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Originally posted by Torunn
I just finished the other one this evening, and unfortunately I have nothing right now unless I can find another one that I have missed reading, among my books.
There is a small library in our house which we share and where we leave books instead of throwing away. I found a novel by Roslund & Hellström which I will try.

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I can recommend a Danish variation of Shadow of the WInd:::
Morten Ramsland "Doghead"
edit: Danish original: "Hundehoved"

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Originally posted by Torunn
There is a small library in our house which we share and where we leave books instead of throwing away. I found a novel by Roslund & Hellström which I will try.
I decided to leave this book unread. It was about abuse of children and I can find no thrill in reading about such things.

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I have just finished:
Willhelm Hauff:
Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller, ein Herbstgeschenk für Freunde des Weines (1827)

a book my grandfather owned before me.

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Originally posted by Ponderable
I have just finished:
Willhelm Hauff:
Phantasien im Bremer Ratskeller, ein Herbstgeschenk für Freunde des Weines (1827)

a book my grandfather owned before me.
Wilhelm.😀

Also available in English - The Wine Ghosts of Bremen.

I have downloaded it to read on my holiday.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32064/32064-h/32064-h.htm
For free download.

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Originally posted by biffo konker
Wilhelm.😀

Also available in English - The Wine Ghosts of Bremen.

I have downloaded it to read on my holiday.

https://www.gutenberg.org/files/32064/32064-h/32064-h.htm
For free download.
Thank you for the correction.
I hope you enjoy the quite metaphoric Story.

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Water Blue Eyes by Domingo Villar


While waiting for another Jo Nesbo book from the library I picked up one called An Event in Autum by Henning Mankell (a short one (169 pages)

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
While waiting for another Jo Nesbo book from the library I picked up one called An Event in Autum by Henning Mankell (a short one (169 pages)
I have received a notification from the library that Nesbo's 'Thirst' is avalable now.
Stees, can you find the Swedish title in your copy of the Mankell book - is it a Wallander story?

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Originally posted by Torunn
I have received a notification from the library that Nesbo's 'Thirst' is avalable now.
Stees, can you find the Swedish title in your copy of the Mankell book - is it a Wallander story?
Yes and I think it may have originally been titled (in Swedish) Handen but don't hold me to that.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Yes and I think it may have originally been titled (in Swedish) Handen but don't hold me to that.
Thank you. 'Handen' (The hand) was published 2013, it's probably the one. I'll let you read it first and perhaps you will tell me what you think of it.

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Originally posted by Torunn
Thank you. 'Handen' (The hand) was published 2013, it's probably the one. I'll let you read it first and perhaps you will tell me what you think of it.
Yes the story does revolve around a hand. I am finding the writing a bit amateurish but that may just be the way it was translated. A lot of the dialogue seems...well...childish.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Yes the story does revolve around a hand. I am finding the writing a bit amateurish but that may just be the way it was translated. A lot of the dialogue seems...well...childish.
In that case I may not try it - I get annoyed with bad dialogues. But I have started reading "Thirst".

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Originally posted by Torunn
In that case I may not try it - I get annoyed with bad dialogues. But I have started reading "Thirst".
Enjoy. I will wait a bit to read it as I have a couple of his other books requested at the moment.

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Originally posted by Great Big Stees
Enjoy. I will wait a bit to read it as I have a couple of his other books requested at the moment.
Is Headhunters one of them?

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