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theswede

I´m a middleaged swedish "wordworker" who love to read and write. I have just started out on my bookshelf.
  • Sweden
  • member since Tuesday, May 1 2007

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  • 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 1 month 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 1 month 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months 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 2 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Lindiemj

    lindiemj says

    What is new? How are you?

    posted 2 months 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 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Erin F

    erin f says

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

    posted 3 months 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 months 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 months ago. ( send a note )
  • JoJo

    jojo says

    Hi. Thanks for your notes. Your shelf is very interesting. Which books on there would you recommend?

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

    ebershoff says

    Hi Swede--

    I see you read Joyce Carol Oates's THE FALLS. She's a brilliant writer. I recommend her new novel, MY SISTER, MY LOVE.

    David

    posted 3 months ago. ( send a note )
  • politivi

    politivi says

    Hello! I actually just started reading Harry, Revised - so far, so good! If you haven't already, you should check out Mark Sarvas' blog as well.

    posted 4 months ago. ( send a note )
  • Sharon Fawcett

    sharon fawcett says

    Hi Swede,
    How are you doing? I see you've read A YEAR IN PROVENCE. How I would like to spend a year there!! I haven't read the book but I have the series based on it on DVD. It's quite amusing. Have you read any of Frances Mayes' books on Tuscany? I loved them but I don't think the Tuscans appreciate how popular they're countryside has now become with the tourists.

    Here's a question for you: Do you usually purchase the books you read, get them from the library, or borrow them from a friend?

    Peace,
    Sharon

    posted 5 months ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hey, saw your movie group and joined.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi swede, i've been checking on you!! you've been away for a while. tell me about your mood. you know spring has sprung here. the daffodils are out and the trees are blooming and then we have this snow coming in tonight. this weather probably happens in sweden all the time but no very often here. also, tell me about lost in the forest. i've been reading price of water in f. and the author reminds me of me a bit well mostly in temperment though i don't go poisoning things.

    posted 6 months ago. ( send a note )
  • maribooks

    maribooks says

    hi! and i have been wondering how you are. i read THE GOOD MOTHER many years ago and was so heartbroken i haven't tried miller since. i'm reading an amazing book right now, SPECIAL TOPICS IN CALAMITY PHYSICS which i resisted because it takes place in high school and college but, oh my god, it is so much more. take care.

    posted 7 months ago. ( send a note )
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