Recent reading
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luzulaTroll: A Love Story by Johanna Sinisalo (original in Finnish, read in Swedish)
Reread. Yeah, definitely my favorite of her books. Read if you like m/m interspecies UST, I guess? But that's not really what makes it my favorite. Or I guess that's one part of it, but really what I like about it is the way it talks about the relationship between humanity and nature. It also has some pretty nifty documentary-style sections. The premise is that trolls are a rare species living in Scandinavia, and the main character discovers one rooting in the garbage in an alley. I like the ending a lot.
Det som en gång var by Helena Granström (That Which Once Was, only in Swedish)
Similar theme as the last one, except non-fiction; this is about humanity, technology and nature. I think I met the author once ten years ago on a forest inventory trip. I agree with many things here, especially about the vulnerability of the technological world. And I like that she doesn't offer any easy answers. But I wonder about the claim that parents have less physical contact with their babies today. I mean, the parents I know carry their babies around all the time and don't leave them crying themselves to sleep? And how would you know what parents did in the Stone Age anyway?
Reread. Yeah, definitely my favorite of her books. Read if you like m/m interspecies UST, I guess? But that's not really what makes it my favorite. Or I guess that's one part of it, but really what I like about it is the way it talks about the relationship between humanity and nature. It also has some pretty nifty documentary-style sections. The premise is that trolls are a rare species living in Scandinavia, and the main character discovers one rooting in the garbage in an alley. I like the ending a lot.
Det som en gång var by Helena Granström (That Which Once Was, only in Swedish)
Similar theme as the last one, except non-fiction; this is about humanity, technology and nature. I think I met the author once ten years ago on a forest inventory trip. I agree with many things here, especially about the vulnerability of the technological world. And I like that she doesn't offer any easy answers. But I wonder about the claim that parents have less physical contact with their babies today. I mean, the parents I know carry their babies around all the time and don't leave them crying themselves to sleep? And how would you know what parents did in the Stone Age anyway?
