After reading 1984 and Kallocain, I picked up Brave New World from my public library. Aldous Huxley’s 1932 novel about a society 600 years into the future where everyone is engineered to be happy with their pre-destined place in society. Everyone is grown in a bottle and raised in batches of genetic twins. Through behavioural … Continue reading Brave New World
Tag: Books
Kallocain
Kallocain is a 1940 dystopia by Swedish author Karin Boye. It is up there with 1984 by George Orwell and Brave New World by Aldous Huxley. I read it over Christmas and liked it a lot. The book is in public domain since 2012 and is available online in Swedish and English. I picked it … Continue reading Kallocain
Remember, remember
Today about books I read and movies I watched recently. V for Vendetta My oldest is 13 so we can watch great classics together. He knows most of them from internet memes so I can treat him to the full experience. We’ve done Star Wars and Lord of the Rings a long time ago, also … Continue reading Remember, remember
Four books that broadened my horizon recently
Reading books on paper is a great way to get away from bite size snippets of the internet age. Information moves so fast on social media and news aggregators that you rarely get enough context to understand the background and get wiser on why something happened. And it’s only getting worse. We are caught in … Continue reading Four books that broadened my horizon recently
Reading tip: The Engineers by Gunnar Wetterberg
I love learning about history; how people have lived before, and how the world has evolved into the amazing, wonderful and crazy place it is today. Since I moved to Sweden 10 years ago, one of the ways I have improved my Swedish is by reading books in Swedish, often about Sweden and often about … Continue reading Reading tip: The Engineers by Gunnar Wetterberg