Nordic Noir discussion

Our Featured Author for January is going to be Peter Høeg - his latest book was released (in English at least) in October, 2012.

So what books are you going to read by him this month?

I am reading The Elephants Keeper if I could get to it!!

my library only has 1 copy of Elephant Keeper and its out until mid-January, so i'm not sure which one I am going to read - maybe The Quiet Girl

The only one of his I have not read is The elephants Keeper as well. Getting to it is also my problem.

Has anyone else read this? I am not liking it. I find it kind of mundane/boring.

This is what the reviews are saying. I actually brought it home read twenty pages and took it back. Thought if someone I trusted liked it I would take it back out. Has anyone read it and liked it?

I am at page 53, if it doesn't pick up, it is going into the library box Monday morning. I have too many books to read and I was dissatisfied with Smilla's Sense of Snow...so it is a pattern to me.

I have read it - It is slow at first and confusing but worth pressing on with it as it has some real moments. Guess you need to struggle through another 20-30 pages before you crack it and rush to the end!!
It is a constant struggle to know what to read with so many good books available especially as good if not much better than Smilla's sense of snow but it is a bit of a "classic" so it will be good to tick it off.

OK....I will give it another 100 or so pages and see where I am. That would be tomorrow anyway.

Which book are you referring to?

The Elephant Keepers' Children.

Thanks. I hope it gets better for you.

So, I am on page 250 of Elephant Keeper. Still not warming up to it. I am half way through, so I might as well finish it tomorrow.

OK, Finished EKC. One star. I found myself skimming it because I didn't want to lose out on the 300 pages that I had just read when I only had less than 200 pages to go. I just had the feeling like in SSoS that the characters were just way too bland and I couldn't get invested nor did I care.