Anja Lampela: Pyry

If anything could go wrong, it definitely goes in this one.

Pinja is living in a relationship and she is pregnant. She is thinking that her relationship is happy and in the excact place where every working relationship should be, but she is quite wrong.

It's really hard to describe the book without giving too much away. Overall this book contains every single thing why i hate reading Finnish literature...

Mervi Koski: Hirviökäsikirja

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This is a Finnish guidebook to monsters and other creatures. The monsters are divided into spesific groups such as snakes, horses, birds etc. Each of the creatures are presented with information about their livinghabits, appearance, size and other details.

The book also lists dangerous levels on each creature and how to possible to survive their attack. For example dangerous level for zombies is high but you might escape from them if you feed them something salty. Running also helps. The information is quite funny usually but it makes me wonder why they had to write into the introduction that monsters doesn't really exist. If they don't exist, why would you need to know ways to escape from them?!

Overall the book is very good and the illustrations are amazing. The reason why i'm not giving it the full five stars is my little doubts on if i can really trust this one. The book says that for example the Basilisk has a head of a rooster and body of a snake. In Harry Potter the basilisk most definitely not had a head of a rooster! So which one to trust?! Also another creature from Astrid Lindgrens books doesn't seem really that correct. It totally can be that these other books are wrong, but they are the versions i'm and a lot of people are used to, so it's really hard to think otherwise and therefore i cannot support this book with the five stars.

Minna Kiistala: Minä en sitten muutu

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The book is telling a true story of a woman who becomes pregnant and finds it hard to adjust to the "most precious time you can ever have". The book is filled with witty comments about mothers and their children and how people kind of get lost in the family after having a child (ie. forgetting everything else). The book questions the motherly love and passion as well as supports it while her pregnancy goes further.

I really enjoyed the writers attitude, i'm not sure though that would a person with kids appreciate it as much as me - a person who doesn't have kids. The only minus (and withdrawal of one star) is that the last chapter kind of sums up all the feelings - and you are kind of left to wonder that is she really going to be one of those onlineforum-mothers whose only purpos in life is to live through her own child and put down upon people who don't believe in that. I hope she doesn't turn into that and i'll hope she'll have a good head on her shoulder even after her child is born. Maybe she should write a sequel?! ;)

Sofi Oksanen: Puhdistus

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For a really long time i stayed away from this book. A lot of people recommended it for me and everyone had something to say about it. I believe it was some sort of a pierpressure that drove me into reading it. And i'm glad it did happen.

The story opens up the history in Estonia and follows the tragic memories of Aliide Truu and other women whose lifes in the country hasn't been easy. The story itself is rough and you'll probably get grossed about it. Still it's a strong statement of a piece of history that i didn't even know it really existed.

Mari Kujanpää: Minä ja Muro

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A cute story of a little girl who hasn't really got any friends other than her bear Muro. Her life is quite miserable because her parents ignore her a lot too.. but after a teenage-girl comes to the school to help out the kids the main character Lauhas life starts to change...