Happy: a Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

- The Dandelion Years by Erica James

- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews

- The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey 

- Vapaaksi ahdistuksesta by Edmund J. Bourne

- Hengitys itsesäätelyn ja vuorovaikutuksen tukena by a bunch of people 

 

- Kuka murhasi Roland Barthesin? by Laurent Binet

 

 

Reserved books (7)

     
         
 

- Daddy Cool: kolme vuosikymmentä televisiomaailman huipulla by Jorma Sairanen & Kalle Kinnunen

- Tällä tavalla maailma loppuu by Philip Teir 

- Tummiin vesiin by Paula Hawkins

- Tunne lukkosi: vapaudu tunteiden vallasta by Kimmo Takanen 

- Synkän metsän siimeksessä by Ruth Ware

     
  - Luolamies by Jorn Lier Horst       
  - Dead Writers in Rehab by Paul Bassett Davies

 

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@frankie I watched GG when it aired, but I don't think I've seen every single episode and I also think I forgot a lot. I plan to re-watch the entire series - do you recommend waiting to read the book until after I've seen it again, or are there no real spoilers?

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On 16.7.2017 at 7:56 PM, Little Pixie said:

Aww, what lovely cat stories ! :D I think your approach was just right ; cats need to do things like come up to you on their terms, and have a sniff, before allowing themselves to be touched. :)

 

It's very handy that my own natural reserve towards cats can help establish a mutual appreciation :D

 

 

On 17.7.2017 at 9:42 AM, Athena said:

 

I did, on the Dutch Google, but I only clicked on the first link, which gave me copy+paste plus the other thing. I should've tried some more links, but I was tired so I decided to just ask you :blush:.

 

Oh no worries, I was just curious :D  

 

On 17.7.2017 at 9:42 AM, Athena said:

I'm sorry you didn't enjoy this book :(. I can see it would be a disappointment if you were expecting a thriller. Diane Chamberlain doesn't really write thrillers, she writes more contemporary fiction, about characters and secret pasts / secrets and relationships between the characters (family, friendship and love) and such (she is sometimes compared to Jodi Picoult, though their books are similar in some ways, they widely differ in others). It's nice you're able to look at the silver lining, but I'm sorry you didn't like the book :(.

 

Now that you mention it, I do remember someone (maybe you?) telling me earlier that Chamberlain is kinda like Picoult but without the court drama. I liked the one Picoult book I've read, so I expected I would like the Chamberlain, too. And the book wasn't bad, it's just that I'd forgotten what Chamberlain was about. Or rather, the blurb was written in a way that made me expect a thriller. I blame the blurb, yes! 

 

On 20.7.2017 at 1:25 PM, Alexander the Great said:

@frankie I watched GG when it aired, but I don't think I've seen every single episode and I also think I forgot a lot. I plan to re-watch the entire series - do you recommend waiting to read the book until after I've seen it again, or are there no real spoilers?

 

I would recommend you watch the whole series first, and then read the book :yes: I don't think there were that many spoilers, to be fair, but there were some. 

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Update!

 

Borrowed books

1. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan   4/5  

2.  My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella   4/5 

 

3. Sopivasti sekaisin by Veera Vaahtera 3/5 

 

4. Talking as Fast as I Can: from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham 4/5

5. Columbine by Dave Cullen  4/5

6. Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay - currently reading
Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanism, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

- Ajan kanssa: kesäni Marcel Proustin seurassa by Petteri Kantola

- Irti sosiaalisesta jännittämisestä by a bunch of people

- Furiously Happy: a Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

- The Dandelion Years by Erica James

- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews

- The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey 

 

- The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet

 

     
  Reserved books      
 

- Tällä tavalla maailma loppuu by Philip Teir 

- Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

- Tunne lukkosi: vapaudu tunteiden vallasta by Kimmo Takanen 

- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg

- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

 

 

- I've cancelled a few reservations, and added two: The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg and Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter (this one after reading Chrissy's review).

