My own little corner of the world

Today I visited Etnografiska museet in Stockholm with a friend. They have a new temporary exhibition called Playground which was about nor...

The fifth installment in the Sagan om Valhalla series is Estrid . I had the great honour of reading it in advance thanks to the author J...

Apparently it is International Day of Archaeology today. I had absolutely no idea until I saw it around the Internet. I have to admit I ha...

Today is my birthday and even though I have other things I really need to do, I spent all morning reading. I have long thought about reading...

Today's birthday girl is Lorelai "Rory" Gilmore ( Alexis Bledel ). She was born 4:03 AM on October 8 1984 and is the daughter...

Phryne Fisher (Essie Davis) Where to start with this one? There are actually some major differences between the book and the film adaptation...

Covers of Pannkakstårtan, Rävjakten, Stackars Pettson, Pettson får julbesök and Kackel i Grönsakslandet . Facebook reminded me that I met S...

This, the third book about the Honourable Phryne Fisher (and the last of the three books in my omnibus volume). She and Dot takes a train r...

Ötzi 25 years ago today (19 September 1991) the body of a man turned up in the Alps. He was dated to c. 3 300 BC ( The Chalcolithic period )...

And that's just how it is And how it's always been It's where my reason stops And something else comes in I know it doesn't ...

He who controls the past controls the future. He who controls the present controls the past. ~ George Orwell, 1984 Monument of the Vendel ...

Sigrid is the fourth book in Johanne Hildebrandt's Sagan om Valhalla series and the first one to take place in the Viking Age. The n...

Not much is known Of early days of chess Beyond a fairly vague report That fifteen hundred years ago Two princes fought, though brothers For...