Having been converted from a hater-of-baths (soaking in your own filth, I've always thought) to a tolerator of Swedish baths, I now present what I have discovered are the essential ingredients of a long, lovely soak:


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I want to use my journal to help me keep track of books I've read (or thrown across the room after one chapter) this year.

So far:

Det Heligaste by Denise Mina (Swedish): A crime novel with lovely unexpected twists and turns. I give this one an 8 on a scale of 1 to 10.

Livstecken by Gunilla Linn Persson (Swedish): Thrown across the room after one very ( Read more... )

In the book I'm reading (one of the aforementioned big ol' fat books in a big ol' fat series*), the main character is a woman who, at about my age, made the decision to leave her daughter, who is about my daughter's age, to move to Europe from America in order to spend the rest of her life with the man she loved ( Read more... )