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Carina Burman is a swedish author mainly writing fiction about historical people. She is a scholar and in her novels she adds the fiction to bring life to the characters. Unfortunatly she is not yet translated into english. In the same way author Maja Lundgren wrote a book about Pompeji and...

I started on this serie just this summer and a friend told me that the gunslinger was a bit tough to really get a grip on and that I should just keep reading on and when I got to part two things would not be as cryptic. I liked the first book though, so much that I think I would have bought...

Yeah, that does come in handy in a number of situations :D Thanks for the welcomes. I am already having fun catching up on the forums here.

Sweden has some really great authors of YA books. I don't know how many of these that have been translated though, but some of my fave authors are: Maria Gripe, Peter Pohl, Astrid Lindgren and Gunila Ambjörnsson I also love foreign-language authors such as Philip Pullman, John Marsden and...

A lot of the greek plays are a pure joy to read, poetic and beautiful and not dry at all. I think I already read about 40% of that list. I must be nuts!

Hi, I just found this place today and since I got a long summer with a whole stack of books ahead of me I thought I would join right away (on my birthday and all too) I am swedish, work as a school librarian with kids ages 12-15 and right now I am taking a break from reading Young Adult books...