💙Chinese. The logograms in their writing system are fascinating.
💙💙I haven't read The Unknown Soldier by Väinö Linna in English or in Finnish. It's hard to find it in translation (it's out of print), and my Finnish is nowhere near good enough! But I long for the day that I can do it, and I'm back to practicing my Finnish!
#two4tuesday @thespineview
pickFishing for the Little Pike, by Juhani Karila (2019, transl. 2023)
Premise: A woman returns home to Lapland on an annual pilgrimage to catch a pike in order to stave off the effects of a curse, but is thwarted by an assortment of creatures from nature and folklore.
Review: Sitting on cusp between fantasy and magical realism, this dumps you off into the deep end in a strange and uncanny northern world. Cont.
#midsummersolace #litsolace # naturalitsy
June buddy read hosted by @alldebooks
original post: https://www.litsy.com/web/post/2858963
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#MidsummerSolace #buddyread 2nd choice is Tove Jansson's 1972 novel.
The non-fiction choice is unavailable in US until late June. So, with that in mind, I will run a relaxed fiction (tagged) and non-fiction (A Wilder Way) #buddyread
for those wishing to participate.
All welcome. Please let me know if you wish to be added/removed from the taglist.
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Train reading! Starting the next Tove Johansson: Fair Play. The first two in the Author Spotlight, organized and hosted by Sarah @HardcoverHearts were great reads, so my hopes are up for this third one.
pickThe True Deceiver was the second book we read in the Tove Jansson Author Spotlight Series, which are group reads, organized and hosted by Sarah @HardcoverHearts .
Again an amazing novel, this one set during a dark winter in Scandinavia. Who is the true deceiver among the small village people? It ends with a satisfying answer.
The longest short novel I have ever read. And it snowed the whole time.
