false 225991 female Berkeley, CA 07/2007 12/2009 25 139 134 true 5684448 read 0 true 468286 currently-reading 5 true 468285 to-read Black Seconds (Paperback) by Karin Fossum]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/79066832 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1175139294s/484670.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Sun, 20 Dec 2009 12:46:32 -0800 more...]]> The Emperor's Children (Hardcover) by Claire Messud]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68491876 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1256131487s/3648.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Thu, 26 Nov 2009 15:03:42 -0800
Claire Messud's The Emperor's Children, a novel of the early 2000s, released in the middle of this decade, seems a fine book for me to close out the decade with. I ...more...]]> The Last Days of Disco, With Cocktails at Petrossian Afterwards (Hardcover) by Whit Stillman]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3714396 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1171821710s/120242.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Tue, 22 Sep 2009 23:18:47 -0700
The premise here is that Whit Stillman's film, The Last Days of Disco, is a true story, and that one of the film's ch...more...]]> The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium, #2) by Stieg Larsson]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65125632 http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41sudTHStvL._SL75_.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Sat, 22 Aug 2009 17:36:18 -0700 more...]]> Amsterdam (Paperback) by Ian McEwan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/68491722 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165604772s/6862.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Sat, 22 Aug 2009 16:46:23 -0700 On Chesil Beach (Hardcover) by Ian McEwan]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/66906235 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1178649691s/815309.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Mon, 10 Aug 2009 19:37:53 -0700 Berlin Noir: March Violets; The Pale Criminal; A German Requiem (Paperback) by Philip Kerr]]> http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/65163290 http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1255744595s/236814.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Mon, 27 Jul 2009 18:51:48 -0700 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/156498-who-do-you-think-spoilers http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1173382002s/280352.jpg 225991 Carolyn http://photo.goodreads.com/users/1185743262p2/225991.jpg http://www.goodreads.com/user/show/225991-carolyn Sat, 13 Jun 2009 15:25:51 -0700
I have to admit that, as misogynistic and despicable a human being as Goran is, when Sejer was trying to manipulate him into giving a confession, I was a bit upset at Sejer's methods, as I wasn't fully convinced of Goran's guilt in the crime. Then Goran confessed and I thought, "Well, okay, I guess he did do it."

It's hard for me to imagine an innocent man confessing to a crime he didn't commit as a result of Sejer's interrogation, which, let's face it, didn't approach anything like the torture to which I might understand someone breaking down and giving a false confession.

But by the end of the book, what with the ways Goran's confession didn't quite add up, and because of the rather haunting exchange between Mode and Einar at the cafe, I was less certain.

Thoughts?]]>