Recently reading and posting on [new underground] Tom Robotham’s “10 Books That Changed My Life” got me thinking about how literature has moved and altered me over the years. But I saw that in most cases it has been authors—and my intimate, fluid relationship with them over countless hours—rather than single books that affected and [...]
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Rediscovering Martin Beck Mysteries
by Rick Skwiot August 23, 2010 BooksIt had been decades since I’d read a Martin Beck roman policier from the Swedish team of Maj Sjöwall and Per Wahlöö – so long that I can’t remember which ones I might have read. But on a reader’s recommendation I went back to Beck in a 1969 mystery The Man Who Went Up In Smoke. While reputedly not their best [...]