![]() ![]() ![]() So when Elsa’s grandmother dies and leaves behind a series of letters apologizing to people she has hurt, it marks the beginning of Elsa’s greatest adventure. There, everybody is different and nobody needs to be normal. At night Elsa runs to her grandmother’s stories, to the Land of Almost-Awake and the Kingdom of Miamas. She is also Elsa’s best, and only, friend. Standing-on-the-balcony-firing-paintball-guns-at-men-who-want-to-talk-about-Jesus-crazy. Her grandmother is seventy-seven years old and crazy. Something Elsa can’t quite put her finger on…’Įlsa is seven years old and different. But lately the stories have another dimension as well. In the beginning they were only to make Elsa go to sleep, and to get her to practise granny’s secret language, and a little because granny is just about as nutty as a granny should be. ‘Granny has been telling fairy tales for as long as Elsa can remember. ![]() The book this month was My Grandmother Sends her Regards & Apologises by Fredrik Backman. So I thought I would join a book club and allow others, more knowledgable than I to guide me and so far it has been one of the best decisions I’ve made. I recently joined a book club, I used to read avidly but sometimes I stop reading as I don’t find an author that I gel with and then I get lost when I look around a bookshop and just don’t know in what direction to go. ![]()
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