#Astrid Lingren

[earnestlyeccentric]

The Brothers Lionheart

Author: Astrid Lindgren Rating: 2/5 Karl and Jonathan are as close as brothers can be. A tragic accident causes Jonathan to be sent to Nangijala, separating the brothers. Karl will do anything to be with Jonathan again. Spoilers ahead. Continue reading The Brothers Lionheart

[shakeskp]

tagged by @trinitrine

3 ships you like: the three last ones: Obikin and Dinluke from Star Wars (from one of the most problematic to one of the less problematic, I've got the range ✨✨), Haikaveh from Genshin Impact

First ship ever: Lucas Wolenczac/my self-insert when I was twelve :D Otherwise, Van Fanel/Kanzaki Hitomi from Tenkuu no Escaflowne <3 (and Duo/Heero for baby's first slash ship)

Last song you heard : The Kid's Aren't All Right, by Fall Out Boy

Favorite childhood book: Ronia, the Robber's Daughter by Astrid Lingren <3

Currently reading: I'm right in between and I'm in the kind of creative wave where reading is hard for me. I've finished Master and Apprentice by Claudia Gray for fanfic research purposes/Obi-Wan purposes (Blah. Or, as we would say in French: Mouais. Bof.). This morning I read the Obi-Wan&Anakin comic book for research and Obi-Wan purposes again (Not bad even if Obi-Wan looks like he's 45 instead of 29, and good for research) Today's "I need to fill those lost half an hour with something" is I can do it by Jiàng Zi Bèi (Cute)

Currently watching : Currently not watching anything :( :( :( :( I watched bits and pieces of the Star Wars Prequels for research purposes still, but they're too rage inducing to watch them for real, I'm preserving my mental health

Currently consuming: Water and chocolate and buckwheat chocolate cookies I made myself ✨

Currently craving: My unfinished "It was only a kiss" fic. I want it finished. Please.

I specifically tag @tissusetbulles and @marikacrea for being back in fandom business, and you, person who's reading this, you're tagged too.

[countessofravenclaw]

So I decided to start something...

Most of you know that I am Finnish, from a country that is located in northern Europe. And do you know what we Nordics have? Besides free health care and university?

A banger children's media, especially books. I mean everyone had heard of Astrid Lingren and her books, but Finland has lot of exclusive content as well. And boy are these things chaotic... they give DCLA run for its money

I grew up with this all, so as I am nearing the age 20 I decided to revisit the books that were my life in Elementary school

I call this: I re-read my childhood favorite book series that rivals DCLA for the chaoticness, the series

And we are starting with Ricky Rapper or as I know it, Risto Räpääjä which is a book series about this boy called Risto who lives with his feral aunt and loved playing the drums... and the shenanigans ensue

I don't know if I'll extend this beyond teh Ricky Rappers, but let me know if you want me to re-read lot of the Lingrenas as well or something. I have lot to say about the children other noisy village actually being super rich

So please stay tuned because this will be chaotic.

[booksandwords]

Astrid Lindgren by Maria Isabel Sanchez Vegara. Illustrated by Linzie Hunter

Age Recommendation: Early Primary Topic/ Theme: Imagination, Writing, Biographic Setting: Sweden Series: Little People, Big Dreams

Rating: 5/5

Astrid Lindgren is an important woman in library-land she is one of the authors that can encourage kids to have fun and to actually enjoy reading. There is also an element of remembering to live life and embrace your inner child from time to time. This has become important as we as librarians encourage librarians to read what their little hearts desire and not what they feel is expected of them by society. I love the way she is shown here, as a strong woman who lived the life she wanted to live (as in the norm for LPBD), she is given the credit she is due for encouraging reading and her awards are shown to the reader. Another piece of credit given that isn't often shown, the origin of the name Pippi Longstocking. That credit is due to her than young daughter Karin. The first time the stories were compiled was for then 10-year-old Karin.

I adore the illustrations for this. They feel near childish, like they could have been drawn by one of my cousin's kids. I mean no disrespect to Linzie Hunter, it is quite a feat to create that illusion. There is a huge focus on the worlds children, in the illustrations, diverse faces are frequently shown when Pippi Longstocking is raised. It is a good choice. Astrid is shown being a fun and loving mother, something that appears to be the truth. She had others look after Lars in his early years to try and get him a better life. The fun page of just Pippi is wonderful, it has an element of whimsicality to it as is only right. The illustrations blend the grounded earth and Astrid's real life with Astrid's dream-like imagination well. I appreciate the challenge that posed to Hunter, she executed better than many would have been able to.

