I <3 Juha Vuorinen
My surprise arrived yesterday so now I can let you guys in on the deal.
There is this guy who writes a book-series that's (freely translated) called The Drunk Diaries. He also writes a second series which is about a side-charchter in the first series, and in the last few years he has started a third series of books, a detective one. We have them all.
The humor is very.. umm... below the belt, but the stories are fun and they're really nice books to read when you don't have the energy to use your brain at all. Guys love them. So does mine. Since, as I've mentioned, Sami has dyslexia, I'm always happy when he reads, and he reads a lot these days. You barely even notice the dyslexia anymore. Anyway. All of these books are his favourites, and so I thought since the third book in the detective-series came out, and that was the only one we didn't have, I'd get it for him. I contacted the author at dictator-publishing and asked if it was in an way possible for him to sign the book I was about to order through the publisher since Sami's job doesn't really give him much time to attend signings at book-fairs or shops. I explained a bit how hardcore of a fan Sami really is, and told the writer that a signature would probably mean we'd have to put the book in frames on the wall and start calling it "my precious".
He replied! He told me he'd be happy to sign it, and as a matter of fact, they would like to donate the book to Sami as a present. And if I would be so kind to send them a pic of him they'd let the sketch-artist who draws doodles on the edges of the pages in all of these books draw a caricature of him.
I couldn't believe my eyes! I was set on the author never even answering me, and here he turns out to be just about the nicest, sweetest person ever!
And so, yesterday the book arrived with the mail and I have to say, I can't remember when I've seen him this excited about stuff before. It all turned out very well. I got heeps and heeps of kisses.
On another note, yesterday was the day when we hit a roadmark. 12 hours of daylight and 12 hours of night. This means half a year of nightless day starts in the north. And it also means we in the south get to start anticipating the nightless nights of summer since they are rapidly growing closer. Good, because I could sure use me some light!
