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The Girl in the Testamentary Fracas

September 4, 2015 by Leland Buck Leave a Comment

The Girl in the Testamentary Fracas

I have mixed feelings about the Lisbeth Salander character phenomenon. Stieg Larsson’s three books were indeed thrilling, compelling reads. Were Larsson alive and releasing the fourth installment written by his own hand, I would without question be reading the final pages of the book instead of writing this. But what can we say about a […]

Remembering Laurie Thompson

July 2, 2015 by Leland Buck Leave a Comment

Remembering Laurie Thompson

I was sad to see an obituary recently for Laurie Thompson who passed away on June 8, 2015. Mr. Thompson was an excellent translator of Swedish writing into English. He translated over 40 titles from an impressive number of well-known Swedish writers, including Henning Mankell, Åke Edwardson, Håkan Nesser and Mikael Niemi. Some of the […]

On Reading Lists and Summer Reading

May 26, 2015 by Leland Buck 1 Comment

On Reading Lists and Summer Reading

This afternoon, I let my mind wander off course of a work project and I found myself in Feedly catching up on some blog reading. There I noticed a significant number of blogs talking about summer reading. While reading the post 20 Books of Summer 2015! on 746 Books, it crossed my mind how much I rely […]

Thoughts on Dalgliesh, from the beginning.

July 22, 2011 by admin Leave a Comment

Thoughts on Dalgliesh, from the beginning.

Earlier this month I decided to re-read Cover Her Face, published in 1962 and the first in P.D. James’ successful Detective Adam Dalgliesh series. As this book is approaching it’s 50th year in print — and because I so thoroughly enjoyed reading it — I thought it would make a suitable subject with which to revive […]

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