Some thoughts. In her heyday, Astrid Lindgren (nee Ericsson) must have been a striking and charming woman. Lars' father, Reinhold Blomberg, the editor-in-chief at the newspaper, offered to leave his wife for her though that may only be because he got her pregnant (and that would have been the proper thing to do). Sture Lindgren did leave his wife for Astrid. I find it interesting Astrid Lindgren only married once, Sture Lindgren died in 1952, 40 before his wife. It gives me I've had my husband vibes. Lars Lingren died before his mother in 1986, aged 60. Her daughter Karin, now Karin Nyman works as a translator. To a degree, she followed in her mother's footsteps with a love of words, just in a different way. Can I just direct readers to the Astrid Lindgren Memorial Award, the world's largest monetary award for children's and youth literature. Honestly look it up on Wikipedia if you don't want to look at the official site it's really interesting. Yes, I know my librarian nerd is showing.

[karenlacorte]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Pippi In The South Seas by Astrid Lingren.

[bean-in-dice]

Ohh what a surprise to wake up to @missfangirll

3 Ships I like:

Pingxie, as evident by the existence of this very account. I like me some deep rooted longing vibes.

Weilan, again because yearning.

Bai Yutang/Zhan Zhao (what's their ship name again), I'm in love with their unusually uneventful romance, their sheer luck of being together since literally birth with nothing standing their way, they've always been fully confident and convinced of each others' feelings.... it's pretty wholesome and the stuff of every other pair's envy.

Also me liking that ship proves I'm not a complete sadist. Only on odd days!😉

First Ship ever:

Oh easy. Percabeth😆🥰 I was like 13, 14? With them, I entered the age of giddy squealing heh

Last song you heard:

Time of Flight by Long ge and Bai Yu😁

Favorite Childhood Book:

The Little House series by Laura Ingalls Wilder, Lucy Maud Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables and Emily of New Moon series (and of COURSE The Blue Castle), Astrid Lingren's books... I grew up on gentle cottagecore classics.

Currently reading:

SCI The Mystery book 4, Pingxie fanfics, starting up Guardian novel

Currently watching:

Great Dance Crew season 2, started for Gao Hanyu, stayed because the dancing is impressive and I'm learning new things.

Currently consuming:

Fruit juice. It's 40 degrees over here.

Currently craving:

I have some jumbo shell pasta and I'm daydreaming the ways I'd cook it even though I don't wanna move

Tagging: Noone, I don't know anyone closely except you 🙈

9 Fandom Peeps to Get to Know Better:

Tagged by @the-marron, thank you very much lovely! <3

3 Ships You Like: I'll pick some less obvious ones for a change; Chang Dong/Ye Luixi (personally, I thought Parallel World was banger). Chu Sangwoo/Jang Jaeyoung (in case anyone has missed my recent descent into Semantic Error obsession). Kang Yo-Han/Kim Ga-On (guess who just finished a The Devil Judge rewatch).

First Ship Ever: The first ship I remember being into and being aware of as a ship is, oh god can't believe I'm admitting this but, Ryden or Rydon however you want to spell it I AM NOT PROUD OF THIS okay I was young and obsessed

Last Song You Heard: Liars - The Blackout. I'm not bitter it wasn't on the setlist on Monday, nope, not at all.

Favourite Childhood Book: The Jolly Postman Or Other People's Letters always brought me a lot of joy.

Currently Reading: The Lost Bookshop by Evie Woods.

Currently watching: Well, I haven't decided what to start next yet?

Currently consuming: some not brilliant homemade choc chip cookies. I had to improvise because I had no eggs but a determination to make cookies to make life seem better after a day at work last night.

Currently craving: endless amounts of money and a chauffeur so I could go to another The Blackout gig tonight instead of sitting at home 😔

Tagging: @miss-ingno @sasamelons @justacoyote @missfangirll @omaenanimonoda @endof-vanity @lacommunarde @baiyubai @bladedweaponsandswishycoats No pressure though! Just if you feel like it :)

[judithvelkhana]

Farbror melker ❤️

[companionnpc]

Watch "Ronja Rövardotter - Trondhjems Studentersangforening og Trondhjems Kvinnelige Studentersangforening" on YouTube

Happy 115th Birthday, Astrid Lindgren

[c-kiddo]

i think you'd enjoy astrid lingrens books as well as the movies based on them. Ronja Rövardotter (ronja the robbers daughter?) and Bröderna Lejonhjärta (the brothers lionheart??) are my favs! they have nice music and are very nature-y. Also very childhood-y and fantastical i think

oh :'-o i will look and see, i had Pippi longstocking, Lotta, and All About the Bullerby Children read to me a lot as a kid since my mam has old copies of them (the lotta edition cover of her sitting on a garden fence is framed in our kitchen). also moomin/tove jansson books too of course.. mostly tales from Moominvalley and Who will comfort toffle? and the one where they look for little my but my friend ripped it up when i was little

[niallermybabe]

OHHHHHHH ASTRID LINGREN

M defo developing an unhealthy obsession with German children books

Wir Kinder aus Bullerbü = Kindheit

[with-the-same-tattoos]

Oh bruh and were gonna try to make the house from Astrid Lingrens The Brothers Lionheart as a gingerbread house. Im psyched and exited.

