The libraries at a library system in a moderately populated county in North Carolina: you might not expect there to be lots of Swedish books there, but there are. I mean, random little books everywhere you look:
An Elderly Lady Must Not Be Crossed: This was a fun read about a sweet old lady who goes around murdering people!
The Art of Whittling: Can you believe a random book like this would be in a small library? Well, I’m not planning on becoming a whittler, but this book had pictures of Sweden in it, and talks about the Sami and birch wood and all sorts of nice things.
This one is sort of linked to Sweden. I wrote a whole post about it here.
This might actually be the absolutely loveliest book in the whole world. I actually need to write a whole post about it. It’s about Swedish immigrants living in New Hampshire. I had never heard of this book until I randomly found it at the library. I think it’s been out of print for years (it was first published I think in the 1930s or so) but now they are trying to bring it back. Personally, I think it’s a tragedy that this book has been out of print. Truly, truly, if you can find this book, do read it. I’ve already now read it twice, and both sequels!
This is a nice book about pretty things you can make using flowers and trees and grass and stuff. The lady who wrote it is Hungarian, but she’s living in Norway, so I’m including it.
So there you have it! Five books, and five books that you probably haven’t heard of — so it’s not like Pippi Longstocking or all the “detective noir” what-not, which you might expect. Instead, they’re lovely little surprises.
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