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Going to a day spa like A Little Touch of Heaven (ALTH), is a great way to escape your daily routine, indulge in a little pampering, spruce yourself up, and merely recharge as well as refresh your body. You deserve it!</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>Hello, happy Friday friends! Got any great plans for the weekend?</div><div></div><div>Last weekend we stole away to the cottage for a couple of days. An hour and a half north of here, the wind was howling and the rain lashed at the windows. Perfect weather for cosying up indoors beside the fire! In Sweden each season is so powerful and in contrast to the one before that I think it's important to embrace each and every one in all its glory! Is it the same where you are? </div><div></div><div>Along with our fireside tea, we also made some small Autumn updates to the cottage kitchen - I hope you like them (my favourite was Per's apple pie!). </div><div></div><div>Per is definitely the baker of the family. He whipped up this apple and cinnamon pie with apples from our neighbour's garden - it tasted divine! </div><div></div><div>I picked up the ceramic bowl at M||lle Krukmakeri in nearby Kullaberg and the candle holder was made by a local ceramicist. </div><div></div><div>We recently swapped out the faux brass handles from IKEA for these solid brass knobs (I was fortunate enough that it was part of an instagram collaboration last week). They've made a difference to the entire experience of the kitchen. </div><div></div><div>I've noticed that one of the most important investments in the kitchen are the items you touch: handles, taps, utensils etc. Do you agree? </div><div></div><div>I love bringing in Autumn foliage! At the back you can see The Little Swedish Kitchen cookbook, which was a present from my Mother. I dip into it all the time! </div><div></div><div>Hooks are so useful in the kitchen (these wooden ones are from H&M Home) - the display here is forever changing too.</div><div></div><div>When we renovated the kitchen, the curtain was the last thing to be installed. My mother-in-law was a bit unsure to begin with but she's really grown to love the way it billows in the wind and creates a sense of drama and privacy even when the door is open. </div><div></div><div>We're lucky enough to have a huge stack of firewood in the garage (last winter there was a shortage due to the rising price of electricity!), it's looking the same for this year. </div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>I hope you like these touches. </div><div></div><div>Have you also updated your home for the season? If so, I'd love to hear how!</div><div></div><div>Feel inspired by other Autumnal homes here: </div><div></div><div>Cosy autumn ideas from Laura and Nora's homes11 autumn ideas to steal from a hyggeligt danish home5 cosy autumn ideas from a Swedish home</div><div></div><div>What are you up to this weekend? We're heading to V|nster|Ns for Allie's gymnastics competition. I'm so excited as I love to watch her and her team do their gymnastics. I've never been to the Swedish city before either so I hope I'll have some time to explore! </div><div></div><div>Trevlig helg! Have a fabulous weekend! </div><div></div><div>Niki</div><div></div><div>// This post is not sponsored. Some of the items seen are press gifts but I was under no obligation to mention them here on the blog. </div><div></div><div></div><div>ANNE BOGEL: Hey readers, I'm Anne Bogel and this is What Should I Read Next?. Welcome to the show that's dedicated to answering the question that plagues every reader, what should I read next? We don't get bossy on this show. What we will do here is give you the information you need to choose your next read. Every week we'll talk all things books and reading and do a little literary matchmaking with one guest.</div><div></div><div></div><div>ANNE: All right. All right. Redirect. Sai, I'm so glad you're here today. And I'm really excited about the themes you brought to us via our submissions page. But before we get into the details, give our readers a glimpse of who you are. Tell us a little about yourself.</div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div></div><div>So that's when I started doing more real-life books centered around just weird people on weird adventures. And I think that started with Alice, I think by Susan Juby, because there was a tiny little girl patron who reminded me of that book. And I had never really read it until I met her. And to understand her better, I read that whole book. And yeah, so that's where it started. Yeah. Yeah. Okay. Done.</div><div></div><div></div><div>[00:09:44] SAI: Oh, it's so cute. It's about this little girl who gets home-schooled, like day one in kindergarten, because she comes to school dressed up as a hobbit and then immediately gets bullied by all the kids. The parents pull her out of school and just decide to homeschool her until she's in high school and she's like, "I want people as friends, not just you." So it's just all about the awkwardness of like your teen years and also just how nobody really knows the rules and we're always making them up. But you have to learn the game anyway. So it's just so cute, like her observations on things.