Eivind (like the Terrible) rated Bly: 3.0 stars

Bly by Lars Saabye Christensen
Kim Karlsen, hovedpersonen i romanen Beatles, kommer med danskeferga inn til Oslo. Han er på leting ettersammenhenger, etter noe å …
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Kim Karlsen, hovedpersonen i romanen Beatles, kommer med danskeferga inn til Oslo. Han er på leting ettersammenhenger, etter noe å …

A young witch-to-be named Tiffany teams up with the Wee Free Men, a clan of six-inch-high blue men, to rescue …

Rejecting the dictatorship of world financial markets and defending the social values of modern democracy, Hessel reminds us that life …

Jennifer Egan's spellbinding interlocking narratives circle the lives of Bennie Salazar, an aging former punk rocker and record executive, and …

Armageddon only happens once, you know. They don't let you go around again until you get it right.
According …
I was a bit perplexed when Genghis died about halfway through, as I thought this was his biography. It turned out to be a good overview of the entire period of the Mongol Empire instead. It got a bit tiresome the way he constantly felt the need to emphasize how much more humane the Mongols were than their European contemporaries, though. Not that I doubt that's true, and I understand that this is supposed to be revisionist, but still...
Beautiful melancholy :)