New To Me

I've seen the book THE TROUBLED MAN by Henning Mankell everywhere lately. Many of the reviews say he's a better writer than Stieg Larsson (THE GIRL WITH THE DRAGON TATTOO). I haven't read Mankell, so I can't comment on that assertion. I can say I read an article about him in Entertainment Weekly and was intrigued from the first paragraph. The paragraph:

Henning Mankell has been beaten by French police and arrested by Israeli commandos. He's worked on a Swedish merchant ship, at a Paris musical-instrument shop, and as the artistic director of an African theater company. He spent years living in the middle of a long, bloody civil war in Mozambique. And he's managed to find time to write some 40 books, which are available in 41 languages and have sold almost 40 million copies around the world. "I have been accused of many things in my life," says the 63-year-old Swedish author. "But never of being lazy."

Can't argue with that. I actually feel kind of lazy now. Back to work…