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Sandra M

Sandra M

I live in a suburb outside of Chicago with my husband and two cats, Star and Shadow. I have a book shop because I have always found a friend in books, and enjoy matching them with people who love to read. I hope to find good conversation on this site with like-minded individuals who can steer me to books I have never read!
  • Il, USA
  • member since Friday, December 28 2007

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  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    Hey, I finished my book yesterday, but was a bit dissapointed. Hustvedt is one of my favourite writers and she hasn't published a novel in five years, so I was expecting a lot. I'm reading books with strange titles? What about "Sex Carnival"? So I started on a new book called "Out stealing horses" (I guess a lot of books have strange titles when you think about them). Anyway, it's written by a norwegian writer called Per Petterson, but it has won a few international prizes and it has been translated to English. I hope it will be good because I don't really like a lot of norwegian fiction. My throat is better, but on friday I got a cold, so now I'm kind of fighting them both at the same time. I'll be allright though. Good luck at the book fair!

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    hello! I've had a throat infection for a month now so that's why i've been away lately. Right now I'm reading Sorrows of an American by Siri Hustvedt which is very good I think. What about you?

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Anna

    Anna says

    Antigone ?
    yaaah
    i was suppose to read it for school but it was the one which i really liked it
    u know it is only about 50 pages and doesn't take too much time to read it
    so read it and enjoy it .
    i would be happy to be in touch with u in this wonderful site.:D
    bye now

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    Hey

    Did you have a goo time at the book fair? Norwegian is my motherthongue, but I've grown up learning English at school, listening to pop and rock music and seeing american films and tv-shows and now I like to read English books in the original language so I don't speak prefectly fluently and I misspell sometimes but apart from that my english is pretty good. Apart from that I know a little bit og german, I read swedish and I wish i knew French. I haven't read Soylent Green. I haven't even heard of him. I have been planning to read Brave New World and the Farenheit (which number again?)book but I have read George Orwell though. So my dystopian science fiction reading has quite a few holes. I just started reading the Other Boelyn Girl. It`s a bit trashy and I actually thought because of the film that it would not be, but now i'm kind of enjoying it. It's kind of nice reading a book just because you want to sse what happens. Then I'll go back to serious literature again. I read that thing about the rice too. It's quite frightening. It's exciting to see who becomes the new president. I think that people in Norway and other places are as passionate about as many in the U.S. Even if we are not american this is a very important thing for the whole world. So you have to vote for us all. I think that no matter who wins the world will become a little bit better when Bush goes. I'll remember to get a kitty girl then. Sorry for jumping from subject to subject like this. My office climate isn't very good. there are windows in the ceiling that can't be opened og closed and we are for people cramped into very little space so I'll go out and get an apple and a little air I think. I hope your knee is better now. Good luck with everything!

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    Slaughterhouse 5 is actually an audiobook by the bbc that I downloaded off the internet together with Stephen Colberts book. I haven't started listening to it yet, but I've listened to Colbert for almost a week now and I find it very amusing.
    I used to be very angry about environmental issues but I think that people become a bit alienated by anger so now I just write and talk to people about it. In adittions to polar bears being affected a lot of other species are in danger of extinction as well. And with increased dry-spells in the most important agricultural areas in the world humans might suffer to because of lack of food, heatwaves, floods and
    hurricanes. These are really strong forces we are dealing with and what we do in the next twenty years will affect the living conditions of our children and grandchildren. It's also very unfair because in poor countries they don't have the same means to protect themselves like we have in the US or Norway so a lot of people who has had a very small part in creating the problem is going to be the ones that suffer the most.
    I wanted to ask you about your cats. I love cats! I've always wanted one, but when I was little my parents wouldn't let me and now the landlords won't let me. But some day I'm gonna move and then I'll get a cat. They have lovely names by the way, your cats. Flea markets are mostly in spring so the season starts soon. It's mostly brass bands and schools that arrange them to raise money. It's interesting how some people show their dark side at fleamarkets. They push and quarrel and steal and push others away with their elbows, grown up people! I still like them though. And I usually like the things that nobody else wants like old suitcases, bicycles and dusty paperbacks.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    Bookfair sounds fun! Degas is one of my favourite painters. Environmental issues are big here as well, especially relating to global warming. Is's strange that being against global warming should be viewed as a radical political point of view. Many sceptics seem to think that we are in some way trying to create fear because it's in our own political interest, calling it propaganda. That's absurd to me. Why would it be in my political interest to say that the world is in danger for other reason than that I believe it and want to stop it? In my opinion the real political interest lie in undermining the threat in order to keep earning money on using fossil fuels an an energy source. The uncertainty of science shouldn't be used as an excuse to disregard the scientific results. So that was my little speech. I really didn't know how bad things were before I started this job and now I'm a little bit terrified on behalf of us all. For the film magazine I usually interview people in the movie business. Not stars, but directors and producers of Norwegian films mostly. Back to the bookfair. Are you going to buy books as well as sell them? This time of year I usually go to all the flea markets, and I promise myself to only buy one book, but I can never keep it. Have fun!

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Kristine K

    Kristine K says

    Hey, Yeah, all her books are quite easily acessible here. I bought the grass is singing at a flea market years ago, but haven`t read it yet. I read the fifth child at school, but it was a bit too dark for me. It wasn't until she won the nobel prize that I decided to pick her works up again. I think she's a quite private person. I heard an interview with her just after she had won the nobel prize and she was just annoyed because it disrupted the writing of her new book. I'll try to get a hold of her autobiography at the library. Have you read anything by Siri Hustvedt? I loved her book "The blindfold". I write daily for an environmental magazine, but I also write freelance for a filmmagazine.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )


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