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Just a quick note to thank everyone who recommended books in my weekend Book Bleg. The response was great, and it’s worth checking out if you’re interested in some (mainly) fiction recommendations.

So which books did I decide to try? This is necessarily a fairly random thing when you get hundreds of recommendations, but I chose three. First is Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall, which broke out of the pack based on sheer number of enthusiastic recommendations, plus the fact that so many people were convinced that it was a perfect Kevin book. (We’ll see how well you guys know me!) Second is China Mieville’s The City & The City. I’ve been vaguely meaning to read some Mieville forever and somehow I never have. So now I will. Third is Stieg Larsson’s Millennium Trilogy, which got several recommendations and has the look of the kind of gratuitously convoluted plot line that I get a kick out of. Part 3 isn’t available until May, though, so I’ll read the others first.

Thanks again to everyone who pitched in. I’ll probably dip back into that thread several more times before the year is out.


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