https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro Practice practice practice en-us 2017-01-30 08:17:03 UTC 2017-01-31 09:57:27 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156797 Sibling’s love is a classic romance novel by the author Katarina von Bredow except for one aspect, the two protagonist lovers are siblings. The book tells us about Amanda who is battling the difficult feelings that she has developed towards her half brother Ludvig. At first she tries to fight it since she doesn’t believe that her feelings are answered, but when she realizes that they in fact are she surrenders resistance and they initiate a relationship. It is a dangerous affair because of the judgement of society and their family non the less, but I also think that it’s this fact that makes it so intimidating. Incest love is a subject laced with great taboo and is associated with a lot of disgust, shame and confusion. But I also think that it is this difficulty that makes their story interesting and different. It makes us question what is right and wrong and perhaps in some part our very own self. ]]> 2017-01-30 08:22:09 UTC https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156797 https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156844 Have you ever thought about how you can lose everything you ever loved in just a few seconds? In the novel, If I stay written by Gayle Forman, Mia the main character needs to make a decision after going into a self inducted coma that occurred in a car crash. Mias entire family is wiped out in the very same accident. 
It is impossible for her to make this heart breaking decision If she decides to pull the plug she leaves behind her grandparents, her best friend and the love of her life, Adam, but if she decides to stay, she wakes up as  an orphan. 

]]> 2017-01-30 08:22:32 UTC https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156844 https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156892 ”When I think of my wife, I always think of her head, I picture cracking her lovely skull, unspooling her brain, trying to get answers, the primal questions of any marrige, What are you thinking? How are you feeling? What have we done to each other?"
These are the first words spoken by Nick Dunn in the movie and novel Gone Girl, directed by David Fincher and written by Gillian Flynn. 
It gives you quite the insight on this dysfunctional couple.
Nick and Amy Dunn are trapped in a miserable marriage, but on their 5 years anniversary Amy goes missing from their Missouri home and Nick becomes the primary suspect in her disappearance. 
Did Nick kill his wife? If not Nick, then who? Is Amy even dead?

]]> 2017-01-30 08:22:47 UTC https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156892 https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156968 Can obscenity bring a more emotionally powerful context? I think so. In the novel Äldreomsorgen i Övre Kågedalen, this is explored to the extreme with the story of the eleven-year-old boy Helge Holmlund, called Pyret, being in an incestuous relationship with his nazi grandfather. Despite their tendencies of murdering and raping people, they spend most of their time drunkenly retelling stories and contemplating their own lives in the most hard to read ”skelleftemål” I have ever read. Skellefteåmål is dialectal, and is what they speak in  Kågedalen. At the time of its’ release the author went under a pseudonym and due to the complexity of the language it was thought to be written by some great Swedish author who just didn’t want their name tainted by the vulgarity and controversy of the book. One speculation was that it was Stieg Larsson of the millennium trilogy, because he grew up in Skelleftehamn and would thus have much insight in the way people spoke in Kågedalen. But it appeared that it was another man from Skelleftehamn, Niclas Lundkvist, who was the true author of the book. Is this an edgy attempt at being as gross as one can possibly be or a real representation of real people with real struggles and issues in their morally corrupt worlds? I think the latter, and reading the book I think most people will agree with me.]]> 2017-01-30 08:23:13 UTC https://padlet.com/jens_franzen/kd2intro/wish/150156968