I hope you all had a great weekend. Ours was low key but very nice. Today my husband made some new chocolate and walnut cookies but they almost ended up more like brownies (not that I’m complaining!) and we finished watching Trapped. Have any of you watched that show? I really liked it! Lots of snowy scenes, a gruesome discovery and a cast of characters all hiding something. Really enjoyable and now I can’t wait for Season 2.
You know what other Nordic crime show I can’t wait to watch? Occupied. This one is set in Norway where they face a Russian occupation. We really liked Season 1 so can’t wait to see what happens next.
On the book front I started reading The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon and it is so good. I know so many of you recommended this one. I should have listened to you guys sooner! There are several narratives going back and forth between past and present. Disappearances, deaths and so many spooky things. The atmosphere the author builds is so perfect and definitely has made me wonder if I should read this one at night. Ha.
Unfortunately I’m also reading The Good Daughter by Alexandra Burt and while there are no ghosts, there are certainly some similarities as this one also has different narrators and different time frames and I think it’s a bit too much for me to keep track of both. So I’m probably going to put this one away until I finish The Winter People. I’d like to start a book that is completely different from these, like maybe a good woman’s fiction book.
Anyway, that’s the scoop from around here. Let’s see what I find on my bookshelves and I’ll tell you about that in another post. What did you read this weekend?
Mmm-those cookies sound so good. I just finished the last of the zucchini bread this morning and need something new for my sweet tooth. I’m going to check out Occupied right now. 🙂 Thanks for the links!
I am hoping I survive the work day without having a major coughing fit, but we shall see. I had a horrible night last night and so am pretty tired.
I have The Good Daughter on my Kindle to read. I can see though why you would want to not read it at the same time you are reading The Winter People (I need to read that one). The audiobook I am listening to is fairly different from my current print book, but both are YA and similar enough that I kind of wish I hadn’t decided to do both at the same time. Cinder and Wonder Woman: Warbringer. I know better for next time, I guess.
I hope you have a great week, Iliana.
I just loved Trapped and I watched it when it was so hot outside, which made it seem even more amazing. The characters were terrific and I think I would have loved it even without the storm in it, but, wow, what a great sense of claustrophobic insularity that gave to the whole story, don’t you think? As for other crime viewing, I just finished watching the series “Broadchurch”, which I also thought was outstanding (seashore, not snow). Over the weekend, I was reading Stephen and Owen King’s Sleeping Beauties, and then trying to forget about it so I could sleep, then reading a little more.
Homemade cookies. Yum!
Ooh I loved The Winter People! I think it’s my favourite McMahon book thus far. 🙂
Ooh, thanks for the heads up on the two shows–I will add them both to my Netflix queue (well, hopefully the first one you mention is streaming there). I see Jo Nesbo is one of the creators for the second one. I really liked the McMahon book, too! What a nice husband to make you cookies! 😉