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The Boy in the Suitcase
The Boy in the Suitcase | Lene Kaaberbøl
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DHill
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Summer storms brewing. No power. A little bit of daylight left to read by.

#thecalmbeforethestorm

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ErinSBecker
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#Top20Series #20series20days

The Nina Borg series is fabulous, provided you're not looking for a feel-good read! The first two in this series were practically perfect. I wasn't as into the third and haven't read the fourth (and last) book yet, but intend to. This also counts towards this month's #womenintranslation challenge #integrateyourshelf

Nute I didn‘t know this book was part of a series. The title is scaring me!😱 (edited) 4y
ErinSBecker @nute - spoiler alert, the boy makes it through everything ok! 4y
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Crazeedi
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@Tove_Reads @gradcat @Andrew65 @EadieB I just borrowed this book, not read this author, have you all read? Opinion?#nordicnoir

EadieB @Crazeedi I read it in 2011. Gave it 4 stars. I have the 2nd book too but have not read it yet. Read these by the author too:
Madeleine Karno Mystery
1. Doctor Death (2015)
2. A Lady in Shadows (2017)

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Tove_Reads Haven‘t read it 4y
Andrew65 Not heard of these, will have to do some research. 4y
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jb72 I read the book in 2013 and I gave it 3 stars. I remember it taking a minute to get into and it jumps around a bit. But overall I did like it. 4y
Crazeedi @EadieB thanks!! 4y
Crazeedi @Tove_Reads well I'll let you know! 4y
Crazeedi @jb72 thanks for info!! 4y
Crazeedi @Andrew65 I hadn't heard of it either, but since we've been reading #nordicnoir I thought I'd see what ibthink 4y
Crazeedi @EadieB didnt know there was another series 4y
Crazeedi @EadieB thank you Eadie!! 4y
Dogearedcopy I avoided it for a long time because I thought it was about a boy's corpse discovered in a suitcase... Turns out that this is not true! 🙄
I found the protagonist difficult to relate to and while I can recall most of the plot even after having read it years ago, I haven't felt the impulse to read the next in the series. So--- 3.5 stars
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Crazeedi @Dogearedcopy well that certainly tells me about the book, appreciate giving me an idea if I might like! I'll probably start, and if I'm not interested I'll bail, 4y
gradcat I read something about this book, but heaven knows I can‘t remember if it was positive or negative. Sounds like it might be good for #nordicnoir for sure. @Crazeedi 4y
Crazeedi @gradcat I'll let you know what I think 4y
gradcat @Crazeedi The title is rather frightening, isn‘t it? 😱 😂 ♥️ 4y
Crazeedi @gradcat yes it is, so we will see! 4y
gradcat @Crazeedi I can‘t wait for your review! ♥️ 4y
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cplaczek
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Not bad.....May have to try more from this series, so I have more understanding of the characters. 🌟🌟🌟

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Valink
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This wasn't my typical genre & there were a few surprises for me. I enjoyed the audio book, but I'm not sure if I was enough of a fan to read the next book in the series when there are so many other books already on my TBR.

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Valink
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I have a few minutes before leaving for work, so I'm using it to knit a little on my husband's birthday socks and listen to my audiobook. Trying to finish both of these today.

Mdargusch Nice socks! 6y
Valink @Mdargusch - thank you! I accidentally made one toe up and the other cuff down, so they don't exactly match, but, 🤷‍♀️ 6y
Mdargusch I sure can‘t tell. I‘ve never made one from the toe up. 6y
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tpixie Great socks!! 🧦 6y
trazo Those look great! 👀 👍 6y
emilyhaldi Omg how lovely are those socks!! ❤️❤️❤️ 6y
MissAimz_55 Wow those are nice!! 6y
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Valink
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Started a new audio book this morning. I think this fits the #nordicnoir prompt for the #PopSugar reading challenge. It would also fit for #twoauthors but I have something else planned for that one. #Pop18 #popsugar2018 #PopSugarReadingChallenge

