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Tag: Maigret and The Tall Woman

Maigret and the Tall Woman – Georges Simenon

On August 21, 2017August 6, 2017 By bookskepticIn Reviews2 Comments

It's been years since I read my previous Maigret, so I happily killed two birds with one stone and read a good crime as well as shrank my all too long Netgalley list by at least one title, making me feel a bit less like an evil person. It was a good old type crime, …

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July round-up

On August 1, 2017October 14, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts5 Comments

Whoosh! And July is over. I was on vacation in the first week of July, have been back for three weeks now, but it feels like it was just a second ago. This month most of my reading was done while on vacation and since I had time I read plenty of books, this probably …

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#20booksofsummer completed

On July 24, 2017July 24, 2017 By bookskepticIn Thoughts6 Comments

This was unexpected, but the unexpected sometimes happens and it's not always a bad thing. I officially completed my #20booksofsummer reading on Saturday, more than a month early. Last year I struggled a lot more to finish on time, so what was different this year? No teeth problems to start with, not that those months …

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