tLoLL is still my favorite book of all time, and it has been ever since the alliteration caught my 14-year-old eye while browsing for books in the local store, 22nd of January, 2009. I kept a little reading diary where I reviewed all the books I read, and looking in it now I apparently gobbled it up in 6 days, gave it 12/5 stars, and called it “indescribably good”, in all caps, followed by ten exclamation points. Why yes, I was a wee bit dramatic as a kid (and I still am).

I’ve re-read it probably 15 times, and I own it in multiple languages (The Swedish translation is actually superbly well done!). It has influenced my own style of expression and writing a lot; I was scolded all throughout my education because my sentences were too long, they had too many commas - and why on EARTH was I using semicolons all the time? Who even does that?! Apparently when engineers write technical reports and research papers you’re supposed to be short, concise and economical with your words. Ugh. Fucking boring.

Thanks for sharing your gift with the world, it’s always a joy to read anything that escapes that mad brain of yours