Sunday, November 28, 2010

Amenable Women

by Mavis Cheek
(posted on Lynda's behalf)
Enjoyed the notion that women can harness their apparent and perceived short comings to work life out to their own satisfaction ultimately. However I felt it was a bit under-powered and parochial. She could have given more bite to the modern lead character exploring the apparent dis-service history has done to Anne of Cleves. But it was interesting to think a bit more about the historical evidence that can blow a myth away.

Now reading a Swedish translation - part ghost story, part crime, part lost souls - The Darkest Room by Johan Theorin. It's in a typically Swedish bleak landscape/seascape. Ingmar Bergman rules! Do you know I've never read or seen a Swedish comedy - except ABBA.

1 comment:

  1. The existence (or not) of Scandinavian humour merits a mystery story of its own.

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