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theswede

theswede

has 36 followers and is following 48 people

I´m a middleaged swedish "wordworker" who love to read and write. I have just started out on my bookshelf.
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  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, thanks for the lehane recommendation. i hope you are doing well. right now i am loving the kate atkinson "brody" series. i think you might like it, also.

    posted 2 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    i hope you like him. he writes a lot about the native americans, the midwest and the southwest and also about men his age which is a bit older than us but sooo interesting. he is quite a character himself. he has published many books of poetry and a couple of non=fictions, but it is his fiction that i just swoon over.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, good to hear from you. i have put the reccommended book on my wish list and i hope the bodil gets translated soon. i'm reading an author i have truly loved for years and maybe you can find him in sweden, Jim Harrison. He is getting old now, but i've read him through the decades so i guess i'm getting old too. i guess Sun Dog or Dalva or After the Fall, all good americana. any of them would be good for a start if you're interested.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    ih swede, i read the larsson this weekend. couldn't put it down. whoa! now i'm really looking forward to the next 2. so glad you let me know about it!! thanks! i'm ready for something a bit lighthearted now.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, the best things i've read lately are The Book Of Flying by Keith Miller and Troll: a love Story by Johanna Sinisalo. Those books were knock outs and very different. i've read other good books but they were kind of girlish as some of alice hoffman's can be, but not all. i understand her newest one is really good as was Skylight Confessions. Bankok 8 by John Bendet is really good but i think his main character is perhaps more evolved than the writer himself. if your interested in the bankok culture and a good detective mystery, you'll enjoy that one. looking forward to the larsson.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, how are you? you have been in my thoughts over the summer. The Girl With The DragonTattoo is finally out but back ordered, but will get my copy soon and also gearing up to read Norwegien Wood. since you like americana and good writing, i think you would enjoy Blackbird House by Alice hoffman. its a quick and enjoyable read. actually i've read several good things this summer.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ebershoff

    Ebershoff says

    Thanks for the tips. I'm also really anxious to read THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO which comes out here in a few months.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Lindiemj

    Lindiemj says

    Got your note. It sounds like an interesting book. I started reading A New Earth. Then I found London by Rutherfurd at the Good Will Store. I've been writing lately more than I have been reading.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Claire H

    Claire H says

    things are good. teaching kindergarten full-time in bangkok, thailand. returning to the US in May. lots of time to read good books but hard to find them unless they are bestsellers. what do you recommend?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ebershoff

    Ebershoff says

    Hi Swede,

    I just read a really good Cold War novel called STRAY DOG WINTER, which comes out in October. It's about a young gay Australian who goes to Moscow in 1984 for a painting exhibition and gets entrapped in a KGB plot. The prose is excellent, and the mood of that era is captured superbly. Really gripping. The author's name is David Francis -- an Australian who lives in Los Angeles.

    Next up I want to read David Benioff's CITY OF THIEVES.

    And you?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Lindiemj

    Lindiemj says

    What is new? How are you?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Christen R

    Christen R says

    I haven't read Comfort: A Journey through Grief yet. It's on my "Plan to Read" shelf.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Erin F

    Erin F says

    Nope I haven't read it yet but it sounded interesting a review.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • readbooks144

    readbooks144 says

    I haven't read it yet. I really want to, but I couldn't get the book out of the library. I heard that Oates was good from a friend and the story of the new book sounds good. Is she a good author?

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • AuntieAnnie

    AuntieAnnie says

    Hi - I'll add your recommendation to my list of "shoulds" for the future. Unfortunately (or not), books/reading is my vice. I inherited quite a collection from my brother and father and even if I quit working and read full time, I'm not sure I could get through everthing. I still get caught up in all the new stuff coming up as well. I am hoping for a "reading vacation" this summer -- a little spot in the mountains or at the beach where I can just read all day. Have a good one!

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • Ebershoff

    Ebershoff says

    Hi--

    I've heard all about THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO. It comes out here in the fall; I can't wait to read it.

    I'm just finishing AMERICAN WIFE by Curtis Sittenfeld. It's very rich and moving. It's inspired by the life of Laura Bush. Fascinating.

    Enjoy--

    David

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, hope you are doing well. i have looked at that book from time to time and it will definitely go on my wish list now. i see you read the year in provence. mayle's are fun books.
    take care.

    posted 3 years ago. ( send a note )

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