ferskner I love this series! 6y
MissAimz_55 I just added this to my list for Nordic noir! 6y
Valink @ferskner - I didn‘t realize this was part of a series! 6y
Valink @MissAimz_55 - there are quite a few characters that get introduced early on & I found that a bit confusing, but I think I have everyone straight now. I‘m enjoying it so far! 6y
ferskner Yes! I think there are only four, so it's not too overwhelming. 6y
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I've fallen in love with Scandinavian/Icelandic/Nordic fiction. I enjoy the culture insights from translated works. This book focuses on human trafficking of children and oppression of women.

Tamra I‘ve been meaning to read this a long time! 6y
Itchyfeetreader I enjoyed this one 6y
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elisebarker
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Mehso-so

Another audio that was just okay. It was so hard to get into! After about hour 2 I got into it haha

Texreader I didn‘t care for this one either. 6y
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LinaLovesLit
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I‘ve posted a review of this book on my blog and Instagram account...

http://instagram.com/lina_loves_lit
https://linaemery.wixsite.com/linaloveslit

tojuxtapose what‘s this about? 6y
LinaLovesLit @KCCOkatey Thanks for taking interest in my review. You can find it and others on my blog and Instagram account. https://linaemery.wixsite.com/linaloveslit 6y
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Liz_M
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Plane reading fron February. I can never focus on "literature" when traveling -- to much noise distraction in the airport and on the plane. Thank goodness there are so many good international mystery series out there! The tagged book was the best, follwed by The Fallen. Limassol is a non- traditional mystery, so not what I needed. And thank goodness Outsider wasn't my introduction to the series.
#Europa #SohoCrime

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DGRachel
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Just realized that if I rearranged my SOHO crime novels, they made a fair rainbow. Yippee!!

#bookrainbow #fallintobooks

batsy Oooh, those editions look so good. 7y
RealLifeReading Cool!! 7y
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BritanyA
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⭐⭐⭐⭐: Excellent, fast paced thriller after Nina Borg finds a little boy in a suitcase, and he's alive... #DanishThriller #Translation #Series

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Ksvz
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2017 #62 mystery audio what the heck is up with scandiavian thrillers that have such uncomfortable subject matter. Very weird but well told. Not sure I will actively commit myself to the series but the leap from kids books to this must have been a shock to their fan base.

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Cinfhen
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#FeistyFeb I have not yet read the two titles on top but both have been in my #TBR for a very long time. The bottom three, I've read and would easily recommend. Boys in the Boat is a nonfiction, a bookclub choice, which was a bit of a dry read but still very informative and interesting. #BoyInTitle

KarenUK I love 'boy snow bird'... and 'One in a million' is on my TBR... must get to it soon! 💕 7y
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kristina_with_a_k
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Some days are diamond, some days are stone 💎💎💎💎 #neededtwobags 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚🛍🛍🛒

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Kat_Reads
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I got the best kind of book mail today; mail from a litsy friend! Thank you so much @Jenshootsweddings for the book and lovely note! I can't wait to start reading!

tasha I really liked this one :) 7y
Jenshootsweddings I'm happy to see it made its way to you! ❤❤ 7y
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vivastory
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#librarylove
The Woodneath library in Liberty, MO is one of my favorite libraries. They have a full cafe featuring a stand of frequently replenished free ARCs. They have gender free bathrooms, a progressive stance considering the largely conservative area they are located in. They have a drive-thru window for the elderly. The best displays I have seen have been here, including the above; because when I think #chillyread I think of Nordic noir.

