I love the feeling of this story. It’s like getting moved into one of those lovely BBC tv-series. I like Evangeline, she’s cool, and the story is adventurous in such a nice way. Deanne Raybourn has written a story with a lovely Agatha Christie flair.
Kategori: Tentacle Words – the Swedish Bookworm
I am actually a bit fed up with books about WWII. There’s been so many of them these last years. But hey, this is Paris! And I do have, as you might know by now, a faiblesse for Paris. You can’t go wrong with Paris. And even though there’s actually not that much about Paris…
While other countries indulge in huge, festive carnevals today, here in Sweden we celebrate Mardi gras in our own ”lagom” way. No captivating music, no pearl necklesses, no beautiful costumes, just delicious wheat buns filled with smoth almond paste, whipped cream and topped with icing sugar. Delicious. The traditional wheat bun, called semla, has been…
There’s something about Paris. Books that takes place in Paris seems to work for me – every time. Mix that with a beautiful and intriguing tale about friendship, love, justice and some magic. Well… then I’m sold. That’s exactly what Roshani Chokshi has done in her debut novel The Gilded Wolves. It’s a book filled…
This book might as well have been called Eat, Pray, Love – aside from the praying part. There’s not much of it, none at all infact, even though it’s set in the Vatican State late 1500s. But there is a lot of love, great love, and good food in The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King….
No, I’m not talking about Christmas, we’ve all lived through that quite recently. No, I’m talking about the Swedish book tradition – Bokrean – The Big Book Sale. At the end of February every year all bookstores, IRL or online, offers all the books they want to get rid of or are try to convince…