New arrivals this week
I have new books arriving almost weekly, but this week’s new arrivals are worth mentioning!
Bokus.com is having a clearance sale with up to 90% discount on a wide selection of children’s books, biographies, thrillers, and on and on. No prize for guessing… I went straight to ‘work’! […]
Studentlitteratur (The verdict? Wonderful!)
A new batch of books arrived last week on Friday. This time, I tried something different. Instead of buying from my default online bookseller, namely Bokus.com (when I buy Swedish books), I decided to get this batch of books directly from the publisher instead. The said publisher is Studentlitteratur.
Studentlitteratur is a Swedish publishing house that specializes in […]
FACIT - Konsten att skriva krönikor, av Patrik Lundberg
Idag vill jag skriva om en bok som heter Facit: Konsten att skriva krönikor, av Patrik Lundberg. I min svenska komvux har jag lärt mig denna textgenre och några andra, som till exempel debattartiklar, referat, o.s.v., och jag skulle vilja veta mer om krönikor. Det var därför jag sökte efter detta ämne på biblioteket och lånade den här boken. […]
Roget’s Thesaurus
Isn’t this a thing of beauty?
Austin Kleon has written a post about the Roget’s Thesaurus that spurred me on to take immediate action to procure a copy for my personal library. I began my usual sourcing procedures, found it at Bokus.com (I was quite surprised to get it at a good deal in Sweden for SEK 386, roughly SGD49 or USD37), and now I have this 1.5 kg tome in my hands. It took less than a week to be delivered, which is not bad for Swedish standards considering the Roget’s Thesaurus is a non-Swedish book.
In Austin Kleon’s post, […]