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Rebecca's Reward (Daughters of Blessing #4)
Lauraine Snelling
Bethany House Publishers, 2008
Very good for the most part
NOTE: The review on the Amazon webpage is clearly NOT about this book, there is no "Thomas Ollenburger" or any other Mennonite characters, nor does any part of the story take place in Kansas or Boston.
Now for the real plot: Rebecca Baard wants to start an ice ...
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Teach Yourself Norwegian Complete CoursePackage (Book + 2CDs) (Teach Yourself Complete Language Courses)
Margaretha Danbolt Simons
McGraw-Hill, 2004
Great Book...
I'm about half way through this book (it's taken about a month, but I'm putting lots and lots of time into it) and so far I've been very impressed with the clarity and organization throughout. I have a number of Teach Yourself language books... and some of them are ...
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The Indian Bride (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
Karin Fossum
Harvest Books, 2008
Maybe the best mystery I've read & among the best books
I'm an English major/English teacher sort of person, and even a would-be writer. I used to think I could write pretty well, but I have the growing and strong perception that there are people out there who write better than me for sure, and maybe than some of the ...
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A Touch of Grace (Daughters of Blessing #3)
Lauraine Snelling
Bethany House Publishers, 2008
Another great story
Lauraine Snelling's writing embraces me with the sense of home and family that everyone longs to belong to. I enjoyed reading more about Ingeborg's family and her growth in faith. Getting to know Grace was a delight as she faced the heartaches of destroyed dreams but ...
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Kristin Lavransdatter: (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Sigrid Undset
Penguin Classics, 2005
Marvellous Medieval Epic - Unforgettable
"Kristin Lavrandatter", Sigrid Undset's Nobel-prize winning trilogy from the 1920s, doesn't appear on any college reading list that I have ever seen, despite its beauty, depth of observations about love, marriage, and family psychology, tour de force representation of ...
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True Norwegian Black Metal
Peter Beste
Vice Books, 2008
Black Metal receives an appropriately artful treatment
Peter Beste has made this book an essential photographic record for fans of the genre and anyone interested or curious about it. Although the inherently extreme nature of black metal symbolism makes for an easy target this collection presents the subject matter through ...
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We Die Alone: A WWII Epic of Escape and Endurance
David Howarth
The Lyons Press, 2007
An amazing story.
I first read this book when I was about eleven, over thirty years later I bought it again, and the story was just as amazing to me as an adult as it was when I was a child. Jan's story has to be read to believed.
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Norwegian Wood
Haruki Murakami
Vintage, 2000
A small miracle
Murakami has captured me for years with stories about modern Japan and his strange pasta making anti-heroes. The mear thought of him writing a plain romantic novel has kept me from reading this book for years - after finishing it, I can say that all these doubts has ...
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Sophie's Dilemma (Daughters of Blessing #2)
Lauraine Snelling
Bethany House, 2007
Sophie's Delemma
Book received in less than a week. Book in excellent condition. Thank you for such good service.
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Out Stealing Horses: A Novel
Per Petterson
Picador, 2008
Hauntingly simplistic yet powerfully empathetic.
This being my first Per Petterson novel I did have my reservations, but I am delighted to say that all the praise this author receives is well earned. I must also add that the names of some of the authors this book beat in the IMPAC is quite impressive. And yet, when ...
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Four Major Plays: (Doll's House; Ghosts; Hedda Gabler; and The Master Builder) (Oxford World's Classics)
Henrik Ibsen
Oxford University Press, USA, 2008
A translation to beat all others
James McFarlane's and Jens Arup's translations of Ibsen have long been classics and are arguably the best. Although they were published in England almost forty years ago, they still sound remarkably fresh and will be in print for many years to come. In "A Doll's ...
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Black Seconds (Inspector Sejer Mysteries)
Karin Fossum
Harcourt, 2008
Very Enjoyable
Characters that are real, not forced or overdrawn. Plot development that is believable and deceiving, with a style that smoothly involves the reader mentally, laying clues that may be clues or not, always with unexpected plot finishes that are satisfying. Read one of ...
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie (Perennial Classics)
Ole Edvart Rolvaag
Harper Perennial Modern Classics, 1999
Powerful characters, beautifully written
Like Moberg's novels of the Swedish emmigrant experience in Minnesota, Rolvaag's earlier Saga of the Prairie tells of the Norwegian frontier settlers in Dakota Territory. Rolvaag's prose is richly evocative of the solitude and loneliness of the wide prairie expanses ...
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Four Major Plays, Volume I (Signet Classics)
Henrik Ibsen
Signet Classics, 2006
Engrossing!
Ibsen is one of the most important playwrights to ever grace this earth, and it is not difficult to see why after reading this collection of plays. "The Doll House" is immediately fascinating, perhaps the easiest to understand out of this group of plays. It teaches the ...
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Norwegian Folktales (Pantheon Fairy Tale and Folklore Library)
Peter Christen Asbjornsen, Jorgen Moe
Pantheon, 1982
Norway's Greatest Treasure...
...alongside the fjords, is its literary tradition, beginning with the Viking romances and sagas, at full flood in the works of Ibsen, but flowing like an underground river through its grotesque folk tales - eventyr - as collected by Peter Christen Asbjørnsen and the ...
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