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scarletwoman

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Sun Mar 8, 2015, 03:40 PM Mar 2015

What are you reading the week of Sunday, March 8, 2015? [View all]

Happy first day of Daylight Saving Time - ugh. (Editorial comment: I detest this business of changing our clocks twice a year. Pick ONE time and stick with it! We are being jacked around for no good reason, it's just another method of controlling us. Bah!)

Anyway, finished three books last week:

The Ice Queen by Nele Neuhaus - very good police procedural set in Germany. This is only the 3rd book by this author that's been translated into English and part of a series. I hope there are more translations coming, I would love to read everything by this author that I could get my hands on. I already read the only other 2 books in this series that were translated.
The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey - reviewed in a separate post elsewhere on this page.
Wolf Winter by Cecilia Ekbäck - Un-put-downable! Awesome writing, fascinating story filled with historical detail, and the descriptions of a harsh winter in the mountains of Sweden's far north are so compelling, I wanted to wrap up in a blanket and put on an extra pair of thick wool socks. Dark, dark, cold and dark - just how I like it.


Next up: Forty Days Without Shadow by Olivier Truc. This takes place in modern day Lapland, written by a French(!) author. I'm really looking forward to this one.

And after that one - I have no idea. I have 10 titles on hold at my local library, and 2 more on order via inter-library loan, and none of them have been marked "ready to pick up" yet.

One of the books I've ordered is The Sea Runners - many thanks to Enthusiast for posting about this one last week! I can't wait until it shows up!

So, let's hear what you're reading this week!
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