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Princess Dracula (Princess Dracula #1)

John Patrick Kennedy

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All power comes at a price… Ruxandra learned everything she knows while growing up in a...

inKhabar

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InKhabar is the online avatar of India News which is a 24-hour Hindi language news channel in India....

Madeyewlook

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NEW video EVERY WEEK around 8:00pm CST/ 6:00pm PST ∙ Body/Face Painter ∙ SFX Artist ∙Self...

Vintage

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Vintage is about the Douro River Valley of Portugal, the oldest demarcated wine producing region in...

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Lanny

Max Porter

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There’s a village sixty miles outside of London. It’s no different from many other villages in...

Magical Realism

The Museum of You

Carys Bray

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Clover Quinn was a surprise. She used to imagine she was the good kind, now she’s not sure....

The Beholders

Hester Musson

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June, 1878. The body of a boy is pulled from the depths of the River Thames, suspected to be the...

ClareR (6238 KP) rated Lowest Common Denominator in Books

Feb 10, 2026

I believe Lowest Common Denominator is going to be a trilogy, and after reading this, I’m all for reading the next two.

LCD bounces around somewhat in time from toddlerhood to the present day. It’s auto fiction, really, although I had to double check that. So I suppose it’s a mix of Saisio’s autobiography that has been fictionalised in places.

I found the details of a child growing up in Finland, Saisio’s communist parents, along with 1950’s Finnish life, fascinating. It also made me curious about the war and occupation of the Russians in Finland, and I consequently did a bit of background reading about that.

I love reading translated books, and the translator, Mia Spangenberg, has made sure that this has lost none of its humour. The relationships between the narrator and their family members are so well drawn. Their experiences, traumas, upbringings and their expectations of this small child make for an engrossing read.