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Leftcoastzen

The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet's Nest | Stieg Larsson

#DynamicDs #Dots so they aren‘t perfectly round , I think they still qualify as dots ! 😁

Eggs, Alwaysbeenaloverofbooks

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Morr_Books

The Messiah of Stockholm | Cynthia Ozick

Finishing another book on my shelf thanks to #Roll100. The tagged was my March #90 pick. @PuddleJumper

PuddleJumper 🎉🎉 5d

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Rachiiebookdragon

My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry: A Novel | Fredrik Backman

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A sweet book, partly read digitally and partly read by audiobook.

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3.75/5

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Leoslittlebooklife

The True Deceiver | Tove Jansson

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The True Deceiver was the second book we read in the Tove Jansson Author Spotlight Series, which are group reads, organized and hosted by Sarah @HardcoverHearts .
Again an amazing novel, this one set during a dark winter in Scandinavia. Who is the true deceiver among the small village people? It ends with a satisfying answer.

BarbaraBB I loved this one. By far my favorite Jansson (edited) 3w

Leoslittlebooklife @BarbaraBB It was my second Jansson, and I also loved it the most so far. Next up is Fair Play. 3w

BarbaraBB Enjoy! That one‘s so good too 3w

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ImperfectCJ

The Room: A Novel | Jonas Karlsson

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It's bizarre books like this that make me want to live in Sweden (or anywhere in Scandinavia). I would love to see if the off-the-wall perspectives in Scandinavian fiction are universal within the culture, if they'd be accessible to an ex-pat, and if they would make up for the climate being as near the opposite as possible to the weather in San Diego (which has, unfortunately, become my baseline). This book is delightfully weird.

ImperfectCJ I realize that, for the past few years, I've been reading fiction by non-US writers as a way of shopping for a place to live after my kids have both fledged. That tendency has not decreased since January 20, 2025. (Actually, even when the kids were younger, I fantasized about moving us to a different country to give them a broader perspective in culture and education, that just didn't pan out.) 3w

BarbaraBB Great cover. And review. I can understand your feeling of shopping for a place to live. The US are pretty scary right now. But well, Europe might end up in a war 😱 3w

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Bibliophile004

Britt-Marie Was Here (Bound for Schools & Libraries) | Fredrik Backman

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Britt Marie is the most unlikable character that you grow to love. The book is heart breaking and very real. It also shows that you are never too old to begin again and love your life. It ends on a cliff hanger, so the ending is unknown. But you find yourself rooting for Britt Marie 💜

bookaholic1 One of my favorites 3w

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RJRobertson

The True Deceiver | Tove Jansson

The longest short novel I have ever read. And it snowed the whole time.

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kspenmoll

Buried Angels (Patrik Hedstrom and Erica Falck, Book 8) | Camilla L�ckberg

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1974 –an island off the coast of Sweden.An entire family with the exception of toddler daughter Ebba,vanishes. 5 teens,now adults, were somehow involved. Decades later,Ebba,& her husband Tobias, return to the island to rebuild their life after family tragedy.Erica,with a research writer nose is interested in this old case. Is this past case connected to the current case,Patrick her detective husband is investigating? Evil lurks….

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