Monthly Archives: June 2011

Thy´s Day 57

Posted on June 30, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen
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Where Girls Don´t Count

Posted on June 29, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

As I mentioned yesterday, the strongest part of Kishwar Desai´s novel, Witness the Night, was the insight in the lives of Indian women. Two quotations from the book which show you that there are still millions of girls and women … Continue reading →

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Kishwar Desai, Witness the Night (2010)

Posted on June 28, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

Bogudfordringen 2011; bøger fra andre kontinenter end Europa og Nordamerika. The Global Reading Challenge 2011: Asia. This Indian psychological thriller is the writer´s second stand-alone, but the first one published in Britain. “I turn around again and, shivering in the … Continue reading →

Posted in 2011 Global Reading Challenge, Bogudfordringen 2011, Indian, Kishwar Desai, review, review 2011 | 14 Comments

Guest blogging today…

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

How stupid of me to forget to link to my guest post today. Patti of Pattinase invited me to participate in her feature “How I Came to Write this Story” a long time ago so if you should have forgotten … Continue reading →

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X is for XL

Posted on June 27, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

– for Kerrie´s alphabet in crime meme – As it is not that easy to come up with something unique for this week´s post, I´ll rattle something off in the early morning rather than have my bright idea stolen once … Continue reading →

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Midsummer Murders

Posted on June 26, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

Do you need a light and easy read for the beach? – for the bus? – for the back yard? A bit belatedly (as we celebrate midsummer and Sankt Hans, St John the Baptist, on June the 23rd) I´d like … Continue reading →

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Kathy Reichs, Déjà Dead (1997)

Posted on June 25, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

This thriller is the first American Temperance Brennan story, set in Quebec. My daughters have watched the TV series ´Bones´ for a long time so I was curious to see what all the fuss was about. “Protruding from the leaves … Continue reading →

Posted in American, Kathy Reichs, review, review 2011 | 9 Comments

Thy´s Day # 56

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen
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W is for the Whole, Wide World

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

[Photo: Jan Hummelshøj, Greenland] – for Kerrie´s alphabet in crime meme – This week I have chosen the whole world as my subject. One of the brilliant aspects of reading fiction is that it is such a comfortable and inexpensive … Continue reading →

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M.C. Beaton, Death of a Perfect Wife (1989)

Posted on June 20, 2011 by Dorte Hummelshøj Jakobsen

The other night I picked a more serious crime story from my shelf after a long exam day, but when I had tried to read the first paragraph five times, I put it down and settled for this one. This … Continue reading →

Posted in cozy mystery, M.C. Beaton, review, review 2011, Scottish | 15 Comments