http://msarki.tumblr.com/post/89114037763/the-seducer-jonas-wergeland-trilogy-1-by-janThis is a very long book and it is quite amazing to me that any one writer can have this much life experience and still be capable of telling about it. And keep it interesting. Even if research offered the many h...
not completely its fault. I started reading [b:The Goldfinch|17333223|The Goldfinch|Donna Tartt|https://d202m5krfqbpi5.cloudfront.net/books/1378710146s/17333223.jpg|24065147] before I realized I need to read this one first if i ever want to read it before its return due date. But i just hankered aft...
bookshelves: translation, paper-read, one-penny-wonder, summer-2013, norway, dodgy-narrator Read from June 06 to 15, 2013 Let me tell you another story.Had to take some time thinking about the concept that some skills are absorbed from sexual partners.This series is all-encompassing, the univers...
Let me tell you another story.Had to take some time thinking about the concept that some skills are absorbed from sexual partners.This series is all-encompassing, the universe in a dust cover if you will. Part 1001 Nights, part Playboy, all brilliance. Not so sure this would have been 5* if I hadn't...
"How do the pieces of a life fit together?"This is the central question posed by Kjærstad throughout this book, and answered in full. By using a mysterious third person narrator to tell stories about the life of the central character, Jonas Wergeland, Kjærstad not only tells us how the pieces of a l...
I wrote the careful, analytical review below, and then I thought: this is all wrong. I am willfully misunderstanding the book. What makes it unusual, almost unique, is the very personal relationship it establishes with the reader. It is like a teacher, or a lover; it is about how imagination and art...
Wow, read it on Manny's recommendation and can only say it was worth the effort. Am now on the second. I like the concept, I like the style, the telling of all the many yarns ismaking my mind spin in a wonderful way.
Sometime in the 90s, I was visiting a friend I hadn't seen for a while. She asked me about a common acquaintance, a guy she'd briefly been involved with, who was also working in research. "Well," I said, "He's too optimistic. If research were romance, he'd expect all the ideas to behave like women i...
Additional thoughts towards the end.I wish I could give this six stars.Before I start The Conqueror...One of the aspects of current literary fashion which has me somewhat confounded is the pejorative way in which sentimentality is viewed. If only I had a dollar for every discussion of literature whi...
Log in with Facebook 
