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Popular Music by Mikael Niemi
Popular Music from Vittula by Mikael Niemi is a funny bitter-sweet story of a boy growing up in the town of Pajala in the Arctic circle. The coming of age story of Matti in which each chapter is a short story or vignette which stands up to reading on its own. However when combined together more »
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo
Not Before Sundown by Johanna Sinisalo. I found this a hard book to review, as it has elements I both love and hate. It is an updating or retelling of the Finnish Troll legends, where a troll enters the life of a young gay photographer in Helsinki. The troll comes from a past/parallel Finland more »
A Finnish Reading List
I keep meaning to start my own, but in the meantime the Guardian compiled a list which seems pretty good with good shortcuts too. Personally I’m still waiting for an english language biography of Kekkonen which would have some great stories as well as profile a very interesting and key cold war politician. Update: Georg more »
The Architecture of Happiness
Alain de Botton has a new book coming out very soon called the Architecture of Happiness also there are some video clips from the Documentary he made based on the book called The Perfect Home. Its not often that a major mainstream writer who is not an Architect devotes a book to the subject , more »
Cities by John Reader
Cities By John ReaderBeing currently housebound because of an ear operation I was able to get through this book quicker than usual. Anyway John Reader takes us on a historical trip through the city starting in Mesopotamia 6,000 years ago and finishing at the present day taking a quick view at the usual suspects, London, more »
Reconsidering Eero
Eero Saarinen is one of those strangely overlooked Architects for me perhaps something to do with his architecture being full of a kind of idealistic futurism that seemed to go out of fashion fast but Metropolis Magazine has some articles on him. Reconsidering Eero an interview with Jayne Merkel who wrote Eero Saarinen & Saarinen more »
From Wood to Architecture
(Rating 4/5) ISBN: 952-5195-20-1 Language: Finnish/English Publisher: MFA From Wood to Architecture presents 17 projects from around Finland which use wood in different ways. Wood is perhaps the fundamental building material of Finnish architecture and recently has enjoyed a new life being used more and more again not only in traditional ways but also as more »