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I‘ve narrowed down my husband‘s stacks of Icelandic crime novels to this one for #readingeurope2020 for #Iceland. But it will have to get in line as I‘m currently reading Victim 2117 for #Denmark. @Addison_Reads this is my pick! It has a terrible rating here on Litsy but it was a Scandinavian crime novel of the year, so when in Scandinavia (figuratively speaking) I‘m going to read like a Scandinavian.

Casey wanted snuggles while I did a little of the ol‘ flop-n-read on this Easter Monday.

Unfortunately, the book‘s a bust. I‘m bored as of page 50 and my dad, who‘s read it, says I‘m liable to stay that way for a long while then find the ending disappointing.

Oh well. At least I got it off La TBR. #easterextravaganza

I started my first Icelandic mystery over breakfast. I wonder how many characters named Thorstein I‘ll encounter? The detective is called Thóra, so that‘s one Thorperson for the tally right off the bat!

(I may have been unduly influenced by THE SAGAS OF ICELANDERS. Never forget the scene where Thorstein goes to visit Thorstein.) #easterextravaganza

"Only" 18 books read in May. But I finally finished The Brothers Karamazov!

I loved this book and thought it was a good place to pause the series (or stop it entirely). It was chilling and heartbreaking, occasionally funny (Thóra has a sly sense of humour), and nerdily interesting for me given that I like books about ships and accident investigation.

It's SPELLED "unmanned luxury yacht", but it's PRONOUNCED "throatwobbler mangrove".

I finally finished this one. It was ok... Definitely fits in the category of #Nordicnoir. It has some great elements to it, including a whodunnit that I didn't expect. The middle of the book got bogged down with details. I liked the way the author (I'll call her that because there's no way in hell I'm spelling that name out) alternated chapters of the investigation with that of the victims accounts of what"really" happened.
#readharder2018

1. 47
2. One brother, a year older than me
3. No
4.tagged book and White Houses by Amy Bloom
5. The Things They Carried or Their Eyes Were Watching God
6.😂♥️
7. Booty
8. That I am 47, people think I'm younger. See #3
9. Both. I have 2 cats and a flat coated retriever.
10. Coffee or die
11.Yes, Please
12. Anyone who'd like to share and has not done this.

Thrift Books order came today. I have a cold and feel crummy because of the whole not breathing thing. Might as well read.

Finally home. Read this on the plane coming home. After visiting Iceland decided I'm going to read some authors from there Sometimes I think a bit gets lost in translation. So maybe didn't enjoy this as much as some people might. If you like slightly gruesome mysteries give it a go.

I don't think of myself as someone who buys a ton of books, but over the last six months or so there've been a lot of charity sales and discount days at the local thrift store, and somehow they've piled up. Today I organized all the ones I had inside my closet and realized there wasn't room for them on my main TBR shelf. Now they're stacked at the foot of my bed so I can't ignore them.

So I used to enter a lot of Goodreads Giveaways but then stopped for a while... recently I've entered a bunch and won these two awesome looking books!!! I'm very excited to jump into both these worlds soon! Thank you to @RiverheadBooks and Minotaur Books (sadly they do not have Litsy) for these #freebies!

A very enjoyable Icelandic thriller! In the opening chapter, an empty luxury yacht slams into a dock with little clear evidence of what happened to the occupants. The remaining chapters bounce back and forth between the attempts to learn what happened and the events aboard ship. A bit of 10 Little Indians meets The Woman in Cabin 10.

Late entry for #readinginbed! I loved seeing everyone's posts on this yesterday. I read in bed every night and always have, even if it's only a paragraph. As a kid, I would hide under the covers with a flashlight so I could read past bedtime. I guess I just never got over that!

Fall means sweaters, tea, rain, and lots of foreign mystery books.

Lunch break reading 🤓🕵🏼