Foxyfictionista Sounds like a great place! 7y
merelybookish I have never been. I need to check it out! And yeah, kind of surprising for the area. 7y
LindsayReads OMGI need to suggest my library to get a drive-thru! 7y
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LeahBergen That sounds like a wonderful library! 7y
vivastory @merelybookish They're a branch of midcontinent. It seems liberty is getting very slowly more progressing. They just opened a natural food store. 7y
vivastory @LeahBergen It is a blast just to browse in. It's one of the very few libraries where I make a point to check out the displays. Never know what I'll find. 7y
vivastory @merelybookish *slowly more progressive (blasted auto-correct) 7y
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Jenshootsweddings
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A late start to an intimate wedding was nice, but it seems all that much harder to drag myself away from reading. Should be an early finish though, so hopefully I'll be back on the porch right after dinner! ❤️📚🇨🇦

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Jenshootsweddings
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The problem with starting a random book when you can't sleep in the middle of the night is that it ends up being good and makes you put aside your actual current read.

MrBook 😂👍🏻👏🏻👌🏻 8y
Megabooks I thought that might happen to you with this book! 8y
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Jenshootsweddings
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Can't sleep. The book I'm actually reading is downstairs and I don't want to go down and get it, in case I get distracted by TV or editing (or the slice of cake in the fridge). I'm curled up in the guest room, so I picked this off my used book (aka read whenever) shelf instead. Although now that I'm in here, I'm a little sleepy ... 🙄 #augustofpages #augustphotochallenge

Yournewfriendsams The book downstairs struggle is so, so real. 8y
cecilhoney1988 Hate when that happens so I try to make sure my book always comes to bed with me. 8y
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MandaRie
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A decent story. So many players that kept the mystery moving forward. While it was easy for me to figure out where the boy came from/where he belonged, I did not see the plot twist around his story coming. This would make a great movie, if done right.

3/5
⭐️⭐️⭐️

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BookBabe
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Meh. Not impressed. I hoped to like this, but it left me cold. Too hard to keep the characters straight, failed to captivate me. What should've been an exciting premise just...wasn't. 😐

MrBook I concur. 8y
Dogearedcopy I was just happy to know that it wasn't a *dead* boy in the suitcase! 8y
LitHousewife It took me a while to warm up to this one. I did, but I was also all about ready Scandanavian crime novels at the time. 8y
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MrBook
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Mehso-so

This book has an interesting premise: a woman who doesn't drink wakes up in the hospital intoxicated with memory loss & without her 3 year-old boy; another woman takes a suitcase from a locker and finds a 3 year-old boy in it. And you're off! The audio's narrator is excellent; but the plot never wow's for all of its tautness, and the characters are rather limp despite their actions. Interesting but forgettable. Pair with: Aalborg Jubileaum, sip!

