Min Kamp 3 – 5/5 Stars In this next installment of the series we find our dauntless hero Karl Ove, now at 12 beginning to discover himself as a little person. Considering that this novel starts off with our young protagonist being super mad about moving to a farming region on an island and subsequently breaking his family’s tv and then lying about it, I most definitely connected with this one a lot. The bulk of the rest of the novel splits its time between […]
Min Kamp part II: Where the picture of the smoking author embarrasses me at school.
This second book of the long novel is both more of the same and completely different. This novel should never be confused with the boring day to day details of a life from the beginning to the end, but more so a collected thematic explorations of moments, events, and periods of time in a life. This novel starts with a breathless depiction of taking a passel of kids to a childless house on a kind of vacation from Norway to Sweden and the various considerations, […]
Min Kamp, min kamp, my lovely lady romp
I guess to get it out of the way: I did struggle with deciding to read this book at first because of the title. I am not squeamish of the title in terms of it being a little close to Hitler’s book, because the author is being a little tongue in cheek about the whole thing. It was more so that I was worried that there would a kind of self-important grandiosity about the whole thing. And there is a little, but it’s embedded in […]