One month and two weeks

Is how long it took to listen my way through the audio book Stolthet och fördom whilst following along in the Kindle version. Sadly, the two editions aren't the same, which meant sometimes the audio version skipped several paragraph of text and other times spoke quite a bit before I could find a place where the spoken words matched what was on my screen. On the other hand, since the translations differed there were times when it helped--either I didn't understand the printed word or phrase but did understand the spoken one, or vice versa.

However, despite that one advantage, I really look forward to that day when Kindle and Audible get some Swedish books in their whisper link collection, so that the two editions not only match, but one can't loose one's place in the text if interrupted, as the program knows where one is.

It was an odd book to read. I have never read Pride and Prejudice in English, and had zero idea what it might be about (other the expectation that the two named character traits must appear somewhere in the story), so it took a while to realize that I was reading a romance. On the other hand, having figured that part out, it took no effort whatsoever to correctly predict whose fortune it was that covered the costs of restoring the fallen sister's good name and how the story line would resolve itself.

A longer trip than planned

It is lightly snowing in Helsinki today, so I allowed more time than typically needed to get to the airport. Despite traffic slowing to a full stop at one point on the highway, still made it to my gate with more than an hour to spare. However, the plane itself wasn't so fortunate.

They tell me that I have to wait for them to de-ice the plane in Stockholm, fly here, pick me up and fly back. Then, unless something has also gone very bad with the timing of my flight to Luleå, they will give me a hotel room for the night and I can take a morning flight home.