HiddenGemBooks The plot seems interesting! 8y
PrezBookster Damn I've always wanted to read this! 8y
Texreader @PrezBookster I liked it a bit more than @mrbook even though I have the highest regard for his opinion. I think it was worth the read. Check my post on it. @cookiejanester It is interesting although you do sort of figure it out partway through. Would you agree @mrbook? 8y
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Texreader @mrbook @PrezBookster @cookiejanester I love Danish mystery writer Jussi Adler-Olsen if you like Scandinavian mystery writers. 8y
MrBook @cookiejanester It is an interesting plot. I'm glad I read the book to see how the author ran with the plot, but I wouldn't re-read it or go out of my way to recommend it. 8y
MrBook @PrezBookster lol. Try it on audio, the narrator does an absolutely amazing job. It's well worth it just to listen to her dramatize. Yeah, she's one of those...reeaally reeaally good. 8y
MrBook @Texreader No one book can please everybody equally, right? Well, except maybe "To Kill A Mockingbird", lol. I did figure most of it out a little before the half-way point. Also, it seemed to me that some of the plot dragged out for the sake of meeting a minimum word-count. At one point I was saying, "Okay, she's got some issues. You already brought this up two or three times, move it along, this is a thriller!" ? 8y
MrBook @Texreader I'll check Jussi out, thanks for the rec 😊👍🏻. 8y
Texreader @MrBook Good points. It did feel a little like a first novel. But I have a soft spot for first novelists. 8y
VeryLazyDaisy I read a couple chapters of this and abandoned it. It didn't draw me in, though I may just need to try it in a different state of mind/ 8y
MrBook @VeryLazyDaisy I can understand that. Maybe audio would be the option for you, great narrator. 8y
Jdscott50 I liked learning about the regional history history and the issues more than the plot. The end did drag a bit (felt the Monty Python cry, "get on with it!"). I think this is the second in the series? I think only the second and fourth have been translated. 8y
Coleen Ah -- I think we agreed on this one. 😜 8y
releasekarma I read this a year ago or so and I can't remember a single thing about it aside from the boy in the suitcase. Haha 8y
MrBook @Texreader @Jdscott50 @Coleen @releasekarma I don't feel as bad now giving it a so-so rating. Glad to see we share common thoughts about it! 😊👍🏻 8y
MyNamesParadise I think this book or the series is being made into a tv series. I'll have to check this one out eventually! 8y
MrBook @MyNamesParadise Ooooh, if you find out any info, will you pass it along? Pretty please? 😊 8y
MrBook @MyNamesParadise You are awesome! Why aren't we neighbors or something? Lol. 8y
MyNamesParadise @MrBook lol I wish! I'm way more obsessed with books than any of my friends. Litsy ppl are the coolest!!! 8y
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Texreader
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A straightforward mystery with a nurse-detective, who has a psychologically damaged history, clearly meant to be developed in subsequent books. Not much effort to determine the motive about halfway through. But the "boy" is lovable and you will root for him and read to the end to see if he reaches his destiny. On to Book 2 in the Nina Borg series, the Invisible Murder.

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MrBook
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This audiobook's narrator has been doing an incredible job! @BookBabe and I have another commute or two left before we finish this one, but I'll just say now that if you want a light, interesting, and exciting read, then look no further. Definitely keeps me awake on long nocturnal drives. 😊👍🏻

Blair_Reads Good to know. I have a long-ish commute so I'm always looking for good audiobooks 8y
TheLondonBookworm Always on the hunt for a good commute read to keep me awake in the mornings 😂 8y
MrBook @Blair_Reads We should exchange commute audios, lol. 8y
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MrBook @TheLondonBookworm 😂👍🏻 You're like @BookBabe . 8y
Coleen I was underwhelmed by this one. 😔 8y
MrBook @Coleen That's alright. That makes for great banter then! 😊👍🏻 8y
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Texreader
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Please tell me it isn't so, the second typo before I'm even to page 100. 😠

Tanner 😳 8y
Alisnazzy Oh FFS. 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 so irritating. 8y
Suzze Makes my teeth itch. 8y
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Texreader
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I did it. I hit 2000!

Gezemice Congrats! 8y
Texreader @Gezemice Thank you! 8y
Yournewfriendsams 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽 8y
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britt_brooke 🙌🏻🙌🏻 8y
LitHousewife Congratulations! 8y
Megabooks 👍🏻👍🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
moranadatter Yay!👍🏻 8y
Suzze I just hit 2002! High five! 😀😀😀😀😀😀 8y
MrBook WOOHOO! Congrats! Bravo 😊👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻 8y
Texreader @Suzze Nice going!! 👏🏻👏🏻🎉🎉 8y
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"Mama, I don't like the flash in my eyes when you take my picture! Stop it!"

