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Summer storms brewing. No power. A little bit of daylight left to read by.

#thecalmbeforethestorm

#Top20Series #20series20days

The Nina Borg series is fabulous, provided you're not looking for a feel-good read! The first two in this series were practically perfect. I wasn't as into the third and haven't read the fourth (and last) book yet, but intend to. This also counts towards this month's #womenintranslation challenge #integrateyourshelf

@Tove_Reads @gradcat @Andrew65 @EadieB I just borrowed this book, not read this author, have you all read? Opinion?#nordicnoir

Not bad.....May have to try more from this series, so I have more understanding of the characters. 🌟🌟🌟

This wasn't my typical genre & there were a few surprises for me. I enjoyed the audio book, but I'm not sure if I was enough of a fan to read the next book in the series when there are so many other books already on my TBR.

I have a few minutes before leaving for work, so I'm using it to knit a little on my husband's birthday socks and listen to my audiobook. Trying to finish both of these today.

Started a new audio book this morning. I think this fits the #nordicnoir prompt for the #PopSugar reading challenge. It would also fit for #twoauthors but I have something else planned for that one. #Pop18 #popsugar2018 #PopSugarReadingChallenge

I've fallen in love with Scandinavian/Icelandic/Nordic fiction. I enjoy the culture insights from translated works. This book focuses on human trafficking of children and oppression of women.

Another audio that was just okay. It was so hard to get into! After about hour 2 I got into it haha

I‘ve posted a review of this book on my blog and Instagram account...

http://instagram.com/lina_loves_lit
https://linaemery.wixsite.com/linaloveslit

Plane reading fron February. I can never focus on "literature" when traveling -- to much noise distraction in the airport and on the plane. Thank goodness there are so many good international mystery series out there! The tagged book was the best, follwed by The Fallen. Limassol is a non- traditional mystery, so not what I needed. And thank goodness Outsider wasn't my introduction to the series.
#Europa #SohoCrime

Just realized that if I rearranged my SOHO crime novels, they made a fair rainbow. Yippee!!

#bookrainbow #fallintobooks

⭐⭐⭐⭐: Excellent, fast paced thriller after Nina Borg finds a little boy in a suitcase, and he's alive... #DanishThriller #Translation #Series

2017 #62 mystery audio what the heck is up with scandiavian thrillers that have such uncomfortable subject matter. Very weird but well told. Not sure I will actively commit myself to the series but the leap from kids books to this must have been a shock to their fan base.

#FeistyFeb I have not yet read the two titles on top but both have been in my #TBR for a very long time. The bottom three, I've read and would easily recommend. Boys in the Boat is a nonfiction, a bookclub choice, which was a bit of a dry read but still very informative and interesting. #BoyInTitle

Some days are diamond, some days are stone 💎💎💎💎 #neededtwobags 📚📚📚📚📚📚📚📚🛍🛍🛒

I got the best kind of book mail today; mail from a litsy friend! Thank you so much @Jenshootsweddings for the book and lovely note! I can't wait to start reading!

A late start to an intimate wedding was nice, but it seems all that much harder to drag myself away from reading. Should be an early finish though, so hopefully I'll be back on the porch right after dinner! ❤️📚🇨🇦

The problem with starting a random book when you can't sleep in the middle of the night is that it ends up being good and makes you put aside your actual current read.

Can't sleep. The book I'm actually reading is downstairs and I don't want to go down and get it, in case I get distracted by TV or editing (or the slice of cake in the fridge). I'm curled up in the guest room, so I picked this off my used book (aka read whenever) shelf instead. Although now that I'm in here, I'm a little sleepy ... 🙄 #augustofpages #augustphotochallenge

A decent story. So many players that kept the mystery moving forward. While it was easy for me to figure out where the boy came from/where he belonged, I did not see the plot twist around his story coming. This would make a great movie, if done right.

3/5
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Meh. Not impressed. I hoped to like this, but it left me cold. Too hard to keep the characters straight, failed to captivate me. What should've been an exciting premise just...wasn't. 😐

This book has an interesting premise: a woman who doesn't drink wakes up in the hospital intoxicated with memory loss & without her 3 year-old boy; another woman takes a suitcase from a locker and finds a 3 year-old boy in it. And you're off! The audio's narrator is excellent; but the plot never wow's for all of its tautness, and the characters are rather limp despite their actions. Interesting but forgettable. Pair with: Aalborg Jubileaum, sip!

A straightforward mystery with a nurse-detective, who has a psychologically damaged history, clearly meant to be developed in subsequent books. Not much effort to determine the motive about halfway through. But the "boy" is lovable and you will root for him and read to the end to see if he reaches his destiny. On to Book 2 in the Nina Borg series, the Invisible Murder.

This audiobook's narrator has been doing an incredible job! @BookBabe and I have another commute or two left before we finish this one, but I'll just say now that if you want a light, interesting, and exciting read, then look no further. Definitely keeps me awake on long nocturnal drives. 😊👍🏻

Please tell me it isn't so, the second typo before I'm even to page 100. 😠

I did it. I hit 2000!

"Mama, I don't like the flash in my eyes when you take my picture! Stop it!"

Well, my first #24in48 #readathon sure didn't go as planned. My reading was interrupted by 2 family birthdays, a BBQ, 2 book club meetings, and a (seriously awesome) Guns'n'Roses concert! 🔫🌹🤘🏻I still managed to squeeze in almost 15 hours of reading thanks to audiobooks. I read (part of) 5 different books this weekend, and finished none! 😂

When it rains it pours. Our weekend of traveling madness won't be done until tonight *sighs*, and we'll be severely exhausted by then, lol, but books keep @BookBabe 's and my adrenaline flowing when we can squeeze in some spare moments. In the meantime, our house's book nook #4, found in her art studio 😊.

@BookBabe and I have been listening to this in the car through our hundreds of driven miles. Taut, suspenseful, and disturbing, this definitely keeps one awake at the wheel! We pick up on the third hour as we begin Sunday's drive. Downloaded yesterday from Audible as a Daily Deal for $2.95. 😎👍🏻

She did not want to admit to him just how alone she was. It felt shameful, like some embarrassing disease.