Radioclare's 2017 log (Croatian/Russian)

[Serpent]

At least, not in Montenegro. I don't think I've ever met an Esperanto speaker from Montenegro, so I do wonder how many people watching Budva knew what they were talking about

Reminds me on what I think vonPeterhof posted? Something about fansubbing anime mostly, but the point was that people want to seem "in the know" so they're more willing to look up unfamiliar words from movies/series now that you can easily do it on your phone/tablet

[Brun Ugle]

In other news, I have finished reading 'Farma' by Tom Rob Smith, and it was a really exciting book. It's sort of a psychological thriller, about a guy whose parents retire to a remote farm in Sweden, which is supposed to be their dream, but it all goes wrong when his mother apparently starts to lose her mind and starts making accusations against people in their new community. Is she genuinely unwell as everyone says? Or are there really secret crimes being committed in this idyllic part of Sweden? It's an exciting thriller right up to the end Though, slightly unnervingly, my reading of it coincided with a series of conversations with my other half about whether we might be able to move abroad, probably also to somewhere quite remote, within the next six years. In theory I would love to do that, but the book did make me think twice

Sweden and Norway seem to have a lot of rather violent fictional crime in spite of not have very much in real life. So, I always think that people in other countries reading those novels and seeing those movies must have a very distorted view of what life is like here. The scariest place to move though, must be a quaint English village. Some of them seem to have at least one murder every week. And if you live in a little village with only a few hundred inhabitants and there are murders occurring every week, you know your turn is bound to come up pretty quickly.

[Radioclare]

Sweden and Norway seem to have a lot of rather violent fictional crime in spite of not have very much in real life. So, I always think that people in other countries reading those novels and seeing those movies must have a very distorted view of what life is like here. The scariest place to move though, must be a quaint English village. Some of them seem to have at least one murder every week. And if you live in a little village with only a few hundred inhabitants and there are murders occurring every week, you know your turn is bound to come up pretty quickly.

I agree about English villages

The first time I went to Sweden, I was having a brilliant time walking through a forest.... and then I remembered an episode of Wallander I'd watched recently where someone was murdered in an identical-looking forest and it no longer felt quite so fun

[jeff_lindqvist]

The scariest place to move though, must be a quaint English village. Some of them seem to have at least one murder every week. And if you live in a little village with only a few hundred inhabitants and there are murders occurring every week, you know your turn is bound to come up pretty quickly.

My area could be a candidate - at least four Swedish crime writers let their novels take place on my island. (Last week, they filmed a couple of scenes for one of them - at my work... )

[rdearman]

Seriously you guys watch to much TV. Murder Rates per 100,000 inhabitants.

UK - 0.92
Sweden - 1.52
Croatia - 0.87
Norway - 0.56

The places you should be concerned about are:
Venezuela - 57.15
Elizabeth Salvador - 108.64
Jamaica - 43.21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... icide_rate

[DaveBee]

Seriously you guys watch to much TV. Murder Rates per 100,000 inhabitants.

UK - 0.92
Sweden - 1.52
Croatia - 0.87
Norway - 0.56

The places you should be concerned about are:
Venezuela - 57.15
Elizabeth Salvador - 108.64
Jamaica - 43.21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... icide_rate

You're overlooking the specific geography. Break out english villages from the UK stats and you'll see the rural population is living in a society where murder is as common as rain, with Bad Eggs everywhichway.

[MamaPata]

The scariest place to move though, must be a quaint English village. Some of them seem to have at least one murder every week. And if you live in a little village with only a few hundred inhabitants and there are murders occurring every week, you know your turn is bound to come up pretty quickly.

But you'll have such a dramatic life before you die - love affairs til you drop.

[Brun Ugle]

Seriously you guys watch to much TV. Murder Rates per 100,000 inhabitants.

UK - 0.92
Sweden - 1.52
Croatia - 0.87
Norway - 0.56

The places you should be concerned about are:
Venezuela - 57.15
Elizabeth Salvador - 108.64
Jamaica - 43.21

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of ... icide_rate

Elizabeth Salvador? Who is she? A Central American serial killer? With a name like Elizabeth, I'm guessing she was born in a quaint English village where her grandmother taught her to make delicious poisoned biscuits. Then she grew up, married a Señor Salvador, and moved to Central America to start her reign of terror.

The scariest place to move though, must be a quaint English village. Some of them seem to have at least one murder every week. And if you live in a little village with only a few hundred inhabitants and there are murders occurring every week, you know your turn is bound to come up pretty quickly.

My area could be a candidate - at least four Swedish crime writers let their novels take place on my island. (Last week, they filmed a couple of scenes for one of them - at my work... )

Ooo. I'll have to check those out. Who are the writers? I just finished a Swedish crime novel, but it was in Norwegian because I got it from the library and they don't have untranslated Swedish or Danish novels. It was also a "cozy" or fairly cozy anyway, which I think is pretty unusual for Scandinavian crime fiction.

[jeff_lindqvist]

Ooo. I'll have to check those out. Who are the writers? I just finished a Swedish crime novel, but it was in Norwegian because I got it from the library and they don't have untranslated Swedish or Danish novels. It was also a "cozy" or fairly cozy anyway, which I think is pretty unusual for Scandinavian crime fiction.

Anna Jansson (whose nth book is being filmed now), Mari Jungstedt (her books have also been adapted to film by Germans, and then re-dubbed into Swedish... ), Håkan Östlundh (whose team we beat during a Crime Quiz two years ago ) and Marianne Cedervall (whom I know nothing about). I haven't read a single line by any of these authors. Which one did you read?

[Brun Ugle]

Ooo. I'll have to check those out. Who are the writers? I just finished a Swedish crime novel, but it was in Norwegian because I got it from the library and they don't have untranslated Swedish or Danish novels. It was also a "cozy" or fairly cozy anyway, which I think is pretty unusual for Scandinavian crime fiction.

Anna Jansson (whose nth book is being filmed now), Mari Jungstedt (her books have also been adapted to film by Germans, and then re-dubbed into Swedish... ), Håkan Östlundh (whose team we beat during a Crime Quiz two years ago ) and Marianne Cedervall (whom I know nothing about). I haven't read a single line by any of these authors. Which one did you read?

The book I just finished reading was Pastor Viveka och tanterna by Annette Haaland. It's her first book and takes place in Enskede in Stockholm. It took me a little while to get into it, but once I did, I enjoyed it. And it wasn't scary, unlike a lot of Scandinavian crime novels.