I finished Curious Incident last night and in the end, I loved both that and Life of Pi. Both were weird and slow starts for me but by the end I was really into the story. I already loaned Life of Pi to a good friend and am sending Curious Incident to my brother.
I am waiting for my shipment from amazon to arrive with "Beneath a Marble Sky." Have you thought about reading Twentieth Wife and Feast of Roses? Both are great stories in the same gendre.
Hello! Thanks for remembering me since last time, it's been a while now! I think we did talk some about norwegian/scandinavian litterature, if I remember correctly. I just wanted to let you know, that Jo Nesbo (I think I mentioned him? He is a brillant author of crime fiction), his last book -which is brilliant!- is being translated into english and will come out in the autumn. The title is "The devil«s star" and the isbn is: 1843432161, (if you would like to make a note of it for further referance, that is!). The storyline is the following: "Detective Harry Hole: an angry and off-the-rails detective who wants to play the game by his own rules. It's a sweltering summer in Oslo when a young woman is found murdered in her flat. One finger has been cut off, and beneath her eyelid is a tiny red diamond in the shape of a five pointed star. Detective Harry Hole is assigned to the case with Tom Waaler - a colleague Harry suspects of running an arms smuggling gang and of having murdered his partner - and initially he refuses to become involved. But he is already on notice to quit the force and is left with no choice but to drag himself out of his alcoholic stupor and get to work. Five days later, a man reports his wife missing. When her severed finger is found wearing a ring mounted with the same star-shaped red diamond, it seems Oslo has a serial killer on its hands. A riddle of fives: five points to the star, five fingers on the hand, and every fifth day a new victim to be counted. Harry is determined to prove that his hunch about Waaler is right, and he begins to wonder whether his enemy is somehow bound up with the killings.In his pursuit of the truth behind both mysteries, Harry unwittingly finds himself on the run from the police and forced to make difficult decisions about his future as a detective."
Thanks! It«s nice to be back here! :) Well, so far the spring/early summer has not been all that warm this year. However, Oslo can get pretty hot in the summertime, in a good summer, from 25-30 degrees celcius(77-89 Fahrenheit). But then again, I«m from Iceland, where the summers aren«t particularly warm.. So I love Oslo in the summer - given that it is a warm summer, of course! ;) I think the Devil«s star is a great crime novel, often you know what«s going to happen next, but not in this one, I recommend it warmly. His next book will be about a murder, that takes place on the street directly outside my bookstore :) Every december the salvation army arranges christmas concerts outside, for charity and the murder takes place there, apparently he even mentions the bookstore! :D He«s a bestseller here in Norway, so my colleagues and I are pretty pleased; where better to buy that book, than at the "scene of the crime"?! ;) Otherwise, I have several books on my bedtable; "Blood Meridian" by Cormack McCarthy (one of my colleagues says it«s the best book he ever read and it looks very promising); "Wind-up bird chronicles" by Haruki Murakami (another of my colleagues recommended all of Murakami books!), it«s just fantastic and I loved it from the first page! I also have "Jonathan Strange and Mr.Norell" by Susannah Clarke (a "victorian Harry Potter" for grownups, has just been nominated for the Booker Prize) and finally "The Dante Club" by Matthew Pearl, my boyfriend recommended that one, but so far I«m not all that convinced! I have a bunch of other books as well (I«m apt at dragging home more books than I have time to read!), but these are the ones that are top priority for the time being! But what are you reading??
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Hi Monica,
Re: Life of Pi
Teri,
I finished Curious Incident last night and in the end, I loved both that and Life of Pi. Both were weird and slow starts for me but by the end I was really into the story. I already loaned Life of Pi to a good friend and am sending Curious Incident to my brother.
I am waiting for my shipment from amazon to arrive with "Beneath a Marble Sky." Have you thought about reading Twentieth Wife and Feast of Roses? Both are great stories in the same gendre.
Monica
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Hi Monica,
Yes, I am interested in both of your recommends!
Hi Helga:
Wow!
Thank you, Scrappy, for your kind thoughts and prayers.
Hey, Teri...thanks so much for the gentle hugs...they've been much needed.
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