UtenteOctober16

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Ann-Sofie Söderman
La mia biblioteca

A library. That means books. I have a few of those. Quite a few, I should say. Or quite a lot, as others might say. It all depends on what your point of reference is, I suppose. Anyway, with the amount of books I do have in my possession, when shopping for books I increasingly find myself wondering whether I already have certain books or not. And it doesn't help the least that I have almost an equal amount of book in English as I do in Swedish. Quite the opposite. Furthermore, when the book in question is by an author I know I have several books of, I'm not always entirely sure which those are. Not on the spot anyway. So, I figured this Thing might help eliminate, or at least lessen, the problem. It's a time consuming project, which started by me adding books shelf by shelf. So far only some of my books have been added, and right now I only add books when or right after I read them; or when I aquire new ones. The rest will have to wait until I find more time. Whenever that is. Eventually they will all be here, though. That is a promise. For now; this is a work in progress.

Informazione su di me

I was born in a log cabin in Illinois... No, wait a minute. That's not true. That wasn't me, nor was it... Well, just... Oh, never mind.

I was, however - like writer/playwright and noted exceptional wit Oscar Fingal O'Flahertie Wills Wilde (1854-1900), and Nobel Laureates Eugene Gladstone O'Neill (1888-1953) and Günter Wilhelm Grass (1927-) - born on October 16. Hence my User name and Profile picture. And although according to the Swedish calendar the name day for Fingal no longer is on October 16, but since 2001 for some strange reason on June 27, I adamantly refuse to recognize any other name than Fingal on that particular date. That would be plain preposterous, wouldn't it?

If I could choose what to do in life, anything at all, most likely it would involve writing in some form. And it has nothing whatsoever to do with sharing birthdays with such prominent writers as mentioned above. At least, I don't think so. Either way, the significance of a birthdate is not something that can be tested and verified. That being said, I wouldn't mind it if it actually did have some sort of import. Nah, now I'm just being ridiculous, and trying to be funny. And I'm clearly not succeeding: At all. Still, it is a tickling thought though, isn't it? But the shadows are a bit... Well, let's just say that these guys are kind of tough acts to follow; if you ever wanted to embark on such an impossible endeavour that is. Besides, we wouldn't want to get ahead of ourselves now, would we? So, I'd better stop this nonsensical rambling about... Well, what is it about, really? Nothing, I suppose: nothing but nonsense anyway. Let's just leave it at that and move on.

This here Thing is all about books and all about reading. And it should be said that, quite obviously, I do love books and I particularly do love to read them. That is after all what they're for. Unless, of course, you use them as paperweights or have them just for show. I hear some people do that. But not me. You could say, without stretching things, that I am an avid reader, as well as an avid collector of books. I wouldn't be here otherwise. That goes without saying. And, I love to read almost anything: fiction of the most various kinds and non-fiction about a wide variety of subjects; whether deep or shallow - it doesn't really matter. What does matter are Man's most powerful tools: Words and Language. Or as Stephen Fry put it in a sketch in the second episode of the first series of "A Bit of Fry and Laurie":

"Imagine a piano keyboard, eh, 88 keys, only 88 and yet, and yet, hundreds of new melodies, new tunes, new harmonies are being composed by hundreds of different keyboards every day in Dorset alone. Our language, tiger, our language: hundreds of thousands of available words, thrillions of legitimate new ideas, so that I can say the following sentence and be utterly sure that nobody has ever said it before in the history of human communication: "Hold the newsreader's nose squarely, waiter, or friendly milk will countermand my trousers." Perfectly ordinary words, but never before put in that precise order. A unique child delivered of a unique mother." / Quote taken from the sketch "Language Conversation", "A Bit of Fry and Laurie" 1:2, first aired, January 20, 1989.
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