Recent reading
Aug. 15th, 2015 10:56 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzulaTrollvinter by Tove Jansson [Moominland Midwinter]
I can't remember if I actually read the Moomin books as a kid. Possibly not, or at least not all of them? In any case, I loved this one! The writing, the characters and their interactions, the setting, it's pretty great. Recommended.
Stop, thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh
I felt like reading some non-fiction, and went to the university library to find some of the non-fiction on my books-to-check-out list. I'm interested in the themes in this one, but it's a bit uneven, in the way of a collection of essays which were not originally intended to be published together. I skipped some essays, and others repeated themselves a bit. Still, there was lots of interesting historical stuff here.
Incidentally, Sweden has a commons left which is gone (I think?) in many other countries: the "allemansrätt" (=all-man's-right) which says that anyone has the right to walk, pick berries and mushrooms, and camp for a night (though not hunt) on anyone's land, as long as you don't litter or trample down crops or whatever, and as long as you're not in someone's actual backyard.
Sveriges historia by Annika Elmqvist and Pål Rydberg [History of Sweden]
Inspired by the book above, I wanted to freshen up on Swedish history. This is a history of Sweden in comic book form, which I've had in my bookcase forever, and I've probably read it at some point years ago. It has a "people's history" perspective and a lot of it is about the power balance between the ruling classes and the people, going back and forth.
I can't remember if I actually read the Moomin books as a kid. Possibly not, or at least not all of them? In any case, I loved this one! The writing, the characters and their interactions, the setting, it's pretty great. Recommended.
Stop, thief! The Commons, Enclosures, and Resistance by Peter Linebaugh
I felt like reading some non-fiction, and went to the university library to find some of the non-fiction on my books-to-check-out list. I'm interested in the themes in this one, but it's a bit uneven, in the way of a collection of essays which were not originally intended to be published together. I skipped some essays, and others repeated themselves a bit. Still, there was lots of interesting historical stuff here.
Incidentally, Sweden has a commons left which is gone (I think?) in many other countries: the "allemansrätt" (=all-man's-right) which says that anyone has the right to walk, pick berries and mushrooms, and camp for a night (though not hunt) on anyone's land, as long as you don't litter or trample down crops or whatever, and as long as you're not in someone's actual backyard.
Sveriges historia by Annika Elmqvist and Pål Rydberg [History of Sweden]
Inspired by the book above, I wanted to freshen up on Swedish history. This is a history of Sweden in comic book form, which I've had in my bookcase forever, and I've probably read it at some point years ago. It has a "people's history" perspective and a lot of it is about the power balance between the ruling classes and the people, going back and forth.
