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Kristina Ohlsson’s Unwanted: More Swedish Mystery

April 23, 2012 / PatG / 0

Kristina Ohlsson’s Unwanted (Overdrive Audiobook), recently released in the U.S., is an excellent addition to the rapidly growing Scandanavian mystery field. (Scandinavian mysteries seem to […]

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Ann Patchett and the Bel Canto Curse

February 8, 2012 / PatG / 0

Ann Patchet’s latest novel, State of Wonder, is a terrific book, as was her previous novel, Run. But when I recommend either of these excellent […]

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Wayne Dyer’s “Change Your Thoughts–Change Your Life”: A Powerful Meditation on the Tao

December 12, 2010 / PatG / 0

Like Eckhart Tolle’s A New Earth, Dyer’s most recent book focuses frequently on moving out of the ego-mind, the striving for more things, more dominance, […]

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Johan Theorin’s The Darkest Room: great Swedish mystery

June 4, 2010 / PatG / 1

The Darkest Room is set on the island of Oland in Sweden, and the setting is half the delight of this intriguing mystery. Like many […]

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Let the Great World Spin from Colum McCann

May 18, 2010 / PatG / 1

Let the Great World Spin: A Novel is a delight to read — the language, the imagery, the characters are all extraordinary. Beginning with a […]

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Stuart MacBride’s Blind Eye–another great Scottish mystery

March 20, 2010 / PatG / 2

Another great Scottish mystery writer—I don’t know how I could have overlooked MacBride for so long. He has an ongoing series featuring Detective Sergeant Logan […]

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Luiz Alfredo Garcia-Roza: Brazilian mysteries with style

January 10, 2010 / PatG / 0

The Silence of the Rain; December Heat; Southwesterly Wind; A Window in Copacabana; Pursuit Recommended by a friend who rarely leads me astray, this mystery […]

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Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood: opinionated and beautiful

January 5, 2010 / PatG / 0

This dystopian novel focuses on characters who are part of God’s Gardeners, a progressive/rational/Green religious group that has separated itself from most aspects of mainstream […]

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The Girl Who Played with Fire: Smokin’ Read

October 26, 2009 / PatG / 0

The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo  was a favorite of mine last year (reveiwed here a few months ago).  A generous friend who read my […]

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