Tag Archives: Swedish

October Book Bites

October 8, 2010 – 5:32 pm

The fall book season is well under way and the following newsy book items caught my eye. What books are the librarians loving this season?  Emma Donoghue‘s The Room, Susan Henderson’s Up From The Blue and Tom Franklin‘s Crooked Letter, Crooked Letter. Already on the NY Times bestseller list coupled with a stellar audio version, [...]

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The Girl Who Kicked The Hornet’s Nest

May 22, 2010 – 12:43 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores Third and last in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium series which a relative of mine refers to as the “Blomkvist/Salander crack cocaine of reading”. It does not disappoint. Having already read the first two (which by the way IS mandatory), you will breeze through all 576 pages – and in the end, be wishing [...]

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The Girl Who Played With Fire

April 22, 2010 – 5:57 pm

Shop Indie Bookstores The second in Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy and my favorite (so far). The story picks up with ‘punk hacker savant’ Lisbeth Salander being the prime suspect in the brutal murders of two journalists that were investigating a sex trafficking scandal. Salander, intent on clearing her name, must go underground to elude detection [...]

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The Girl With The Dragon Tattoo

August 10, 2009 – 8:45 am

Shop Indie Bookstores This was my first Nordic thriller and all the reviews are correct. Very good and very creepy. Love Lisbeth and her messed up mind. Book Author: Stieg Larsson Looking to read more books like this?   Swedish Crime Wave This post was submitted by helen.

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Creepy Swedish Plots Make For Great Reads & TV

April 28, 2009 – 4:12 pm

Fans of Swedish author Henning Mankell are in for a treat.  On May 10th, PBS will begin airing the Wallander series which first aired on BBC One last November and December.  Each three 90 minute episode is based on one of the ten police mysteries that make up the Wallander series.   The series was produced [...]

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