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I've put my photo of a Stockholm tram in a 1920s filter, which almost fits this super noir crime fiction (set in the 1930s, but there was no 1930s filter...)

Reading The Crow Girl was a demanding journey, but one I‘m ultimately glad I went on. This book isn‘t for the faint of heart, and it‘s definitely not a book I‘d recommend as someone‘s first journey into crime fiction. This book is dark, and delves deep into the depths of human depravity. It‘s been a long time since I‘ve chugged out a chunkster in a month but I‘m glad I did. ⬇️

5 🌟
This was my #Bookspin pick for March
#TBRTarot March pick

First line: “The house was over a hundred years old, and the solid stone walls were at least a meter thick, which meant that she probably didn‘t need to insulate them, but she wanted to be absolutely sure.”

#BookReport 09/24

I read a lot again this week. I had high expectations of all three of them, too high I think in hindsight. Hard Girls is really good, just not what I expected. Both others, hmmm 🤷🏻‍♀️

This book felt like a De Beauvoir-about-Sartre novel of the 21st century. Set in Stockholm instead of Paris, still very European. Intellectual talks, misunderstandings, casual sex. It didn‘t really work for me, I didn‘t like the three main characters and their conversations. Other than that, nothing much happens unfortunately.

#ATY24 - Two word title starting with The #52BookClub24 - Abrupt ending

We follow Hugo, August and Thora during their studies in Stockholm. It‘s a love story, a friendship story, yet there‘s a distance throughout, which could be because this is translated from Swedish. An intense story with no real plot, slow and at times frustrating, but I also liked it. Imagine the relationships in Conversations with Friends crossed with Elena Ferrante‘s writing maybe? It also left me hanging, and I kind of liked that too.

This was a hard read. Hard,dark, upsetting content that I would have given up on but for the fact the plot and storytelling was so compelling. I wanted to know what happened very badly but also feel like I need to steam clean my brain. Read for my own challenge this year as a Nordic noir it was defiantly noir !

I listened to it while traveling and I think the distractions may have been the reason I just didn‘t get into this one. Maybe I‘ll revisit it someday.
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