Kategori: Aardvark – on books in general, booklinks, bookmemes and such

(Bonus, not Christmassy)

Naturally. Though the lass is obviously brainwashed to love books and unless something radical happens, I think we’re ok.

There are 800 Bookfessions right now and I just decided to go back to the start (as of now: page 112) and read them in order.

This is the day people all over Scandinavia – and most especially in Sweden – celebrate St Lucy’s Day. Even though I used to be light blonde as a kid and therefore got to be Lucia at least once (my memory fails me), I’ve thought the tradition of choosing the girl with long blonde hair over any other kid a strange one. I’m not going to claim any laudable insightfulness for my young self, most probably – and therefore an apt theme for this blog, which is, after all, supposed to be about books – I read a book where a dark haired girl – or even a boy – was devastated because they were not even in the running for the part.

In Sweden, apparently, there is a tradition to vote on who gets to be the «leading lady». I can’t remember that ever being an issue with us, but again, my memory may be faulty. In any case, it’s a method fraught with problems. The obvious being maiking it a popularity contest and probably sending signals about looks being more important than anything else. Precisely for that reason, it is likely to be highjacked, especially as the voters get older. Here is an image from a Swedish newspaper a few years ago, from a story that a school voted for a beaver for Lucia:

Two of my favourite bloggers have also written about St Lucy’s Day and the various problems with the «tradition» thereof, which is what brought on this post: Ketchupmamman and Antibloggeren (in Swedish and Norwegian, respectively). You should read them both.

(Late, late, late.)

We FINALLY saw the second part of Deathly Hallows. And, yeah.

So today, here are a few pictures to mess with your brain:

There are a few more pictures in the Tumblr post being reblogged, you should go check it out.

It’s time to really get into the Christmas spirit.