This month has been quite hectic. It started off with a meeting with Customers in Ireland, which gave me several hours of reading while in the air. Back at the office there has been great works with documents that needed to be produced, and that quickly. The last two weeks in October were spent down south in Karlshamn on a refurbishment at the Sternö station of the SwePol link. So overall, October has not been a month where reading has been a priority. Even so, this is the month’s bookshelf:
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The Other Hand is written by Chris Cleave and also goes under the title ”Little Bee”. It is a fictional story of a nigerian refugee girl in the UK – I especially enjoyed the protagonist’s reflections and comparisons between Western culture and language to that of Nigeria. A thoughtful and inspiring read.
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Engelbrechtsdivisionen is a Swedish book written by Lars Fredrikson and a book I would probably file under Suspense. It is a fictional story set on the Swedish countryside. The story builds around the idea that towards the end of WWII, there was a last, desperate attempt, to transport German weaponry from the north of Finland, through Sweden and over to Norway to build a final assault. However, the train went missing – and 50 years later, an elderly german officer seeks to find out the truth. Not as good as I hoped, the ending left much to be wished for.
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Satans raseri, written by Bengt Ankarloo is a non-fictional investigation and discussion about the 16th and 17th century religions, cultures, folk lores, and belief systems that ultimately led up the today infamous witch hunts – focusing on Northern Europe. Bengt Ankarloo discusses several aspects of that times’ society and comes to the general conclusion that the number of victims that were accused and sentenced to death for ”dark magic” were far less than the popular history would have us believe.
