Menn som hater kvinner -- Stieg Larsson (gruesome, slightly speculative, but written with surprising drive in the middle)
Kvinner is Norwegian for "women", is it? Interesting. I knew the link between English (queen) and Middle-Dutch (kwene), but not that there was a Norwegian cognate that actually still had the medieval meaning... awesome.
It is quite fun, isn't it?
And yes. It means woman. The book is the one that in English is called The Girl with the Dragon tattoo for some reason.
I have spent the last few weeks going "ooh" at English/Norwegian etymology (reading Chaucer and then Spenser). It is entertaining.
*MySmiley*
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What did you read in January?
31/01/2010 11:16:05 PM
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Hm. Turns out I still haven't gotten any further in Anna Karenina...
31/01/2010 11:30:47 PM
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Here's my baker's dozen
01/02/2010 12:46:54 AM
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what do the numbers mean? *NM*
01/02/2010 01:30:56 PM
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Dates read. - It's a cut and paste from my reading list for the year. *NM*
01/02/2010 02:01:22 PM
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How can you retain anything?
01/02/2010 02:26:26 AM
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I'm not sure I finished any. Oh, wait, yes. I finished TWO. Both WoT books.
01/02/2010 02:33:24 AM
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More than most, I suppose
01/02/2010 06:08:01 AM
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I finished five
01/02/2010 12:37:49 PM
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*random etymological comment*
01/02/2010 01:22:12 PM
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Re: *random etymological comment*
01/02/2010 01:29:26 PM
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Det er derfor jeg liker å lære norsk
. *NM*
01/02/2010 04:20:59 PM
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Take half of English, half of Dutch, spell it funny, give it a good shake and there you are, huh?
01/02/2010 06:42:12 PM
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The Elegance of the Hedgehog
01/02/2010 01:38:08 PM
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I've been meaning to write a review on it
01/02/2010 01:44:54 PM
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Re: I finished five
01/02/2010 08:03:06 PM
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Re: I finished five
01/02/2010 09:24:12 PM
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