For when life seriously sucks

I really, really needed a distraction last night, which I handled in a not-totally-positive-but-fun way and by reading more of the "newest" (to me) Karin Fossum / Inspector Sejer book I picked up last Friday / finished today, He Who Fears the Wolf. It was the oldest of the ones the library had, at least the ones in English, so it was interesting going back in time, so to speak, when it comes to the characters (including Kollberg, yay!!!).  It was hard to tell, but I would guess this book was set at least ten years before The Indian Bride, so clearly a lot had happened in the lives of the main characters, Sejer and Skarre (?).  I'm not sure I think this book was as good as the one I first read (in particular, the parts where the crazy character was being all crazy got a little repetitive, I sorta skimmed), but it was just as good at pulling my mind out of my world and into Fossum's, and I needed that.  It also makes much more sense now that the series is named after Inspector Sejer, as he was both more present and more deeply drawn than in the other book. Might go grab another one later in the week or next week, but I have a stack at home and one waiting for me from deposit that I should get through, as I'm running out of floor space to pile my read and to-be-read books.