projectfacebooks - 204 friends, 204 books -

Currently reading:

Well, life caught up with me there for a while and I haven't read as much as I wanted or expected to the last week.

Just wanted to update you all with what's going on with my reading.

I'm currently 80 pages into John Grisham's Den Oskyldige Mannen (The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town).

My plan is to finish it before the weekend is over.

2011-02-05 @ 18:55:49 Permalink Books Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

Current books

These are the books I brought home with me from the library on Wednesday.

Jean-Paul Sartre - Äcklet (Nausea)
George Orwell - 1984
John Grisham - Den oskyldige mannen (The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town)
Deborah Spungen - Inte som andra döttrar (And I don't want to live this life)

As you know, I've already finished Deborah Spungen.
I can't decide which one to read next?
I'm leaning towards Sartre, so I can finish another book before the weekend is over, but I am pretty curious about the John Grisham-book.

I've got like 4 of his books on my shelf and I have only read one (yes I know, this is horrible), Juryn or originaltitle - A Time To Kill.
The other ones I found at a Red Cross-shop a few years ago, but never gotten around to reading them.
When project facebooks is over, maybe I will :)

2011-01-28 @ 15:31:51 Permalink PFB Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

List of books.

The list sofar (title, author, /recommending):

01. Den oskyldige mannen (The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town) by John Grisham / Jeanette Levin

02. Ursäkta att man vill bli lite älskad by Johanna Thydell / Anton Stenlund

03. Inte som andra döttrar (...And I don't want to live this life) by Deborah Spungen / Jenny Berggren

04. Sluta grubbla börja leva (Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life) by Steven Hayes / Roger Thollin

05. 100-årigen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann by Jonas Jonasson / Emily Olsson

06. Äcklet (Nausea) by Jean-Paul Sartre / Olof Stenlund

07. Frukta ingenting (Fear Nothing) by Dean Koontz / Matilda Svensson

08. Den målade fågeln (The Painted Bird) by Jerzy Konsinski / Robert Ryttman

09. 1984 by George Orwell /Nadine Ecker

10. Skumtimmen av Johan Theorin / Mattias Högström

11. Diamantsvärdet och träsvärdet (Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword) by Nick Perumov / P-o Olsson

12. Vindens skugga (The Shadow of the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón / Carl Henrik Engvall

13. Sagan om isfolket (The Legend of the Ice People) by Margit Sandemo / Jenny Jonasson

14. Utrota varenda jävel by Sven Lindqvist / Joakim Andersson

15. What happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci / Charlotte Nordin

16. High Fidelity by Nick Hornby / Jane Cedenberger

17. The Football Factory by John King / Lisa Lindvall

18. Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski / Zandra Lütz

19. Pappersväggar by John Aivide Lindquist / Mye Andersson

20. Min bästa väns dotter (My Best Friend's Girl) by Dorothy Koomson / Johanna Olsson

21. Gummi-Tarzan by Ole Lund Kirkegaard / Staffan Lindquist

22. Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson / Markus Kultanen

23. El Choco by Markus Lutteman / Jimmy Grahn

24. Svärdet och spiran (The Pillars of the Earth) by Ken Folett / Lena Blomkvist

25. The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger / Adina Svensson

26. The Dark Tower: The Gunslinger by Stephen King / Nick Billiet

27. Desperation by Stephen King / Stina Bengtsson

28. The Road by Cormac Mccarthy / Becky Atkins

29. Flyga Drake (The Kite Runner) by Khaled Hosseini / Fredrik Hallström

30. The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart / Johan Karlsson

2011-01-28 @ 13:38:00 Permalink PFB Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

#1 Spungen, D - Inte som andra döttrar (And I don't want to live this life)

Title: Inte som andra döttrar (originaltitle: And I don't want to live this life)
Author: Spungen, Deborah
Genre: Memoirs/Biography
Pages: 438
Language: Swedish
Time: about 8 hours

I have to start by saying that while I do love music (and aggressive music at that) I have never been a Sex Pistols fan, so I had no previous insight in the case of Nancy Spungen's life or death.
Sure, I've heard the name mentioned a few times, but never looked her up.
So there, I said it.
Onwards to the book itself.

I absolutely loved this book. Loved it.
I couldn't stop reading and hated that I had to when my Economics-class started.
My heart broke for all of the members of the Spungen family, but especially for Deborah and of course for Nancy.

For Deborah, because she tried and tried and tried to find someone who could explain to her what was wrong with her daughter, but never succeeding (at least not in time).
For having to suffer through everything Nancy put her and her family through.
For having her own daughter coming up to her and say, in all seriousness, that she wanted to die.
For the way she was treated by the police, the coroner and everyone else outside the family and friend's circle after Nancys death.

For Nancy, for never being completely understood.
For being born in a time when her situation could not be cured or explained.
For never being completely happy.
For being on the way to getting better at the school in Barton with the Bebees, but having that taken away because of the greed of companies wanting money.

