Book Board Chat

Hi all. Have not visited here nearly as much as I hoped but am always happy to see familiar faces (names) and hear about what you're up to. I've had some medical "stuff" lately - a biopsy result was benign, happily, but the biopsy itself has now resulted in problems. Still, I'll take the good result and the problems over the alternative any day. Anyway . . . just a few things . . .

I saw the Swedish (subtitled) movies of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo and Girl Who Played with Fire. Both were good - well cast, well acted, and, like the books, stark and riveting. I was interested, too, dupo, to see how they would trim the book to movie length. What they did, of course, was cut a lot of the backstory. I don't know if I'd have liked the movies without reading the books first - but I have friends who did. The Swedish movies are readily available for rent at Redbox (for $1). Not sure I'll see the Hollywood versions.

I, too, am not ready to let go of my paper calendar. I enjoy the ritual each year of setting up my new daytimer - partly because it involves going through the prior year's book, where I have all sorts of scribbles and ticket stubs and quick sketches. It's fun to leaf back through it and remember certain events.

Thanks, lludwig, for mentioning the cookbook. Since I'm in that region, it's one I might actually stumble across. I tend to glaze over when I look at all those comb-bound regional cookbooks - now I have at least one thing to focus on!

I wish you all a joyous holiday, in whatever way you choose to celebrate. Our holiday will be low-key but filled with so much gratitude.