4.5 Stars.I love books that bring history to life and what an utterly fascinating and compelling read based on historical fact The Royal Phsician's Visit was. It tells the story of King Christian VII of Denmark, his young Queen Caroline Mathilda of England and his Physician Johann Friedrich Struens...
As an omnibus, the length of this classic trilogy is daunting; it was on my to-read list for years before I decided to read just the first, 300-page book. Of course that was excellent and I soon read the rest of the trilogy. While I understand the omnibus packaging – the later books assume knowledge...
The final volume of the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy is perhaps the best of the three. Judging by the titles and cover images, I had guessed that Kristin would spend this book as a widowed nun and that the book would be mostly about her grieving and repenting her sins. Fortunately, that’s a long wa...
This trilogy has been on my to-read list for years, but motivating myself to read a 1100-page classic novel isn’t easy. Finally I decided to simply read the first book, which is just under 300 pages long. It worked, and got me interested enough that I’m now halfway through the second. Turns out this...
This one is the debut novel of the promising Finland-Swedish author Philip Teir. which has come out in English and German edition in 2014 and 2015 respectively. The Winter War is the story of a Finnish couple in their late fifties and their two grown-up daughters. The father is a university profes...
This is a pretense: actually 150 pages were dividing me from the end, not 0 like the target "finished" would suggest. I hate doing it, I swear, I can bear nails on the blackboard, titanic non-sense, lethal lethargy or even coma just to finish a book completely. But recently the time has been tyrann...
The author clearly has writing skills. The potential for a good novel is there but the author has chosen to write a treatise on inner conflict that left me wanting. There are a number of concurrent themes and lots in this book that I wanted resolution. I would have given a full 4 stars for that. ...
This is a review of a new translation of a children's classic. My comments and the number of stars this edition gets has nothing to do with my adoration of Pippi Longstocking, which my review of the previous edition should make pretty clear.I'm always wildly excited to hear of new translations of bo...
bookshelves: autumn-2013, mystery-thriller, norway, net-galley, published-2008, translation Read from October 30 to 31, 2013 Uncorrected proof from University of Minnesota PressFrom the description: The grandson of Norwegian immigrants, Lance Hansen is a U.S. Forest Service officer and has a nea...
I really do try to be stingy with five star ratings--this came close. Sigrid Undset was one of the first women writers to win the Nobel Prize for literature--and the Kristin Lavransdatter trilogy following the life of a 14th century woman more than any work is where she made her reputation. The Wrea...
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