Im gonna try to make the trees out of crispies n marshmallows w green coloring n shit. Im so exited to play w new creative stuff even if its a lil silly. Idk how im gonna do the cobblestone fence but ill figure it out....

[possession1981-moving]

wait so the monotonous danish thing might actually be a dialect thing cause i speak very southern danish but also monotonous might be the wrong word i mean like i enounciate really badly when i speak if that makes sense??? also i always thought swedes were more emotive in their way of speaking jgkfs but i also grew up watching astrid lingren shows so that might have skewed my perception of the language a bit lol

oh okay that makes sense i’ve never really been in the south of denmark except for the time we drove to paris to go to euro disney when i was 6 so maybe i just don’t have that point of reference lmao but i will say yall are very bad at enunciating as a nation which i relate to bc i slur my words so much in swedish it’s a very niche southern stockholm accent thing i picked up from my oldest brother i think… but it’s funny u think swedes are very emotive speakers from watching astrid lindgren bc u know generally we are known as cold and emotionless lmfaoooooooo

[sielustaja]

Day 21: The first novel you remember reading

Veljeni, Leijonamieli (The Brothers Lionheart) by Astrid Lingren

I’m quite sure this was not the very first novel I read, but I clearly remember reading it when I was... 9? Anywho, I remember really liking it a lot, even though the themes of death and the other side went somewhat over my head when I was that young.

It is an absolutely beautiful, but grim, story of two brothers who don’t let anything separate them, in this world or the next one. Nothing I say here will do it enough justice.

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30 Day Book Challenge: join me here (start any day you want!)

[samoililja]

how could you leave out the part about her dad being a pirate captain?

Me: I can't make this character too capable and detailed, people will think she's a mary sue :(

The absolute chad, legend and icon Astrid Lindgren: Ok so here is my OC Pippilotta Viktualia Rullgardina Krusmynta Efraimsdotter Långstrump but you can call her Pippi Långstrump for short. She is only nine years old but she lives alone because her mother has died and her father has got lost at sea. And since she lives alone she can do whatever she wants, also she is so rich she never has to worry about money, she has a chest full of golden coins. Also she has a horse and a monkey. And Pippi lives in her own house called Villa Villekulla, she has red hair that defies gravity, and she is so nice that when it's her birthday she gives presents to her friends instead of wanting to receive them. She dresses super uniquely and this is her design, she looks super fun. She went to school once but she didn't like it so she never went again and everyone was fine with it. Oh, did I mention that she is the strongest girl in the world and can easily carry her horse around?

[karenlacorte]

Check out this listing I just added to my Poshmark closet: Pippi in the South Seas.

[wander-yet-wonder]

God tagged for a reading tag game by @duchessedorleans ! Neat!

 

childhood favorite: Oh so many!!!

I think my favourite would be the work of Paul biegel. (het sleutelkruid, het stenen beeld, nachtverhaal, roofridder sperrebek, de nevelkindertjes)

But also,

Astrid lingren - the brothers lionheart, mio my mio

Tonke dracht - letter for the king

And when I was a little older

Cornelia fünke - inkheart

reading list: 

Edward Bulwer Lytton - Zanoni

Ouspensky - in search of the miraculous

Montague summers - the vampire in Europe. (This one not just because vampires are cool but because Montague summers is an absolutely buckwild individual. Google him you'll not be disappointed)

recently read:

Mary Shelley's Frankenstein - read for my Prometheus project, but enjoyed with my whole gothic novel loving heart. Do you want to feel heartbreak? Read the creature's last monologue while listening to tears in rain from blade runner.

Currently reading: Sandor marai - Válás Budán (De nacht voor de scheiding) no English translation yet. Not my usual cup of tea but I bought the ebook to get one citation for a professor... So now I already have it. Might as well read it...

Paolo Coelho - the Devil and miss Prym

What can I say if it's an allegorical tale exploring good and evil, big chance I'll love it.

I tag @modoru-mono and @lovethebluebox