Sometimes – especially in January? – it’s all too much, and you just want to get away from it all. Quit the job, leave your partner and home behind, and escape. Just head north and live in the forest, from…
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Finland 100: The Year of the Hare
Tagged with: Arto Paasilinna, Finland 100, Finnish, Gasellit, Herbert Lomas, Jäniksen vuosi, The Year of the Hare, Translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, translation
Posted in books, Finland 100, translation
A personal reading trainer
It’s that time of year when people vow to get fit, lose their bad habits and slough off all the holiday indulgence. And I’ve finally found the kind of personal trainer I’m looking for. How about a personal reading…
Tagged with: Agneta Enkell, Anselm Hollo, David McDuff, Electric Verses, Finnish, Herbert Lomas, Merja Virolainen, Mirkka Rekola, personal reading trainer, Poetry, pubilc libraries, Riina Katajavuori, Swedish, Translation, Tua Försstrom
Posted in poetry, translation
Posted in poetry, translation
world book day 2014: binge-read or savour?
World Book Day today, and there’s a £1 book for everyone under 18 in the British Isles (discussion of the politics of that short-hand term another time, please). There’s an app, there are trailers for the books, you can win a…
Tagged with: binge-reading, books, Children's literature, Finland, Finnish, Herbert Lomas, Language, Mirkka Rekola, Poetry, slow food movement, words
Posted in books, language, literature, Word of the Year 2013, words, World Book Day
Posted in books, language, literature, Word of the Year 2013, words, World Book Day
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