Matti lives in Finland

Matti lives in Finland is a junior title written by Astrid Lindgren with photos by Anna Riwkin-Brick. It was written in 1969 and refers inside

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Secret Helsinki

Secret Helsinki by Milla Leskinen and Jiri Keronen covers, in its 248 pages, parts of the city that tourists, and even residents, might never have

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The Karelian Phoenix

I obtained The Karelian Phoenix by Paul Austin as an interloan from Memorial University of Newfoundland. This book was published by the University Press of

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Kroketti LP on red vinyl

Last year I wrote about my unsuccessful search for a red vinyl edition of the Kroketti album by Ultra Bra. Starting in the summer of 2017, Svart Records released

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Seven Brothers

Seven Brothers by Aleksis Kivi is a classic of Finnish literature. It was first published in 1870 and has the reputation for being the first Finnish

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Jere tahtoo koiran

Jere tahtoo koiran by Arvi Arjatsalo is the first Finnish book I ever got. I cannot remember though where I acquired it. It was either from

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My Cat Yugoslavia

My Cat Yugoslavia by Pajtim Statovci was recommended by Mark. He read it and lent me his copy. His last recommendation was The Last Resort: A Memoir

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