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I didn't start Locke Lamora over, I read "Exit Strategy" by Kelley Armstrong instead. Now, these books are nowhere near as good as "The women of the Otherworld"- series. (True to my habit, I read the second book in this series a while back.. I wonder what it is with me and books that are supposed to be read in order..) But it's an OK read, I give it 2,5/5, and the half a point away from 3 (3/5 is an average book on my scale) comes from the fact that I dislike the main character Nadia Stafford. She could be a complex, interesting character, but to me she seems to be a bit dull. I just finished "The wind-up bird chronicle" by Haruki Murakami. I'll try to paticipate in this months reading circle. That will be a new experience.

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Count me in! That is if it's a "send anywhere in the world"-thing, otherwise I'm probably disqualified.

I have been doing other things than reading since last I updated.. but still managed to read "The Time Machine" by H G Wells. I also started on "The Lies of Locke Lamora" (Scott Lynch), but lost my way in it when I had fever and flu.. So I may start over, or I may start another book. Haven't decided yet.

Started to read "The lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch this morning. Looks like I have some good reading ahead. But I wasn't late for work or anything. That HAS been known to happen when I read before I go to work.

Interesting to see the opinion of someone who loves "Her Fearful Symmetry". I'm almost afraid to read this one, I enjoyed "The Time traveller's Wife" so much.

Read "The Queen of Attolia" by Megan Whalen Turner this weekend. Nice fantasy, but a little too much court intrigues in this one for my taste. I have the third book from the trilogy waiting on the shelf, but I've not yet decided what to read next.

Nice to know I wasn't the only one..

I finished Tom Sawyer and Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain. One of my efforts to read more classics this year. Ok read, but I had some difficulties whit the "deep southern" language sometimes, I had to say some things out loud to really understand what it was meant to be.

It was the Shakespeare that put it on your wishlist, wasn't it Giulia? It's romance and it's lightweight, but when that's what one is looking for, this is not a bad choice.

The hopeless romantic strikes again- another Lynn Kurland, "Much Ado in the Moonlight". Some of it was funny and interesting, but the romance was just a tiny little bit uninteresting. Everything else going on, ghosts, timetravel, setting up a Shakespeare play with a medieval castle as background, was funny to read, and fast.

Finally finished "Kinesen" (The Chinese Man) by Henning Mankell. It took me a while to do so, but that wasn't because the book was boring, far from it, but there was a lot of life interrupting my reading.. He managed to connect China to U.S.A to Zimbabwe to Sweden, and even make the connections believable, and the mystery intriguing.

Kylie, I have a suggestion- next time you go to a bookfair I can come with you. I wouldn't feel so guilty about buying a lot of books if I had someone with me who buys as many.

I'm reading a Swedish mystery, Henning Mankell- "Kinesen" (that would be "The Chinese man" translated to English, but there's no telling what they may call it if/when it's translated.) It's a present from my husband, he bought it when he was away on work to Norway last week.

"The tainted relic" by a group of authors that call themselves "The Medieval Murderers". The authors are Simon Beaufort, Bernard Knight, Ian Morson, Michael Jecks, Susanna Gregory and Philip Gooden. It's five mysteries that are linked by the tainted relic, and a prologue. An average read, and I thought it was "uneven" to read since the stories really didn't have a lot in common other than that relic.

"The lies of Locke Lamora" by Scott Lynch, was in the mail today.

I second the recommendation for "Smilla's Sense of Snow" by Peter Hoeg. Ellis Peters has a Brother Cadfael mystery called "The virgin in the ice" which takes place in winter. Like the other in the series, I like to read them. Karen Harper "The Queene's Christmas" is another historical mystery, not extraordinarily good, not bad either. I also recommend "The treasure" by Selma Lagerl

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