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Book Review: Beartown by Fredrik Backman

Man of la BookNovember 13, 2017

This is a tense and ugly story, but it sucks you in.

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Book Review: A Man Called Ove by Fredrik Backman

Man of la BookMay 24, 2017

This is a clever book and the translation is simply brilliant

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Book Review: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson
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Book Review: Hitman Anders and the Meaning of It All by Jonas Jonasson

Man of la BookJuly 11, 2016

Per Persson, a hotel receptionist and grandson to a multi-millionaire who lost all his money, meets an atheist female pries who was cast out of her congregation. Per and the priest hate people, but like one another… and they like money.

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Graphic Novel Review: James Bond: Vargr by Warren Ellis and Jason Masters

Man of la BookJuly 6, 2016

James Bond, agent 007 of British Secret Service, returns to London from a vengeance mission in Helsinki and resumes the boring duties of the 00 section. Soon enough he gets a new mission, this time in Berlin to break a drug trafficking cartel.

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Book Review: The Invoice by Jonas Karlsson

Man of la BookMarch 30, 2016

We were “promised” some sort of magical “Disney happiness” which doesn’t exist, and never did. Happiness, for me, are the small things which happen daily – a smile from the wife, a hug from the kids, a strange giving a hand to another without an conditions..

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Book Review: The Envoy by Alex Kershaw
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Book Review: The Envoy by Alex Kershaw

Man of la BookMarch 7, 2016

Mr. Wallenberg could not stand idly by watching one of the greatest crimes of the 20th Century taking place, and took it upon himself to provide Jews with Schutzpasses, documents which show that the bearer is a Swedish citizen and hence should not be transferred to a concentration camp.

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Book Review: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson
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Book Review: The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson

Man of la BookJune 30, 2015

The Girl Who Saved the King of Sweden by Jonas Jonasson (translated by Rachel Willson-Broyles) is a fictional book from the successful Swedish author.

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Book Review: The Swimmer by Joakim Zander

Man of la BookFebruary 11, 2015

Klara Walldéen is an aide to the European Union Parliament who is working in Brussels. Klara grew up with her grandparents on a remote archipelago in Sweden. Accidentally Klara has gotten possession of a laptop containing information that the European Union as well as the US government does not want to be publicized.

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Fun Facts Friday: Astrid Lindgren

Man of la BookNovember 14, 2014

Mrs. Lindgren created her most famous character, Pippi Longstocking, after the birth of her daughter Karin to ease her time when she was sick.

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Thoughts on: The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg
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Thoughts on: The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg

Man of la BookJune 21, 2012

Article first published as Book Review: The Stonecutter: A Novel by Camilla Läckberg on Blogcritics. About: The Stonecutter by Camilla Läckberg is the third novel in the Fjallbacka mystery series. The series features policeman Patrik Hedstrom who works in a small town […]

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