I cried on more than one occasion (which, to be honest, was a little embarrassing considering I was sitting in the library most of the time I read the book), because of the way this book in detail explains how families with a mental illness are living.
I felt the pain of Deborah, who is unable to understand and help her daughter, the feeling of absolute helplessness.

In the end, I have no theories on wether or not Sid Vicious murdered his girlfriend, but I do think that Nancy Spungen was not afraid of dying.
If it was a suicide by other hand or murder, we'll never really know.
How I would have loved though, if her plans of getting the two of them into rehab would have come true.

This book gets a big fat 9/10!
If you haven't read it - do it!
If you have read it - read it again!

This book was recommended by Jenny Berggren.

2011-01-27 @ 19:31:31 Permalink Books Kommentarer (0) Trackbacks ()

What is project facebooks?

What is this project facebooks then, you might wonder.
Well, I was sitting at the library a few days ago, trying to find something to read, some inspiration.
And it just came to me.
I have 204 friends on Facebook (apart from reading, I do think that I spend most of my time on Facebook. It's a frickin' addiction.)

What if these friends all recommended me 1 book each?
I'm a pretty fast reader, depending on the book of course, I read a book on avarage 1 to 7 days.
But to make it easy, let's say I read a book a week.
There are 52 weeks in a year, so let's divide 204 by 52.
That's 3,923.
But there are times when I cannot read as much as I want to (work, school, tests etc), so let's make that a simple 4.
It means that if every friend on my list on Facebook (to date) recommend me a book, I'd have something to read for the next 4 years!

I've asked my friends to all recommend me books and so far 25 of them has humoured me and done what I asked.
The list of books up until now:

Den oskyldige mannen (The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town) by John Grisham
Ursäkta att man vill bli lite älskad by Johanna Thydell
Inte som andra döttrar (...And I don't want to live this life) by Deborah Spungen
Sluta grubbla börja leva (Get Out of Your Mind and Into Your Life) by Steven Hayes
100-årigen som klev ut genom fönstret och försvann by Jonas Jonasson
Äcklet (Nausea) by Jean-Paul Sartre
Frukta ingenting (Fear Nothing) by Dean Koontz
Den målade fågeln (The Painted Bird) by Jerzy Konsinski
1984 by George Orwell
Skumtimmen av Johan Theorin
Diamantsvärdet och träsvärdet (Diamond Sword, Wooden Sword) by Nick Perumov
Vindens skugga (The Shadow of the Wind) by Carlos Ruiz Zafón
Sagan om isfolket (The Legend of the Ice People) by Margit Sandemo
Utrota varenda jävel by Sven Lindqvist
What happened to Lani Garver by Carol Plum-Ucci
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
The Football Factory by John King
Svinalängorna by Susanna Alakoski
Pappersväggar by John Aivide Lindquist
Min bästa väns dotter (My Best Friend's Girl) by Dorothy Koomson
Gummi-Tarzan by Ole Lund Kirkegaard
Fear And Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream by Hunter S Thompson
El Choco by Markus Lutteman
Svärdet och spiran (The Pillars of the Earth) by Ken Folett
The Time Travellers Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

The order of the list is the order of when they got recommended, not the order I plan on reading them.
I'll be reading some of the books in Swedish and some in English, whatever is available at the library.
After I have finished a book, I will write about my thoughts of it here on the blog.

I am currently approximately 100 pages from finishing #2 on the list - Deborah Spungen's book about her daughter Nancy.

2011-01-27 @ 14:04:54 Permalink PFB Kommentarer (4) Trackbacks ()

Presentation of self.

Most of you who'll be reading this may be Swedish like me, but for my foreign friends (and because I like it) I'll be writing this blog in English.

Alot of you people already know me pretty well, so this presentation of myself is not for you, but for people who may happen to enter this blog while surfing around the interwebz.

My name is Maria, I'm a soon-to-be 27 yearold who loves to read.
For as long as I can remember my home has been filled with books.
Our livingroom - bookshelves all around filled with books, almost like a library.
My parents loved reading, especially my mother.
Her favourite thing is still to sit on her couch and read.
Or on the terrace.
Or in bed.
Or at the kitchen table.
Whenever we're dining together, my mother and I, we first try and have a few minutes of smalltalk and then we both excuse ourselves and put our noses into our books.
At the table, while eating.
Not really proper etiquette I know, but we really do not care.

If I could, I would fill my apartment with books, but as I am currently sharing a place with my friend I have to settle with having too many books in my room instead.

I love going to the library and find new books to read, crawl up on the couch with a cup of tea and just drift away into the world of my book.

I've started this blog as a part of a new project.
More about this project in my next post.

2011-01-27 @ 13:38:17 Permalink PFB Kommentarer (2) Trackbacks ()