Trav 😂😂 8y
LauraBeth 😻😻 cute furbaby 8y
Megabooks 🙀😹😹 8y
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Varshitha 😄😄 8y
SusanInTiburon Awwww 😲 8y
BookBabe 😻 too cute! 8y
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BookBabe
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Well, my first #24in48 #readathon sure didn't go as planned. My reading was interrupted by 2 family birthdays, a BBQ, 2 book club meetings, and a (seriously awesome) Guns'n'Roses concert! 🔫🌹🤘🏻I still managed to squeeze in almost 15 hours of reading thanks to audiobooks. I read (part of) 5 different books this weekend, and finished none! 😂

TheWellReadOwl Had a bunch of friends at the GNR concert. They said it was great. 8y
MrBook 😊👍🏻 8y
elkeOriginal Wow - I can't believe you fit that all in! Sounds like someone has a time machine...🚀 8y
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BookBabe @elkeo 😂👍🏻 8y
bedandabook Would have loved to have seen GNR! (And I'm old enough to remember them way back when...). Missed out on the readathon somehow too, so sounds to me like you had a great weekend. 8y
Suzze How did you do all that? You rock(ed)! 8y
Magdawrites Go @BookBabe !!! 💞 8y
brendanmleonard Like the song says - you are a real human being (and a real hero). 8y
LA_Mead Wow! 8y
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MrBook
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When it rains it pours. Our weekend of traveling madness won't be done until tonight *sighs*, and we'll be severely exhausted by then, lol, but books keep @BookBabe 's and my adrenaline flowing when we can squeeze in some spare moments. In the meantime, our house's book nook #4, found in her art studio 😊.

Bookworm83 The perfect napping spot 💤📚💤📚 8y
Magdawrites Love it! 8y
Lizpixie Oh I need me one of those in my library! 8y
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LauraBeth So basically, y'alls whole place is one big book book with other "functional" spaces ? 8y
MrBook Thank you, @MysteryAuthor 😊👍🏻. 8y
MrBook Quite comfortable addition it would be, @Lizpixie 😊. 8y
MrBook Indubitably so, @LauraBeth ! 😊 8y
Gezemice I love it! I don't have a book nook. I have kids. 😀 8y
bedandabook I so need a chaise longue! Love it. 8y
MrBook @bedandabook And a window seat. We hope to have one built for the library to go alongside the fireplace 😊. 8y
bedandabook This is beginning to sound (and look) like you're making the dream house for a book-loving couple @MrBook and @BookBabe. So lovely! 8y
NatalieR So comfy and inviting! ☺️ 8y
MrBook Thank you, @bedandabook and @NatalieR !!! 8y
acc5446 ohhhh I would rearrange several rooms in my house just to fit this piece in them! 😍 8y
MrBook @acc5446 😎👍🏻 8y
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MrBook
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@BookBabe and I have been listening to this in the car through our hundreds of driven miles. Taut, suspenseful, and disturbing, this definitely keeps one awake at the wheel! We pick up on the third hour as we begin Sunday's drive. Downloaded yesterday from Audible as a Daily Deal for $2.95. 😎👍🏻

JSW What is it about the Scandinavians and their taut stories?!?! 8y
AmbityScambity Such a great read! The mystery/suspense books put out by Scandinavian authors really are quite phenomenal. I have yet to tire of reading them. 👍🏻 8y
Sue I nabbed it too, sounds awesome! 8y
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MrBook @JSW 😂👍🏻 I don't know. Maybe too much ice and snow. Thought they were the happiest people though. 😊 8y
MrBook @AmbityScambity It's amazing how they've flooded the US market over the past decade! Keep 'em coming, I say; but I must ask: why did it take so long? We've pretty much been pigeon-holed with lit from the US, Canada, Mexico, the Caribbean, and the UK until the last 10 or 15 years. Glad for expansion. 8y
MrBook @Sue Great nab! Hope you enjoy it as well! 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 @MrBook have you read Ake Edwardson or Arnaldur Indridason? 8y
MrBook @fern Not yet. Particularly good authors to seek out, eh? 8y
[DELETED] 3323341091 @MrBook yes, if you enjoy intricate crime stories. Indridason's Jar City is a great read and the translation is tight and smooth. 8y
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Bookish.SAM
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She did not want to admit to him just how alone she was. It felt shameful, like some embarrassing disease.

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