I read a book about a month and a half ago, that I really really enjoyed. It was called "The One Hundred Year Old Man Who Climbed Out the Window and Disappeared" Jonas Jonasson is the author, and the book is so funny. It has many farcical situations, but they add to the fun of the two stories. There are two stories running through the book, the one of the one hundred year old man's life and the story of his escape and where he went after it. The escapades showed what fun you can have if you take life as it comes.
Other books that have stayed with me that I have read in the last two years, are The Kindly Ones by Johnathan Littell, a novel imagining the life of a German officer through the war, and gives insight into a different way of seeing. There are some scenes that I could not read, the sex scenes, so I just found the end of that part and left them, it did not change the story. The disintegration of the person and the strain from the experiences of life in war were shown.
The third book is called New Finnish Grammar by Diego Marani. This is an interesting study of what gives us identity - and the effect of our language on our identity. Good intentions can go wrong if the wrong information is considered. The way this story runs is really interesting.
