Confessions of a displaced hedgehog

A displaced hedgehog is a figure - or rather an image - from Tove Jansson's Moomin books. This is how I can best describe myself. This blog is mostly about being displaced.

Wednesday, 30 January 2013

Forty years ago

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Forty years ago I was as big as a barrel. I thought I was three weeks overdue. (At that time, in that place nobody knew how to predict it, a...

Monday, 21 January 2013

Book of the month: Oblomov

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After dozens of young adult dystopias of dubious quality my mind craved something slow and peaceful, so I rummaged through my bookshelves an...

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Tuesday, 15 January 2013

Routines

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Unless something spectacular happens in my life, there won't be much for me to blog about. From now on and until mid-April all my days w...

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Sunday, 6 January 2013

Twelve days of Christmas

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On the first day of Christmas Julia, Pontus and I went for a wonderful walk along the river. It was warm and sunny. In the evening we wat...

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Monday, 31 December 2012

Annual report 2012

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Facebook has identified twenty highlights of my 2012. But Facebook doesn't know about all of my highlights (neither about my downs) b...

Saturday, 29 December 2012

Best books of 2012

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Another seasonal post. As usual, not necessarily books published in 2012, but the ones I read in 2012. Best novel: Possession , by A S By...

Promises kept

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I started writing a post about the year that has been and decided to look at what I wrote at this time a year ago. Here were my New Year pr...

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