Let's focus on happy things we need to refuel: What are you reading this weekend?
Here, it's classic Scandinavian crime fiction (Martin Beck series). Not sure what the second book will be once I finish this one.
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in reply to Dr. Victoria Grinberg • • •Yeah I don't understand it. The news is painful but reading about crime or even true crime is a friendly escape.
Those stories that really put you in to a particular historical era are great. I finished watching the horror miniseries The Terror, and as unsettling as it was I was fascinated by the innovations in marine technology in 1847.
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in reply to Dr. Victoria Grinberg • • •I read them and loved them as a kid - my entryway into crime fiction. They describe a very different Sweden than now. They get progressively darker and more overtly critical over time, and I think a lot of the greater social points are very relevant today.
Currently I'm reading Grasshopper, by Isaka Kotato (3 assassins in English). So far it's excellent.
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in reply to Janne Moren • • •@jannem I read a lot of crime fiction as a kid but for some reason never the Scandinavian direction (possibly because it wasn't very popular in my cultural circle).
What made me pick this one (next to the fact that I found almost the whole series on a book exchange shelf), was actually the political leaning of the authors. So I'm rather curious to see how this plays out in the later books.
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For fiction; I have "Readymade Bodhisattva", an anthology of South Korean science fiction.
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