     
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26. Columbine by Dave Cullen 

 

Blurb: On 20th April 1999, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold made their bid to leave "a lasting impression on the world". They drove to school, planted two huge bombs in the dining area, then positioned themselves outside the main entrance to pick off the fleeing teachers and students. The bombs failed, but the ensuing massacre defined a new brand of school violence - one that has started to cross the Atlantic. 

 

In the tradition of Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and almost ten years in the making, Columbine is the definitive account of those terrible events. Cullen lays bare the callous brutality of mastermind Eric Harris, and the timid, suicidal Dylan Klebold, who had been to the prom just three days earlier and wrote obsessively about love in his journal. 

 

A close-up study of violence, grief and a destructive media frenzy, Columbine is above all a compelling, tragic and utterly human portrait of two young killers. 

 

Thoughts: The first book I read on Columbine was A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy by Sue Klebold, Dylan mother. I really liked that book. Bobblybear's review on Columbine made me want to read this book, too. This one's a more detailed story, of course, as it's a general account of what happened before, during and afterwards. Klebold's book obviously concentrates on Dylan and their family. I don't think either of the books cancels the other one out, I think they make a complimentary read of it all. 

 

I found the book to be a compelling read, that's all I can say. I'm really tempted to read Brooks Brown's book, No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine, as Brooks was a friend of the boys. 

 

(One thing I found so odd in the book: why did the author feel the need to tell the reader how one of the detective's name was pronounced? Has everyone always gotten her name confused and she was tired of it and told the author she'd sue him if he didn't clarify? The detective (or whatever her title was, I can't remember) is named Battan, and it rhymes with Latin. Sadly, this underlined bit of detail might be the only thing I will remember as a real fact of this book. :rolleyes: The most important detail!! The author also spelled out how the term 'psychopathy' is pronounced: si-COP-uh-thee. What is this? A book on phonetics?)

 

For those you've read the book or know the details: 

 

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How is it that the Browns made so many complaints about Eric, and it never came to anything? That was completely astounding! And then for the public to think Brooks had something to do with the massacre. :o  Can you imagine??

 

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3 hours ago, frankie said:

Now that you mention it, I do remember someone (maybe you?) telling me earlier that Chamberlain is kinda like Picoult but without the court drama. I liked the one Picoult book I've read, so I expected I would like the Chamberlain, too. And the book wasn't bad, it's just that I'd forgotten what Chamberlain was about. Or rather, the blurb was written in a way that made me expect a thriller. I blame the blurb, yes!

 

I think that was me! Sorry the blurb set up the wrong expectations :(. I don't like it when blurbs do that!

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Update!

 

Borrowed books

1. The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan   4/5  

2.  My Not So Perfect Life by Sophie Kinsella   4/5 

 

3. Sopivasti sekaisin by Veera Vaahtera 3/5 

 

4. Talking as Fast as I Can: from Gilmore Girls to Gilmore Girls (and Everything in Between) by Lauren Graham 4/5

5. Columbine by Dave Cullen  4/5

6. Parting Shot by Linwood Barclay 4/5

 

The 7th Function of Language by Laurent Binet - currently reading

Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanism, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened by Allie Brosh

- Ajan kanssa: kesäni Marcel Proustin seurassa by Petteri Kantola

- Irti sosiaalisesta jännittämisestä by a bunch of people

- Furiously Happy: a Funny Book about Horrible Things by Jenny Lawson

- The Dandelion Years by Erica James

- The Flying Troutmans by Miriam Toews

- The Real Liddy James by Anne-Marie Casey 

 

 

     
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- Tällä tavalla maailma loppuu by Philip Teir 

- Into the Water by Paula Hawkins

- Tunne lukkosi: vapaudu tunteiden vallasta by Kimmo Takanen 

- The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do and How to Change by Charles Duhigg

- Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter

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