Wondering what I should read next. I have the fourth volume of G.R.R. Martin’s series on the bookshelf waiting to be read, but I wonder if I would like to read some book in Finnish before it.

Indeed. They call the dialect of Swedish spoken in Finland Moomin Swedish in Sweden because the animated series was dubbed in that dialect (because reasons).

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While I do read news in Swedish1, reading a full novel in that language2 was totally different experience. It took me a while to adjust my brain to read the words in Swedish and not in English, but once I got that done I was able to read the book quite fluently.


  1. To be precise, the news I read are using Finnish-Swedish, or Moomin Swedish (muminsvenska), a dialect of Swedish used by Finns.

  2. My tertiary language, even though it was the fourth language I studied. The third was German, but I have not used it that much ever.

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#bookclub Stieg Larsson, Män som hatar kvinnor (🇸🇪), ISBN 91-7001-368-3

Might have had, but this one was the one we wanted.

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Well, we already have a tortoise whose name is General Mayhem, so we decided to continue the tradition… 😆

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May I introduce the latest addition to our family, Captain Chaos.

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Well, I would not describe that book and its story exciting. It was just, how would I put it, dull. An easy read, though.

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That was the ISBN printed on the book. 🤷‍♂

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