David Sedaris – funny wordsmith, interesting author

June 23, 2010

Not long ago I went to a book reading with author David Sedaris. Sedaris, (born 1956) is a Grammy Award-nominated American humorist, writer, comedian, bestselling author, and radio contributor. I had heard him on the radio and read one of his books, but never experienced him “live”. It was a wonderful session. He read stories [...]

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The Marching Season, by Daniel Silva

June 22, 2010

The Marching Season, by spy thriller master Daniel Silva, is the sequel to The Mark of the Assassin, and again features Michael Osbourne. It continues where the first Osbourne-book ended. The key characters are the same – in addition to Osbourne, his wife Elizabeth, the assassin October (Jean-Paul Delaroche), his father-in-law Douglas Cannon, Monica Tyler [...]

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He Who Fears the Wolf, by Karin Fossum

June 21, 2010

Shortly after a schizophrenic, named Errki, escapes from a nearby mental institution, an elderly woman, Halldis Horn, is found murdered, her body lying across the steps of her small home. And there is a witness, an overweight boy who lives in a group home, Kannick Snellingen. Kannick hastily informs local law enforcement, and Chief Inspector [...]

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Dan Harrington & Bill Robertie: Harrington on Hold ‘em Expert Strategy for No Limit Tournaments, 1 & 2

June 20, 2010

These are probably the best books ever written on tournaments and tournament strategy. Harrington & Robertie’s books discuss how the game changes during the different phases of a tournament, and how to value chips and to play in these different phases. It also discusses the role of position, style, and a number of other issues [...]

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Night Without End, by Alistair Maclean

June 18, 2010

Like many other of Alistair Maclean’s thrillers, this too starts with a bang. In Night Without End it is an airplane crash in the polar region of Greenland during winter’s zero-light months – dark, cold, harsh, and at a spot where it is very unlikely that any commercial airliner will fly. MacLean’s descriptions of this [...]

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Delta of Venus, by Anaïs Nin

June 11, 2010

Delta of Venus is a collection of erotic tales written by Anaïs Nin which explore the art of human sexuality. The events described in the stories take place in a lush, magical world created by the author, where the characters of her imagination possess the most universal of desires and exceptional of talents. Some of [...]

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Wallander Series 2 4-DVD Set – The original Swedish version

June 8, 2010

The original Swedish movies based on Henning Mankell’s books about Kurt Wallander are extremely dark and captivating. In this version, it is a series about a cop who is not perfect, who has a broken marriage and a messy life, and who tries to understand the “why” behind every criminal action. And the series about [...]

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An Enemy of the People, by Henrik Ibsen

June 7, 2010

The key themes in the classic play An Enemy of the People by the world renowned Norwegian writer Henrik Ibsen are eternal. This beautiful and interesting play is about the fight between truth and power, a fight witnessed every day in the newspapers all over the world. Ibsen lets the contradiction between truth and the [...]

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The Tourist, by Olen Steinhauer

May 30, 2010

This, to my mind, is one of the best spy novels I have ever read – it compares well with the best books by excellent writers like John Le Carré, Alan Furst, Graham Greene and Daniel Silva. The key character in the book is a gentleman known and feared under several names, but mostly known [...]

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The Spoilers, by Desmond Bagley

May 1, 2010

Originally written in 1969, The Spoilers is still a wonderful read. It is very well researched, has great characters, and is very, very suspenseful. Desmond Bagley was one of England’s best thriller writers and a best-selling author world-wide at the time when he wrote his books, and it is easy to see why. When a [...]

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