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Copy/paste the text below into your blog. <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6220.Kristin_Lavransdatter_I_The_Wreath?utm_medium=api&amp;utm_source=blog_review" style="float: left; padding-right: 20px"><img alt="Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)" border="0" src="http://s3.amazonaws.com/photo.goodreads.com/books/1165555558m/6220.jpg" /></a> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6220.Kristin_Lavransdatter_I_The_Wreath?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">Kristin Lavransdatter I: The Wreath</a> by <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/4203.Sigrid_Undset">Sigrid Undset</a><br/><br/> <a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/15652092?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review"><h3>My review</h3></a> rating: 4 of 5 stars<br/>At times I wasn't sure if this was a forerunner to bodice-rippers. But there's too much morality, not tacked on, but mixed in, and too much loving detail in the medieval Norwegian setting. Hard to read at times as young Kristin balances between being impossibly headstrong and overtaken by events beyond her control. It's long and the length forced me to live in her world for a while instead of tearing through the book. Looking forward to the next two. <br/><br/><a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/list/614539?utm_medium=api&utm_source=blog_review">View all my reviews.</a>