The topic of today's challenge was Tradition.

I've been suffering from a huge lack of inspiration lately (in case you haven't noticed), and today's blip is not exception; it just continues this certain "series of unfortunate events"... :P  

I just couldn't invent anything more fitting to this topic right now, so... I just picked up this book, which is my personal tradition almost every summer. It's an epic novel about one woman's life, from her teenage years in the 50's to her middle aged single mum years in the 70's.

Her story in an old, stiff, traditional Finnish culture, in this certain era, millieu and family, is very interesting. The story is fiction, but still, these her kind of decisions and lifestyle - or simply: modern morality - really have been very exceptional in back those days.

I really like the story, convincing and strong characters and last but least, I just looove the dialect which controls the whole story.  :)