About LoveApril, year 1903. Samuel August made this promise to Hanna:“I always live with you, in my thoughts and deeds, yes, I always want to live completely for you.”And he has kept this promise, their daughter – Astrid Lindgren said in her book:Samuel August from Sevedstorp and Hanna i Hult (EN) Das Entschwundene Land (DE)The …
Why do I write? The answer vary from time to time. Let’s say during my Chinese studies years, my aim was to write a sentence that make heaven astonish and the earth move or in Chinese idiom, we call it: 惊天动地 (jing tian dong di). When I was doing my reading, I examined meticulously what …
But then something strange happened. Just as we thought we would die, the waves calmed down and became still. They became completely still. They carried our boat gently past all the dangerous reefs and pushed it gently toward the black rugged rocks below Sir Kato’s castle. Mio, my son by Astrid Lindgren. English Translation by …
Once again she (Ronia) hid her face against Lovis’s knee and made her rough yellow gown wet with silent tears. Night and darkness had fallen; even the worst days come to an end. … … But Lovis sang, and the world became as it should be. Ronia sank into the deep peace of childhood, and with …
The story of Mio and Pompoo lost track of each other in “The Deepest Cave in the Blackest Mountain” I (Mio) rose up from the ground and something fell out of my pocket. It was the little wooden flute that Nonno had carved for me. My flute, that I had played around the campfire on Greenfields …
If one thing from all the stories I read could be true, what would I wish for? Somehow, as I was reading “Mio, my son”, I discovered one wish …
I just finished reading a book that struck to the heart. The book is “Mio, My Son” by Astrid Lindgren. It is a children book, but I can relate it so much to my life. The King in the story seems to me like God, I can feel the happiness of Mio for having the …
Life does not have to be as it always was. New hope is just around the corner. Due to the current situation, I have to draw new plan, new programme, new arrangement and with no clue if everything is going to work or to start over again. And precisely because of this unknown future, it is …
“Ronja, the Robber’s Daughter” by Astrid Lindgren is the book that I am really into right now. It makes me reflect on generation gap, relationship between human and nature, how hate inherited or stopped. Most of all it is rich in imagination, funny and warm-hearted. One interesting thing is, there are a few songs being described in …