Pippi Calzelunghe

I'm in bed - again -today with some type of nasty bug - a relapse from last week...a traveling flu bug? cold? allergies? It's now in my chest... Right when I'm reading the interview on Goodreads from Fredrick Backman about his new-HIT- novel BEARTOWN - my doorbell rings. A delivery guy brought a huge Leggi tutto

Pippi Långstrump = Pippi Longstocking, Astrid Lindgren Pippi Longstocking is the main character in an eponymous series of children's books by the Swedish author Astrid Lindgren. Pippi was named by Lindgren's daughter Karin, then nine years old like Pippi, who asked her mother for a get-well story whe Leggi tutto

[Original review, Sep 4 2018] I'm trying to improve my miserable Italian, and when we were in Italy a couple of weeks ago I bought a bunch of children's books, intending to use my normal method of just reading them without a dictionary and picking things up. So far, it's working well. I loved Il Mago Leggi tutto

Since I love Scandinavian authors and review many Swedish and Norwegian novels, I'm often asked what the best language is if you're planning to read one in translation. It's early days yet, but I'm starting to feel more and more certain that the answer is German. Just like Komet im Mumintal , whi

بعد از ماتیلدا، که دخترها عاشقش شدن، این رو شروع کردم براشون خوندن. طنز ماتیلدا با دعوا و خشونت همراهه. مدیر و پدر و مادر ماتیلدا دعواش می‌کنن و این دعواها به فضای کمیک کشیده می‌شه. اما طنز پی‌پی، حداقل تا اینجا متفاوته. طنز پی‌پی به خاطر خل‌وچل بازی‌های پی‌پیه. مثلاً فصل اول پی‌پی پنکیک درست می‌کنه Leggi tutto

Published in English as Pippi Longstocking Where do I even start? Should I open with a standard guilty disclaimer for disliking yet another childhood staple? How about a shameful admission that reading between the lines has never worked for me? Or perhaps a simple statement about being too old to enj Leggi tutto