The Day After I received my Canadian loot in the Great Grocery Bag Exchange, again a mysterious package fell into my mailbox. Hooray, a present from my Secret Santa! Of course I knew Santa lives somewhere in the Nordic hemisphere, but I never would have guessed (s)he actually lives in Sweden..! I should have know that when I visited the country in 2002! Eh, not that I have any plans about what to do with that knowledge ;)
Anyway, my present is wrapped in some cool helper-trolls paper. And I’m keeping it that way for a short while longer! Our rental Christmas tree won’t arrive until December 18th and I want it to lie under the tree like a proper x-mas gift. Even if it’s just for one day LOL! So you’ll have to be patient too. Nothing you can do about it! :)
Thanks to helper-troll my Secret Santa ‘Zee’ from ..?
Other bookish news
I’ve finished reading The (Temple of the) Golden Pavilion by Yukio Mishima and am about to start in Nadeem Aslam’s The Wasted Vigil. Just like I promised last week ;)
I’ve also been a baaaad grrl — again — and joined yet another challenge :\
But.. it-was-made-for-me! It’s the Foodie’s Reading Challenge, hosted by Margot of Joyfully Retired. If you’ve participated in Beth Fish’s Weekend Cooking meme you’re bound to have met her! She challenges us to explore the world of good food writing; taking the form of cookbooks, biographies or even novels centered around food.
Now look at Graasland and tell me honestly: could I really have resisted this challenge??? :)
The Sunday Salon is a virtual gathering of booklovers on the web, where they blog about bookish things of the past week, visit each others weblogs, oh — and read ;)
Graasland 
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zondag 12 december 2010 bij 11:18
leeswammes
Ooohh, I’m so curious what book you got! Lovely paper, though. I love troll-ish things!
That food challenge sounds just right for you. Have fun!
maandag 13 december 2010 bij 22:49
gnoegnoe
I can hardly wait too, but that’s part of the fun! Although I don’t think I will make it till x-mas LOL. But it must be doable to wait for my decorated tree!
zondag 12 december 2010 bij 14:23
elsje
Hah, that foodreadingchallenge has been tailor-made for you!! Lots of great novels about food around, if you want to avoid having to make all the things you read about (don’t read a cookbook!)
maandag 13 december 2010 bij 22:54
gnoegnoe
Just what I thought! And I don’t plan on reading actual cookbooks (although now that I think of it… there is one cookbook I might want to get & review in a special project!).
Do you have any good suggestions for books??? ;)
vrijdag 17 december 2010 bij 00:21
Zee
Merry Christmas! I’m you’re secret santa. I realised once I had posted the package that I hadn’t put my blog address on it *doh*
zaterdag 18 december 2010 bij 06:20
Margot
I am so glad you decided to join the Foodie’s Reading Challenge. You’re right – this challenge is perfect for people like you who are curious about good food and love to read about it. I’ve always enjoyed you Weekend Cooking posts and I know you will do great in the challenge. Good luck and have fun.
maandag 27 december 2010 bij 14:33
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