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Johan Theorin’s Öland quartet

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 23, 2025September 12, 2025

I found this book in a charity shop and thoroughly enjoyed it. It reminded me…

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The Innocent Wife by Amy Lloyd

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 31, 2025May 31, 2025

I am not very far through this book but I am thoroughly enjoying it. So…

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What I am reading at the moment

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on March 2, 2025February 27, 2025

I don’t normally do this, but I am reading several of them at the same…

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Glow-in-the-Dark

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on February 7, 2024December 26, 2023

I recently wrote about how I like glow-in-the dark dials on alarm clocks because they…

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About town yesterday

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on December 7, 2023December 10, 2023

It has been pretty cold in Stockholm over the past week. We live centrally where…

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Last week’s reading

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on July 27, 2022July 27, 2022

I found these two at a local thrift shop. The biographies section is always a…

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The same goes for my stomach

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on April 7, 2018February 19, 2018
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Book Exchanges

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on September 14, 2017September 2, 2017

The other day I was thinking about how much I loved book exchanges growing up.…

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Book sculpture

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on May 11, 2017May 7, 2017

I was on my way home from visiting friends last week when I spotted this…

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A Novel Journal: A novel idea

  • by Janet Carr
  • Posted on November 15, 2016November 14, 2016

I rather like the idea of these notebooks from Thunder Bay Press. My only problem…

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