So long, dragon breath!

With the arrival of my Kindle this winter I looked forward to all sorts of books that I could read covertly. Guilty romance novels, Stephen Kings, and so on. True to form, I only browsed these selections (the romance novels are particularly entertaining.) Hesitant to actually purchase anything, I looked instead for classics that were free.  As the temperature dropped in Banff, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo seemed cheap and fitting. A mystery novel set in sub zero Sweden? Yeah!

I trudged on and on through the snowy pages. Friends, and a recent radio piece, all chimed in: “You just have to get through the first hundred pages or so!” I tried.

With the main characters together in a lovely little house in chilly Sweden, enjoying wine, a meat and potato (with cream sauce!) dinner and finally cuddling up to keep warm, I decided to call it a night.

Tonight I made a lovely potato-crusted cod, scalloped potato and veggie supper. With a lovely side of Banff ave. Brewing Company IPA. And rung in the New Year with a new book – Margaret Atwood’s The Year of the Flood.  For dessert? Dark chocolate from Ikea. Ah, how things come together.

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