Sunday Salon: Tummy Bugs and Swedish Thugs

I know it’s not nice to brag but I very rarely have the opportunity to, so I thought I should go ahead and do that, now.

I was having a terrible Friday, complete with the week from hell and the beginnings of what, over the weekend, progressed to my very first tummy-virus since the seventh grade. Well, imagine my joy and surprise at coming home to a package from Alfred A. Knopf sitting on my doorstep (courtesy of Alfred P. Knopf’s awesome blogging event held back over the summer). My two year old squealed and said “Mommy’s book!” How he knew what was inside, I don’t know but he was right. There, inside the package (which I knew contained a book) was my dear sweet beloved The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest!

I know it’s a little bit weird to get so worked up about a brutal crime series dealing in torture, sex abuse and other ills, especially since that’s not usually my cup of tea. But excited I am and you should be, too. If you haven’t gotten around to reading Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, I highly recommend it.