{"id":12379,"date":"2017-09-29T06:58:48","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T11:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/?p=12379"},"modified":"2017-09-29T11:02:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-29T16:02:16","slug":"in-which-she-falls-in-love-with-a-swedish-author-and-a-swedish-chocolate-bar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/2017\/09\/29\/in-which-she-falls-in-love-with-a-swedish-author-and-a-swedish-chocolate-bar\/","title":{"rendered":"In which she falls in love with a Swedish author and a Swedish chocolate bar"},"content":{"rendered":"

I<\/span> have been on a Fredrick Backman kick this year, reading A Man Called Ove<\/em> and Britt-Marie Was Here<\/em> and Beartown <\/em>more or less in succession. Have you read any of his books? They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re quirky and warm and poignant and thoughtful \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and did I mention quirky? Not to mention occasionally laugh-out-loud funny and frequently delightful. <\/p>\n

This summer, I started reading another book by Bachman out loud to Tristan and Simon. My Grandmother Sends Her Regrets and Apologizes <\/em>is a quirky and whimsical book that features a mythical beast called a wurse that has a love for a Swedish chocolate bar called Daim. So when I happened to be in IKEA the other day (seriously, when am I not in IKEA?) and saw bags of mini-Daim bars for sale, I picked one up to entertain the boys.<\/p>\n

\"DaniGirl Oh my goodness. Seriously? No wonder the wurse loves them. Best! Bar! Ever!<\/p>\n

They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re a little bit like Skor bars, but there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s something about the bite-size format that makes them so much better. I watched Simon\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes bug out in appreciation when he first tried one. They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re so addictive that I might have gone back and bought a second one-pound bag to hide in the back of the cupboard. And, erm, maybe a third for my office.<\/p>\n

Seriously, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even like sweets that much. I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m a salty chips sort of girl!<\/p>\n

Have you tried Daim bars? If so, what do you think? (And if not, get yourself to IKEA, stat!) And if you haven’t read any of Fredrick Backman’s books, you’d better get on that, too. They’d be perfect to read with a cup of coffee and a big bag of Daim bars.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I have been on a Fredrick Backman kick this year, reading A Man Called Ove and Britt-Marie Was Here and Beartown more or less in succession. Have you read any of his books? They\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re quirky and warm and poignant and thoughtful \u00e2\u20ac\u201c and did I mention quirky? Not to mention occasionally laugh-out-loud funny and frequently … Continue reading “In which she falls in love with a Swedish author and a Swedish chocolate bar”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-life-the-universe-and-everything"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12379"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12382,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12379\/revisions\/12382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/danigirl.ca\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}