false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg 6217 20 1370150 book 1923 Kristin Lavransdatter total:599|5:336|4:165|3:79|2:14|1:5| 599 2610 1147 152 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 7 false Mon Sep 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 25 13:58:39 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 16 11:25:18 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 2 false Fri Sep 19 23:16:52 -0700 2008 Fri Sep 19 23:22:29 -0700 2008 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Tue Jan 20 15:41:35 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 15:41:55 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Wed May 06 08:07:38 -0700 2009 Tue Dec 16 20:18:07 -0800 2008 Wed May 06 08:07:38 -0700 2009
"We consider it the best book our judges have ever selected and it has been better received by our subscribers than any other book," says the Book-of-the-Month Club. -- Review

A landmark among historical novel...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Sat Mar 14 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 03 21:41:18 -0700 2008 Sat Mar 14 10:27:00 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Tue Feb 26 11:59:24 -0800 2008 Wed Sep 17 17:48:25 -0700 2008
Then Tiina Nunnally did a new translation which was published by Penguin Books in 2005. I am re-reading the entire book 1144 ...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Sun Feb 08 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 20:26:01 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 20:42:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Thu Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sun Feb 01 17:14:50 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 01 17:34:54 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 4 0 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Sat Nov 21 19:50:18 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 19:55:03 -0800 2009 #175 The Wife
#176 The Cross

I read Tiina Nunnally's more recent translation of this old favorite. Sigrid Undset's trilogy follows the life of a 14th-century Norwegian woman through a pampered childhood, an ill-advised yet passionate marriage, motherhood, and her...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Sat May 23 07:22:40 -0700 2009 Sat May 23 07:22:40 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Fri Jun 27 10:48:17 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 10:53:33 -0700 2008 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Mon Feb 09 23:45:04 -0800 2009 Tue Feb 10 01:14:57 -0800 2009 This tome follows the ...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 4 0 false Wed Nov 18 10:09:59 -0800 2009 Wed Nov 18 10:18:52 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 4 0 false Sun Nov 15 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Mon Oct 05 14:22:33 -0700 2009 Tue Nov 17 09:34:59 -0800 2009 Kristin Lavransdatter has all this in spades.

But reader beware -- this sto...more...]]> 3180014 11 4 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1216168877m/3180014.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/3180014.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Fri Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1999 Thu Oct 08 15:50:43 -0700 2009 Thu Oct 08 15:54:38 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 0 0 false Fri Oct 02 12:24:24 -0700 2009 Sat Nov 28 10:30:16 -0800 2009
Thoughts on Part 2, The Wife

Personally, The Wife was a bit of a mixed bag for me. The first 150 pages continued some of my least favorite aspects of The Wreath: guilt-ridden Christian moralizing, overwrought dramatic shenanigans from m...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 1 false Sat Oct 03 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 10 11:13:16 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 03 13:17:29 -0700 2009
Sigrid Undset won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1928. This trilogy is probably her most famous work and was published 1920-22. The translation I read is by Tiina ...more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 true Sun May 24 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Feb 07 11:17:23 -0800 2009 Sun May 24 22:48:37 -0700 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Fri Feb 06 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Tue Dec 23 12:53:42 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 06 16:00:35 -0800 2009 more...]]> 6217 0143039164 9780143039167 531 132 4.36 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555557m/6217.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6217.Kristin_Lavransdatter 5 0 false Sat Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2006 Sun Feb 17 11:25:27 -0800 2008 Thu Mar 27 23:51:20 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=6217