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Date: 23 January 2006 04:50:36
Hello everyone. I haven't been around much lately. I'm undertaking a sort of internal investigation at the moment, trying to see what is ahead of us for this year and what I want to get out of it. And life. What do I want to get out of life?
Anyway, I picked up Miss Smilla's Feeling for Snow by Peter Høeg in a bookshop in Barwon Heads on the weekend. It's very good, a murder mystery set in the snow of Denmark, with characters that have migrated from Greenland. Greenland is still part of the kingdom of Denmark, so there's a whole colonial thing going on. I like the book, it's intriguing, the main character is Miss Smilla, a woman who grew up in Greenland and can read the signs well enough to tell that there's something suspicious about the death of a young boy from her apartment block, even though there's only one set of tracks in the snow. I am intrigued.
I'll mention it again once I've finished.