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BIBLIOTECA NORDICA "Open Doors" week

18/10/2012

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I've always loved libraries.  I was five when my parents enrolled me in the local library in Felixstowe and for the next ten years it was my favourite place.  I still remember that barely contained excitement each time I walked home with my three new library books in my arms (three was the maximum the librarian would allow me).  I couldn't wait to start reading them.  As the years passed I moved from the children's section, where I had devoured everything from CS Lewis to Enid Blyton, to the adult section and discovered a whole new world of authors:  Ray Bradbury, John Steinbeck, Hemingway.  
So when Marja Tähtinen, of the Biblioteca Nordica in Fuengirola asked me to speak to a group of library users at their  Open Doors week, I was delighted to accept.  In these days of shrinking library readership and the inevitable closure of many of our beloved libraries, I was only too happy to support them.   The Biblioteca Nordica, the brain-child of Marja herself, is dedicated to books written in Finnish, Danish, Swedish and Norwegian.  It is part of the municipal library in Los Boliches, Fuengirola,  where there is an excellent collection of books in English and Spanish.
There was a small, but enthusiastic, turnout to listen first to Raija Oranen, a Finnish author, who spoke in Finnish, of which I understood not a word, then to me.  Luckily the Finns are excellent at other languages and I was able to speak in English.  I was interviewed by another local writer, JG Harlond author of the best-selling The Chosen Man.  If Jane decides to give up writing I think she should turn her hand to being a professional interviewer.  She has an excellent way of drawing things out of you.
 The Open Doors week continues until 19th October with a variety of activities.  It's worth popping in, if only to meet the effervescent Marja Tähtinen (pictured on the left).

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12 Comments
Marja Tähtinen
25/11/2012 05:37:58 am

Thank you Joan for this supportive article of yours! Your coming to the Press Conference arranged by Katya Westerdahl as well as your speaking on the Open-Door-Day (18th Oct. -12) interviewed by J.G. Harlond have worked miracles now that our Scandinavian Library is going international. ¡Muchas gracias!

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Carolina
3/12/2012 04:40:29 am

Congratulations my dear Marja! Effervescent is the perfect adjetive for you! I am so happy and proud! You are an example for me of strenght and will. Keep on going! Hugs!

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Marja link
3/12/2012 05:12:52 am

Thank you Carolina! Your comment made my day. The weather has turned sunny again, also for the library. I´m getting help and support from new lectors that are finding their way to the library. Looking forward to seeing you some day! Best wishes Marja

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Marja Tähtinen link
3/12/2012 05:16:27 am

Thank you Carolina! Your comment made my day and put me on going again.The weather has turned sunny again, also for the library. I Looking forward to seeing you some day! Best wishes Marja

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mirryam link
20/10/2013 09:09:58 pm

Your blog looked so simple to design that I decided to create one, thanks!

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Marja Táhtinen link
6/10/2014 11:43:08 am

Thanks to Window Company and Joan Fallon,
I would like to create a webpage like Joan Fallon´s, could you help me do that?
Two years have passed and I am changing mails with Joan about the 5-year anniversary of Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches on October 15 2014
Reading Joan´s blog on Hemingway and Donna Tart whose 900-page-book I have in the library in Finnish but haven´t yet been able to read it because of lack of time. Joan´s blog shows me why Joan and I sympathised immediately: we have a similar background as for books, though I haven´t been able to read as much as Joan, maybe because I wasn´t an only child. But I liked to read books in the original languages. During these two years Joan has written two new books - or three?? - but I with the help of the starting Euro project I have been able to even the way of Biblioteca Nórdica towards internationality.
Saludos to all book-friends from Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches
Marja Tähtinen

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Marja Táhtinen link
6/10/2014 11:43:21 am

Thanks to Window Company and Joan Fallon,
I would like to create a webpage like Joan Fallon´s, could you help me do that?
Two years have passed and I am changing mails with Joan about the 5-year anniversary of Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches on October 15 2014
Reading Joan´s blog on Hemingway and Donna Tart whose 900-page-book I have in the library in Finnish but haven´t yet been able to read it because of lack of time. Joan´s blog shows me why Joan and I sympathised immediately: we have a similar background as for books, though I haven´t been able to read as much as Joan, maybe because I wasn´t an only child. But I liked to read books in the original languages. During these two years Joan has written two new books - or three?? - but I with the help of the starting Euro project I have been able to even the way of Biblioteca Nórdica towards internationality.
Saludos to all book-friends from Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches
Marja Tähtinen

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Marja Táhtinen link
6/10/2014 11:44:56 am

Thanks to Window Company and Joan Fallon,
I would like to create a webpage like Joan Fallon´s, could you help me do that?
Two years have passed and I am changing mails with Joan about the 5-year anniversary of Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches on October 15 2014
Reading Joan´s blog on Hemingway and Donna Tart whose 900-page-book I have in the library in Finnish but haven´t yet been able to read it because of lack of time. Joan´s blog shows me why Joan and I sympathised immediately: we have a similar background as for books, though I haven´t been able to read as much as Joan, maybe because I wasn´t an only child. But I liked to read books in the original languages. During these two years Joan has written two new books - or three?? - but I with the help of the starting Euro project I have been able to even the way of Biblioteca Nórdica towards internationality.
Saludos to all book-friends from Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches
Marja Tähtinen

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Marja Táhtinen link
6/10/2014 12:00:15 pm

Thanks to Window Company and Joan Fallon,
I would like to create a webpage like Joan Fallon´s, could you help me do that?
Two years have passed and I am changing mails with Joan about the 5-year anniversary of Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches on October 15 2014
Reading Joan´s blog on Hemingway and Donna Tart whose 900-page-book I have in the library in Finnish but haven´t yet been able to read it because of lack of time. Joan´s blog shows me why Joan and I sympathised immediately: we have a similar background as for books, though I haven´t been able to read as much as Joan, maybe because I wasn´t an only child. But I liked to read books in the original languages. During these two years Joan has written two new books - or three?? - but I with the help of the starting Euro project I have been able to even the way of Biblioteca Nórdica towards internationality.
Saludos to all book-friends from Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches
Marja Tähtinen

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Marja Táhtinen link
6/10/2014 12:02:25 pm

Thanks to Window Company and Joan Fallon,
I would like to create a webpage like Joan Fallon´s, could you help me do that?
Two years have passed and I am changing mails with Joan about the this- year-5-year anniversary of Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches on October 15 2014. (Probably on 24th of October)
Reading Joan´s blog on Hemingway and Donna Tart whose 900-page-book I have in the library in Finnish but haven´t yet been able to read it because of lack of time. Joan´s blog shows me why Joan and I sympathised immediately: we have a similar background as for books, though I haven´t been able to read as much as Joan, maybe because I wasn´t an only child. But I liked to read books in the original languages. During these two years Joan has written two new books - or three?? - but I with the help of the starting Euro project I have been able to even the way of Biblioteca Nórdica towards internationality.
Saludos to all book-friends from Biblioteca Internacional Los Boliches
Marja Tähtinen

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Marja Tähtinen
25/11/2015 07:40:01 pm

My Dear friend Joan,
facebook reminded me of these happy memories from over three years ago. In October Biblioteca Nórdica/Internacional is really turning international with the new Library Law concerning the position of the volunteers as well. We are about to found an association. I have some help but have my hands full of work so I have no extra energy to arrange any activities any more. Maybe when we have the association I could invite you to speak for a bigger audience in the Casa de la Cultura as the main librarian of Fuengirola planned a year or two ago. I am looking forward to seeing you soon to speak about your books. Now I think I would dare to act as an interpreter.
Best wishes
Marja

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