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I have managed to read my way through the Swedish translations of Maggie Furey's book Aurian and started the next book in the series ("Aurians flykt" is the Swedish title) while listening to the audio book at the same time. The first book took only 19 days, which isn't bad considering how much longer it takes to listen to a recording than to simply read the text. This exercise is doing wonders for my ability to predict the pronunciation of a Swedish word based on the spelling, and to guess the spelling based on how it sounds. For the most part I am enjoying the books. However, there is a topic in which I am quite disappointed with in the books, so I will ( put the discussion behind a cut, in case there is anyone reading this who both hasn't read the book and doesn't care for spoilers. )