Kitty's Corner

... that never made it to the book stores...:



I don't know which one would be my favourite, "Dick gets his cock out" or "Fanny loves seamen"...

I had the book "The Flame and The Lemon" on my wish list for Christmas, and I was so lucky to get it.

The book is about some episodes that took place in Copenhagen during the second world war. It's the true story about a Danish Resistance group , Holger Danske, and the persons who were the centre of the group. The Flame and The Lemon were two main characters in the group. Everybody had aliases, and they weren't chosen randomly. The Flame got his name because he was red-haired. And the Lemon worked on the Citroën factory, which repaired German cars. He took part in bombing his own place of work, and got his name that way. Lemon means Citron in Danish.


The book tells how the group got their orders from the Danish chief of police, and he claims that he gets his orders from the British. The problem during the war is (or was) that you never knew who to trust. The Germans offered a big reward to the person who could catch the group - and that only made it more difficult to know friend from enemy.

I think it's a fascinating story about how people views on what's right or wrong changes when things get rough.

I have seen the film that were based on this book, and I must say that I like this book much better than the film. We get to know the characters much better, and get to understand their motives better also.

Excellent book. If it comes out in your language, you should give it a try!

out of 6.

A Danish publisher’s plans to release a book at Christmastime about the Prophet Mohammed’s youngest wife Aisha may be changed.

Following an attack on the home of the British publisher Bjarke Larsen of the Danish Pressto publishing house is now considering the risks involved in marketing the Danish version of the book and says he is rethinking the project due to fears of violent reactions:

"On the one hand we have the consideration for the safety of my family and for the fact that things do not escalate out of control. On the other hand we cannot let the freedom of speech be suppressed. The publication depends on how the situation develops", he says.

The book was withdrawn in Serbia, but apart from that, Jones says, there have been no other threats against the people who are involved in the publication of "The Jewel of Medina".

Larsen will now meet police to evaluate the risks involved in publishing the book. He says that their advice will be crucial.

Larsen says he is surprised that the attack has taken place: "It is not a book that tries to mock or show disrespect to others. On the contrary, it is trying to picture Mohammed and Aisha in a positive light. It is a fascinating account of what happened when Islam was founded".

It has not yet been decided whether or not the name of the translator should be mentioned in the book.

Similar to Rushdie affair
The publication of the book has been met with sharp reactions from extremist British Muslims and invokes memories of the protests against Salman Rushdie’s 1989 book "The Satanic Verses".That book resulted in Rushdie having to be placed under police protection following the issuance by Iran's then spiritual leader Ayatollah Khomeini of a religious edict or fatwa against him. The publication of the book also resulted in an assassination attempt against the novel’s Norwegian publisher and an attempt to murder the book’s Italian translator.


Is this madness ever going to stop?!