{"id":234,"date":"2009-07-12T08:14:15","date_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:14:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/?p=234"},"modified":"2009-07-12T08:14:15","modified_gmt":"2009-07-12T12:14:15","slug":"we-have-a-winner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.transparent.com\/swedish\/we-have-a-winner\/","title":{"rendered":"We Have a Winner!!!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ladies and gentlemen!!! We have a winner!!! In a totally random drawing, conducted by my mother in law, because I couldn\u2019t find a suitably cute kid named Per<\/strong> or Karin<\/strong> to pull names out of the hat, Kristina became the lucky winner of \u201cPopul\u00e4rmusik fr\u00e5n Vittula\u201d<\/strong> – a novel by Mikael Niemi<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Grattis Kristina!!!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Kristina says she\u2019s a tough woman who drives a SAAB<\/strong>. That explains the part about her being tough – someone once told me that SAAB<\/strong> stands for \u201cSwedish Automobiles Always Broken\u201d. As a former SAAB<\/strong> owner myself, I take pity on those who drive SAAB<\/strong>s and that fact alone should make her a deserving winner. Yes, I admit it, I\u2019m not a SAAB<\/strong> fan, OK?<\/p>\n

I hope that Kristina will like the book. And I think we all should quiz her on it when she\u2019s done reading it.<\/p>\n

But guess what? Even if you didn\u2019t win this time, you can still follow the story. And guess what the good news is? You can do it without actually reading the book! Luckily for the rest of us, this splendid novel has been turned into a movie.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I know that some movies totally butcher the original stories their screenplays are based on. But not this one. The director, Reza Bagher<\/strong>, took his time, read the book and did it right.<\/p>\n

So I have an idea. While Kristina is busy reading the book this summer, why don\u2019t we try to look up the film version and watch it as our first joint blog project? If finding the film proves too difficult, then (and only as the last resort) there\u2019s the English translation \u2013 \u201cPopular Music from Vittula\u201d<\/em> available in many libraries or from Amazon.<\/p>\n

And in September, we can all compare our notes and discuss what we thought of either the film or the book. Or both. So, who\u2019s in?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\"\"

Ladies and gentlemen!!! We have a winner!!! In a totally random drawing, conducted by my mother in law, because I couldn\u2019t find a suitably cute kid named Per or Karin to pull names out of the hat, Kristina became the lucky winner of \u201cPopul\u00e4rmusik fr\u00e5n Vittula\u201d – a novel by Mikael Niemi. Grattis Kristina!!! Kristina…<\/p>\n

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