Thor Hushovd, former Norwegian pro-cyclist, his self-biography. Read it, was a struggle, wanted to put it away several times, but as Thor tells how he did struggle with his races, never wanting to quit – it did manage as well to finish it. Got a bit better at the end, but for instance reading about him moving from France to Switzerland sending his furniture in a truck and taking the rest in his Porsche Cayenne…why would he want me to know that???
Yet another book by what is, according to Elin, my favorite writer Alf R. Jacobsen about the first defeat on the Eastern Front for the Axis Powers. In 1941 the prepared the Operation Silver Fox planning to capture Murmansk, but this failed and turned into their first defeat on the new front.
Really enjoyed the book, especially the afterword by Sverre Diesen which made me understand the overall picture of all the battle details and at the end why the Germans did fail.
Now I really appriciate the years I lived in Sandnes working as an officer in the army driving around with the army trucks in Sandnes, Stavanger and the areas surrouding those two cities. I got to know my way around pretty well, and that is a great advantage when reading both “Angrep fra alle kanter” and the first book “Vi sees i morgen”. This book also fun to read, but not as good as the first one if you ask me. Still, I guesss this one will become a movie as well.
“Vi sees i morgen”, about love and crime in Stavanger, I would bet money on someone making a movie of this book. Fun to read.
A book about rhetoric
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The book is easy to read and has some very good tips, but I lost it at the end when it started recommending blog engines and such. Apart from that, ok.
3. oktober 1990 vart DDR lagt ned og Tyskland samla. Det var slutten for statssosialisme, Berlinmuren og Stasi, men også for eit samfunn utan arbeidsløyse. Denne boka byr på forteljingar om det som er att etter DDR i dag….
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Lars Myttings non-fiction book Hel ved («Solid wood») is one of the greatest publishing successes in Scandinavia ever. It is a «practical-lyrical» guide on the use and lore of firewood, based on Norwegian traditions and our modern science on stoves and renewable energy.
I did try today to make fire from the top as described in the book and I broke the record of getting the fireplace hot as h$#.
The second book about the warsailors of WW2. Read it and the first thing I did search for on the Internet was when the next book will be released: “Autumn 2014″….I’m waiting!!
Boka er historien om Setskog fra de eldste tider til i dag…
Quite interesting the first part about the old days, the last part about starting from WW2 up until year 2000…boring.
Got it as a Christmas present, the history of the industry in my hometown Mo i Rana from 1892 up until now. Read more about it here http://www.mip.no/2012/na-er-boka-her-ranaindustrien-i-bilder-en-historie-fra-1892-til-2012/