</div><div></div><div></div><div>[00:12:17] ANNE: It's okay. You can own that. Okay, I want to hear you say something in your own voice because I want to work with it. But you wrote "a little touch of magic never hurt any story". Could you just tell me about that while we're talking about science fiction and fantasy?</div><div></div><div></div><div>SAI: Yes. Oh, my gosh. You know, I try and diversify what I read all the time, every day, my whole life. And even though I'm all the way grown now and have seen many a meme that floats around the idea of I put childish things away, I still can never really put away a book that has magic in it to some degree, because I don't know, a little touch of magic never hurt any story at all. I think I saw that for the first time in urban fantasy, like Sarah Addison Allen. And she did like Sugar Queen, Chase the Moon.</div><div></div><div></div><div>SAI: Yeah. And I love a good Southern Gothic, which is where magic usually, you know, like A Rose for Emily, which was deeply gothic. I gel with that. So, yeah, that's why I'm like, you know, you could... just a little pinches like seasoning, you know? Don't be afraid of seasoning in your story. It doesn't always have to have a hard connection to the piece.</div><div></div><div></div><div>[00:13:32] ANNE: Okay. Listening to you describe the little touch of magic and the Southern Gothic appeal, what was New Orleans like for your reading life? Because those things all go together real well.</div><div></div><div></div><div>And those are people who are unafraid of audiobooks and audio dramas versus the ones who I could say I'll never touched any of that material in their own personal lives and beyond, whether it was in movies, books. There was a correlation. It was like, Oh, I'm so sad for you. Your imagination isn't nearly as rich as mine because of that. And not in a shaming way. But just like, "Oh, you like talking about grass. And I like talking about what we do when we see it from the perspective of a dragon." You know, so there.</div><div></div><div></div><div>[00:21:25] ANNE: Did you get a tattoo? Because Emily St. John Mandel says that so many people on book tours show her their Station Eleven tattoos, including this line from Star Trek. I was kind of being flippant. But what I really want to know is tell me like... I'd love to hear a little bit more specifically how this book keeps mattering in your life.</div><div></div><div></div><div>So it just felt like I was lost at sea and abandoned for a little bit for other reasons. Not just "I'm just a victim. I'm abandoned." No. In general, it's just very rough. And it got to the point where I loved that book so much. I listen to it, I read it, and then I even nicknamed my Wi-Fi in my old place, Ayaya, which is the island in the book that Circe lands on. And that's just how much that book meant to me that I started calling my safe haven home Ayaya.</div><div></div><div></div><div>SAI: Oh, yes. This and Station Eleven. Because Circe is a survivalist in and she's just using what she's given to make an awful situation something incredible. And suddenly she becomes a source of envy and an icon for being just a hermit, essentially, and working on her own devices. I love a story where the little guy gets power through self-improvement, breaks the chain of needing something bigger in their life, like either whether it is religion or capitalism, and becomes this terror to those entities, but a hero to other underdogs for paving a new future. I love a good pioneer story in that sense. You know, there's Cerci and there's Ruby Bridges and I love them both equally for these reasons, you know.</div><div></div><div></div><div>SAI: Yes. Then my biggest takeaway would have been when her friend calls her out for being in love with the performance and forgetting the point of the performance. You've been performing as all these people but you forgot that you were doing it for the little guy. And you had like a good reason to... You know, because, yes, she's trying to hide herself so she doesn't get the best treatment. But she's doing that because she wants everyday people to understand what eating like the elite feels like because they are denied that by society. And that was the true goal of that and she lost it in the performance.</div><div></div><div></div><div>SAI: A little bit of magic never hurts. It's just in the way that she describes it because she just goes back and forth talking about, Okay, you want to have these big dreams and manifest and you know, you want to live your life creatively and all these other things. But if you think the arts are important or that they are vital to society, then they are not. You're not. This is not important. And if you disagree with that reader and she says this in the book verbatim, if you disagree with that reader, then I'm afraid we must part ways right now.</div><div></div><div> df19127ead</div>
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